German tech giant SAP is set to open a new centre of excellence in Bengaluru by August this year, as per reports. The facility, with a seating capacity of 15,000, aims to support the company’s growing business needs both in India and around the world.
Speaking at SAP Sapphire 2025, Muhammad Alam, executive board member at SAP, mentioned that India is one of its largest development centres and is opening a new facility later this year with even more capacity. Given its size, from a product engineering perspective, it is a very self-sufficient and decoupled environment.
According to Manish Prasad, president and managing director of SAP Indian Subcontinent, the new centre is expected to become operational in the second half of the year, possibly by July or August.
This move reinforces India’s key role in SAP’s global operations, particularly in engineering and product development.
Such a development also reinstates that India is a sweet spot for the German tech conglomerate SAP. With over 15,000 customers already based in India and over 4,25,000 globally, the company’s second-largest R&D centre outside Germany is in Bengaluru.
Recently, TCS has also deepened its longstanding partnership with SAP to accelerate enterprise-wide adoption of generative AI and cloud technologies, aiming to support large-scale business transformation for global customers.
Building on a collaboration that spans over two decades, TCS will work closely with SAP to simplify cloud migration through the ‘RISE with SAP’ initiative.
