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...Mr McDermott was well enough to dial into SAP's second-quarter results call with investors later in July....
...Chris Bryant, shadow leader of the House and a Welsh MP, said Evel resembled a “bowl of soggy, overcooked spaghetti” and threatened the future of the UK....
...Chris Bryant, shadow leader of the Commons, said: “I’m afraid this has all the hallmarks of government by fit of pique....
...Chris Bryant, shadow leader of the Commons, accused Mr Cameron of being “determined to rig our democracy to suit himself”. “We will fight this attack on open democracy every step of the way,” he said....
...But Chris Bryant, the shadow leader of the House, said the change created “two tiers of MPs for the first time” and politicised the role of the Speaker, and argued they were “a charter to break up the United...
...Germany’s chief executives took centre stage this week when BMW’s chief executive fainted at the Frankfurt motor show and SAP’s chief executive revealed he had lost an eye in a freak accident, writes Chris Bryant...
...The danger of that though is that in two, three or five years from now, you are not the absolute envy of the industry,” said Bill McDermott, chief executive....
...Under Bill McDermott, who took over as sole chief executive in May, SAP is simplifying its portfolio of products and making them more intuitive to use, as well as restructuring its sales operation to give...
...Mr McDermott has overhauled SAP’s leadership team as the company looks to speed up development cycles, build more and better applications and invest in data centres....
...Mr McDermott will start as sole chief executive with a new senior management team....
...His departure comes less than a year after SAP revealed that another key technical figure, Jim Hagemann Snabe, would step down as co-chief executive, leaving Bill McDermott, who has a sales background, as...
...But Mr McDermott denied the cloud push meant SAP investors would be left short-changed....
...Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-chief executives, said SAP was “one of the few global tech companies that has successfully managed the transition to the cloud whilst growing our core business and...
...john.mcdermott@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Best defence is to base immigration claims on the facts / From Ms Bona Boraliu...
...Investors were unsettled by several management changes, including the announcement that Bill McDermott will from 2014 act as sole chief executive when co-chief Mr Snabe moves to the supervisory board....
...Therefore from next May Mr McDermott will be sole CEO....
...Mr McDermott is based in the US while Mr Snabe has remained in Europe....
...Sir, In response to John McDermott’s article “Clumsy intervention in the raw politics of immigration” (August 13): shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant’s best defence against accusations of racism is...
...We see a healthy pipeline across all key markets in this region, in fact, very healthy,” Mr McDermott said....
...Bill McDermott, SAP’s other chief executive, described the Hybris acquisition as a “game changer”. “We are here to talk over the CRM marketplace,” he added....
...Still, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-chief executives, hailed an “outstanding” year and said SAP was the fastest growing in the next generation database market....
...New co-chief executives Bill McDermott, a tanned media-savvy American salesman and Jim Hagemann Snabe, an introverted, intellectual Dane are supported by Vishal Sikka, an Indian whose technological expertise...
...“The results came in at the upper end of our second quarter software revenue guidance in an uncertain macroeconomic environment,” Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-chief executives, said in a statement...
...“Where we saw slowness we made some leadership changes there too,” Mr McDermott, said. “I remain extremely confident in Europe. . ....
...But Mr McDermott said on Wednesday: “I’m confident that we have at least €21bn-plus [of sales in 2015] at this stage of the game.”...
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