Monday, May 14, 2007
Bloomberg.com: Germany
Bloomberg.com: Germany: "Walldorf, Germany-based SAP may open the center in the coming two to three years, Kagermann told journalists at a meeting in Vienna yesterday, before SAP's annual Sapphire customer conference which starts today.
``You have to distribute around the world for proximity to clients and in places where you feel you can attract the next generation of engineers,'' he said.
Almost 30 percent of SAP's 40,000 employees are software engineers at one of SAP's eight global laboratories. SAP, whose software helps companies manage tasks such as accounting and payroll, has accelerated investments to win smaller clients and slow an advance of rival Oracle Corp. in the $56 billion market.
Russia belongs to a group of countries commonly called the BRIC, which includes Brazil, India and China, where the economies are growing faster than in the U.S. and western Europe. Outside Germany, SAP has set up software laboratories in Bulgaria, Hungary, China, India, Israel, the U.S. and Canada.
``If you look at R&D, we're now 65 percent of capacity in Walldorf,'' Kagermann said. ``It's pretty good to see one third outside.'' "
``You have to distribute around the world for proximity to clients and in places where you feel you can attract the next generation of engineers,'' he said.
Almost 30 percent of SAP's 40,000 employees are software engineers at one of SAP's eight global laboratories. SAP, whose software helps companies manage tasks such as accounting and payroll, has accelerated investments to win smaller clients and slow an advance of rival Oracle Corp. in the $56 billion market.
Russia belongs to a group of countries commonly called the BRIC, which includes Brazil, India and China, where the economies are growing faster than in the U.S. and western Europe. Outside Germany, SAP has set up software laboratories in Bulgaria, Hungary, China, India, Israel, the U.S. and Canada.
``If you look at R&D, we're now 65 percent of capacity in Walldorf,'' Kagermann said. ``It's pretty good to see one third outside.'' "
