SAP Labs to focus on ecosystem to boost tech development

• ByStartupStory     |    October 11, 2022

SAP Labs-the research arm of the Germany headquartered technology company is working on building connections between German and Indian institutes to strengthen its collaboration with academia and the startup ecosystem in India.

SAP Labs  looks for early-stage enterprise tech companies in areas that complement its portfolio, once these startups are certified and on the SAP app centre, they have access to the company’s half a million global customers; the company has incubated 50 startups so far. India is an important development hub for the company, which has about 14,000 employees across five Indian cities. Earlier this year, it  had announced it was setting up a second campus in Bengaluru and would be doubling its headcount by 2025.

SAP Labs India chief executive Sindhu Gangadharan said“We are already engaging in deep research with some of the universities and will continue to do so in areas where we want a deeper focus. We are also looking at cross university collaborations with German universities where we are quite well established,” 

He added that SAP Labs was tapping into all parts of the local ecosystem, ranging from partners and startups to academia. The company has created a curriculum at IIIT-Bangalore to build AI managers of the future, some of the areas the company would focus on in the short to medium term are metaverse and quantum.

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