Thread regarding SAP layoffs

Bright-works, how about instead of taking a 100% negative view on SAP tech, you bring out some actual feedback from your own implementations? I have worked for SAP, been fired by SAP and still implement their tech along with other vendors tech. We have happy customers and unhappy customers for all the vendors software we provide as part of a solutions portfolio. On-prem and cloud. Like any vendor SAP has its pros and cons attached to it depending on what you are using it for. I would like you to look at SAP with a more unbiased view and be more factual on their product line and give us some usefull analysis. Not just doing copy-pasta from other news articles. Vendors will always hype themselves up. It takes a pro to not emotionally lambaste a company and give an honest verdict on the state of the tech. I have not heard you mention S/4 Core or how the SAP solution portfolio ties into this.

What are your alternatives to SAP software, based on business systems? How would you recommend a company implements a full E2E ERP solution with analytics etc.

All I see is a company that is making a buck out of the misinformation and botched SAP sales deals and failed implementations out there. But if it was not for that, there would not be an ecosystem of people like us to pick up the pieces and make a success out of it either. So you should actually be thanking the giants for your own existence. Who else would you take a stab at when SAP is gone?

Elliott replaced every senior executive under the CEO.

Draw your own conclusions.

I don't think anyone still at SAP has a problem with being more efficient and widening margins...the Bloomberg article sums it up nicely. Some of the other "articles" draw false conclusions based on speculation...but that'll just prove itself out in time.

There's a global conspiracy against SAP. Everyone is targeting SAP with fake news. Elliott management is fake news.

Bloomberg is spreading doom saying that SAP has a profitability problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-24/sap-elliott-are-said-to-have-held-strategy-talks-for-months

Diginomica is spreading doom saying SAP is under-performing

https://diginomica.com/elliott-management-and-sap-background-and-elliott-playbook

The Washington Post is spreading doom saying SAP has a profitability problem

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/sap-may-need-a-massive-buyback-to-sing-elliotts-tune/2019/04/24/accb1ade-6692-11e9-a698-2a8f808c9cfb_story.html

SAP fired the SAP CTO, head of cloud sales, and every president at SAP because they were doing a great job not because they were under-performing.

When senior executives do well, companies fire them.

4,400 people laid of last January because they were doing well not under-performing. Layoffs mean everything is fine.

If you work at SAP, don't think. Don't ask questions. Wait for the next round of layoffs. Maybe you will keep your job.

Whatever you do, don't think. Everything happening around you is a conspiracy. SAP is doing great.

Fact-based analysis.

Accurate diagnosis of SAP's profitability decline.

Elliott fired every president and CTO.

Layoffs to cut inefficiency.

Too many useless employees that produce nothing.

Its good to have brightworks as at least one antipode to the 97% of all media and ‚analysts‘ just copy-pasting SAP‘s never ending stream of naturally- positive public- and analyst-relations content.

Another opinion piece from Brightworks with a predictable entirely negative take on all things SAP. Recycled doom and gloom.

This articles does a good job of explaining SAP's product portfolio meltdown, the decreasing margins, and Elliott management involvement which finally lead to the January layoffs and the executive firings.

Really well-written.

This ties in with what was stated in FT article on SAP/Cloud Services in the mist and that over 80% of what SAP spent was in US (our product managers sit in Germany with no additional budget for development!)

https://www.ft.com/content/80e5ded2-5a11-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a