High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs

The departure could not have come at a worse time for SAP, but Todd McElhatton, veep and chief beancounter for the Cloud Business Group, is the latest person to hang up their hat at the German database giant. Just a week after shareholders vented frustration at the chopping and changing of SAP's leadership team, it was …

[Pascal Monett]

"Todd's track record of accelerating enterprise growth"

I'm sorry, he's a beancounter. The only thing beancounters do is restrict budgets. I fail to see how that accelerates anything.

Were he top salesdroid, then yes, he could definitely accelerate growth by closing six-figure deals.

Beancounters don't close deals, they just record them. Then they cook the figures so that the salesdroid doesn't get the bonus he thought he was entitled to.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oops

I guess S4Hana and SAC aren't going too well then.

Maybe they should have spent a bit more time maintaining and updating their other software rather than getting over excited about shiny stuff.