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SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott weighs in on automatic spending cuts and working with the NFL to develop Scouting Solution.
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Yeah about a government spending cuts are beginning in all many businesses may be feeling the effects opera company SAP says in times of chaos -- actually.
Opportunities for those that remain calm mind joining offered exclusive interview plus six.
Us CEO -- -- Intel saying.
You're you're you're -- right now you're very positive on the global economy and -- -- there's opportunity for companies like yours yeah.
With sequestration.
And do it.
Well you have to make government more efficient if there is less money and you have to drive productivity technology is going to be one of the few things available.
To change the game.
Today's constituents want transparency like what are you doing with my money and what is it doing for me as an individual -- -- voter.
Also there's enormous challenges would data.
-- what is the information that needs to be made readily available to people so they know what's going on.
All these things are very helpful toward business the other thing this developed to social.
Because now in public service you have to know what people are thinking.
In social communities and collaborative network and the government actually cares about FaceBook and where are now I I think there's actually a case because here you have a billion users.
On these various technologies and if you don't know what those users -- saying.
With their friends in their collaborative networks how can you possibly be in touch with what you constituents want or expect.
What are the things that you did during the banking crisis and this is were SAP actually grew and and frankly took can manage -- -- crisis and that was it help the banks streamlined.
Their back -- business and you're saying that now with sequestration this is a new opportunity for you in the company.
To streamline the back -- side.
Of the US government as -- people are being cut jobs and.
Yeah perhaps absolutely I mean you're gonna have to do the same or more with less and data is doubling as an example every eighteen months in the world.
You've got enhanced its.
And the other thing is businesses have learned that they've got to move to real time enterprises.
Don't governments have to be real -- I'm also I would hope so you think so the government always surprises me bill I do want to say Yosemite 5% a fortune 500 companies use.
Your software.
One of the things that you have learned is that the global economy is very volatile.
Two years ago Europe was a bit of a mess that was a problem -- -- -- -- -- getting better.
How do you feel about the global economy as somebody that has operations in -- 130 countries right.
Overall I I feel optimistic and the mood even the mood as we discussed.
In -- was much more positive this year I think people realize that the worlds and on certain place it's certainly.
Less than perfect and LB the crisis of the moment.
And you can almost predict them now they'll come steadily.
But business leaders know they have to have a vision and a strategy they have to execute that strategy.
-- -- twenty or -- which are going into 25 now this kind of fun sports entertainment you've got a new product.
For the San Francisco forty niners -- helping -- football team.
Well -- -- the back -- what little what we left to do shows we love to make the fan happy so if you think about the average.
Mother of father taking the daughter assigned to a -- you want to make sure that's the greatest day of their life and they're connected on the mobile before they get to the game.
Then they submit their ticket now you know who they are aware they're sitting -- -- favorite players -- birthday you can up sell cross Solomon make himself happy.
But also the teens.
Need to run like best run businesses so -- York who's a visionary owner of the forty niners.
Runs his whole business on SEP but best of all.
Roger -- -- on the way he runs the NFL is now saying -- I've got to put the NFL in real time one big date on SAP Honda so I connect to my team and I connect to my friend this is the final thing.
The scouting process -- if you think about money ball who are the best players statistically all over the country and how -- the teams recruit them well.
You let them -- -- telling me you have the measures that -- -- -- -- Bill McDermott and we that we talk -- and a before and then there's all kinds of things are doing very interesting -- thank you thank you very much sir William fox -- great to have gone through its tight corner past the hour.
