And for a Friday …… after attending the inauguration of the SAP innovation labs ……. some thoughts …..some musings…..
SAP …… one of the World’s largest & Germany’s most valuable company by Market capitalisation …… inaugurated the SAP Labs Innovation Campus in a swanky new 41 Acres site in Knowledge Park of Bangalore …… this is the second R & D campus … the first one already operating for many years with more than 15,000 Topclass Professionals in Whitefield area ……it was started as a small experiment in 1998 envisioning India’s growth in IT ….::SAP innovation labs in Bangalore are involved with developing cutting edge Enterprise Technologies for Fortune 500 companies world wide ……they do Mission critical next level tech solutions & is currently their second largest R&D centre in the World after Germany ….
Dr. Philip Ackerman the German Ambassador to India speaking at the inauguration summed up pretty well….. given the current Global Geopolitical & Geoeconomical situation ……. The friendly Germany-India relationships are at its highest ……with more than 2000 German companies already operating in India & more than 700 Indian companies in Germany the stage is set for a huge growth …….Germany welcomes Indian students to study & Professionals to work there …. already this year more than 50,000 Indian students are in Germany ……. Sindhu Gangadharan MD of SAP labs elucidated how SAP labs harnesses high class Indian tech talent & ingenuity to co – innovate & tackle Global problems finding sustainable solutions to every problem but with a Human -centric approach …… currently there are more than 875 GCCs ( Global Competency Centres ) in Bangalore employing more than 6 lakh high tech Professionals with annual revenue in excess of 25 Billion dollars ……..Bangalore is the GCC capital of India with more than 35% oh the total GCCs in the country ………Tech strength of India encompassing Digital Public Goods , AI Innovations, Start-Up Unicorns, Scalable Software Solutions …. are shaping India’s tech led Economic future ……..
Let us all encourage our Professionals to be inquisitive & entrepreneurial ….. our Industrialists to invest in R& D …. make branded Indian products for the World….. the innovative way ….. the globally competitive way …. the SEEGOS way.