SAP Labs India, the German software maker’s largest research and development centre outside of its headquarters, has completed 20 years. Dilipkumar Khandelwal, its managing director, talks to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra. Edited excerpts:
The key learning over these 20 years?
The key target when we came in 1998 was to cater to the local market and build products that complied with the regulations. Over these years, SAP Labs (in India) have emerged as core for the company. We are now around 7,500 R&D engineers in the labs here; overall, we are 11,500 people in India. Second biggest in R&D labs for the company

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