SAP-Solution: Editorial

SAP's CCC/CCoE will determine the success of the S/4 conversion in the coming years, because only at the SAP base can the challenges regarding licenses, automation, staff shortages, monitoring, security and digital transformation be solved.

SAP CEO Christian Klein has achieved a great feat: the pre-programmed crash was prevented. SAP has turned the corner, has not landed in the ditch and is now in calm waters. But where will the company go from here? No one at SAP knows.

Officially, Christian Klein still believes in "cloud first" and hopes for "cloud only". Thousands of SAP's existing customers and his own experts know better: Cloud computing remains out of reach for ERP in the medium term.

The end of SAP as the community knows it. The supervisory board, the executive board, and the IT community would have the chance to save SAP. But false consideration and convenience are preventing the retread.

Professor Hasso Plattner has appointed a successor as SAP Supervisory Board chairman. Punit Renjen was CEO of Deloitte until the end of last year and is to be elected to the SAP Supervisory Board this year.

All is not well with SAP. While a renowned Swiss existing customer praises SAP CRM, Christian Klein is cutting CRM staff and selling Qualtrics. Will that be enough for the next few years?

The ERP world market leader has sunk low. SAP has risen up and lost its way in the cloud. The group is being overtaken left and right by competitors. Personnel and structural problems are rampant.

What if, what if, bicycle chain. If SAP had recognized earlier that the community is hybrid and heterogeneous, Christian Klein wouldn't have to talk about hybrid, first and only. His career is based on SAP only.

SAP is in a bad way. It is a mental crisis because those responsible have left the path of virtue. Why experiment in the cloud when a business unique selling proposition exists?

The motto of this year's DSAG Congress is "in search of success", which is a paradox, because success cannot be found like a misplaced software license, but only worked out.

There's a difference between being diligent and doing the right thing. SAP CEO Christian Klein appears hardworking. But he does nothing for existing customers, the share price, or the community.

The catastrophe is inevitable. For two years now, the SAP community has been able to observe SAP's decline. At the center are Professor Hasso Plattner and CEO Christian Klein.