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.
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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,
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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.”
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