Five IBM engineers from the AI department(Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus Wellenreuther, all from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg) were working in an enterprise-wide system based on this software, only to be told that it would be no longer necessary.
Компания SAP была создана пятью бывшими сотрудниками IBM (Claus Wellenreuther, Hans-Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Dietmar Hopp и Hasso Plattner) под наименованием (, ) в городе Вайнхайме.