This entry was posted by admin on February 23, 2010 at 1:30 pm under SAP Corporate News.

The recent executive turnover at SAP is indicative of a larger shift happening in the world of business IT, Ed Sperling wrote in a recent column for Forbes.

Sperling said that "looked at in isolation, SAP has a unique set of challenges. But when you factor in SAP’s top rival, Oracle buying Sun, a different picture begins to take shape." Sperling also wrote that SAP’s two new co-CEOs are reputedly more interested in cloud-based and Software-as-a-Service infrastructures than was former CEO Leo Apotheker.

A larger shift to these new models, Sperling said, cannot come a moment too soon for SAP in particular and for the enterprise software market in general. He compared the current evolution of the business software sector to that which occurred in the business hardware market when companies began to step back from mainframe lock-in with companies like IBM.

While this may make life difficult in the foreseeable future for the business software companies, the news couldn’t be better for their customers, who will see prices become more competitive.