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. user experiences

    Better User Experiences Key to SAP Digital Transformation

    Published: 10/February/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Nowadays, consumers and employees want their user experiences to be hyper-personalized, frictionless, and integrated into their daily lives. Companies that combine technology and design to create memorable experiences can become an experience company and gain a competitive advantage. SAP customers can take several actions to improve user experience, whether for customers or employees. These include…

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    Zero Trust in SAP Systems

    Published: 31/January/2022

    Reading time: 6 mins

    What’s driving more SAP customers to adopt cloud security solutions? The number one driver for organizations was the “Need to protect access to sensitive and confidential data.,” according to SAPinsider’s Securing the SAP Landscape Against Cyber Threats Benchmark Report. Tracking and securing data as it moves across an organization’s SAP landscape is a common challenge…

  3. RISE with SAP on APEX

    Automated Machine Learning in the Cloud

    Published: 28/October/2021

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Automated machine learning tools have evolved into the democratization of data science. They now include a broader scope, encompassing the automation of the entire data-to-insights pipeline — from cleaning data to tuning algorithms through feature selection and creation, even operationalization. And now, with the advent of the cloud, the case of AutoML has become much…

  4. Technology and Empathy

    Technology And Empathy: Creating The Link

    Published: 28/October/2021

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Disruption is a norm in the world of technology. We attribute the phenomenon of big companies being disrupted by new entrants to many aspects, like advancements in technology, emerging technologies, agility of new entrants etc. but have we explored deeply the aspect that at the core of disruptions in the world of technology is the…

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    What is Critical to SAP S/4HANA Success?

    Published: 31/August/2021

    Reading time: 6 mins

    By Robert Holland, VP and Research Director, SAPinsider Nearly half of those moving to SAP S/4HANA have indicated that they are planning on performing a system conversion, but is a new implementation a possibility they hadn’t considered? Any transition to SAP S/4HANA involves understanding how and where you are doing to deploy the solution. Choices…

  6. Security

    Leveraging Theory of Constraints in Supply Chain Control Towers

    Published: 18/August/2021

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Theory of Constraints is widely hailed as one of the most widely leveraged process optimization and continuous improvement method. Proposed by Prof. Goldratt, the crux of this theory is that the pace or the performance of the process is determined by the bottleneck. To improve the end-to-end process, you need to identify the bottleneck and…

  7. Supply Chain data management

    Make 2023 The Year of Building Supply Chain Data Foundation

    Published: 16/August/2021

    Reading time: 7 mins

    As we head into the new year, you have already read many articles predicting supply chain trends for 2023. I am not a big fan of predicting trends when it comes to supply chains. My primary reasoning is that these trends are not a surprise for seasoned supply chain leaders and executives. These leaders and…

  8. data-driven

    The Three Key Ingredients of Business Analytics Solutions

    Published: 13/August/2021

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Just like marketers have struggled with the question “what does the customer want?” for eternity, analytics leaders have struggled with the question “how to build a data-driven organization?”. It is very clear at this point that the key is to inculcate the culture of data and analytics in the frontline of the organization, making them…

  9. Supply Chain Sustainability

    Supply Chain Sustainability with Elise Caves

    Published: 12/August/2021

    Reading time: 1 mins

    ESG has also become more prevalent as the formal frameworks for ESG have advanced. Over the past few years, some of the most prominent standard setters have issued guidance to help companies implement and compare their ESG efforts against the industry benchmark. New and innovative products have been launched that have helped accelerate adoption in…

  10. SAP MM Spend Analytics

    Spend Analysis and SAP MM

    Published: 07/August/2021

    Reading time: 5 mins

    A wide range of business processes falls under the SAP MM (Materials Management) module, from purchasing to inventory management. Such an extensive portfolio of business processes also means much data being generated and captured. As SAPinsiders highlighted in our research reports like Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA, as well as in Process Automation in Supply…