SAP Solution: Bernd Leukert

Officially, SAP has a new dual leadership. Officially, the departure of former CEO Bill McDermott had been planned for a long time. Officially, SAP has no problems, so the dual leadership will continue on its path. But Jennifer Morgan, Christian Klein and Luka Mucic have their work cut out for them.

The lowest common denominator in the heterogeneous SAP community seems to be "digitization". However, topics such as integration and security are also on DSAG's radar.

Congratulations to Bernd Leukert. He is the new Chief IT Officer of Deutsche Bank. Congratulations to Deutsche Bank, because you couldn't have found anyone better than Bernd Leukert in these difficult times.

The development of the Hana database was planned by Professor Hasso Plattner and former Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka as a metamorphosis: Development from egg to sexually mature animal via independent larval stages. Ex-chief technology officer Bernd Leukert then had to present Hana 2 in 2016.

Good connoisseurs of SAP history are getting queasy, albeit with a sense of déjà vu. Professor Hasso Plattner meets Shai Agassi and officially makes him Chief Technology Officer and unofficially his "foster son.

Earlier this year, E-3 magazine had SAP CEO Bill McDermott on its cover with the title "Genius Salesman." That was the beginning of the turnaround. The departure from a business model that made SAP great and rich. The two departures - Bernd Leukert and Björn Goerke - are proof and the logical consequence for the...

Good connoisseurs of SAP history are getting queasy, albeit with a sense of déjà vu. Professor Hasso Plattner meets Shai Agassi and officially makes him Chief Technology Officer and unofficially his "foster son.

The principle of rebilling was introduced by SAP during the reign of McDermott's predecessor, Léo Apotheker. The short-term CEO was a genius salesman and fundraiser.

How companies can position themselves correctly to exploit competitive advantages in the transition to the digital world, and what DSAG and SAP need to contribute to this, will be shown by the stocktaking at the annual congress.

An idea becomes a nightmare. The Internet of Things is a good concept, but in real life it's a monster that's almost impossible to control. An internal conference of IT and production managers in our group revealed some astonishing facts.

This year's Sapphire was entertaining, but not insightful. What SAP really wants and where the group is just trying to keep up was not obvious in the keynotes. It remains tedious.

At the turn of the year, news came from the USA that journalism schools and non-profit institutions for communication and journalism were registering an increased volume of donations - what was interesting about this news was the fact that it was predominantly very many small donations and not, as in the past, a few large donations from altruistic millionaires. In certain areas of society...