As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission), as part of my Analyst Cam series.
I have invited SAP to present updates on various verticals as I discussed here
This time it is Hagen Heubach, Global Vice President, Automotive Industry Business Unit.
He does a nice job presenting the massive changes in the mobility sector - the emergence of EVs and autonomous vehicles, the effect of the pandemic on supply chains, direct digital sales, transformation of engineering into software cultures, the increase in services and changes in how they are delivered and how all those changes are re-shaping SAP's vertical offerings.
He also presents on the Catena-X Automotive Network (Catena-X) which focuses on creation, operation and collaborative use of end-to-end data chains along the entire automotive value chain. SAP is a founding member. It was launched in May and already has 60 participants including major German OEMs, Tier suppliers (and growing to include non-German ones as well) and a few other tech vendors.
This is SAP at its strongest - global brand names combined with vertical depth. Hagen presents the capabilities crisply in about 18 minutes.
