SAP Solution: Léo Apotheker

Historically and strategically, we have always had to deal with two companies: SAP D-A-CH and SAP Global - a challenge that is almost impossible to overcome and which has already broken ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker.

SAP CEO Bill McDermott basically does everything right, but when it comes to details, he puts his foot in his mouth. That shouldn't happen to a top manager. Does SAP need a new boss?

The end of transparency: It can be dangerous if relevant information is no longer shared and openly distributed in the SAP community. Information monopolies are the precursor to fake news.

The principle of rebilling was introduced by SAP during the reign of McDermott's predecessor, Léo Apotheker. The short-term CEO was a genius salesman and fundraiser.

A few months ago, I was sitting in a hotel bar in Amsterdam with the CEO of an SAP partner. I was talking about our fifteen-plus years of educational work in the SAP community, the ups and downs of producing a monthly magazine, writer's block, and real and imagined media crises.

From SAP's point of view, charging a license and maintenance fee for indirect use is a sensible precaution. For partners and existing customers, however, it is an obligation that threatens their very existence.

What impact will the resignation of Dane Jim Hagemann Snabe as co-CEO of Germany's largest software company SAP have on its European legacy?