SAP Investment Story Acquisitions

Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a technology platform that organizations use to collect, manage, and act on experience data, also called X-data™. The Qualtrics XM Platform™ is a system of action, used by teams, departments, and entire organizations to manage the four core experiences of business—customer, product, employee and brand—on one platform. Over 9,000 enterprises worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100 and 99 of the top 100 U.S. business schools, rely on Qualtrics to consistently build products that people appreciate, create more loyal customers, develop a desirable employee culture, and build strong brands.
Date: November 2018. Purchase Price: US$8 billion

Coresystems
Coresystems is a pioneer in crowd service and a leading field service management platform. The Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered platform provides advanced scheduling of field service activities in real time, and mobile apps that enable field service technicians to perform installation, maintenance and repair tasks. With its unique crowd-sourcing capabilities, service organizations can build and expand service networks beyond their own workforce.
Date: June 2018.

Callidus Software
CallidusCloud is a global leader in cloud-based Lead to Money (Quote-to-Cash) solutions. The company develops software that enables organizations to identify the right leads, ensure proper territory and quota distribution, enable sales forces, automate configure-price-quote and streamline sales compensation. With the acquisition of CallidusCloud, SAP is well positioned to continue meeting the needs of modern sales teams as they evolve – well beyond core sales force automation. The acquisition of CallidusCloud marks a decisive step in the SAP Customer Experience vision to deliver an integrated and unique enterprise sales platform that seamlessly connects the front and back offices.
Date: January 2018. Purchase Price: US$2.4 billion

Recast.AI
Recast.AI provides a rich machine learning-based environment that improves conversational capabilities of SAP’s products. Its technology, supporting over 20 languages, analyzes sentences and returns precise, actionable data. Moreover, its collaborative, end-to-end platform allows software engineers to build bots, to connect them to many different channels and to train their understanding. The chatbots are designed to help, for instance, consumers to procure services and products in a personalized, natural way or to automate service processes for companies, e.g. telecommunications, banks, insurances, or energy providers. Recast.AI’s technology and capabilities are going to be used by both SAP’s digital assistant SAP CoPilot and chatbots across all SAP product segments.
Date: January 2018.

Hipmunk
Hipmunk is a leader in travel search innovation. The company was the first to create a website and mobile app that sorts travel results not just by price, but also key factors important to business travelers such as duration, stops, and hotel location. Additionally, its calendar integration and hotel map search allow business travelers to easily see the best hotel and flight options based on meeting time and location. Hipmunk is also a leading developer of artificial intelligence-powered travel search and travel bots. The Hipmunk team and their innovations further Concur’s strategy to deliver consumer-grade products to corporate customers.
Date: September 2016.

Altiscale
Altiscale provides a high-performance, scalable Big Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) solution which includes full operational services. Altiscale’s BDaaS is based on Hadoop and Spark, which enables SAP and our customers to make use of big data across technologies, data platforms, and applications.
Date: September 2016.

Plat.One
PLAT.ONE’s IoT platform enables the rapid development and scalable management of enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) environments, including connected products, smart cities, connected transport, and smart manufacturing. PLAT.ONE helps SAP broaden its IoT platform offering that includes device management, data management, as well as IoT application and analytics development tools.
Date: September 2016.

Fedem
Fedem specializes in advanced engineering analysis and building software for dynamic simulation and lifetime calculation of structures and mechanical systems under load. With this acquisition SAP plans to build an IoT solution in which a digital twin continuously represents the state of operating assets through feeds from sensors. It allows a “digital inspection” replacing the need for physical inspection. The solution is intended to consider complex forces in play and detect both instantaneous consequences of one-off events and long-term effects of cyclic loads. This facilitates accurate monitoring of maintenance requirements and remaining-life prediction for assets.
Date: June 2016.

Roambi
Roambi offers a mobile-centric analytics and data visualization solution. It enables people from frontline staff and consumers to managers and executives to view, interact with, and share dataindependent of time and place. With the acquisition of the Roambi suite of solutions and related key assets, SAP intends to bring mobile access to analytics to its customers.
Date: February 2016.

SeeWhy
SeeWhy is a provider of cloud-based behavioral marketing software that helps convert online traffic into sales and therefore increases retailers’ e-commerce revenues. SeeWhy applications trigger personalized marketing campaigns using email and ad delivery across desktop, mobile, and social channels. SeeWhy provides a key asset in building out the next generation customer engagement and omni-channel commerce platform.
Date: May 2014.

Fieldglass
Fieldglass is a provider for procuring and managing contingent labor and services. The company offers a cloud-based vendor management platform and solution that meets the growing demand among employers to manage flexible workforces, which need to be quickly engaged and on-boarded to support rapidly changing business and customer needs. The acquisition uniquely positions SAP to deliver a platform for businesses to manage their entire workforce — both temporary and permanent staff — from initial recruiting and on-boarding to ongoing development, performance management, retention and retirement.
Date: March 2014.

hybris
Hybris is the only omni-channel commerce software that seamlessly integrates all selling channels and solutions into a single platform. It provides companies with a single view of all their retail channels and customers with a seamless experience across all these channels. Hybris’ technology helps businesses across multiple countries sell more goods, services, and digital content through every touch point, channel, and device. Hybris enables SAP to accelerate the end-to-end core CRM with e-commerce as an anchor for sales, service and marketing, and a central pillar of customer experience management.
Date: June 2013.

Camilion
Camilion offers insurance product development, product life-cycle, and underwriting solutions that help insurance companies significantly improve the quality of the business they write and bring new products to market faster. Camilion enables SAP to become a leading player in the global insurance market as their solutions cover the gaps in SAP’s insurance portfolio for the US market.
Date: March 2013.

SmartOps
SmartOps is a provider of inventory and service-level optimization software solutions. The company provides key operating parameters and targets for supply chain management (SCM) planning. Their solutions coordinate capacity, inventory, demand, lead time, and product availability variables that enable customers to optimize inventory and service levels, freeing up working capital for innovation and growth. SAP delivers a real time, demand-driven supply chain by integrating SmartOps’ inventory optimization with HANA and SAP SCM.
Date: February 2013.

Ticket-Web
Ticket-Web is a specialist in online ticketing for sports and entertainment venues. The company provides ticketing solutions and niche customer relationship management software (CRM) for sports and entertainment promoters. That includes a solution for the core process of ticket sales, which further supports SAP’s Sports & Entertainment offering.
Date: January 2013.

Syclo
Syclo is a mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) and software provider of enterprise mobile applications. Syclo offers mobile apps including a mature set of applications in areas like enterprise asset management (EAM), field services, inventory management and approvals/workflow. Syclo provides SAP with proven, heavyweight business-to-employee mobile apps for key vertical markets and helps bolster SAP’s overall mobile expertise.
Date: April 2012.

Datango
Datango is a provider of workforce performance support software. The last version of the software and the name right were sold in 2016.
Date: January 2012.

Crossgate
Crossgate is a provider of hosted business-to-business (B2B) integration services and a B2B electronic data exchange service that allows trading partners to securely transmit critical business information, including production orders, specifications and invoices. SAP’s acquisition of Crossgate builds on the strong partnership between the two companies.
Date: September 2011.

Right Hemisphere
Right Hemisphere is a provider of 3D visual enterprise solutions. The company produces software which allows users to create 3D models of product designs and manufacturing processes. Right Hemisphere’s technologies enable visual navigation and interrogation of an entire product or asset and all its associated data in a unified environment. The addition of visualization capabilities to SAP’s core product offerings helps customers across diverse industries accelerate time-to-market, increase people and asset productivity, and improve information quality and processes across all lines of businesses.
Date: September 2011.

SECUDE
SECUDE provides security and identity and access management software, as well as relevant assets including development and consulting resources. SECUDE software gives SAP’s applications secure login and enterprise single sign-on (SSO) capabilities.
Date: January 2011.

Sybase
Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. The company is recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Sybase’s information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world’s most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government.
Date: May 2010. Purchase Price: US$ 5.8 billion.

TechniData
TechniData is a provider of product safety and environment, health and safety (EHS) solutions and supplies systems integration, managed EHS services, regulatory content and software to help companies comply with regulatory challenges in these areas. At the time of the acquisition, TechniData had been an SAP partner for more than 15 years, and has helped shape SAP’s sustainability offerings in the EHS arena. Through this acquisition, SAP expands its sustainability product portfolio as well as its market and thought leadership in sustainability.
Date: April 2010.

SOALogix
SOALogix provides standard software packages that integrate project management desktop tools and industry specific project management solutions with SAP Portfolio and Project Management.

Highdeal
Highdeal is a provider of pricing, rating, and charging software for the telecommunications, online services, media and transportation & logistics industries. With the acquisition of Highdeal SAP intends to provide customers a packaged consume-to-cash business process platform to support high-volume billing and enable a reduction in cost of ownership.
Date: May 2009.

Clear Standards
Clear Standards provides enterprise carbon dioxide emission management, helping companies measure, mitigate, and monetize greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts across their business operations.
Date: May 2009.

SkyData
SkyData’s mobile solution makes information from CRM on-demand solutions accessible on mobile devices by linking and assimilating person, peer, and company information.
Date: May 2009. 

Coghead
Coghead’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) enables developers, as well as business users without development expertise, to build custom applications rapidly without writing a single line of code or investing heavily in hardware infrastructure. Coghead’s PaaS also enables customers to create powerful custom web-based apps and sell them through a solution provider program.
Date: February 2009.

Yasu Technologies
Yasu Technologies is a provider of business rules and business process management systems. Yasu Technologies solutions enable customers to centrally manage and monitor how business decision logic is formulated and maintained throughout their enterprise applications in a cost-effective manner.
Date: October 2007.

Silk Europe
Silk Europe is an OutlookSoft exclusive regional reseller.

MaXware
MaXware is a provider of identity management software. The company delivers user provisioning, a virtual directory, data synchronization, and related identity management solutions. The acquisition of MaXware is continuing evidence of SAP’s strategy to use well-placed, tuck-in acquisitions to complement its broad solution offering by gaining innovative technologies.
Date: May 2007.

Wicom Communications
Wicom Communications is a leading European provider of all-IP contact center and enterprise communications software. Their solution replaces all traditional telephone systems, offering the functions of a private branch exchange (PBX), mobile PBX, and contact center as a single centrally managed system. Wicom software ensures the availability of services and personnel regardless of time, location, and contact channel.
Date: May 2007.

OutlookSoft
OutlookSoft is a provider of Enterprise Performance Management software, which unites integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation functionality. The company is focused on modernizing solutions for Chief Financial Officers, leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to enable collaboration across the enterprise and delivering real-time, predictive analytics capabilities and finance-ready business process flows. Their products also feature an extensible library of procedures guiding business users through all performance management activities and facilitating collaboration.
Date: May 2007.

Pilot Software
Pilot Software is a provider of strategy management software. Pilot Software’s application, Pilotworks, provides analytic tools for executives to manage goals and initiatives more effectively and bring structure and consistency to regularly scheduled operational review processes.
February 2007.

Frictionless Commerce
Frictionless Commerce is a provider of on-demand supplier relationship management software. Frictionless Commerce specializes in serving large- and mid-sized enterprises in markets such as banking, consumer products, discrete manufacturing, insurance, life sciences, professional services, telecommunications, and utilities.
Date: May 2006.

Virsa Systems
Virsa Systems is a company that develops enterprise risk management software. Virsa specializes in software that enables companies to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLB, and other government regulations.
Date: April 2006.

Transact In Memory
Transact In Memory (TIM) is a provider of memory-centric, lightweight, relational database solutions. TIM’s patent-pending technologies enable real-time acquisition, analysis, and archiving of data, even in the most update- and search-intensive environments.
Date: November 2005.

Triversity
Triversity is a point-of-sale (POS) software solution provider. Their system offers POS loss prevention, inventory management, as well as store back-office and in-store customer service solutions in addition to an array of POS data. These solutions are highly complementary to SAP’s existing retail solution offering.
Date: September 2005.

Lighthammer Software
Lighthammer Software is a supplier of enterprise manufacturing intelligence and collaborative manufacturing software. Their web-based software allows monitoring and managing operations at manufacturing facilities.
Date: June 2005.

DCS Quantum
DCS Quantum is a provider of vehicle dealer management systems. Their solution is designed to enable vehicle importers, distributors, dealer groups, and independent dealers to consolidate and improve sales and service processes and to achieve more effective collaboration.
Date: February 2005.

TomorrowNow
TomorrowNow was a PeopleSoft support and maintenance vendor. It was shut down in 2008.
Date: January 2005.

iLytix Systems
iLytix Systems develops a reporting and budgeting tool. The tool, called XL Reporter, helps companies pull together business reports and budgets that can be viewed in Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software.
Date: January 2004.

SAP Systems Integration (SAP SI)
SAP SI provides systems integration services.
Date: March 2004 / October 2005