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SAP to Shift to European Corporation

ERP vendor adopts new legal status to speed decision-making.

By Cornelius Rahn, Bloomberg | Updated on March 22, 2013

SAP AG, the German business-management software maker, plans to turn itself into a European corporation to enable faster decision-making as it focuses on grabbing database customers from Oracle Corp.

SAP will ask shareholders to approve a change of its legal status from an Aktiengesellschaft to a Societas Europaea, or SE, at next year’s annual meeting, it said yesterday. One aim is to speed up decisions on the supervisory board, said a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.

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