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
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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.
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Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
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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.
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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.
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Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
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The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
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Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.
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I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
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In the '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable.
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Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.