Vantaggi
Really great people, future looking organization, has had great strategy, teams were all pulling in the same direction rather than for their silo. Concur had a can-do approach and manner that really let it soar in the marketplace, and have truly fine applications and services. It was so great feeling proud of the products and services of the company I worked for. SAP brings worldwide top-level companies, and a much broader suite of products/services. SAP culture has a positive aspect of being collaborative and people are very nice.
Svantaggi
I left a little while after the SAP merger as my area was changing significantly because of the merger - those changes made sense, just wasn't for me. The SAP culture is very "this is the way we do it" and they don't question management/directions. I saw several times senior transition people saying they wanted to ask the executives what to do on very complex issues that required thoughtful analysis and recommendation, but they would rather just ask and comply, then try to make it happen even if it didn't make sense. Sorry to say there's a bit of the "just following orders" approach. On the legacy Concur side, there are a lot of leaders, which can make decision-making difficult. That is exacerbated by the desire to avoid conflict. I think there's been such a change in top leadership that this con may not be valid any longer: There was a bit of a cliquish boys club leadership, but think that's probably changed.