Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 23 | Page 7

NEWS SAP invests more than €200 million into digital campus in Berlin digital campus is currently planned for end of 2022. “SAP loves Berlin,” said SAP Chief Technology Officer and Berliner by choice, Juergen Mueller. “The capital and its tech ecosystem cannot be overlooked by us and our clients. This applies to the innovations of the future as well as to Berlin’s location as an important job market. Berlin, like no other capital, has a strong appeal beyond Europe.” SAP to expand presence into Berlin in 2022 S AP SE focuses on Berlin as an innovative location and has therefore announced that it will expand its presence in the capital. In the next few years, one of the biggest business applications providers worldwide will invest more than €200 million in a campus near Berlin central station. There will be room for up to 1,200 employees to work at the more than 30,000 square metres in ‘Quartier Heidestrasse’, the so-called Europacity. The move into the With the new location, SAP strengthens technology areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Blockchain. It also highlights the significance of the capital region as an important place for dialogue with customers, politicians, startups and universities. Today, SAP is represented in the capital area through multiple office locations in Berlin-Mitte and Schoenefeld, SAP Data Space and the SAP Innovation Center in Potsdam. ///////////////// Nokia showcases its end-to-end 5G leadership with new Future X Lab in Finland N okia has opened a 5G Future X Lab at its global headquarters in Espoo, Finland, enabling customers to experience Nokia’s full end-to-end portfolio of 5G equipment, software and services. The Lab will enable communications service providers, enterprises and infrastructure providers to learn and understand the techno-economic power of a 5G end-to-end network to better serve their customers and unleash new value. The Lab will showcase the strength of Nokia’s 5G end-to-end capabilities with live hardware, software and full network slicing, all under seamless digital operations control. The Lab will also include an ‘Experience Zone’ where customers will see demonstrations of Nokia technologies and innovations. In addition to serving Nokia’s 5G customers, the Espoo Lab will also provide an innovation platform for internal Nokia research, www.intelligentcio.com prototype development and testing, as well as enable engagement with the wider research and innovation ecosystem. Marcus Weldon, Nokia’s Corporate Chief Technology Officer and President of Nokia Bell Labs, said: “The Future X Lab is an extensive build-out of a 5G end-to-end network, enabling customers to explore how a dynamically reconfigurable and automated network can increase network performance in areas of latency, capacity, reliability and security while reducing total cost of ownership. This new state-of-the-art facility is an extension of our Future X Lab in Murray Hill, NJ, and will enable us to better serve European customers and innovate with key industrial verticals.” INTELLIGENTCIO 7