Sikka, who was the chief technology officer at SAP, is considered the brain behind HANA, an analytics platform of SAP. HANA helped SAP to revive its product offerings in the market.
Sikka was the CEO of Infosys from August 2014 to August 2017.
“In developing HANA, SAP faced the same challenges which Teradata<\/a> and SAP faced during the Bridge Project and which Teradata engineers solved — the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of interoperation between SAP’s front-end software and an MPP database engine as it attempted to store and analyze massive amounts of data,” the lawsuit filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. A copy of the lawsuit has been published on its website
The joint venture was formed in 2009 and SAP terminated unilateraly the project in 2011, says the lawsuit, alleging that SAP has built a business by creating a competing product.
The case, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Germany-based SAP entered a joint venture with Teradata in 2008 with the aim of gaining access to its intellectual property and creating a competing database product that it then tried to “coerce” its customers to use.
“ On information and belief, to overcome this challenge during HANA development, the HANA developers, at the direction of Dr. Sikka, utilized the same solution developed by Teradata’s engineers and developers during the Bridge Project — using Teradata’s trade-secret techniques for optimizing the execution of analytical queries and the speed of data storage and retrieval on large-scale databases.”
It said that key SAP employees including Sikka were aware of and supported SAP’s misappropriation of Teradata’s trade secrets during the development of HANA.
ET has reached out to Sikka for his comments.
Reuters on its website quoted SAP as saying that it was surprised by the Teradata complaint. It may issue a statement once it has reviewed the lawsuit, which seeks an injunction, unspecified damages and other legal relief available under the law.
The case comes weeks after SAP, long a provider of business software that runs back-office functions such as finance or supply-chain management, announced a push into the $66 billion market for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - jargon for sales and marketing, the wire agency said..
SAP, which has a market value of more than $140 billion, is shifting customers increasingly to integrated cloud-based services. The Teradata suit relates to its earlier generation of HANA database products, hosted on company premises, that are still widely in use.
At the time, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner<\/a> slammed the claims as \"monstrous and laughable\" <\/a>
SAP shut down an internal probe into the concerns raised by Waldbaum in May 2013, the suit alleges.
In an email to the supervisory board in Jan. 2014, Waldbaum alleged that SAP had improperly used the intellectual property of a number of competitors, including Teradata, to create HANA, the suit says.
Waldbaum was fired the following month.
Teradata alleges that SAP’s theft of intellectual property enabled it to speed the release of HANA. The lawsuit also notes that HANA sales reached $2 billion in 2016 and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in further licensing sales.\n
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