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Enterprise application software provider SAP India said it is willing to set up data centres in India once the Government’s policies are in place.
“We are not averse to creating data centres in India, but we want to do that with the right forums. We are actively working with the industry bodies and Government forums,” Alok Goyal, Chief Operating Officer, SAP India, told Business Line .
He said the company is working with the Government and exploring which areas and issues it needs to have data centres in India necessarily. The company is looking for policies that incentivise the investment in the sector.
Scale game
It is also a scale game as many of the companies are getting into cloud computing because they want to create share infrastructure, he said.
The Germany-headquartered SAP that had announced acquiring US-based Syclo and Ariba in April and May, respectively, would also create stronger business in India.
While Syclo provides mobile applications for business processes such as work management, field service, inventory management and sales, Ariba provides cloud-based applications.
“Together they would be acquired for around $8 billion ($4.3 billion for Ariba). The acquisitions are complementing our own efforts on the cloud side, like business-on-demand, sales-on-demand and business intelligence-on-demand,” Goyal said.
Tie-up with IIM-Shillong
Meanwhile, the company on Wednesday forged a partnership with IIM-Shillong to deploy its cloud-based e-Governance solution, which will help in improving citizen services and village administration in Meghalaya.
The company has also collaborated with Xavier’s Institute of Visually Challenged, Mumbai to promote accessibility standards in enterprise software to facilitate employability of the differently-abled in various sectors.
India is a significant market for SAP, which has grown by more than 100 per cent last year, said Alok Goyal.
The company, with around 5,500 employees has around 5,000 customers in India. Companies such as Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies are some of its global partners, for which collaborations are continuing, he added.
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