Events & Media Archive | 2013

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Marketing Transformation: 3 Leadership Skills You Need To Succeed

SAP logoMar 6, 2013, Business Innovation from SAP by Michael Brenner 

After seeing the report, I reached out to SAP’s CMO, Jonathan Becher (@jbecher) who is leading the marketing transformation effort here at SAP.  Jonathan also speaks and writes quite a bit about the need for marketing transformation. Jonathan agreed with the main points of the report but added “the one thing that might be missing is Culture. You know I believe Culture eats strategy.”

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Advanced Statistics Added to Revamped N.B.A. Site

Feb 14, 2013, New York Times by Howard Beck

Tnythe engine, powered by SAP’s HANA platform, can process 4.5 quadrillion combinations of data, said Ken DeGennaro, the league’s vice president for information technology. The options go way beyond points per game and rebounding averages.

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Hashing Out the New Rules of Marketing with Jonathan Becher of SAP

February 13, 2012, JonERP.com by Jon Reed

In this informal discussion shot in Palo Alto, Jon Reed of http://www.JonERP.com talks with Jonathan Becher, Chief Marketing Officer, SAP, about the “new rules of marketing” and how this impacts not only software vendors but consumers. The guys talk about the impact of personalization, the limitations of a Klout-oriented view of Influence, and how a “pull” approach to marketing creates new challenges for all companies, SAP included.

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Super Bowl: Tech firms on sidelines, but in the game

SFgateJan 29 2013, SFGate by Caleb Garling

SAP, the German business software giant with U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto and a founding partner in the 49ers’ Santa Clara stadium, also will send a bevy of executives to the game. Its software will power much of the event’s digital operations, a powerful way to show off to customers, says chief marketing officer Jonathan Becher.

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