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PRESS INFORMATION

                                                 EXHIBIT 99.1

                                                       SAP AG
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                            Contact: Gundolf Moritz
                                                     SAP AG
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                                                       -or-
                                                     Stefan Gruber
                                                     SAP AG
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                                                       -or-
                                                     David Lowy
                                                     Taylor Rafferty Associates
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SAP ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING APPROVES SHARE MERGER

WALLDORF/MANNHEIM, GERMANY - MAY 3, 2001 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), the leading
provider of e-business software solutions, today held its annual general meeting
in Mannheim, Germany. At the meeting, all of the items proposed by the
Supervisory Board and the Executive Board, including the share merger of
preference shares into common shares, were approved by more than 99% of the
represented voting capital. In particular, more than 99% of the common
shareholders and more than 99% of the preference shareholders voted for the
merger into a single class of shares. In addition to the share merger,
shareholders approved the following proposal:

o    Payment of dividends in the amount of euro 0.57 per ordinary share and
     euro 0.58 per preference share.

Henning Kagermann, Co-Chairman and CEO of SAP AG commented, "We are happy that
the share merger was approved. SAP's capital structure will be more transparent
and the company will have greater flexibility. In addition, the move to a
one-share, one-vote standard puts SAP more closely in line with international
corporate governance practice and capital market expectations."

The respective resolutions must also be entered into the commercial register.
SAP expects the conversion to become effective during the course of June 2001.



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SAP AG preference and common shares are listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
as well as a number of other exchanges. In the US, SAP's American Depositary
Receipts (ADRs), each worth one-fourth of a preference share, trade on the New
York Stock Exchange under the symbol `SAP'. SAP is a component of the DAX, the
index of 30 German blue chip companies.

Information on the SAP AG preference shares is available on Bloomberg under the
symbol SAP3 GR, on Reuters under SAPG_p.F or DE and on Quotron under SAGVD.EU.
Information on the SAP common shares is available on Bloomberg under the symbol
SAP GR, on Reuters under SAPG.F and on Quotron under SAGR.EU. Additional
information is available on SAP AG's home page: http://www.sap.com

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