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“Cloud Migration is More Than Just an Upgrade”Aug 14, 2023 — In an exclusive interview with SAPinsider, Peter Pluim, President, SAP Enterprise Cloud Services & SAP Sovereign Cloud Services talks about his role and how SAP is supporting its customers on their cloud journeys.
Peter Pluim is the President of SAP’s Enterprise Cloud Services & SAP Sovereign Cloud Services businesses, which include private managed cloud deployment options for RISE with SAP and full SAP ERP value-adding SAP Cloud Application Services as well as Sovereign Cloud Services for all SAP cloud solutions. He is responsible for the end-to-end delivery, revenue and margin of these business and leads a global team that ensures SAP delivers to its contractual commitments. Peter is part of the Global Product Engineering Group and reports directly to its President and Executive Board Member. Peter joined SAP in June 2019 and prior to his role at SAP, Peter was the Executive Vice-President and CEO of Atos’ Infrastructure & Data Management Division and part of the Executive Committee.
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SAP Caps Strong Cloud-Focused Q1Apr 24, 2023 — SAP announced a strong first quarter based on positive cloud momentum in its recent earnings call. The overall revenue for the quarter increased by 9% at constant currencies to €7.441 billion, with cloud and software making up the bulk at €6.358 billion. The current cloud backlog increased 25% to €11.148 billion, of which SAP S/4HANA made up €3.418 billion, an increase of 79% at constant currencies from Q1 2022. More predictable revenue now makes up 82% of all SAP revenue, a slight increase year-over-year.
SAP’s CEO Christian Klein centered his remarks on the strong demand for solutions across the company’s portfolio and focused on the launch of two game-changing solutions this quarter—GROW with SAP and SAP Datasphere. GROW with SAP helps mid-market organizations grow with agility and speed by providing rapid adoption services, and SAP Datasphere aligns SAP with other significant data warehouse vendors with a service that collects and federates SAP and non-SAP business data across the enterprise. Klein also revealed that new business-focused AI capabilities will be announced at Sapphire in May.
SAP also announced an expanded partnership with UiPath, although the SAP executives on the call mentioned the announcement in passing. The partnership makes UiPath Automation Platform available to SAP customers as an SAP-endorsed application on the SAP App Store. The goal is to complement SAP Build Process Automation and enable organizations to improve efficiency and productivity across SAP and non-SAP workloads.
For SAPinsider community members, it is important to ascertain what best fits their needs. Both SAP and non-SAP solutions are now strongly supported by SAP through partnerships like one with UiPath. While SAP claims to understand that each organization will take its own route to the cloud, organizations must take the time to prepare for and thoroughly plan their transformations so that it can be completed on their terms and in the time frame that best suits them.
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SAP Announces Jennifer Morgan’s Departure, Official Q1 NumbersApr 21, 2020 — On April 20, SAP announced that co-CEO Jennifer Morgan would be leaving the company effective April 30 and that Christian Klein would continue as the sole CEO of the organization. During SAP's April 21 earnings call Klein went on to thank Morgan for her contributions to SAP and stated that “we would not be where we are today without her.” During the call SAP also reviewed their Q1 results, which saw an increase in IFRS cloud revenue by 29% year over year, a 7% increase in cloud and software revenue as well as total revenue year over year, with IFRS operating profit remaining unchanged at €1.21 billion, despite the COVID-19 crisis impacting numbers in the last month of the quarter.
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