SAP Open Source
We believe in co-innovation and collaboration with open source. With a growing engagement in foundations and projects, we would like to encourage developers to contribute to open source projects that we are sharing and supporting to empower our ecosystem.
NeoNephos, one of the first concrete open source outcomes of the IPCEI-CIS EU investment, aims to address the rising demand for secure, scalable, and transparent cloud solutions that align with European digital sovereignty goals. By uniting leading organizations, the foundation will foster collaboration and innovation, serving as a hub for the development and promotion of open source solutions that empower European enterprises and public sector entities.
Europe is investing in innovative cloud solutions which harmonize regulatory frameworks to build a resilient, secure digital future with its IPCEI-CIS initiative around next generation cloud infrastructures and services. The Apeiro Reference Architecture (ApeiroRA) is part of this initiative and aims to build a high-performance cloud-edge infrastructure with open-source standards.
Watch our latest public webinar about ApeiroRA and the new NeoNephos Foundation with speakers Peter Giese - Head of the SAP Open Source Program Office and Vasu Chandrasekhara - Chief Product Owner of the Apeiro Project.
OpenTelemetry becomes the open standard for observability across platforms, languages, and major signal types, such as logs, metrics, and traces. OpenSearch is a fast growing and innovative solution that also offers strong Observability support.
At OpenSearchCon Europe 2025, Karsten Schnitter, Software Architect at SAP, explained how to instrument your applications and collect log/metric/trace signals using OpenTelemetry, how to ingest it into OpenSearch, and eventually how to use the strong signal semantics and the rich analytical means of OpenSearch to provide comprehensive insights into application performance and health (link).
Listen to our new podcast episode hosted by Karsten Hohage with Siegfried Kiermayer, a cloud architect at SAP Commerce, discussing governance issues and solutions in open source projects. .
They talk about governance issues and solutions in open source projects, using projects like Catena-X and Tractus-X as an example. Starting with the basis of what these projects are, they will go into detail on how the projects are managed with time throughout the episode.
The SAP Open Source report 2024 reflects on the key accomplishments that have shaped SAP's open-source journey in the past year. The report shines a light on the people behind the numbers: 2,147 contributors at SAP, 200 new repositories, and countless partnerships across projects like Kubernetes, OpenJDK, OpenSearch, and more. It shows that SAP aligns with the principles shared in the Open Source Manifesto, published in 2024 and also covers openness in AI.
OCM
The Open Component Model (OCM) is an open standard for describing software artifacts in a uniform and machine-readable way. OCM enables consistent end-to-end lifecycle management processes and a secure software supply chain.
More info: GitHub, OCM Website.
Gardener
Gardener is a production-grade Kubernetes as a service management tool that works across various cloud-platforms (e.g, AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba & SAP Datacenters) and on-premise (e.g. with OpenStack).
More info: GitHub, Twitter, Gardener Website.
Kyma
Project Kyma offers a flexible and easy way to connect and extend enterprise applications in a cloud-native fashion. It is designed natively on Kubernetes and thus, it is portable to all major cloud providers.
More info: GitHub, Twitter, Kyma Website.
OpenUI5
Code once. Run on any device. OpenUI5 enables you to create enterprise-ready Web apps responsive to all devices. It follows open standards, and includes powerful development concepts and a rich set of UI controls.
More info: GitHub, Twitter, OpenUI5 Website, Demo Kit.
SapMachine
A Java Development Kit and Runtime Environment based on the OpenJDK, built for enterprise Java workloads.
More info: GitHub, Twitter, SapMachine Website.
Find all other projects here: github.com/sap.
SAP Cloud SDK
The SAP Cloud SDK is a set of libraries that help developers consume SAP services in their applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). The libraries conveniently abstract capabilities of SAP BTP to reduce boiler plate code.
More info: GitHub, SAP Cloud SDK documentation.
Memberships
SAP is a contributor to the following open source projects and foundations:
- Linux Foundation™ (silver member)
- Linux Foundation Europe (founding and silver member)
- OpenSearch Software Foundation (founding and premier member)
- Apache Software Foundation™ (focus on Olingo and Hadoop)
- Eclipse Foundation™ (founding and strategic member)
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation™ (platinum member)
- Cloud Foundry Foundation (founding and platinum member)
- OpenAPI™ Initiative (founding member)
- OpenJDK™ (major contributor)
- ToDo Group (general member)
- Open Invention Network (general member)
- Open Source Security Foundation (general member)
- InnerSource Commons (supporter)
- OSPO Alliance (general member)
- OASIS Open (sponsor member)
- Industrial Digital Twin Association (founding member)
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