SAP: CEO History

SAP, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, is the market leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Most consumers never see it, but its systems record orders, inventory, payroll, purchasing and financial ledgers for many of the world's largest companies. The product range spans S/4HANA Cloud ERP, SuccessFactors for HR, Ariba for procurement, Concur for travel and expenses, Signavio for process mining, and the Business Technology Platform for data, integration and AI. SAP shares trade in Frankfurt, where it is the largest DAX member by market value, and as ADRs on the NYSE.

SAP earns most of its money from recurring fees. Cloud subscriptions (SaaS, PaaS and a small IaaS business) are now the largest line, led by the Cloud ERP Suite, which produced ~$6.21 billion (EUR 5.5 billion) of Q2 2026's ~$7.12 billion (EUR 6.3 billion) cloud revenue. Software support contracts on older on-premise licenses are the second pillar, but they are shrinking as customers migrate through RISE with SAP. New software license sales and professional services make up the remainder. A large partner ecosystem of system integrators such as Accenture, Deloitte and IBM handles much of the implementation work.