While cloud computing has been on the rise in recent years, and SAP has made their service available through the cloud so that companies do not need to have their own data servers, Steve Singh, SAP’s president forecasts that microservices are going to be a key in the future. Microservices are essentially apps being developed smaller and in separate pieces, rather than one complete program, such as Concur, which is a travel and expense manager. I agree with Singh that custom tailored services that are smaller will probably become more popular, because one of the biggest drawbacks I see with SAP currently is it can almost do too much, so it is complicated to learn and apply. If instead SAP was formed in much smaller apps, I feel that it would be much more straightforward to learn and use, because apps would only do specific things that you needed them to, so a company could have their own custom products to use that meet their exact needs.
Link to article: http://www.geekwire.com/2017/sap-president-steve-singh-says-cloud-computing-yesterdays-news-microservices-future/