SAP vs Shopware

SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) and Shopware (Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 2.500 community extensions) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

SAP (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Shopware (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 44). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

SAP carries 12,850 GitHub stars across 309 public repos, with 96 repositories active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors on record. Shopware shows 4,897 stars across 88 public repos, 60 active in the last 90 days and 102 external contributors.

SAP is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Shopware looks better where education 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.