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igitalization, no one can reach their goal alone. In an ecosystem with other strong players, we bring innovations to our

customers more quickly and deliver what really helps them make progress. This is the way we work with SAP and

Accenture, with Amazon Web Services and Google, with Alibaba and Microsoft but also with small nd medium -sized companies, with

startups, with universities, and with research institutions. Speech by Roland Busch to the Annual Shareholders Meetin 2 Seite 1 von

1 One good example for success in ecosystems is Mendix, our platform for web developers. With Mendix, developers can build new applications faster without having to learn complex programming language. As result, new ordering portal for external customers or an internal portal for travel expenses, for instance, can be created very quickly. With the aid of Mendix, the automotive supplier Continental reprogrammed its ordering process for machines and capital goods. These internal queries used to take up to an hour. Today, it takes minutes. The new system worked, and ran stably, right from the start. In the past three years, Mendix has grown phenomenal 2 percen . Thats due in part to the lively ecosystem. More than 2,0 users not only develop their software with the aid of Mendix, but also share information in open forums social network for developers. In strong ecosystem, there are many winners. Were talking lot about growth today. And thats good thing because we need growth in part, to enable more people around the world to have better life. But growth must be sustainable. We want to achieve more while using fewer resources. Thats possible but only with the help of new technologies. Thanks to our technologies, our customers abated nearly 9 million tons of CO2 in fiscal 2 alone. Thats one -and--half times Germanys total emissions from industrial processes! Sustainability is good busin ess for Siemens. But even more important: good bu