SAP
SAP SE is a German multinational software company and the world's largest provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Founded on April 1, 1972, by five former IBM engineers -- Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector -- in Weinheim, Germany, SAP's name stands for Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing. The company's R/1, R/2, and R/3 systems successively transformed enterprise computing, and SAP's flagship S/4HANA pl...