Partner Ecosystem:
Maximizing Customer Benefits Through Co-Innovation

With the most extensive global ecosystem of partners in the software industry, SAP is pursuing a strategy of co-innovation that exponentially multiplies the breadth and depth of products and services driving business success for our worldwide customer base. Unified under the SAP PartnerEdge program, our partner activities strive for win-win situations: tapping important sources of strength for SAP while boosting the efforts of our partners who resell SAP software, build complementary products, or provide services to our customers.

Our unparalleled efforts to empower the ecosystem are having a profound, positive impact on customers and partners alike. We enable our strategy of co-innovation by offering partners the knowledge resources and software development tools they need to succeed, underlined by a dedicated organizational infrastructure that promotes opportunity and maximizes their ability to innovate. And we empower our customers to participate actively in collaborative communities that are addressing today's most pressing industry challenges while defining and orchestrating the business processes and underlying software that will differentiate tomorrow's industry leaders.

While addressing distinct requirements across more than 25 industries and their countless "microvertical" subsectors, the strategy is fueling growth for SAP and its ecosystem and boosting the rapidly growing numbers of new partner solutions and services. More than 2,280 SAP channel partners addressing the unique demands of nearly 20,250 small businesses and midsize companies; or the more than 1,500 partner solutions developed on the SAP NetWeaver platform by more than 1,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) worldwide. These partners and solutions extend the value of SAP applications for our customers, targeting unique customer needs and industry requirements that no single software vendor could possibly provide on its own.

DELIVERING INNOVATION ACROSS ALL ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

EMPOWERING PARTNERS WITH RESOURCES, TOOLS, AND NEW MARKET OPPORTUNITIES

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES BRING TOGETHER SAP, PARTNERS, AND CUSTOMERS