The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

In 2012, SAP’s essential business technology and training events — SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd — return to help companies run better and transform their business. (more…)

In more than one way events like SAP TechEd or SAPPHIRE NOW remind me of weddings. I mean, hey, you spend months preparing for the big moment and then – bang – the event is over before you even realize it. What remains is that happy fatigue mixed with lots of memories about special moments, conversations and discussions. (more…)

With $3 trillion in annual exports and 840 million mobile subscribers, China’s got two of the essential ingredients for creating what SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott calls “the digitized economy.” On top of that, 61 of the world’s 500 largest companies are based in China, according to Fortune’s “Global 500″ list. (more…)

On November 15, SAP opened China SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd Beijing, the largest IT event in China. More than 50,000 people participated in the event, including a two-day in-person total of 15,000 attendees. Participants witnessed day 1 keynotes from Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP, and Haier Chairman Zhang Ruimin. (more…)

Following the company’s announcement of  multi-year spending plans of more than US$2 billion through 2015 to grow its business in China, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe appeared on Fox Business News and CNN International to discuss the news. (more…)

Forty years after creating the world’s largest business-software company and with lockdown credentials as one of the most-influential leaders in the history of the technology industry, SAP chairman Hasso Plattner knows a thing or two about disruption and enduring value and hype. (more…)

BEIJING — SAP today announced multi-year spending plans of more than US$2 billion through 2015 to grow its business in China. The company intends to deepen its investment in this key global market in order to further underscore its long-term strategic commitment to the world’s second-largest economy.

• Read the press release.
• Watch SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe discuss the news on Fox Business News and CNN International.

“I would like to share with you some facts on how we are having a significant impact in various different industries: I guess those of you not from Spain flew here; well there is a very high likelihood that you were on a plane that is being managed by SAP software, and I can tell you I only choose airlines that maintain their aircraft in SAP…  (more…)

Listening to customers, partners and SAP colleagues, the spark of interest for mobility that was ignited in Orlando indeed turned into a fire of excitement at Madrid!

The Mobility campus, with its many live demos, was full of activity at all hours, the Twitter channels were brimming with tweets and the mobility sessions were heavily visited. (more…)

“SAP Fast Facts” portray the impact SAP has on the world. They highlight the many ways the company makes a difference, such as working with the most valued brands, helping our customers become leaders in their industries, and enabling mobile communications worldwide. (more…)