Its India operations posted excessive double-digit progress in 2021 throughout all market segments, Kulmeet Bawa, president and managing director, SAP Indian Subcontinent, informed ET.
“2021 was one of the best 12 months in our historical past, and we’ve contributed globally very holistically. India was one of many frontrunners by way of the variety of Rise prospects globally,” Bawa mentioned.
Rise is SAP’s subscription based mostly Cloud resolution.
The India business grew in triple digits for 3 out of 4 quarters in 2021, indicative of the excessive demand for cloud-based options within the nation.
In 2020, the corporate mentioned it was pivoting to a cloud-led enterprise and set itself a goal of incomes 22 billion euros from its cloud enterprise by 2025.
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Final 12 months, SAP accomplished 25 years in India.
Bawa mentioned progress got here from giant enterprises in addition to small and medium companies, which had began investing extra on cloud-based options following the Covid-19 pandemic.
SAP has about 14,000 workers in India, throughout enterprise operations and expertise labs, of which over 1,500 had been added prior to now 12 months.
Bawa mentioned he needed to make India an early expertise hub for SAP globally and was presently hiring throughout areas like cybersecurity, machine studying and knowledge scientists, amongst others.
Final month, SAP mentioned it might create a brand new Cloud Success Companies organisation, combining its companies unit and the shopper expertise unit to give attention to the life cycle administration of shoppers.
Bawa mentioned SAP would additionally look to deepen its engagement with the startup ecosystem in India.
It lately launched a brand new program directed at startups, to assist them work with SAP options.
“One side is working with them as a expertise enabler, and the second is to co-innovate with them, and that’s very huge for us,” he mentioned.
The corporate runs an accelerator program, SAP Foundry.IO and works with startups to wonderful tune their options and discover a bigger viewers.
“We now have a bonus in India due to the large expertise pool throughout the organisation,” Bawa mentioned.
