How SAP Became Became the Tech Engine Behind Global Business

Once overshadowed by luxury icon. LVMH and pharmaceutical titan Novo Nordisk, SAP has risen steadily to the top - and is now worth over €300 billion. Its business enterprise software powers the inner workings of more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Apple, Walmart and Nestlé.The SAP story started in 1972 when a group of former IBM engineers set out to build something revolutionary software that could integrate all of the company's operations and process data in real time. By the mid-s ...