SAP vs Sprout Social

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

SAP (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 41). The gap of 13 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 Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), SAP is slightly ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social 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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SAP's footprint is roughly 41.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

SAP is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.