SAP SE

SAP SE is a European multinational enterprise application software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company provides business and enterprise software solutions, along with related business consulting services and maintenance. As of 2021, it is one of the world’s largest independent software companies, and one of the world’s most valuable technology businesses.

SAP specializes in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and related services; its flagship product is the SAP S/4HANA. The company also provides a number of other ERP solutions, cloud-based and on-premises; customer experience (CX) solutions; intelligent payments solutions; business process intelligence solutions; and industry-specific solutions. The company also has a wide range of partnerships, reseller, and other customer-facing services, with a portfolio of more than 25,000 applications, covering analytics, mobility, cloud, industry-specific, and social applications.

SAP SE was founded in 1972 by five former IBM employees, and today employs more than 98,700 people in 131 countries. It is one of the world’s most profitable, large-cap software companies, with a market capitalization of over €159 billion as of 2021. The company reported total revenues of €26.5 billion in 2020 and net income of €5.5 billion. SAP has a wide global customer base, covering all major industries. In 2020, over 46,000 customers used its products, including 19 of the world’s top 20 companies.