SAP axed their top cloud chief Shawn Price earlier this week. It seems as if SAP is looking to restructure its entire business and focus more on cloud.

Reports suggest that SAP plans on cutting 1,500 to 2,500 jobs.  SAP currently employees over 65,000 people internationally.

Not too much has been released from SAP in regards to the proposed job cuts. In a brief press release, SAP said, “Our goal is to become simpler, more agile, faster and easier to work with. This is a broad company-wide effort to make SAP more effective and strengthen our innovation leadership.”

Although the news of job cuts at SAP is certainly a shock at face value, SAP mentions that it plans on ending the year with more employees than it began 2014 with.

Those in the media who have reached out to SAP have received this response in regards to …