SAP Must Face Celonis Antitrust Claims Over Software in US Court

SAP SE must face claims brought in a US court by Celonis SE – one of Europe’s most valuable startups — that the German technology giant is illegally wielding its market power.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday denied a request by SAP to throw out the antitrust allegations after initially dismissingthem in July and allowing Celonis to revise its complaint.

Celonis alleged that SAP blocked access to data in its systems to give an unfair advantage to its own Signavio unit that’s competing with the Munich-based startup. Both offer software for process mining, a technology that ...