Bill McDermott
Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead
Thank you, Luka. And Adam, I’ll just touch on the machine learning. First of all, we are working on largely horizontal focused applications, core applications, and we are making our own. So, think of it as focused on the digital core and making the line of business smarter, so S/4HANA, our cloud and network assets, and it will be mainly organic. And if we do anything on the M&A side, it will be tuck-in, nothing to get concerned with -- on the financial model. And maybe, I could just give you a little feel for this. We need to start turning up the advertising and the marketing on what we’re already doing for machine learning, whether it is recruiting, employee approvals, payment processing, sales discounting approval or call center management up to an including effectively using box. We already have our machine learning solutions in place and we’re rolling them out across industry. It will be a huge source of growth and probably not factored in your models. In terms of blockchain, it’s another area that I’ll just touch on because I know we talked a lot about IoT, but not so much ML and blockchain. If you think about banking, identity, compliance security, trade settlement, insurance, smart claims, manufacturing, track and trace, all these industries have a blockchain case. And remember, more than three quarters of the world transactions are running through an SAP system. So, our financials will actually form a very unique blockchain business network. I kindly ask you to keep that in mind. And then, finally, on IoT because it is real time information, logistics, autonomous payments, quality assurance, and the counterfeiting industrial and military cyber security, we’re in all of these areas at the application layer, and we have it now. So, it’s not like a fantasy or dream or we give you a tool box and you build it. Our great development team is already building it or has built it and is rolling out in customer establishment and maybe step on at the investor day, we can give you a complete overview including all the logos; we’re in flight already.