SAP Shutting Down Russia Operations After 30 Years in Country
SAP Shutting Down Russia Operations After 30 Years in Country
(Bloomberg) -- SAP SE is taking steps toward an “orderly exit” of its operations in Russia with plans to stop offering support for on-premise products in the country while winding down cloud services.
The Germany-based software firm has operated for more than 30 years in Russia, but is now joining other technology companies in pulling back from the country. SAP said in a statement it is going beyond sanctions by halting sales in Russia and Belarus, and shutting down cloud operations in Russia.
As part of the exit, SAP will stop providing support and maintenance for on-premise products in Russia, the company said, noting that existing customers with such software will still be able to use their products. SAP also said that as part of the cloud shutdown, non-sanctioned companies in Russia will have the choice to have their data deleted, sent to them, or migrated to a date center outside of Russia.
SAP’s board chairman Hasso Plattner said in a recent interview that the company had 1,300 employees in Russia.
“We are in general as employers offering opportunities where it makes sense from a business perspective for people to work internationally,” SAP’s Chief Financial Officer Luka Mucic told reporters in a briefing. “We are so far not doing this at mass scale for our employees, but there are individual instances where some of our employees are working from abroad.”
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