SAP chief developer heads for the 'clouds'

In search of new markets and customers, SAP AG is developing a new breed of hosted, on-demand products and looking at ways to make its complex business software easier to use. In this interview, Vishal Sikka, SAP's chief software architect, discusses one of the company's first on-demand offerings, its software-as-a-service philosophy, search functionalities in enterprise software, Web service standards and more.

Read the full interview here.