Around 93% of Indian businesses expect positive returns on their artificial intelligence (AI) investments within three years, the highest confidence level among all countries surveyed, a report said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The report from German multinational software company SAP, co-authored with Oxford Economics, found that Indian firms have already reported an average AI return on investment of 15% in 2025, projected to reach to 31% within two years.<\/p>\n
Indian businesses are investing $31 million in AI this year \u2014 outpacing the $26.7 million global average \u2014 with focused spending on software, infrastructure, talent, and consulting.<\/p>\n
Organisational investments in AI are projected to rise by an average of 33% over the next two years, which is expected to drive ROI of 15% this year (an average of $5.7 million), which is expected to double in two years’ time to 31% ($15.3 million).<\/p>\n
“AI is transforming how businesses operate, not just by automating tasks, but by enabling smarter, faster decisions across mission-critical processes,” said Philipp Herzig, Chief Technology Officer, SAP SE.<\/p>\n
As much as 56% of Indian respondents were satisfied with current ROI, and 58% expected AI initiatives to deliver positive ROI faster than other technology investments \u2014 the highest globally.<\/p>\n
With over six lakh professionals, India accounts for 16% of the global AI talent pool, making it a true AI powerhouse, said Sindhu Gangadharan, MD of SAP Labs India and Head, SAP Customer Innovation Services, SAP.<\/p>\n
“This depth of digital talent is enabling enterprises to shift from pilots to performance, embedding AI into decisions, operations, and customer experiences,” she added.<\/p>\n
The report is based on a survey of 1,600 senior leaders across eight countries, including 200 respondents from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Around 93% of Indian businesses expect positive returns on their artificial intelligence (AI) investments within three years, the highest confidence level among all countries surveyed, a report said on Monday. The report from German multinational software company SAP, co-authored with Oxford Economics, found that Indian firms have already reported an average AI return on investment of 15% in 2025, projected to reach to 31% within two years. Indian businesses are investing $31 million in AI this year \u2014 outpacing the $26.7 million global average \u2014 with focused spending on software, infrastructure, talent, and consulting. Organisational investments in AI are projected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}