SAP Solution: Christian Klein

The SAP community is increasingly diverging from SAP's plans. There is a wide gap between the global ERP market leader's dreams and reality.

SAP CEO Christian Klein has done a great thing: the pre-programmed crash has been prevented. But where do we go from here? No one at SAP knows.

SAP has entered into an agreement to acquire LeanIX, an enterprise architecture management (EAM) company

The future in artificial intelligence shines brightly for SAP's existing customers because of their sustained commitment. By contrast, SAP board members Christian Klein, Thomas Saueressig and Jürgen Müller remain unimpressive and colorless.

SAP's in-house trade fair Sapphire repeatedly prompts SAP CEOs to verbal feats and bold statements. Anyone who suspects anything untrue here is a Pinocchio.

End-to-end business processes remind me of my early days with SAP R/3. A lot of things didn't work then, but when they did, they were consistent, evaluated, and definitely E2E. SAP CEO Klein talks a lot about integration.

If the SAP images from the Sapphire in Orlando are to be believed, Christian Klein has decided to be the greatest rather than the fastest.

SAP CEO Christian Klein wants to focus on ERP, the core strength of the ERP world market leader. This focus is honorable, but of little help to SAP's customers. The B2B world is more than just ERP.

After the presentation of SAP Datasphere comes the next data structure topic. SAP and Google have expanded their partnership and presented a comprehensive open data offering.

SAP is having a hard time with AI, as a recent interview with CEO Christian Klein in Handelsblatt shows. AI-assisted capture of incoming invoices is a standard process. ERP innovation should deliver more.

SAP CEO Christian Klein has achieved a great feat: the pre-programmed crash was prevented. SAP has turned the corner, has not landed in the ditch and is now in calm waters. But where will the company go from here? No one at SAP knows.

To err is human, and that is why many industries have prototypes with which to test the future. While the automotive industry keeps surprising, SAP is content with a promise of maintenance until 2040.