Code with SAP Labs India - Discover, Design, Deliver

SAP Labs India is SAP's largest Research and Development centre outside Germany. It is a part of a connected lab network of 20 Labs in 17 countries. 

Founded in November 1998, SAP Labs India drives SAP's product strategy, and is responsible for SAP core solutions and provides product localization and India specific solutions. Besides Bangalore, SAP Labs India has a presence in Gurgaon, Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad. 

Unique to SAP Labs India is that it represents the entire breadth of SAP product portfolio and contributes to SAP flagship products such as SAP HANA, the platform for next-generation applications and analytics; SAP S/4HANA, the real-time ERP suite for digital business and holds vital product responsibilities across the Customer Engagement, Human Capital Management, Analytics and IoT portfolios.  

SAP Labs India also makes a significant contribution to SAP's essential solutions such as 

• ERP and Finance (SAP S/4HANA, Business ByDesign, Supply Chain & Manufacturing, Industries).

• CRM and Customer Experience (Commerce, Marketing, Sales, Service, Customer Data).

• HR and People Engagement (Success Factors, Experience Management, Core HR & Payroll, Talent Management, Workforce Planning).

• Network and Spend Management (SAP Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass, SAP SRM).

• Business Technology Platform (SAP Cloud Platform, Database and Data management, Data Warehouse, Application Development/Integration, HANA Enterprise Cloud, Analytics, Intelligent Technologies).

• Digital Supply Chain (Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Manufacturing, Asset Management).

• Globalization Services (GST, e-way Bill, Digital Compliance Service).

• Climate 21 Project, which helps customers manage their carbon footprint and enable them to be sustainably profitable.

Collaboration: The Key to Success  

Partners are critical to SAP's success.  Our Partner Innovation Lifecycle Services is a one-stop-shop for co-innovation with SAP and caters to projects worldwide. Partner Innovation Lifecycle Services' mission is to offer services to partners to accelerate market adoption of both SAP and partner portfolios.

SAP Labs India campus houses the SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL). Set up in 2009, COIL provides a platform for our ecosystem to develop innovative solutions on SAP Technologies and applications. It augments SAP's strategic intent to co-innovate with many partners and customers. Among the co-innovation projects from COIL include mobile applications, analytics, real-time data platform and cloud, in industry segments like logistics utility, banking, transportation, and telecom. 

SAP Experience Center: SAP Labs India campus in Bangalore is the go-to place for digital inspiration and co-innovation.  The centre provides customers and partners to learn more about the trends driving the shift to digitalization. The focus of SAP Experience Center is to inspire and help visitors understand the power of digital transformation and provide a new perspective on their digital potential and the tools, methods, and prototypes required for digital transformation. 

SAP Innovation Center Network (ICN):  Located in Labs India campus in Bangalore, is among the eight ICN global locations worldwide. ICN is SAP's think tank, where emerging technologies are identified and worked on to help business and society. ICN in India will specialize in IoT, 5G, Edge Computing and AI.

Engaging with Startups: The SAP Labs Whitefield campus hosts the SAP Startup Studio. This five-year-old startup program provides an end-to-end engagement platform for startups to accelerate their growth journey. Set up in 2016, this first in-house startup accelerator program of SAP offers ample support to the onboarded startups, through guidance, deep dive and technology mentoring on SAP technologies. It also enables the cohort to co-innovate with SAP. It provides dedicated market access through SAP's customer ecosystem in the India market unit. Since its inception, the program has nurtured over 33 startups, and the cohort of 2020 has 16 new startups onboard.  

Social Responsibility 

SAP Labs India is a strong proponent of Sustainability and Social Responsibility. SAP's CSR charter includes:

1. Education and Digital literacy: To women and youth from the underprivileged sections of the society.

2. Entrepreneurship development: With a focus on creating social enterprises and helping engineering students embrace entrepreneurship.

3. Crisis and disaster relief support: Like for pandemic like COVID-19 and devastations caused by natural calamities.

Accolades 

People are the focus of all functions within SAP Labs India. We have been acknowledged and have won several awards for our best-in-class diversity and employee policies. 

• Great Place to Work has ranked SAP Labs among the top 3 companies to work for in Asia and ranked #1 in 'India's Best Companies to Work For in 2018 and 2019' list. We are also recognized as Best New Age Employer by JobBuzz 2019 and Best workplace for women in GPTW 2019. 

• Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), has placed us among the top Innovative Companies in their Industrial Innovation awards 2020.  

• Community Business D&I in India Best Practice Awards has conferred on us the Employee Network Award 2020 for our SAP Early Talent Ambassador Network.

• We received the Golden Peacock Award for our CSR initiatives for 2019 and Certificate of Merit by FICCI for our efforts in 2019. 

• SAP India's Code Unnati is the recipient of the Assocham CSR and NGO awards 2020 for 'Excellence in community support for COVID relief'.