SAP SE

Earnings Release • Oct 27, 2010

Third Quarter and Nine Months 2010 Preliminary Results Release

SAP AG Walldorf, Germany Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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1. Income Statement

• 1. Financial Position and Cash Flow
• 1. Outlook

Key Figures Third Quarter 2010

* at constant currencies

Key Figures First Nine Months 2010

* at constant currencies

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Income Statement Overview Third Quarter 2010

	IFRS		Non-IFRS
€ millions, unless otherwise stated	Q3 2010	Q3 2009	∆%	Q3 2010	Q3 2009	∆%	∆% constant currencies
Software revenue	656	525	25	656	525	25	15
Support revenue	1,559	1,333	17	1,595	1,333	20	11
Subscription & other softw.-rel. serv. rev.	101	79	28	101	79	28	20
SSRS revenue	2,316	1,937	20	2,352	1,937	21	13
Consulting revenue	565	484	17	565	484	17	8
Other service revenue	122	87	40	122	87	40	31
Professional services & other serv. rev.	687	571	20	687	571	20	12
Total revenue	3,003	2,508	20	3,039	2,508	21	13
Total operating expenses	-2,287	-1,889	21	-2,157	-1,821	18	11
Operating profit	716	619	16	883	687	29	16
Profit after tax	501	447	12	605	499	21
Basic earnings per share, in €	0.42	0.38	11	0.51	0.42	21

Income Statement Overview First Nine Months 2010

	IFRS	Non-IFRS
€ millions, unless otherwise stated	9M 2010	9M 2009	∆%	9M 2010	9M 2009	∆%	∆% constant currencies
Software revenue	1,757	1,487	18	1,757	1,487	18	9
Support revenue	4,479	3,922	14	4,515	3,933	15	10
Subscription & other softw.-rel. serv. rev.	285	223	28	285	223	28	24
SSRS revenue	6,521	5,632	16	6,557	5,643	16	10
Consulting revenue	1,572	1,554	1	1,572	1,554	1	-4
Other service revenue	313	296	6	313	296	6	1
Professional services & other serv. rev.	1,885	1,850	2	1,885	1,850	2	-3
Total revenue	8,406	7,482	12	8,442	7,493	13	7
Total operating expenses	-6,359	-5,915	8	-6,108	-5,700	7	3
Operating profit	2,047	1,567	31	2,334	1,792	30	19
Profit after tax	1,379	1,069	29	1,591	1,239	28
Basic earnings per share, in €	1.16	0.90	29	1.34	1.04	29

SSRS Revenue Breakdown by Region** Third Quarter 2010

SSRS Revenue Breakdown by Region** First Nine Months 2010

Margin Analysis Third Quarter 2010

	IFRS			Non-IFRS
	Q3	Q3		Q3	Q3
€ millions, unless otherwise stated	2010	2009	∆%	2010	2009	∆%
SSRS revenue	2,316	1,937	20	2,352	1,937	21
SSRS cost	-514	-414	24	-414	-366	13
SSRS margin in %	77.8	78.6	-0.8pp	82.4	81.1	1.3pp
PSOS revenue	687	571	20	687	571	20
PSOS cost	-530	-436	22	-527	-435	21
PSOS margin in %	22.9	23.6	-0.7pp	23.3	23.8	-0.5pp
SSRS & PSOS margin in %	65.2	66.1	-0.9pp	69.0	68.1	0.9pp
Research and development - as a percentage of total revenue	-453 15.1	-382 15.2	19 -0.1pp	-452 14.9	-381 15.2	19 -0.3pp
Sales and marketing	-642	-515	25	-618	-497	24
- as a percentage of total revenue	21.4	20.5	0.9pp	20.3	19.8	0.5pp
General and administration	-157	-133	18	-152	-131	16
- as a percentage of total revenue	5.2	5.3	-0.1pp	5.0	5.2	-0.2pp
Restructuring charges	2	-10	N/A	-1	-11	-91
- as a percentage of total revenue	-0.1	0.4	-0.5pp	0.0	0.4	-0.4pp
Operating margin in %	23.8	24.7	-0.9pp	29.1	27.4	1.7pp

SSRS: Software and software-related services PSOS: Professional services and other services

Margin Analysis First Nine Months 2010

	IFRS			Non-IFRS
	9M	9M		9M	9M
€ millions, unless otherwise stated	2010	2009	∆%	2010	2009	∆%
SSRS revenue	6,521	5,632	16	6,557	5,643	16
SSRS cost	-1,328	-1,200	11	-1,147	-1,053	9
SSRS margin in %	79.6	78.7	0.9pp	82.5	81.3	1.2pp
PSOS revenue	1,885	1,850	2	1,885	1,850	2
PSOS cost	-1,478	-1,423	4	-1,473	-1,420	4
PSOS margin in %	21.6	23.1	-1.5pp	21.9	23.2	-1.3pp
SSRS & PSOS margin in %	66.6	64.9	1.7pp	69.0	67.0	2.0pp
Research and development	-1,242	-1,120	11	-1,238	-1,117	11
- as a percentage of total revenue	14.8	15.0	-0.2pp	14.7	14.9	-0.2pp
Sales and marketing	-1,858	-1,590	17	-1,807	-1,535	18
- as a percentage of total revenue	22.1	21.3	0.8pp	21.4	20.5	0.9pp
General and administration	-461	-395	17	-447	-393	14
- as a percentage of total revenue	5.5	5.3	0.2pp	5.3	5.2	0.1pp
Restructuring charges	1	-193	N/A	-2	-188	-99
- as a percentage of total revenue	0.0	2.6	-2.6pp	0.0	2.5	-2.5pp
Operating margin in %	24.4	20.9	3.5pp	27.6	23.9	3.7pp

SSRS: Software and software-related services PSOS: Professional services and other services

• 1. Income Statement
• 2. Financial Position and Cash Flow
• 1. Outlook

Assets

€ millions	09/30/10	12/31/09	€ millions	09/30/10	12/31/09
Cash, cash equivalents and			Financial liabilities	238	146
other financial assets	3,086	2,370	Deferred income	1,334	598
Trade and other
receivables	2,382	2,546	Other liabilities	2,478	2,672
Other non-financial assets
and tax assets	534	339	Current liabilities	4,050	3,416
Total current assets	6,002	5,255	Financial liabilities	4,422	729
Goodwill	8,285	4,994	Provisions	270	198
Intangible assets	2,400	894	Other non-curr. liabilities	1,133	540
Property, plant, and equipment	1,415	1,371	Non-current liabilities	5,825	1,467
Other non-current assets	984	860	Total liabilities	9,875	4,883
Total non-current assets	13,084	8,119	Total equity	9,211	8,491
Total assets	19,086	13,374	Equity and liabilities	19,086	13,374

Equity and liabilities

Financial Position, Cash Flow, Liquidity September 30, 2010

	9/30/2010	12/31/2009	∆
Net liquidity (€ millions) 1)	-1,638	1,581	-3,219
Days sales outstanding (DSO)	70	79	-9 days
Equity ratio	48%	63%	-15pp

€ millions, unless otherwise stated	9M 2010	9M 2009	∆%
Operating cash flow	2,062	2,362	-13%
- Capital expenditure	-200	-169	18%
Free cash flow	1,862	2,193	-15%
Free cash flow as a percentage of total revenue	22%	29%	-7pp
Operating cash flow as a percentage of profit after tax	150%	221%	-71pp

Total Group Liquidity2) Development € millions

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1) Defined as cash and cash equivalents + short-term investments less bank loans, private placements and bonds 2) Defined as cash and cash equivalents + short-term investments

• 1. Income Statement
• 1. Financial Position and Cash Flow
• 3. Outlook

SAP is providing unchanged outlook for full-year 2010:

• SAP expects full-year 2010 Non-IFRS software and software-related service revenue to increase in a range of 9% to 11% at constant currencies (2009: €8.2 billion). SAP's business, excluding the contribution from Sybase, is expected to contribute 6 to 8 percentage points to this growth.
• SAP expects the full-year 2010 Non-IFRS operating margin to be in a range of 30% to 31% (2009: 27.4%) at constant currencies.
• SAP projects an effective tax rate of 27.5% to 28.5% (based on IFRS) for 2010 (2009: 28.1%).

APPENDIX

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Explanation of Non-IFRS Measures, Free Cash Flow and Constant Currency Growth Rates

EXPLANATIONS OF NON-IFRS MEASURES

This document discloses certain financial measures, such as non-IFRS revenues, non-IFRS expenses, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS operating margin, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS earnings per share, free cash flow as well as constant currency revenue and operating income measures that are not prepared in accordance with IFRS and are therefore considered non-IFRS financial measures. Our non-IFRS financial measures may not correspond to non-IFRS financial measures that other companies report. The non-IFRS financial measures that we report should be considered in addition to, and not as substitutes for or superior to, revenue, operating income, cash flows, or other measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Our non-IFRS financial measures included in this document are reconciled to the nearest IFRS measure published in the appendix of the related Q3 2010 earnings press release.

We believe that the supplemental historical and prospective non-IFRS financial information presented here provides useful supplemental information to investors because it is the same information used by our management in running our business and making financial, strategic and operational decisions – in addition to financial data prepared in accordance with IFRS – to attain a more transparent understanding of our past performance and our future results. At the beginning of 2010 the non-IFRS measures as defined below replaced the Non GAAP measures which we used until the termination of our U.S. GAAP reporting. We use these non-IFRS measures consistently in our planning and forecasting, reporting, compensation and external communication. Specifically,

• Our management primarily uses these non-IFRS measures rather than IFRS measures as the basis for making financial, strategic and operating decisions.
• The variable remuneration components of our board members and employees are based on non-IFRS revenue and non-IFRS operating profit rather than the respective IFRS measures.
• The annual budgeting process involving all management units is based on non-IFRS revenues and non-IFRS operating income numbers rather than IFRS numbers with costs such as share-based compensation and restructuring only being considered on coporate level.
• All monthly forecast and performance reviews with all senior managers globally are based on these non-IFRS measures, rather than IFRS numbers.
• Both, company-internal target setting and guidance provided to the capital markets are based on non-IFRS revenues and non-IFRS income measures rather than IFRS numbers.

We believe that our non-IFRS measures are useful to investors for the following reasons:

• The non-IFRS measures provide investors with insight into management's decision-making since management uses these non-IFRS measures to run our business and make financial, strategic and operating decisions.
• The non-IFRS measures provide investors with additional information that enables a comparison of year-over-year operating performance by eliminating certain direct effects of acquisitions.

Our non-IFRS financial measures reflect adjustments based on the items below, as well as the related income tax effects:

Non-IFRS revenue:

Revenues in this document identified as non-IFRS revenue have been adjusted from the respective IFRS numbers by including the full amount of support revenue that would have been recorded by entities acquired by SAP had they remained stand-alone entities but which we are not permitted to record as revenue under IFRS due to fair value accounting for the support contracts in effect at the time of the respective acquisitions.

Under IFRS, we record at fair value the support contracts in effect at the time entities were acquired. Consequently, our IFRS support revenue, our IFRS software and software-related service revenue and our IFRS total revenue for periods subsequent to acquisitions do not reflect the full amount of support revenue that would have been recorded for these support contracts absent these acquisitions by SAP. Adjusting revenue numbers for this revenue impact (if significant) provides additional insight into the comparability across periods of our ongoing performance.

Non-IFRS operating expense:

Operating expense figures in this report that are identified as non-IFRS operating expense have been adjusted by excluding the following acquisition-related charges:

• Acquisition related charges
• o Amortization expense/impairment charges of intangibles acquired in business combinations and certain standalone acquisitions of intellectual property (including purchased in-process research and development)
• o Restructuring expenses and settlements of pre-existing relationships incurred in connection with a business combination
• o Acquisition-related third-party expenses
• Discontinued Activities: Results of the discontinued operations that qualify as such under IFRS in all respects except that they do not represent a major line of business

Non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS operating margin, non-IFRS net income and non-IFRS earnings per share:

Operating income, operating margin, net income and earnings per share in this document identified as non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS operating margin, non-IFRS net income and non-IFRS earnings per share have been adjusted from the respective operating income, operating margin, net income and earnings per share numbers as recorded under IFRS by adjusting for the above mentioned non-IFRS revenues and non-IFRS expenses.

We exclude the acquisition related expense adjustments for the purpose of calculating non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS operating margin, non-IFRS net income and non-IFRS earnings per share when evaluating the continuing operational performance of the Company because these expenses generally cannot be changed or influenced by management after the relevant acquisition other than by disposing of the acquired assets. Since management at levels below the Executive Board has no influence on these expenses we generally do not consider these expenses for the purpose of evaluating the performance of management units.

Explanation of Non-IFRS Measures, Free Cash Flow and Constant Currency Growth Rates

We include the revenue adjustements outlined above and exclude the expense adjustements when making decisions to allocate resources, both on a Company level and at lower levels of the organization. In addition, we use these non-IFRS measures to gain a better understanding of the Company's comparative operating performance from period to period. We believe that our non-IFRS financial measures described above have limitations, which include but are not limited to the following:

• The eliminated amounts may be material to us.
• Without being analyzed in conjunction with the corresponding IFRS measures the non-IFRS measures are not indicative of our present and future performance, foremost for the following reasons:
• o While our non-IFRS income numbers reflect the elimination of certain acquisition-related expenses, no eliminations are made for the additional revenues and other revenues that result from the acquisitions.
• o The acquisition-related charges that we eliminate in deriving our non-IFRS income numbers are likely to recur should SAP enter into material business combinations in the future.
• o The acquisition-related amortization expense that we eliminate in deriving our non-IFRS income numbers is a recurring expense that will impact our financial performance in future years.
• o The revenue adjustment for the fair value accounting of the acquired entities' support contracts and the expense adjustment for acquisition-related charges do not arise from a common conceptual basis. This is because the revenue adjustment aims to improve the comparability of the initial post-acquisition period with future post-acquisition periods while the expense adjustment aims to improve the comparability between post-acquisition periods and preacquisition periods. This should particularly be considered when evaluating our non-IFRS operating income and non-IFRS operating margin numbers as these combine our non-IFRS revenue and non-IFRS expenses despite the absence of a common conceptual basis.

Additionally, our non-IFRS measures have been adjusted from the respective IFRS numbers for the results of the discontinued operations that qualify as such under IFRS in all respects except that they do not represent a major line of business. We refer to these activities as "discontinued activities." Under our U.S. GAAP which we provided until 2009, we presented the results of operations of the TomorrowNow entities as discontinued operations. Under IFRS, results of discontinued operations may only be presented as discontinued operations if a separate major line of business or geographical area of operations is discontinued. Our TomorrowNow operations were not a separate major line of business and thus did not qualify for separate presentation under IFRS. We believe that this additional non-IFRS adjustment to our IFRS numbers for the results of our discontinued TomorrrowNow activities is useful to investors for the following reasons:

• Despite the migration from U.S. GAAP to IFRS, we will continue to internally treat the ceased TomorrowNow activities as discontinued activities and thus will continue to exclude potential future TomorrowNow results, which are expected to mainly comprise of expenses in connection with the Oracle lawsuit, from our internal management reporting, planning, forecasting, and compensation plans. Therefore, adjusting our non-IFRS measures for the results of the discontinued TomorrowNow activities provides insight into the financial measures that SAP uses internally.
• By adjusting the non-IFRS numbers for the results from our discontinued TomorrowNow operations, the non-IFRS numbers are more comparable to the non-GAAP measures that SAP used through the end of 2009, which makes SAP's performance measures before and after the full IFRS migration easier to compare.

We believe, however, that the presentation of the non-IFRS measures in conjunction with the corresponding IFRS measures as well as the relevant reconciliations, provides useful information to management and investors regarding present and future business trends relating to our financial condition and results of operations. We therefore do not evaluate our growth and performance without considering both non-IFRS measures and the relevant IFRS measures. We caution the readers of this document to follow a similar approach by considering our non-IFRS measures only in addition to, and not as a substitute for or superior to, revenues or other measures of our financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS.

Free Cash Flow

We use our free cash flow measure to estimate the cash flow remaining after all expenditures required to maintain or expand the organic business have been paid off. This assists management with the supplemental information to assess our liquidity needs. We calculate free cash flow as net cash from operating activities minus additions to non-current assets, excluding additions from acquisitions. Free cash flow should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for or superior to, cash flow or other measures of liquidity and financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS.

Constant Currency Period-Over-Period Changes

We believe it is important for investors to have information that provides insight into our sales. Revenue measures determined under IFRS provide information that is useful in this regard. However, both sales volume and currency effects impact period-over-period changes in sales revenue. We do not sell standardized units of products and services, so we cannot provide relevant information on sales volume by providing data on the changes in product and service units sold. To provide additional information that may be useful to investors in breaking down and evaluating changes in sales volume, we present information about our revenue and various values and components relating to operating income that are adjusted for foreign currency effects. We calculate constant currency year-over-year changes in revenue and operating income by translating foreign currencies using the average exchange rates from the previous year instead of the report year.

We believe that data on constant currency period-over-period changes have limitations, particularly as the currency effects that are eliminated constitute a significant element of our revenue and expenses and may severely impact our performance. We therefore limit our use of constant currency period-over-period changes to the analysis of changes in volume as one element of the full change in a financial measure. We do not evaluate our results and performance without considering both constant currency period-over-period changes in non-IFRS revenue and non-IFRS operating income on the one hand and changes in revenue, expenses, income, or other measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS on the other. We caution the readers of this document to follow a similar approach by considering data on constant currency period-over-period changes only in addition to, and not as a substitute for or superior to, changes in revenue, expenses, income, or other measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS.