SAP Open Source Report 2025
This Open Source Report 2025 outlines how SAP has engaged with open source, drives collaborative innovation, and how openness creates lasting value for our business and the communities we serve. הורד את המסמךCreating Shared Value
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Sustained competitiveness depends on an open,
collaborative ecosystem. That’s why openness and
open source are fundamental to SAP’s AI strategy.
We build on frontier open source models such as
Mistral-3, we contribute innovation back to the
community with assets like our tabular foundation
model sap-rpt-1-oss, and we actively support
cross-industry collaborations – from the Linux
Foundation’s agent-to-agent initiative, to our recent
membership in the Agentic AI Foundation. Open-
ness isn’t just a principle for us, it’s the mechanism
through which we ensure our AI creates meaningful,
scalable value for our customers.
Dr. Philipp Herzig,
CTO of SAP SE
Sustained competitiveness depends on an open,
collaborative ecosystem. That’s why openness and
open source are fundamental to SAP’s AI strategy.
We build on frontier open source models such as
Mistral-3, we contribute innovation back to the
community with assets like our tabular foundation
model sap-rpt-1-oss, and we actively support
cross-industry collaborations – from the Linux
Foundation’s agent-to-agent initiative, to our recent
membership in the Agentic AI Foundation. Open-
ness isn’t just a principle for us, it’s the mechanism
through which we ensure our AI creates meaningful,
scalable value for our customers.
Dr. Philipp Herzig,
CTO of SAP SE
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Open Source in 2025
In 2025, open source entered a new phase of
maturity: Clearer rules, shared responsibility,
and growing institutional support are shaping
how critical digital infrastructure is built and
sustained. Across AI, security, and cloud
platforms, the global community strengthened
the practices that are needed to build
technology that is open, trustworthy, and
resilient at scale. Open source is no longer
optional for enterprise innovation - it’s
essential.
SAP’s engagement reflects this shift. We focus
not only on contributing code, but on shaping
the ecosystems, standards, and funding
models that make open innovation viable
in the long term.
The maturation of open source AI marked a key
inflection point this year: Thanks to greater
clarity around definitions and governance,
open models moved from experimentation to
enterprise relevance. SAP contributed to this
progress by releasing sap-rpt-1-oss, a table
native foundation model for relational business
data, openly available to the research
community and designed for transparency and
auditability in core business scenarios.
Financial sustainability was another defining
theme of 2025. It became clear that critical
digital infrastructure cannot rely on goodwill
alone. SAP supported the move toward
structured public and private responsibility by
advocating for an EU Sovereign Tech Fund and
by launching SAP’s central open source fund,
providing direct financial support to those
who maintain the open source components on
which we depend.
Security and sovereignty increasingly
converged. As new regulatory requirements
took effect, SAP introduced the Fork Metadata
Standard to improve software supply chain
transparency and Software Bill of Materials
(SBOM) integrity. In parallel, we strengthened
Europe’s open cloud ecosystem by co-
founding the NeoNephos Foundation under
Linux Foundation Europe and by transferring
key cloud native projects to a neutral, vendor-
independent home.
Open source is driven by people and
sustained by shared responsibility. We thank
every contributor outside and inside SAP who
helped move the ecosystem forward in 2025.
Together, we are building the foundation for a
secure, sovereign, and open digital future, one
contribution at a time.
Forword
Peter Giese
Director of SAP Open Source
Program Office
Open Source in 2025
In 2025, open source entered a new phase of
maturity: Clearer rules, shared responsibility,
and growing institutional support are shaping
how critical digital infrastructure is built and
sustained. Across AI, security, and cloud
platforms, the global community strengthened
the practices that are needed to build
technology that is open, trustworthy, and
resilient at scale. Open source is no longer
optional for enterprise innovation - it’s
essential.
SAP’s engagement reflects this shift. We focus
not only on contributing code, but on shaping
the ecosystems, standards, and funding
models that make open innovation viable
in the long term.
The maturation of open source AI marked a key
inflection point this year: Thanks to greater
clarity around definitions and governance,
open models moved from experimentation to
enterprise relevance. SAP contributed to this
progress by releasing sap-rpt-1-oss, a table
native foundation model for relational business
data, openly available to the research
community and designed for transparency and
auditability in core business scenarios.
Financial sustainability was another defining
theme of 2025. It became clear that critical
digital infrastructure cannot rely on goodwill
alone. SAP supported the move toward
structured public and private responsibility by
advocating for an EU Sovereign Tech Fund and
by launching SAP’s central open source fund,
providing direct financial support to those
who maintain the open source components on
which we depend.
Security and sovereignty increasingly
converged. As new regulatory requirements
took effect, SAP introduced the Fork Metadata
Standard to improve software supply chain
transparency and Software Bill of Materials
(SBOM) integrity. In parallel, we strengthened
Europe’s open cloud ecosystem by co-
founding the NeoNephos Foundation under
Linux Foundation Europe and by transferring
key cloud native projects to a neutral, vendor-
independent home.
Open source is driven by people and
sustained by shared responsibility. We thank
every contributor outside and inside SAP who
helped move the ecosystem forward in 2025.
Together, we are building the foundation for a
secure, sovereign, and open digital future, one
contribution at a time.
Forword
Peter Giese
Director of SAP Open Source
Program Office
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5Milestones
5 Milestones
6Exploring Openness in AI
6 Exploring Openness in AI
Introduction
Openness in AI Systems
Agent Interoperability
Responsible Use of Open Source and Generative AI
SAP Releases Foundation Model
Open Source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers
Contributions to SAP’s BTP AI Infrastructure
Open Source AI in the Physical World
14Contributions
14 Contributions
Facts and Highlights
SAP Initiated Open Source Projects
Fork Metadata Standard and more SAP-initiated projects
Adoption by Third Parties
Contributions to Third Party Projects
21Foundations
21 Foundations
Facts and HighlightsSAP Memberships 2025NeoNeophos FoundationSAP’s Engagement in Foundations
Facts and Highlights
SAP Memberships 2025
NeoNeophos Foundation
SAP’s Engagement in Foundations
31Communities
31 Communities
Community Engagement
Events Highlights
Direct Contributor Funding
35Culture
35 Culture
InnerSource Collaboration Model
SAP’s Open Source Champion Network
Local Communities
This Open Source Report
2025 outlines how SAP
has engaged with open
source, drives collabor-
ative innovation, and how
openness creates lasting
value for our business
and the communities we
serve.
Table of
Contents
Editor
SAP Open Source
Program Office
Publishing Date
January 2026
5Milestones
5 Milestones
6Exploring Openness in AI
6 Exploring Openness in AI
Introduction
Openness in AI Systems
Agent Interoperability
Responsible Use of Open Source and Generative AI
SAP Releases Foundation Model
Open Source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers
Contributions to SAP’s BTP AI Infrastructure
Open Source AI in the Physical World
14Contributions
14 Contributions
Facts and Highlights
SAP Initiated Open Source Projects
Fork Metadata Standard and more SAP-initiated projects
Adoption by Third Parties
Contributions to Third Party Projects
21Foundations
21 Foundations
Facts and HighlightsSAP Memberships 2025NeoNeophos FoundationSAP’s Engagement in Foundations
Facts and Highlights
SAP Memberships 2025
NeoNeophos Foundation
SAP’s Engagement in Foundations
31Communities
31 Communities
Community Engagement
Events Highlights
Direct Contributor Funding
35Culture
35 Culture
InnerSource Collaboration Model
SAP’s Open Source Champion Network
Local Communities
This Open Source Report
2025 outlines how SAP
has engaged with open
source, drives collabor-
ative innovation, and how
openness creates lasting
value for our business
and the communities we
serve.
Table of
Contents
Editor
SAP Open Source
Program Office
Publishing Date
January 2026
Milestones | Exploring Openess in AI | Contributions | Foundations | Communities | Culture | What’s Next?
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1998
▪ Port of SAP R/3 to Linux with contributions to the Linux kernel
2013
▪ SAP open sources OpenUI5
2017/18
▪ SAP Open Source Program Office founded
▪ SAP open sources Kyma and Gardener
▪ SAP open sources SapMachine (SAP's distribution of OpenJDK)
2020
▪ Launch of “The Open Source Way” podcast
▪ German Corona Warn-App together with Deutsche Telekom
2021/22
▪ Open Source Policy for all SAP employees
▪ SAP “whole entity” OpenChain certification
▪ Inaugural member of Linux Foundation Europe
2004
▪ Founding member of the Eclipse Foundation
2025
▪ SAP open sources sap-rpt-1-oss foundational model
▪ SAP joins the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as gold member
▪ SAP is a founding member of the NeoNephos Foundation
▪ SAP open sources the Architecture Center, setting an educational foundation for
customers and partners
2024
▪ Publication of SAP Open Source Manifesto
▪ Founding member of the OpenSearch Software Foundation
SAP Open Source Milestones
2015
▪ SAP is founding member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation
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1998
▪ Port of SAP R/3 to Linux with contributions to the Linux kernel
2013
▪ SAP open sources OpenUI5
2017/18
▪ SAP Open Source Program Office founded
▪ SAP open sources Kyma and Gardener
▪ SAP open sources SapMachine (SAP's distribution of OpenJDK)
2020
▪ Launch of “The Open Source Way” podcast
▪ German Corona Warn-App together with Deutsche Telekom
2021/22
▪ Open Source Policy for all SAP employees
▪ SAP “whole entity” OpenChain certification
▪ Inaugural member of Linux Foundation Europe
2004
▪ Founding member of the Eclipse Foundation
2025
▪ SAP open sources sap-rpt-1-oss foundational model
▪ SAP joins the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as gold member
▪ SAP is a founding member of the NeoNephos Foundation
▪ SAP open sources the Architecture Center, setting an educational foundation for
customers and partners
2024
▪ Publication of SAP Open Source Manifesto
▪ Founding member of the OpenSearch Software Foundation
SAP Open Source Milestones
2015
▪ SAP is founding member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation