SAP is focused on the cloud and on HANA. The organizational realignment will probably also result in some layoffs. These should not be mass redundancies, but targeted actions.
Not only technologically is SAP facing big changes. Following the surprising departure of Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka, the announced end of the dual leadership from the end of May and the resignation of Werner Brand as Chief Financial Officer in summer, the personnel realignment of the Walldorf-based company now apparently also reaches its employees.
Observers expect several thousand saved jobs across sectors. The company itself did not want to give any figures, but the redundancies are said to have already started in some areas. Currently, SAP employs around 67,000 people.
However, company spokesman Christoph Liedke states in an email to silicon.de, "There are no plans for mass redundancies, as reported by some US media yesterday, but rather targeted adjustments to simplify and streamline our organization to make SAP better align the cloud. "
SAP wants to continue to grow and is fully committed to the areas of cloud and HANA. "The aim of this initiative is to further simplify SAP for the benefit of our customers," continues Liedtke. "It's clearly not about job cuts. In fact, we will employ more people by the end of 2014 than at the beginning of the year. "
After sales change dramatically as a result of switching to the cloud, SAP also needs to adapt the organization. In addition, SAP expects growth in traditional on-premise business. So it must be examined, so Liedtke in conversation with silicon.de, how the realignment can be organized. Therefore, it is still too early to give exact figures, areas or regions that are particularly affected. The restructuring would rather move through all areas.
Liedtke: "At the beginning of the year, the SAP Executive Board formulated a clear goal: to further simplify SAP to become THE Cloud Company. Our goal is to become simpler, more agile and faster. It's an enterprise-wide approach to making SAP more effective, building on our innovation leadership, and further simplifying collaboration, especially for customers. "However, achieving some of that goal would not prevent some restructuring, says the SAP spokesperson.
Only recently, SAP chief technology officer Vishal Sikka had surprisingly left the company for "personal reasons" . Sikka played a vital role in the development and commercialization of HANA database technology . Cloud Sales Director Shawn Price will also leave the company on May 15 . Rumor has it that Price did not voluntarily leave his post. In the future, SAP will no longer distinguish between cloud and on-premise in sales. Coinciding with Price's departure, Bill McDermott establishes the new SAP Global Partner Operations (GPO) division, which will focus on driving executive board initiatives to strategic partner companies. Head of this new department is Rodolpho Cardenuto.
After the Annual General Meeting on May 21, 2014 co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe wants togive up his post, making Bill McDermott the sole CEO.
The successor Sikkas as chief technical officer now joined Bernd Leukert. In addition to Leukert, Sikka also named Rob Enslin to the SAP Executive Board. Both were previously members of the Global Managing Board, an extended board of SAP, so to speak. Some industry observers also expect further new appointments in the leadership of the market leader in enterprise software.
SAP is currently in the process of rebuilding the classic license business model in favor of the cloud. Only a few weeks ago, SAP had presented the figures for the first quarter . And these numbers seemed to make the top management optimistic. "We are well on our way to becoming the cloud company based on SAP HANA because our cloud business is growing fast and we are achieving global market penetration with SAP HANA as the platform for real-time enterprise applications," said Board Spokesman Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe the
Not only technologically is SAP facing big changes. Following the surprising departure of Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka, the announced end of the dual leadership from the end of May and the resignation of Werner Brand as Chief Financial Officer in summer, the personnel realignment of the Walldorf-based company now apparently also reaches its employees.
Observers expect several thousand saved jobs across sectors. The company itself did not want to give any figures, but the redundancies are said to have already started in some areas. Currently, SAP employs around 67,000 people.
However, company spokesman Christoph Liedke states in an email to silicon.de, "There are no plans for mass redundancies, as reported by some US media yesterday, but rather targeted adjustments to simplify and streamline our organization to make SAP better align the cloud. "
SAP wants to continue to grow and is fully committed to the areas of cloud and HANA. "The aim of this initiative is to further simplify SAP for the benefit of our customers," continues Liedtke. "It's clearly not about job cuts. In fact, we will employ more people by the end of 2014 than at the beginning of the year. "
After sales change dramatically as a result of switching to the cloud, SAP also needs to adapt the organization. In addition, SAP expects growth in traditional on-premise business. So it must be examined, so Liedtke in conversation with silicon.de, how the realignment can be organized. Therefore, it is still too early to give exact figures, areas or regions that are particularly affected. The restructuring would rather move through all areas.
Liedtke: "At the beginning of the year, the SAP Executive Board formulated a clear goal: to further simplify SAP to become THE Cloud Company. Our goal is to become simpler, more agile and faster. It's an enterprise-wide approach to making SAP more effective, building on our innovation leadership, and further simplifying collaboration, especially for customers. "However, achieving some of that goal would not prevent some restructuring, says the SAP spokesperson.
Only recently, SAP chief technology officer Vishal Sikka had surprisingly left the company for "personal reasons" . Sikka played a vital role in the development and commercialization of HANA database technology . Cloud Sales Director Shawn Price will also leave the company on May 15 . Rumor has it that Price did not voluntarily leave his post. In the future, SAP will no longer distinguish between cloud and on-premise in sales. Coinciding with Price's departure, Bill McDermott establishes the new SAP Global Partner Operations (GPO) division, which will focus on driving executive board initiatives to strategic partner companies. Head of this new department is Rodolpho Cardenuto.
After the Annual General Meeting on May 21, 2014 co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe wants togive up his post, making Bill McDermott the sole CEO.
The successor Sikkas as chief technical officer now joined Bernd Leukert. In addition to Leukert, Sikka also named Rob Enslin to the SAP Executive Board. Both were previously members of the Global Managing Board, an extended board of SAP, so to speak. Some industry observers also expect further new appointments in the leadership of the market leader in enterprise software.
SAP is currently in the process of rebuilding the classic license business model in favor of the cloud. Only a few weeks ago, SAP had presented the figures for the first quarter . And these numbers seemed to make the top management optimistic. "We are well on our way to becoming the cloud company based on SAP HANA because our cloud business is growing fast and we are achieving global market penetration with SAP HANA as the platform for real-time enterprise applications," said Board Spokesman Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe the
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