50 Facts About SAP SE

SAP SE is the world's leading enterprise resource planning software vendor.

SAP SE 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.

SAP SE is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany with regional offices in 180 countries.

SAP SE has over 425, 000 customers in over 180 countries and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

In 1995, SAP SE was included in the German stock index DAX and, on 22 September 2003, SAP SE was included in the STOXX Europe 50.

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On 7 July 2014, SAP SE announced it had changed its legal form to a European Company.

Since 2012, SAP SE has and acquired several companies that sell cloud-based products, with several multi-billion-dollar acquisitions seen by analysts as an attempt to challenge competitor Oracle.

In 2016 SAP SE bought Concur Technologies, a provider of cloud-based travel and expense management software, for $8.

Likewise, in 2015, SAP SE partnered with HPE to provide secure hybrid cloud-based services running the SAP SE platform.

SAP SE has announced additional partnerships with Microsoft in order to give customers tools for data visualization, as well as improved mobile applications.

SAP SE exceeded its revenue projections due to the expansion in its cloud business and the success of SAP SE HANA.

Since 2017, SAP SE is a founding member of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.

Since May 2021 SAP SE has listed selected Cloud Service adherent to the EU Cloud Code of Conduct as one of the first Cloud Service Providers.

On 29 January 2019, SAP SE 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.

SAP SE brought its products, organizational units and the sales network into the business and holds 20 percent of the shares.

Fiscal year 2017, SAP SE reported earnings of €4 billion, with an annual revenue of €23.

SAP SE's shares traded at over US$105 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at US$128 billion in December 2018.

In 2022, SAP SE was the second most valuable company in Germany by market capitalisation.

SAP SE focuses on 25 industries and six industry sectors: process industries, discrete industries, consumer industries, service industries, financial services and public services.

SAP SE has positioned Enterprise SOA to deliver the benefits offered by service-oriented architecture, including enabling both flexibility and business efficiency.

SAP SE has partnered with Apple to work on the mobile experience for SAP SE enterprise customers.

In 2019, SAP SE 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.

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

SAP SE Community Network is a community of SAP SE customers, partners, employees, and influencers – typically in roles such as: developers, consultants, integrators, and business analysts – who gain and share knowledge about ABAP, Java,.

SAP SE uses a two-tier structure of boards, with an executive board and a supervisory board.

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SAP SE Labs are research and development locations that develop and improve SAP SE core products.

SAP SE Labs are strategically located in high-tech clusters around the globe.

At the beginning, the focus of SAP SE's expansion was entering highly developed IT markets; in 1993, Palo Alto became a part of SAP SE Labs.

SAP SE provoked controversy and frustration among its users in 2008 by raising the cost of its maintenance contracts.

SAP SE is in partnership with Cloud Foundry for a beta offering of SAP Cloud Platform that enables customers to test out and give feedback for the functionalities coming with Cloud Foundry.

In 2016, SAP SE introduced SAP SE HANA, Express Edition which is meant to run on personal computers or on cloud computing platforms for students and other small-scale developers.

SAP SE Enterprise Learning is a learning management system, for large and medium-sized enterprises, from SAP SE, and it contains a virtual learning room feature powered by Adobe Connect.

SAP SE uses this for delivering online training as a Learning on Demand offering; some of this content is freely available as e-books or simulations.

SAP SE has a book on this subject, available since June 2009.

SAP SE launched the SAP SE Store in March 2015 as its principal e-commerce property to allow customers to buy its products directly on the Web rather than through traditional sales channels.

SAP SE competitors are primarily in the enterprise resource planning software industry.

In December 2009, SAP SE delayed its Enterprise Support price rises until agreement had been reached on the benchmarks and KPIs.

In January 2010, SAP SE reversed its direction on Enterprise Support and reintroduced its standard support package for customers.

SAP SE has donated several millions of dollars to a variety of global health causes including the Product Red campaign and the Global Fund.

SAP SE encourages employees to volunteer through social sabbaticals, sending teams of people to different countries to aid non-profits.

SAP SE employees have volunteered in China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.

SAP SE Arena opened in Mannheim in 2005, and is the home of the Adler Mannheim ice hockey team and Rhein-Neckar Lowen handball team.

SAP SE ambassadors include German tennis player Angelique Kerber, German eventing rider Ingrid Klimke, and South African golfers Ernie Els, Gary Player and Branden Grace.

In 2021, SAP SE 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.

In February 2019, SAP SE was accused of 'improper conduct' linked to state contracts in Kenya and Tanzania.

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An anonymous whistle-blower claims, through a firm of attorneys, that SAP SE used Twenty Third Century Systems to bribe officials at the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) to win a US$6.

In July 2017, allegations were made that SAP SE had been involved in business transactions with the controversial and politically influential Gupta family in South Africa.

SAP SE denied the allegations, claiming that the money was paid as "an extension of the sales force", despite CAD House having no prior SAP SE experience.

SAP SE's then complained and was placed under "performance management" - a pre-cursor to being asked to leave the company.

Several female executives, including the Co-CEO left the company, adding to concerns that women were negatively treated, despite SAP SE then hiring several other senior women from Microsoft.