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SAP Influencer Summit 09 provided influencers an exclusive opportunity to learn the details about SAP's solution strategy – directly from SAP board members and senior executives.
Here, you can watch and share keynotes and executive strategy sessions. Analysts and IT Influencers are welcome to visit the private collaboration workspace to download the presentations and other related information.
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SAP’s Strategy: The Clear Path Forward
Jonathan Becher, Senior Vice President Global Marketing, SAP AG
Don Bulmer, Vice President, Industry & Influencer Relations, Global Communications, SAP AG
SAP's strategy is designed to help our customers and their business networks to become clear enterprises by enabling closed-loop performance optimization. This session will provide an overview of the essential components of SAP's strategy.
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SAP's Strategy for Solution Excellence to Enable Clear Enterprises
Jim Hagemann Snabe, Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG
SAP's customer base is expanding to include new types of software users who have very different demands than traditional software buyers. The software buyer of tomorrow demands increased modularity and flexibility to help organizations close the gap between strategy and execution while overcoming the complexities inherent in a broad network of solutions. This session will convey SAP's new approach to software solutions to meet the growing needs of the marketplace.
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Laying the Groundwork
with Future SAP Technologies
Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer, SAP AG
Enabling our customers with "timeless software" requires that SAP brings together three critical constructs in its platform and its enterprise applications: a collection of programming models and languages that describe content; using a set of corresponding containers for execution; and enabling continuous change over the lifetime of the application. This session will cover SAP's strategy for bringing timeless software to its customers.
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The Whole Solution: SAP's Strategy to Drive Customer Value Through Sales, Service, Support, and the Ecosystem
John Schwarz, Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG
Just as SAP has significant innovations planned for its software solutions and technology platform, it has also evolved its go-to-market strategy to meet the changing needs of customers. This session will cover SAP's strategy for creating a fundamentally new customer experience through its integrated sales, services, support, and ecosystem organizations. By bringing the full scope and scale of SAP and its partner ecosystem to bear on each interaction, it will create new value and provide an even more rapid return on investment for customers.
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SAP's Next-Generation Platform
Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer, SAP AG
Marge Breya, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Intelligence Platform and SAP NetWeaver Group, SAP AG
This session will focus on SAP’s plans to disrupt the data latency between transactions and analytics, bridge structured and unstructured data, modernize application “qualities,” and improve productivity for end users and developers across a hybrid landscape of on-demand and on-premise systems. The session will also discuss how innovative technologies – including in-memory, next-generation programming models and collaborative business user productivity environments delivered by a cloud native platform – complement a company’s current IT investments and power SAP’s future applications.
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SAP's On-Demand Strategy
John Wookey, Executive Vice President of Large Enterprise On-Demand, SAP AG
Peter Lorenz, Senior Vice President, SME Solutions, SAP AG
SAP is harnessing the compelling new possibilities of on-demand solutions to extend and build upon the value the company provides its customers. On-demand offerings from SAP deliver quick and easy adoption, reduce the need for customer IT to manage infrastructure, help customers to shift operational expenses and streamline cash flows, and support customers’ ability to scale the use of the solutions to match their business needs. In this session, John Wookey, EVP, Large Enterprise On Demand, and Peter Lorenz, SVP and head of SME Solutions, will present the potential of on-demand solutions and the SAP on-demand strategy, as well as highlight the company’s current and future plans. The session will also include a customer panel showcasing customer success to date with on-demand offerings from SAP.
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SAP Strategy to Engage a Wider Audience
Jonathan Becher (moderator), Senior Vice President Global Marketing, SAP AG
Singh Mecker, Senior Vice President and head of SAP's Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG
Pat Hume, Senior Vice President of the Global SME Indirect Channel, SAP AG
Ann-Mari Doody, Senior Vice President, Global Inside Sales, SAP AG
Changing customer needs and preferences are driving the need to effectively engage with a broad number of customers, partners, and individuals to deliver compelling innovation and value. Join this executive strategy session to hear a discussion with customers about the challenges they face, and learn from SAP executives about the company’s current strengths and future strategy to engage a wider audience in its approach to value creation and delivery.
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Maximize Customer Success:
SAP Services Strategy
Bernd Michael Rumpf, Global Head of Field Services, SAP AG
Eric MacDonald, Chief Operation Office, SAP Global Education, SAP AG
Against the backdrop of changing business requirements, the need for sustainable growth, changing buyer behaviors, and technology innovations that offer new possibilities, SAP Services will demonstrate how the offerings can help customers become clear enterprises, deliver tangible business value and help CIOs reduce the total cost of ownership. Learn how SAP Services delivers easy-to-consume solutions that support SAP and its customers’ success.
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