For many years, we in the SAP community have discussed SAP’s monopoly. If IT development were linear, SAP would certainly have already been condemned. However, because IT has a high disruption factor, the monolithic R/3 evolved into a heterogeneous and open S/4. The next stage will be a composable ERP, which will ultimately wrest sovereignty…

SAP CEO Christian Klein obviously does not feel any pressure to act. He spends his days doing small-scale maintenance work, working committedly, and forgetting the big picture—but this has left Klein without a strategy.

SAP has taken a wrong turn: instead of consolidating menus, screen masks, and processes, the company plans to add a ChatGPT-like voice input over its disastrous UI. Why does SAP always start solving problems from the wrong angle?

All of SAP’s previous and current waves of layoffs have affected me personally because, as a long-time SAP customer, my licensing fees have been directly funding SAP’s mess.

Instead of concentrating on its strengths, SAP desperately yearns to become a company for cloud solutions. Everyone knows this plan will fail, as SAP’s strengths lie elsewhere.

I had hoped SAP would prove to have a transparent and consistent corporate policy. But what do I get instead? Unctuous words and schmoozing.