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HI,SAP the company was founded in Germany in 1972 by five ex-IBM engineers. In case youre ever asked, SAP stands for Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung which - translated to English - means Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing. So now you know! Being incorporated in Germany, the full name of the parent company is SAP AG. It is located in Walldorf, Germany which is close to the beautiful town of Heidelberg. SAP has subsidiaries in over 50 countries around the world from Argentina to Venezuela (and pretty much everything in between). SAP America (with responsibility for North America, South America and Australia - go figure!) is located just outside Philadelphia, PA.The original five founders have been so successful that they have multiplied many times over such that SAP AG is now the third largest independent software maker in the world, with over 80,000 customers (including way more than half of the world's 500 top companies). SAP employs over 50,000 people worldwide today, and had revenues of $16.9 billion and Net Income of $2.7 billion in FY08. SAP is listed in Germany (where it is one of the 30 stocks which make up the DAX) and on the NYSE (ticker:SAP).