SAP

SAP is an enterprise software company founded in 1972 and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. It builds enterprise applications and business AI that connect finance, procurement, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing, sustainability and customer experience, with the aim of enabling real-time, unified-data operations. The company serves complex, regulated global enterprises as well as smaller organisations seeking scalable, industry-specific systems, and its teams operate in more than 150 countries.

Its product portfolio includes SAP S/4HANA, an enterprise resource planning suite for real-time business processing; SAP HANA, the in-memory database technology underpinning that processing; and SAP Business Technology Platform, used to extend and integrate enterprise applications. Further offerings comprise SuccessFactors for human capital management, Analytics Cloud for analytics and business intelligence, and Commerce Cloud for e-commerce and customer experience. Business AI capabilities are embedded across the portfolio.

Technical work spans enterprise application software, business AI, in-memory database technology, real-time business processing, analytics and business intelligence, cloud platform development, commerce, human capital management, supply chain and manufacturing systems, and sustainability software. The company's stated founding goal was the creation of standard software for real-time business processing, and its focus remains on simplifying complex processes and improving decision-making.

SAP reports a global customer and partner network of more than 320,000 businesses. It works collaboratively with customers and partners across that network, and has operated continuously since 1972.