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German multinational enterprise-software company
SAP SE is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that is the world's largest vendor of enterprise software. In June 2025, it was the largest European company by market capitalization, as well as one of the 30 most valuable publicly traded companies in the world. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SAPA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A highly conserved core bacterial microbiota with nitrogen-fixation capacity inhabits the xylem sap in maize plantsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: SAP R/3 business blueprintThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Sap Pressure in Vascular PlantsCited 3,105 times
- Go sideways: SAP BTPA closely related topic
- Go sideways: SAP Business ByDesignA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Noun The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Noun Any juice.
Noun Vitality.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Sap Pressure in Vascular Plants
Evaluation of transpiration in a Douglas-fir stand by means of sap flow measurements
BIOLOGY OF BACTERIOCYTE-ASSOCIATED ENDOSYMBIONTS OF PLANT SAP-SUCKING INSECTS
The X-linked lymphoproliferative-disease gene product SAP regulates signals induced through the co-receptor SLAM
A comparison of methods for determining forest evapotranspiration and its components: sap-flow, soil water budget, eddy covariance and catchment water balance
An improved heat pulse method to measure low and reverse rates of sap flow in woody plants
Phloem-sap feeding by animals: problems and solutions
SAP-controlled T–B cell interactions underlie germinal centre formation
🆕 Influential since 2022
A highly conserved core bacterial microbiota with nitrogen-fixation capacity inhabits the xylem sap in maize plants
Development of ultra-fine SAP powder for lower-shrinkage and higher-strength cement pastes made with ultra-low water-to-binder ratio
Resveratrol improved mitochondrial biogenesis by activating SIRT1/PGC-1α signal pathway in SAP
Defense strategies and associated phytohormonal regulation in Brassica plants in response to chewing and sap-sucking insects
Linking Digital Orientation and Data-Driven Innovations: A SAP–LAP Linkage Framework and Research Propositions
📚 Books worth reading
SAP R/3 business blueprintThomas Curran, Thomas A. Curran · 1997
SAP SCMGene Deluke · 2013
Sap CoV. Narayanan · 2012
SAP S/4hanaAxel Baumgartl, Dmitry Chaadaev · 2017
Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hoursGeorge W. Anderson, Anderson, George · 2005
SAP HANABerg Dr · 2012
Materials Management with SAP S/4HANAJawad Akhtar, Martin Murray · 2019- 📕Production planning and control with SAP ERPJawad Akhtar · 2013
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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