SAP reorganizes into three business groups

German enterprise resource planning software vendor SAP AG is reorganizing its software division into three separate units, a spokesman confirmed today.

"This will make our research and development department more customer oriented," said the spokesman who asked not to be named.

According to the spokesman, the software division will be divided into three business units: new development, maintenance and product enhancement, and will not affect any jobs.

The spokesman denied that the restructuring had anything to do with comments made by SAP's CEO Hasso Plattner at the company's customer conference in Berlin last month. At the conference, Plattner acknowledged that SAP would be working with partner companies to add depth to its mySAP.com suite.

"A move like this is quite normal, we are a very large company," the spokesman said.