The Youngster Who's Out to Energize SAP  By Steve Hamm This
drama features Shai Agassi, a 34-year-old Israeli who started no
fewer than four technology companies in the 1990s. In April,
after playing the role of entrepreneur-in-residence at German
software behemoth SAP for a year, Agassi was appointed to its
executive board -- the first non-German to land there and by far
the youngest among a sextet of graybeards who run the 30-year-
old company. Agassi, with the title executive board member, now
heads SAP's 1,500-person Collaborative Solutions Business Area,
based in Silicon Valley, which includes its portal,
e-marketplace, and collaborative software products.  While the
businesses he oversees represent less than 5% of SAP's roughly
$1.6 billion in quarterly sales, they're being counted on to
eventually provide a lot of future growth. SAP leads the world
in sales of basic applications for corporations, with a
dominating 36% share, according to AMR Research. But that's a
mature market, growing at about 1% a ye