Peter Zencke

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Peter Zencke

Peter Zencke is a German mathematician , manager and was a board member of SAP AG until December 31, 2008 . There he was head of the Research and Breakthrough Innovation division and was also responsible for SAP's global research network .

biography

Peter Zencke grew up as the eldest son of the Bonn business journalist Hans-Henning Zencke in the Godesberg district of Plittersdorf . After graduating from high school in 1971, he studied mathematics and economics and received his doctorate in 1980 at the University of Bonn . In 1982 he became an assistant professor at the University of Trier , where he designed the reorganization of a course in business mathematics. In 2011, Peter Zencke was appointed honorary professor for business administration and business informatics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Würzburg .

In 1984 Zencke joined SAP and initially worked in the areas of systems analysis, consulting and training. From 1988 to 1992 he was head of application development for the SAP R / 3 project and helped SAP achieve its worldwide breakthrough as a software company. In 1993 he was appointed to the Executive Board of SAP AG. In addition, he was responsible for expanding SAP's business in the Asia-Pacific region. During his SAP years, Zencke managed a. a. the area of ​​application platform and architecture and coordinated research and the SAP labs. He was largely responsible for the development of the mySAP Business Suite but also for the areas of SAP CRM and SAP Retail. On January 1, 2009, he left SAP as Chief Innovation Officer at his own request.

Zencke was a member of the supervisory board of various companies. a. MeVis Medical Solutions AG , Pixelpark AG, SuseLinux AG .

Other functions

Zencke is a member of the Board of Directors of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and of the Research Advisory Board of the Institute of Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen . He is honorary professor at the University of Würzburg and the University of St. Gallen. He was also chairman of the board of trustees of the SAP Business School in Vienna until it closed in 2009.

Publications

  • Theory and numerics of Chebyshev approximation with real-extended exponential sums , University of Bonn, dissertation, Faculty of Natural Sciences 1980.
  • Rüdiger Buck-Emden, Peter Zencke: mySAP CRM - The Official Guidebook for SAP CRM 4.0 , Galileo, Fort Lee, New Jersey 2004. ISBN 978-1592290291

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uni-wuerzburg.de: Honorary Professorship for Peter Zencke ( Memento from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 18, 2015)
  2. ↑ by Dietmar Müller on January 9, 2004, 1:07 p.m .: Vienna calling: Vortex around the secret project from SAP. January 9, 2004, accessed on November 27, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ "FTD": Successor for Kagermann and Zencke is set up: Press: SAP plans to appoint two new board members. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt, SAP has finally closed "Klosteruni" ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )


personal data
SURNAME Zencke, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, manager and former board member of SAP AG
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century