It is one of SAP’s so-called tuck-in acquisitions that fill a technology or functionality gap. In this case, SAP has extensive business process creation and orchestration capabilities, but little in the way of centralized business process management. Yasu software will provide a way to manage and monitor rules centrally.
SAP is also positioning Yasu as a tool to enable organizations to embed new business rules in business processes, while maintaining compliance. It said organizations will be able to encapsulate business rules as enterprise services that are independent of applications. The services can be reused which means that consistent and compliant business decision logic, including the rules that ensure compliance, will be used throughout enterprise applications.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The privately owned company was set up in 1999 and has offices in Hyderabad, India and the US. It has 120 staff and about 140 customers including BMW, the Bombay Stock Exchange, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Post, and Lufthansa Technik Logistik. The transaction is expected to close later this month.
