56. Insights SAP and Strategy SAP DWC - Talking with Mohamed Abdel Hadi, SAP | EN

As Global Vice President for SAP Data Warehouse Product Management
& Strategy, Mohamed Abdel Hadi (Mo) is responsible for the
entire data warehouse and on-premise portfolio. He has been
focusing on analytics and data warehousing at SAP for more than 11
years now. With this background, he provides a strong technical,
market and customer focused vision for new products and technology
driven development projects. Leading a global team, he focuses on
delivering best-in-class analytics and data warehousing products to
customers and strengthening SAP's position in the converging data
and analytics markets. Mo graduated from Flensburg University of
Applied Sciences with a degree in Business Intelligence, Database
Systems and Algorithms. He lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and
enjoys traveling to exciting countries in his spare time.
Furthermore, he performs magic and magic tricks, challenges friends
in table tennis and loves spending time with them. In our chat with
Mo, we discussed cultural specifics of projects around the globe.
For whom do references count, who is into comprehensive POCs, who
are early adopters of the latest products etc.? In addition, it
becomes clear why SAP has taken the path towards the Data Warehouse
Cloud (DWC), why SAP focuses especially on customer use cases and
shows openness towards other product vendors. There are clear
project recommendations for customer who want to use SAP Analytics
Cloud and Data Warehouse Cloud. But we also talk about existing
customers who are using SAP BW or older frontend tools and discuss
possible implementation approaches for the new SAP products.