Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattneris a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE since May 2003...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth21 January 1944
CountryGermany
difficult market though
Even though we are in a difficult market environment, we are still disappointed by these results.
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From my earliest days developing business software, I have always believed that design has to start with the user, ... Businesses around the globe need to look for innovation by focusing on their customers.
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I will ask Mr. Gates to change his opinion about what is allowed to be around Windows and what is not.
born fourth
Every fourth PhD in the U.S. was not born there,
objects
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
kids brain hot
Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.
data modern stage
New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.
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You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.
brutally
I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.
access algorithm answer anywhere create direct piece type user whether
This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.
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I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.
companies obviously people
Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.
definition form
We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
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It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.