SAP Co-CEO Bill :Small-Business-Friendly

SAP hosted an SME Summit at its New York office Nov. 29. The summit matched with the release of an SAP survey on small businesses in New York City.

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott emphasized that even SAP had once been a small business. “Forty years ago, it was five guys. We now have 65,000 employees, but more than 300,000 people are in the ecosystem of SAP all those jobs were built on the backbone of an idea that five guys had,” he said. “So if you innovate and stay true to your customer and execute well .. you can run a pretty interesting company.”

When asked how the market for SMEs is today, McDermott said he was optimistic and quoted “Entrepreneurs do best when things are at their worst.” cloud-based HANA platform really make a change to world run better.