SAP Accused by Software Firm of Illegally Wielding Market Power

SAP SE was sued in federal court with claims the German technology company blocked a rival by restricting access to its dominant software infrastructure.

Plaintiff software firm Celonis SE alleges SAP and its subsidiary SAP America Inc. “embarked upon an aggressive campaign to exclude third-party application and technology providers from its ecosystem through new charges and fees, arbitrary technical limitations, restrictive policy updates, and self-preferencing of its own solutions at the expense of rivals.” The complaint was filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

SAP is the largest provider of enterprise resource planning software ...