SAP Ventures

Investment Portfolio Companies

The success of a venture investor is ultimately determined by the success of its portfolio. Over the past ten years SAP Ventures has established an impressive record of investing in and working with outstanding technology companies. To date, SAP Ventures has invested in over 75 companies, primarily in North America and Europe.

SAP Venture's current investment portfolio includes the following companies:

North America
	Abaco is a global leader of mobile solutions. Abaco enables businesses to extend the transactional integrity of their enterprises to their mobile communities utilizing today's open standards technology. Abaco provides accessibility to mission critical information and business processes for mobile workers who are connected, occasionally connected or disconnected. Abaco removes the boundaries of the enterprise walls, thus enabling businesses to enhance productivity, increase revenues and maximize competitive advantage.
	AmberPoint delivers comprehensive policy-based runtime governance of distributed and heterogeneous service-based systems. The Company's service oriented architecture (SOA) management solutions provide visibility into and active control of performance, availability, security, exceptions, service levels, validation and business throughput.
	Apriso is the leading global provider of extended enterprise solutions that maximize the responsiveness and productivity of the entire workforce, while providing instant visibility of key business metrics with operational control. Over 150 Global 5000 companies have partnered with Apriso to achieve operational excellence and to increase profitability. Commonly referred to as Manufacturing Execution Systems, or MES for short, Apriso's product solutions provide the essential link between ERP systems, which are planning by definition, to the actual systems that execute the manufacturing process.
	Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities and version proliferation.
	Datria is a worldwide leader in voice-enabled solutions for field service. Enterprises have an ever increasing desire for real-time mobility solutions, yet are challenged by cost, complexity and user acceptance. Datria – the global market leader in voice-enabled solutions for field service – provides an innovative answer to these needs, connecting mobile workers to the systems that support them using only voice and a simple phone. Datria applications are cross-industry, with special editions available for utilities, telecommunications, cable, and satellite companies. Over 75 customers use Datria applications to provide inexpensive and effective self-service solutions for field force management, enterprise asset management and crisis management.
	Endeca offers innovative information access software that helps people explore, analyze and understand complex information, guiding them to unexpected insights and better decisions. The Endeca Information Access Platform, built around a new class of access-optimized database, powers applications that combine ease of searching and browsing with the analytical power of business intelligence. Over 500 leading global organizations including ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, The (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, The Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to power business-critical applications that increase revenue, reduce costs and streamline operations.
	Greenplum, the leader in high-performance database software for Business Intelligence (BI), enables enterprises to quickly access massive volumes of critical data for in-depth analysis. Purpose built for high performance, large scale BI, Greenplum's family of database products comprises solutions suited to installations ranging from departmental data marts to multi-terabyte data warehouses.
	GroundWork Open Source is a recognized leader in the fast growth market for enterprise-class open source-based systems and network monitoring and management software, successfully bringing to market the first practical yet enterprise-ready open source solution for systems and network administrators. GroundWork brings all the advantages of open source software to business-critical network and systems management and combines those with superior functionality, documentation, and professional support to give unprecedented visibility across your entire IT infrastructure.
	Ignite provides the industry's most secure and scalable Content Delivery Solution, enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver, and manage digital assets-from rich media content for training and communications to software patches and virus updates-to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Ignite's patented Content Delivery Solution overcomes network and connectivity constraints that have limited the ability to reach online audiences with the highest quality, secure rich media. By leveraging Ignite's solution, organizations have effectively deployed a unique, secure "Private Broadcast Network" to deliver any type of content, including full-screen, DVD-quality video and other multi-media, high-impact communications.
	Imprivata is the converged Identity and Access Management (IAM) appliance company. Its OneSign platform helps organizations safeguard enterprise information assets by enabling secure employee access to networks and applications-improving user productivity and convenience, while reducing the time, risk and cost of complying with data privacy and protection regulations. OneSign has received top ratings in product reviews throughout the industry and has been awarded numerous accolades from leading publications including Information Security, InfoWorld and SC Magazine. Headquartered in Lexington, Mass., Imprivata is one of the fastest growing IAM companies with more than 500 customers and over 200 partners around the world.
	iovation Inc., headquartered in Portland, Oregon, pioneered the use of device reputation for managing online fraud, abusive behavior, and multi-factor authentication for the Internet. Using patented technology, iovation exposes the hidden relationships between accounts and the physical devices used by fraudsters to commit online fraud and abuse, without impacting the user experience or collecting any personally identifiable information (PII). iovation shares the reputations of more than 30 million unique devices worldwide to help online businesses reduce fraud and abuse, improve operational efficiencies, and increase revenue through more precise risk management.
	Intalio is the leading Open Source BPMS vendor. Intalio\|BPMS empowers organizations of all sizes to design, deploy, and optimize the most complex business processes, on top of any application and middleware system, without having to write any code. Intalio\|BPMS is the only Open Source BPMS to natively support the BPMN, BPEL and BPEL4People industry standards.
	JasperSoft is the leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) suite which provides users with interactive reporting, data analysis and data integration.
	LinkedIn is an online network of more than 25 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.
	LogLogic provides the world's leading enterprise-class platform for collecting, storing, reporting and alerting on 100 percent of IT log data from virtually any device, operating system or application. LogLogic systems address the compliance, operations and risk mitigation needs of the most demanding global enterprises. LogLogic's innovations include creating the world's first search engine for fast-moving IT log data, and Compliance Suites that automate using that data to enforce critical controls and regulations.
	PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data. With the world's largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, PayScale provides an immediate and precise snapshot of the job market. Our patent-pending real-time profiling system indexes custom employee attributes (such as industry-specific certifications) and specific job titles for every industry.
	Ping Identity Corporation is a leading provider of federated identity solutions for web single sign-on and identity-enabled web services. Ping's software allows organizations to securely share identity information across security boundaries. Ping's customers use the company's standards-based products to integrate applications and users across partner, supplier and customer boundaries, cutting identity management costs and complexity while improving security and convenience.
	Qumu, Inc. is the leader in Enterprise Video Communications Qumu is the only Enterprise Video Management solution provider that allows businesses to flexibly and easily capture, manage, publish and distribute live and on-demand video from the department to the enterprise via non-intrusive appliances and scalable software, or via hosted and/or managed services. The company provides a single web services based software solution that seamlessly manages all video applications, and leverages existing video, storage and distribution hardware and software infrastructure.
	(Formally T3Ci) Retail Solutions develops and delivers a comprehensive suite of SaaS solutions that turn retail data, such as point-of-sale, supply chain, merchandiser feedback and EPC data, into actionable visibility into the store and onto the shelf.
	Right Hemisphere is the leading provider of enterprise-class visual product communication and collaboration solutions that allows manufacturers to optimize their global product development launch and support processes. Right Hemisphere's next-generation software integrates with and extends all major product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems to enable the re-use and delivery of accurate, integrated and up-to-date product information to downstream stakeholders in formats compatible with their existing processes and applications.
	Sonoa Systems develops and markets an enterprise class, distributed Service Networking Platform that simplifies the deployment and management of SOA-based (Service Oriented Architecture) applications. This Service Networking Platform includes message brokering over an enterprise service bus, SLA management, XML acceleration and federated security of services at the service infrastructure level. It combines the simplicity of an appliance with the performance and scale of a network device and the feature richness and flexibility of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This Platform will be essential for the deployment of scalable, well-managed and distributed SOA based applications.
	TeaLeaf is focused on improving the online customer experience since online businesses miss revenue opportunities and lose customers every day due to poor online customer experience. Its CX family of applications provides a complete view of the online customer experience across the enterprise enabling customer support to resolve customer service issues rapidly, business managers to identify usability issues, prioritize based on business impact and to help settle customer disputes and meet mandates for audit and compliance. The company is an independent spin-off from SAP.
	Vendavo delivers price management software to business to business companies worldwide. Vendavo's clients improve their operating income by 1-3% of sales by consistently and effectively planning, setting, optimizing, managing, negotiating, and executing their pricing. These clients span multiple industries, including chemicals, high-tech and industrial manufacturing, mill products and distribution. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with European headquarters in London, and offices in Boston and Geneva, Vendavo is the price management solution of choice at over 100 client divisions in North America, Europe, Asia and worldwide.
	Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications. Zend and its founders are the creators and ongoing innovators of PHP, which is used by more than 15 million Web sties and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 6,000 customers worldwide, the Zend Family of Products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications.
Europe
	Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost.
	Dacos Software GmbH is a German company focused on the retail sector with an innovative BI solution. Dacos's software currently offers retail companies totally novel opportunities for finding the optimal assortment mix as well as promotion and pricing strategies. By using methods of artificial intelligence for modeling consumers as if they were "software agents", DACOS enables its customers (the retailer) to simulate the shopping behavior of consumers better than with any other conventional method.
	iTAC Software AG was founded in 1999 as a spin-off from Bosch Telecom GmbH. From day one, the newly created company could leverage over ten years of practical experience in the development and implementation of production and quality management systems. Today, their innovative and user-friendly traceability solutions are developed in Dernbach, Germany and Detroit, Michigan, USA. The company focuses specifically on the automotive sector and is aiming to become the traceability experts in this industry.
	ONVENTIS is an (e)Procurement Service Provider for mid size and big companies. The target is to simplify the procurement functions under full control of the customers, starting with the specification of the demand up to the payment as the last phase. In disassociation to marketplaces the concept of ONVENTIS is to organize the fulfillment of the individual customer demand with the best price/quality ratio of the specific product and the lowest possible effort for the customer.
India
	Connectiva Systems makes software that allows telecom operators get more performance and productivity from their existing infrastructure (IT systems & BSS/OSS assets). Connectiva is a global leader in implementing revenue management solutions for the telecom industry and has been recognized as one of the fastest growing software companies in the world today. Connectiva's award-winning flagship product is ONEREViEW™ – whose unique process-driven approach helps service providers improve their business and financial performance dramatically. Operators who have partnered with Connectiva to identify and recover over $200 million in revenue leakage include Bharti Televentures, the MTC Group of Companies, Wataniya Telecom, Tunisiana, BSNL, Etisalat and Cable & Wireless.
	iYogi provides next-generation, personalized remote computer support services for consumers and small businesses. Live 24/7/365 support coverage extends to technologies that we use everyday. iYogi's comprehensive support coverage spans across 72 desktop software applications, servers, hardware devices, printers, peripherals, routers and modems.
	Newgen Software Technologies Limited is a market leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM), with a global footprint of about 700 installations in over 30 countries. More than 100 of these implementations are large, mission-critical solutions deployed at world's leading BFSI, BPO and Fortune Global 500 companies.