| SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim,
Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software
company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall.
The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact
with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications.
Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations,
including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.
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