How good is René Obermann compared to Pekka Ala-Pietilä?

The last four years were tiring. I am tired boss. I feel the supervisory board made a lot of decisions to favor the CEO and executive board instead of customers and shareholders. And they joined forces with HR and the executive board to royally scr ew employees. Here are some of the questionable changes they made. All of this is public knowledge but I don't think there will be any consequences.

On November 7, 2024, the Supervisory Board resolved to replace the KPI operating margin increase with the KPI free cash flow for the Executive Board STI as of 2025.

On December 8, 2024, the Supervisory Board resolved to replace the KPIs cloud revenue and software licenses & support and services revenue with the KPI total revenue for the Executive Board LTI as of 2025.

On April 30, 2025, the Supervisory Board resolved to extend the term of Christian Klein’s appointment to the Executive Board from May 1, 2025, to April 30, 2030.

On May 5, 2024, the Supervisory Board resolved, by way of circular resolution, to extend the term of Christian Klein’s appointment for three years from May 1, 2025, to April 30, 2028, and to appoint him as chairperson of the Executive Board with immediate effect.

On May 6, 2025, the Supervisory Board decided to exchange the Women in Executive Roles KPI with the Business Health Culture Index in the LTI as of 2025, resulting in a temporary deviation from the compensation system and the German Corporate Governance Code to ensure compliance with executive orders in the United States.

At the beginning of 2026, the Supervisory Board decided to exclude the effect of the expenses related to the Teradata litigation from the Company’s non‑IFRS definition, as "these one‑off effects are not indicative of our operating performance". The Supervisory Board also decided on February 18, 2026 to exclude these effects from the target achievement for the KPI operating profit... The exclusion of current expenses of €387 million has a positive effect on the performance factor for the financial PSUs of 0.011 for the 2023 tranche under the LTI 2020. As the ongoing performance period is measured using cumulative results, the impact will be shown when the LTI tranches 2024 and 2025 are due for payout.

On July 27, 2023, the Supervisory Board decided to exclude the impact of the Qualtrics divestiture and resolved updated targets for the STI 2023 and the LTI tranches 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Furthermore, in September 2023, the Supervisory Board decided to exclude the expenses related to compliance matters from the variable Executive Board compensation for 2023 and 2024. The exclusion of expenses related to compliance matters from the variable Executive Board compensation led to a higher performance factor of 0.005 for the financial PSUs of the LTI tranche 2021 and 2022, a performance factor of 0.049 for the STI 2023, and had no effect on the performance factor of the STI 2024.

As I read this, it feels that the supervisory board goes above and beyond to help CK and the board to get as much money as possible from SAP bank accounts to their personal bank accounts. I wonder how René would be any different.

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I am against unchecked immigration in Europe. But let us not take the spotlight away from the fact that the group executives and the executive board is minting money and destroying our company. They are the bigger parasites here. And they are supported by an incompetent supervisory board and a toothless works council. As a woman, the Women in Executive Roles KPI infuriates me the most. It's okay if we let that go because of the Trump administration. But we should still allow women in leadership roles. It seems that we took a step backwards and almost no women get a chance to grow to the L1 or L2 levels anymore. This is preposterous. If we didn't have these ghouls in the company, they would not be replacing us Europeans with cheap migrants.

@ca we are a global company, there are no immigrants.

@dq You are a disgrace and a bigot. Stop posting here. You are not wanted.

@ca Spot on. These immigrants are ruining our company, our country, our culture and make it unsafe for our women and children. Many are low IQ per-verts and we need re-migration.

@ca Not you again. Racist drivel is not needed here.

Go away.

The real problem is not the executive board. And it’s not even the supervisory board as they’re elected members. The real problem is rampant migration that is ki-ling our real culture and taking away jobs from the hosts. That’s what we should be focusing on. Because that’s what is creating all the layoffs.

First I wasn't sure if this information was correct. But then I myself saw it in the published integrated reports and compensation reports. So this is 100 percent true. And it is pathetic that the supervisory board is favoring the executive board over shareholders.

It's good to be the king.

Stop complaining, do the needful, trust your boss and the board, and you will be fine.

Very well documented decision making that in every case resulted in a favourable outcome for the board - seems like it can't get much worse so let's hope this change is for the best. SAP is facing a lot of litigation/regulatory investigations - all of which arose from bad leadership decision making (alleged theft of 09 trade secrets and confidential information, tying the purchase of cloud services to maintenance in violation of competition law....) I am sure the board will implement measures that will insulate them from any negative financial consequences. I, for one, hope the share price sinks so low that there is a buyer out their foolish enough to take on SAP. However, like the film Wall Street, the buyer could easily strip down the company to its bones and just keep about 10k employees and milk that maintenance money until its gone....

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