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