The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Innovation, information, and personal chats: This year, once again, CeBIT will prove an indispensable platform for us to showcase our portfolio and our ability to innovate.

As president of the DACH region at SAP, I am looking forward to the most important ICT event in the region and to welcoming you to our completely revamped trade show presence this year. Our 3,500 m² (or 38,000 sq. ft) of floor space in Hall 4 will offer new and exciting worlds of technology that bring SAP to life for customers, end-users, and consumers. (more…)

The first night of SAP Teched, I got to see some SAP partners all smiles – Nakisa, Reply Germany, and All-for-One Midmarket, to be precise – as they were recognized for their innovative approach in developing a scenario for a potential new SAP product and a business case around it. (more…)

Participants at SAPPHIRE NOW (Madrid, November 9-10) will experience a different conference this year. Different from previous years, but also different from all other conferences and events in the IT sector. (more…)

In my second post of my pre SAPPHIRE NOW blog series I’d like to have a closer look on the agenda with you. Given the vast spectrum of technologies being showcased and test-driven at the Technology Innovation campus (see my previous blog post for more details),  it sounds like a good idea to serve it in more digestible doses and slice it into smaller pieces. (more…)

In this first of a series of pre-SAPPHIRE NOW blog posts, I face the challenge to talk about two very sensitive topics: innovation and myself.

Why “sensitive“? (more…)

In an article in InformationWeek, Josh Greenbaum, a principal of Enterprise Applications Consulting, offers six key points on why SAP is ahead of the competition when it comes to innovation. Among them, Greenbaum cites SAPPHIRE NOW as ?

Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board leading Technology and Innovation, presents “SAP’s Technology and Innovation Roadmap” in this SAP Influencer Summit video clip. (more…)

Line-of-business and IT executives need to work collaboratively to drive value both from business process and IT investments. SAP’s overall product strategy can help organizations of all sizes achieve positive business results by combining and end to end process approach with insights that guide action within those processes. (more…)

In our approach to on-demand solutions, we are rewriting the  ‘rules of engagement’ between solution provider and customer – and moving away from being a simple supplier of technology, to maintaining a very close, intimate relationship all through the process. We have multiple initiatives in place to make sure both parties work shoulder to shoulder, from creating shared visions, to designing solutions, all the way through consumption. (more…)

On the first day of SAP Influencer Summit 2010, SAP Executive Board Member Vishal Sikka shared a vision of the future where real-time business is conducted  across enterprises, enabled by real-time data and analytics, mobility and the cloud.

SAP is  a real-time business enabler, with its key 100,000+ customers and their ecosystems. (more…)