PARIS, June 17 (Reuters) - SAP AG (SAPG.DE), the world's biggest maker of business software, sees signs of an improvement in the sector and is sticking to its 2009 operating margin goal, Chief Executive Leo Apotheker said on Wednesday. "The market situation today is not as bad as it was a few months ago. Can we talk of a recovery? It is too early to say," he said. Asked if he still banked on an upturn in 2010, Apotheker told reporters: "I think that, provided there is no further major shock, one would expect things to be a little better in 2010 than 2009." Apotheker separately told Reuters Television SAP had no plans for a rights issue, while its job cuts programme was progressing and would be completed sooner than planned. Apotheker was speaking to reporters after SAP unveiled a three-year partnership with French non-profit organisation PlatNet Finance, the first initiative of which aims to help farmers in northern Ghana.