SAP AG's founder Hasso Plattner said the largestbusiness-software maker's programs remain too cumbersome to impressa generation of users weaned on slick apps made by Google Inc. andFacebook Inc.
To help attract the talent SAP needs to keep pace with users'expectations, Plattner today opened a development center outsideBerlin to incubate technology and foster young programmers. The“Innovation Center” sits on a Potsdam lakeside 9 kilometers (5.6miles) from the research institute that bears the SAP chairman'sname.
SAP plans to make the site a key development hub and willpotentially double its staff to 150 to work closely with technologystartups, said a person familiar with the matter, who asked not tobe named because the plan isn't public.
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