Developer ecosystem comparison
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SAP
@SAP
Rank #122
Score 54
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SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.

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SAP vs Sophos

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

SAP (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 37). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Sophos shows 1,438 stars across 84 public repos, 7 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 8.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

SAP is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Sophos 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricSAPSophos
Ranking
Overall rank#122#510
Pillars
Overall5437
Code7433
Education6068
Community5533
Reach2111
Momentum5542
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars12,8501,438
Forks4,069432
Public repos30984
Active repos (90d)967
External contributors602
Avg polish8441
Avg AI-readiness3822

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