SAP’s Jim Hagemann Snabe: “In less than five years, everything is mobile”

During SAP SAPPHIRENOW’s day two keynote, featuring SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe, the packed theater of attendees took to Twitter to tell a very compelling story. In short, SAP’s triple-threat of mobile, cloud and in-memory offerings is making waves. Re-visit the keynote Twitter conversation below and be sure to chime in with your own thoughts.

Co-CEO of @SAP & Member of the #SAP Exec Board, Jim Hagemann Snabe takes the stage to deliver his keynote “As Boundaries Blur” #SAPPHIRENOW

– @Dell_Services

Jim H. Snabe coming out for his keynote. “Dear customers, dear partners, dear influencers…and for the 60K employees.” – @pgreenbe

“$12 trillion of business runs on SAP…Co-CEO Jim Hagerman Snabe says 15 thousand attendees at Sapphire this year – @Katherine_Jones

Jim Snabe taking the #SAPPHIRENOW keynote stage. “Biggest most global Bday party ever.” – @DaveatWisPubs

Nice image – Jim H. Snabe standing in front of a wall of treetops #sapphirenow << Jim H. Snabe for president!  – @rhirsch

“Some people buy a sports car or motorcycle at 40, we bought Successfactors”,  by #SAP CEO – @rvonsosen

“Apollo system memory had only 32KB memory — Snabe holds up “singing” birthday card to illustrate 32KB.” –  @jacquelynhoward

Humble, entertaining and very credible. Nice opening by Jim. #SAPPHIRENOW – @jamesatisher

Interesting #SAP fact – for first five years company didn’t own a computer – they used their clients’! – @abonde

Snabe looking 40 years out: ““the oil era is expected to end” – yup and that will be one serious change – @jonerp

Snabe: We will continue to innovate & provide value to customers, as software solves many of tomorrow’s problems – @CRMsvc

“I Predict that in less than five years, everything is mobile” – Jim Snabe at #SAPPHIRENOW – @socialkev

Today we talk about clouds, tomorrow we won’t even talk about it. In less than 5 yrs everything will be Cloud. #Sapphirenow #SAPCloud – @ m_herman

Jim Snabe ‘Predicting in less than 5 years, everything IS #mobile #cloud #inmemory ‘ #sapphirenow – @mgillet

MyPOV: traditional DB won’t go away. They serve a diff use case vs in-memory db. How we access data and where will change – @rwang0

The stone age ended not because we ran out of stone – LOL #SAPPHIRENOW – GregChase

@Jim_Snabe predicts an “intelligent business web” for businesses, integrating processes & enabling real-time collaboration.  – @DNbus

#SAPPHIRENOW – So spot on re: need to migrate SAP onto Cloud (Pvt, Pblc, Hybrid). Reduce TCO & Achieve Faster ROI. #SAPCLOUD #ASUG2012  – @Beta66

Snabe: The ability for individuals to generate their own data means the supply chain gets turned upside down. #sapphirenow – @alexwilliams

I’m still enjoying the confident tone of the SAP executives. #SapphireNow more concerned about leading not following.  – @shawnrog

#sapphirenow SAP’s evolution from dismissing #cloud only a few years back to “everything cloud” now is very telling #EnSW – @pjtec

“We took a platform approach…so you can start empowering your front-line workers.” – Jim Snabe on #mobility at #SAPPHIRENOW – @SAPNorthAmerica

Snabe recommends: Add intelligence – help your company to predict the future and not just report the past #sapphirenow #HANA #BW – @ERP_CindyJutras

“Did you know #SAP #HANA can help with cancer treatment?” @Jim_Snabe – @SAPNorthAmerica

SAP’s Snabe taking a shot at IBM Watson during keynote example using HANA to help cancer research. #sapphirenow  -@PaulSparta

Love that Jim Snabe is hitting it DEEP in the home. “Cancer Cure”.  Whoever wrote this speech deserves an A++ #SAPPHIRENOW #ASUG2012 – @MicoYuk

Great job by Jim Snabe in #SAPPHIRENOW keynote > authentic, genuine, engaging – @ksheffler