At SAP, innovation is more than developing software – it's generating breakthrough technologies and best practices that shape emerging IT trends. Discover how SAP works with leading universities, partners, and customers worldwide to deliver innovation that can help companies of all sizes and industries run better.
The SAP Labs Network leverages SAP's rich diversity and technical and business expertise to deliver the best software solutions and services in the IT industry. Located in high-tech centers across the globe, the SAP Labs Network helps SAP engage local ecosystems and enable co-innovation.
SAP Research is the global technology research and innovation unit of SAP. By exploring emerging IT trends, the group significantly drives innovation for SAP and its ecosystem. Activities span from collaborative research with academic partners to co-innovation with industrial partners and customers as well as the incubation of new initiatives.
SAP Innovation Center in Potsdam opened February 2011 just outside Berlin – a hub of technological innovation. The innovation center taps into the region's resources to develop innovative, customer-centric solutions. With the flair and agility of a young startup, SAP Innovation Center drives collaboration between SAP, our customers, and our partners in academia and business to transform innovative research concepts into successful, mature products.
The primary goal of the Global Business Incubator is to identify and accelerate the commercialization of material business opportunities adjacent to SAP's core business by incubating new initiatives within the company.
SAP Ventures helps build industry-leading companies globally by partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and top-tier venture capital firms. This organization is an information technology investor that over the past 15 years has backed more than 100 companies in five continents.
SAP has the heart and passion of a startup. The SAP Startup Focus program focuses that passion to help startups engage with SAP and adopt SAP HANA from application development to commercialization.