Your Guide to SAP

Your Guide to SAP Bring Everything You Are. Become Everything You Want.

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Intro Company History SAP Today Work Culture How SAP Sees the World

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How the World Sees SAP

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What’s Your Higher Purpose?

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Intro

Your Guide to SAP

There are three words everyone likes to hear:

We Want You. We are excited to get to know you better and published this book to help you get to know us better.

You’ll learn who we are, what we do, and how you can be part of it.

We hope you like what you see.

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Company History

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Company History SAP was built on differences.

Five engineers in a distant corner of Germany had a vision of what technology could do for businesses. They wanted to build a real-time system while everyone else was using punch cards and tapes.

Because they believed in their idea, they founded their own company. In 1972, SAP began with a handful of employees, a small budget, and one client.

The team innovated. They worked nights and weekends. They worked side by side with their clients, sharing office space and computing power.

They changed enterprise software forever.

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SAP Today

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SAP Today Over 45 years later, SAP is still changing enterprise software.

Co-founder Hasso Plattner says that success depends on more than the right product. Timing is everything. You have to be ready to “catch the right wave” when it comes.

SAP is ready to catch that next wave.

We’re leveraging the newest technologies—Internet of Things, AI, machine learning, and blockchain—along with the Big Data they provide to help our customers become Intelligent Enterprises.

Intelligent Enterprises use their data assets more effectively to achieve their desired outcomes faster—and with less risk.

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SAP Today

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But we’re about more than creating the right product. Every time one of our customers turns their idea into action, they improve people’s lives. And SAP is part of that. We engineer solutions to fuel innovations, foster equality, and spread opportunities across borders and cultures.

We help the world run better. When the world runs better, people’s lives improve. We partner with our customers to transform industries and grow economies. We help lift societies up and sustain our environment. It’s at the heart of everything we do.

Now more than ever, if you want to be the best, you have to make a difference. And SAP is the best.

Fast Facts

SAP HANA, our in-memory data platform, can increase analysis speed by more than 10,000 times – the equivalent of walking from California to New York in 6 minutes.

Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better. And the best run SAP.

We all crave a higher purpose. A reason to strive that is bigger than ourselves.”

– Bill McDermott CEO, SAP

SAP Leonardo, our digital innovation system, integrates breakthrough technologies – such as blockchain, the Internet of Things, and machine learning.

SAP Cloud Platform, our blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) pilot, allows customers to easily experiment with the new technology.

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Work Culture

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Work Culture

SAP has the creativity and agility of a startup and the backbone of a world market leader in business software.

91,120 employees from 154 nations.

Despite our size, SAP maintains an entrepreneurial spirit.

We support diversity. Creativity. Flexibility. Growth.

Our size lets us do all these things. We have the resources to do what small companies can’t. And we’re passionate about developing deep and lasting relationships with our employees.

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Workspace SAP has offices around the world, but we maintain a spirit of innovation.

For example, AppHaus is next-generation office space. It features flexible spaces that employees can modify as their needs change. They draw on the walls to capture inspiration and move their desks at will to sit with other employees working on the same project.

The atmosphere is modern, playful, and homey, all designed to encourage the creative thinking needed for app development.

Space can be a great enabler. If you’re put in a good environment, I think you will start talking to each other. And that is what is happening here [at AppHaus].”

– Ravi Marwaha Group VP of analytics

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Work Culture

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Own SAP There’s something else our size lets us do: Enable each of our over 91,000 employees to share in our financial success. With our share purchase plan, Own SAP, employees can purchase SAP stock at preferred conditions.

We even match your contribution!

Own SAP is simple and flexible. Employees can invest as little as 1% of their base salary and as much as 10%. Our success comes from our employees and we want you to share in that success.

Fast Facts SAP operates more than

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SAP participates in the Livelihoods Carbon Fund to help protect the climate.

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Young entrepreneurs from Africa are invited to Germany to enhance their business skills through Afrika Kommt.

development locations.

%

of our employees work from home.

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Work Culture

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Diversity and Inclusion

Fast Facts

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SAP employees have been onboarded through Autism at Work.

SAP wants to work with all types of people and we are committed to eliminating bias, both conscious and unconscious, at all levels of our organization.

Our Autism at Work program is available in many countries – including Germany, India, Czech Republic, the United States, China, Canada, Ireland, Argentina, and Brazil. Job candidates on the autism spectrum take part in a specially designed interview that best allows them to reveal their capabilities.

Millennials make up

49%

of our workforce.

Mark Lazarus, a mentor in the program, says, “When I see at SAP how we can leverage the skills of candidates on the autism spectrum, I have hope.”

Employees from

Differently abled individuals often must innovate to find unique solutions to challenges they face in their lives. These individuals are critical to the diversity SAP needs to achieve our strategic objectives.

nations work at our global headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.

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Five generations of employees work at SAP.

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Work Culture

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Women and Leadership at SAP

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Fast Facts

Over 32% of our employees are women, and we offer many programs to help women to succeed in the software industry.

Our Women at SAP program is the third-largest internal group at SAP, with over 10,000 members. Members attend events and webinars, share articles, and lead discussions about women at work.

SAP was listed as a top-five company for gender diversity by Trendence Institute.

32%+

of our employees are women.

Some more of our women-focused programs include:

SAP Business Women’s Network

Women’s Professional Growth Series

With 72 chapters and over 11,000 members, the network hosts events to give talented women access to senior management and hear from outside speakers.

In regular monthly meetings, women and men discuss topics relevant to women’s careers, as well as gender diversity and gender intelligence.

Leadership Excellence Acceleration Program (LEAP) LEAP empowers women by teaching them to recognize and successfully use their leadership style and empowers them to expand their knowledge, collaborate with colleagues, and achieve career success while positively impacting our business.

Women hold

25%

of our leadership positions.

By

2020

SAP wants 30% of our leadership to be women.

300

women graduate from LEAP every year.

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Employee Development SAP values supporting our employees in their jobs. We believe in working with our employees to develop their talents and passions into new opportunities that advance their careers.

We’ve identified three main paths for career development:

With the resources of a worldwide market leader, we realize that value in tangible ways.

Our career framework and tools guide you through your career journey, helping you to discover who you are, identify where you want to grow, and develop an action plan to get there.

Project manager

People manager

Talent + Passion + Opportunities = A Best-Run Career at SAP

Subject matter expert

How will you get there?

70%

of your growth comes from on-the-job experiences.

20%

comes from mentoring and coaching from and networking with other SAP employees.

10%

comes formal training opportunities offered at SAP.

Fast Facts In 2017, SAP won more than

161

best-employer awards.

SAP has a

90%

employee-retention rate.

SAP employees are still customer guinea pigs: they use SAP software in their training.

300+

employees act as mentors to other SAP employees.

Career Success Centers offer one-on-one support for building your personal brand.

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How SAP Sees the World

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How SAP Sees the World

The Support to Transform Yourself At SAP we focus on the whole of you, not just the job you do.

Take software developer Preeti Singh. Singh loves developing software, but she wanted to be more than a developer. She wanted to be a strong woman, able to handle whatever came her way.

So she started taking kickboxing classes offered through SAP to strengthen her body.

She gave herself a year to work on this new skill. After that year, she says, “I had completely transformed myself … internally and externally.”

“SAP gives you that freedom to do what you really desire, to do what you really want," says Singh. "When you are given that freedom, you also start being responsible with that time, with that space, with that flexibility that you get. It’s up to you to decide what you want to do with it.”

Fast Facts — A few of the whole-person benefits SAP offers: Competitive salaries

Corporate Oncology Program for Employees (COPE)

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Childcare

Stock options

Fitness classes

Parent-child offices

Free/subsidized lunches

Corporate electric cars

SAP Social Sabbatical

SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives.

We connect people and information to address the world’s biggest challenges.

SAP customer E.ON is Europe’s leading energy provider.

It prides itself on focusing on renewal and sustainable energy solutions for both private homes and businesses.

We've been working with E.ON to restructure its IT so it can become a truly digital company – one that can innovate and bring to market new products and services that improve its customers’ lives and protect the planet.

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Your Guide to SAP

How SAP Sees the World

SAP has a vision: help the world run better and improve people’s lives.

We help our customers connect people and information to address the world’s biggest challenges.

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E.ON’s goal is business success in harmony with natural resources, the global climate, and corporate responsibility – and its prototypying factory, run with SAP Leonardo, is helping it reach that goal.

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HANA allowed the sales teams to gather and analyze data faster, reducing planning time and increasing selling time. Prestige Brands’ sales team got out of the spreadsheet business and back into the selling business, building visibility and trust with consumers.

Another SAP customer, Prestige Brands, sells over 60 over-the-counter and householdcleaning products worldwide. The company chose SAP HANA to run its cloud-based solution for sales operations and planning.

Fast Facts — E.ON

E.ON has 40,000 employees and 22 million customers.

It partnered with an SAP MaxAttention team to create a prototyping factory.

In 2016, it created 25+ prototypes, with help from SAP Leonardo.

Fast Facts — Prestige Brands

Prestige Brands sells 60+ over-the-counter and household-cleaning products.

The $1 billion company has 7 offices and ships to 100 countries worldwide.

It runs SAP HANA to reduce data gathering and analyzing.

At Prestige Brands, our mission is product innovation and quality.

We truly do care about our customers. For generations, we’ve been trusted.

We want to continue to keep that trust.”

– Matthew Flood VP of Information Technology, Prestige Brands

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How SAP Sees the World

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Software That Improves People’s Lives While our vision is to improve people’s lives with our software, nothing is better than when we help save lives. Our work with InCor lets us do just that.

Heart disease is the number-one killer in the world today, and seconds count when you’re trying to save a life. That’s why InCor, Latin America’s largest heart institute, focuses on innovation. It wants to give doctors, nurses, and other medical staff the precious seconds they need to save lives.

InCor chose SAP Leonardo to build the Smart Care Unit, a system that combines patient, clinical, and research data for medical staff to use on hospital floors. It’s estimated that the groundbreaking prototype will free up over 1,000 hours a year from paperwork.

That’s over 3 million more seconds medical staff have to use with patients.

The faster you get to medical attention, the better the chances [of survival]. The most critical thing is to not waste time.”

– Dr. Francismar Vidal Head of RD&I, InCor

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Fast Facts

18 million

people die from heart disease every year.

InCor ranks

5th

in heart transplants worldwide.

With its new Smart Care Unit, InCor estimates medical staff will save

1,000

hours a year in paperwork.

83%

of the most innovative healthcare companies in the world run SAP solutions.

100%

of the most successful precision healthcare equipment manufacturers in the world run SAP solutions.

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Employees Use Work Skills to Help Others And we go even further, supporting a new generation of revolutionary software, creating opportunities to make commercially viable projects with a large social impact, and enabling employees to volunteer on a larger scale.

SAP.iO Continues Our Entrepreneurial Spirit

1Blives Aims for Global Social Impact

Revolutionary software has the power to change the world. To keep the revolution going, we created SAP.iO, a program to support internal and external projects that aim to change the world:

The One Billion Lives (1BLives) initiative is another part of our effort to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. We invite employees to develop concepts that use SAP software to create commercially viable businesses with a sustainable, social impact.

The SAP.iO Fund invests in external early stage enterprise software startups that will create value for our customers.

SAP.iO Foundries incubate the startups to reach toward Intelligent Enterprise. Startups receive mentorship, access to SAP APIs and SAP tech, and opportunities to exposure to SAP customers.

SAP.iO Venture Studio launches internal projects that use SAP’s data, tech, and customer relationships to tackle some of the biggest problems in enterprise software.

Ventures are given hands-on design, development, and sales support.

With each project, we get closer to improving 1 billion lives.

The power of SAP technology, coupled with the passion for our employees, will enable us to turn life-changing ideas into real and sustainable initiatives that can improve the lives of one billion people.”

– Adaire Fox-Martin Executive Board member, Global Customer Operations

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How SAP Sees the World

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Employees Use Personal Skills to Help Others Tanja Schätz-Kruft, communications expert for SAP Global Security, is passionate about the endangered Indochinese tiger. Making a donation just wasn’t enough. Taking advantage of our flexible work options, Tanja cut her work hours to 80% and devoted the remaining time to doing more for the tigers.

With her time, she built A World for Tigers, a foundation that raises funds and works to identify specific projects that will protect the tigers. The foundation is currently focused on building ranger stations and training new game rangers to prevent poaching and educate the populace about protection efforts.

Everyone needs a purpose in life. That can vary enormously from person to person.

The main thing is that each of us achieves contentment and the feeling of having done something positive.”

– Tanja Schätz-Kruft Communications Expert for SAP Global Security

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How the World Sees SAP We think SAP is a pretty special place, full of innovative, creative, and socially conscious people. We like to think that our software and our employees make the world a better place.

But what does the world think of what we do?

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Products World’s Best Airline Awards, Skytrax

U.S. Initial Quality, J.D. Power

Crop Protection and Production Award, Agrow

10 of the 10 best airlines in the world run SAP solutions.

100% of the U.S. Initial Quality award-winning vehicles are manufactured by SAP customers.

8 of the 13 Agrow Award winners for crop protection and production run SAP solutions.

Company & People SAP is recognized around the world for being a great place to work. In 2017, we won 281 employer-related awards. Here are just a few:

A Highest Rated CEO, Employees’ Choice, 2017, Glassdoor A Best Place to Work, 2018, Glassdoor A Best Workplace for Giving Back, USA, 2018, Fortune A Top 50 German Brand, 2018, BrandZ

A Top 100 Undergraduate Employer, 2017–18, RateMyPlacement A UK 300 company, 2017–18, The Guardian A Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality, 2018, Human Rights Campaign

A Top 100 Employer, Canada, 2017, Mediacorp Canada A Top Employer, China, 2018, Top Employers Institute A Top Employer, South Africa, 2018, Top Employers Institute A Top Employer, Middle East, 2018, Top Employers Institute

We’re proud to be recognized for our strong culture and values!

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What's Your Higher Purpose?

Do you dream of making an impact with your career?

Something bigger and more fulfilling than just a “job”?

Work for a company that helps countries, companies, the public sector, and everyday citizens drive meaningful changes that touch billions of people.

Imagine playing a role in solving some of the world’s biggest problems. From a little input we can create an outsized output.

Our people collaborate to make an immediate impact on the world. They possess grit and passion and value human interactions. We give them the tools they need to innovate; they give us their best. Together, we make the world run better and improve people’s lives.

Do you want to change the world, adding your input to a team devoted to an outsized output? If so, you could be one of us. We look forward to interviewing with you and hope you’ll become a member of the SAP team.

Why wait?

Learn more about life at SAP! www.sap.com/careers