SAP SAP -1.05% plans to undertake a restructuring program this year that will affect some 8,000 jobs, ratcheting up its focus on artificial intelligence. The German business-software company said ...

The program has been such a success, SAP is currently working to expand it, with the goal of having 1 percent of its total workforce — approximately 650 people — fall on the spectrum by 2020 ...

SAP opened its Bangalore lab in 1998 and announced plans last year to pour $120 million into building up business there. The company recently opened a development lab in Shanghai, China.