Using a mail survey, we explored the structure of sense of place based on the relationship between place meanings and place attachment. We applied this framework to private landowners in the Southern Great Plains of the United States, a working landscape experiencing ecological transformation from grasslands to degraded woodlands. We introduce the meaning-dependence framework to account for the broad array of person–place connections within social–ecological landscapes. Sense of place holds promise to understand how people perceive and respond to social and ecological change however, using this concept to explore vulnerability and adaptation first depends on identifying the multiple ways people define their relationship with a place. Today, SAP has more than 230 million cloud users, more than 100 solutions covering all business functions, and the largest cloud portfolio of any provider.Ĭhristian Klein leads the company, heads up the Executive Board of SAP SE, and, at 42, is the youngest CEO of any major enterprise on Germany’s DAX blue chip market index. 
The company’s integrated applications connect all parts of a business into an intelligent suite on a fully digital platform, thereby replacing the process-driven, legacy platform. Now, SAP S/4HANA takes ERP to the next level by using the power of in-memory computing to process vast amounts of data, and to support advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. With the introduction of its original SAP R/2 and SAP R/3 software, SAP established the global standard for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
Since then, it has grown from a small, five-person endeavor to a multinational enterprise headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with more than 105,000 employees worldwide.
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