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. Anticipate Disruption with the Kinetic Enterprise

    Published: 10/August/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    The Kinetic Enterprise is Built to Evolve. As companies emerge from the impacts of one of the most disruptive events in the last 100 years, it’s now time to re-examine operating models and build organizations that can endure in times of similar devastation and future disruptions. As organizations continue to reel from the effects of…

  2. Protection-Payment-Fraud

    Fraud Concerns Driving Payments Innovation

    Published: 09/August/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    In recent years, organizational structures and processes have changed dramatically, presenting new opportunities and challenges for modern CFOs and treasurers. Organizations shifting core business processes online and day-to-day operations to the cloud require payment efficiency and flexibility to stay competitive. As businesses expand globally and increasingly rely on electronic payment methods, the opportunities for fraud…

  3. Customer Data

    Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot : The War For Consumer Data

    Published: 05/August/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Amazon's decision to buy iRobot is a strategic step geared towards collecting more consumer behavior data points. This article discusses this strategy in detail and explores how Amazon may end up leveraging this data. Specifically, in this article, we explore (1) Why customer data is important (2) How Amazon has worked over the years to…

  4. SAPinsider 2022 Vegas : Data & Analytics Session Themes

    Published: 04/August/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    SAPinsider events have been the most widely attended, independent networking and knowledge-sharing events in the SAP technology ecosystem for decades. After taking a hiatus from in-person events for a couple of years, due to the pandemic, SAPinsider was back with a bang this year. SAPinsider 2022 saw 3000+ members in attendance in Vegas in July…

  5. Serrala Talks Payments Modernization and Automation

    Published: 04/August/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Regarding process improvement, there are many initiatives that CFOs and treasurers can tackle to increase efficiency and optimize performance. One such initiative is automating manual processes – an area particularly relevant for Accounts Payable (AP) teams. By automating manual and paper-based processes, AP teams can gain greater efficiencies and improve their overall performance. In addition,...…

  6. NLP

    Maturation of NLP : SAP’s AskData Acquisition

    Published: 04/August/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Fortune Business Insights estimates that the global big data analytics market will reach $655.5 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 13.4% from 2022 to 2029. To tap into this pie and create additional categories, companies will have to increasingly build capabilities through acquisitions and partnerships in the technology ecosystem. SAP's acquisition of AskData is…

  7. Supply Chain Optimization

    Supporting Corporate Strategy Through Supply Chain Optimization

    Published: 02/August/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Supply chains exist and collaborate with other functions to help fulfill that customer expectation. A key question then arises - how do you determine what will help enhance your customer experience? The initial answers to this question start evolving at the corporate strategy level. Supply chain strategy, ideally, then gets derived from the corporate strategy.…

  8. Inventory Planning

    Inventory Planning Complexities

    Published: 29/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Inventory planning and management have taken a whole new form in the COVID era. Optimal inventory planning and management were never easy, but the challenges have now increased manyfold. As organizations changed their inventory strategies, many of them moving from just-in-time to just-on-case, the associated planning, and management challenges also need to be addressed. In this…

  9. Supply Chain Analytics

    Analytics Journey in Supply Chain Planning

    Published: 29/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    In the responses for SAPinsider research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, advanced analytics emerged as a key technical requirement as well as a key technology . Lack of relevant and timely data and insights was identified as a major pain point with current planning solutions portfolio as well . Analytics plays a key role…

  10. Cloud planning

    Cloud-Based Planning Enablers in Supply Chain

    Published: 29/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    83% of SAPinsiders, in their responses to the SAPinsider research survey for Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, indicated that they plan to or are currently using some cloud-based planning solution in their planning portfolio; in this article, we explore why and how the cloud plays a critical role in helping execute the strategies identified…