The company plans to hire some 400 consultants in the center by 2014, and it will invest some EUR30-40 million in specialist training and infrastructure.
The unit is called Nearshore Delivery Center and it is the result of a transformation undergone by the SAP Global Delivery Group center, part of the SAP Consulting division in Bucharest. The unit will include two offices in Romania, namely in Timisoara and Cluj-Napoca.
SAP is one of the top global players on the business software segment, with over 105,000 clients.
SAP Romania was founded in 2002 and it is mainly focused on sales and marketing, as well as the development of localized versions of SAP solutions.
In 2010, according to Finance Ministry data, the local branch of the German group posted sales of RON73.1 million and a net profit of RON11.6 million. (EUR1=RON4.3577)