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...sold one, Top Tier, to SAP for $400 million. He ran a subsidiary, SAP Portals, and developed XApps--new software designed to work with existing systems. In February SAP made Agassi the first non-German member of its board, and he replaced SAP founder Hasso Plattner in the top technologist role...
...auspicious time for Plattner's prodigy to step up to the plate. The $40 billion business-software industry is heading for a shakeout, and SAP has to protect its dominant 35% market share. Agassi's vision? "Training people on computer systems is stupid," he says. "We need to train the systems to work with people." If he can turn that idea into a profitable reality, the punch-card kid might find himself captaining the team. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...Five years later, the company he helped co-found is demonstrating the same kind of feisty retort Plattner exhibited when he flashed his behind. SAP was slow to grasp the importance of the Internet and it looked as if newcomers would take the lead. But the 29-year-old company is playing catch-up fast while upstarts are sinking...
...secret of Plattner's success can be found in SAP's new marketing campaign. "In the old New Economy, it seemed that all a company needed to succeed was a URL and a marketing budget. But in the new New Economy companies are measured by the value they create. Can you increase productivity? Reduce costs? Discover new business?" These are questions software companies - in fact all companies - ought to be asking themselves. Products that make businesses more efficient will be in big demand in an economic downturn, and SAP has been honing its skills in this area for nearly three...
...deal Plattner orchestrated in June 2000 to combine forces with Commerce One, a U.S. Internet software company, helped shore up SAP's strengths in building business-to-business marketplaces on the Web. And now Plattner is gearing up to gain on Siebel Systems, the leading firm in the market for sales force, marketing and customer-service software products. As he has repeatedly demonstrated - on his yacht and in the software sector - Plattner doesn't like to lose any race...