In 'brutal' interview, SAP CFO says AI means the company can produce more software with fewer people

At a tech conference in San Francisco recently, I met Dominik Asam, CFO of SAP, Europe's most valuable software company. I started by asking him what AI tools he uses, and the conversation evolved from there. Asam said he's a massive user. "For me personally, it is really more research — I'm preparing a presentation and I want to have some data and I just prompt the tool to say, give me that data," he explained.A common goal is to instill urgency among SAP customers that they shouldn't sit around and wait ...