2024

WalkMe
In June 2024, SAP announced its intention to acquire WalkMe, a leader in digital adoption platforms (DAPs). WalkMe’s solutions help organizations navigate constant technology change by providing users with advanced guidance and automation features that enable them to execute workflows seamlessly across any number of applications. WalkMe helps organizations reach better adoption of the underlying application, helps companies drive value realization and increase productivity. WalkMe’s DAP works on top of an organization’s application landscape, detects where people encounter friction and provides the tailored support and automation they need to complete the job to be done, in the flow of work, across any application. 
As applications, processes, data and people are the four key elements of a successful business transformation, the acquisition of WalkMe is an important addition to SAP’s business transformation portfolio. WalkMe will continue to fully support non-SAP applications.

Date: June 2024
Press Release (Signing)
Press Release (Closing)

2023

LeanIX
In September 2023, SAP announced its intention to acquire LeanIX. LeanIX is a market leader for enterprise architecture management (EAM), driving the modernization of IT landscapes and continuous business transformation. Its software-as-a-service solutions enables organizations to visualize, assess and manage the transition towards their target IT architecture. With the intended acquisition, SAP is building a comprehensive transformation suite to help customers navigate change more easily and permanently improve their business processes. The combined offering will provide a comprehensive foundation for AI-enabled process optimization. 
Date: September 2023
Press Release (Signing)
Press Release (Closing)

SAP Sells its Stake in Qualtrics
Silver Lake Management, the global leader in technology investing, and its co-investors along with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), has acquired all the issued and outstanding shares of Qualtrics, including all shares owned by SAP, at a purchase price of US$18.15 in cash per share. SAP will remain a close go-to-market and technology partner to Qualtrics, servicing joint customers and continuing to contribute to their success.
Date: June 2023. See also: Acquisition of Qualtrics (2018)
Press Release (Signing)
Press Release (Closing)

2022

Taulia
Taulia is a leading provider of working capital management solutions and offers early payments through supply chain finance, dynamic discounting and accounts receivable finance. With the acquisition, SAP can give companies better access to liquidity and improve their cash flows. Taulia further expands SAP’s Business Network and strengthens SAP’s solutions for the CFO office. Taulia will operate as an independent company with its own brand in the SAP Group.
Date: January 2022
Press Release (Signing)
Press Release (Closing)

2021

AppGyver
AppGyver is a pioneer in no-code development platforms that enable users with no coding skills to build applications for Web and mobile uses. With the acquisition, SAP is better able to help customers and partners adapt their IT systems efficiently to their specific needs and optimize the usability of their applications.
Date: February 2021
Press Release (Signing)

Signavio
Signavio is a leader in the enterprise business process intelligence and process management space. Signavio’s integrated cloud-native process management suite complements existing business process intelligence software from SAP. With the addition of Signavio, SAP can now provide a holistic suite of flexible process transformation solutions for customers to understand, improve, transform and manage their business processes at scale.
Date: January 2021
Press Release (Signing)
Press Release (Closing)

2020

Emarsys
Emarsys is a leading omnichannel customer engagement platform provider. Their solutions enable highly personalized 1:1 interactions between companies and customers. Emarsys strengthens SAP’s Customer Experience offerings: Their modern, cloud-native, SaaS platform with embedded AI-based automation and analytics capabilities help retailers offer personalized marketing across email, mobile, social, sms, websites and other communications channels.
Date: October 2020
Press Release (Signing)
Press Release (Closing)

2018

Contextor
Contextor is a European leader in the design and integration of robotic process automation (RPA). The company RPA relieves business software users from repetitive tasks and enables both attended and unattended RPA within and across applications. To date, Contextor’s customers have deployed more than 100,000 bots which automate business processes.
Date: November 2018

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.

2017

Gigya
Gigya is a market leader for customer identity and access management. Gigya’s customer identity and access management platform helps companies build digital relationships with their customers. It allows companies to manage customers’ profiles, preferences, opt-ins, and consent settings, with customers maintaining control of their data at all times. Gigya’s technology provides new capabilities to consumers across channels and touch points, builds rich intelligent profiles, and creates a consent-based approach to personalization across sales, service, and marketing. Gigya, an SAP Hybris partner since 2013, has customers already using a solution extension from SAP Hybris and Gigya. This acquisition enables the teams to further build upon this existing strong relationship.
Date: September 2017.

2016

Abakus
Abakus provides a cloud-based solution for cross-channel marketing measurement and optimization. The application integrates marketing and customer data, organizes it, and measures incremental value. This enables marketers to more efficiently acquire customers and effectively retain them, and to increase marketing ROI through closed-loop integration with their execution platforms. The combination of Abakus’ marketing and performance management solutions with the SAP Hybris Marketing Cloud solution, including customer profiling and responsive journey management, will allow marketers to understand customer interactions across channels and increase marketing efficiency.
Date: December 2016.

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.

2015

Multiposting
Multiposting is a French Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) recruiting software startup that provides automatic posting capabilities for job ads across thousands of job boards. Their solution complements SAP’s recruiting management and recruiting marketing applications by offering a competitive differentiator. The acquisition demonstrates SAP’s commitment to delivering a comprehensive, innovative, and global recruiting platform.
Date: October 2015.

2014

Concur
Concur is the world’s leading provider of integrated travel and expense management services and solutions. Concur’s cloud-based solutions enable employees to comfortably handle their expenses and grant total transparency into spending, helping organizations of all industries and locations simplify their spend management. Through Concur’s open platform, the entire travel and expense ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and developers can access and extend Concur’s T&E cloud. Concur’s systems adapt to individual employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from small to large.
Date: September 2014. Purchase Price: US$8.3 billion.

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.

2013

KXEN
KXEN is a cloud-based provider of predictive analytics technology. Its products automate modeling and analytical tasks, which allows faster deployment and adoption by line-of-business users. KXEN’s approach and product offerings extend predictive analytics at SAP to a larger audience of business users and analysts. 
Date: September 2013. 

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.

2012

Ariba
Ariba is the leading cloud-based business commerce network and sells collaborative commerce applications used primarily in business-to-business environments. Ariba's spend management solutions help companies manage corporate spending and supply chains more efficiently. Ariba also provides an open business network focusing on supplier management. This inter-enterprise business network creates additional value by optimizing business processes between companies.
Date: May 2012. Purchase Price: US$4.3 billion.

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.

2011

SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors is the market-leading provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. SuccessFactors offers tools for managing employee performance, including performance management, goal-setting, compensation planning, and training. SuccessFactors’ applications are designed for businesses of all sizes, and offer easily adopted solutions for customers of other SAP solutions. SuccessFactors’ cloud expertise and know how, rapid cloud innovation, and proven success running large scale cloud deployments, helps SAP customers more rapidly adopt cloud applications.
Date: December 2011. Purchase Price: US$ 3.4 billion.

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.

2010

cundus
Cundus is one of the leading consultancies in the German, European and American markets for Business Intelligence (BI), Corporate Performance Management (CPM), business reporting, and the financial reporting coding language XBRL. SAP takes over disclosure management solutions from cundus AG, comprising cundus Financial Statement Factory and cundus informationCollector, including intellectual property, customer contracts, and a part of the employees.
Date: December 2010.

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.

2009

SAF Simulation Analytics
SAF is a global leader for ordering, forecasting and replenishment software in the retail and wholesale industries. SAF employs the innovative conceptual demand chain management approach, which allows the process chain to be controlled and optimized by its central driving force - the customer's buying behavior.
Date: July 2009.

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.

2008

Visiprise
Visiprise is a provider of manufacturing execution software solutions, which help companies of all sizes plan, define, control, execute and analyze manufacturing operations in a single environment. Visiprise’s software is distinctly geared towards specific discrete manufacturing verticals. SAP invested in a minority stake.
Date: November 2008.

2007

Business Objects
Business Objects is an enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence (BI) software. Business Objects enables companies of all sizes to make business decisions based on intelligent, accurate, and timely information. Their flagship product is BusinessObjects XI, with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, analysis, and enterprise information management.
Date: October 2007. Purchase Price: €4.8 billion.

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.

2006

Factory Logic
Factory Logic provides Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) software.
Date: December 2006.

Praxis Software
Praxis Software is a provider of e-commerce and web-based CRM software. The e-commerce offering is aimed at small to midsize enterprises (SMEs) wanting to engage in online selling and marketing, while NetPoint Focus is an Internet-based CRM software.
Date: July 2006.

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.

2005

Callixa
Callixa is a developer of enterprise information integration software. Their distributed query processing technology enables developers to write a query that can be distributed among different databases and other data stores, gathering information and sending it back to the application in a single, unified response.
Date: December 2005.

Khimetrics
Khimetrics, Inc. is a leading provider of customer demand management solutions for retail, financial services, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. As the customer demand experts, Khimetrics helps retailers synchronize their merchandising strategies with customer demand to increase sales and profit margins while improving competitive positioning.
Date: November 2005.

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.

2004

A2i
A2i develops and markets xCat, a platform for product content management and cross-media catalog publishing. The Data Management A2i xCat system is an enterprise-class catalog system designed to allow a user to easily build, structure, and query very large catalogs.
Date: July 2004.

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

2003

DCW Software
SAP takes over a share of DCW, vendor of SME-focused software.
Date: September 2003.

2002

TopManage Financial Solutions
TopManage provides accounting and business management software solutions for small and medium enterprises (SME).
Date: March 2002.

2001

TopTier Software
TopTier develops portal software and integration products.
Date: March 2001.

2000

OFEK-Tech
OFEK-Tech is a company specializing in Warehouse Management and Control.

1998

Campbell Software
Campbell Software is a provider of workforce management (WFM) and personal time and attendance recording software.

1997

Kiefer & Veittinger
Kiefer & Veittinger is a sales force automation software company. 

1994

Dacos Software
Dacos is a software provider for the retail industry.

1991

Steeb Anwendungssysteme
Steeb provides consulting services. In 2011, it was merged with All for One.