SAP vs SmartRecruiters

SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) and SmartRecruiters both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

SAP (rank #122) holds a modest lead over SmartRecruiters (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 40). The gap of 14 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 SmartRecruiters. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SmartRecruiters is slightly ahead of SAP. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is clearly ahead of SmartRecruiters. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), SmartRecruiters is clearly ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SAP is clearly ahead of SmartRecruiters.

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. SmartRecruiters shows 119 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SAP's footprint is roughly 108.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

SAP is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. SmartRecruiters looks better where reach 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.