SAP Labs are mainly responsible for product development whereas the field organizations spread across each country are responsible for field activities such Sales, Marketing, Consulting etc.

SAP Labs Latin America

Ernie Gunst and Erwin Rezelman at SAP Labs Latin America

SAP Labs is the research and development organization of the parent company.

SAP Labs India is the largest development unit in terms of number of employees outside the SAP headquarters located in Walldorf, Germany.

SAP Labs in Sophia Antipolis, France for example specializes in development of Java based SAP software products.

Whereas, SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California is famous for its focus on innovation and research.

SAP opened in June, 2009 its new SAP Labs campus in Brazil, representing the first SAP Labs Center in Latin America and the eighth worldwide.

SAP Labs Latin America has just received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) Gold certification for the building.

* SAP AG, SAP Labs France

The college has excellent Industry-Institution interaction with all the reputed Global Companies visiting the campus, which include: Yahoo !, Microsoft, Alcatel Lucent, IBM ISL, IBM GBS, LG, Cognizant, Nokia, Cisco, Samsung, Infosys, Wipro, EMC2, Motorola, SUN, MindTree, L & T ECC, L & T Powai, HCL, Vedanta, Tata Elxsi, Tata Technology, Tata Autocomp, Ford, Oracle, DELL, Avtec, Aditi Technologies, Kennametal, ITC Infotech, KOEL, ABB, Ashok Leyland, TVS Motors, BEL, Honeywell, Bosch, Akamai, TVS, GE, GM, SAP Labs, Mu-sigma, Toshiba, Applied Material, Cypress Semiconductors, Volvo, Delloitte, Reliance, Cosmic Circuit, Gammon India, Analog Devices, Otis, Atkins, Texas Instruments, TKM, Mercedes, HCL Aerospace, AON, Amazon, Huawei, J K Tyers, Quest Global, Oracle, Tejas Networks, VM Ware, Citrix, Comm-vault, Continental, etc.

* SAP Labs

Located inside the campus of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, it is adjacent to SIM HQ and houses a total of 20 lecture theatres and tutorial rooms, Electronic Labs, Multimedia ( PC & Mac ) Labs, Interpretation Labs, Bio-Medical Lab, Bio-Mechanical Lab, ICT Network Lab, SAP Training Lab and Audio Presentation Lab.

In addition, SAP operates a network of 115 subsidiaries, and has R & D ( Research & Development ) facilities around the globe in Germany, India, US, Canada, France, Brazil, Turkey, China, Hungary, Israel, Ireland and Bulgaria.

In 2008, SAP signed SAP Global Service partnership with HCL Technologies, a $ 6 b technology service provider, headquartered in India.

Currently, India's engineering talent has made India the offshoring destination of global firms like HP, IBM, Accenture, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, SAP, and BEA.

Under his leadership TCS set up Technology Excellence Centers in India that have acquired knowledge, expertise and equipment in specialized technology areas like IBM, Oracle Corporation, SAP, AS400, DEC, HP, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Sun and Tandem.

In October 2004, Fujitsu acquired the Australian subsidiary of Atos Origin, a systems implementation company with around 140 employees which specialized in SAP.

The township is home to the Project Management Institute ( PMI ), a Lyondell Chemical Company Technology Center, Apple Vacations, USA 3000 Airlines, and the headquarters for SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG.

The company remains a standalone subsidiary of SAP and headed by CEO John Chen.

In November, 2010, SAP lost a $ 1. 3 billion intellectual property lawsuit ( related to the actions of the SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow ) to Oracle Corporation – cited as the largest software piracy judgment in history.

As of July 2010 TechniData is a 100 % subsidiary of SAP AG.

In Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG Oracle alleged that a Texas subsidiary, SAP TN ( formerly TomorrowNow before purchase by SAP ), which provided discount support for legacy Oracle product lines, used the accounts of former Oracle customers to systematically download patches and support documents from Oracle's website and appropriated them for SAP's use.

The Business One subsidiary integration solution ( also known as integration for SAP NetWeaver / B1iSN ) is a special solution for customers, running SAP NetWeaver components in their headquarters and SAP Business One in their subsidiaries.

Principal Competitors: Oracle Corporation ( now Siebel's owner ); SAP America Inc .; Vantive Corporation ( subsidiary of PeopleSoft Inc., now owned by Oracle ); SalesLogix Corporation ; Clarify Corporation ( subsidiary of Amdocs ); SAS Institute Inc .; E. piphany Inc .; Broadbase Software Inc ; Salesforce. com ; Microsoft Dynamics.

Versata operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Trilogy, Inc. Versata is currently in litigation with SAP and Sun Microsystems over patent infringement.

NeXT's former campus at 3475 Deer Creek Road in Palo Alto is now used by SAP AG.

* Shai Agassi — IT entrepreneur, former Executive Board member of SAP AG and founder of Better Place

In 2010, Mooney Suzuki's song " Do It " was used for a commercial by SAP AG.

SAP R / 3 is the former name of the enterprise resource planning software produced by SAP AG.

With the advent of distributed client – server computing SAP AG brought out a client – server version of the software called SAP R / 3 ( The " R " was for " Real-time data processing " and 3 was for 3-tier ).

* Large and well-known companies producing Commercial off-the-shelf ( COTS ) such as Microsoft, SAP AG, Oracle Corporation, HP, Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., JICS Tech and Red Hat

* SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions, from SAP AG

Burlington's stretch of 128, between Route 3 and Winn Street is home to numerous sizable buildings housing major companies, such as Oracle Corporation and SAP AG and TD Bank.

* TREX ( search engine in the SAP NetWeaver integrated technology platform produced by SAP AG )

* SAP AG, a German software company

** SAP ERP, the main product of SAP AG, previously known as SAP R / 3

SAP AG (,, ) is a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.

SAP AG became the company's official name after the 2005 annual general meeting.

In August 1988, SAP GmbH transferred into SAP AG ( a corporation by German law ), and public trading started 4 November.

In December 2011, SAP AG agreed to buy SuccessFactors Inc. for $ 3. 4 billion in cash or 52 percent more than the share closing price on 2 December 2011.

With the acquisition, SAP AG will become more competitive with Oracle Corp. in the Cloud computing market.