Farewell SAP

After 13 years, my time at SAP has come to an end. Firstly, I wanted to thank all the great friends, colleagues, and mentors I’ve had over the years at SAP. There’s too many people to name individually, but SAP has such a plethora of great people, that I’m going to miss the people the most. From the early days of building the Financial Planning and Consolidations business for SAP and introducing BPC Netweaver to market, to then launching SAP HANA, and then most recently, SAP Cloud Platform, I reflect that SAP has been amazing at pivoting and introducing new innovations to market, and I feel privileged to have been part of that journey. I’d be remiss if I didn’t specifically call out and thank some of my mentors and friends along the way, including Sanjay Poonen, Steve Lucas, Anthony Reynolds, Sam Yen, Greg McStravick, Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Irfan Khan, Fawad Zakriya, Ryan Leask, and Vijay Vijayasankar. To the old team – Chris Hallenbeck, Floyd Strimling, John Gibson, Michael Bain, Rosemary Butler, Kristen Janssen, and others – I know you’ll do amazing things to continue the exponential growth and digital transformation journey SAP is on. To all the analysts and thought leaders that I’ve gotten to know in the industry including folks like Donald Feinberg, Holger Mueller, Ray Wang, and others, a special thank you to all the guidance you’ve provided over the years. And finally, a special thanks to Rob Enslin for giving me the opportunity to launch the SAP Cloud Platform business for SAP. Some great memories that I’ll always remember fondly.

I’ve decided to take some time off this summer with the family as I evaluate next steps in my career, but to all the customers that I’ve worked with over the year at SAP, it was a pleasure working with you to drive real value. I joined SAP from a customer as a customer, and worked there to really change Enterprise Software to support value based business outcomes, and as I make my next move, I remain committed to that vision of improving business.

Thank you all –and look forward to staying in touch with old friends and making new ones.

Prakash