Below is a brief list of
companies acquired by SAP over the years. I used publicly available data about
these transactions. Those consists of like press releases of SAP when
particular acquisition happened. The press releases are usually linked under
MM/YYYY marks if the press release exited at the time of writing. Other data
sources I used is SAP
annual reports. For details see resources part below.
For SAP’s divestments see here.
06/2024
–WalkMe – provides Digital
Adoption Platform (DAP) that helps users understand how to use an online
application while offering contextual help on its interface. SAP will most
likely integrate this software to their chatbots (e.g. Joule - SAP's AI Copilot).
09/2023 – LeanIX –
provides an enterprise architecture management tool. It is used to manage
business capabilities, application, technology and data catalogues and makes
links between them. It is to help SAP with S/4 adoption via solution like RISE
with SAP. It should complements the business transformation
capabilities of SAP Signavio.
07/2022 – Askdata – its
IP will become part of BTP (Business Technology Platform) platform for next
generation solutions of lightweight analytics experience of SAC (SAC Analytics
Cloud).
01/2022 – Taulia - a
provider (fintech) of working capital management solutions. It provides an
early payments type of solutions via supply chain finance, dynamic discounting
and accounts receivable services. SAP acquired majority stake, while some
previous investor’s stakes stay in a company.
01/2022 – Icertis –
SAP financially invested to this provider
of contract management solutions. SAP joined Icertis for a joint product road
map and integration of Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for SAP Ariba
solutions and ICI for SAP Customer Experience solutions.
08/2021 SwoopTalent –
provider of data management for talent systems. Its AI-powered platform used to
combine, analyze and train data from disparate HR systems and workflows is
supposed to be included in capabilities of SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
02/2021 appgyver –
provider of no-code development platform. Another low/no code solution as
addition to some of them that SAP has (MDK comes with Mobile Services, Ruum and
Mendix (SAP is reseller) already. To be included in SAP
Business Technology Platform (BTP) and through that part of
SAP RISE.
01/2021 Signavio –
provider of Business Process
Management (BPM) software for process discovery, analysis, and
mining capability. It is a part of RISE with SAP package introduced in
01/2021. It is offering aiming to help companies with a move of their SAP
deployments to cloud.
10/2020 Emarsys –
provider of omnichannel customer engagement. Most likely this technology will
be added into SAP S/4HANA and Experience Management technology (Qualtrics)
solutions of SAP.
11/2018 Contextor –
provider of robotic process automation (RPA). Most likely will be integrated to
SAP's Leonardo machine learning process and overall process automation business
to deliver “intelligent enterprise”.
11/2018 Qualtrics LLC –
provider of experience management (XM) software. Product called XM Platform
collects feedback and data across the four vital areas of a business –
customers, employees, product and brand.
05/2018 Coresystems AG -
provider of crowd service and field service management solutions for
technicians. Will be part of SAP Service Cloud portfolio.
05/2018
Technology
Management Associates (TMA) – SAP NS2 (SAP National
Security Services Inc., independent U.S. subsidiary, offering SAP solutions
with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of
U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers) acquired
intelligence IT firm that delivers collaborative Command, Control,
Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
technologies and employee engineering services supporting critical national
security programs.
01/2018 Callidus
Software Inc - delivers cloud-based Lead to Money
(Quote-to-Cash) solutions. Their cloud software in area of Lead to Money
includes Sales Performance Management (SPM) and Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ). Most
likely it will be integrated into something that SAP calls front office as part
of CRM solutions.
01/2018 recast.ai –
provides so called conversational user experience which is chatbot based technology to
accelerate development of SAP Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities.
09/2017 Gigya –
provider of Registration-as-a-Service, which addresses changing geographical
privacy issues and manages compliance requirements such as the upcoming General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It will be incorporated into SAP's Hybris
marketing business, which offers so-called "ommichannel" integration
that allows businesses to keep tabs on customers whether they shop in stores,
online or on their phones.
12/2016 Abakus - a
provider of solutions for cross-channel marketing measurement and optimization
as cloud-based to boost SAP Hybris Marketing Cloud.
09/2016
Hipmunk - a
provider of mobile travel search. It was added to Concur’s products for
corporate customers.
09/2016 plat.one -
developer of enterprise grade IoT (internet of Things) solutions ranging from
smart equipment and transportation to smart cities and manufacturing. It will
accelerate availability of IoT capabilities in SAP HANA Cloud Platform in areas
of lifecycle management for IoT devices, broad device connectivity, IoT
capabilities that work seamlessly with a cloud back end, end-to-end role-based
security and rapid development tools for IoT applications.
08/2016 Altiscale
Inc.
- Big Data-as-a-service company specializing in Hadoop, Spark and other big
data frameworks. SAP will probably use portfolio of this company for
integrating HANA and Hadoop.
07/2016 Fedem
Technology – provider of IoT solutions for oil and gas industry.
Its technology will be used to build end-to-end IoT solutions in field of
predictive maintenance space as well as various Industry 4.0 scenarios.
02/2016 MeLLmo
Inc - Roambi – Roambi is set of applications that changes
raw data into interactive graphics (data prettifier’) designed for mobile
devices. SAP acquires key assets of Roambi to deliver innovations to enable
users with easy-to-use analytics solutions that can retrieve relevant data
anywhere, anytime.
10/2015 Multiposting - SaaS recruiting software
providing automatic posting capabilities for job ads across thousands of job
boards. Multiposting is now SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Posting.
10/2014
- Saicon Inc – SAP consulting
recruitment company. No info on this acquisition can be found excerpt on SAP’s wiki page.
09/2014 Concur
Technologies – Creator of popular app TripIt. Top cloud
travel/expense management software vendor. For SAP it is another big push to
cloud software.
08/2014 OpTier –
was a provider of Application Performance Management (APM) solution which
creates a single record from every customer interaction, regardless of channel
or geography etc. The interaction records transcend technical and
organizational siloes, and provide a single source of truth for how customers
interact with your business.
05/2014 SeeWhy
provider of cloud based behavioral marketing solutions. It will be added into
hybris portfolio aiming 1-to-1 personalized marketing based on real-time
customer behavior that converts customer interactions into sales.
03/2014 FieldGlass
provider of solutions for procuring and managing contingent labor and services.
These services will be part of SAP cloud services portfolio with possible
redesign to be based on HANA platform.
Approx.
01/2014 KMS Onboarding – added to
recruitment product offering of SAP SuccessFactors.
12/2013 GK
Software provider of software solutions for the
retail sector. SAP was granted 5.29% of shares. SAP is partnering with GK
Software AG since 2009 in the retail field. GK Store Solutions is being sold by
SAP. Data from devices used within a store (POS terminals, scales, mobiles,
self-check-out, etc.) used in GK solution are integrated with SAP apps.
09/2013 KXEN
provider of predictive analytics technology for line-of-business users and
analysts. Their product will be included in SAP Predictive Analysis software
and other HANA offerings.
06/2013 hybris - a
Swiss e-commerce software company, most likely hybris products will replace SAP
WCEM
(Web Channel Experience Management).
03/2013 Camilion –
Canada’s Ontario provider of solutions for insurance industry: product
development, product life-cycle and underwriting. Most likely it will be
included in SAP for Insurance industry solution portfolio.
02/2013 SmartOps -
provider of inventory and service level optimization software. This would help
SAP obtain 'real time supply chain' software programs that can help in
propagating SAP HANA.
01/2013 Ticket-Web -
company providing ticketing solutions and CRM software for sports and
entertainment promoters. With regards to HANA SAP can do real time insight into
fast changing behavior customer in field of sport/culture events. This may
enable promoters to evaluate their tactics and offers better solutions.
05/2012 Ariba Inc. Another (after SuccessFactors)
cloud computing based software this time in area of collaborative business
commerce. Ariba very famous by providing solutions for indirect
procurement/purchasing will add its portfolio to e.g. SAP’s cloud based SRM.
04/2012 Syclo - Provider of Mobile Asset
Management and Field Service Solutions to extend SAP Mobile Platform.
01/2012 Datango
– provider of software for creating multilingual documentation, classroom
training presentations, e-learning materials and online help.
12/2011 SuccessFactors – provider of human
capital management (HCM) cloud solutions. Running as subsidiary company. Gained
portfolio for SAP Business ByDesign.
09/2011 Crossgate – enabler of B2B electronic
data exchange.
09/2011 Right Hemisphere - 3-D Visualization
Software-Maker.
01/2011
Software Security Products and Assets from SECUDE.
12/2010
Disclosure Management Solutions division from cundus AG.
05/2010 Sybase Inc. – provider of mobile and
database solutions.
04/2010 Technidata AG – provider of Environment
Heath and Safely (EHS) Industry Solution.
12/2009 SOALogix Inc. – US based company
specialized in software business processes and application integration. Added
to SAP
PI
(formerly XI) solution as part of NetWeaver.
09/2009 SAF Simulation, Analysis and
Forecasting AG (SAF AG) specialized in ordering and forecasting software
solutions for the retail, logistics, and industrial sectors.
06/2009 Highdeal S.A. - provider of real-time
billing solutions for telecommunications.
05/2009 Clear Standards, Inc. - US Company specialized
in software solutions for the management of carbon emissions.
05/2009 Sky Data Systems Inc., specialized in
mobile CRM software solutions.
02/2009 CogHead, specialized in web-based
service for building and hosting custom online database apps. It services are
now part of OnDemand (formerly known as SAP River) Platform.
07/2008 Visiprise, Inc. - provider of business
solutions for integrated manufacturing operations in companies. By that SAP
delivers Perfect Plant strategy for discrete manufacturing customers.
02/2008 BusinessObjects – leader in Business
Intelligence. SAP’s BI portfolio became really broad.
11/2007 Silk Europe - Silk was an Outlook-Soft
reseller in the Netherlands and Belgium.
10/2007 Yasu Technologies, to improve business
process management (BPM) capabilities of NetWeaver (SAP
PI).
07/2007 MaXware - provider of identity
management software.
05/2007 Wicom Communications Ltd. - provider of
all-IP contact center and enterprise communications software.
05/2007 OutlookSoft Corporation - provider of
integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation software. Gaining
market share within area of business performance management. Later SAP based
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) for Microsoft platform based on
this product. Now it is below to SAP BusinessObjects portfolio.
02/2007 Pilot Software - company specializing
in strategy management software. Improving portfolio of analytic applications.
12/2006 Factory Logic - Factory Logic provides
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) software. The software that automates
production scheduling and synchronizes a factory's suppliers.
07/2006 Praxis Software Solutions Inc. - New
capabilities for SAP Business One.
05/2006 Frictionless Commerce Inc. - on-demand
supplier relationship management (SRM) software. Later became SAP Sourcing
solution.
05/2006 Virsa Systems Inc. – entering GRC
market introducing Virsa FireFighter product.
12/2005 Khimetrics Inc. - provider of software
for retailers to analyze how to price and position items, optimize demand and deliver
accurate profitability forecasts.
11/2005 Transact in Memory Inc. (TIM) – Company
known for developing next-generation in-memory DBMS (known as P*TIME) engine.
Originally South Korean company funded in 2000. Later in 2002 they moved to
Silicon Valley. Once acquired by SAP it company was transformed to SAP’s Korean
entity as SAP Labs Korea. P*TIME engine is one of foundations of SAP HANA.
They contribute to SAP's HANA In-Memory DB (HANA) development.
09/2005 Triversity Inc. - provider of
point-of-sale (POS) software solutions helps to improve SAP for Retail product.
06/2005 Lighthammer Software Development Corp.
- supplier of enterprise manufacturing intelligence and collaborative
manufacturing software. Now part of SAP xApps composite application on the SAP
NetWeaver platform.
02/2005 DCS Quantum – a provider of vehicle
dealer management systems. Solution to enable vehicle importers, distributors,
dealer groups, and independent dealers to consolidate and improve sales and
service processes and to achieve more effective collaboration. It was
integrated into SAP's existing auto industry suite known as SAP Dealer Business
Management.
01/2005 iLytix Systems AS – provider of
reporting and budgeting tools. Now part of BI capabilities for Small and
Midsize Businesses e.g. XL Reporter for SAP Business One (SBO).
07/2004 A2i Inc – to support SAP MDM solution.
SAP’s own ABAP based MDM was replaced by acquired C++ solution under name SAP
MDME. Later renamed as SAP NetWeaver MDM. In parallel SAP came with again ABAP
based master data mntg solution called MDG.
MM/2004 Virtual Locality – software for wide
area network (WAN) acceleration for enterprises, which makes it possible to
transmit information quickly between remote sites.
01/2005 TomorrowNow (TN) Inc – the most troubled
acquisition maybe in whole software industry ever. TN was provider of support
and upgrade services for software of JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel etc.
12/2005 SAP Systems Integration AG (SAP SI) –
Included into SAP Consulting division.
12/2003 SPM Technologies - IT architecture
consulting company.
07/2003 DCW Software AG – added to SME
portfolio.
MM/2003 Expression - developed a tool for
sharing information in real time, called Real Time Collaboration, which
facilitates file sharing between users, even if they are physically distant
from one another.
12/2003 GUI Machine – it enabled visual
creation of portal pages and iViews, later it was renamed to Visual Composer, a
tool that makes it possible to create content on a portal without writing code
lines manually.
03/2002 TopManage Financial Solutions Ltd. –
Foundation of SAP Business One (SBO) product. Solutions for small enterprises
(SME or SMB). Meanwhile it became SAP subsidiary called SAP Manage Ltd.
12/2001 Paynet International AG – acquired Electronic
Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) Consolidator software from Paynet International
AG. Its invoice processing became part of mySAP Financials.
11/2001 COPA GmbH - IT consulting company in
field of beverage. Their solution became mySAP Consumer Products for the
Beverage Industry.
05/2001 IMHC – suite of applications and intellectual
property related to health care industry from IDS (Infinite Data Structures)
company. The suite called Integrated Managed Heath Care (IMHC) deals with
customer relationship management (CRM) for pharmaceutical and medical product
manufacturers.
03/2001 TopTier Software - created SAP Portals
subsidiary. Portfolio became SAP
(NetWeaver) Enterprise Portal.
02/2001 Prescient Consulting - Consulting
services company strengthened SAP consulting practice in USA.
05/2000 In-Q-My Technologies – JAVA server
(In-Q-My Application Server) developed by this company became SAP Web
Application Server (Web AS) JAVA.
MM/2000
OFEK-Tech - company specializing in
Warehouse Management and Control. Acquisition helped to develop native support
for radio frequency (RF) devices for the SAP ECC (R/3) Warehouse Management
Module.
12/1997 Kiefer & Veittinger GmbH - sales
force automation software company. SAP gained CRM solutions and consulting
stuff (operated that time as SAP CRM Consulting GmbH). Moreover they got
offshore development in capabilities located in Bangalore, India. The location
known as K&V Lab became SAP Labs Bangalore.
MM/1998
- Campbell Software - a provider of
workforce management (WFM) and personal time & attendance recording
software.
MM/1998
- AMC Development - Call Center
telephony integration software.
10/1997
– Commerce One – not acquisition,
SAP just invested in E-commerce vendor. In their joint development Commerce
One's procurement software (Enterprise Buyer Professional Edition) was supposed
to be integrated R/3. During dot com bubble and its burst however relationship
was terminated. Commerce One went bankrupt in 2004.
1994
DACOS Software GmbH – developed
software solutions for retail industry like simulation and optimization of
assortments, prices, and promotions for the retail industry. It becomes SAP
Retail Solutions GmbH & Co.
1991 Steeb – became a daughter
Company of SAP; later in 2007 specializing on SAP
Business ByDesign
- 2010
1990
CAS – N/A - not possible to find more info on this acquisition.
Resources:
http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/our-company/inbrief/acquisitions/index.epx
https://www.sap.com/investors/en/capital-market-story/acquisitions.html
Last
update: 10 June 2024
