German business software company SAP is to increase the
number of software engineers in its Indian operations by the end of
this year.
In January, chairman and chief executive officer Henning
Kagermann said that in addition to plans to sell more software in
the Chinese and Indian markets, SAP aims to take advantage of
hiring less costly software developers in these regions. Chinese
and Indian developers, he said, are as good as those in Europe and
the US but cost four to five times less.
This year SAP intends to hire 1,500 new employees, according to
Berner. While 500 of these new jobs will be in India, the others
will be in the company's research and development, and sales
operations.
SAP is in the process of consolidating various administrative
processes of its assorted European units and transferring these to
one central unit, Berner said. "This is all part of our
shared-service concept, which we have already implemented in Asia,"
he said.
John Blau writes for IDG News Service