Overall impact
A (95)

Commentary

SAP is a leader for overall positive impact. With an 'A' rating of 95.0 for overall impact (99th percentile compared to all companies), SAP ranks 1st out of 14 industry peers, ahead of Alibaba, Yandex, Alphabet and 10 others. On top material causes for SAP's industry (Software & Services), SAP performs well in Technology Innovation (95.4 score), Lgbtq Equality (95.5), Decent, Safe Work Opportunities (95.4) and 13 other causes where it received an 'A' score. SAP did not receive a 'D' or 'F' rating on any cause.
Screens
Advertising
Alcohol
Animal treatment
Anti-abortion support
Cannabis
Carbon emissions intensity
Coal
Contraceptives
Deforestation - financing
Discrimination controversies
Environmental controversies
Factory farming
Fast food
Firearms
For-profit health care
Fossil fuel
Fur
Gambling
Genetic engineering
Health-related controversies
Human rights controversies
Human trafficking
Interest-based products
Interest-bearing debt
Interest-bearing securities
Iran
Military contracting
Misleading communication
Music
Myanmar
Northern Ireland (Macbride)
North Korea
No SBTI commitment
Nuclear
Oil and gas
Opioid controversies
Oppressive governments
Pharma controversies
Pork
Pornography
Predatory lending
Prison involvement
Privacy breaches
Pro-life
Russia
Single-use plastic
Stem cell research
Sudan
Sugar
Syria
Tobacco
Undermining US elections
Weapons
Impact

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Screens
Advertising
Alcohol
Animal treatment
Anti-abortion support
Cannabis
Carbon emissions intensity
Coal
Contraceptives
Deforestation - financing
Discrimination controversies
Environmental controversies
Factory farming
Fast food
Firearms
For-profit health care
Fossil fuel
Fur
Gambling
Genetic engineering
Health-related controversies
Human rights controversies
Human trafficking
Interest-based products
Interest-bearing debt
Interest-bearing securities
Iran
Military contracting
Misleading communication
Music
Myanmar
Northern Ireland (Macbride)
North Korea
No SBTI commitment
Nuclear
Oil and gas
Opioid controversies
Oppressive governments
Pharma controversies
Pork
Pornography
Predatory lending
Prison involvement
Privacy breaches
Pro-life
Russia
Single-use plastic
Stem cell research
Sudan
Sugar
Syria
Tobacco
Undermining US elections
Weapons
Impact trend

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Top metrics
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Controversies
Controversies associated with SAP. Click on a controversy for more info
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Normalized scores are relative to other companies. Learn more about our ratings methodology
Note that all controversies information is based on publicly-available information.
SAP Price
$127.94
Last available end-of-day price. Full disclosure
Revenue
$34.36 billion
Market cap
$163.14 billion
Public/private
Public
Hypothetical historical growth of $10,000
Historical performance
Company
Founded
1972
Employees
105,328
Sector
Technology & Communications
Industry
Software & Services
Peer group
Big Tech - Major Diversified
SASB industry
Software & IT Services
Headquarters
Germany
Share classes
SAP
Mission
To help the world run better and improve people's lives. Our promise is to innovate to help our customers run at their best.
Description
SAP SE, together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise application software products worldwide. The company operates through Applications, Technology & Services; Qualtrics; Business Network; and Sustainability segments. It offers SAP S/4HANA that offers software capabilities for finance, risk and project management, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and asset management, and research and development; SAP SuccessFactors solutions for human resources, including HR and payroll, talent and employee experience management, and people and workforce analytics; spend management solutions that covers direct and indirect spend, travel and expense, and external workforce management. The company also provides SAP customer experience solutions; SAP Business Technology platform that enables customers and partners to build, integrate, and extend applications in a cloud-native way; and SAP Business Network that enables companies to collaborate with trading partners for supply chain visibility. In addition, it offers SAP Signavio help customers to scan their operations to understand and improve their business process landscape; Experience Management solutions; SAP's industry cloud solutions that provides modular solutions addressing industry-specific functions; and sustainability-related solutions. The company has a partnership Google Cloud to build the future of open data and AI for enterprises. SAP SE was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.
Material causes
Ethos considers the following causes material for SAP, based on its industry peer group Big Tech - Major Diversified. Learn more about material causes in our methodology overview.

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