SAP-Solution: Björn Goerke

A disruptive change of personnel on the SAP Executive Board is always a source of misunderstanding. After a long series of surprising departures, Professor Hasso Plattner's statement is all the more irritating: "Everything as planned!

The lowest common denominator in the heterogeneous SAP community seems to be "digitization". However, topics such as integration and security are also on DSAG's radar.

The SAP Cloud Platform is not my primary interest. I stopped programming a long time ago, but there are strategic and educational aspects that are important to discuss. What does SAP want with the SCP?

Good connoisseurs of SAP history are getting queasy, albeit with a sense of déjà vu. Professor Hasso Plattner meets Shai Agassi and officially makes him Chief Technology Officer and unofficially his "foster son.

Earlier this year, E-3 magazine had SAP CEO Bill McDermott on its cover with the title "Genius Salesman." That was the beginning of the turnaround. The departure from a business model that made SAP great and rich. The two departures - Bernd Leukert and Björn Goerke - are proof and the logical consequence for the...