Jonathan Becher, formerly chief marketing officer for SAP, will be the company’s inaugural chief digital officer in charge of the newly formed digital business segment. SAP said Monday Becher will help manage the company’s potential expansion into the content and data markets as it centralizes its online service delivery operations onto the SAP Store. “Jonathan will not only be responsible for […] More

SAP SE has selected Omnicom Group to provide communications, advertising and marketing services for SAP’s global accounts. Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, said Tuesday the company will work with Omnicom to scale the “Run simple” movement worldwide. “Omnicom’s agencies delivered us a compelling, end-to-end vision for the next generation of the SAP brand,” McDermott said. […] More

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott told a group of investors in New York Tuesday that the company intends to cut the amount of hardware it uses by migrating more applications into the company’s cloud-based HANA computing platform, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Moving to the High Performance Analytic Appliance database management tool would help customers simply their […] More

SAP has awarded the GENYOUth Foundation with a multi-year, $3 million commitment to support a new young entrepreneurs program aimed at improving the nutrition and physical activities in schools. Through the commitment, which includes a mentorship program run by SAP employees, the foundation will be able to help more students in the 73,000 participating schools, […] More

Accenture and ServiceNow have partnered under a five-year, multi-million dollar agreement to create a new business group to advance digital transformation that mitigates operational challenges. “By further strengthening our strategic alliance with ServiceNow, we will enable our clients to more quickly embrace change,” said Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture. “With a move to the cloud, they can reimagine their operations, reskill their employees, and become more sustainable.”

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Twenty-five representatives from the public and private sectors have been appointed to serve on a new board that will develop strategies to improve the state of the U.S. workforce. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Ivanka Trump, adviser to the president, co-chair the recently created American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, the Department of Commerce said Wednesday.
 

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Stefan Ries, who held human resources leadership roles at SAP AG between 2002 and 2010, will rejoin the German software conglomerate on April 1 as global head of human resources. The former Egon Zehnder principal consultant will be in charge of all HR activities at SAP and lead the company’s HR organization, SAP announced Thursday. Ries will report […] More