SAP AG recently announced new offerings for SAP partners and customers based in the Asia Pacific Japan region. Aimed at making the exchange of information and access to valuable partner solutions easier for customers, SAP has unveiled Chinese-language sites for the SAP Developer Network (SDN) community, the Business Process Expert (BPX) community and the Business Objects community. Now, customers and partners can more easily exchange ideas, share best practices and identify opportunities for co-innovation. In addition, the company announced availability of more than 80 partner offerings for customers based in Asia Pacific Japan within the recently launched SAP(R) EcoHub solution marketplace.

Of the 150,000 SAP community members in the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region, more than 95 percent of those members are from customer or partner organizations outside of SAP. More than 50 percent of those community members are based in China and Japan, with 35,000-plus people regularly accessing the community sites from each region. In China alone, SDN membership has grown by 21 percent and BPX community membership has grown by 33 percent over the last six months.

The Chinese-language community sites officially go live today and provide users the ability to discuss best practices, share business process experiences, locate answers to questions and communicate with peers, partner contacts and SAP in their areas of focus. Through Chinese-language homepages on each of the three community sites, users can access discussion forums and key documents in their native language. Following this successful launch, SAP plans to roll out a Japanese-language site and use the experience to evaluate additional local-language communities.

"As customer growth increases at an accelerating rate, it is important for the SAP communities to evolve to meet the diverse needs of various markets and the roles and industries within those markets, understanding the different needs customers and partners from region to region have for content and community exchanges," said Mark Yolton, Senior Vice President, SAP Community Network, SAP. "With the addition of Chinese-language pages, content and discussion forums to our community sites and regional features within SAP EcoHub, we are reaffirming our commitment to the APJ region in particular and to supporting the market-specific needs of our entire global ecosystem."

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