Kulmeet Bawa on plan to double India's contribution for SAP India

• Learnt building teams, trust and credibility over screens
• To keep the business afloat, and on a growth trajectory, in the absence of in-person meetings was like ‘changing airplane engines mid-air’
• The emerging trend is companies jumping to the digital bandwagon faster than ever
• Recent transition of SAP to a cloud company was a ‘cultural mindset transition’ that had to be fructified across screens

• SAP holistically pivoted to cloud in October 2020
• Overperformed on almost all metrics across the globe
• Anticipates to grow by 23% to 26% in 2022
• Best performance in the company’s history was the year 2021
• India is the largest contributor (globally) to the number of customers that adopted Rise with SAP and moved to cloud
• From India perspective, three of the four quarters, the company grew at triple digits

• Success of last year needs to continue on the same pace, if not faster
• Continue to build India as one of the fastest growing strategic markets, in addition to further deep diving into investments in innovation hub etc
• By 2025, expect to achieve cloud revenue of more than €22 billion. Total revenues is expected around €36 billion
• Our customers in India contribute to more than 60 per cent of its GDP
• Almost 10,000 SMEs, 50 million consumers of gas and electricity today are supported through our solutions

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