BERLIN — One of SAP’s key themes during its TechEd 2025 event in Berlin this year was “openness.” While it’s not an open source company in the traditional sense, over the last decade, SAP has regularly been among the top 10 open source contributors in terms of active contributors, and it’s doubling down on this. But SAP has also shifted to being more open in other ways, which became clear in a number of conversations I recently had with some of its executives.
This shift to being more open takes several forms. It includes opening…








