Chen John

Chen John

John Chen came to Sybase in 1997 from Siemens Nixdorf company. The chief executive it became in October, 1998. After Sybase purchase by SAP AG corporation in 2010 remained the head of Sybase as independent division.

Leaving SAP

The CEO of Sybase John Chen leaves SAP two years later after the German corporation absorbed his company. It became known from the official statement of SAP published on October 30, 2012.

In the statement Chen explains the leaving as follows: "15 years later at Sybase wheel I need new calls. Integration of Sybase and SAP is completed fully, business of the company is at peak". Besides he added that Sybase technologies play a significant role in today's success of SAP.

Cochairmen of SAP Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Sneyb thanked Chen for "outstanding leadership" for the last years. Ray Wang, the head of Constellation Research, commented on Chen's leaving so: "It executed what from it was required".

Purchase of Sybase allowed SAP to use actively mobile technologies of the company in the line of software for business. Besides, corporations from Sybase got some DBMS of technology involved in SAP HANA and other products. Also Chen promoted strengthening of positions of SAP in the market of the solution for financial companies.

Work in Sybase

Chen accepted the company from hands of its founders, Mark Hoffman and Bob Epstein, not in the best possible way. Until the end of the 90th Sybase it was known generally for the Sybase SQL Server database server, it formed a basis for the Microsoft SQL Server, and at one time these products were actually identical, but the first option was expected Unix, the second — Microsoft Windows. And further for a number of reasons Sybase considerably yielded a position to Microsoft then events went according to quite standard scenario: the old management which created the company "in a garage" exhausted the capacity of management, and its place was taken by the professional manager. As envisioned by Chen, at the first stage the company had to stop being unprofitable, on the second — to become steadily profitable, on the third — to begin expansion in the market to what we also are witnesses. More than two years the company showed profit increase, and in 2009 its income was 1.17 billion dollars.