SAP Wins Early US Court Decision in Celonis Antitrust Case (1)

SAP SE won an early round in a lawsuit filed in the US by one of Europe’s most valuable startups accusing the German technology giant of illegally wielding its market power.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday dismissed antitrust claims by Celonis SE that SAP blocked access to data in its systems to give an unfair advantage to its own Signavio unit. The judge said Celonis can try to revise and refile the claims.

Celonis and Signavio both offer process mining software to find inefficiencies within business enterprise systems and eliminate them. SAP is the world’s largest vendor ...