E3 Category: Internal Communications

With customs barriers, trade barriers, and wars, the world is being atomized and defragmented by autocrats. Fortunately, we have a global SAP community with a website in German, English, Spanish, and now, French.

The combination of AI algorithms and powerful hardware, such as Nvidia's graphics processors, has sparked a revolution. The most visible result is ChatGPT, though SAP is also working on the subject.

Currently, there is an extensive debate about SAP's diversity targets. The goal of having 40 percent of women in leadership positions within the group has been rejected. Apparently, SAP CEO Christian Klein is bowing to the US administration's requirements.

Homo Ludens is an established term that was also popularized by Hermann Hesse's novel "The Glass Bead Game". In education, and later in business, you will find the term "serious game", and then we are not too far off from the concept of Digital Twin.

The annual investment report of the German-speaking SAP user group, DSAG e. V., is always eagerly awaited. In addition to the survey data itself, the level of participation is an important indicator of the mood in the SAP community.

SAP cannot be accused of lacking composure, but of lacking transparency and comprehensible communication. The presentation of the new SAP Business Suite and Business Data Cloud leaves only one question unanswered: what is SAP attempting to communicate to the community?

For this article’s title, I‘ve borrowed a phrase from Friedrich Merz, a member of the German Bundestag, who used it in the last German Bundestag debate before the election in response to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's speech. This article has been inspired by German politics.

Writing this is akin to a tautology, i.e., saying the same thing twice. Isn't journalism necessarily always creative? Whether it's court reporting or a discussion on rising SAP share prices, creativity is always needed to produce something.

When supply chains became fragile and global logistics and production began to stutter, SAP was able to help and win with a comprehensive ERP/SCM. As SAP CEO Klein often emphasized, supply chain planning is one of SAP's strengths.

While this edition of E3 was being sent to the printers, SAP CEO Christian Klein and CFO Dominik Asam presented the latest quarterly figures. As a result, the SAP share price in Frankfurt am Main rose to an all-time high of 222 euros.

Is SAP innovative? We don't know. The ERP company is notably reticent with regard to innovations, research, and development. Opinions differ as to why this is the case.

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