Jens Krüger
Dr. Jens Krüger heads the Finance LoB in the board area of Products & Innovation. Jens oversees a global development organization that is dedicated to developing innovative applications in SAP’s core business. Jens and his team were key in developing the first module of SAP S/4HANA—SAP S/4HANA, Finance edition, formerly known as SAP Simple Finance.
In his responsibility as co-head of the SAP Innovation Center Potsdam and managing director of the SAP Labs Berlin, Jens plays a key role in shaping SAP’s future Finance portfolio and in further building thought leadership across the SAP ecosystem. Before joining SAP in September 2013, Jens was co-representative of Prof. Hasso Plattner’s research chair at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering. He was one of the founding members of the prominent joint research project with SAP that built the first prototype of SAP’s award-winning in-memory platform, SAP HANA.
Jens has a master’s degree in business administration from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and received a doctorate degree for his dissertation “Enterprise-Specific In-Memory Data Management” from the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam.
In his responsibility as co-head of the SAP Innovation Center Potsdam and managing director of the SAP Labs Berlin, Jens plays a key role in shaping SAP’s future Finance portfolio and in further building thought leadership across the SAP ecosystem. Before joining SAP in September 2013, Jens was co-representative of Prof. Hasso Plattner’s research chair at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering. He was one of the founding members of the prominent joint research project with SAP that built the first prototype of SAP’s award-winning in-memory platform, SAP HANA.
Jens has a master’s degree in business administration from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and received a doctorate degree for his dissertation “Enterprise-Specific In-Memory Data Management” from the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam.
