EMEA

SAP EMEA is the region where the parent company of SAP resides. Founded in 1972, the company headquarters are located in Walldorf in the south of Germany.

What is SAP?

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in data processing. SAP has over 100,00 employees worldwide are supporting more than 440,000 customers across 180 countries. It is a global network of customers, partners, employees and thought leaders all helping the world run better and improve people’s lives. About 80% of its customers are small and midsized companies.

SAP EMEA is the region where the parent company of SAP resides. Founded in 1972, the company headquarters are located in Walldorf in the south of Germany.

What is SAP?

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in data processing. SAP has over 100,00 employees worldwide are supporting more than 440,000 customers across 180 countries. It is a global network of customers, partners, employees and thought leaders all helping the world run better and improve people’s lives. About 80% of its customers are small and midsized companies.

What does SAP do?

SAP develops software solutions to help organizations of all sizes and all industries run their businesses profitability, adopt continuously, and grow sustainably. The software collects and processes data on one platform, covering everything from raw material purchasing to customer satisfaction. SAP solutions can be installed on premise or used from the cloud helping companies to design and evaluate the entire value chain. They can help to seamlessly link operational data on business processes with experience data, this enables companies to better understand and respond to their customers. SAP strives to drive innovation, high performance, and employee satisfaction with these key values:

  • Purpose: To help every customer with a best run business through purpose and profit.
  • Vision: Help the world run better and to improve people’s lives.
  • Mission: Deliver technology to help the world run better and improve people’s lives.
  • Strategy: To enable enterprises to become intelligent, networked, and sustainable – bringing together the solutions.

Total revenue in 2021 was €27.84billion, including €9.4 billion from its cloud business which is expected to reach more than €22 billion by 2025. Today, SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. With concern about the climate crisis, the company aims to become carbon neutral in its own operations by year 2023, which is two years earlier than originally planned.

SAP offers application software for businesses such as supplier relationships, production, warehouse management, sales, customer relationships, and administrative functions. Today, SAP has more than 230 million cloud users and more than 100 solutions covering various business functions. SAP’s machine learning, Internet of Things (loT) and advanced analytics technologies help turn businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP Business Technology Platform brings together application development, data and analytics, integration, and AI into one platform. It is the central element of SAP’s “RISE with SAP” offering.

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  1. Jayhawk Fine Chemicals: SAP S/4HANA Best Practice Implementation

    Published: 21/December/2022

    Reading time: 1 min

    Jayhawk Fine Chemicals Corporation (“Jayhawk”) was leveraging an SAP ERP 6.0 system to conduct its business supporting all key processes including finance, manufacturing, procurement, customer service, quality, and plant maintenance.  In order to support the fast-growing company, Jayhawk recognized that it needed to upgrade to a S/4HANA platform to run an efficient ERP that would…

  2. Protecting SAP Systems from Cyber Attack: A Security Framework for Advanced Threats

    Published: 19/December/2022

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    Enterprise applications developed by SAP are deployed by over 85 percent of Forbes 500 companies and often lay at the heart of information technology ecosystems, powering mission-critical processes and managing large volumes of sensitive data. SAP applications are therefore a prized target for cyber attackers.   Read this whitepaper sponsored by Layer Seven Security to learn…

  3. Sporting Goods Giant Transitions Their Planning Process to SAP Analytics Cloud

    Published: 15/December/2022

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    Callaway Golf,  a global market leader in delivering innovative sporting products, had a planning landscape centered around SAP’s legacy planning solution—BPS. While BPS met Callaway Golf’s planning needs for many years, the enterprise began to experience limitations with their old solution.  They were struggling with disconnected plans across the enterprise, outdated planning functionalities, and significant…

  4. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Futureproofs Cerapedics Company Growth and Streamlines Operations

    Published: 15/December/2022

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    Cerapedics, an orthobiologics company, was using an outdated ERP that was supported remotely through a third party. Expecting major growth over the next 3 to 5 years, Cerapedics needed a solution that would accommodate their skinny IT footprint, allow them to bring their warehouse operations in-house, be scalable, and be located in the cloud. Read…

  5. Fraud in Accounts Payable: Fake Invoices, Real Threat

    Published: 14/December/2022

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    Accounts payable fraud is a common type of deceit that targets an organization’s accounts payable department, which is responsible for making payments to suppliers and other vendors. The impact of AP fraud on an organization can be extremely detrimental due to the scope and amount of money involved. In fact, according to a recent report…

  6. Driving digital transformation at Morse Hydraulics with Pythian and SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 14/December/2022

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    A global manufacturer had evolved past the limitations of its legacy SAP ECC system and couldn’t keep up with the firm’s growth or support much future innovation. Business need: Enhance business processes and upscale revenues with a more composed, consistent environment. Also required better performance and stability, new functionality, better runtime analytics, and improved mobility…

  7. How SAP Data Management Today Impacts Your Business Tomorrow

    Published: 13/December/2022

    Reading time: 8 mins

    As an IT leader or professional, it is very likely SAP data management is a priority for your department—mandated or otherwise. Proper data management promises business acceleration, more accurate forecasting with analytics, and greater innovation.

  8. Modernize and Galvanize Your SAP Data with Cloud

    Published: 13/December/2022

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    Over the past decade, data has become an essential component of how we do business. The volume of data collected and processed by today’s cloud and third-party applications grows exponentially—an evolution responsible for driving radical enterprise transformation.

  9. Q&A with Sean Donaldson: Creating Value in your Transformation to the Cloud

    Q&A with Sean Donaldson: Creating Value in your Transformation to the Cloud During this conversation with Sean Donaldson, CTO of Protera Technologies, and Rizal Ahmed, President of Executive Programs, explores how organizations can maximize IT investments when moving to the cloud. Watch this engaging conversation to learn: What considerations should organizations take when deciding on…

  10. How Honda Used Automation to Improve SAP Change

    Published: 09/December/2022

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    Honda Motor Europe’s SAP systems are critical to the company’s business, supporting over one thousand internal users and two-and-a-half thousand dealerships, but Honda found that their SAP change management process was too labor-intensive and did not provide the necessary transparency or control. Auditing was difficult, production issues were frequent, and the internal BAU support team…