SAP Labs India is set to invest an additional ₹500 crore to establish a new research and development (R&D) facility. It will reportedly come up at the Hi-tech Defense and Aerospace Park in the Bengaluru Rural & Urban District—a project in development under the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Act (KIADB) aimed at establishing and developing industries and providing basic infrastructure facilities in the Karnataka region. The investment for setting up the SAP software center will be spread across five years, according to a report.
SAP Labs India is currently the ERP software company’s second-largest R&D center outside its headquarters in Germany, and is part of SAP Labs Network—consisting of 20 locations in 17 countries—which represents about 80% of SAP’s R&D execution power. The strategically located SAP software centers are a crucial part of SAP’s R&D footprint and are key integrating units for the company’s software development & technical support units, creating synergies for the different innovation units under the SAP Labs umbrella.
A Software Center for Innovation and Talent Development
The addition of a new SAP software center in Bengaluru aims to further expand SAP Labs India’s operations and services across sectors and industries to support its more than 11,000 customers in the Indian sub-continent. It will also add to the company’s unique diversity in talents. In an interview, SAP Labs India Managing Director (MD) Sindhu Gangadharan said that the product and innovation company is a fast-growing organization—adding about 800 to 1,000 employees yearly—and has the lowest attrition levels in the industry.
Gangadharan, an SAP veteran who took up the MD position in September last year, said that attracting, retaining, and further developing best-in-class talents is one of the R&D organization’s goals. She notes,
“It is our job as leaders to ensure that we inspire talent to work on innovative topics and innovate at the core of our business processes. Our talent should be nurtured to become the true business process experts in the industry. This is where SAP is different from our competition, because we have the opportunity to bring together the worlds of business and technology. At SAP Labs India, we cater to employee well being and aspirations by introducing people-friendly policies and becoming the best place to work. We must articulate all of these benefits to ensure we are seen as a company that every engineer aspires to be a part of.”
The new SAP software center is set to provide a strategic advantage in the organization’s ability to react and adapt to the evolving requirements of its diverse customer base. The current R&D facility in Bangalore has contributed significantly to recent SAP innovations, including the SAP HANA platform, SAP S/4HANA business suite, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for retail, goods and service tax and fleet management.
SAP Labs India is recognized as the largest testing center within SAP and is responsible for close to 50 percent of SAP custom development. Moreover, the global services and support organization also provides remote maintenance services to approximately 80 percent of North American customers.
This article was posted by April Marjes,author
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