SAP SE
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SAP SE
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Company History
Founded 1972 in Walldorf, Germany
Five former IBM employees founded SAP in 1972 after working on real-time business software for enterprise processes. The original idea was that finance, inventory, purchasing, and production data should update in one integrated system instead of being reconciled in batches across departments. That idea became the basis for R/2, R/3, and later S/4HANA.
Five former IBM employees founded SAP to build real-time standard business software.
R/3 brought client-server ERP to a broader global enterprise market.
S/4HANA became the foundation for SAP's next-generation ERP roadmap.
SAP introduced Joule as a generative AI assistant for enterprise applications.
SAP's 2025 results showed cloud revenue, backlog, and predictable revenue becoming central to the model.