SAP vs SolarWinds

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

SAP (rank #122) holds a modest lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 35). The gap of 19 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 SolarWinds. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SAP is ahead of SolarWinds. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), SolarWinds is ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds is slightly ahead of SAP.

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. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SAP's footprint is roughly 11.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

SAP is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. SolarWinds 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.