What's our next step? What needs to be done?

Christian's integration message is a hope for our internal transformation and customers. Unlike Bill's era of rapid acquisition and vanilla tuck in, and then blaming the Germans product teams who have no budget to do developments and yet doing the... — read more 

To Thwart a Troll, Take the High Road Truly, the only way to destroy a troll is to rise above the fray. Don’t stoop to their level – it’s exactly what they’re out to get you to do. Internet trolls want anger. They want big reactions. They... — read more 

For the fourth quarter, Sap's profit after tax, on IFRS basis, dropped 9 percent to 1.69 billion euros from last year's 1.86 billion euros. Basic earnings per share dropped 8 percent to 1.41 euros from 1.54 euros last year.

Who cares, as long as the software works...uuuumm, well as long as 50% of the software works.

Create cloud Restrict access to partners Bad mouth partners at customers Extort customers for sap sevices only they can perform A perfect business model

How many work at the company? What is the overall employee count at Germany?

Just go a new job as CIO tasked with selecting an ERP provider. In good faith, I cannot recommend SAP knowing the current systems and future state first hand. Shame.

I got laidoff by SAP and they told me to sign the release document so I will get my severance. I signed it, returned it, and not a single penny for weeks. Should I open up a lawsuit? The office is in Vancouver and the HR rep is in Montreal. What a... — read more 

Let me be very candid - I am doing very well after I left after SAP, similar to other ex colleagues who were booted out years ago. of course they don’t say they boot you out. They hire cheap managers from third world countries who deliberately rate... — read more 

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1255d460

my manager asked me to put together a list of people including Hire Date, Length of Service, Age, T-Level, Region, Country, Line of business, CC, and Total Comp. He told me its confidential and to only to send it to him. i have been in HR for 10... — read more 

Rumours that the next round of chopping would begin. Any updates from folks around

they make SAP the best place for people like me to get paid hundreds of thousands and be popular. Without them I would have to actually work and my skills are non existent. Bless them, HR and intelligent enterprise analytics.

In both personal interactions and emails with myself and colleagues, Klein and Jennifer Morgan have been at pains to emphasize the 'customer first' message. What's missing is a crisp, time-stamped action plan. I cannot believe that after... — read more 

Assuming Bill made 14mil and now they have co-ceos and claim equal pay for women. Does anyone know?

What a sign of trust in Hasso‘s own empire https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sap-chairman/sap-founder-and-chairman-sells-100-million-euro-stake-holding-now-6-2-idUSKBN1XU26M Given Hasso’s 6.2% stake in SAP its unjustified to suspect that ‚the r.t... — read more 

I'm just wondering, will working at SAP forever be this stressful or is there a chance we will go back to good old times at some point when I didn't have to worry every single day if we'll be looking at more layoffs by the end of the week or... — read more 

Have you heard anything about potential SAP Layoffs 2020? Any news or rumors?

https://www.brightworkresearch.com/sap/2019/10/sap-is-accused-of-witness-tampering-in-teradata-lawsuit/

See https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sap-investors/sap-to-cut-research-centers-in-drive-to-lift-margins-idUSKBN1XM2IA and form your own opinion.

Managers who do not respect diversity and hire their own kind, practice cronyism, should be laid off first. One is the reasons why SAP sank so badly is because managers are given so much powers, and they use it to solidify their own empires... — read more 

SAP’s blotches in large accounts such as Lidl, Revlon, Deutsche Post DHL, National Grid USA, Israel Chemicals, Hershey, Queensland Health give many reasons to pause. Even the legal suits do not provide transparency to the situation. Does it really... — read more 

It’s not a secret any more that people are leaving on a daily basis, relatively new people, young people. For me that just shine a good light on the absurdity of this whole process of making structural changes within the workforce. It’s not that I... — read more 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sap-agm/sap-chairman-defends-executive-pay-system-idUSKBN18615N WE SHALL NEVER FORGIVE NOR FORGET. SCREW C—EYED BILL. SCREW HARS-HOLE. SCREW SAP. === “Our executive payment must be seen in comparison with... — read more 

Why is everyone surprised that Bill jumped ship. It is evident from the YTD results that Q4 wont be able to salvage the whole year’s results: YTD operating margin 12.1%! (cf 19.1% for 2018 YTD) YTD Profit after tax Eur 1.73B (cf 2.4B for 2018... — read more 

4 months ago he tore up 5000 families; and 4 months into it today; some office are rehiring again, once again for the same damn roles. Now this rat is jumping sh–. God damn you Bill ! God damn you !

The outlook must not be good at all. Starting to think this really is a sinking ship.

Two more farewell emails from Exec VP’s this week. Rumor is Q3 numbers missed big.

Earlier this year, E-3 Magazine ran a story about SAP CEO Bill McDermott. After that, everything changed. SAP bid farewell to its technology-oriented business model. The departure of Bernd Leukert and Bjoern Goerke is both evidence and consequence... — read more 

"Only 24 per cent of DSAG members feel well-informed by SAP. 45 per cent partly trust [its] product strategy, while 30 per cent of users have no confidence in it." https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/18/user_group_sap/

SAP Australia MD Stephen Moore steps down, and outlines in detail in Linkedin about his plan to spend more time with grand-daughter. I wish I am able to do that too!

When Elliott bought their piece of SAP, they required that Executive team have 8 months to define specifics as to how they will bring the Operating Margin more in line with shareholder expectations and bring this forward in special shareholder... — read more 

What are ur thoughts on sap analytics and Hana???

It seems like every week i’m Getting more and more farewell emails. People are leaving the organization left and right out of free will. No new headcount is opening to replace these people.... Can anyone else relate ?

Said in May 2019: ““We have to change how we work and we have to use new talent.” “A cultural change is coming” “Germans would rather sit in front of the tv eating pretzels than innovate” This is coming for your own founder and fellow... — read more 

As I close out this assessment, the best I can say is that this has been a period of mixed fortunes. SAP is highly motivated to achieve the most positive media coverage it can because in the long haul it allows the company to both continue charging... — read more 

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