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The heart of SAP is dying. Perhaps it is a necessary retread?
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
April 10, 2019
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And the global ERP market leader has already brought enough "innovations" to the IT market in recent years, so SAP boss Bill McDermott is quite right: Now it's all about sales and selling, selling, selling. SAP's heart was curious, cooperative and innovative, but Dietmar Hopp, Henning Kagermann, Gerd Oswald and, more recently, Bernd Leukert and Björn Goerke are no longer around.

The majority of the SAP Executive Board consists of revenue managers and dedicated salespeople. When Björn Goerke was still active at SAP and stood on the TechEd 2018 stage in Barcelona for his keynote speech, he preached to the developers and mentors in attendance to keep the ERP heart "Digital Core" lean, performant and clean - additions belong as apps on the SAP Cloud Platform.

Looking back, the phrase "keep the digital core clean" can also be understood ambiguously - technically and historically. Salesman Bill McDermott has very little interest in both technology and tradition. His interest lies in the SAP share price.

It is not known whether he can face existing SAP customers with a clear heart with this strategy. Nothing is known about the future career plans of former SAP Executive Board member Bernd Leukert and former President SAP Cloud Platform Björn Goerke, but both are active on Twitter.

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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