<p>“This is important for us to protect customers investment and business continuity,” said Elena María Ordóñez del Campo, Senior Vice President, Globalisation Services.<br /><br />“We have separate teams in different countries observing changes in sales tax, excise duty and other legal compliances which constantly change and incorporate them into our products virtually on the spot,” she added, pointing out that SAP has incorporated 1,000 changes measuring upto about 200 million words last year alone. <br /><br />Such changes are incorporated either during releases or as part of maintenance. Elena said internationalising SAP’s architecture to cover unicode, calendars and global time zones and providing local language versions of SAP’s business suite are some of the other customisation initiatives the company takes up besides legal compliances. <br /><br />Localisation also covers financial, payroll, CRM etc, which, according to Elena, SAP has been investing on an on-going basis. The company works separately with translation agencies to provide its products in 38 different languages and covers about 140 countries.</p>
<p>“This is important for us to protect customers investment and business continuity,” said Elena María Ordóñez del Campo, Senior Vice President, Globalisation Services.<br /><br />“We have separate teams in different countries observing changes in sales tax, excise duty and other legal compliances which constantly change and incorporate them into our products virtually on the spot,” she added, pointing out that SAP has incorporated 1,000 changes measuring upto about 200 million words last year alone. <br /><br />Such changes are incorporated either during releases or as part of maintenance. Elena said internationalising SAP’s architecture to cover unicode, calendars and global time zones and providing local language versions of SAP’s business suite are some of the other customisation initiatives the company takes up besides legal compliances. <br /><br />Localisation also covers financial, payroll, CRM etc, which, according to Elena, SAP has been investing on an on-going basis. The company works separately with translation agencies to provide its products in 38 different languages and covers about 140 countries.</p>
