We use SAP for finance in many countries world wide, many countries require you to use SAP now so they can give you the tax & legal information for each country in a SAP format to make sure you are up to their countries codes.

I suspect they also want information back from you, and most likely in a SAP compatible version.

This was all told to me at our IT quarterly meeting, with our new SAP deployments, as IT does not actually input the data, just run the servers.

Funny how we run the stuff, but sometimes dont even know how its used.