About the Authors. Clas Neumann. Senior Vice President and Global Head, Core SAP Labs Network

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About the Authors Clas Neumann Senior Vice President and Global Head, Core SAP Labs Network Clas Neumann is the Global Head of the core SAP Labs network which includes besides Labs India also North

1 About the Authors Clas Neumann Senior Vice President and Global Head, Core SAP Labs Network Clas Neumann is the Global Head of the core SAP Labs network which includes besides Labs India also North America, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Hungary and Israel. Having been based in Bangalore for the last ten years, he was instrumental in establishing SAP s largest Research & Development hub outside of Germany. He grew it constantly to its current strength of 4,000 engineers, who are responsible for various products and solutions of SAP. In addition, Clas Neumann has held for four years the responsibility as Senior Vice President for SAP s latest product, SAP BusinessBy- Design, with teams in China, Germany and India, and he has held the role as the President of SAP Labs India.

2 246 About the Authors In 1995, Clas Neumann joined SAP and worked in many roles across China, Germany and India. Prior to joining SAP he had served in one of Germany s major regional banks as well as in an ERP vendor start-up. Fluent in German, English, and conversational in Mandarin Chinese, he holds a diploma of the University of Applied Science in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and a MBA degree from INSEAD, Fontainbleau and Singapore (EMBA 2005). As a member of SAP s Executive Leadership Team and of different German-Indian economic organizations, and because of his business achievements, he has been awarded with the Career 2005 award by Germany s leading economic daily Handelsblatt. Clas Neumann is married to Bea and has three children, Celia, Beniyaz and Zarina. Jayaram Srinivasan Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Research & Breakthrough Innovation Unit Jayaram Srinivasan is Vice President of the Supply Chain Management, Research & Breakthrough Innovation unit. He joined SAP in 1997 as a developer, when the company started its operations in India. During the early years, Jayaram developed the country version for India, and he worked closely with customers during the nascent stage of SAP in the Indian market. In 1999, he managed the extensive growth of the development team as a development manager of the oil & gas solution. In 2003, Jayaram Srinivasan became Vice President Manufacturing Industries, and he established a project based cross industry development team by leveraging expertise from different areas. Jayaram Srinivasan has wide experience in different lifecycle stages of product development, ranging from research to customer support. Apart from developing standard software, he holds expertise in industry specific, country specific and customer specific developments. In the last 12 years, he has been managing several strategic global and local projects to improve effectiveness and efficiency of SAP Labs India. He has presented on the topic of distributed product development in several internal and external forums.

3 About the Authors 247 Prior to joining SAP, Jayaram Srinivasan had worked for Tube Investments of India for eight years and had had a brief stint for one year in Bahrain with the Jawad Group. Jayaram Srinivasan holds a master degree in business administration and has also completed a one-year business leaders program at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Jayaram is married to Sharmila and has two children Advaith and Sanmati.

4 References External SAP Documents SAP AG (2008): November SAP AG (2009): SAP Fact Sheet, SAP_FactSheet.pdf, February SAP AG (2008): SAP Annual Report, Innovation at the speed of your business, Essays and Magazines Hilmar Schepp (2002): Real Signs of the Times. In: SAP World, Employee Magazine, 2002, Number 3, p John Hagel, John Seely Brown (2008): How SAP Seeds Innovation. In: Business Week, 2008, jul2008/id _ htm, March Michael Zipf, (2002): The Right Chemistry. In: SAP World, Employee Magazine, 2002, Number 3, p Rafiq Dossani (2008): Orgins and growth of the software industry in India, November Richard Lofthouse (2000): A statement of intent. In: Euro Business, 2000, November, Vol. 2 Issue 6, p Thomas Ramge (2006): Healthy Paranoia, A success story in five episodes. In: brand eins, business magazine, 2006, Edition 10/01. Books Thomas L. Friedman (2007): The World Is Flat. A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, New York V. Raghunathan (2006): Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are, New Delhi / New York

5 251 Dr. Udo Urbanek, co-managing Director and Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister, at SAP Labs India, 2000 Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister visits SAP Labs India at the ITPL Campus in Bangalore, 2000

co-managing Director SAP Labs India at SAP Labs India, 2001 Dr.

6 252 Dr. Udo Urbanek, co-managing Director SAP Labs India, Werner Mueller, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Dr. Peter Zencke former executive board member of SAP AG, Otto Schilly, Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany and Clas Neumann, co-managing Director SAP Labs India at SAP Labs India, 2001 Dr. Udo Urbanek and Clas Neumann together with Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore, SM Krishna, Chief Minister of Karnataka and RV Deshpande, Industry Minister of Karnataka at SAP Labs office at ITPL, 2001

Campus, 2005 Annette Schavan, German Federal Minister of Education

7 253 Martin Prinz and Georg Kniese, co-managing Directors SAP Labs India and Roland Koch, Minister President of Hesse, at the SAP Labs Campus, 2005 Annette Schavan, German Federal Minister of Education and Research and Clas Neumann at the SAP Labs Campus, Bangalore, 2007

8 254 Dr. Peter Zencke, former executive board member of SAP AG and Léo Apotheker, co-ceo of SAP AG on the 10 year celebrations event at the SAP Labs Campus, November 2008 Kush Desai, Managing Director SAP Labs India, Dr. Peter Zencke, former executive board member of SAP AG, Clas Neumann, President of SAP Labs India, Léo Apotheker, co-ceo of SAP AG and Ferose V.R., Managing Director SAP Labs Gurgaon on the 10 year celebrations event, November 2008

9 255 Group picture of colleagues that have been working for SAP Labs India since 10 years together with Clas Neumann, Léo Apotheker, Dr. Peter Zencke, Ferose V.R. and Kush Desai Group picture of SAP Labs India colleagues on the occasion of the 10 year celebrations of the Lab together with Kush Desai, Ferose V.R., Clas Neumann and Léo Apotheker

10 256 Clas Neumann visits the School of Hope in Bhuj, SAP Labs India organized an Earthquake relief fund with great contribution of SAP colleagues. Ernie Gunst, COO SAP AG, visits the SAP Center of Hope in Bangalore, 2009

11 257 Henning Kagermann, at the groundbreaking ceremony of phase 3, 2004 Martin Prinz, Henning Kagermann, Peter Zencke and Clas Neumann at the groundbreaking ceremony of phase 3, 2004

12 258 Henning Kagermann at the Employee Address on the occasion of the board week in Bangalore, 2004

13 259 Georg Kniese, Henning Kagermann and Clas Neumann at the inauguration of phase 3 building, 2007 Gerhard Oswald at the inauguration ceremony of phase 3 building, 2007

14 260 Georg Kniese, Claus E. Heinrich, Werner Brandt, Léo Apotheker, Clas Neumann, Henning Kagermann, Gerhard Oswald and Peter Zencke at the inauguration ceremony of phase 3 building, 2007 Claus E. Heinrich, Henning Kagermann, Léo Apotheker, Peter Zencke and Clas Neumann at the board week in Bangalore, 2007

India at Hannover Technology Fair 2006

Hannover Fair India at Hannover Technology Fair 2006 India was invited to the Hannover Technology Fair, the world's largest and most important annual technology event (held from April 24 to 28), as the