Meet World Trade, MeetChina.com, EC 21, dba MeetKorea.com, Meet World Trade (Thailand) and SAPMarkets Offer Customers Access to More Than 30,000 Suppliers in Asia SHANGHAI, China, and SINGAPORE - July 31, 2001 - SAPMarkets, Inc., the exchange company of the SAP group, today announced an agreement with Meet World Trade, Inc., and its affiliates to provide SAPMarkets' exchange customers with access to over 30,000 suppliers in the Asia Pacific region.

In addition to Meet World Trade, the agreement includes MeetChina.com, EC 21, Inc., doing business as MeetKorea.com, and Meet World Trade (Thailand). Meet World Trade and its affiliates constitute a leading online network for sourcing suppliers throughout Asia and offer one of the most comprehensive selections of supplier content in the region.

Meet World Trade estimates that it costs manufacturers an average of $70,000 (U.S.) to source and qualify a new supplier in the emerging economies of Asia. Meet World Trade will dramatically reduce those costs for SAPMarkets' exchange customers and help them expand their system of suppliers.

"Meet World Trade and its network affiliates are pleased to be working with SAPMarkets," said Leonard Cordiner, CEO of Meet World Trade. "We look forward to our continued close cooperation to provide Internet-based strategic sourcing content and services to help global buyers identify high-quality suppliers and source more efficiently from Asia."

The agreement with Meet World Trade marks the beginning of SAPMarkets' supplier enablement strategy in Asia. A key component of the SAPMarkets Partner Program is to bring together suppliers with buyers and exchanges worldwide. As a Key Partner in the SAPMarkets Partner Program, Meet World Trade will bring suppliers to SAPMarkets' exchange customers through the Meet World Trade supplier network

"SAPMarkets is experiencing a demand for its exchange technology from companies working in the Asia Pacific Region," said Zia Yusuf, managing director of SAPMarkets Asia Pacific. "As our customers build and plan out their exchange and procurement strategy, they will need access to high-quality and low-cost suppliers in this important region of the world. Our relationship with Meet World Trade will fulfill this need by providing our customers with access to a diverse range of suppliers."

About Meet World Trade

Meet World Trade is an online network of Asian Internet marketplaces that uses a combination of online and offline resources to help purchasing professionals source vendors in developing economies. Meet World Trade's strong local language Internet presence in China, Thailand, India and Korea, as well as its strong support staff in these countries, uniquely positions MWT to assist enterprises and SMEs to establish vendor networks in Asia in a compressed time frame. MWT's hybrid of online and offline resources is defining a new and better approach to sourcing from Asia.

About SAPMarkets

SAPMarkets is the exchange company of SAP (NYSE: SAP) and delivers solutions that automate business processes across boundaries. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., SAPMarkets currently enables over 1,100 companies worldwide to use the Internet for greater agility, precision and profitability.

SAPMarkets, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP AG. Any statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "believe," "estimate," "intend," "may," "will," "expect" and "project" and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect SAP's future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the SAP Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2000 filed with the SEC on March 28, 2001. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.

For more information, press only:
Andrew Fowler, Waggener Edstrom for SAPMarkets, (503) 443-7000, andrewf@wagged.com
Paula Stout, SAPMarkets, (650) 849-2651
paula.stout@sapmarkets.com
Anya McDonald, SAPMarkets Asia Pacific, (65) 768-6248, anya.mcdonald@sapmarkets.com
Andy Krumholz, Meet World Trade, (415) 288-0380
andy_krumholz@meetworldtrade.com
Phyllis Fang, Meet World Trade Asia Pacific, (852) 9198-6596, phyllis_fang@meetworldtrade.com