Nucleus Research Finds SAP Customers are 20 Percent Less Profitable than Their Peers — Despite SAP Marketing Claims

Business Wire, March 7, 2006

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Nucleus Research, a global provider of IT research and advisory services, today announced a review of publicly-held companies listed by SAP on its Web site. Nucleus found that, contrary to SAP's advertising claim that its customers are 32 percent more profitable than their peers, SAP customers were in fact 20 percent less profitable than their peers. SAP customers had an average ROE of 12.6 percent versus an industry average of 15.7 percent.

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