TIME/CNN has chosen, 34-year-old Israeli Shai Agassi, to its list of
Global Business Influentials.
In February, SAP made Agassi the first non-German member of its
board, and he replaced SAP founder Hasso Plattner in the top
technologist role." TIME also quotes him as saying, when asked to
define his vision, "Training people on computer systems is stupid. We
need to train the systems to work with people."
Agassi, who grew up in Israel, is chief technology developer of the
world's largest business-software company, SAP of Germany.
"He started four companies in his 20s," TIME writes, "and sold one,
Top Tier, to SAP for $400 million. He ran a subsidiary, SAP Portals,
and developed XApps -- new software designed to work with existing
systems.