SAP vs Workday

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

SAP (rank #122) holds a narrow lead over Workday (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 46). The gap of 8 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 Workday. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workday is ahead of SAP. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SAP is ahead of Workday. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Workday is slightly ahead of SAP. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SAP is clearly ahead of Workday.

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. Workday shows 1,102 stars across 57 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 11 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 momentum. Workday 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.