SAP BusinessObjects

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company – with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

As an independent business unit within SAP, BusinessObjects delivers business performance optimization to customers worldwide across all major industries, including financial services, retail, consumer-packaged goods, healthcare and public sector.

SAP first established in Ireland in 1997. The amalgamated company SAP BusinessObjects employs almost 1,000 people across two sites in Dublin and Galway. The Dublin organisation focuses on the provision of Services and Support for its large enterprise Customer Base in EMEA and the US. It also provides internal IT support and hosts a Quality Engineering group focused on testing of Application and Technology releases.

SAP's operation in Galway is a multi-lingual Support and Technical Writing centre for SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) sector. It has added groups involved in Translations, License Auditing, Inbound and Outbound Support Planning and Partner Services and Support. It covers 21 languages and has Colleagues from 18 nationalities.

BusinessObjects Dublin operation in Park West Business Park in Dublin is a key BusinessObjects site from where it runs its EMEA inside software and maintenance sales activities, processes EMEA supply chain management for all European countries and manages global software deliveries. In 2008 the company established a software development lab in Dublin which will develop its next generation of business analytics software. The establishment of the development lab will create 100 highly skilled new jobs over a four year period and the technology to be developed at the lab is highly innovative, leading edge and is a critical part of the company’s future technology roadmap.

A Great Place to Work@ Institute survey ranked SAP BusinessObjects amongst the top 50 best companies in Ireland to work for in 2008.