SAN DIEGO, June 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading cloud-based data
and analytics company, today filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California
against SAP SE, SAP America, Inc. and SAP Labs, LLC (collectively,
"SAP") for trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement
and antitrust violations.
Teradata issued the following statement:
As set forth in the complaint,
Teradata is alleging that SAP has engaged in a decade-long campaign
of anti-competitive behavior, to the detriment of the parties'
customers and Teradata alike. SAP lured Teradata into a purported
joint venture in order to gain access to Teradata's valuable
intellectual property. SAP's purpose for the joint venture was to
steal Teradata's trade secrets, developed over the course of four
decades, and use them to quickly develop and introduce a competing
though inferior product, SAP HANA. Upon release of SAP HANA, SAP
promptly terminated the joint venture, and SAP is now attempting to
coerce its customers into using HANA only, to the exclusion of
Teradata.
Teradata supports competition
and innovation in the data and analytics space. SAP's conduct,
however, is neither pro-competitive nor innovative. We believe
seeking relief through legal action against SAP is a necessary step
to protect the rights and interests of our shareholders and all of
our other stakeholders, including our customers.
Teradata is seeking an injunction barring SAP's illegal conduct,
monetary damages, and all other legal and equitable relief
available under law and which the court may deem proper.
As detailed in the complaint:
- This case is about SAP's campaign of anticompetitive conduct
directed at Teradata. Over at least the last decade, SAP has
used its powerful position in Enterprise Resource Planning ("ERP")
Applications to gain entrance to and quickly grab market share in
the Enterprise Data Analytics and Warehousing ("EDAW") market, in
which it previously had essentially no presence.
- SAP's strategy began in 2008, when SAP leveraged its position
in ERP Applications to lure Teradata into a purported joint venture
in order to gain access to Teradata's valuable intellectual
property. The purpose of the joint venture — a purpose which
Teradata now knows was a false one on SAP's part — was to combine
SAP's ERP Applications suite and Business Warehouse reporting tool
(SAP BW) with Teradata's industry-leading "massively parallel
processing" (MPP) architecture for EDAW.
- SAP then stole Teradata's trade secrets (accumulated by
Teradata over the course of four decades in the EDAW space), and
used them to quickly develop and introduce a competing (though
inferior) product: SAP HANA.
- Upon release of its new product, SAP promptly terminated the
parties' joint venture, and it is now attempting to coerce its
customers into using HANA only, to the exclusion of Teradata, by
forcing its customers to adopt HANA in exchange for upgrading their
ERP Applications. Moreover, and on information and belief, SAP has
begun significantly restricting Teradata's ability to access
customers' SAP-derived data.
- Through this conduct, SAP has deliberately sought to exploit
its large, existing ERP customer base to the detriment of Teradata
and its customers. Given the extremely high costs of switching ERP
providers, SAP's ERP customers are effectively locked-in to using
SAP's ERP Applications, and SAP is now attempting to lock them into
using only HANA in the EDAW market as well.
- SAP could not have so quickly developed and marketed HANA in
the first place without its theft of Teradata's trade secrets. Now,
using the fruits of that theft and its position in ERP
Applications, SAP is attempting to foreclose Teradata from
supplying EDAW solutions to many of the largest corporations in the
world.
The Court filings will be available on the website for
the United States District Court
for the Northern District of California, which can be accessed at
https://cand.uscourts.gov/home.
The complaint will also be available on Teradata's website
at: https://assets.teradata.com/News/2018/2018-06-19-Complaint.pdf.
Morrison & Foerster LLP is serving as legal counsel to
Teradata in connection with this matter.
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