SAP has officially inaugurated its new campus in Bengaluru, naming it the India Innovation Park, which now stands as the company’s second-largest research and development centre outside Germany. Located in Devanahalli, near the city’s international airport, the new campus highlights SAP’s growing investment and commitment to innovation in India.
Spread across 41 acres, the campus is being developed in phases. So far, 27 acres have been completed and are operational, with 3,200 employees already working from the facility. An additional 4,500 staff members are expected to move in as part of the first phase. Once the entire campus is completed, it will have the capacity to accommodate up to 14,000 people.
Phase two of construction has been approved and will begin shortly, with completion targeted by the second or third quarter of 2028. The total investment in the campus exceeds 194 million euros. This is SAP’s second campus in Bengaluru, with the first located in the Whitefield area.
Speaking at the launch event attended by employees, partners, and government representatives, Sindhu Gangadharan, Managing Director of SAP Labs India and Head of Customer Innovation Services, said, “The [Innovation Park] is designed to bring together our customers, partners, academia, startups, and communities. For us, this is the beating heart of co-innovation.”
SAP joins a list of global tech giants ramping up operations in India. Bengaluru, now the fourth-largest tech cluster in the world after Silicon Valley, Boston, and London, continues to attract major investments. Recently, Google opened a new campus in Bengaluru, and Microsoft is developing its largest R&D centre in Noida.
India is emerging as a preferred destination for Global Capability Centres (GCCs) and R&D hubs. Bengaluru alone hosts 875 GCCs, employing 34 per cent of India’s total GCC workforce. According to a report by Nasscom and Zinnov, the GCC sector in India is projected to grow from $64.6 billion in 2024 to between $99 billion and $105 billion by 2030.
SAP, now Europe’s most valuable listed company, has shifted its focus to cloud computing and AI. Its cloud-based enterprise solutions are used by over 440,000 customers globally, including 98 of the world’s top 100 companies.
SAP employs over 17,000 people across India, with more than 40 per cent of its global R&D workforce based in the country.
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