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40 Fast Facts about SAP
By Ericka Chickowski on 2010-05-25

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From a small, German IBM spin-off to a global IT behemoth, SAP's rise has largely come on the back of its enterprise resource planning software. But as its recent deal for Sybase shows, SAP is willing to supplement organic growth with some big acquisitions. See also: Fast Facts on CA, Cloud Computing, Symantec, Cisco, Apple, Intel, Linux, Microsoft, Oracle, Google and HP.

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SAP initially stood for Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung or "System Analysis and Program Development."
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