Pros
1. Dominant position in enterprise software (esp. ERP) market; 2. New innovations such as in-memory computing (HANA), mobility and cloud; 3. Employee friendly environment and reasonable work-life balance; 4. Lots of international exposures internally
Cons
a. Lots of politics, bureaucratic, and communication barriers across teams (as expected for any large organization); b. Traditional on-premise enterprise software market is coming to a growth bottleneck; c. In-memory computing could be a risky bet; d. For cloud and mobility, not yet established as a dominant leader position (and sometimes a follower); e. Pressures are concentrated on revenue generating and enablement teams (sales, presales, etc), while some other teams are quite lay back and enjoying life; f. Relatively high turnover at all levels, esp. the executive changes bring lots of confusion and discontinuities.