The father of Hana and a cloud of big stars go: SAP Take the road of enterprise

SAP's Product and Innovation Executive board member Vishal Sikka left SAP for "personal reasons" and left his masterpiece http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13659.html ">hana." Hana is a data Memory architecture (AS), and SAP is now launching Hana with ERP and cloud services.

Meanwhile, SAP's cloud president Shawn Price has gone, and he took office only four months.

Price is one of the good players that SAP has dug up during the 2012 to speed up the pace of entering the cloud. He has been working for SuccessFactors, an online human resources specialist. SuccessFactors was acquired by SAP at the end of 2011. SuccessFactors's chief executive, Lars Dalgaard, left SAP in May 2013 as a venture capitalist.

SAP had lost control of SuccessFactors, director of the operation of Graham Younger. He was pried away by the cloud storage and collaborative startup box.

SAP bought the e-commerce expert company Ariba in 2012. Bob Calderoni was the CEO of Ariba. After he left Ariba in January, Price has been in charge of SAP's cloud business.

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The departure of these people seems to imply that SAP's cloud computing is at an entrepreneurial stage. In this case, the cloud makers that SAP bought in the 2012 are inevitably leaving-entrepreneurs are not going to be long inside a giant like SAP. Usually, they wait until the equity right takes effect and they leave.

The space they left behind seemed to have a framework for operating the product and partner support functions in the cloud, for the entire SAP business rather than just the successful business.

SAP's cloud-related business has been shining brightly. SAP tells us that its cloud subscriptions, cloud services, and cloud software businesses are growing at the fastest pace.

Cloud computing is growing at double-digit rates, while SAP's existing in-house deployments are falling-by 5% in the first quarter of the April report.

The problem is that software company SAP's newly-sold SAP software doesn't seem to be growing, and new Hope cloud computing has contributed little to the company's revenues.

But the maintenance of the existing in-house version of the SAP software is one of a kind, although the maintenance business is not attractive, but it is SAP's only billions of dollars/euros of business. The rest of the business is in the range of hundreds of thousands of.

As a result, SAP has had to postpone business growth targets for two years. SAP said in January this year, to change the original hope in 2015 to achieve cloud revenue of 2 billion euros (2.7 billion U.S. dollars) target, to the 2017 cloud computing reached 3 billion euros (4 billion U.S. dollars) to 3.5 billion euros (4.7 billion U.S. dollars), revenue amounted to 22 billion euros (29.7 billion yuan).

In this case it seems that SAP is trying to solve this problem.

Price's seat will be empty-his duties will be assigned to other executives.

SAP has also established a global partner organization (partner organisation, abbreviated as a GPO), administered directly from the President's office by the chief executive to ensure the highest level of attention. The GPO is run by the former SAP lead Rodolpho Cardenuto, a GPO that operates business one for SMBs OEMs and strategic partners, as well as cloud computing and non cloud computing sap ecosystems.

In a statement, Chief executive Bill McDermott said the GPL is "critical" to push the size and development of SAP Cloud and Hana. He also noted that Cardenuto's revenue for SAP had double-digit growth. In the first quarter of this year, SAP's software and software-related service revenues (Ifris) grew 10%, while the corresponding SAP global growth was 4%. SAP's subscription and support revenue growth of 37%, corresponding to SAP global growth of 32%.

Prior to a series of executive changes, SAP announced last month that the entire enterprise application suite would be sold online via a subscription approach. These enterprise application suite software used to be installed only through internal deployments, and license and maintenance contracts are expensive.

The first task is clear: SAP will make more money. Now it's time to start.

McDermott to date with Jim Hagemann Snabe as CEO. Snabe has announced the summer retirement. McDermott is expected to be identified as a separate CEO at SAP's annual meeting on May 21. These are some of the moves he took before he took office.

McDermott is an out-and-out salesman. He worked as Vice president of global sales and operations at Siebel Bae and was later dug up by SAP in 2002 to successfully reverse the disastrous financial performance of SAP in the Americas.

These changes in SAP are not surprising. Microsoft, another software firm, did the same. The development team for Windows Azure is composed of Ray Ozzie. He was Microsoft's chief Software Architect.

But Microsoft moved the Azure team to the server and Tools department in 2009. Microsoft then found a product person to help, and began to make money with the azure behemoth. Server and tools has been one of Microsoft's most successful business units. Microsoft claimed the first 1 billion dollars it earned on Windows Azure a year ago.

SAP wants to make it work for itself.