Enterprise Cloud: SAP Vision

Session Date & Time: Day 2, March 24, 20:30 EST (17:30 pm PST) (45 minutes)
Keywords: Cloud, SAP.
Authors: Sanjog Gad, SVP Advanced Technology, SAP Labs.
Abstract:

Sanjog Gad,
SVP Advanced Technology, SAP Labs
Sanjog Gad, Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology, SAP Labs Palo Alto, California. Reporting to SAP CTO & member of executive board member, he leads an Advanced Technology team and responsible for thinking out of the box and maintaining competitive edge in innovation, identify opportunities in new technology / new solution space, working with Corporate Strategy and Portfolio management group to define portfolio strategy. Sanjog is often pulled into strategic projects within Company or with partners to provide technology guidance and oversight. He is responsible for defining and driving SAP’s Cloud & Virtualization Strategy. He is a well respected subject matter expert in Enterprise Data Management, Cloud computing and Virtualization. He speaks frequently in various technology and business conferences representing SAP. He is also a designated SAP Venture fellow identifying startup companies to invest, partner and possible acquisitions.
Sanjog has more than twenty three years of very diverse management & technology experience in Databases & Transaction Management, Enterprise Software, Collaboration and Search Engine Optimization, having held various senior executive position at leading technology companies including Baan, Microsoft, WebEx & Efficient Frontier.
Sanjog was a founding team member of WebEx and lead their Engineering and Professional Services efforts. He was instrumental in positioning WebEx as a collaboration platform company creating a unique WebEx-enabled Application program (WEA). He was instrumental in building WebEx Telco business from ground up. Prior to that he was at Microsoft (Redmond) in SQL Server group, responsible for SQL Server 7.0 release.
Sanjog spent more than 14 years at Baan and was founding team member of Baan core engineering team in Netherlands who built Baan's Application Technology Platform from scratch. He was one of the very early member of Baan development and contributed significantly to see Baan grow from a small company to a billion USD revenue. He played various roles both from management and technology perspective around the globe. As a chief Architect, he was responsible for Baan's overall technology vision and strategy. He built Baan’s proprietary Database called Triton Base. He co-founded Baan India in 90' with offices in Mumbai & Hyderabad. Later he moved to US to start Baan's US development center.