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 in-cludes 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 & Develop-ment 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 responsibil-ity 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.

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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 Ger-man, 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 Ger-man-Indian economic organizations, and because of his business achieve-ments, 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 de-veloper, 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 mar-ket. In 1999, he managed the extensive growth of the development team as a development manager of the oil & gas solution. In 2003, Jayaram Srini-vasan 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 im-prove effectiveness and efficiency of SAP Labs India. He has presented on the topic of distributed product development in several internal and exter-nal forums.

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Prior to joining SAP, Jayaram Srinivasan had worked for Tube Invest-ments of India for eight years and had had a brief stint for one year in Bah-rain 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 Insti-tute of Management, Calcutta.

Jayaram is married to Sharmila and has two children Advaith and Sanmati.

References

External SAP Documents

SAP AG (2008): www.sap.com, November 2008. SAP AG (2009): SAP Fact Sheet, http://www.sap.com/about/investor/pdf/

SAP_FactSheet.pdf, February 2009. SAP AG (2008): SAP Annual Report, ‘Innovation at the speed of your

business’, 2007.

Essays and Magazines

Hilmar Schepp (2002): Real Signs of the Times. In: SAP World, Employee Magazine, 2002, Number 3, p. 20 – 24.

John Hagel, John Seely Brown (2008): How SAP Seeds Innovation. In: Business Week, 2008, http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/ jul2008/id20080723_353753.htm, March 2008.

Michael Zipf, (2002): The Right Chemistry. In: SAP World, Employee Magazine, 2002, Number 3, p. 10 – 14.

Rafiq Dossani (2008): Orgins and growth of the software industry in India, http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20973/Dossani_India_IT_2005.pdf, No-vember 2008.

Richard Lofthouse (2000): A statement of intent. In: Euro Business, 2000, November, Vol. 2 Issue 6, p. 68 – 75.

Thomas Ramge (2006): Healthy Paranoia, A success story in five epi-sodes. 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

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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

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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 Minis-ter of Singapore, SM Krishna, Chief Minister of Karnataka and RV Deshpande, Industry Minister of Karnataka at SAP Labs office at ITPL, 2001

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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

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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 execu-tive 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

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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 cele-brations of the Lab together with Kush Desai, Ferose V.R., Clas Neumann and Léo Apotheker

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Clas Neumann visits the School of Hope in Bhuj, 2003. 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

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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

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

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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

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Georg Kniese, Claus E. Heinrich, Werner Brandt, Léo Apotheker, Clas Neu-mann, Henning Kagermann, Gerhard Oswald and Peter Zencke at the inaugura-tion 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