Thread regarding SAP layoffs

Indians should do the presentations. They are more inspiring.

Had the exact same experience earlier this year at the APAC Kick-Off. The speakers genuinely looked frozen without their notes — most of the session felt like executives reading from a book rather than engaging with the audience.

There was very little spontaneity, energy, or actual connection in the room. You could almost feel the anxiety behind every transition and scripted “exciting” moment. At this scale, audiences expect conviction and authenticity, not rehearsed slide narration.

Such a shame because the underlying strategy and technology are often solid but the delivery completely undermines the message.

We have a CEO who has a background in sales and marketing and not in product management or product development, it would naturally show in the fakery during sapphire event.
SAP supports and promotes buttering and bootlicking personalities to lead teams and departments from a manager position to a L3,2,1 position instead of meritocracy and it shows in the products which gets build and delivered.

These executives even when they fail will get a hefty exit packages like Jurgen Müller and the rest of the employees will be blamed for the downfall of the company.

Successful companies have right people at the right positions like a successful football team but at SAP the goal keeper substitute is playing as Center Forward.

@b4 when you layoff thousands of very experienced employees, with a huge loss of knowledge, how can you imagine to still bring products forward and at the same time infuse AI, fight the Saaspocalypse battle, convince customers to further invest?
This board is paid millions - millions - to take decisions. Are they doing their job right?

@be your daughter is totally right, cringy!

@OP you are right on! The forced enthusiam by the CEO and others on stage is very akward and as my daughter would say "cringy"! I was even making me uncomfortable with the fake acting. No big announcements, just marketing rebranding like autonomous enterprise. I really dislike the fake showmanship, but SAP loves it for some reason they think they can convince customers with their snake oil salesman approach.

@a1 I agree. Maybe they should step down and let other talented people take their place. But no. SAP is a place where only tenure is rewarded not talent.

Not just embarrassing but also disappointing. There's nothing on SAP's roadmap that's seriously game changing. There's barely anything that customers asked for. And a majority of customer concerns and requests are not addressed. SAP is trying to sell the dream that if you use our software, you can be autonomous and lay off most of your employees because our AI will do most of the work. The market knows that SAP doesn't keep its promises and almost everything is delayed by 3 to 5 years.
I can't wait for the next unfiltered to show increase in board trust. And for our executives to blame the market and employees for this and announce layoffs.

Our executives, group executives, and the executive board is completely detached from reality. While our competitors and other software companies are showing massive growth, we are down almost 50% compared to last year. And there is not a single person in the supervisory board to hold them accountable. Instead they are still trying hard to increase executive bonuses. It's infuriating.

In any other public company, Christian Klein would be fired by now.

"Adding to the negative sentiment, SAP also announced critical security vulnerabilities in its Commerce Cloud and S/4HANA products today, requiring immediate updates from users and administrators. These vulnerabilities carry high severity scores and could lead to issues such as arbitrary code execution or unauthorized access to sensitive data if exploited."

"Dipping" is a gentle word. I would describe the share prices as plummeting. About 45% of the past year's gains are wiped out. This was all-too-predictable and entirely preventable if leadership actually had vision and foresight - and did not live in an echo chamber but actually listened to others who are not mere sycophants.

The share price is dipping... This is not a good sign.

Usually SAP Share price reach its highest level at SAPPhire: it's concerning to see that it's opposite that is happening, it means that customers are not enthusiastic about SAP's future which joins the feelings of SAP employees.

I tried to watch it, I have no ability anymore to tolerate their nonsense. It’s time to retire.

Hmmm I think I could manage a public speaking coach if I were given millions in bonuses!

Don't insult the board. Public speaking is very, very difficult.