SAP COIL intros customer driven soln

BENGALURU, INDIA: SAP 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” says V 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.