Read the SAP Leadership Announcement here https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sap-leadership-announcement-morgan-and-fox-martin-expand-responsibilities-as-enslin-departs-300825618.html
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I agree Rob has kept a blind eye to keep the numbers rolling, and when he couldn’t do it anymore, he conveniently moved from GCO to Cloud division.
I know precisely who is being referred to as the "China Business Leader" in the previous post! his name is Gibbs. That such a character survives and, and famously so, is allowed to continue in his role regardless of his ethics, his corruptions, his racism, his misogyny, his abuse of power - all speaks loudly to the character of SAP and in particular Enslin who allowed this on his management team and pervasively so - not just in china but everywhere SAP is facing the scrutiny of the law. Money rules. Not good character, upstanding ethics, or sound customer relations.
Enslin allowed corruption, poor business integrity and questionable customer ethics to fester throughout his business. Now that he is gone we can expect most of the rotten apples (in particular their head of China business who is renowned to be one of the most unethical and corrupt business leaders in the industry) to depart soon without his unwavering air cover. The question is will Adaire take any action or just put more lipstick on the pig.
read “What’s next for SAP” here:
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/Yt8j2Ur
Rob was the only board member left with a solid understanding of SAP technology and how to turn Bills acquisition-zoo into a real end2end process offering in the cloud.
At present SAP‘s pool of 10+ different companies and offerings is - sadly- no better choice than building one‘s own best-of-breed solution based on commercial hyperscalers at a fraction of SAP‘s charges.
Bill McDermott even says it himself in this announcement - it's a step towards simplifying the company. How long will he continue to "simplify" SAP? Until he is the last one standing?
Yes - SAP is a marketing company more than anything these days - problem is, their deteriorating support for the on premise products that made them great is turning people off. Used to be that companies used SAP for their outstanding support and technical expertise in their products.
With long time customers seeing poorer and poorer support, they are looking beyond SAP for their cloud products, this WILL be a problem for Hollywood Bill.
One of the early Engineers now gone just like the brilliant development team pushed out. Thanks Rob for your contributions. SAP is now just a sales machine run by Hollywood Bill. Watch for him on those Wall Street shows talking about our stock values and retirement of innovation. Good night Hasso, your vision is over!
Poster @1zjs - I feel the same
Worked closely with him from 2008 to 2010 - I respect the guy quite a bit - while not surprising, this departure is a net loss for all off us... Good luck Rob and I hope Jen does well
I disagree - Jen is qualified and it's nice to have women in executive positions.
SAP seems to be unraveling before our eyes, that they heck is going on?
Doesn‘t appear to be ‚a change from the position of strenght‘ - it rather looks like a sign of turmoil in SAP‘s c---pit.
I fully agree with a previous post that Jennifer Morgan is no viable substitute for Rob managing McDermott‘s acquisition-beehive.
Jen doesn't have the caliber to lead CBG. Greg Tomb or Alex is naturally a much better choice!
Rob left on is own accord. I won’t discuss his farewell email to me but I can tell you this. EVERYONE LAID OFF HAS NOW BEEN VINDICATED.
He has restored my faith in humanity and what it means to be a leader.
Rob Enslin was doomed taking over Cloud from Steve Singh. I’m sure he got a very nice 👍 payoff to leave. Interesting how Hollywood Bill spun that story to make it sound voluntary. Rob gets far more $$$ than all the workers laid off in NA with their 2 weeks per year. Let’s see how long Jen and Adaire last.
That wasn't a layoff.