Founded in 1972, the company's initial name stood for "system analysis program development" (Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung) and was later abbreviated to SAP. Since then, it has grown from a small five-person startup to a multinational company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with more than 105,000 employees worldwide.
With the introduction of its original SAP R/2 and SAP R/3 software, SAP set the global standard for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software . Now, SAP S/4HANA takes ERP to the next level by using the power of in-memory computing to process vast amounts of data and support advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
With the introduction of its original SAP R/2 and SAP R/3 software, SAP set the global standard for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software . Now, SAP S/4HANA takes ERP to the next level by using the power of in-memory computing to process vast amounts of data and support advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.