SAP Solution: In-house message

My annual house note from Salzburg from the Festival is this time inspired by the outstanding violinist and recording artist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and her album "What's Next Vivaldi?" in a quality far beyond any CD.

Nowhere does a prediction seem to be as difficult as in IT - especially when it concerns the ERP future. The current example of ChatGPT has shown how quickly supposedly safe parameters have to be re-evaluated.

For SAP, customer satisfaction is a very important part of the business model. After all, the very first SAP system was developed on the customer's hardware. Since then, many ideas from users have found their way into SAP's ERP.

A recent publication by Manager Magazin lists the favorite employers of young engineers in Germany. SAP comes in a distant 39th place. What's going on there?

Hardly imaginable: restrained joy about a new get-together with the SAP community. The very successful CCC/CCoE Forum will be continued this year in Salzburg. It is an important basic event that can form the basis for a successful S/4 conversion.

SAP, like the Catholic Church, is clearly in favor of Aristotle's geocentric worldview, while the rest of the world is probably more inclined to the heliocentric worldview, also called the Copernican worldview.

SAP CEO Klein gave a very remarkable interview to a colleague from Handelsblatt in Davos at the World Economic Summit. He argued convincingly for face-to-face meetings and face-to-face events.

The value of a message can be measured by the relevance and credibility of the source. If S/4 is not an option, then Hana is also of little relevance. If cloud computing is set, then statements from hardware manufacturers are less credible.

The year 2023 will be successful, but only for those who make an effort, remain agile and hybrid. Radical concepts have had their day. "Only" and "First" belong to the past. The future remains hybrid because we will still experience a generational and paradigm shift until 2030.

A few weeks ago, the DSAG Annual Congress 2022 took place in Leipzig with a premiere: The keynote address on the opening day was not given by SAP CEO Christian Klein, but by board member Thomas Saueressig.

I asked SAP if I could stop by the local Sapphire in Munich and got a negative response. Apparently SAP is no longer interested in talking to the press. Sapphire - on Invitation-only!

Manager Magazine author Christina Kyriasoglou wrote an illuminating analysis of SAP on page 46 of the magazine's July issue, in which she quotes a whistleblower: "No one dares tell Christian the truth anymore." This refers to SAP CEO Christian Klein.