SAP SE is a German enterprise software company headquartered in Walldorf, founded in 1972 by five former IBM engineers, including Dietmar Hopp and Hasso Plattner, under the name Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung. It became one of the world's largest makers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, the systems large organizations use to manage finance, manufacturing, supply chain and other core business processes, and it remains one of Europe's most valuable technology companies.
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Company TypeGerman multinational software company 2 Founded Year HeadquartersWalldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 2 Company Type
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Who founded SAP and what did the company start out doing?
Five former IBM engineers founded it in 1972 as Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung.
SAP was founded in 1972 by five former IBM engineers, among them Dietmar Hopp and Hasso Plattner, who had been working on an enterprise-wide system. The company was originally named Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung, meaning system analysis and program development. It grew into one of the world's largest makers of enterprise resource planning software, the systems large organizations use to manage finance, manufacturing, supply chain and other core business processes.
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SAP SE (; German pronunciation: [ɛsʔaːˈpeː] ), is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that is the world's largest vendor of enterprise software.
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1972 in Weinheim, West Germany
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