SAP Solution: Henning Kagermann

Digital sovereignty is a buzzword that politicians like to use these days to call for supposedly new initiatives, both in some individual countries like Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and at the EU level.

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...

A few months ago, I was sitting in a hotel bar in Amsterdam with the CEO of an SAP partner. I was talking about our fifteen-plus years of educational work in the SAP community, the ups and downs of producing a monthly magazine, writer's block, and real and imagined media crises.

Anyone analyzing the personnel development of the SAP Executive Board after Henning Kagermann comes to the conclusion that there are three personalities who decide on success: Hasso Plattner, Werner Brand and Gerd Oswald. But what happens next?

The first sentence in Spiegel's house memo No. 7/2016 reads: "Journalists are used to being criticized for their work." The previous Spiegel issue was titled "The Hate Preachers," and by its own account, there has rarely been so much anger and distrust from readers. People set out to understand the rejection.