Yes, I said Cebit

That's why the Beginner frontman will get visitors to the Cebit grooving with "crude lyrics," hip-hop beats and soul funk. In a newsletter, the people responsible for the trade fair from Hanover promise me "crude lyrics" in the middle of the hot June 2018.

Anyone who really wants to hear "crude texts" from the SAP community should travel to Orlando, USA, at the beginning of June (June 5 to 7, 2018). SAP CEO Bill McDermott will be speaking there, and he already had some very crude things to say this year about "indirect use" and SAP's new licensing model.

Things will not get any better next year: SAP and DSAG have still not agreed on a vertical licensing model. As a result, IoT, Industrie 4.0, Machine Learning and Blockchain are hanging in the air - SAP Leonardo is proving to be stillborn.

SAP's Leonardo framework is not bad, but others can do it better. Here, SAP executives should listen to the advice of DSAG CEO Marco Lenck: Taking SAP's core competence literally, the ERP world market leader should first make its own ERP core transparent, agile, mobile and plannable.

Always referring to S/4 and cloud computing and not delivering and not serving existing customers with their Business Suite 7 and AnyDB is negligent.

Back to Cebit:

All I want to experience is the opposite of coarse texts! There are enough construction sites and promises in the IT scene. The DSAG annual congress a few weeks ago showed it again: IT vendors need to start delivering. Talking - even with coarse texts - does not bring solutions.

Apparently, however, the new Cebit does not want to be a competence event, but a debating club: Ranga Yogeshwar wants to talk about artificial intelligence at the new Cebit: "Humans and machines - who programs whom?"

The people responsible for Cebit think that this is a legitimate question. In the meantime, however, the entire IT scene knows that computers "program" themselves by means of machine/deep learning.

Numerous "emergency shutdowns" of computer systems have shown it in recent months: A deep learning system can "learn" so quickly that only pulling the power plug helps to get the system back under control.

Power gone, memory empty - what has been learned is forgotten! But at the new Cebit, under the guidance of Ranga Yogeshwar, the first thing to be discussed is who controls or programs whom.

It is already obvious that the new Cebit in June 2018 will be a crude debating club without added value and reference to IT reality. Ultimately, attempts will be made to continue renting out square meters under a new guise.

The opportunity for open and transparent topic identification at the IT base was not taken. The real topics are not to be found on the golf course, in the boardrooms, or at the relevant DSAG and Sapphire keynotes, but rather in sales, at the help desk, in support, with the database and network admins, with the SolMans - in other words, at the SAP base, which also feeds the E-3 Magazine: authentic, agile, and transparent.