LEXINGTON, Ky., Mar 22, 2001 -- Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) today announced it has met all the necessary criteria and has been named a mySAP.com Global Technology Partner by SAP AG, of Walldorf, Germany. SAP's mySAP.com Global Technology Partners are key technology vendors that work jointly with SAP to enhance the technological platform and to deliver first-class innovative solutions for mySAP.com e-business solutions such as customer relationship management, supply chain management, enterprise portals and industry marketplaces. “The mySAP.com e-business solutions allow our customers and business partners to work together successfully anytime, anywhere in the world,” said Rudolf Munz, Senior Vice President of Development Platforms, SAP AG. “Lexmark provides an essential contribution to the international printing capabilities of mySAP.com. SAP and Lexmark’s joint development is based on the commitment to our customers to deliver documents from mySAP.com at the right time and place, in the right format and in any language.” "Our partnership confirms Lexmark's commitment to provide the best support of SAP," said Paul Rooke, Lexmark vice president, and president of the Business Printer Division. "Working with SAP customers, we make it easy for them to produce their business critical documents in ways that help them to improve work processes, increase user satisfaction and reduce total operating costs. Lexmark's SAP solutions include bar code, OCR and MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) printing as well as custom device types with extended support for Lexmark printer features. Lexmark also offers printer-based formatting of SAP data and documents and support of SAP output in local languages including the universal language support with International Printing for mySAP.com.