SAP SE (SAP) is a provider of enterprise application software and related services, and licenses for software solutions and related services. The company offers products and solutions such as SAP 3D visual enterprise, access control, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, business integrity screening, spend management, human capital management, customer relationship management and customer experience, network commerce automation solution, commerce cloud, and SuccessFactors solutions. It offers its products and services to various industries including consumer products, oil, gas and energy, financial services, aerospace and defense, transportation, and logistics, chemicals, government, healthcare, higher education and research, media, real estate, retail, and telecommunications. SAP business technology platforms include application development and automation, data and analytics, integration, extended planning and analysis and artificial intelligence. As of December 2024, the company had more than 300 million subscribers in its cloud user base, 24,000 SAP partner companies globally.

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SAP’s R&D focus on leveraging its resources effectively to accelerate innovation cycles, particularly in cloud solutions. The company aims to bring its customers into a clean core in the cloud based on SAP S/4HANA cloud and enabled by the SAP business technology platform. It is also focuses on four innovation areas: sustainability management, working capital management, business networks, and business transformation solutions. The company responsible for the development of cloud and software solutions, including resource and hardware costs for the development systems. It also handles activities related to changes in the code of SAP’s cloud and software solutions. The company has 37,590 employees dedicated to R&D. As of December 2024, it had 13,000 patents globally, of which 700 were granted. It operated over 100 innovation and development locations worldwide. In FY2024, SAP incurred expenses of EUR6,514 million on R&D, which as a percentage of revenue stood at 19%.