SAP Solution: Editor-in-Chief

Surprise - SurpRISE - with SAP CEO Christian Klein: Instead of going to a well-stocked computer science library and checking out Niklaus Wirth's classic "Algorithms and Data Structures," Klein is trying to force the Intelligent Enterprise with process mining from the acquired startup Signavio. I want to shout out to Christian Klein: "My friend, the art is old and new. It...

I have been intensively involved with SAP for about 25 years. It all started in Vienna with a renowned family business that was successfully managed by the third generation. Over the years, numerous divisions had accumulated. There was a medical technology, steel trade, construction machinery leasing, a cable production and others. When the company, programmed in Vienna and based on...

A dead end is reached by many users who get carried away by the supposedly easy programming with no-code/low-code tools to excursions into computer science. SAP fuels this desire for doom with loose marketing slogans.

If you are serious about digital transformation, don't wait for SAP to revive the Leonardo program and present the fifth no-code/low-code development platform after Mendix, Ruum, Signavio and AppGyver.

"Consolidated market leaders write their own business software," postulates Stefan Ried, Principal Analyst and Consultant at Cloudflight, for 2021.

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.

Nevertheless, many smartphone, PC and notebook users decide against Apple: They don't want to be trapped in a golden cage.

Yes, there are many paths to Hana and S/4. The range of buzzwords is almost limitless: greenfield, brownfield and bluefield - on-prem or in the cloud, perhaps hybrid between multiple clouds or in combination with your own data center and multiple hyperscalers.

This week, SAP CEO Christian Klein explained his strategic plan for the coming years: a combination of "back to the source" and integration beyond the box. That's a very smart plan!

No, of course not! SAP has made many acquisitions in this broad field, but failed to pay attention to integration before doing so.

Many IT users associate open source primarily with the Linux operating system. SAP's open source history confirms this perspective: Well over ten years ago, Tux, the Linux mascot, was a guest at SAP's Cebit trade fair stand.

IT corporations, including SAP, like to talk about artificial intelligence. They present themselves with foreign words and buzzwords in the hope that some of the ephemeral shine of modern buzzwords will rub off on their own company.