SAP Labs Network
About SAP Labs Network
SAP Labs Network consists of all major global Research & Development Hubs of SAP, across more than 20 countries and representing more than 80% of SAP’s global engineering workforce.
The art of being globally connected
The SAP Labs Network exemplifies SAP’s culture of diversity and innovation throughout the world. Each lab works on specific applications, technologies, or markets to develop top-tier enterprise solutions and establish thought leadership in its focus area. By partnering with local institutions, universities, and startups to develop best practices and generate strategic insights, the labs have a strong role in SAP’s innovation landscape.
20
Countries
51.5
K+
Employees of SAP Labs Network
34.6
%
Early talent hire ratio
78
Top employer awards for all labs, in 2024
Discover SAP Labs Network
SAP Labs U.S.: For nearly 35 years, SAP Labs U.S. has been in the epicenter of global innovation and technology for SAP customers and partners. The team delivers award-winning user experiences, insights inspired by design thinking, and tremendous cloud knowledge to help customers become intelligent, sustainable enterprises. SAP Labs US continues to grow its investment and influence exponentially by forging close relationships with startups and top technology brands such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and AWS.
SAP Labs Canada: Operating in the Canadian market since 1984, SAP Labs Canada has a significant R&D presence with locations in Montreal, Waterloo, and Vancouver, building products for global distribution. The organization is one of the largest development centers across the global SAP Labs Network and is now a global hub. With more than 35 years of support, services, and development experience in analytics, database technologies, and customer experiences, SAP Labs Canada is developing the next frontier of the Intelligent Enterprise.
SAP Labs Latin America: Founded in 2006 and based in São Leopoldo, Brazil, SAP Labs Latin America has a culture of success based on teamwork, integrity, accountability, professionalism, and trust. The team is motivated to deliver amazing experiences to SAP customers, employees, and ecosystems with a passion for winning and a commitment to developing true partnerships.
Featured Projects
Personalized Recommendations
SAP Labs Singapore
As part of SAP AI Business Services, personalized recommendations capabilities allow customers to draw insights from historical user behavior and item metadata. They deliver highly personalized recommendations across a broad range of business scenarios such as learning, career paths, and e-commerce.
Industry 4.Now
SAP Labs Japan
The digital supply chain team in Tokyo delivers innovative business showcases for Industry4. Now that demonstrate the cooperation between humans, robots, edge computing, and augmented reality. At the region’s SAP Experience Center, the team guides customers throughout the supply chain – from product design to operation – with design-thinking and solutions workshops.
SAP HANA Cloud
SAP Labs Korea
SAP Labs Korea is contributing to the SAP HANA Cloud database, the default persistence in SAP Business Technology Platform. The database’s evolution includes elastic scaling and database-native multitenancy, which further reduces total cost of ownership.
HANA Platform Data Management
SAP Labs Canada
HANA Platform Data Management helps companies manage ever-larger volumes of data in the cloud. The services include Data Lake and HANA, as well as SAP HANA Client interfaces and SAP HANA Cloud tooling.
SAP Business Technology Platform
SAP Labs Bulgaria
SAP Labs Bulgaria plays a key role in defining and developing SAP Business Technology Platform. Its contributions have turned the platform into a unified cloud environment for solutions supporting application development, data management, analytics, integration, and AI capabilities optimized for SAP applications.
Intelligent Enterprise Solutions
SAP Labs Poland
As the digital backbone of SAP, Intelligent Enterprise solutions deliver and help ensure businesses run at their best. They leverage the standard SAP solution portfolio to provide best-in-class employee experiences and technologies, such as the Best Run TopX initiative, superior digital productivity, and innovation showcases.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower
SAP Labs Czech Republic
As a central ledger of reliable sustainability-related data, the SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution helps set targets, monitor progress, and gain actionable insights with automated and updated performance business-unit and location reports. In return, customers can apply the strategic benefits of corporate responsibility and understand the relationship between sustainability and business success.
Innovation Journey
SAP Labs Latin America
With an intense focus on maintaining and expanding the SAP innovation culture, SAP Labs Latin America is developing an internal product that supports its employees, managers, and operations teams. The innovation offers career development opportunities based on individual professional profiles and experience levels, generating data-driven insights that enable labs leadership to award the best-engaged people and pinpoint areas for improvement.
Additional resources
Careers
At SAP, we encourage open, free expression of ideas. You'll work alongside creative thinkers who turn big ideas into reality for our customers. And with innovative job training, mentors to help you grow, and flexibility to balance work and personal life, you'll get more out of your career, too.
SAP Co-Innovation Lab
The global SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) network facilitates project-based co-innovation with its members, enhancing the capabilities of SAP's partner and customer ecosystem through a worldwide network of expertise and best-in-class technologies and platforms.
SAP Next-Gen
SAP Next-Gen is a community for youth all over the world who are passionate about innovation and technology and want to shape the Intelligent Enterprise as future decision-makers.