India will be largest market for SAP in the future: Christian Klein, Chief Executive Officer, SAP

SAP CEO highlights India's rapid growth, importance in AI, and market potential, emphasizing the country's talent and technological advancements.

India, from a market perspective, was one of the fastest-growing markets and would be one of the largest markets for SAP in the future, said Christian Klein, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE on Wednesday.

He said India has been constantly building an excellent foundation for tech companies, focusing on education and employing technology to digitise large industries like manufacturing, supply chain, utilities, renewables and retail.

‘’All these industries need SAP software to transform and run more productive and sustainable businesses. So, India is a key market for us,’‘ Mr. Klein said in a media round table held here as part of SAP Executive Board Members visit to India.

Highlighting the importance SAP placed on India, Mr. Klein said, ‘‘All the top decision-makers of SAP have travelled to one place. This time, we are not only here with the Executive Board, but our whole Supervisory Board is with us for the first time in many years.’‘

Tracing SAP’s growth the country Mr. Klein further said, ‘‘When I started my career 24 years ago at SAP, my first visit was here to SAP Lab. Back then, we had around 1,000 people. Now we have over 15,000 people. It’s the fastest-growing lab and the second-largest lab in the world.’‘

Terming India as a ‘‘great talent space’‘ he further said, large parts of SAP’s business AI development were done out the labs in India. We are very happy with the kind of talent we can recruit here in India. When we talk about AI later, India will still be the place to be,’‘ he added.

Other visiting SAP executives included Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE for Customer Services & Delivery and Muhammad Alam Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Product Engineering, both responsible for running business in India.