SAP Solution: Bill McDermott

The community needs Rise and Hana as well as S/4 PS. The added value for an S/4 conversion is low and Rise with SAP is rejected by the majority according to DSAG.

At the opening of the DSAG Technology Days 2022 in Düsseldorf, all speakers agreed that cloud computing will be an operating model of the future. However, a hybrid model - on-prem and cloud - will probably be the medium-term answer.

Simplified analysis: The economic environment is becoming increasingly complex and chaotic. Why is the global market leader for digital business processes not benefiting from these challenges?

Those who act in either-or categories have lost. Black-and-white thinking is out of place. Cloud first was good marketing. Now SAP says: Cloud only. Can that work?

Celonis plans to more closely integrate its Execution Management System (EMS) with ServiceNow's Enterprise Service Management (ESM) workflows.

It's more than a lockdown. In Walldorf, they are trying to square the circle and SAP will fail. The transition from the McDermott system to the Klein system should have been planned more conscientiously.

SAP's ERP version S/4 Hana was presented at the New York Stock Exchange on February 3, 2015, by then-CEO Bill McDermott, ex-CTO and Executive Board member Bernd Leukert, and Professor Hasso Plattner.

After Bill McDermott's cloud reign of terror, co-CEOs Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein are trying to follow SAP users into digital transformation.

Although SAP's Capital Markets Day was themed "Growth and Operational Excellence," the focus was clearly on customers.

The old dual leadership of Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott has been succeeded at SAP since mid-October by Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein. In between, McDermott tried to go it alone. Hasso Plattner obviously prefers to control SAP's soul via a new dual leadership.

Bill McDermott's abrupt departure from SAP probably came as something of a surprise to most existing customers - including DSAG.

Officially, SAP has a new dual leadership. Officially, the departure of former CEO Bill McDermott had been planned for a long time. Officially, SAP has no problems, so the dual leadership will continue on its path. But Jennifer Morgan, Christian Klein and Luka Mucic have their work cut out for them.