Interesting Facts About SAP in India
Two weeks ago I visited the SAP offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and had the chance to meet with customers, partners, press, analysts, and bloggers. It was an amazing experience for me personally: the culture, the energy, and the opportunity. I was asked multiple times to try to summarize the SAP India organization and India’s impact on SAP. Given the diversity, it’s a difficult thing to do, but here are some interesting facts I consolidated.
SAP India
Started in 1996, SAP India is one of the fastest growing companies within SAP worldwide with ~5,500 employees and more than 4,800 customers.
- SAP India is the third largest subsidiary for SAP in terms of employees.
- The second largest SAP lab for development and research is located in Bangalore, India.
- Some of the applications developed in India include HR Applications, Mobile Solutions, Supplier relationship management, SAP HANA and Big Data activity.
- SAP Education in India has trained over 50,000 SAP consultants in the last decade.
- SAP has 3,800 SME customers in the country.
- SAP India was declared the HUB of the region in 2011 for its outstanding performance.
The Best-Run Indian Businesses Run SAP
SAP has emerged as the unquestionable partner of India Inc.
•4 out of 5 ‘Maharatna’ companies run SAP.
•10 out of Top 10 ET 500 run SAP.
•14 out of 15 Indian companies named by Forbes Asia’s Fab 50 run SAP.
India and the SAP Community / Social Networks
- SAP has approximately 2.5M registered members of the SAP Community Network (SCN).
- 425,000 (17%) of the total are from India; second only to the USA (23%) and ahead of Germany (13%).
- 19% of the 3.2M total visits to SAP Community Network each month are from India.
- SAP has 120,000 fans on Facebook.
- India is the top contributor with 27,000 fans, followed by USA with less than half that number.
- Six of India’s urban areas (Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Pune, Chennai) are in the top ten cities generating traffic to SAP’s Facebook pages.
- About 10% of SAP’s 50,000+ followers on Twitter are from India.
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