The Hindu Business Line : Headcount at SAP labs to double

HEADCOUNT at the laboratories of enterprise applications major SAP's Indian operations is expected to double from 2,000 at present within the next two years, according to Mr Alan Sedghi, President and Managing Director (Indian Sub-Continent) of SAP India Pvt Ltd.

Speaking to Business Line while on a visit to Kolkata, Mr Sedghi said SAP India engages around 3,500 people. Of this, 2,000 people are in its laboratories while the rest are field staff. The number of field staff in India, too, would go up in the next two years "but not at the pace at which laboratory staff would go up." SAP's laboratories in India are the fastest growing and second largest in the world outside of Germany.

SAP's laboratories in India are engaged in solutions development for a range of industry verticals and in areas such as human resource, mobile computing, supply chain management and customer relationship management. In India, SAP has "over 800 customers with well over 2,000 installations," Mr Sedghi said, and added that small and medium businesses (SMBs) comprise 50 per cent of SAP's customer base in India and account for one-third of the revenues that are generated.

Mr Sedghi said India was among the top-three markets for SAP in terms of revenue generation from the Asia-Pacific region. Besides, it was ranked among the top-three in terms of emerging markets on a global basis. The other countries in the Asia-Pacific region with huge business potential were China and Korea even as Australia and Japan were "stable and big" markets. "He was categorical that the growth in India would be "organic and not through acquisitions."

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