German technology major SAP views India as the fastest growing market, where it plans to embark on an aggressive hiring spree, a top company executive said on Wednesday. "India is among the top 10 markets for SAP and growing fastest. We will continue to invest in India. "We are expanding our campus to accommodate 15,000 more people.
Top female executives are calling for corporate India to redesign workplace systems to support women's advancement into leadership roles in the technology sector, particularly in emerging fields like artificial intelligence.
India Inc on Sunday hailed the Union Budget 2026-27 as a 'structural shift' in the country's technology landscape, noting that the government is moving beyond fragmented pilots to build foundational layers where AI serves as a 'horizontal enabler' for the entire economy.
The Union Budget on Sunday proposed a tax holiday till 2047 for foreign companies that provide cloud services to customers globally using data centres located in India, signalling the government's push to make the country a major hub for AI and digital infrastructure.
The Union Budget on Sunday proposed a tax holiday till 2047 for foreign companies that provide cloud services to customers globally using data centres located in India, signalling the government's push to make the country a major hub for AI and digital infrastructure.
SAP, a global leader in business software solutions, has announced that it will more than double its development team in India to 3,000 from 1,300, by the end of 2006.
German software giant SAP AG will invest 20 million euro for expansion of its India development centre in Bangalore.
'SAP has been an enterprise software leader for 43 years, and we don't have a competitor also in this space.'
India's $280-billion IT industry heads into 2026, balancing visa-related headwinds and global trade uncertainty against its biggest-ever push into artificial intelligence and the rapid expansion of global capability centres (GCCs). Heightened scrutiny of the US H-1B visa programme - including a proposed $100,000 fee for new visas and concerns over a potential 25 per cent outsourcing tax - has complicated cross-border delivery for Indian firms, even as companies accelerate efforts to reduce reliance on onsite staffing.
'We aim at establishing India as an early talent hub on a global scale and are actively recruiting professionals in areas like cybersecurity, machine learning, data science, and other relevant fields.'
SAP, a business software solutions provider, will invest $1 billion (nearly Rs 4,500 crore) in India in the next five years and plans to increase headcount to 3,500 this year, its CEO Henning Kedarmann said on Monday.
Leading business software solutions provider SAP on Monday said it plans to double its headcount in India to 4,000 by 2006.
Global enterprise software major SAP AG has set an ambitious target to enroll 100,000 customers in India by 2010 by aggressively focusing on the emerging as well and small and medium-sized firms.
From being told he is not fit to be in the IT industry, VR Ferose, who graduated in computer science from NIT Warangal because he could not get through into an IIT, became the first non-German and youngest Indian managing director of SAP Labs India.
'If you really love your work and are good at it, it does not matter what is work and life.'
Entry level engineers for these roles can be paid between Rs 4 lakh to Rs 8 lakh annually, which can go beyond Rs 30 lakhs for people with more than eight years of experience.
V R Ferose, MD, SAP Labs India, sums up India's dichotomy, and laughs at its funny side.
'An in-house contest encourages employees to share yoga and well-being practices with their families.'
'The choice is clear: We either embrace this transformation and cement our global leadership, or hesitate, lose ground, and fade into irrelevance.'
India has emerged as a favoured location for captive technology units of Walmart, Lowes and Daimler.
'In the current scenario e-commerce delivery is flourishing, driving demand.'
Sikka has influenced the company to break away from the old mould in more ways than one.
A friendly working environment, special healthcare facilities, flexible work hours, work from home options, support and camaraderie among the team members keep employees highly motivated in these 10 companies.
IIT Roorkee has so far seen the highest domestic salary rise Rs 80 lakh, up by a third from Rs 60 lakh last year.
W12 Studios will be part of TCS Interactive, further strengthening the already impressive array of creative and experience services it offers
The 30-share Sensex and the 50-share Nifty ended flat at the mark of 29,008 and 8,767 respectively.
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
ONGC was the top gainer which surged over 4% followed by Axis, SBI, CIL
The broader markets underperformed benchmark indices as the BSE Mid-cap and Small-cap tumbled over 2%.
Markets end higher ahead of Fed outcome, China stimulus
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The 30-share Sensex lost 22 points to close at 27,090 and the 50-share Nifty gained 7 points to end at 8,121.
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