Xiao will leave SAP China in the near future

Summary: SAP China President Xiao January 31 News, although SAP China Region President Xiao attended the January 24 media communication dinner, but according to several reliable people confirmed that Xiao will leave SAP China in the near future, become a new round of SAP's culture of sacrifice. Is

Xiao, president of SAP China Region

Although SAP China president Xiao attended the January 24 Media communication dinner, several reliable sources confirmed that Xiao will be leaving SAP China in the near future, becoming a new casualty of SAP's infighting culture. It is reported that since 2007, SAP China has occurred over a large number of high-level exchange, the shortest Li Wenxian in office for only 8 months, the middle-level cadres have undergone several changes.

SAP insiders to Tencent technology revealed that Xiao out of the news as early as two weeks ago, within the SAP spread, in addition to Xiao, more than a few jobs in greater China are facing adjustment, he predicted that in the future or will be the SAP China Research Institute President Sun Xiaoqun concurrently as the President of China region.

Xiao Reason unknown

Although SAP China has a tradition of infighting, the news of Xiao's departure remains a surprise, and since 2007, when China's president, Seaman, was promoted to Asia managing director and opted to leave, the position of China's chief executive has been replaced by Li Wenxian, Zhang Liseng and Xiao, with Li Wenxian serving for 8 months, Attempting to thoroughly clean the original management during his tenure, but because the action is too big to affect the normal operation of the Chinese region was impeached, Zhang Liseng for 23 months, completed a part of Simon Kibaki cleaning work, but with his boss Mejo and Steve Wotz in the fight against the global people and left, he was forced to leave.

Xiao, who took office in April 2010, had no background in her career, but Shaw's tenure was the longest and relatively stable compared with the top two presidents. It is reported that she has been in the SAP China area only CTO Zhang Xi, SAP China Research Institute president and South Korea Research and Development Center president, Global senior vice President Rui Xianglin, SAP Research and service Global senior Vice President Wang, SAP Global senior vice President Zhou Yue Pavilion, SAP Global senior vice President Robert · Vimanas and 6 executives from the global vice president of cloud services, Wang Tianyan, left.

According to SAP's latest report in 2012 of January this year, the Chinese market grew 22% last year, though its share has not yet caught up with its main rivals, but it has gained momentum. Some SAP insiders revealed that Xiao I was also surprised by the result of the exit, in the second half of 2012, there was a media dedicated to its writing with the manuscript declared: "Xiao broke the Chinese regional president of the" Magic curse soon.

It is reported that Xiao's resignation announcement will be announced in the near future, the reason for leaving may be "family reasons." With the departure of Xiao, most middle-level Chinese cadres in SAP are facing a new round of adjustment after the Lunar New Year, according to people familiar with the matter.

or replaced by Sun Xiaoqun.

Sun Xiaoqun is currently in the position of SAP Global Business officer, Global senior vice president and head of SAP China Research Institute, which is generally regarded as the successor of Rui Xianglin, president of the former SAP China Research Institute, but SAP insiders revealed that Sun Xiaoqun's position in SAP global architecture is higher than Xiao and Rui Xianglin, Report directly to German headquarter. After leaving Xiao, it is likely that Sun Xiaoqun will be the president of China.

It is reported that Sun Xiaoqun joined SAP in 1997, as SAP Global Senior Vice president, the head of Creative Innovation Department. More importantly, she is one of SAP's world's few Chinese scientists who are directly involved in the--SAP Hana Project of key research and development strategies. It's worth noting that Xiao has left many senior executives since his successor.

Based on the five-year plan developed by SAP in 2010, SAP hopes SAP China, especially the SAP China Academy, will play a more important role in the "China market with both business innovation demand and affordability", and push SAP products into the Chinese market and even globally. Several key areas of SAP's investment in the Chinese market include solution innovation and delivery, led by SAP China Research Institute.

SAP China's business has been very close to 25% in the Asia-Pacific region, the Chairman of the Asia-Pacific and Japan region said earlier. The current number of SAP employees in China is close to 4000 and will continue to expand. SAP headquarters wants China's business to squeeze into the top five in the next 2-3 years and surpass SAP's size in Japanese business.