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SAP CTO Vishal Sikka Joins CTO Forum Executive Board

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-(Business Wire)-July 19, 2008 - The CTO Forum today announced that Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer, SAP AG, has joined the executive board of the CTO Forum. The CTO Forum brings together the best minds in the technology industry to define opportunities and to collaborate in harnessing the extraordinary potential of technology.

Recent CTO Forums have focused on themes such as innovation, software and hardware mega-trends, green technology and energy ingenuity. A core function of the CTO Forum is to be a "Global Collaboration & Innovation Platform" helping technology leaders leverage each others unique learnings around innovation as each steers their respective companies into the future.

Sikka brings a unique perspective to the CTO Forum. Sikka drives SAP's technology and architecture strategy across its product portfolio and is responsible for ensuring a clear and harmonized roadmap for SAP products to deliver new innovations and increasing value to customers. Because of his knowledge in complex customer environments and his ability to see future trends, Sikka will be a key contributor in shaping the CTO Forum agenda.

As CTO, Sikka also leads the company's forward-thinking efforts around emerging technologies and mapping these to SAP's next-generation architecture.

Sikka holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University and his experience includes research in automatic programming, information and application integration, and artificial intelligence at Stanford, Xerox Palo Alto Labs and two startups.

About the CTO Forum

The CTO Forum brings together the best minds in the technology industry to define opportunities, and to collaborate in harnessing, the extraordinary potential of technology. The CTO Forum's mission is to deliver a Global Innovation Platform, where technology leaders collaborate and co-create the technology and solutions that will be critical to meeting tomorrow's global opportunities and challenges. See http://www.thectoforum.net.

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