One Thing Apple, Walmart, and Exxon Share: They All Use This Company

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4.7 • 17 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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SAP CEO Christian Klein speaks with At Barron's editor at large Andy Serwer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to At Barons.
0:36.9	I'm Andy Surwer. And welcome to our guest, Christian Klein, CEO of SAP.
0:42.3	Christian, nice to see you. Thanks for joining us.
0:43.3	Yeah, great to be here Andy.
0:45.3	So SAP is a giant software company based in Europe and primarily makes ERP software, enterprise resource software.
0:55.0	And I'm wondering if you could tell us a little bit about what that is and more specifically what you guys do.
1:01.0	Yeah, so SAP first of all is a truly global company.
1:04.0	We are doing business in over 150 countries and I guess this is also what makes the company so exciting.
1:09.0	So you're seeing the world. Second, 50 years ago, our founder started to say, hey, why are all these finance people
1:16.6	closing manually the books? There is no standard. So this is the way how they started. It's still in
1:21.6	our DNA. They went to some customers to some companies and then, you know, coded some software. And what came out is great software for running finance, HR, we are running the supply
1:32.3	chains of the world.
1:33.8	So all the material flows is actually won by SAP software.
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