Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company – with more than 55,000 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research and innovation unit of SAP, SAP Research explores emerging IT trends through applied research and the incubation of promising projects, while focusing on the impact and contribution to SAP's product portfolio. The business model of SAP Research is based on co-innovation. SAP's global research network is comprised of 19 research locations worldwide and involves more than 800 partners from industry, academia, and governments, as well as SAP customers.

SAP Ventures helps build industry-leading companies globally by partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and top-tier venture capital firms. This organization is an information technology investor that over the past 15 years has backed more than 100 companies in five continents.