SAP has abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit.
Sikka has been a champion of SAP’s HANA in-memory database platform, which has been positioned as the future convergence point for all of SAP’s technologies. After Friday’s announcement, those plans may speed up. All SAP development staffers will report to Sikka as of June 1.
As for Dalgaard, he will leave SAP as of June 1 “to become an investor,” and will “continue to play an active role as an advisor to the SAP cloud business,” SAP said. Dalgaard’s exit comes less than two years after SAP purchased SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion.
Dalgaard was scheduled to appear earlier this month at SAP’s Sapphire conference but ended up canceling due to a death in the family. He also has a child who has been battling leukemia.
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