Out of the total 30,000 Satyam employees, about 3,000 employees have capabilities in SAP, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software application. "We have a pre-eminent space in SAP and have moved from offshore leadership to global leadership in the last one-and-half years," he told Business Line.
Satyam hires people at entry level from colleges and trains them on SAP applications, and also gets them certified from SAP, the German company that has developed the application. The Hyderabad-based software company also hires professionals from sectors such as banking and automotive and puts them on a similar training on SAP. The company then puts the SAP trained professionals on shadow projects along with experienced people, and later allows them to work on regular projects, he said.
The global ERP industry, which includes software applications from companies such as SAP, Oracle and Seibel, is about $15 billion and is growing. SAP has a 22 per cent market share, he said.
