SAP Sapphire 2026 - why SAP CEO Christian Klein sees the need for speed when it comes to AI value realization

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One lesson I learned during my whole career is technology means nothing if you don't bring it to adoption.

An important lesson to have learned in a tech sector that has seen plenty of examples of vendors pushing innovation for the sake of innovation and showing how jolly clever they are, while forgetting to actually get people cutting checks for the end result.

It’s not a mistake that SAP CEO Christian Klein intends to make and it’s a worldview that leads to another conclusion:

We can't have our customers waiting for three years until they finish the modernization of the system to actually use AI.

What he’s referring to is the complexity of enterprise systems across many organizations in all business sectors. While AI may be the prevailing Eldorado destination for enterprises everywhere, the past year has seen growing realization that there’s a need to put the legacy house in...

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