SAP SE has opened a 41-acre research and development campus in Bengaluru’s Devanahalli district, investing about €194 million in what it calls the India Innovation Park. The facility, inaugurated on Tuesday by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and state IT & BT Minister Priyank Kharge, is the German software maker’s second campus in the city and its second-largest R&D hub outside its headquarters in Walldorf. Phase-one construction has created space for 3,200 staff, with a further 4,500 employees scheduled to relocate shortly. When all phases are completed, the site will be able to house up to 14,000 people, consolidating SAP’s growing Indian workforce of more than 17,000 employees spread across five cities. The expansion underscores India’s importance to SAP’s cloud and artificial-intelligence strategy and adds to the state’s push to attract global capability centres.