The news that SAP is delaying the roll-out of Business ByDesign – and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates – is the perfect preamble to this post: With Leo Apotheker slated to assume to mantle of SAP by the end of the year, his mandate – and challenges – couldn’t be made more clear than the juxtaposition of this news. Here’s what has to happen in order for Leo to go down in the history of SAP as a great CEO, and it entails responding to three major problems that SAP will be facing in the next decade. Problem number one: what to do about the problem of on-demand vs. on-premise computing. While many, myself...