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SAP CTO to step down after ‘inappropriate behavior’

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller will step down from SAP’s executive board at the end of September. “I I recognize my behavior at that moment did not reflect our values at SAP. I wish the team continued success,” Mueller said in a statement issued by SAP on Tuesday.

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SAP restructures board to emphasize AI-first, suite-first strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP is starting the 2025 financial year with a new executive board.The German software company announced that 39-year-old Sebastian Steinhuser will be promoted to the executive board. Steinhuser joined SAP in 2020 and has held various roles, including chief strategy officer. SAP introduced a new CTO and two new chief revenue officers.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

Scale trusted workflows with agentic AI Appian, Atlassian, Cisco Collaboration, Forethought, IBM, Ivanti, Pega, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Tray.ai, Workday, Zoho, and others launched service-oriented AI agents in 2024. Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms.

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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. That’s just as well, as SAP is only promising mainstream support ECC through the end of 2027.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

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SAP trials meeting-free Fridays

CIO Business Intelligence

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Focus: That will be the new work week for SAP in Germany beginning May 20, 2022. Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft CVP leads new ‘Trusted Technology Group’; MicroVision adds CTO

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LinkedIn Photo) — Siteimprove hired Christy Marble as chief marketing officer. Marble previously served as CMO for companies including SAP Concur, Pantheon Platform and Visier. — Icertis , a Bellevue-based contract management software company, appointed Shashi Mandapaty to its strategic advisory board.