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Customers always deserve to be listened to, and when they have valid issues -- valid, meaning both the customer and SAP believe it's an issue -- it has to be addressed.

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  1. adjective Well grounded; just: a valid objection.
  2. adjective Producing the desired results; efficacious: valid methods.
  3. adjective Having legal force; effective or binding: a valid title.
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  • Dutch government option still remains valid * Solvay shares down 3.8 percent (Adds spokesman's comments, details) —  WN.com - Business News
  • There is enough information - valid or not, justifiable or not - for every proponent to have their say ... which is where context and history have their role. —  Countercurrents.org
  • That retraction was never valid, argues city attorney Craig Tindall, who did not work for Glendale at the time. —  azcentral.com | news
  • If the change is valid, the recently corrected addresses should not show up on this screen anymore. —  Muti
  • This religious faith of the scientist is violated by the discovery that the world had a beginning under conditions in which the known laws of physics are not valid, and as a product of forces or circumstances we cannot discover. —  Pyromaniacs
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  1. French valide, from Old French, from Latin validus, strong, from valēre, to be strong; see wal- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English valide, from Old French (and F.) valide = Spanish válido = Portuguese Italian valido, from Latin validus, strong, from valere, be strong: see valiant.
 

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