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The SAP Developer Insights Survey 

Our annual survey helps us to stay connected with our developer audience, and to explore new trends, technologies, tools and programming languages.

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2023 SAP Developer Insights Survey Results

  • Developers and architects dominated the makeup of our community: The large segment of developers (74%) was not a surprise. However, the proportion of folks designing application architectures continues to grow year-over-year, and has increased to 34% this year compared to 22% in 2022. The signals a need for solid support of architecture design enablement by SAP.
  • Approximately three quarters of respondents describe their overall SAP development experience as being “satisfied” or “very satisfied”: This is the first year that we asked a question focusing on sentiment. We’ll explore this more deeply next year.
  • We saw a substantially increased interest in low-code/no-code products: We found a dramatic increase in both interest and use of low-code/no-code products since conducting the 2022 survey. This was noted across all vendors included in this survey.
  • Developers are moving back to a traditional office space: Roughly one-third of respondents reported that their primary work location was outside of their home. One-fifth had shifted away from their home office over the past year.

 

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2022 SAP Developer Insights Survey Results

  • SAP developers continue to move to the cloud, but there is a substantial population that has not - 58% are using some cloud platform for development currently. This is up 14% in the past two years, with 42% indicating they have not yet moved.
  • For our existing SAP developer audience, ERP and the digital core are the most common SAP application integration points - 81% of respondents have built SAP ERP or digital core extensions in the past year.
  • SAP’s developer audience is quite experienced - 58% of respondents report 6+ years of professional SAP project experience.
  • Developers report that YouTube and LinkedIn are the best non-SAP sites for connecting with other developers.

 

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2021 SAP Developer Insights Survey Results

  • 83% of respondents are using SAP Business Technology Platform or plan to use it soon
  • 80% of respondents have built SAP ERP or digital core extensions in the past year (this is up 9% from 2020)
  • 58% of respondents report 6+ years of professional SAP project experience
  • 52% are using some Cloud platform for development currently (this is up 8% from 2020)
  • 54% of respondents report working somewhat or much more hours since the beginning of the pandemic 

 

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2020 SAP Developer Insights Survey Results

  • 71% of respondents have built integrations or extensions for an SAP ERP system or digital core system in the past twelve months
  • 44% of respondents said that they are using some kind of cloud platform at this time
  • 36% of respondents indicated an interest in using SAP Cloud Platform in the near future
  • 39% of respondents work for larger companies (5,000+ employees)
  • 36% of respondents have a direct influence on buying decisions
  • 64% of respondents have been members of the community for over 5 years
  • On average, respondents indicated that they have 6+ years of experience in SAP related projects

 

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