Keep pulling the thread on Christian Klein.
The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund owns just under 3% of SAP, a position valued at $9 billion.
80% of the world's B2B transactions touch an SAP system.
95% of the world's largest companies use at least one SAP system.
SAP's researchers predict that quantum computing will be mature enough to apply within SAP's product portfolio in the next three to four years.
SAP will launch 10 new agentic AI use cases at its Sapphire conference in May.
SAP promises its clients that its AI tools can drive productivity gains of up to 30% for end users this year.
Christian Klein asserts that no large language model understands business data or context, making SAP's AI foundation, which does, a key differentiator.
SAP is the largest company in Europe and the third largest software company in the world.
SAP is building sovereign clouds in response to increasing demand from European customers for data localization due to geopolitical uncertainty.
Christian Klein is not optimistic that European Union member states will agree to a unified data sovereignty standard because individual countries are unwilling to give up power.
SAP invests billions of dollars in R&D for cybersecurity.
SAP is building sovereign clouds in Europe through partnerships, including Delos in Germany and Pleu in France with Capgemini and Microsoft.