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 1 Founded Year HeadquartersWalldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 1 Connections
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A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
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1. Wikipedia, SAP
WikipediaIntroduction, sentence 1
doing business as SAP, is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf
History, founding paragraph
In June 1972 they founded the SAP Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development" / "SAPD") company, as a private partnership under the German Civil Code.
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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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