ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
Professor Hasso Plattner, chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE, endorsed Christian’ s leadership:“ Christian Klein has consistently driven SAP’ s transformation to a cloud company. With the early extension of his contract and a further strengthening of his position, we are clearly underlining his important role in SAP’ s ongoing transformation.” SAP’ s S / 4HANA platform, the company’ s flagship ERP software, remains central to Christian’ s strategy,
WHAT IS RISE WITH SAP?
RISE with SAP is a subscription-based service that helps organisations move their business systems to the cloud. Launched in 2021, it combines SAP’ s S / 4HANA cloud software with tools and services that simplify cloud migration.
The package includes SAP’ s core enterprise resource planning software, which manages functions like finance, manufacturing and supply chain. It also provides technical services to help companies move data from older systems, redesign business processes, and integrate with cloud infrastructure providers.
Companies pay a single subscription fee that covers software, infrastructure and technical services, replacing traditional software licensing and maintenance contracts.
“Together, we have successfully driven our strategy, and it is a privilege to lead SAP on its journey to be the number one enterprise application and business AI company”
CHRISTIAN KLEIN, CEO & CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE BOARD, SAP SE
combining database technology with business applications to process company data, supporting organisations’ digital transformation initiatives.
Under Christian’ s direction, SAP is expanding partnerships with cloud infrastructure providers to enhance service delivery. These collaborations aim to improve customer access to SAP’ s enterprise applications through cloud platforms, responding to market demands for flexible deployment options.
Christian’ s leadership emphasises technological innovation in AI, machine learning and the Internet of Things connectivity. These capabilities integrate with SAP’ s core products to enhance business process automation and data analysis, supporting customers’ digital transformation initiatives.
88 April 2025