SAP SE (SAP)

SAP SE is a global enterprise software company founded in 1972 and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. It is organized as a European Company (Societas Europaea) under German and European law. SAP provides integrated business applications that connect finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, customer experience and other operations in an intelligent suite on a cloud platform, with a strategy it describes as AI-First and Suite-First. It earns revenue mainly from subscription fees for its cloud solutions, and also from software licenses, on-premise support, consulting, development, training and other services. The group had more than 110,000 employees at December 31, 2025, and comprised 216 companies.

Its portfolio is built around SAP Business AI (including the Joule AI user experience layer and Joule Agents), SAP Business Data Cloud (including SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Databricks), and SAP Business Technology Platform (including SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite). Application areas include Cloud ERP; financial management (including SAP Taulia); spend management (SAP Ariba, SAP Concur and SAP Fieldglass); supply chain management; human capital management (SAP SuccessFactors, plus SmartRecruiters, acquired in September 2025); customer experience; transformation management (SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX and WalkMe); and sustainability management. Services and support include SAP Enterprise Support, SAP Preferred Success, SAP MaxAttention and training, and new tiered success plans due in early 2026. Through Sapphire Ventures, SAP also supports venture-backed companies; Sapphire manages more than US$11 billion.

SAP serves organizations across industries worldwide, including governments and regulated industries, for which it offers sovereign cloud options. RISE with SAP targets its installed base of customers moving from legacy ERP systems to the cloud suite. SAP GROW targets new customers, mainly those with revenues from below €50 million to above €1 billion. Its significant subsidiaries are in Germany, the rest of EMEA, the United States, the rest of the Americas, Japan and the rest of Asia-Pacific-Japan.

SAP relies on a global partner ecosystem to sell, implement, run and extend its solutions. Partnerships announced in 2025 include Accenture, Perplexity, Palantir, Alibaba, ADP, OpenAI and Amazon Web Services. Its ordinary shares are listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, its ADRs on the NYSE, and it is a member of the DAX and TecDAX.