SAP to acquire Yasu for cross-system business process logic support

The announcement came at SAP TechEd ’07, currently running in Munich, Germany. No financial details were revealed. Yasu is a little known, but very successful offshore developer, incorporated in 1999 and with locations in Hyderabad, India and the US, and with 120 employees. It’s been working in several sectors, including manufacturing and banking. The goal here, says SAP, is “to provide the business rules infrastructure that allows companies to move their strategies forward and better maintain compliance while saving time, resources and money.” It’s all about SAP responding to the increasing importance of professionals tasked with creating and managing better automated business processes – and extending its footprint in the business process management (BPM) market. It’s also another example of SAPs strategy of going for fill-in acquisitions to complement its solutions – following hard on the heels of its purchase of Business Objects. Most important for users, SAP says it will use the technology to enable SAP customers to apply their business rules on processes that span different computing environments – providing for central management, performance tracking and compliance. In effect, users, primarily business analysts, will get software tools that encapsulate business rules as enterprise services that are independent of applications, enabling re-use and thus consistency – driving innovation and efficiency even in dynamic business environments. “The momentum and maturity of the business process expert community makes it clear to SAP that we need to support these professionals as they develop increasingly sophisticated ways to align IT with business goals,” says Klaus Kreplin, head of SAP’s NetWeaver technology. “This acquisition gives our customers the solutions they need to be more agile, accountable and responsive to quickly changing business conditions.”