{"id":10930,"date":"2014-06-17T23:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jun\/18\/sap-challenges-and-opportunities-becoming-cloud-company-cloudwf\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T23:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T23:51:20","slug":"sap-the-challenges-and-opportunities-in-becoming-the-cloud-company-cloudwf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sap-the-challenges-and-opportunities-in-becoming-the-cloud-company-cloudwf\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP: The challenges and opportunities in becoming &#8216;the&#8217; cloud company #CloudWF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the more interesting uses of capitalisation <em>CloudTech<\/em> had seen in recent times. SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe outlined their company&#8217;s plans to become THE cloud company following Q1 results, as the software giant looks to shift its traditional on-prem image to a more agile cloud-first model.<\/p>\n<p>And according to SAP UK&amp;I managing director Kevin Kimber, the signs are pointing in the right direction for this business transformation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hugely ambitious,&#8221; he tells <em>CloudTech<\/em>. &#8220;It&#8217;s never been done before by a company of this size. We believe we&#8217;re well on the way to achieving it, and our customers tell us that on a daily basis, we&#8217;re really at the heart of those discussions. It&#8217;s absolutely squarely in focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recent updates from the company have been something of a roadblock, however. Last month SAP axed top cloud chief &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the more interesting uses of capitalisation CloudTech had seen in recent times. SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe outlined their company&#8217;s plans to become THE cloud company following Q1 results, as the software giant looks t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}