Miami-Dade County Public Schools Moves to the Head of the Class With SAP

ORLANDO and MIAMI, Fla., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SAP Public Services, Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), today announced that Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has selected SAP's flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP(R) ERP. M-DCPS joins an increasing number of school systems investing in modern information technology to better manage their operations and improve public education. Implementation of the software began in September 2007. The district-wide business transformation project, called BOSS: Business Operating Solutions for Schools, aims to improve administrative processes and to enable the district to reallocate resources to schools and students. As a result, school administrators will have more time to focus on adhering to the highest level of academic standards so that students can become more productive, well-rounded and responsible citizens. With this selection, Miami-Dade becomes the fifth school district in Florida to run SAP solutions, joining the growing number of top K-12 school districts running SAP nationwide. The announcement was made at the co-located events SAPPHIRE(R) 2008 Orlando, SAP's international customer conference and the ASUG (America's SAP Users' Group) Annual Conference, both being held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7.