SAP announced that Bill McDer­mott is step­ping down from his role as CEO, and is pro­mot­ing Jen­nifer Mor­gan and Chris­t­ian Klein to be co-CEOs, effec­tive immediately.

Under Bill’s lead­er­ship, SAP has grown its foot­print and revi­tal­ized its focus on cus­tomers and ensur­ing their suc­cess. I’ve had the plea­sure of col­lab­o­rat­ing with Bill and get­ting to know him over the years, and we always have shared a com­mon inter­est in help­ing busi­ness­es make more pos­si­ble with SAP.

The great news is that won’t change under Jennifer’s and Christian’s lead­er­ship. I have spent time with both, and I can assure you that their top pri­or­i­ty will be mak­ing cer­tain that all SAP cus­tomers are set up to accel­er­ate their busi­ness­es and tech­nolo­gies for the future. They val­ue the per­spec­tive that ASUG and the oth­er glob­al user groups bring to the table — that’s for sure.

I will con­clude by say­ing thank you to Bill for every­thing, and I look for­ward to future part­ner­ships and con­ver­sa­tions with Jen­nifer and Christian.