FACTBOX - Multinational companies expand tech R&D in India
REUTERS - Global technology companies are stepping up their research and development work in India. Here are some of the things they have been doing:
* MICROSOFT
-- Microsoft employs 1,500 people at its Indian R&D center. It started off with 20 people about a decade ago. -- Some of the work for key Microsoft projects such as its search engine Bing and the upcoming Windows 7 operating system was done in India.
* SAP
-- SAP Labs India, the company's largest R&D center outside Germany, employs 4,200 people. It does two-fifths of SAP's global enterprise resource planning development.
-- Half of the global development of SAP's customer relationship management software such as CRM 7.0 was done in India, as well as a fifth of the development of SAP Business ByDesign.
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