The SAP Question

India built the world’s software workforce but imports the enterprise software its own economy runs on. More than 5,000 enterprises — the operational core of ONGC, IndianOil, NTPC, BHEL, SAIL, the PSU banks and the armed forces — run on foreign ERP. This report measures the dependency layer by layer with three proprietary frameworks (EDI, SSS, DIEM), maps where SAP runs India sector by sector, weighs it against Germany, China, South Korea and France, sets out the 2027 SAP deadline and the AI reset, and charts the sovereign-software opportunity to 2035. ~180 pages, 30+ figures, 21 data tables, eight appendices. Free.