SAP Israel R&D Center

SAP’s R&D Center in Israel is one of the prominent, innovative and strategic development centers for SAP worldwide.The center plays a significant role in SAP’s global technological leadership, contributing substantially to the development and innovation of breakthrough technologies and core products. It consistently ranks as one of the top companies to work for in Israel, and is regularly recognized for its social and community involvement. Globally, SAP is also included every year on leading employer lists in categories such as innovation, diversity and inclusion, support for parents, social initiatives, and more.

Leading the Multicloud, Business AI, Privacy and User Experience Arenas

The SAP R&D Center in Israel helps redefine the concept of Business AI for enterprise organizations, and is an active and influential part of SAP’s global All-in-on-AI strategy - with the Center’s employees in Israel contributing directly to the devel-opment of SAP’s future AI products and to shaping the company’s global AI strategy.
Its development teams lead SAP’s efforts in the areas of multicloud and the company’s cloud platform, as well as user iden-tity management, user privacy, personalization, and user experience. The center’s development teams are responsible for developing some of the company’s main products, including SAP Business Technology Platform, Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP Build and SAP Customer Data Platform (CDP). They harness cutting-edge technologies such as deep learning and GenAI, and play a central role in developing many of the core products in SAP’s portfolio.

A Development Center Built on Israeli Talent

The development center is built on the acquisitions of 12 leading Israeli startups, the last of which is WalkMe, which was acquired in 2024, and is SAP’s most significant investment in Israel to date. All these now comprise a winning team of tal-ents who continue to innovate, develop, and create excellence in high-quality and innovative delivery to the benefit of the company’s customers, including some of the largest and best-known brands in the world.

Development Goes Beyond Technology

SAP recognizes its employees as its most valuable resource. Accordingly, the company prioritizes supporting and empower-ing them - both in routine times and in emergencies, and across both professional and personal development.
To achieve this, SAP offers employees a comprehensive suite of development opportunities, benefits, and programs.
These include diverse growth tracks and internal mobility options, as well as work-life balance with hybrid work arrange-ments.
Additionally, SAP boasts a groundbreaking platform: a personalized, digital benefits wallet app offering smart and flexible benefit choices. This app complements a comprehensive benefits package that includes a surrogacy grant, private health insurance, dental insurance, comprehensive mental health support, and more.

Leveraging Technology to Create Social Impact

SAP’s products touch hundreds of millions of people around the world and drive significant change. This enables the com-pany to support organizations working for the community and the environment here in Israel as well. The R&D Center main-tains close collaboration with numerous NGOs, focused on three main pillars: promoting technological education and STEM fields, with particular focus on girls and populations from the social and geographic periphery; making the digital world ac-cessible to underserved populations - including a longstanding partnership with the Beit Issie Shapiro organization, through which the center’s employees have developed several dedicated applications serving children and adults with disabilities; and social responsibility, including financial and in-kind donations throughout the year. The R&D Center’s employees also take an active part in the “Cracking the Glass Ceiling” project and partner with the “Shavot” association to encourage girls to pursue careers in technology.