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Technology Stocks : SAP A.G. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pareto who wrote (2981)	1/27/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: dmccoach	Respond to of 3424

Pareto, Those are good sites and I have been all over SAP's home site. Since I am brand new to SAP (I literally know nothing about their products) I am asking a basic question that is still not answered by your post or those sites you pointed out. This site ( amrresearch.com ) states: "Although SAP stuck to its original guidance of 20% to 25% growth in 1999, the company remains bullish about the future with plans to double its size over the next three years. To aid in that process, SAP added 6,500 new employees during 1998 and made significant new investments in R&D, which ended 1998 with over 4,800 employees. In 1999, AMR Research is projecting SAP's growth will slow from 41% to a more reasonable 30%. We expect consulting and new product sales in the second half of the year to be SAP's primary areas of growth during 1999." While it is great that they want to double their business in the next 3 years, my question is: Does their strategy for growth include a plan to attack smaller to mid-size organizations? And if their strategy DOES include going after smaller to mid-dize organizations (something I do know has not been a strong market for them), EXACTLY HOW do they plan to do that? i.e. Are they creating a sales organization to attack this market place? Do they have a "special" product release? Will they (how well do they) run on NT and Microsoft Sql Server? Not so obvious from what I can (or can not) tell. Thank you... dmccoach p.s. btw, adding employees in anticipation of growth seems risky IMHO (so what if they FAIL to grow as planned?)