Karl-Michael Popp

Karl-Michael Popp , with a master in economics and a PhD in information systems, is a member of the Corporate Development and Strategy Team in the Office of the CEO at SAP SE in Germany. In his 30 year career at large and small software companies, he has worked on over 50 strategic partnerships and over thirty-five acquisitions and successful merger integrations as well as a few divestitures. He has lead open source licensing for SAP´s technology platform for several years. He is a speaker, author of many books and scholarly articles as well as advisor on software and platform business models, software ecosystems and merger automation and runs enticing workshops and trainings on software ecosystems and merger integration.

Publications

A Business Model Framework for Open Source Software Companies
A Business Model Framework for Open Source Software Companies
Karl-Michael Popp. © 2023. 17 pages.
Open-source software companies represent growing businesses with specific business models. Here, the authors look at different business models for companies that base their...