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WALLDORF - July 20, 2006 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its preliminary financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006. 

HIGHLIGHTS – Second Quarter 2006
Revenues 
Software revenues were €621 million for the second quarter of 2006 (2005: €576 million), representing an increase of 8% (10% at constant currencies1) compared to the same period in 2005. 
Product revenues for the 2006 second quarter were €1.5 billion (2005: €1.4 billion), which is an increase of 9% (10% at constant currencies1) compared to the second quarter of 2005. 
Total revenues were €2.2 billion for the second quarter of 2006 (2005: €2.0 billion), which represented an increase of 9% (9% at constant currencies1) compared to the same period in 2005. 
Core Enterprise Applications Vendor Share2 
Based on software revenues on a rolling four quarter basis, SAP’s worldwide share of Core Enterprise Applications vendors, which account for approximately $16 billion in software revenues as defined by the Company based on industry analyst research, continued to grow and was 21.7% at the end of the second quarter of 2006.
Regional Performance
The Americas region remained the growth driver for SAP, reporting an 18% increase in software revenues (21% at constant currencies1) to €239 million for the second quarter of 2006 compared to the same quarter last year. In the U.S., software revenues increased to €201 million, or 16% (20% at constant currencies1). Second quarter software revenues in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region climbed to €296 million, or 3% (3% at constant currencies1), with Germany reporting an 8% increase to €100 million for the second quarter of 2006. Software revenues in the APA (Asia/Pacific) region for the second quarter of 2006 were flat (4% increase at constant currencies1) at €86 million, with Japan reporting a 4% decline (4% increase at constant currencies1) in software revenues to €23 million.

Income 

Operating income for the second quarter of 2006 was €531 million (2005: €460 million), which was an increase of 15% compared to the 2005 second quarter. Pro forma operating income3 was €558 million (2005: €496 million) for 2005, representing an increase of 13% compared to the second quarter of 2005. 
The operating margin for the 2006 second quarter was 24.2%, which was an increase of 1.4 percentage points compared to the second quarter of 2005. The pro forma operating margin3 for the 2006 second quarter was 25.4%, which was an increase of 0.80 percentage points compared to the 2005 second quarter. 
Net income for the second quarter of 2006 was €414 million (2005: €289 million), or €1.35 per share (2005: €0.93 per share), representing an increase of 43% compared to the second quarter of 2005. Second quarter 2006 pro forma net income3 was €432 million (2005: €314 million), or pro forma €1.41 earnings per share3 (2005: €1.01 per share), representing an increase of 38% compared to the second quarter of 2005. Second quarter 2006 net income, earnings per share, pro forma net income and pro forma earnings per share were positively impacted by approximately €30 million, or €0.10 per share, from a reduced effective tax rate of 25% mainly due to a settlement with the fiscal authorities on one specific item.