Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg-based German Company SAP, is set to strengthen its commitment in India with a new forty-acre campus in Bangalore. Bernd Leukert, the company’s executive board member and head of production and innovation described how India was important to SAP:
“Outside of our headquarters in Germany, the Indian R&D division is the biggest facility. When we started the India R&D division in 1998, the sole purpose of the center was to localize a global product for the Indian market. That was the genesis of the small 100-member team, which still exists. But it comprises just 5 percent of the workforce today. The rest of us work on the global products.
We have a strong product management product team based in India, which is required from the legal and compliance points of view. From a local perspective, we have become a global product development hub.”
