Jim Hagermann Snabe (Co-CEO SAP)
- Appetite & consumption for technology is at an unbelievable height (ipad, tweets facebook stats). The appetite driven by connectivity & mobile break through
- World with a lot of challenges…climate, food, clean water…these are opportunities to innovate.
- At an inflection point, All industries globally after a year and half are looking at growing. Cautious optimism. companies looking for responsible growth. 80s period of economies of scale. IT follows the organizations structure. In the 90’s customer came into focus. Business was trying to be nimble – mass customization = mass production + unique delivery – phase of business process re-engineering. In this phase IT changed, leading to more decentralization. Balance of economies of scale to closeness to the customer needed to be balanced – central + decentralization balance. New inflection point , focus on people not just customers. Every single person has a voice to contribute. now a period of people centric processes. Empowering consumers & employees. Not only optimizing your processes, but the entire value chain till your customer – across organization. Collaboration between people – creating new information flow that is uncontrollable …not system driven. Need for fast decision making…need to empower people across the the organization to make the decisions. Very dynamic / individual. IT responsible rather simple:
- Applications in the cloud
- People on the mobile
- Next generation analytics
- SAP has taken the lead to the new IT paradigm –
- On Premise – investment value commitment
- On demand - shared infrastructure read
- On Device – People any time anywhere
- Orchestration across these 3 layers – End to End
- On Premise solution, its is the home turf. Business drivers - reducing TCO , freeing up investment for innovation, solving the divide between strategy & execution, drive best practices. Two main categories, business process software – Business suite 7 & analytical processes. Later this year will deliver innovation 2010, delivered through enhancement packs. In memory coming to on premise without disruption. Mantra – Acceleration of innovation at no disruption to the customer.
- On demand, Business drivers – Instant value (no effort form decision to value) , reduction of risk. The downside is shared infrastructure hence reduced flexibility. Two approaches to this space – Lines of business extensions ( John Wookey’s business – read yesterdays post)- Differentiated by seamless integration to the on premise software. Second approach – Integrated on demand suite approach - collection of best practices – Business by Design 2.5 SAP – Better get it perfect before volume. Shipping by end of July this year as a volume product. (Doing a demo of the analytics of business by design – on the IPAD). Announce officially – YOU CAN ORDER BUSINESS BY DESIGN NOW.
- On device – Need access to processes and information to do their job. 3 categories of solutions that are people centric – Collaboration tool (Streamworks – Facebook for the enterprise), Mobility & analytics. No 1 in Mobility, Business process & analytics.
- Committed to the 3 layers, so working on the big challenge – Orchestration. Code named – networked solutions.
- Demo Sales on demand application, Facebook like experience (Seems a lot like chatter). Collaboration is key. Connected to the backend for front end information and back end integration.
- How the stack will evolve – Our role is in the application space – the rest will be done by partners. SAP will focus on the application layer (with a big block on “memory”). Not try to be everything for every one.
- Been with SAP for 20 year, company has a track record of 38 years of success. Significant impact on the world of business – Ready to take the lead in the people centric world. SAP believes that cloud, in memory & mobility will change the way we do business. Believe in innovation. Innovation without disruption. Allow customer to have choices.
- Committed to a 50% reduction to 2020 of CO2, Launched our sustainability report. Providing full transparency. Committed to be an enabler. Sustainability solutions effect all three layers – On demand, On premise & on device.
- Jointly make the world run better.
Prashanth Rai
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