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SAP AG
today
announced that it will simplify its organizational structure and create a
single development organization to oversee innovation across the company. The
new structure will enable SAP to accelerate innovations powered by the SAP
HANA® platform for existing and new products, drive a cloud-first approach for
the development of line-of-business applications, increase SAP's leadership in
mobile and further accelerate the company's go-to-market for cloud and the SAP
HANA® Enterprise Cloud service.
"We have transformed SAP into a growth company built on innovation. SAP HANA
has become the future innovation platform for our customers and is now
radically changing the industry while cloud disruption is redefining the
market and business models. By creating one single development organization
under Vishal's leadership, we will dramatically accelerate the speed of these
innovations," said Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEOs of SAP AG.
"By leveraging development synergies across our cloud and on premise areas, we
can further accelerate cloud solutions for our customers."
SAP will consolidate all innovation under Vishal Sikka, member of the
Executive Board of SAP AG, Technology and Innovation. Effective June 1, all
SAP development and custom development leaders will report directly to Sikka.
Additionally, the Executive Board has nominated Bernd Leukert, executive vice
president for Application Innovation, to the Global Managing Board of SAP AG.
Leukert will report to Sikka and will strengthen SAP's global development
organization.
"We face an unprecedented opportunity to rethink the world through technology
with the combination of cloud-based ease of delivery, the power of SAP HANA to
enable a new real-time across the trading world and the power of design to
unleash our imaginations to build amazing products that open new horizons. We
will do all of this non-disruptively and without compromise, just as our
customers have counted on over the last 41 years," said Sikka. "We are
inspired by Hasso Plattner's challenge to explore new frontiers and to
intellectually renew SAP, and I believe this is only the beginning."
SAP Executive Board Member Gerhard Oswald will take responsibility for a new
Scale, Quality and Support board area. To meet the growing customer demand for
SAP HANA, Oswald will be responsible for the operations of SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud. This new organization will leverage the expertise of SAP Global IT
infrastructure services to accelerate the build out of SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud. Furthermore, quality, governance and production will drive quality
across all development teams. Oswald will continue to be responsible for the
SAP Active Global Support organization, the SAP Labs network (jointly with
Sikka) and Solution and Knowledge Packaging.
Along with SAP HANA, SAP has seen tremendous momentum in its cloud business.
Since the acquisition of SuccessFactors, an SAP company, Lars Dalgaard has
brought his unsurpassed passion, leadership and execution excellence in the
cloud business to SAP. Dalgaard will step down from the Executive Board and
leave the company effective June 1 to become an investor. He will continue to
play an active role as an advisor to the SAP Cloud business and will stay
closely involved in the future development of SAP's cloud strategy. In
addition, SAP Co-CEOs McDermott and Snabe will become Executive Board sponsors
for SAP's cloud business.
To further accelerate the success in SAP's cloud business, the company will
consolidate its cloud go-to-market under the leadership of Bob Calderoni, CEO
of Ariba, an SAP company, president of Global Cloud Operations and member of
the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, who will also continue to lead the Ariba
business network activities. Calderoni will work closely with Rob Enslin,
president of Global Customer Operations and member of the Global Managing
Board of SAP AG, to maximize coverage for cloud solutions. Enslin will
continue to lead SAP's worldwide sales and customer operations.
In addition, Luisa Delgado, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Human
Resources, and Labor Relations Director, has decided to leave SAP to pursue a
broader business leadership responsibility as CEO of another company. She will
remain on board until June 30 to ensure an effective handover.
"We would like to thank Lars and Luisa for their strong leadership and wish
them success in their personal and professional lives. They have an
outstanding leadership record and nurtured excellent leaders who will enable a
smooth transition for our cloud business and people strategy," said McDermott
and Snabe.
SAP Executive Board Member Werner Brandt will take on the Executive Board
responsibility for Human Resources and become the Labor Relations Director in
Germany in addition to his role as chief financial officer of SAP AG. In
addition, Luka Mucic will become head of Finance to support Brandt in his
expanded responsibilities. The Executive Board has nominated Mucic to the
Global Managing Board.
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