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Sanyo Special Steel

Sanyo Special Steel is a Japanese special-steel producer headquartered in Himeji, founded in 1935 and known for Japan's largest share of bearing steel; Nippon Steel acquired it in April 2025.

São Francisco River Integration Project

The São Francisco River Integration Project (Projeto de Integração do Rio São Francisco) is a Brazilian inter-basin water transfer supplying semi-arid Northeast states, intended to reach 12 million people.

São Mateus do Sul oil shale plant

The São Mateus do Sul oil shale plant is an industrial complex in Paraná, Brazil, where Petrobras's Petrosix process retorts Irati shale into oil, gas, and sulfur.

São Paulo Congonhas Airport

São Paulo Congonhas Airport, commonly called Congonhas, is São Paulo's in-city domestic airport, opened in 1936 and one of Brazil's busiest, handling over 24 million passengers in 2025.

São Paulo Metro

The São Paulo Metro (Metrô de São Paulo) is the rapid transit system of São Paulo, Brazil, opened in 1974 as the country's first metro.

São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport

São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, also known as Guarulhos Airport or Cumbica, is Brazil's largest airport, opening in 1985 and handling 43.6 million passengers in 2024.

São Sebastião (Petrobras terminal)

São Sebastião, formally Terminal Aquaviário Almirante Barroso and known as Tebar, is Petrobras's largest oil terminal on the northern coast of São Paulo state, Brazil.

São Simão hydroelectric plant

The São Simão hydroelectric plant (UHE São Simão) is a 1,710 MW dam on the Paranaíba River between Minas Gerais and Goiás, Brazil, built by CEMIG from 1973 to 1978.

SAP

SAP, formerly SAP SE, is a German enterprise software company founded in 1972 and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. It is best known for its ERP systems.

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud, or SAC, is a software-as-a-service product from SAP SE combining business intelligence, augmented and predictive analytics, and enterprise planning, and is SAP's recommended option for new analytics projects.

SAP Ariba

SAP Ariba is a cloud-based procurement and supply chain suite owned by SAP, covering sourcing, contracts, and invoicing over SAP Business Network since its 2012 acquisition.

SAP Business ByDesign

SAP Business ByDesign is a cloud-based enterprise resource planning suite from SAP SE, launched in 2007 for small and midsized enterprises and discontinued for new sales in April 2026.

SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Business Data Cloud, or SAP BDC, is a fully managed software-as-a-service data and analytics platform from SAP SE, launched in February 2025 with a partnership with Databricks.

SAP Business Network

SAP Business Network is a cloud-based B2B collaboration platform from SAP SE, announced in 2021 by combining Ariba Network with SAP's logistics and asset networks.

SAP Business One

SAP Business One is an enterprise resource planning application sold by SAP for small and midsize businesses, acquired from TopManage in 2002 and running on-premises or in the cloud.

SAP Business Technology Platform

SAP Business Technology Platform, or SAP BTP, is SAP's platform-as-a-service offering combining application development, process automation, integration, data and analytics, and artificial intelligence, running on hyperscalers including Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

SAP Business Warehouse

SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) is an enterprise data warehousing application from SAP SE, launched in 1998 to extract and consolidate data from SAP and non-SAP systems for reporting.

SAP BusinessObjects

SAP BusinessObjects is a business intelligence software suite originally developed by the French company Business Objects, which SAP acquired in 2007 for about €4.8 billion.

SAP Concur

SAP Concur is the travel and expense management business of SAP SE, acquired in 2014 for about $8.3 billion, whose Concur Travel and Concur Expense products lead the market.

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application for designing pixel-perfect formatted reports, such as invoices and statements, from a wide range of data sources, owned by SAP since 2007.

SAP Customer Experience

SAP Customer Experience is a portfolio of cloud-based CRM and commerce software sold by SAP SE, covering commerce, customer data, marketing, sales, and service, largely built through acquisitions.

SAP Datasphere

SAP Datasphere, formerly SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a cloud data management and modeling service from SAP that enables business data fabric architecture and harmonizes data across SAP and non-SAP systems.

SAP ERP

SAP ERP is enterprise resource planning software developed by SAP, evolving through R/2, R/3, and ECC before its current generation, S/4HANA, released in 2015. It serves over 440,000 customers in more than 180 countries.

SAP Fieldglass

SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based vendor management system that helps businesses find, engage, manage, and pay external workers and service providers, acquired by SAP in 2014.

SAP HANA

SAP HANA, short for High-performance ANalytic Appliance, is an in-memory, column-oriented database from SAP that handles transactional and analytical workloads on a single copy of data, on premises or in the cloud.

SAP Integrated Business Planning

SAP Integrated Business Planning, known as SAP IBP, is SAP's cloud supply chain planning suite built on SAP HANA, launched in 2014 as successor to SAP APO.

SAP Joule

SAP Joule is a generative AI copilot from SAP, announced in 2023, that lets users find information and complete tasks in SAP cloud software by natural language.

SAP LeanIX

SAP LeanIX is a cloud-based enterprise architecture management platform that helps organizations visualize and manage their IT landscapes, developed by LeanIX GmbH and owned by SAP since 2023.

SAP R/3

SAP R/3 was an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite launched by SAP in 1992, whose three-tier client-server architecture made SAP the dominant ERP vendor of the 1990s.

SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is an ERP software suite that SAP launched in 2015 as a rewrite of Business Suite and ECC, running exclusively on its HANA in-memory database.