* Investments in the new SAP Center for consulting services, estimated at 30-40 million Euros, in the next 3-4 years
SAP Romania yesterday opened a center which will provide IT added value consulting services to the customers of the German group SAP of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and intends to hire about 400 consultants by 2014. Called Nearshore Delivery Center, the new entity resulted from the conversion of the former center of SAP Global Delivery Group, part of the SAP Consulting division in Bucharest, and will include two more offices in Romania, in Timişoara and Cluj-Napoca.
The center will provide services in particular for the mature markets of Western and Central Europe, to support the projects of Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg and Holland.
The investments in the new SAP center will amount to 30-40 million Euros in the next 3-4 years, the president of SAP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA,) Franck Cohen, said. He went on to say: "We are unable to fully estimate the value of the investment because we are talking about 400 people and a lot of effort involved in their training. We are currently at an incipient stage and we are building this plan. What matters is that we will have 400 people well trained in projects, programs and infrastructure, and the salaries will be "healthy", so we can attract the best. I think that for now we can speak about an amount of 30-40 million Euros for the next 3-4 years".
The president of SAP EMEA, Franck Cohen, also said: "The nearshore centers have a significant contribution to the provision of services with low total costs, while at the same time improving quality, speed and scalability. With this approach, we will be able to provide customers of SAP with professional services through a mixed system, either remotely or directly at their headquarters, hav
