Software leader to base research centre in North

THE world’s leading provider of business software solutions has selected Belfast as the location for its first research centre in Ireland or Britain, it was announced yesterday.

German headquartered international company SAP AG is setting up a centre for research in the emerging field of grid computing.

Invest Northern Ireland is providing 50% of the £1.8 million (€2.62m) project cost under a programme which aims to increase industrial research in the North.