SAP Solution: Gerd Oswald

Familiar patterns of behavior are reluctantly abandoned: A hit in the SAP community from the R/3 era is the Customer Competence Center.

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. The presumption of innocence applies. The fact is that the SAP Executive Board has always been committed to the interests of existing customers - above all Gerd Oswald.

The mirror became a mirror. In a report, an attempt is made to blame SAP for the misuse of software. In the process, statements are made that are false. Poorly researched and incorrectly combined.

Hasso Plattner, Gerd Oswald and Christian Klein are good at defending themselves, but because I don't shy away from critical treatment of Editor-in-Chief Färbinger, I express my astonishment at Capital columnist Bernd Ziesemer.

After the SAP Annual General Meeting last week, a discussion began about the remaining term of office of Supervisory Board Chairman Professor Hasso Plattner. Naturally, Plattner does not want to lay all his cards on the table yet, but for insiders and connoisseurs of Walldorf circumstances it is clear - everything is in the green! The die is cast: It is highly likely that Gerd Oswald will become the...

Professor Hasso Plattner has summoned a few faithful companions to join him in the U.S., including SAP board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein.

On March 8 of this year, the title of the cover of WirtschaftsWoche No. 11 was: "SAP: The users' nightmare. SAP is the world market leader for business software. But for many companies, implementing an SAP system is a nightmare. Projects take longer than planned, become more expensive - or fail. But there is another way."

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.

He was never really gone. Regardless of his many roles on the SAP Executive Board, his cooling-off period as an SAP consultant and, from January 1, as a member of the Supervisory Board, Gerd Oswald's personality, experience and expertise meant that he was and is always very present in the global SAP community.

Gerd Oswald was named a Fellow of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) by HPI Director Professor Christoph Meinel at the 13th Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing in April.