SAP Cloud Effort Pushes Forward Despite Exec Turnover, Official Says

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The recent executive shakeups at enterprise software giant SAP hit the company’s cloud computing business particularly hard, with some of the top people in that unit exiting.  Vishal Sikka, SAP’s CTO in charge of products and innovation and a key developer the company’s HANA in-memory database, resigned May 4. HANA has proved to be a highly successful product for the company and has become the primary platform for SAP’s cloud computing ambitions.

Days later, it was announced that Shawn Price, who in January took over as head of SAP’s cloud unit, was ousted, continuing a trend at the company of instability in a key business for SAP as it looks to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com, Oracle and Microsoft in the all-important cloud arena…


Price had taken over for Robert Calderoni, who had taken the reins from Lars Dalgaard in a tenure that lasted only months. Dalgaard had been CEO of SuccessFactors—a Web-based human resources software maker—until SAP bought it in 2012 for about $3.4 billion.  Sikka was replaced by two other executives, Robert Enslin and Bernd Leukert, on SAP’s executive board. Price reportedly will not be replaced…

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