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title: "SAP: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "SAP SE, is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that is the world's largest vendor of enterprise software. In June 2025, it was the largest European company by market capitalization, as well as one of the 30 most valuable publicly traded companies in the world."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sap
type: Organization
wikidata: Q552581
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP
website: https://www.sap.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# SAP

> SAP SE, is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that is the world's largest vendor of enterprise software. In June 2025, it was the largest European company by market capitalization, as well as one of the 30 most valuable publicly traded companies in the world.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Germany
- Founded: 1972-04-01
- Headquarters: Walldorf
- Status: public
- Website: https://www.sap.com/
- Employees: 106,043 (as of 2023-12-31)
- Also known as: SAP SE, SAP SE     (Walldorf), sap.com
- Industries: software development, software industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/SAP
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap
- github: https://github.com/SAP
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVnIv2xF2wyMMCSKv1qF3pA
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SAP
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sap

## Key people

- Hasso Plattner, founder (German billionaire businessman and philanthropist (born 1944))
- Dietmar Hopp, founder (German businessman)
- Hans-Werner Hector, founder (German mathematician and entrepreneur)
- Klaus Tschira, founder (German businessman (1940-2015))
- Claus Wellenreuther, founder (businessperson)
- Christian Klein, chief executive (German manager (born 1980)), since 2019-10-01
- Adriana Marais (South African physicist)
- Dan Ingalls (American computer scientist)
- Hartmut Mehdorn (German manager and CEO)
- Léo Apotheker (German business executive)
- Vishal Sikka (Chief Technology officer)
- Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere (Belgian engineer, specialist in Artificial Intelligence)
- Christine Regitz (German IT-Specialist, Member of the Supervisory Board)

## Revenue

- 1999-01-01: EUR 5.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2000-01-01: EUR 6.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2001-01-01: EUR 7.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2002-01-01: EUR 7.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2003-01-01: EUR 7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2004-01-01: EUR 7.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2005-01-01: EUR 8.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2006-01-01: EUR 9.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2007-01-01: EUR 10.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2008-01-01: EUR 11.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2009-01-01: EUR 10.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2010-01-01: EUR 12.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2011-01-01: EUR 14.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2012-01-01: EUR 16.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2013-01-01: EUR 16.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: EUR 17.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: EUR 20.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: EUR 22.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: EUR 23.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: EUR 24.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: EUR 27.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: EUR 27.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: EUR 27.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: EUR 30.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: EUR 31.2 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Business Objects, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, Fieldglass, Gigya, KXEN Inc., SAP SuccessFactors, Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing (United States), Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing (Australia), SAP ČR, Delos Cloud

## Products

- SAP ERP

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on SAP, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sap#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552581, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001000184

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