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SAP SE (/ˌɛs.ˈp/; German pronunciation: [ɛsʔaːˈpeː] (listen)) 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] SAP is the largest non-American software company by revenue, the world's third-largest publicly traded software company by revenue, and the second largest German company by market capitalization.[6] 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.

SAP SE
Logo since 2011
TypePublic (societas Europaea)
ISINDE0007164600
Industry
Founded1972; 51 years ago (1972) in Weinheim, West Germany
Founders
Headquarters,
Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Services
Revenue 30.87 billion (2022)
€4.67 billion (2022)
€1.71 billion (2022)
Total assets €72.16 billion (2022)
Total equity €42.85 billion (2022)
Number of employees
111,961 (2022)
Websitesap.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

Historical references include Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing,[2] SAP AG and SAP SE.

Company overview

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);[7][8] as such, its former German corporate identity is now a subsidiary, SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG.[7]

SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with regional offices in 180 countries.[9][3] The company has over 111,961 employees in over 180 countries[10] and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.[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, reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000.

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
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[20] Omnichannel marketing Austria
70 Qualtrics Nov 2018[21][22] Collect, Manage, act on Experience data USA $8.0b
69 Contextor Nov 2018[23] Robotic Process Automation France
68 Coresystems Jun 2018[24] Platform for field service management Switzerland
67 CallidusCloud Jan 2018[25] Sales Performance Management Tool USA $2.4 b
66 Recast.ai Jan 2018[26] Conversational User Experience Technology (chatbot) France
65 Gigya Sep 2017[27] Customer Identity Management Israel $350m
64 Abakus Dec 2016[28] Marketing attribution USA
63 Plat.One Oct 2016[29][30] IoT USA
62 Altiscale Aug 2016[31] big data and Hadoop Hosting USA $125m+
61 Fedem Technology Jun 2016[32] IoT Norway
60 MeLLmo Inc. (Roambi) Feb 2016[33] Mobile Business Intelligence USA
59 Concur Technologies Sep 2014[34] 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[35] 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[36] 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[37] 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[38] Master Data Management USA
18 SPM Technologies Dec 2003[39] 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[40] 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[41] 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.[42]

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.[43] 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.[44]

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.[45]

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.[46][47]

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.[7][48] The conversion cost the company approximately €4 million.[49]

Focus on cloud

 
SAP Data Center building for SAP Cloud Services in Walldorf, Germany

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.[50] 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.[51] 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.[52]

In 2014, IBM and SAP began a partnership to sell cloud-based services.[53] Likewise, in 2015, SAP also partnered with HPE to provide secure hybrid cloud-based services running the SAP platform.[54] 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.[55]

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.[56] Since 2017, SAP is a founding member of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.[57] 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.[58]

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.[59] 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."[59]

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.[60]

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.[61][62] Dediq GmbH invested over €500 million in the newly formed unit and received an 80 percent share in return. SAP brought its products, organizational units and the sales network into the business and holds 20 percent of the shares.[63]

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.[64] SAP's shares traded at over US$105 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at US$128 billion in December 2018. This made SAP the most valuable company in Germany.[65] In 2022, SAP was the second most valuable company in Germany by market capitalisation.[6]

Year Revenue
in bn EUR
Net income
in bn EUR
Total assets
in bn EUR
Employees
2013 16.815 3.326 27.094 66,572
2014 17.560 3.280 38.507 74,406
2015 20.793 3.064 41.390 76,986
2016 22.062 3.646 44.277 84,183
2017 23.461 4.018 42.497 88,543
2018 24.708 4.088 51.502 96.498
2019[66] 27.553 3.370 60.215 100,330
2020[67] 27.338 5.145 58.472 103,876

Business and markets

As of 2016, SAP is the world's fourth-largest software and programming company.[68] The corporation operates in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, and South America.[69]

SAP focuses on 25 industries and six industry sectors: process industries, discrete industries, consumer industries, service industries, financial services and public services.[70] It offers integrated product sets for large enterprises,[71] mid-sized companies and small businesses.[72]

Partnerships

SAP partners include Global Services Partners with cross-industry multinational consulting capabilities,[73] SAP University Alliances,[74] Global Software Partners providing integrated products that complement SAP Business Suite solutions,[75] 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.[76]

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,[77] Tricentis,[78] Hewlett-Packard, IDS Scheer, Mendix,[79] OpenText,[80] Knoa Software, and BackOffice Associates.[81]

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.[82]

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 [83]

In 2020 SAP announced that together with Wipro it will co-develop and market "solutions for the retail and fashion industry."[84]

Organization

 
Executive Board of SAP SE is on stage for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2019.

SAP uses a two-tier structure of boards, with an executive board and a supervisory board.[85][86] In October 2019, Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein were appointed as co-CEOs of SAP.[87] 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".[88]

The majority of the company's employees are in Germany and United States. About 20,000 employees are based in Germany[89] and about 19,311 employees are based in the United States.[90][91]

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.[92]

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).[93]

SAP Labs

Locations of SAP Labs
Country Main location(s)
Germany Walldorf/Rot, Markdorf, Berlin
United States Silicon Valley
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 Lab in Shanghai, China

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.[94]

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.[94]

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.[95]

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.[96][97] In addition, SAP has distributed free software in South Africa as part of an effort towards developing future markets there.[98] 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.[99]

Controversies

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.[100][101][102]

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.[103]

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.[104][105]

The Guptas' dealings with SAP were revealed in a widely publicized e-mail leak.[106][107]

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.[108] Claas Kuehnemann was named as acting managing director for Africa while the investigation continued.[109]

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.[110][111][112]

Panamanian bribery

Since May 2015, the company has dealt with a series of high-profile bribery investigations,[113][104][103] 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.[113][114]

Allegations of intellectual property theft and fraud

In 2018, and in an ongoing court battle, Teradata accused SAP of IP theft and fraudulent behaviour.[115][116] 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.[115][117] In a later article, Der Spiegel magazine maintained that SAP had been neglectful in maintaining strict governance for years.[118] 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.[119]

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.[120] 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.[121] 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.[122] One employee claimed she was made redundant because she lobbied for more diversity at SAP.[123]

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For other uses see SAP disambiguation Coordinates 49 17 38 N 8 38 22 E 49 2938038 N 8 639581 E 49 2938038 8 639581 SAP SE ˌ ɛ s eɪ ˈ p iː German pronunciation ɛsʔaːˈpeː listen is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf Baden Wurttemberg 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 SAP is the largest non American software company by revenue the world s third largest publicly traded software company by revenue and the second largest German company by market capitalization 6 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 SAP SELogo since 2011 update TypePublic societas Europaea Traded asFWB SAPDAX componentISINDE0007164600IndustryEnterprise softwareBusiness softwareCloud computingConsultingFounded1972 51 years ago 1972 in Weinheim West GermanyFoundersDietmar HoppHans Werner HectorHasso PlattnerKlaus TschiraClaus WellenreutherHeadquartersWalldorf Baden Wurttemberg GermanyArea servedWorldwideKey peopleHasso Plattner Chairman Christian Klein CEO ProductsSAP AppGyverSAP S 4HANASAP HANASAP ERPSAP CRMSAP PLMSAP SCMSAP SRMSAP SuccessFactorsSAP NetWeaverSAP Business ByDesignSAP Business OneBusinessObjectsSAP IQSAP AribaABAPSAP Cloud PlatformSAP Converged Cloud Full List ServicesApplicationsCloudRevenue 30 87 billion 2022 Operating income 4 67 billion 2022 Net income 1 71 billion 2022 Total assets 72 16 billion 2022 Total equity 42 85 billion 2022 Number of employees111 961 2022 Websitesap wbr comFootnotes references 1 Historical references include Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing 2 SAP AG and SAP SE Contents 1 Company overview 2 History 2 1 Formation 3 Acquisitions 3 1 Enterprise resource planning 3 2 Corporate restructuring 3 3 SAP AG era 3 4 SAP SE era 3 5 Focus on cloud 3 6 SAP Fioneer and Dediq 4 Finances 5 Business and markets 6 Partnerships 7 Organization 8 SAP Labs 9 Philanthropic efforts 10 Controversies 10 1 US Iran sanctions 10 2 East African allegations 10 3 South African allegations 10 4 Panamanian bribery 10 5 Allegations of intellectual property theft and fraud 10 6 Bullying claims and misogyny 11 See also 12 References 13 Bibliography 14 External linksCompany overview EditFounded 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 7 8 as such its former German corporate identity is now a subsidiary SAP Deutschland SE amp Co KG 7 SAP is headquartered in Walldorf Baden Wurttemberg Germany with regional offices in 180 countries 9 3 The company has over 111 961 employees in over 180 countries 10 and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index 11 History EditFormation Edit 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 reportedly for a contract credit of 80 000 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 Wurttemberg 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 Ostringen 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 EditAcquisitions 1991 now 19 Acquisition number Acquired company Acquisition date Specialty Country of origin Acquisition costs74 Taulia January 2022 Working capital management USA73 AppGyver February 2021 No code development platform Finland72 Signavio January 2021 Collaborative Business Process Design Management and Analysis Germany 1b est 71 Emarsys Oct 2020 20 Omnichannel marketing Austria70 Qualtrics Nov 2018 21 22 Collect Manage act on Experience data USA 8 0b69 Contextor Nov 2018 23 Robotic Process Automation France68 Coresystems Jun 2018 24 Platform for field service management Switzerland67 CallidusCloud Jan 2018 25 Sales Performance Management Tool USA 2 4 b66 Recast ai Jan 2018 26 Conversational User Experience Technology chatbot France65 Gigya Sep 2017 27 Customer Identity Management Israel 350m64 Abakus Dec 2016 28 Marketing attribution USA63 Plat One Oct 2016 29 30 IoT USA62 Altiscale Aug 2016 31 big data and Hadoop Hosting USA 125m 61 Fedem Technology Jun 2016 32 IoT Norway60 MeLLmo Inc Roambi Feb 2016 33 Mobile Business Intelligence USA59 Concur Technologies Sep 2014 34 Travel and Expense Management USA 8 3b58 SeeWhy May 2014 Behavioural target marketing USA 1 1b57 Fieldglass Mar 2014 Contingent labour and services USA56 KXEN Oct 2013 Predictive analytics France55 hybris May 2013 E Commerce Solutions Switzerland 1 5b54 Camilion Mar 2013 Insurance solutions Canada53 SmartOps Feb 2013 Inventory optimization USA52 Ticket Web Feb 2013 35 Ticket systems and special CRM solutions for sports and entertainment Germany51 Ariba Oct 2012 Supplier network USA 4 3b50 Syclo Jun 2012 Mobile asset management USA49 datango Jan 2012 Electronic performance support technologies Germany48 SuccessFactors Dec 2011 Human Capital Management USA 3 4b47 Right Hemisphere Sep 2011 3D visualization USA46 Crossgate Sep 2011 B2B eCommerce Germany45 Secude Mar 2011 Security software Not the whole company only some assets were acquired Germany44 Cundus Dec 2010 Disclosure Management Germany43 Sybase May 2010 Database middleware mobile software USA 5 8b42 TechniData May 2010 Environmental Health and Safety Germany41 SAF Sep 2009 Inventory Management Switzerland 91m40 Highdeal May 2009 High volume billing France39 Visiprise Jul 2008 Manufacturing Execution USA38 Saicon INC Oct 2014 US Recruitment India37 BusinessObjects Oct 2007 Business Intelligence France 6 78b36 Yasu Technologies Pvt Ltd Oct 2007 Business Rules Management Software India35 Wicom Communications May 2007 Internet Communication software Finland34 MaXware May 2007 Identity software Norway33 Outlooksoft May 2007 36 Planning amp consolidation USA32 Pilot Software Feb 2007 Strategy Management software USA 200m31 Factory Logic Dec 2006 Lean scheduling and supply synchronisation USA30 Praxis Software Solutions Jul 2006 Web based CRM and eCommerce USA29 Frictionless Commerce May 2006 SRM software USA28 Virsa Systems Apr 2006 Compliance solutions USA27 SAP Systems Integration Dec 2005 Consulting services Germany26 Callixa Nov 2005 Enterprise Integration Information software USA25 Khimetrics Nov 2005 retail software USA24 Triversity Sep 2005 POS software Canada23 Lighthammer Jun 2005 37 Manufacturing Intelligence and Collaborative Manufacturing USA22 DCS Quantum Feb 2005 Automotive Dealer Management United Kingdom21 TomorrowNow Jan 2005 Grey market support USA20 ilytix Jan 2005 SAP BusinessOne Business Intelligence Norway19 A2i Jul 2004 38 Master Data Management USA18 SPM Technologies Dec 2003 39 IT architecture consulting Germany17 DCW Software Jul 2003 OS 400 Applications Germany16 Guimachine Dec 2002 NetWeaver Visual Composer toolkit USA15 IMHC May 2001 Integrated managed health care from IDS USA14 Expression May 2002 real time file sharing 13 Topmanage Feb 2002 SAP BusinessOne Suite Israel12 Paynet International AG Dec 2001 Invoice Processing Germany11 COPA GmbH Nov 2001 Beverage industry consulting Germany10 Infinite Data Structures May 2001 Trade Management CRM USA9 Toptier Mar 2001 Enterprise Information Portal and Integration Infrastructure USA 400m8 Prescient Consulting Feb 2000 Consulting services USA7 In Q My Technologies GmbH 2000 J2EE Server Bulgaria6 Campbell Software 1999 40 Workforce Management USA5 AMC Development 1998 Call Center telephony integration software USA4 OFEK Tech 1998 Warehousing and distribution centre software Israel3 Kiefer amp Veittinger 1997 Sales force Applications Germany2 Dacos 1994 Retail solution Germany1 Steeb 1991 41 Software and Consulting Services Germany Enterprise resource planning Edit 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 42 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 43 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 44 Corporate restructuring Edit 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 45 SAP AG era Edit The company s official name became SAP AG a public limited company after the 2005 annual general meeting SAP SE era Edit 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 46 47 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 amp Co KG 7 48 The conversion cost the company approximately 4 million 49 Focus on cloud Edit SAP Data Center building for SAP Cloud Services in Walldorf Germany 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 50 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 51 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 52 In 2014 IBM and SAP began a partnership to sell cloud based services 53 Likewise in 2015 SAP also partnered with HPE to provide secure hybrid cloud based services running the SAP platform 54 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 55 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 56 Since 2017 SAP is a founding member of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct 57 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 58 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 59 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 59 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 60 SAP Fioneer and Dediq Edit 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 61 62 Dediq GmbH invested over 500 million in the newly formed unit and received an 80 percent share in return SAP brought its products organizational units and the sales network into the business and holds 20 percent of the shares 63 Finances EditFor 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 64 SAP s shares traded at over US 105 per share and its market capitalization was valued at US 128 billion in December 2018 This made SAP the most valuable company in Germany 65 In 2022 SAP was the second most valuable company in Germany by market capitalisation 6 Year Revenuein bn EUR Net incomein bn EUR Total assetsin bn EUR Employees2013 16 815 3 326 27 094 66 5722014 17 560 3 280 38 507 74 4062015 20 793 3 064 41 390 76 9862016 22 062 3 646 44 277 84 1832017 23 461 4 018 42 497 88 5432018 24 708 4 088 51 502 96 4982019 66 27 553 3 370 60 215 100 3302020 67 27 338 5 145 58 472 103 876Business and markets EditAs of 2016 update SAP is the world s fourth largest software and programming company 68 The corporation operates in Europe Asia Africa the Middle East North America and South America 69 SAP focuses on 25 industries and six industry sectors process industries discrete industries consumer industries service industries financial services and public services 70 It offers integrated product sets for large enterprises 71 mid sized companies and small businesses 72 Partnerships EditSAP partners include Global Services Partners with cross industry multinational consulting capabilities 73 SAP University Alliances 74 Global Software Partners providing integrated products that complement SAP Business Suite solutions 75 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 76 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 77 Tricentis 78 Hewlett Packard IDS Scheer Mendix 79 OpenText 80 Knoa Software and BackOffice Associates 81 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 82 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 83 In 2020 SAP announced that together with Wipro it will co develop and market solutions for the retail and fashion industry 84 Organization Edit Executive Board of SAP SE is on stage for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2019 SAP uses a two tier structure of boards with an executive board and a supervisory board 85 86 In October 2019 Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein were appointed as co CEOs of SAP 87 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 88 The majority of the company s employees are in Germany and United States About 20 000 employees are based in Germany 89 and about 19 311 employees are based in the United States 90 91 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 92 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 93 SAP Labs EditLocations of SAP Labs Country Main location s Germany Walldorf Rot Markdorf BerlinUnited States Silicon ValleyIndia Bangalore Pune GurgaonChina ShanghaiBrazil Sao LeopoldoBulgaria SofiaCanada Vancouver Montreal WaterlooSouth Korea SeoulVietnam Ho Chi Minh CityIsrael Ra ananaFrance Paris Sophia AntipolisIreland DublinHungary BudapestSlovakia BratislavaCzech Republic BrnoPoland Gliwice SAP Lab in Shanghai China 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 94 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 94 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 95 Philanthropic efforts EditSAP has donated several millions of dollars to a variety of global health causes including the Product Red campaign and the Global Fund 96 97 In addition SAP has distributed free software in South Africa as part of an effort towards developing future markets there 98 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 99 Controversies EditThis section may lend undue weight to certain ideas incidents or controversies Please help to create a more balanced presentation Discuss and resolve this issue before removing this message June 2022 US Iran sanctions Edit 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 100 101 102 East African allegations Edit 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 103 South African allegations Edit 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 104 105 The Guptas dealings with SAP were revealed in a widely publicized e mail leak 106 107 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 108 Claas Kuehnemann was named as acting managing director for Africa while the investigation continued 109 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 110 111 112 Panamanian bribery Edit Since May 2015 the company has dealt with a series of high profile bribery investigations 113 104 103 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 113 114 Allegations of intellectual property theft and fraud Edit In 2018 and in an ongoing court battle Teradata accused SAP of IP theft and fraudulent behaviour 115 116 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 115 117 In a later article Der Spiegel magazine maintained that SAP had been neglectful in maintaining strict governance for years 118 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 119 Bullying claims and misogyny Edit 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 120 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 121 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 122 One employee claimed she was made redundant because she lobbied for more diversity at SAP 123 See also EditList of ERP software packages List of SAP products SAP implementationReferences Edit SAP Q4 2022 Quarterly Statement PDF SAP SE Retrieved 4 February 2023 a b c SAP Company History Retrieved 25 January 2017 a b SAP Software SAP Implementations SAP Company Profile Panorama Consulting Solutions 15 February 2010 Retrieved 19 March 2019 a b SAP Chief to Leave as Software Giant 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