SAP’s joint ventures over years

Here’s a list of joint ventures companies that SAP has formed over the years. For a list of companies that SAP has acquired proceed here. For the list of companies that SAP has divested over the years, follow here.

Delos Cloud GmbH – joint venture of Arvato Systems and SAP. It is a sovereign cloud platform designed specifically for the German public sector. It was founded in 2022 as a subsidiary of SAP SE and aims to support the digitalization of public administration in Germany while meeting strict requirements for data protection, IT security, and legal compliance set by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). It uses Microsoft Azure stack.

04/2021 – SAP Fioneer – in partnership with investment company Dediq Gmbh. The JV company runs a dedicated Financial Services Industry (FSI) unit. 

1996 - Sapphire Ventures – started as investment arm of SAP under name SAP Ventures. In 2011 the company did a split from SAP and was also renamed. SAP still keeps it presence via co-financing their funds. E.g. in 2021 they contributed to a new Sapphire Ventures fund “SAPPHIRE Ventures Fund VI”.

More information:

SAP’s acquisitions over years

SAP’s divestments over years

SAP’s divestments over years

As follow up on my other blog called SAP’s acquisitions over years I try to collects divestments of SAP too. There are not much information on this topic available on internet. Thus, my guess is that most of information will only be added in future when it will come to selling of assets.

08/2022 – SAP Litmos – VC firm Francisco Partners acquired a corporate learning software business from SAP. SAP Litmos is an online corporate training platform that enables smarter, faster corporate eLearning. The solution is comprised of a powerful LMS (learning management system) and a content-rich training course catalog that make it easy to manage the entire learning program from system implementation and integration to ongoing administration. Litmos company was acquired by CallidusCloud in 2011. Then SAP bought the Litmos as part of its acquisition of U.S. cloud software firm Callidus for $2.4 billion in 2018, rebranding the platform SAP Litmos. The SAP has evaluated that a value propositions and functionalities of the SAP SuccessFactors Learning solution and SAP Litmos solutions overlap. Divesting initiative started in May 2022 as SAP hired adviser to help with this transaction.

07/2020 - Qualtrics IPO - approximately 20 months after its acquisition the Qualtrics is set to go public via preparing its IPO. On 28-Jan-2021 company went public on Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “XM”.

05/2020 - SAP Digital Interconnect - to be acquired by Sinch. The Digital Interconnect division was added into the SAP via to a company called Mobile 365 Inc., which Sybase acquired in 2006. The Sybase became part of SAP when the company bought Sybase in 2010.

Flash back to pre 2k years

In this post I look back to pre-2000 years to times when new millennium was approaching. Back then all computer industry was scared in wake of what will happen when computers clock turn from 31.12.1999 23:59:59 to 1.1.2000 00:00:00. This problem was known as year 2000 problem. SAP was watching this space also and preparing its software for this change.

They came up with SAP Note with very famous number: 2000 - Internal SAP AG Year2000 activities. In this Note they briefly described what this year change will bring and advised its customers to prepare their computers system for this change. Initiative of the year 2000 within SAP was driven by so called “Year2000 Taskforce” (y2000@sap-ag.de, sap.com/y2ki and sapnet.sap.com/y2000). The taskforce coordinated all activities related to this change. Covering all known facts, problems, methods, tools, organizational and legal questions.

All analyzing and testing of SAP software done for this year change generated about 130+ (based on my brief count of Note numbers in collective Notes) SAP Notes. They vary from databases and OS related changes by different vendors, date field format adjustments in SAP tables like date 1.1.1 is converted to 1.1.0001, ABAP statements like “WRITE date YY/MM/DD”, file format generated by SAP interfaces and so on.

SAP provided also couple of tools to help customer with testing of their systems (like Safety Check 2000 tool, Verification Tool). Customers were encouraged to setup separate system where they shall simulate the year change and test how the SAP software will be affected.

All in all as we all know whole thing ended up successfully. There were no major interruptions of computer systems neither in SAP systems reported. So what will be next challenge? Year 2038 problem or just year 10,000 problem? Some of us will see that J

Information sources on this topic:

2000 - Internal SAP AG Year2000 activities

99664 - General information on year 2000 (collective note)

99662 - Collective note Year2000

135460 - Year 2000 guide for R/3 customers

Is SAP software used in surveillance?

In March of this year strange allegations related to SAP broke into the media. In particular it was related to possible ties between SAP and NSA. Also other article claimed that SAP is working with US intelligence agencies.

Moreover articles mentioned above suggest that SAP HANA is used by these agencies to help with surveillance. If that is true on one hand it would be good for SAP to claim that even the NSA belongs to circle of its customers. However we lie in post Snowden era where everything related to break of privacy is an issue. On other hand it may not need to be necessary good for SAP to have the NSA as a client. Also SAP claimed its gain in could computing was partially driven by customers who do not want to sit their data in US data centers. Revealing its ties to the NSA may not be again be good for SAP’s push to the cloud.

SAP reacted very rapidly on these claims. They published statement related to it. The statement is that they honor every customer. Regardless either it is from public or private sector around a world. They also contradict any allegations related to so called “back doors” in its software.

Whatever truth is one thing matters. SAP can’t do much about the scenarios on how customers do use their software. Even if it is used to the purposes what claims are suggesting into.

SAP fieldglass

SAP bought this company in 03/2014 and solution for Workforce & Vendor Management Software (VMS) appeared in its portfolio. Vendors or let’s say extended workforces or contingent workers either temporary staff, contractors of all kinds and services delivered via statements of work can be managed by SAP fieldglass. As market of software for contingent workforce is raising this field together with growth of cloud computing became interesting for SAP. Solution is cloud based only and it offers whole bunch of processes to support these kinds of vendor’s data. Processes covers include procurement, statements of work, project management, and payment.

From integration to other SAP’s products point of view the plans are there to integrate the fieldglass with SAP's SuccessFactors HCM software and SAP’s Ariba Network. On top of that integration is planed with ECC’s HCM application. Needless to say that with advert of SAP HANA there will be a kind of HANA powered version of the fieldglass delivered soon or later.

Useful links:

www.fieldglass.com

HanaHaus – café and community workspace

SAP recently (on March 19th 2015) opened a kind of coffee shop in hearth of Silicon Valley - in Palo Alto. This is just first place of this kind where SAP shows their approach to contribute to public perception of what becoming their flag ship product – HANA. By having it in Palo Alto; SAP wants to show its commitment to innovation and start up spirit which both have great legacy in this location.

What it serves for is following. There are workspaces for rent for individuals or small groups. Place for workshops, small conferences and all kinds of events like hackathons and even movie viewing or standup comedy performance. And more basic purpose is of course to just have a cup of great coffee!

Just one more thing: They serve a Blue Bottle Coffee in hanahaus J

Links:

hanahaus.com

twitter.com/hanahaus

SAP new logo – 2015 and beyond

Last week during SAP TechEd && d-code event in Las Vegas SAP has started to roll its new logo quietly.  The logo started to be appearing on Oct 21 on SAP home page. Afterwards official SAP twitter account (some of other SAP’s twitter accounts also), linkedin and profile and youtube followed.

The logo it-self is major change comparing to previous one. At first SAP completely abandoned blue as color and shape of the former logo. On color side now it is orange but they called it gold. Personally gold is fine with me. I think blue was also better but as gold implies warmness I think it is good move. On the logo shape I’m not that enthusiastic. For me the shape that was something which made SAP unique. When I look back how SAP logo evolved over the time the shape was there for most of company history. As in the new logo an A letter is shaped into some kind of smiley I believe the smiley can be a kind of differentiator for new logo.

So what message SAP delivers with the new logo? It is all about simplicity as announced on this year SAP’s annual SapphireNow conference. See more on SAP simplicity here:

discover.sap.com/runsimple or sap.com/runsimple

There is one more thing. The new logo is there but there is no any SAP official statement about its lunch. This may seem to be strange. And it was until recently. In discussion thread on SCN finally and SAP employee (Costanza Tedesco - SVP SAP Brand Experience) made statement which seems to be the only one related to the new logo. Basically she shares that currently it was soft launch just in North America and larger lunch will occur in Jan 2015. She also suggests that new gold color was picked because the gold was here for quite a long time – just remember how layout and colors of all SAP presentations...

This is the new SAP Logo 2015 and beyond:

This is its predecessor 2011 – 2014 ????:

- update 23/09/2015 - 
SAP's official logo is not the gold color one. Change of the logo to the gold color in Q4 2014 was a "test phase" and it turned out that SAP decided to keep the blue logo.

How to influence SAP

This blog is originally posted on SCN: 

How to influence SAP

Over the years SAP developed a few channels of how outside world can reach out to SAP. Through these channels we can potentially influence the SAP world. Here's one example. Imagine that you have a great idea of how to improve particular functionality in SAP's software. You'd like to let the SAP know about it. And surprisingly there are chances how to do it – how to pass the message. Below I list and briefly describe those channels. The motivation for this blog is to basically gather basic information on those channels into one place.

1. IdeaPlace ideas.sap.com introduced in 2010 enables you to post idea for new feature or product enhancement of SAP software, solution etc. You can also browser already posted ideas by others, vote for ideas which promote them and subscribe to the ideas to be updated about its further developments. See ideaplace site and following SAP Note for more details. To use the site you need you Service Marketplace (SMP) account although you can browse ideas without login.

For more information follow this SAP Note:

1515837 - How To: Enhancement Request Process - "Idea Place" - BI solutions

Also notice that while posting new ideas you need to assign it to existing directory. The directory represents area of SAP software/product. At the moment all Business Analytics (BA) – covering BI as well, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Data Warehousing, Human Capital Management (HCM), Mobility, on-demand, NetWeaver solutions are now available in Idea Place.

2. SAP Influence Program service.sap.com/influence and influence.sap.com (SMP login required). Apart of IdeaPlace there is a program called Customer Influence. In general you need to be really SAP customer to participate in SAP influence. This means you need to have either license or support contract from SAP. Generally speaking via SAP Influence you can participate with SAP on development of products. There are two flavors of this program:

- Customer Connection

- Customer Engagement Initiative and get involved

Below I describe those two plus the others.

3. Customer Connection service.sap.com/customer-connection (SMP login required) or sap.com/cc - SAP customer with maintenance contracts and SAP User Groups can suggest improvement of SAP software. These so called Improvement Requests are gathered into so called Focus Topic cycles. Once particular request scores by significant customers it is being review by SAP development teams. Once developed by them customer can implement it in form of either SAP Notes or SAP Support Packages (SP).

There is actually more within Customer Connection initiative. All improvements which were delivered can be found on dedicated sites:

sapimprovementfinder.com – public access

service.sap.com/findinnovation - SMP login required

You can search for improvements and get to know how to implement them.

As my background is mostly Data Warehousing I'm very glad to see improvements from this area like:

BI Content Migration of BW 3.x based data flows - SAP Note 1601140

Customer Connection: (NW 730SP11): Complete deletion of data - SAP Note 1864773

To learn more details of Customer Connection following links:

Customer Connection - FAQs

Customer Connection - Standard Presentation

For both above links SMP login required.

4. Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI) - Within this initiative again you as SAP customer or partner can get hands on early development and by this to influence innovations in SAP planned products releases.

To learn more about CEI go to following link:

cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/community/influence/cei - SMP login required

5. SAP Mentors group - Mentors are selected individuals from community of the SAP Ecosystem. To become member of mentors you need to be nominated by community like SCN. Basically it is extra league of experts into variety of SAP topics.

For more info on Mentors follow links:

1559276 - What are the SAP Mentors, what is Mentoring?

sapmentors.sap.com

6. SAP customer/user groups - SAP is exchanging knowledge in technical and functional areas within its user groups. Also within this channel user can share experience of SAP products, knowledge and ideas. There are regional SAP user groups across all continents. Just to name few biggest: ASUG — Americas' SAP Users' Group - www.asug.com, DSAG — German-Speaking SAP User Group – Germany www.dsag.de. There are several types of membership available. You can basically join as individual or as a company. Check particular user group sire for details. Above regional groups there is also SAP User Group Executive Network (SUGEN). The SUGEN consists of leaders from multiple regional groups. By this all regional groups are united within dialog with SAP.

To learn more about customer/user group use following link:

service.sap.com/usergroups (SMP login required)

Design Thinking at SAP

These days the term of design thinking became very popular buzz word. All companies are pretending to be following the pattern of design thinking. So what is it in nut shell?

Methodology commonly referred to as design thinking is a proven and repeatable problem-solving protocol that any business or profession can employ to achieve extraordinary results (from Wikipedia). It is discipline that uses designer's sensibility and methods to match what user's need and what is feasible to achieve with technologies. Basically within the design thinking has three essences: Human, business and technology. 

You may wonder what is the topic of design thinking doing on my SAP related Blog? Actually design thinking is actually used at SAP to transition SAP as software company to cloud company. It means that classic SAP which is knows (or even is famous) because of on-premise ERP systems now wants to turn it-self to SaaS model delivery of software. 

Well in SAP case it may also be just a buzzword. However it seems they consider this initiative seriously. One of SAP’s founders Hasso Plattner is involved in so called Hasso Plattner Institute of Design which is design school based in Stanford University. The school was founded by David Kelley who is well known as buddy of Steve Jobs. David’s company Ideo was behind of scenes of many famous Apple products. 

In closing I would just point that transition from purely on-premise software company to the cloud company will not be easy. SAP really needs to change its mindset. In today’s world where almost no companies do mind to store their data into the cloud it will be extreme competition with pure cloud companies. Similarly we can see how other companies not only SAP are struggling with that transition. As an example I mention SAP’s archrival – Oracle. Last week they reported not very promising result in 2^nd consecutive quarter. Well maybe SAP is better positioned for that transition with their HANA offerings. But that’s something which only future will tell us.

SAP resources dedicated to design thinking:

SCN’s area

Design Thinking with SAP

User Experience@SAP

Deactivating SAP functionality - hierarchical pricing

There might several reasons occur why customer and SAP would want to deactivate certain functionality provided with the software. From customer perspective: if there is more than one version of same functionality (e.g. old feature being replaced by new version of same thing) customer may want to employ new version of the thing and switch off the old one. In that case there are some customizing parameters provided (e.g. in form of tables, system profile parameters etc.) by SAP to support that kind of switch. Basically in this case it is up to the customer free will which version of the same functionality want to use.

However there might be cases that SAP wants to customer pursue to disable certain functionality. This is especially in case of patent infringement. Other organizations of individuals may claim ownership of ideas/algorithms etc. used in software. That would be typical case why software vendor would do that. Recently this happened for SAP’s solution like R/3, Enterprise, ECC, CRM, SRM, GTS.  They all are using so called hierarchical access feature in pricing and pricing-related functionality build into above listed solutions. There was a court trial being held between company Versata and SAP in the matter of hierarchical access feature. As the trail has been settled so far US customer of SAP are obligated to deactivate to this functionality. Herewith SAP is providing SAP Notes which automates deactivation of the functionality.

I’m not judging who is right or wrong in this case. However it is not beneficial for customer of both parties. As per this example it is obvious how monstrous, chaotic and messy are patents proceedings are and how time consuming it takes to settle it down.

For more information review following SAP Notes:

1600482 - Hierarchical access functionality (seems to be main note)

1645516 - Deactivation of hierarchical access functionality

1645515 - Deactivation of hierarchical access functionality

1643194 - Deactivation of hierarchical access functionality

1600091 - Deactivation of hierarchical access functionality        

1599403 - Deactivation of hierarchical access functionality

SAP’s acquisitions over years

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.

05/2026 – Dremio – it provides  data lakehouse platform built to accelerate agentic AI. It will be included into SAP BDC (Business Data Cloud). Aims is to expand BDC’s ability to combine SAP and non-SAP data to more effectively run an analytical and AI workloads in real time.

05/2026 – Prior Labs – it provides Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs), pretrained AI models to handle structured data (rows/columns) without traditional training. Technology powers SAP’s SAP-RPT-1 model (referred as "Rapid One") that was announced at SAP TechEd 2025.

03/2026 – Reltio – It is a cloud-native and AI-first platform for Master Data Management (MDM). It brings together structured and unstructured data from different sources, clean it and make it usable in real time within enterprise-wide agentic AI. The goal is a uniform, reliable database – the provider speaks of a "golden record". To be added into portfolio of SAP BDC (Business Data Cloud).

08/2025 – SmartRecruiters – SAP’s existing HCM tools recruiting and hiring capabilities will be enhanced and AI-enabled by portfolio of SmartRecruiters.

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.

11/2026 Volume Integration, LLC – was a technology solutions provider specializing in "Big Data" analytics, cloud computing, and software engineering services. It was acquired by SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2). It now operates as part of the NS2 Mission team, a specialized division focused on the national security community.

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: 20 August 2025