Capital repayment to shareholders
On February 14, 2008 the shareholders received a capital repayment of 0.27 euros a share. Prior to this, the Annual General Meeting on May 22, 2007 passed a resolution to reduce the share capital of the company in accordance with the regulations concerning ordinary capital reduction for the purpose of paying it back to the shareholders. As a result, the proportionate amount of share capital for each individual share fell from 1.27 to 1.00 euro.

Smooth SAP operation
With the new version of its proven monitoring solution for SAP applications REALTECH has launched a product which offers improvements in many areas. SAP administrators are able to provide powerful monitoring functions centrally with theGuard! ApplicationManager 4.0. REALTECH also guarantees your customers that the implementation period will be a maximum of five days.

REALTECH has a successful CeBIT
At the CeBIT in Hanover, the world’s biggest trade show for IT, REALTECH teamed up with its partners and was represented on three stands. Visitors, the sales department and media representatives definitely drew a positive conclusion. The high level of interest demonstrated that the solutions and products offered by the Walldorf-based IT service providers are addressing the problems currently experienced by IT and corporate managers.

Pastas Gallos chooses REALTECH
When it comes to pasta, the company Pastas Gallo is well established on the Spanish market and, with its many sites, it is one of the major operators in the Spanish food industry. The company chose REALTECH’s theGuard! NetworkManager and theGuard! Helpdesk – and achieved a noticeable improvement in all critical IT areas just a few weeks after implementation. Pastas Gallo now has a stable and transparent IT environment, which has become considerably easier to manage.

New theGuard! Service Management Center
REALTECH has developed a new procedure to visualize critical business processes and implemented this in the new version of theGuard! Service Management Center. So-called VAA (Visual Assisted Analysis) technology constitutes an entirely new means of analyzing IT infrastructures and business processes. The advantage of this is that companies can analyze IT-supported business processes even more effectively and respond more quickly in the event of an error.

Annual General Meeting attended by 200 shareholders and guests
REALTECH AG’s ninth Annual General Meeting was held in Wiesloch on 29 May and it was the first time Daniele Di Croce, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, was in charge. The event passed off successfully in a harmonious atmosphere: shareholders passed all motions by a large majority.

Shuttle service to SAP’s SAPPHIRE trade show
REALTECH had its own stand at SAPPHIRE in Berlin – the most important trade show in Europe for SAP customers and partners. At this event REALTECH managed to make numerous valuable contacts in the SAP customer segment and to raise awareness of REALTECH’s own brand in an SAP environment. The free shuttle service from the airport to the exhibition center, organized by REALTECH in co-operation with the BMW dealership in Berlin, was very well received.

Novell and REALTECH support Open Source platform
In future, REALTECH will work closely with Novell in Switzerland. Apart from strategic SAP consulting, the partnership also covers the implementation of Linux-based SAP solutions. This is of particular benefit to those companies which use SAP with the SUSE Linux Enterprise open source operating system. This co-operation will ensure that customers in Switzerland will also receive expert advice on all issues relating to SAP systems.

Everything revolves around customers
Numerous SAP customers and other interested parties visited REALTECH’s head office in Walldorf to find out about current trends and further developments relating to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence. A special information day organized by REALTECH showed potential customers how companies can use SAP to analyze business processes and set up information systems.

Innovative technologies in a romantic castle
Meggenhorn castle near Lucerne was the venue for the summer meeting of IT managers who wanted to find out more about new solutions offered by REALTECH. Information was also available on how organizations can optimize important business processes using SAP solutions. Those present found the contrast between discussing innovative technologies and sustainable IT strategies in a romantic castle very exhilarating.

Research in Japan
REALTECH is, together with prestigious companies such as IBM, Intel and Microsoft, one of the founder members of the Co-Innovation Lab in Tokyo, which was opened by SAP in July 2008. Among other things, the development center focuses on solutions for business applications based on a service-oriented architecture and environmentally friendly IT solutions (Green IT).

Easier introduction for medium-sized companies
Thanks to three new software packages from REALTECH medium-sized companies can also monitor their IT systems efficiently and cost-effectively. These are based on automated monitoring of SAP applications under different operating systems using special theGuard! solutions.

REALTECH at the annual DSAG congress in 2008
The annual congress of the German-speaking SAP user group (DSAG) is a “must” for companies that use SAP systems. REALTECH was represented with a stand here and was able to present its SAP expertise, again making many new and important contacts as well as renewing existing relationships. The positive feedback from user companies and customers has again confirmed the appeal of the strategies offered by REALTECH.

Headcount up 18 percent
REALTECH is still growing. On the key date of September 30, 2008 the company employed 714 employees – up 18 percent compared to the end of the third quarter of the previous year (604). In Germany, the workforce increased by 15 percent to 260 employees. This means that 36 of all employees are based in Germany.

SAP developers are given valuable assistance
REALTECH has developed a special solution for SAP application environments, which make the work of software developers easier. SyncAssist accelerates change and development processes in SAP environments. Until now, there was no software on the market to solve this challenge in an elegant and user-friendly way.

Award for a high level of expertise
SAP has recognized the expertise of REALTECH consultants by awarding the company Special Expertise Partnership status for SAP ERP upgrades. SEP status is a quality designation clear to those outside the company and it stands for high-quality consultancy work. The title is also equivalent to a recommendation of the company offering services.

Risk management in an SAP environment
REALTECH consultants gave presentations at many congresses in 2008, attracting many potential customers. For example, a specialist event in Dusseldorf focused on risk management in relation to SAP solutions.

Capital repayment of 3.99 euros
The capital repayment of 3.99 euros, passed at the Annual General Meeting, was paid on December 8. As a result of this, 20,989,203.48 euros were paid out to REALTECH shareholders. The next day the shares were traded on the Frankfurt stock exchange “ex capital repayment”, which means that the price was marked down to allow for the repayment.