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Claus Wellenreuther (born 1935 in Mannheim〔(SAP: Die Gründer ) at de.news-sap.com〕) is a German entrepreneur and co-founder of software company SAP SE. == Career == Wellenreuther studied business administration at University of Mannheim with a specialization in operations research.〔 He submitted his dissertation on ''Markov processes and their implementation on queueing systems'' in 1968. Afterwards Wellenreuther worked at IBM in Mannheim, where he was responsible for developing financial accountancy systems.〔(Unter 20 000 Monatsbuchungen ist Dialog nicht rentabel ), Computerwoche, 26 August 1977〕 In 1971 he left IBM to program a standard financial accountancy system with batch processing.〔(SAP: Langsam, aber gewaltig ), Handelsblatt.com〕 He then joined his former IBM colleagues Hasso Plattner, Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector and Klaus Tschira to found the software company ''Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung'' in Weinheim, which would later become the SAP AG. Wellenreuther was primarily responsible for the architecture and the concept of the SAP R/2 financial accountancy module.〔(Am Anfang war die Buchhaltung ... )〕 Wellenreuther left the business in 1980 for health reasons and received a compensation of 1 million DM. In 1982 he founded ''DCW Software'' (Dr. Claus Wellenreuther GmbH & Co. KG), which he developed into a specialist for middle-sized ERP software. The company was acquired by SAP in 2003.〔(SoftM: SAP-Beteiligung an DCW verbessert die eigene Position )〕 The „deal among friends" was heavily criticized by DCW customers that had explicitly decided for an alternative to SAP.〔(SAP will DCW Software kaufen )〕 In 2004 DCW was merged with the SAP subsidiary ''Steeb Anwendungssysteme GmbH''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claus Wellenreuther」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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