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Christian Klein

Chief Executive Officer & Member of Executive Board, Sap

Search every verified Christian Klein interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, stated during a July 24 Bloomberg interview that the company was "very happy" with its second-quarter performance, citing accelerated cloud growth and noting that 90% of cloud deals included AI. He described AI as a "disruption to the software industry" but argued that SAP's value lies in its ability to provide business context and domain logic that large language models lack. Klein emphasized that SAP maintains an open platform with APIs and third-party agent integration, and said the company sees "not one winner" in the AI layer for ERP. Following the departure of chief product officer Muhammed Alam, Klein took over oversight of development, saying that "it's good to be close to development these days" as the company shifts from coding features to coding AI agents. On the July 23 earnings call, Klein said customers are realizing they need to "modernize" ERP landscapes alongside AI adoption, and noted that "a lot of customers" are choosing to do both with SAP. He discussed the company's AI agent hub and its new end-to-end user experience, Jewel Work, which has 4,000 internal users. Regarding pricing, Klein stated that "with AI... we can completely reset the price level" toward outcome-based pricing. He also said SAP had adjusted hiring plans and would "nowhere near" hire the number of people planned at the beginning of the year, citing increased productivity from AI tools.

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  • SAP CEO Christian Klein Talks Company's Q2 Earnings | Bloomberg Talks

    SAP's stock climbed 6% in premarket trading in New York after the company reported strong revenue growth in its cloud business. The company's current cloud backlog grew 26% on a constant-currency basis to EUR22.93 billion in the second quarter, above analysts' forecasts of 24%. SAP cut its outlook for the year, citing a EUR100 million impact from the acquisition of data platforms Prior Labs and Dremio, and trimmed its guidance for non-IFRS operating profit. CEO Christian Klein joined The Opening Trade to talk with Bloomberg's Anna Edwards and Guy Johnson. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://o…

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  • SAP Q2 2026 Earnings Call | Cloud Backlog Expansion Drives Double-Digit Revenue Beat

    SAP Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Twitter - https://x.com/i101yt If you find our work useful, please support us by purchasing ...

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  • SAP Q2 FY26 Earnings Call | $SAP | 🔴 WATCH LIVE

    SAP SE (SAP) — Q2 FY26 Earnings Call Live coverage with Benzinga. Q2 FY26 Results EPS: $1.85 (est. $2.01) — inline Revenue: $11.48B (est. $11.49B) — inline Reported: 2026-07-23 Recent Quarters Q1 FY26 (2026-04-23): EPS $2.01 vs est $1.92 · Rev $11.19B vs est $11.26B Q4 FY25 (2026-01-29): EPS $1.89 vs est $1.76 · Rev $11.27B vs est $11.46B Q3 FY25 (2025-10-22): EPS $1.85 vs est $1.69 · Rev $10.55B vs est $10.57B Q2 FY25 (2025-07-22): EPS $1.70 vs est $1.63 · Rev $10.23B vs est $10.39B About SAP SE Founded in Germany in 1972 by former IBM employees, SAP is the world's largest provider of ent…

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  • SAP Autonomous Suite and Business AI Platform | SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026

    SAP Business AI Platform is opening new ways for enterprises to build, extend, and adopt AI agents at scale. In this SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026 keynote segment, Christian Klein, SAP's Chief Executive Officer, announces three updates to help customers and partners accelerate AI adoption: open data exchange between SAP AI agents and third-party agents, free AI development with Joule Studio 2.0, and more than €100 million in ecosystem investment to build agents and drive adoption. The video also introduces SAP Autonomous Suite, a major evolution of SAP’s application business. Spanning Autonomous…

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  • SAP Business AI Platform and Autonomous Enterprise | SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026

    SAP Business AI Platform brings together business data, process context, and governance to help enterprises scale AI with confidence. In this SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026 keynote segment, Christian Klein, SAP's Chief Executive Officer, explains why enterprise AI needs more than generic models. While AI can generate text, images, and code with increasing speed, mission-critical business processes require accurate, reliable, and compliant outcomes. The video introduces SAP Business AI Platform, which brings together SAP’s AI foundation, SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Business Technology Platfor…

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  • JPMorganChase and SAP on Trusted AI | SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026

    Trusted AI at enterprise scale depends on clean data, strong processes, and clear governance. In this SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026 conversation, Christian Klein, SAP's Chief Executive Officer, welcomes Jeremy Bernum, Chief Financial Officer of JPMorganChase, to discuss how one of the world’s largest financial institutions balances fast innovation with risk, compliance, and trust. Jeremy shares how technology helps JPMorganChase serve millions of customers, process transactions at global scale, and modernize its financial ecosystem. The discussion highlights JPMorganChase’s move to SAP’s latest…

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  • Global Keynote: The Beginning of Better | SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026

    SAP Sapphire 2026 marks a new chapter for enterprise AI: the Autonomous Enterprise, where people set the direction, and AI executes. In this keynote, SAP shares how Joule, Joule Work, Joule Assistants, Joule Agents, SAP Autonomous Suite, SAP Business AI Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud, and Cloud ERP come together to help businesses move from fragmented work to connected, governed, AI-enabled execution. The SAP Sapphire 2026 Innovation News Guide frames this vision around Joule Work, SAP Autonomous Suite, SAP Business AI Platform, and industry scenarios that combine SAP’s AI innovation with…

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  • SAP Sapphire 2026: post keynote Q&A for media and analysts

    The full article is here: https://itwire.com/business-it-news/d... At SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, SAP CEO, Christian Klein walked out to open the day one keynote and asked a question he probably knew would make a few customers shift in their seats: will SAP actually be a software company in the future? He let it hang. Then he spent the next 90 minutes arguing the answer is no, and that's a good thing. SAP's pitch this year is it's becoming a business AI company, with the ERP brain it's been sharpening for 50 years now wired directly into a fleet of AI agents that can run finance, supply c…

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  • The Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Sapphire 2026 Orlando, Day 1 Opening Keynote

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  • SAP CEO Christian Klein at Semafor World Economy

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