SAP Solution: Silicon Valley

Half of executives believe their organization is unable to keep pace with market changes.

The robots are coming - at least in the form of semi-autonomous programs that further automate ERP business processes. One possible result: SAP's ERP suite S/7 and S/4 lose their luster and attractiveness.

Hasso Plattner saw it in California at Apple, Google, Amazon and Salesforce: Cloud computing is the future! Now his fear is that SAP will no longer exist in a few years unless Bill McDermott and Luka Mucic also push the ERP group in the direction of the "cloud".

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Is it fear of an impending danger, does Hasso Plattner know something we don't know yet? Or is it fear of an uncertain, indefinable ERP future?

Munich-based start-up Celonis shakes up US technology market.

Digital platforms and their business models are conquering industry after industry, region after region, market after market. But Europe currently has hardly any part in this model of success. Experts are calling for an open Internet economy.

A small step for SAP, perhaps a major disaster for existing customers. Those who modified their SAP system currently face three challenges: Security, NetWeaver Foundation for Third Party and CDS with Abap-managed Database Procedures.