Customer driven solutions coming out of SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Bengaluru

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Labs has announced new business
solutions that have been produced at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in
Bengaluru. Valued SAP India partners Arteria Technologies, MindTree
and Wipro Technologies have worked jointly with developers at the lab
to create cutting-edge solutions including an insurance claims
analytic solution and a new work-flow and mobility solution, both of
which are being jointly demonstrated and showcased to customers.

The SAP Co-Innovation Lab was launched
at the SAP Labs India campus in Bengaluru on April 24, 2009, joining
existing Co-Innovation labs in Palo Alto, California, Tokyo and
Japan. In its first

12 months of operation, the SAP
Co-Innovation Lab in Bangalore, has played a catalyst role with
customers and partners in India, and made a jump start with many
customer-needed solutions, harnessing the power of the local and
global partners operating out of India, leveraging their large pool
of talent working on these solutions. It further supported the
projects, from conceptualization till creation of a solution asset
with wide array of SAP expertise involved to guide and support, to
get a quick start into the infrastructure needs required for these
projects and packaging the solution assets in order to bring the
visibility and experiences to the customers.

The Global Co-Innovation Lab network
offers a hands-on environment for SAP, ISVs, SIs and technology
partners to work together with customers on current and future
technologies to showcase how companies can increase competitive
advantage and improve efficiencies. It provides a physical and
virtual environment for SAP, customers and partners to collaborate on
solutions and offerings that will help to solve and address today's
most pressing business challenges and opportunities.

“The SAP Co-Innovation Lab
facilitates and nurtures Co-Innovation with our ecosystem members.
The SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Bengaluru has been in the forefront
since its inception in 2009 for delivering customer driven solution
innovations. In last one year, the lab has witnessed active
participation of SAP Global and Regional partners in driving
co-innovation projects, and we clearly see growing demand from our
customers and partners to co-innovate with SAP” said Axel Henning
Saleck- Head, Global,
SAP Co-Innovation Lab network within the global ecosystem and partner
group, SAP AG. “What we have achieved in the very first year of
operations is remarkable for example, all completed co-innovation
projects have moved from a lab experiment stage to the solutions,
which customers can readily deploy now,”‪ he added.

"India is seeing an explosive
growth in the software industry. Today, there is a clear need to
foster close collaboration with our partner ecosystem to steer
innovation and develop customer ready solutions for our customers”
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R Ferose-Managing Director SAP Labs India. “In the past
one year,we have successfully collaborated and developed cutting-edge
and customer-oriented solutions along with our partners and customers
in India, germinating new standards of technology and providing
faster time-to- value.”

The Lab hosts state of the art
facilities, heterogeneous data center integrating hardware and
infrastructure software from SAP and participating sponsors, a
hands-on environment where members can work on proof-of-concepts and
build and test new business processes, promotes new and innovative
applications and technology solutions to SAP customers.