The authors of »SAP S/4HANA Cloud«

Thomas Saueressig

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Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. He leads the SAP Product Engineering area and has global responsibility for all business software applications. This includes all functional areas from product strategy and management to product development and innovation as well as product delivery and support. He is also in charge of all development cross-functions at SAP, comprising the overall quality of SAP software products, its user experience, and the underlying global cloud infrastructure. These responsibilities ensure a consistent level of scalability, reliability, performance, security, and data protection across all solutions for SAP’s customers. Thomas has a degree in business information technology from the University of Cooperative Education in Mannheim (Germany) and a joint executive MBA from ESSEC (France) and Mannheim Business School (Germany).

Jan Gilg

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Jan Gilg is the president of SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s flagship product that encompasses ERP, finance, and the supply chain. In this role, he has global responsibility for the development, delivery, and product management of SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s Industry Solutions, as well as the SAP Digital Supply Chain portfolio. With SAP S/4HANA, customers have the choice to balance standardization with customization when running their mission critical processes with an intelligent ERP system. Jan is also a member of the SAP Engineering Senior Leadership team.
Prior to his current role, Jan worked at SAP’s IT organization as the head of enterprise architecture and later as the head of IT business services. He reported to SAP’s global CIO, representing SAP IT internally and externally. In this role, he was responsible for implementing a significant portion of SAP’s product portfolio. He drove SAP IT’s agile transformation and in this way his organization was essential in supporting SAP to become an intelligent enterprise.
Jan started his career at SAP in 2005 as a consultant: He moved to the US in 2008 to lead SAP’s enterprise content management (ECM) practice for North America consulting. He then worked in the office of the CEO as part of SAP’s corporate strategy group on portfolio strategy and in the office of the CTO before joining the North America field organization in various business development roles as a value and enterprise architect.

Oliver Betz

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Oliver Betz is a senior vice president and global head of product management for SAP S/4HANA at SAP SE. In this role, he assesses customer and market requirements and drives the SAP S/4HANA product strategy. Under his leadership, his team has discovered key market trends and collaborated with customers and partners globally to define SAP’s next generation software solution for the digital core, helping customers to gain a competitive advantage. His team is continually assessing the latest technologies and evaluating ways to leverage them in SAP S/4HANA to drive new innovation. The mission of the SAP S/4HANA product management team is to bring the client’s vision to life and enable them to transform their business and become an intelligent enterprise leveraging the power of the next-generation ERP.
Oliver began his professional career as a software developer and consultant in 1996 and joined SAP in 2000 as a technical support consultant. Prior to assuming his current position, he was senior vice president and general manager of SAP Innovative Business Solutions. Oliver holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Marcus Homann

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Marcus Homann is chief of staff and head of customer engagement of SAP S/4HANA product management at SAP. In this role he supports important strategic initiatives and takes care of critical customer requirements. Marcus joined SAP in 2014 and has had different roles in SAP’s support and engineering organizations including development manager, IT planning architect, escalation manager, operations expert, and customer office lead. Marcus began his professional career as IT strategy consultant at Accenture before he moved to the SAP University Competence Center in Munich, where spearheaded key initiates in the areas of data center infrastructure, SAP HANA, and SAP Mobile Platform.
Marcus holds two Master Degrees in Computer Science and Business Information Systems as well as a Ph.D. in Business Information Systems. He studied at the Technical University in Munich, the University of Bamberg, the Aston Business School in Birmingham (UK) as well as at the University of Applied Sciences in Hof.
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    SAP S/4HANA Cloud
    An Introduction

    Thomas Saueressig, Jan Gilg, Uwe Grigoleit, Arpan Shah, Almer Podbicanin, Marcus Homann

    538 pages, hardcover

    SAP S/4HANA Cloud has a lot to offer—so see what’s possible! Explore core functionality like finance, logistics, and reporting with embedded analytics. Learn how SAP S/4HANA Cloud impacts your users and how it can be extended, integrated, and adopted by More about the book

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    • Discover SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the cloud ERP system
    • Walk through key processes: finance, procurement, sales, and more
    • Explore intelligent technologies, embedded analytics, and adoptions paths
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    Business as Unusual with SAP
    How Leaders Navigate Industry Megatrends

    Thomas Saueressig, Peter Maier

    307 pages, hardcover

    In global business, change is always afoot. Are you only focused on today’s processes, or are you looking ahead at tomorrow’s best practices? Choose to do business as unusual! In this new book, executives Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier explore More about the book

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    • Transform your business model to advance your organization
    • Explore SAP’s innovation around supply networks, integrated mobility, everything as a service, and more
    • Hear from customers across industries: from consumer goods and manufacturing to retail, high-tech, and beyond
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    SAP S/4HANA Architecture

    Thomas Saueressig, Tobias Stein, Jochen Boeder, Wolfram Kleis

    544 pages, hardcover

    If you’re working with SAP S/4HANA, you need to know the ins and outs of the system. Master SAP S/4HANA’s technical and application architecture with this book! See how the foundation is built: the backend data models, the frontend user More about the book

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    • Understand the technical foundation of SAP S/4HANA
    • Explore the architecture of key application areas, including finance, logistics, procurement, and sales
    • Learn about SAP S/4HANA Cloud’s unique cloud architecture