I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes up. Here is the index to all the interviews in this series.
This time it is Greg Tomb, President, Global Sales and GTM, SAP Cloud, Platform and S/4 Portfolio at SAP.
My session with Greg was planned much earlier, but took place a couple of days after SAP announced its Q3 results. I called the results a hiccup, but the stock market punished SAP far more. And I since have heard and seen reports which make it sound as if SAP is on its deathbed.
While his colleagues, Peter Maier and Bob Stutz have in earlier episodes talked about customer heroics, I am glad Greg talked about how SAP and its partners have themselves pivoted in the last six months to sell much more "market relevant" solutions - ecommerce, virtual learning, supply chain management etc. And how they have delivered these solutions remotely given travel restrictions.
As you can see in the video, SAP has a very broad portfolio of cloud solutions across the enterprise, and SAP has emphasized them as part of its Amplify initiative in the last few months. The reporting has made it sound as if SAP is just getting serious about cloud applications.
I have invited Greg to present more details next week on Amplify as part of the Analyst Cam series. He did the interview below on the road on his phone and did not have the Amplify slides or I would have included them here.
