SAP SE announced SAP Labs India as the number 1 company in the list of India’s Best Companies to Work for 2019 by the Great Place to Work Institute, a global authority on building, sustaining and recognizing high-trust, high-performing workplace cultures. The R&D center topped the 900 participating companies surveyed across 20 industries. The distinction award has been given to the company for two consecutive years exemplifying its inclusive culture, which empowers continuous learning.

 “We are thrilled to be ranked number 1 by Great Place to Work for two years in a row. At SAP, we have made considerable investments to create a culture in which innovation, learning, and entrepreneurship is encouraged and rewarded,” said the Managing Director of SAP Labs India, Dilipkumar Khandelwal.

Aside from advocating innovation and honing talents, SAP Labs India embraces SAP’s culture of global diversity, promoting a working environment that is non-hierarchical, fluid and flexible. Some of the company’s best-in-class employee initiatives include peer-to-peer learning platforms, women’s support in different phases of their career and entrepreneurial mindset campaign. Autism at Work was recognized as one of its best-in-class diversity programs.

 “At SAP we believe that our strength lies in differences, not in similarities. We have created a diverse and inclusive culture which in turn fuels our innovation, creates a greater customer experience helping us drive success for our business and enabling us to succeed in a rapidly changing world,” Shraddhanjali Rao, Head of Human Resources of SAP India said.

SAP Labs India is people-focused and is a strong proponent of Sustainability and Social Responsibility. Its Corporate Social Responsibility key pillars include ensuring Education and Digital literacy to women and youth from the underprivileged sections of the society, entrepreneurship development – focusing on creating social enterprises and helping engineering students embrace entrepreneurship, technology donation for NGO’s, disaster relief support for devastations caused by natural calamities and Swachh Bharat (CleanIndia) campaign.

More about SAP Labs India

SAP Labs India supports over 6600 customers in the Indian sub-continent and has 7500 employees spread across its three development centers in India – Bengaluru, Gurugram, and Pune. The company serves the private and public sector, municipalities, utilities, infrastructure and transport in India since its inception as a delivery center in 1998.

As an innovation center, the organization has made a significant contribution to SAP flagship products such as SAP HANA, SAP S4/HANA and holds key product responsibilities across the Customer Engagement, Human Capital Management, Analytics, and IoT portfolios.

Some of SAP’s innovative programs that are either initiated or hosted by SAP Labs India are:

•    Asset Intelligence Network, a cloud-based collaborative asset management platform that lets companies take full advantage of the IoT

•    SAP Startup Studio, a 100-seat accelerator program for early and growth-stage startups, set up in 2016

•    SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL), set up in Bangalore in 2009, a platform for SAP’s ecosystem to develop innovative solutions on SAP Technologies and applications and augment SAP’s strategic intent to co-innovate with over 600 partners and customers

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Executive Placement for the New Year

BackOffice Associates, a leader in solutions that solve complex data transformation challenges, their executive placement with Zarina Lam Stanford as Chief Marketing Officer. Stanford joins this innovative. company as it extends its leadership.  BackOffice Associates also plans to expand their reach into new industries and geographies worldwide with the help of Zarina Lam Stanford’s expertise. Reporting to CEO David Booth, Stanford will oversee all aspects of the company’s global and corporate brand and marketing strategy and operations..

Zarina Lam Stanford was formerly Chief Marketing Officer of SAP Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to SAP Asia Pacific and Japan, she was Vice President at IBM, serving global, North America, and growth markets in IBM’s Systems and Software business units. Stanford was named a CMO Fellow by a UK-based Marketing Academy and received the distinction of “Woman of the Decade in Technology and Innovation” at the Women Economic Forum in 2018. A champion for diversity and inclusion initiatives, Stanford also serves on the Board of Directors at Beyond Diversity Foundation.

Data Driven Leadership

“Data as a currency is a global phenomenon that presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities for businesses of all sizes. I look forward to working with our regional presidents, the world-class BackOffice team of consultants, and the entire BackOffice team to advance our customers’ business goals and data journey to bring relevance and drive engagement along the way. With Dave and the executive team, as well as our blue-chip Board and fellow associates, I am in good company.”

“We are ecstatic to have Zarina join the BackOffice family and are eager to leverage her passion, creativity, industry knowledge, and proven leadership to deliver exceptional business growth and customer experience,” said Booth.

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The program was launched at the regional level by SAP APJ president, Adaire Fox-Martin, in June, in a bid to tap what she saw as an underutilised pool of talent.

SAP’s Back-to-Work program offers project-based work to professional women who have taken a career break and are looking to re-enter the workforce, with the possibility of an offer of employment (subject to performance) following the completion of the project. SAP also provides networking opportunities and a project mentor to guide participants through the process.

In a blog post, Fox-Martin wrote, “The objective of the initiative is not only to open doors to these women, but also to help them regain confidence in their professional capabilities and allow them to readjust to the workplace.”

The initiative was first piloted in Japan and Korea, and has since been expanded to also include Australia, Singapore and now India, with more countries in the region to follow.

Vlasta Dusil, vice president of human resources, SAP India, told India’s Economic Times that “Back-to-Work aims to reintegrate an untapped pool of high-potential female professionals back into corporate life”.

“In the era of digitalisation, diversity and inclusion are imperative to innovate for tomorrow,” she said.

The SAP Back-to-Work website can be accessed here: https://sliblra7eac59ae.hana.ondemand.com/BTW/#/home.

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