On the eve of SAPPHIRE NOW and just a few weeks after the departure of SAP’s former head of cloud business Shawn Price, SAP has announced the creation of a dedicated Industry Cloud organisation, to be headed by Simon Paris.
The move seems to be in complete contrast to recent statements that the company will no longer have a “single individual cloud executive” (as SAP told Forbes), because cloud has been integrated throughout the SAP business.
Via the new business unit, SAP plans to co-innovate with its customers and partners to deliver industry-specific cloud solutions, across 25 industries, including financial services, healthcare, and higher education and research.
Paris, who was previously global head of strategic industries at SAP, said the unit will focus on industries with highly specialised challenges and customers’ most relevant business problems to develop industry cloud solutions.
“With SAP’s proven integration, consistency and coherency across all lines of business, mobile, analytics and technology, we are primed to deliver the deepest and broadest industry cloud solutions in the world, offering tremendous value to our significant customer base, our-ever growing number of new SAP customers and the global SAP ecosystem,” he said.
