And he arranged the appointment of a chief operating officer to make SAP's top-heavy organisation more efficient.Recent events have already shown what to expect from Mr Apotheker.
SAP has an investment fund for HANA startups and has made investments to make SAP HANA on Amazon Web Services.
The results have the power to make saps out of us all.
And when it came to CRM, the leader was not SAP but Siebel Systems, a relative upstart based in Silicon Valley.Internet inertia made SAP's problems worse.
By making SAP HANA the underlying infrastructure, SAP now has a big data play that gives it new dimensions for growth.
Boiling them with a copper coin (an old Mexican "veinte") is a common remedy to thin the sap and make it more palatable to unaccustomed diners.
Ultimately, though, interactive technology may well sap more advertising revenue from the industry than it creates.
Then, from September 2006 to January 2007, SAP proceeded to make more than 10,000 illicit downloads of Oracle software and technical support documents, the suit states.
Conversely, Sal-Sap rats made significantly more errors than Sal-Sham and Don-Sap animals, as reported in Figure 6(a).
