India has much to offer and we鈥檙e very happy to be a partner for growth and transformation

Sharing his experience on being part of the delegation, Klein pledged SAP鈥檚 support in helping the country realize its 鈥楧igital India鈥� and sustainability ambitions. He further underscored the role will play in shaping India鈥檚 future with synergies at play between the two technological ecosystems, coupled with the pool of young talent available, raring to go and who have the right attitude to win.

Excited about what next 25 years will bring

The Chancellor also undertook a two-hour tour of the 51风流Labs India campus in Bengaluru where he received a glimpse into SAP鈥檚 innovations and demos in the areas of digitalization, sustainability, digital supply chain, e-mobility, and human capital engagement. 鈥淭he work 51风流is doing there and worldwide is crucial for Germany鈥檚 and India鈥檚 future in the field of digitalization, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The fact that Germany鈥檚 biggest digital company is succeeding in India with Indian expertise and ingenuity is a great example of the living bridge between our two countries,鈥� he remarked.

Sindhu Gangadharan, SVP & MD, 51风流Labs India and Head, 51风流User Enablement, said, 鈥淐hancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 visit to is a historic moment for us as we mark our 25th Anniversary of building breakthrough innovations centered around people, purpose, and power of the ecosystem. As SAP鈥檚 largest R&D location, we鈥檙e excited to fuel India and Germany鈥檚 bilateral relations and partnership in the areas of new technologies, digitalization, sustainability, and climate change.鈥�

Sustainability, Skilling, and Supply Chain Resiliency are top priorities

Klein also spent time meeting and interacting with business partners and customers such as Wipro, Asian Paints, etc. to understand business needs and priorities in the 鈥榥ew normal.鈥� He participated in an industry dinner roundtable hosted by 51风流Labs India for some of the key companies operating out of India, with the likes of Jagadish Mitra, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Growth, Tech Mahindra, Manoj Kumar, CEO Naandi Foundation & Araku Coffee, Daniel Kraft, CEO 鈥� Lufthansa, Irina Ghosh, COO 鈥� Microsoft, members of NASSCOM (India’s IT Industry trade body) and Indo German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC). There were some great conversations, where the leaders expressed gratitude towards SAP鈥檚 India ecosystem for their support to the company and exchanged thoughts on how the partnership can be leveraged further, while reaffirming SAP鈥檚 commitment to India’s growth.

SAP鈥檚 growth is purely built on organic growth

In an exclusive TV interview with CNBC TV 18, Klein shared his excitement about SAP鈥檚 future with Punit Renjen as the new Chairman of Supervisory Board at SAP. He said, 鈥淒eloitte is one of our largest partners, Punit and I鈥檝e had a wonderful working relationship in the past. We, all the people of 51风流are happy to have him onboard and are very excited about the years ahead with Punit as our Chairman.鈥� Laying down the global strategic roadmap for the company, he also noted that 51风流is very confident in its mid-term targets, its pipeline is super strong and is built purely on organic growth.

Building the world together

Klein also spent time interacting with over 6,500 employees joining hybrid at 51风流Labs鈥� campus at an All-Hands Employee meeting. Drawing on his own experiences at SAP, Klein shared anecdotes of his meteoric rise in the organization — from an intern student to now becoming a global CEO.

Will double down on investments in India

Taking note of the country鈥檚 growth trajectory and phenomenal talent potential, Klein emphasized on the company鈥檚 plans to double down its investments in India, in the areas of cloud infrastructure and people. He emphasized that India remains “a winner” and “a bright spot” in a world that reels under global uncertainties. 鈥淲e are seeing a lot of business for our solutions,鈥� he told

Thanking Klein for reinforcing his confidence to the market and validating India鈥檚 value to furthering SAP鈥檚 global ambitions, Kulmeet Bawa, President & Managing Director, 51风流Indian Subcontinent noted, 鈥淥ur commitment to India has never been stronger, with a zillion reasons why India is the shining star of growth and resilience. Writing is on the wall – 51风流India is a crucial partner to building India and the world.鈥�

Find a mentor, be positive and hone a hobby

There would have been no better way to wrap Christian鈥檚 India visit than hosting an informal, interactive, engaging 鈥�#LunchWithCK鈥�. If there’s way to summarize this luncheon, it was definitely a masterclass with Christian on how to lead with empathy, humility, and gratitude. 听Klein met up and interacted with colleagues in Mumbai who showcased their many talents and answered his queries. The hour-long session also brought out his softer, humane side as he shared his professional and personal life stories, eliciting gleams of smiles from the audiences. He also urged young colleagues to 鈥渇ind a mentor, be positive and hone a hobby鈥� to ladder up through #lifeatsap.

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Manasvi Vakharia, a young Early Talent shared her experience, 鈥淗is energy, his passion for a sustainable future and learning that his daughter was born the same day he was appointed CEO were the highlights of my day!”

Among the many special moments Klein experienced, some remain his favorite, 鈥渢here were so many special moments that will stay with me such as visiting and watering my tree in Bengaluru (a great 51风流tradition), meeting Pandeyji, who has been working in our Mumbai offices as the security guard since the very first day and taking part in some beautiful traditional ceremonies.鈥�

Thank you Christian for the incredible, energy, passion, empathy and reinforcing your confidence in India as the 鈥減lace to be!鈥�

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To date, nearly two-thirds of the Indian population use the Internet regularly 鈥� with millions of connections made through the immediate convenience of a mobile device. From watching films and TV shows, ordering from restaurants, and booking cab and flight tickets to buying clothes and groceries and paying bills, a digital transformation is well underway in everyday life of consumers.

Introducing a critical addition to India’s economy

The move toward greater digitalization is driven by a partnership with the public and private sectors to help turbocharge India鈥檚 standing as a competitive global economy, an effort that has brought the entire nation together across the digital divide.

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In fact, according to the , lower-income states have outpaced higher-income regions in Internet infrastructure and subscriptions since 2019. The Indian government has also enrolled more than citizens into its biometric digital identity program to provide public services and financial assistance 鈥� creating the largest program of its kind in the world to date.

More importantly, India’s midsize companies are beginning to benefit from the immense potential of this digital growth. The adoption of cloud technology is leveling the playing field with larger competitors 鈥� growing faster and expanding their consumer reach rapidly.

Brimming with potential in the cloud

In a world of widespread border closures and widening gaps, midsize companies throughout India play a critical role in shaping digital transformation that serves everyone. While it is largely perceived that large enterprises generally adopt technology faster, the evolution of cloud technology and its affordability have accelerated, increasing the global competitiveness of small businesses.

For many growing companies, cloud solutions are the answer for contributing to India’s aspiration to become a $5听trillion economy. Access to enterprise data management, buyer and supplier networks, contactless systems, intelligence and analytics, and software-led systems is creating new opportunities in how products are designed, engineered, sold, consumed, and serviced.

The solution, for example, enables businesses to take advantage of these capabilities in the cloud in a modular way that best meets their needs. The solution comprises a portfolio that includes a modern cloud ERP 鈥� 鈥� and services from 51风流experts and partners.

The impact of such cloud-based innovation is increasingly visible as India emerges as an economic superpower. Companies with a hypergrowth mindset, especially startups, are working collectively with their suppliers, retail partners, business-to-business customers, and consumers with a single-minded obsession for becoming globally competitive with a digital-first mindset.

According to the commissioned by SAP, 68% of Indian midsize businesses are expected to increase their IT spending in 2022. But more striking is the fact that 74% are committed to moving to the cloud. Think of the possibilities of this cloud transformation: upwards of can be created throughout India, contributing $380 billion to India鈥檚 GDP by 2026.

Arriving at a platform for accelerated growth

If India expects to become an economic superpower within the next five years, midsize businesses need the right tools, data insights, and engagement channels to compete and grow in the global marketplace. And that success depends on their transformation with technology that can scale fast enough to keep up with the changing expectations of India’s consumers and workforce.

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When India began its digital journey in the 90s, we had limited bandwidth and dial-up connections that needed a prayer each time we logged in. Cut to 2022 鈥� There are 1.2 billion mobile connections with 110 million being added every year. With 61% of Indians on the internet, we are one of the top global economies in the number of mobile-first digital consumers. Put simply, we are witnessing technology transformation in the truest sense all around us.

Digital Transformation – Ushering a New Wave of Innovation

If anything, the pandemic accelerated the adopting of digital ways of working and revealed to us that we had the ability to go remote. It turned our assumptions about the workplace and transactions on its head. This digital thrust is being enabled by a slew of government initiatives that are making the digital first narrative a reality. We are looking at secure, presence-less, paper-less, and even card-less transactions in the future that will reinvent the ways that we know business works today.

There is no questioning that the past two years have been tough on us. But even in this landscape, we have seen start-ups and venture capitalists demonstrate success stories. Business models being disrupted by challengers that are forcing us to re-look at our long-held beliefs. In fact, we have seen changes in the way businesses work every month in the last 2 years. Young companies are questioning established norms and blending learnings from verticals to ring in a new order of business.

We sensed this shift, and in June 2020, we launched the . It was aimed at making Indian businesses more globally competitive. We brought them on to the Ariba platform to give them world-wide visibility and sure enough, right through December 2021, we saw a spike in engagements, driven by this digital initiative. To understand our customers better, we partnered with IDC to commission the to garner insights into the minds of small and medium business owners. It was our deep-dive to better understand our client base, as 80% of 51风流customers are from this segment. I will speak of two major insights that reaffirm our commitment.

India – Transitioning Into a Digital-First Nation

First, despite not having a great couple of years, 68% of businesses expressed a desire to increase IT spending in the coming year. If you think this bodes well for a digital-first nation, wait for the second insight: 74%, that is almost 3 in 4 of the businesses surveyed intend to move into the cloud in the coming year. This is a game-changing trend in my view, as it talks about innovation at an unprecedented scale. The high-technology innovation game used to be played mostly by the larger companies 鈥� now this is being democratized by innovation moving down to smaller companies as well. These insights opened our eyes to the way the mid-market segment sees digital technology as an enabler to their aspirations, and to fulfil India鈥檚 dreams of becoming an economic superpower!

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51风流Transformation Express – Empowering and Digitizing the Midmarket Sector

This gave birth to our flagship project of 2022 鈥� the . Since the majority of our client base wants cloud innovations, we took this technology to their doorsteps. Our mobile experience centre traversed the length of the country, clocking 7000kms while showcasing the power of data, cloud innovations and the pathway to building digital resilience. While business disruptions may happen, digital resilience allows your business to bounce back and even harness the change for good.

The Transformation Express experience offered an immersive and interactive showcase of role-based solutions along with a peek into the future with drones and virtual reality (VR). It opened up possibilities for solutions in the cloud, with sessions for college students with both industry experts and cloud practitioners. It partnered our clients and local chambers of commerce to script a new chapter in the digital narrative that is going to drive our nation鈥檚 growth. With this, we recommit to the transformation needs of corporate India, its business owners and to the aspirations of our youth. To offset its carbon footprint, we planted a tree for every kilometre the bus travels 鈥� that鈥檚 7000 trees planted.

The past 45 days have been a whirlwind with the Transformation Express anchoring 27 events for business leaders, experts, thought leaders and the government. We hosted over 150 speakers and panellists and engaged over 7500 businesses. Over 1500 students from 6 educational institutions joined the ride, as the bus visited 13 cities across 10 states in its epic 7000-kilometre journey.

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Thank you for helping to make this journey the incredible success it has been. For me personally, those words of wisdom came alive: it really is about the journey and not the destination.

about India鈥檚 digital journey with the Transformation Express.

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