SAP India has vociferously denied a report in the Financial Chronicle claiming the company plans to lay off over 1,000 company contract workers.

"No layoffs, as are being reported, have been planned thus far; we are conducting a detailed evaluation on the basis of our business requirements and will realign all our resources to optimise operational efficiencies," said an official e-mail sent to the publication.

However, SAP admitted that it had taken a "series of prudent and appropriate steps to assure cost-efficient operations of the company during this period of economic uncertainty".

The firm currently maintains 20 service partners, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, HCL, IBM and Accenture.

As IT Examiner previously reported, SAP is still struggling to contend with the adverse affects of a global economic recession.  According to CEO Henning Kagermann, uncertainty about the financial future caused its customers to waver over signing orders, with firms declining to invest further in IT at such an uncertain time. Nevertheless, the firm recently managed to clinch a global reseller agreement with Click Software to repackage a service optimisation suite as its new workforce scheduling and optimisation application.

In addition, the company successfully launched three Chinese-language sites oriented towards partners and developers.

"Of the 150,000 SAP community members in the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region, more than 95 per cent of those members are from customer or partner organisations outside of SAP. More than 50 per cent of those community members are based in China and Japan, with 35,000-plus people regularly accessing the community sites from each region. In China alone, SDN membership has grown by 21 per cent and BPX community membership has grown by 33 per cent over the last six months," explained SAP. X

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