Dr. Karl Michael Popp works in the corporate development team at SAP AG, one of the largest software companies in the world. In this function, he specializes in analyzing and executing mergers and acquisitions. Before working on M&A for SAP, Karl has managed all OEM and Resell relationships for SAP NetWeaver, SAPīs technology platform. In this function he managed the evaluation and contracts of several dozen OEM and Resell supplier relationships and the continuous improvements in processes for supplier management. His current research interest is on structures of the software industry, esp. ecosystems of companies, management of ecosystems and business models for partnerships between software vendors and on mergers and acquisitions. He also researches supply chains in the software in industry as chains of OEM relationships. In addition, Karl continuously researches in the field of business process modeling and linking business process models to application systems for more than twenty years. Karl has published three books on this subject in german in 2009. Karl has a diploma in economics from University of Bamberg, Germany and a Dr. rer. pol. in information systems from the University of Bamberg. He is a long time member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE and was appointed SAP Ventures fellow in 2007 and SAP Ventures MVP in 2008. His contact data can be found at http://www.drkarlpopp.com"