SAP SE is a German multinational software corporation headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company is recognized as the world's largest vendor of enterprise resource planning software.
Originally established as SAP GbR, the company fully transitioned to Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, abbreviated as SAP GmbH, in 1981 after a five-year transition that began in 1976. In 2005, it restructured itself as SAP AG. Since July 7, 2014, its corporate framework has been structured as a pan-European societas Europaea, making its previous German corporate identity a subsidiary known as SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG. SAP operates regional offices in 180 countries and employs more than 111,961 individuals.
SAP is listed as a component of the DAX and Euro Stoxx 50 stock market indices. The company holds the title of the largest non-American software firm by revenue and is recognized as the fifth-largest publicly traded software corporation globally based on revenue. As of December 2023, SAP ranks as the largest German company by market capitalization.