Mumbai – March 16, 2017 – SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Celkon Mobiles, the leading consumer mobile handset brand in India, has implemented an entire innovation platform that was developed on SAP Cloud Platform, for managing its nation-wide distribution network. The company’s objective was to mitigate high costs and improve efficiencies in its supply chain process and channel systems, in order to maintain its competitive edge. This platform, consisting of a set of applications, was created by SAP Partner 2iSolutions Consulting Services to streamline processes in the company’s supply chain and distribution network. 2iSolutions is a Canadian consulting company with strong capabilities across SAP’s innovation areas including SAP Cloud Platform.

“In today’s competitive environment, highly optimized distribution networks are crucial for OEMs and can have a significant impact on the business itself,” said Mr. Murali Retineni, Director, Celkon Impex Pvt Ltd. “The SAP Cloud Platform has proven to be the right solution to catalyze innovation in this mission critical aspect of our business. It has helped us develop applications quickly, that enhance the network and provides accurate visibility of stock in channel, status and tracing of goods. The agility of the platform promises faster ways of implementing technology.”

The solution has been implemented across Celkon’s more than 700 channel partners and employees and is expected to-

• Reduce manual data loading and improve sales by 5-7%
• Reduce the company’s data capturing efforts by 25-30% resulting in improved channel partner satisfaction and trade margins
• Eliminate duplicate transactions and timely data flow from backend systems to channel systems, thus dramatically improving the timeliness, coverage and accuracy of information

“By choosing SAP Cloud Platform, Celkon Mobiles will have the capability to extend and integrate their business-critical applications in a simpler fashion,” said Kaushik Bagchi, Vice President and Head – Digital Enterprise Platform Group, SAP India. “Thousands of companies across the world are choosing SAP Cloud Platform to innovate and Celkon Mobiles presents a roadmap for others to develop real-time applications to compete and win in this digital economy.”

About Celkon Impex Pvt Ltd

Celkon Mobiles is a leading consumer mobile handset brand in India. Fueled by our passion to bring technology and affordability to the same platform, Celkon has rich product portfolio comprising of Smart phones, Feature phones and Tablet PC’s.

Established in 2009, Celkon has grown multi-fold and is expanding rapidly across major territories in India and abroad and has established a strong footprint overseas in countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Singapore in the ASEAN region and Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia in EMEA.

Innovation is driven by our dedicated Research and Design team spread across India office and supported by Celkon’s Global Operations Centre located in Shenzhen, China. The teams in China and India work as in integrated team to cater to the consumers’ needs churning out the best products, based on state of art technologies. The products are backed by a robust service and support team. Celkon has over 800 Service Centre’s spread across India and a dedicated Tier 3 repair center in Hyderabad, Delhi & Bangalore.

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 345,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com

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MUMBAI— Feb.22, 2017: SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Sri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM), one of the leading education trusts in the country, has adopted SAP solutions to transform the way it engages with students and its staff. With a vision to become educators of the future, SVKM has collaborated with SAP Education to provide certified SAP training courses as supplement to the curriculum. It has also implemented SAP SuccessFactors to effectively manage its expanding faculty and staff count.

Established in 1934, SVKM runs around 30 educational establishments in Mumbai and across India which include premier institutions like NMIMS Deemed-to-be University, Mithibai College, NM College of Commerce, D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering and several others. The Trust felt the necessity to enhance students’ employability by providing them access to industry-leading training courses on enterprise software and processes to supplement the syllabus. It also recognized the need to revamp its entire HR operations in an automated manner and boost productivity and performance of its faculty and staff. SVKM worked with SAP Education Partner Seed Infotech and Yash Technologies to implement SAP Education courses and SAP SuccessFactors respectively.

“The SVKM Trust aims to impart world-class knowledge services across sectors and geographies through its institutions,” said Amrish Patel, President & Trustee, Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal and Chancellor, NMIMS. “It was imperative for us to keep up with the pace of change that the industries are witnessing globally and we chose SAP solutions to lead the adoption of this change across all our institutes. This will improve our students’ ability to explore cross-market opportunities as well as help us realize a wholesome approach to holistic engagement with our faculty and staff.”

“SVKM is an absolute frontrunner in India’s education sector and is instrumental in molding the bright future of its students,” said Avinash Kumar Purwar, Vice President, Global Partner Operations and Head of Emerging Business, SAP India. “It is vital for them to create a conducive environment for empowering students with the latest industry skills as well as boosting their faculty and staff performance. With SAP, they will have the capability to bring alive both the goals and become industry pioneers by leading the requisite transformation.”

About Sri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM)

Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal is a Public Charitable Trust registered under the Society’s Registration Act and Bombay Public Trust Act. From its humble beginnings in 1934, when it took over the Rashtriya Shala, a school established in 1921 in the wake of the National Movement, the Mandal today has grown into a big educational complex imparting high-level education to more than 35,000 students. SVKM has mastered the art of being able to transform itself into a close knit family and at the same time help its students to attain all-round development, be employable and achieve success. For more information, visit www.svkm.ac.in

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable approximately 345,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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Associates with Ramesh Nimmagadda Cancer Foundation to enhance cancer research with Real World Data for Optimal treatment of Indian patients

Bangalore, 2^nd December, 2016: SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has pledged an initiative to touch one billion lives in the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region by the year 2020. As part of this employee-led, crowdsourced initiative, SAP India has adopted the cause of bettering cancer research in the country. To mark the occasion of completing 20 years in the country, SAP India today announced their collaboration with the Ramesh Nimmagadda Cancer Foundation (RNCF), an NGO focused on cancer data research. RNCF provides its custom made data collection software OncoCollect, to institutions across India and also assists them with resources such as hardware, and manpower.

“At SAP, everything we do is guided by our vision to help the world run better and improve people’s lives,” said Deb Deep Sengupta, President and Managing Director, SAP Indian Subcontinent. “Together with RNCF, we aim to speed up data collection and analysis for better cancer treatment for patients in India and make a significant social impact in the country. I am confident that as we move towards a cloud economy, initiatives such as 1BLives will help India rise economically, socially and digitally, while technology will help address many of the gaps.”

Cancer is one of the leading non-infectious causes of mortality in the world. In India, 1 million new cancer cases are being diagnosed each year, while only 36% of patients receive treatment.  Mortality rates are higher in India than those in western countries with close to 700,000 deaths every year due to this disease. All these years, Indians have largely depended on data derived from western countries; however, their treatment doesn’t always suit patients belonging to the Indian ethnicity.

Working together with RNCF, the team at SAP aims to improve cancer treatment leveraging the capabilities of SAP Medical Research Insights and SAP Connected Health platform powered by SAP HANA that expedites data extraction, computation and visualization to convert patient data into meaningful insights including Predictive Analytics. The project aims to maximize patient outcomes for populations in India and throughout the region. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined SAP in this cause and will host the SAP Healthcare solutions and RNCF Software.

Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute, Hyderabad, and Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, are the first two hospitals in the country to have come forward to be part of this effort. The project already has pilot data from 50,000 patients and is expected to produce ground-breaking research insights in the battle against cancer to benefit patients in India.

Talking about how this technologically-driven research will help Indian healthcare, Dr. Ramesh B V Nimmagadda, Managing Trustee, Ramesh Nimmagadda Cancer Foundation said, “Indian patients react differently to some drug regimens and exhibit more side effects and low tolerance while some of the diseases behave differently based on the ethnicity. I am excited to be a part of the team that gets to work on innovative technologies like SAP Connected Health platform and SAP Medical Research Insights, powered by SAP HANA, to integrate real world datasets, and give the user – a researcher or clinician – the freedom to perform analysis and gain insights from data to arrive at optimal treatment under the given local conditions.”

This initiative not only showcases SAP’s commitment to healthcare in the APJ region, but also aligns with their global pledge and the CEO, Bill McDermott’s vision to revolutionize healthcare industry.

About 1BLives

The One Billion Lives initiative is a crowd-sourced, ground up APJ-wide initiative employing the power of SAP technology to deliver sustainable, commercially-viable social impact, improving the lives of 1 billion people across the APJ region by 2020. The initiative was launched at the beginning of 2016. Three ventures from SAP India (cancer research), SAP Philippines (digitization of healthcare) and SAP Japan (seismic safety) were selected after a rigorous review and selection where the SAP employee-led venture teams pitched their business ideas to secure support and funding. Each winning team received seed money of €200,000, executive support and a start-up accelerator with industry experts.

A first for SAP APJ, this initiative is focused on creating shared value and a unifying purpose to engage employees. It showcases the power of SAP in making real our vision of helping the world run better and commitment to improving people’s lives.

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 335,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit http://www.sap.com/

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Launch Resource Centre to Help India Inc. Determine Technology Roadmap for New Tax Regime

Mumbai — October 26, 2016 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) with industry partner ASSOCHAM today announced the launch of a knowledge sharing resource centre that will educate and empower organizations to manage changes in their business processes and information systems from the impending GST roll-out. The resource centre will be a one-stop portal for businesses looking at adopting or migrating to technology that will make them future ready for GST.  sap.com/india/SimpleGST will impart information on key areas like tax computation, master data management and business process localization.

“GST has opened up opportunities for businesses in over 160 countries and helped them move beyond the physical constraints to expand exponentially by harnessing digital prowess,” said Mr. D.S. Rawat, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM. “We are certain that this knowledge sharing portal by SAP will enable and equip Indian businesses with the technology know-how for a seamless transition to a GST environment.”

With the roll-out of this new tax regime, over 51 million SMEs in India will need to consider reinvesting or redefining their business processes. Automation and encapsulation of the compliance measures into the IT systems of these organizations is imperative and early preparation and planning is the key to a successful GST implementation. SAP is committed to businesses in their journey, starting from being GST compliant, to realizing the full potential of benefits accruing from digital transformation in the post-GST India.

“It is estimated that over three to five billion invoices will be uploaded on GSTN every month and over 40% of these transactions will be processed through an SAP system.” said Neeraj Athalye, Head of SAP S/4HANA, SAP Indian Subcontinent.

Arun Subramanian, Vice President, Globalization Services, SAP India said, “SAP sees a huge responsibility to get India Inc. compliant with the upcoming law and is thus working in close collaboration with customers across industries, the overall ecosystem (including GSTN) to provide solutions for a smooth transition to GST.”

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable approximately 320,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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Bangalore — June 1, 2016 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced today that the second edition of its Startup Accelerator Program in collaboration with the Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (SAP-CIIE) at IIM-Ahmedabad, to mentor and build capacities of 30 startups by 2017.

The accelerator program aims at identifying investable regional start-ups, catalyzing participation of regional stakeholders including domain experts, angels and academics, to foster regional entrepreneurship ecosystem. Additionally, two other initiatives were also announced –  propelling over 200 up-and-coming youth entrepreneurs, and prospecting for three entrepreneurial individuals to become ‘Innovation Fellows’ at CIIE.

Launched in 2015, the SAP-CIIE Startup Accelerator Program is creating a pipeline of investable startups from the Gujarat region and providing them with mentorship opportunities. Besides Gujarat, the program aims to expand to Rajasthan and Pune.

“SAP believes in fostering sustainable economic environment through strengthening entrepreneurship ecosystem and in this context through our partnership with CIIE, we are creating and mentoring a pipeline of investable startups” said Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Managing Director, SAP Labs India.

“As CIIE increases its footprint in multiple regions, we are also developing depth in sectors like IoT, healthcare, agriculture, cleantech, water and enterprise tech. Our partnership with SAP allows us to tap into the enormous domain expertise that resides within the company – a support that is invaluable to startups”, said Kunal Upadhyay, CEI, CIIE.

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable approximately 310,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com

About CIIE

Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) is housed out of IIM- Ahmedabad. It is one of the oldest and most prominent startup incubators and early-stage investors in the country with 100+ investments across the verticals ICT, CleanTech and Social Impact.  CIIE helps entrepreneurs solve India’s most difficult problems in areas like energy, agriculture, healthcare and affordable technology. Set-up in collaboration with Government of India and Gujarat Government, CIIE is one of India’s leading entrepreneurship center and operates different initiatives including incubators, accelerators and venture funds to support entrepreneurs. For more information, visit www.ciie.co

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Launches a Gujarat-focused Startup Accelerator Program

Ahmedabad — May 27, 2014 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the launch of a Startup Accelerator Program in partnership with CIIE to strengthen the local entrepreneurship ecosystem and provide mentorship to early-stage entrepreneurs. Through this program, SAP and CIIE aim to catalyze assistance from several support organizations such as angel networks, co-working spaces, fabrication labs, incubators, industry associations, and, technology and academic institutions, which have been working towards creating a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in Gujarat.

“Entrepreneurs are the emerging leaders of the Digital Economy. They generate tremendous employment opportunities and contribute to the country’s growth,” said Adaire Fox-Martin, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan. “The program seeks to help entrepreneurs from tier II and tier III towns drive sustainable economic growth and innovation, and make Digital India real.”

The program will be a significant catalyst of growth for entrepreneurs from emerging towns. Entrepreneurs will undergo a three-month, non-residential boot camp and monthly training workshops. They will be paired with domain experts from SAP Labs Bangalore to get insights into the latest technology innovations. The Startup Accelerator Program aims to create a pipeline of investable startups from this region by scouting for entrepreneurs from Gujarat and providing them with mentorship opportunities.

“Innovation and economic growth are directly linked to Gujarat’s ability to develop individuals with the skills to become a successful entrepreneur,” said Kunal Upadhyay, CEO, CIIE at IIM – Ahmedabad. “We are pleased to collaborate with SAP on this initiative, and we will support this by leveraging our past experience and expertise to fast-track startup growth through operational guidance, mentoring and access to capital.”

Believing in the power of small business and enterprises to drive innovation and job creation, SAP India is committed to finding unique ways to accelerate the growth of enterprises across the nation through training and technology consulting. Apart from establishing best practices in the area of entrepreneurship, the Startup Accelerator Program will work towards building stronger collaboration between entrepreneurs and different stakeholders. In addition, this program will help develop a robust ecosystem and support entrepreneurs in areas such as Social Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Education, Sports, Internet, Mobile, Internet of Things, Clean Technology, Smart City and Food & Agri Business by providing them with operational guidance and access to capital.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 291,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

About CIIE

IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) helps entrepreneurs solve India’s most difficult problems in areas like energy, agriculture, healthcare and affordable technology. Set-up in collaboration with Government of India and Gujarat Government, CIIE is one of India’s leading entrepreneurship centre and operates different initiatives including incubators, accelerators and venture funds to support entrepreneurs. For more information, visit www.ciieindia.org

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