SAP Ireland pays €157m dividend after Citywest merger

CITYWEST-based SAP Ireland had entities merged under its name and posted €157 million dividend in 2025.

SAP Ireland of Citywest Business Campus welcomed two other companies into the fold – SAP Service and Support Centre Ireland (SAP SSCI) Ltd and SAP Ireland US Ltd.

All three of these companies help to form the Irish subsidiary of the German software giant SAP, who consolidated their entities on the local shores.

The companies together employ around 2,000 with SAP SSCI Ltd boasting 1,729 of these employees at the end of 2025, and the companies all went under the same banner of SAP Ireland, which was previously called Business Objects Software Ltd. The global network of the company has more than 100,000 employees.

SAP Ireland also paid a €157m dividend to its parent entities in Europe, adding to a trend of the same amount in dividends paid in each of the first five years of the decade.

The German multinational reported finance over €771m in total, including dividend income of more than €509m from other companies in the group.

On top of this, revenue rose to €881m and operating profits increased to €499m – a rise of almost six per cent.

SAP has been in Ireland for almost 30 years, having started in Citywest in 1997 and expanding operations across the country over the years.

SAP’s Irish presence has grown to employ in the region of 2,000 people across two large sites in Dublin and Galway.

The local site visible from the N7 serves Fortune 500 clients across EMEA and North America.