The other three donors, including SAP co-founder Dietmar Hopp, had fallen out of the ranks due to their generosity.
For these reasons, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner does not appear alongside his former partners, Dietmar Hopp and Klaus Tschira.
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For others that need to focus only on the big picture, like SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, that would be irrelevant data and information overload.
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Highest ranked European tech exec: SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner.
Others play along better: In a 2001 concert, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner got to play guitar on a blues song during a sound check with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
In his book, Business Process Management: The SAP Roadmap, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe says, based on research, that standard software covers about 20 percent of the processes in any given business.
Forbes Associate Editor Victoria Barret chatted with SAP's new co-CEO, Bill McDermott, to get a sense of the company's plans.
Second, SAP is expanding its program for co-development and co-innovation.
But McDermott says the co-CEO approach has a long history at SAP.
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Duffaut said that these co-development and co-innovation processes are key to the consumerization of SAP, which is the only way that SAP will expand its reach to meet its goal of 1 billion users.
Snabe says two years ago he was on stage here at CeBIT with co-CEO Bill McDermott and started a process to reinvent SAP.
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