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
believed business businesses days design developing earliest focusing globe innovation start
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.
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I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.
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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.
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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.
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Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
million touches
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
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Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.
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The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.