SAP Solution: Sapphire

SAP's in-house trade fair Sapphire repeatedly prompts SAP CEOs to verbal feats and bold statements. Anyone who suspects anything untrue here is a Pinocchio.

Since the beginning of this year, Christian Klein has been communicating in a completely confused manner and without any context. Always in the best of moods, he says whatever comes to mind, true to the motto: What do I care about last day's chatter?

It is not our software contracts that are meant, but the termination of our own employees. In terms of labor law, it is probably possible. Organizationally, CEO Christian Klein is completely overwhelmed.

In the new year, there are to be three Sapphires as face-to-face events: Orlando, Barcelona and São Paulo. That's good, but we need answers from existing SAP customers now, not in May and June 2023. The stakes are high.

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!

For its 50th anniversary, SAP presents itself in a retro look on the Sapphire stage. Photos from the past show that the ERP group has hardly evolved in the past 20 years. Welcome to mySAP.com!

For Christian Klein and his fellow SAP board members, including colleague Julia White, it's been an exciting Sapphire full of successes - but only because they don't know the past.

The latest CEO survey from research and advisory firm Gartner found that CEOs and executives will think significantly differently about staffing, purpose, pricing and productivity in 2022 than they did before, particularly in relation to sustainability, workforce issues and inflation.

The official title of SAP's annual event is "Sapphire Now," but "Sapphire Vintage" would naturally be much more appropriate. Once again, the technology company Apple was on the Sapphire stage.

Back at Sapphire 2019, SAP emphasized the importance of data to the future of enterprise software in general and the transformation to S/4 and C/4 in particular. Here's the concept SAP's existing customers should follow.

There was a Sapphire, on the occasion of which SAP both put the primacy of CRM in the room and at the same time announced the coming claim to leadership in the CRM market with C/4.

Two buzzwords are cropping up more and more often in social discourse. Resilience and the obligation to justify would be anchor points for SAP CEO Christian Klein. We need resilience and verified roadmaps.