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Short description: German multinational enterprise-software company
SAP SE
TypePublic (Societas Europaea)
ISIN]
Industry
Founded1972; 52 years ago (1972) in Weinheim, West Germany
Founders
  • Dietmar Hopp
  • Hans-Werner Hector
  • Hasso Plattner
  • Klaus Tschira
  • Claus Wellenreuther
Headquarters
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg
,
Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Hasso Plattner (Chairman)
  • Christian Klein (CEO)
Products
Services
RevenueIncrease 30.87 billion (2022)
Increase €4.67 billion (2022)
Decrease €1.71 billion (2022)
Total assetsIncrease €72.16 billion (2022)
Total equityIncrease €42.85 billion (2022)
Number of employees
111,961 (2022)
Websitesap.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

SAP SE (/ˌɛs.ˈp/; German pronunciation: [ɛsʔaːˈpeː] (About this soundlisten)) is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg. It develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.[2][3] The company is the world's leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor.[4][5] Apart from ERP software, the company also sells database software and technology (particularly its own brands), cloud-engineered systems, and other ERP software products, such as human capital management (HCM) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software (also known as customer experience), enterprise performance management (EPM) software, product lifecycle management (PLM) software, supplier relationship management (SRM) software, supply chain management (SCM) software, business technology platform (BTP) software and programming environment SAP AppGyver for business.

Founded in 1972 as a private partnership named Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung (lit. System Analysis and Software Development; SAP GbR), which in 1981 fully became Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (SAP GmbH) after a five-year transition period beginning in 1976.[2]:1972–1980 In 2005, it further restructured itself as SAP AG. Since 7 July 2014, its corporate structure is that of a pan-European societas Europaea (SE);[6][7] as such, its former German corporate identity is now a subsidiary, SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG.[6]

SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with regional offices in 180 countries.[8][3] The company has over 111,961 employees in over 180 countries[9] and is a component of the DAX and Euro Stoxx 50 stock market indices.[10] The company is the largest non-American software company by revenue and the world's third-largest publicly traded software company by revenue. As of December 2023, SAP is the largest German company by market capitalization.[11]

History

Formation

When Xerox exited the computer hardware manufacturing industry in 1971,[12] it asked IBM to migrate its business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM was given the rights to the Scientific Data Systems (SDS)/SAPE software, repo.

Five IBM engineers from the AI department[13][14] (Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus Wellenreuther, all from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg) were working on an enterprise-wide system based on this software, only to be told that it would no longer be necessary. Rather than abandoning the project, they decided to leave IBM Tech and start another company.[4][15]

In June 1972, they founded the SAP Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development" / "SAPD") company, as a private partnership under the German Civil Code.[16]

Their first client was the German branch of Imperial Chemical Industries in Östringen,[17] where they developed mainframe programs for payroll and accounting. Instead of storing the data on punch cards mechanically, as IBM did, they stored it locally in the Electronic System while using a common Logical database for all activities of Organization.[clarification needed] Therefore, they called their software a real-time system, since there was no need to process the punch cards overnight (for this reason their flagship product carried an R in its name until the late 1990s). This first version was also a standalone software that could be offered to other interested parties.[18]

Acquisitions

Acquisitions (1991–now):[19]

Acquisition number Acquired company Acquisition date Specialty Country of origin Acquisition costs
75 LeanIX Sep 2023[20] Enterprise architecture management Germany
74 Taulia (January 2022) Working capital management USA
73 AppGyver (February 2021) No-code development platform Finland
72 Signavio (January 2021) Collaborative Business Process Design, Management and Analysis Germany $1b est.
71 Emarsys Oct 2020[21] Omnichannel marketing Austria
70 Qualtrics Nov 2018[22][23] Collect, Manage, act on Experience data USA $8.0b
69 Contextor Nov 2018[24] Robotic Process Automation France
68 Coresystems Jun 2018[25] Platform for field service management Switzerland
67 CallidusCloud Jan 2018[26] Sales Performance Management Tool USA $2.4 b
66 Recast.ai Jan 2018[27] Conversational User Experience Technology (chatbot) France
65 Gigya Sep 2017[28] Customer Identity Management Israel $350m
64 Abakus Dec 2016[29] Marketing attribution USA
63 Plat.One Oct 2016[30][31] IoT USA
62 Altiscale Aug 2016[32] big data and Hadoop Hosting USA $125m+
61 Fedem Technology Jun 2016[33] IoT Norway
60 MeLLmo Inc. (Roambi) Feb 2016[34] Mobile Business Intelligence USA
59 Concur Technologies Sep 2014[35] Travel and Expense Management USA $8.3b
58 SeeWhy May 2014 Behavioural target marketing USA $1.1b
57 Fieldglass Mar 2014 Contingent labour and services USA
56 KXEN Oct 2013 Predictive analytics France
55 hybris May 2013 E-Commerce Solutions Switzerland $1.5b
54 Camilion Mar 2013 Insurance solutions Canada
53 SmartOps Feb 2013 Inventory optimization USA
52 Ticket-Web Feb 2013[36] Ticket systems and special CRM solutions for sports and entertainment Germany
51 Ariba Oct 2012 Supplier network USA $4.3b
50 Syclo Jun 2012 Mobile asset management USA
49 datango Jan 2012 Electronic performance support technologies Germany
48 SuccessFactors Dec 2011 Human Capital Management USA $3.4b
47 Right Hemisphere Sep 2011 3D visualization USA
46 Crossgate Sep 2011 B2B eCommerce Germany
45 Secude Mar 2011 Security software (Not the whole company, only some assets were acquired) Germany
44 Cundus Dec 2010 Disclosure Management Germany
43 Sybase May 2010 Database, middleware, mobile software USA $5.8b
42 TechniData May 2010 Environmental, Health and Safety Germany
41 SAF Sep 2009 Inventory Management Switzerland $91m
40 Highdeal May 2009 High-volume billing France
39 Visiprise Jul 2008 Manufacturing Execution USA
38 Saicon INC Oct 2014 US Recruitment India
37 BusinessObjects Oct 2007 Business Intelligence France $6.78b
36 Yasu Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Oct 2007 Business Rules Management Software India
35 Wicom Communications May 2007 Internet Communication software Finland
34 MaXware May 2007 Identity software Norway
33 Outlooksoft May 2007[37] Planning & consolidation USA
32 Pilot Software Feb 2007 Strategy Management software USA ~$200m
31 Factory Logic Dec 2006 Lean scheduling and supply synchronisation USA
30 Praxis Software Solutions Jul 2006 Web-based CRM and eCommerce USA
29 Frictionless Commerce May 2006 SRM software USA
28 Virsa Systems Apr 2006 Compliance solutions USA
27 SAP Systems Integration Dec 2005 Consulting services Germany
26 Callixa Nov 2005 Enterprise Integration Information software USA
25 Khimetrics Nov 2005 retail software USA
24 Triversity Sep 2005 POS software Canada
23 Lighthammer Jun 2005[38] Manufacturing Intelligence and Collaborative Manufacturing USA
22 DCS Quantum Feb 2005 Automotive Dealer Management United Kingdom
21 TomorrowNow Jan 2005 Grey market support USA
20 ilytix Jan 2005 SAP BusinessOne Business Intelligence Norway
19 A2i Jul 2004[39] Master Data Management USA
18 SPM Technologies Dec 2003[40] IT architecture consulting Germany
17 DCW Software Jul 2003 OS/400 Applications Germany
16 Guimachine Dec 2002 NetWeaver Visual Composer toolkit USA
15 IMHC May 2001 Integrated managed health care from IDS USA
14 Expression May 2002 Real-time file sharing ?
13 Topmanage Feb 2002 SAP BusinessOne Suite Israel
12 Paynet International AG Dec 2001 Invoice Processing Germany
11 COPA GmbH Nov 2001 Beverage industry consulting Germany
10 Infinite Data Structures May 2001 Trade Management / CRM USA
9 Toptier Mar 2001 Enterprise Information Portal and Integration Infrastructure USA ~$400m
8 Prescient Consulting Feb 2000 Consulting services USA
7 In-Q-My Technologies GmbH 2000 J2EE Server Bulgaria
6 Campbell Software 1999[41] Workforce Management USA
5 AMC Development 1998 Call Center telephony integration software USA
4 OFEK-Tech 1998 Warehousing and distribution centre software Israel
3 Kiefer & Veittinger 1997 Sales force Applications Germany
2 Dacos 1994 Retail solution Germany
1 Steeb 1991[42] Software and Consulting Services Germany

Enterprise resource planning

In 1973, the first commercial product was launched. SAP completed its first financial accounting system - RF. This system served as the cornerstone in the ongoing development of other software modules of the system that eventually bore the name SAP R/1.[16]

This offered a common system for multiple tasks. This permitted the use of a centralized data storage, improving the maintenance of data. From a technical point of view, therefore, a database was necessary.[43]

In 1976, SAP GmbH Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing") was founded as a sales and support subsidiary. Five years later, the private partnership was dissolved and its rights were passed on to SAP GmbH.[16]

The headquarters moved the following year to Walldorf, Germany. Three years later, in 1979, SAP launched SAP R/2, expanding the capabilities of the system to other areas, such as material management and production planning. In 1981, SAP brought a re-designed product to market. However, SAP R/2 did not improve until the period between 1985 and 1990. SAP released the new SAP R/3 in 1992. SAP developed and released several versions of R/3 through 1995. By the mid-1990s, SAP followed the trend from mainframe computing to client–server architectures. The development of SAP's internet strategy with mySAP.com redesigned the concept of business processes (integration via Internet).[15] As a result, R/3 was replaced with the introduction of SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 5.0 in 2004.[44] Architectural changes were also made to support an enterprise service architecture to transition customers to a service-oriented architecture. The latest version, SAP ERP 6.0, was released in 2006. SAP ERP 6.0 has since then been updated through SAP enhancement packs, the most recent: SAP enhancement package 8 for SAP ERP 6.0 in 2016.[45]

Corporate restructuring

In August 1988, SAP GmbH became SAP AG, and public trading started on 4 November 1988. Shares were listed on the Frankfurt and Stuttgart stock exchanges.[15] In 1995, SAP was included in the German stock index DAX and, on 22 September 2003, SAP was included in the STOXX Europe 50.[46]

SAP AG era

The company's official name became SAP AG (a public limited company) after the 2005 annual general meeting.

SAP SE era

On 21 May 2014, SAP AG announced during the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders that 99% of the shareholder votes approved the conversion of legal form to a European stock corporation (Societas Europaea, SE) and at the same time, elected the first supervisory board of SAP SE. The conversion of the company's legal form would take place upon entry in the commercial register, expected to be in July 2014.[47][48]

On 7 July 2014, SAP announced it had changed its legal form to a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE). As a result, its German subsidiary was renamed to SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG.[6][49] The conversion cost the company approximately €4 million.[50]

Focus on cloud

Since 2012, SAP has acquired several companies that sell cloud-based products, with several multi-billion-dollar acquisitions seen by analysts as an attempt to challenge competitor Oracle.[51] In 2016 SAP bought Concur Technologies, a provider of cloud-based travel and expense management software, for $8.3 billion, SAP's most expensive purchase to that date.[52] Analysts' reactions to the purchase were mixed, with Thomas Becker of Commerzbank questioning whether Concur was the right choice for SAP, while Credit Suisse called the acquisition an "aggressive" move.[53]

In 2014, IBM and SAP began a partnership to sell cloud-based services.[54] Likewise, in 2015, SAP also partnered with HPE to provide secure hybrid cloud-based services running the SAP platform.[55] Both HPE and IBM provide infrastructure services to SAP, and SAP runs its SAP HANA cloud solution on top. SAP has announced additional partnerships with Microsoft in order to give customers tools for data visualization, as well as improved mobile applications.[56]

SAP exceeded its revenue projections due to the expansion in its cloud business and the success of SAP HANA. The growth can also be partially attributed to the acquisitions of Concur and Fieldglass.[57] Since 2017, SAP is a founding member of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.[58] Since May 2021 SAP has listed selected Cloud Service adherent to the EU Cloud Code of Conduct as one of the first Cloud Service Providers.[59]

The company announced plans in 2016 to invest heavily into technology relating to the Internet of things (IoT) as part of a strategy to capitalize on the growth in that market. For that purpose, €2 billion is planned for investment in relevant sectors by the end of 2020.[60] SAP will also launch a new product line called SAP IoT, which "will combine large amounts of data from things connected to the Internet with machine learning and SAP's real-time database S/4 HANA."[60]

On 29 January 2019, SAP announced plans to cut approximately 4,000 positions at the company in a strategic plan to shift to more modern cloud-based technologies such as blockchain, quantum computing, machine learning, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence.[61]

SAP Fioneer and Dediq

On 13 April 2021, SAP announced the formation of the joint venture SAP Fioneer, a dedicated Financial Services Industry (FSI) Unit between SAP and investment company Dediq GmbH.[62][63] Dediq GmbH invested over €500 million in the newly formed unit and received an 80 per cent share in return. SAP brought its products, organizational units and the sales network into the business and holds 20 per cent of the shares.[64]

Finances

For the fiscal year 2017, SAP reported earnings of €4 billion, with an annual revenue of €23.5 billion, an increase of 6.3% over the previous fiscal cycle.[65] SAP's shares traded at over US$154 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at US$180 billion in December 2023,[66] making it the largest German company by market capitalization.[11]

The key trends for SAP are (as at the financial year ending March 31):[67][68]

Year Revenue
(€ bn)
Net income
(€ bn)
Total assets
(€ bn)
Employees Sources
2013 16.8 3.3 27.0 66,572
2014 17.5 3.2 38.5 74,406
2015 20.7 3.0 41.3 76,986
2016 22.0 3.6 44.2 84,183
2017 23.4 4.0 42.4 88,543
2018 24.7 4.0 51.5 96,498
2019 27.5 3.3 60.2 100,330 [69]
2020 27.3 5.1 58.4 103,876 [70]
2021 27.8 5.2 71.1 107,415
2022 30.8 2.2 72.1 111,961

Business and markets

(As of 2016), SAP is the world's fourth-largest software and programming company.[71] The corporation operates in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, and South America.[72]

SAP focuses on 25 industries and six industry sectors: process industries, discrete industries, consumer industries, service industries, financial services and public services.[73] It offers integrated product sets for large enterprises,[74] mid-sized companies and small businesses.[75]

Partnerships

SAP partners include Global Services Partners with cross-industry multinational consulting capabilities,[76] SAP University Alliances,[77] Global Software Partners providing integrated products that complement SAP Business Suite solutions,[78] and Global Technology Partners providing user companies with a wide range of products to support SAP technology, including vendors of hardware, database, storage systems, networks, and mobile computing technology.[79]

Extensions partners are companies which provide functionality that complements SAP product capabilities. Their products are certified, sold, and supported by SAP. These partner companies include Adobe, CA Technologies, GK Software,[80] Tricentis,[81] Hewlett-Packard, IDS Scheer, Mendix,[82] OpenText,[83] Knoa Software, and BackOffice Associates.[84]

SAP has also partnered with Apple to work on the mobile experience for SAP enterprise customers. As part of the partnership, a new SAP HANA Cloud Platform SDK would be delivered exclusively for iOS. As a result, developers can build applications based on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the iPhone and iPad devices. The partnership was announced in May 2016.[85]

In 2019, SAP announced a three-year partnership "Embrace" with Microsoft that should allow its clients to move their business process into the cloud, although significant portions of that partnership were reduced to two years. SAP teams up on cloud sales with Microsoft [86]

In 2020 SAP announced that together with Wipro it will co-develop and market "solutions for the retail and fashion industry."[87]

Organization

SAP uses a two-tier structure of boards, with an executive board and a supervisory board.[88][89] In October 2019, Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein were appointed as co-CEOs of SAP.[90] In April 2020, it was announced that Jennifer Morgan will leave SAP and Christian Klein will continue to operate as the sole CEO, citing that the current environment of the COVID-19 recession requires "companies to take swift, determined action which is best supported by a very clear leadership structure".[91]

The majority of the company's employees are in Germany and United States. About 20,000 employees are based in Germany[92] and about 19,311 employees are based in the United States.[93][94]

In 2022, 45 employee representatives were elected to the SAP SE Works Council, including 15 candidates from the Ver.di and IG Metall trade union lists. They represent 17,000 employees of Germany.[95]

Headquarters is responsible for overall management as well as core engineering activities related to product development. Worldwide customer support is not provided by the field organizations but by a unified organization called Active Global Support (AGS).[96]

SAP Labs

Locations of SAP Labs
Country Main location(s)
Germany Walldorf/Rot, Markdorf, Dresden, Berlin
United States Silicon Valley, Newtown Square
India Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon
China Shanghai
Brazil São Leopoldo
Bulgaria Sofia
Canada Vancouver , Montreal , Waterloo
South Korea Seoul
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City
Israel Ra'anana
France Paris, Sophia Antipolis
Ireland Dublin
Hungary Budapest
Slovakia Bratislava
Czech Republic Brno
Poland Gliwice

SAP Labs are research and development locations that develop and improve SAP core products. SAP Labs are strategically located in high-tech clusters around the globe.[97]

The four most prominent labs of SAP SE are located in Germany, Japan, Israel and the US. Labs Walldorf was founded in 1972 and became SAP's primary location. At the beginning, the focus of SAP's expansion was entering highly developed IT markets; in 1993, Palo Alto became a part of SAP Labs. Aiming to acquire talented employees, SAP opened another lab in Bangalore in 2003.[97]

SAP Labs in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland were established in 2016. The lab in India is SAP's largest outside Germany as of 2016.

In order to manage SAP Labs, SAP Labs Network (SLN) was created. SLN is a global unit that manages regional Labs and shares best business practices. It coordinates and distributes development projects among individual SAP Labs locations, accelerates product delivery, gives SAP full access to talent, and drives SAP corporate strategy regarding innovation and business growth.[98]

Philanthropic efforts

SAP has donated several millions of dollars to a variety of global health causes including the Product Red campaign and the Global Fund.[99][100] In addition, SAP has distributed free software in South Africa as part of an effort towards developing future markets there.[101] The company also encourages employees to volunteer through social sabbaticals, sending teams of people to different countries to aid non-profits. SAP employees have volunteered in China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.[102]

Controversies

Bribery charges

In 2024, after investigations by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, SAP was ordered to pay $220 million to resolve violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in South Africa, Indonesia, Tanzania, Malawi, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Azerbaijan. It paid bribes to officials in state-owned enterprises to gain government contracts. It entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement, paying a criminal penalty of $118.8 million and an administrative forfeiture of $103,396,765.[103][104]

In South Africa, SAP used third-party intermediaries to acquire tenders from various state-owned entities, including Transnet, the South African Revenue Service, the City of Johannesburg, Eskom and the Department of Water and Sanitation.[105][104](p4)

US-Iran sanctions

In 2021, SAP admitted in a United States court that it exported software to firms in Iran, contrary to US sanctions against Iran, which led to a fine of $8 million.[106][107][108]

East African allegations

In February 2019, SAP was accused of 'improper conduct' linked to state contracts in Kenya and Tanzania. An anonymous whistle-blower claims, through a firm of attorneys, that SAP used Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS) to bribe officials at the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) to win a US$6.6 million enterprise resource planning software tender that involved the provision of software licenses and services.[109]

South African allegations

In July 2017, allegations were made that SAP had been involved in business transactions with the controversial and politically influential Gupta family in South Africa. SAP was accused of paying CAD House, a Gupta-controlled company, R100 million in order to secure a Transnet deal. SAP denied the allegations, claiming that the money was paid as "an extension of the sales force", despite CAD House having no prior SAP experience.[110][111]

The Guptas' dealings with SAP were revealed in a widely publicized e-mail leak.[112][113]

As a consequence of the allegations, SAP launched an investigation that led to four of its South African managers being placed on administrative leave along with the seizure of their mobile phones and computers.[114] Claas Kuehnemann was named as acting managing director for Africa while the investigation continued.[115]

On 26 October 2017, SAP announced that it had voluntarily reported itself to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a possible violation of US law, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), related to the South African bribery allegations. SAP's own investigation, conducted by law firm Baker McKenzie, revealed that SAP had paid $7.7 million in commissions to third-parties linked to the Gupta family while securing contracts worth $48 million with Transnet and Eskom.[116][117][118]

Panamanian bribery

Since May 2015, the company has dealt with a series of high-profile bribery investigations,[119][110][109] including one that led to them paying $3.9 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil charges over a former executive's scheme to bribe Panama government officials in order to win lucrative technology contracts.[119][120]

Allegations of intellectual property theft and fraud

In 2018, and in an ongoing court battle, Teradata accused SAP of IP theft and fraudulent behaviour.[121][122] In 2021, in the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, additional claims were made of questionable behaviour with regards to SAP's funding of researchers at the University of Mannheim - who were in effect paid by SAP to investigate competitors technology.[121][123] In a later article, Der Spiegel magazine maintained that SAP had been neglectful in maintaining strict governance for years.[124] In June 2022 the German business magazine Manager Magazin published an article stating the management style of the leadership might be responsible for an increased compliance risk.[125]

Bullying claims and misogyny

In May 2022, multiple claims were made of bullying and sexual harassment within the company, with many cases of unwanted advances by senior male managers on female colleagues.[126] When complaints were made or information made available, HR were found to be unhelpful or hostile. For example, in one case a female employee was groped by a male manager in Sydney while at a company event, but he was never brought to account. In another case, a female employee was sexually targeted by a manager and asked to keep her web camera on during the day. She then complained and was placed under "performance management" - a pre-cursor to being asked to leave the company.[127] Several female executives, including the Co-CEO left the company, adding to concerns that women were negatively treated, despite SAP then hiring several other senior women from Microsoft.[128]

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