This document outlines the compensation for Executive Board and Supervisory Board members at SAP for 2015. Compensation for Executive Board members has three elements - a fixed annual salary, a short-term incentive based on SAP's performance against key performance targets, and a long-term incentive tied to SAP's share price. The short-term incentive depends on cloud revenue growth, operating margin increase, and new bookings. The long-term incentive is determined by a restricted share unit plan based on revenue and other strategic objectives. The Supervisory Board is responsible for setting compensation and assessing performance against targets.
This document outlines the compensation for Executive Board and Supervisory Board members at SAP for 2015. Compensation for Executive Board members has three elements - a fixed annual salary, a short-term incentive based on SAP's performance against key performance targets, and a long-term incentive tied to SAP's share price. The short-term incentive depends on cloud revenue growth, operating margin increase, and new bookings. The long-term incentive is determined by a restricted share unit plan based on revenue and other strategic objectives. The Supervisory Board is responsible for setting compensation and assessing performance against targets.
This document outlines the compensation for Executive Board and Supervisory Board members at SAP for 2015. Compensation for Executive Board members has three elements - a fixed annual salary, a short-term incentive based on SAP's performance against key performance targets, and a long-term incentive tied to SAP's share price. The short-term incentive depends on cloud revenue growth, operating margin increase, and new bookings. The long-term incentive is determined by a restricted share unit plan based on revenue and other strategic objectives. The Supervisory Board is responsible for setting compensation and assessing performance against targets.
This document outlines the compensation for Executive Board and Supervisory Board members at SAP for 2015. Compensation for Executive Board members has three elements - a fixed annual salary, a short-term incentive based on SAP's performance against key performance targets, and a long-term incentive tied to SAP's share price. The short-term incentive depends on cloud revenue growth, operating margin increase, and new bookings. The long-term incentive is determined by a restricted share unit plan based on revenue and other strategic objectives. The Supervisory Board is responsible for setting compensation and assessing performance against targets.
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Compensation Report
COMPENSATION FOR EXECUTIVE AND international stage. The amount of variable
SUPERVISORY BOARD MEMBERS compensation depends on SAP’s This compensation report outlines the performance against performance targets criteria that we applied for the year 2015 to that the Supervisory Board sets for each determine compensation for Executive plan year. The performance targets are key Board and Supervisory Board members, performance indicator (KPI) values aligned discloses the amount of compensation paid, to the SAP budget for the plan year. and describes the compensation systems. It The following criteria apply to the elements also contains information about share- of Executive Board compensation for 2015: based payment plans for Executive Board 1) This compensation report is part of the members, shares held by Executive Board audited management report and Supervisory Board members, and the – The fixed annual salary element is paid as directors’ dealings required to be disclosed a monthly salary. in accordance with the German Securities – The variable STI element was determined Trading Act. under the STI 2015 plan. Under this plan, COMPENSATION FOR EXECUTIVE BOARD the STI compensation depends on the SAP MEMBERS Group’s performance against the Compensation System for 2015 predefined target values for three KPIs: The compensation for 2015 for Executive non-IFRS constant currency cloud and Board members is intended to reflect SAP’s software growth; non-IFRS constant company size and global presence as well as currency operating margin increase; and our economic and financial standing. The non-IFRS constant currency new and upsell compensation level is internationally bookings. In addition, the STI 2015 plan competitive to reward committed, provides for a discretionary element that successful work in a dynamic business allows the Supervisory Board, after the end environment. of the fiscal year 2015, to address not only The Executive Board compensation package an Executive Board member’s individual is performance-based. It has three performance, but also SAP’s performance elements: in terms of market position, innovative – A fixed annual salary element power, customer satisfaction, employee – A variable short-term incentive (STI) satisfaction, attractiveness as an employer element to reward performance in the plan and the performance in our Business year Network Group. – A variable long-term incentive (LTI) element tied to the price of SAP shares to Moreover, if there has been any reward performance over multiple years extraordinary and unforeseeable event, the Supervisory Board can, at its reasonable The Supervisory Board sets a compensation discretion, retroactively adjust payouts up target for the sum of the fixed and the or down in the interest of SAP. For 2014, variable elements. It reviews, and if this discretion was applied. appropriate, revises, this compensation On February 18, 2016, the Supervisory target every year. The review takes into Board assessed SAP’s performance against account SAP’s business performance and the agreed targets and determined the the compensation paid to board members amount of compensation payable under at comparable companies on the the STI 2015 plan. The STI 2015 plan pays out after the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in May 2016. – The variable LTI element was determined under the RSU Milestone Plan 2015. “RSU” stands for “restricted share unit.” This originally four-year plan was established in 2012 and focuses on the SAP share price and on certain objectives derived from our Company strategy for the years through 2015. For each of the four years, the members of the Executive Board are allocated a certain number of RSUs for the respective year based on a budget amount that was granted to each Executive Board member in 2012 already for each of the years 2012 through 2015. The number of RSUs allocated to each member for a given year is their target amount (an amount in euros) for that year divided by the SAP share price over a reference period (defined in the RSU Milestone Plan 2015 terms) at the beginning of the respective year. The number of RSUs an Executive Board member actually earns in respect of a given year depends on the Company performance against the objectives for that year (a year is a “performance period” in the plan). The objectives derive from SAP’s strategy for the period to 2015. The plan objectives relate to two KPIs: non-IFRS total revenue and non- IFRS