Customers subscribed to SAP S/4HANA worldwide 2015-2022, by quarter

As of the second quarter of 2022, German software company SAP SE reported a total of 20,000 subscribers for its S/4HANA enterprise resource planning (ERP) package. The total subscriber figure has grown significantly in recent years, from around 370 in 2015 to ten thousand plus just four years later.

SAP S/4HANA

Released in 2015, the SAP S/4HANA software package is an ERP platform marketed towards large enterprises. Compared to other software subscriptions, 17,000 subscribers may sound like a relatively small number, but considering that each subscriber consists of a large enterprise wide S/4HANA license, the effective user base often consists of many employees from each of these 17,000 companies. SAP’s two biggest revenue earning segments are software support and cloud subscription and support, both of which include business related to the company’s S/4HANA platform along with its other ranges of ERP and software products.

ERP

Enterprise resource planning, or ERP, is a form of software that is intended to consolidate the many processes involved in running a business into one overarching business management platform. As business enterprises around the world seek to digitalize more and more of their processes, ERP platforms such as S/4HANA are becoming an increasingly popular characteristic of management. The ERP market consistently brings in tens of billions of dollars in annual revenues, with players including Deltek, Microsoft, and Workday as major providers.