37signals vs SAP

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals and SAP sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (54), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), SAP is ahead of 37signals. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SAP is slightly ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is slightly ahead of 37signals. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 37signals is clearly ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SAP is ahead of 37signals.

37signals carries 113,857 GitHub stars across 236 public repos, with 48 repositories active in the last 90 days and 298 external contributors on record. SAP shows 12,850 stars across 309 public repos, 96 active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 8.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. SAP looks better where code quality is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.