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Vishal Sikka, former SAP CTO and the brain behind its product HANA, has denied allegations of copyright infringement, trade-secret misappropriation and antitrust violations made by cloud and data analytics provider Teradata.
“As with all my endeavors, my work with SAP HANA was carried out with the highest integrity, professionalism and respect for all obligations towards trade secrets and Intellectual Property.”
“Although this lawsuit is not directed at me, I categorically deny the baseless and outrageous allegations made by Teradata that attempt to diminish the hard work, passion, and the irrefutable and fully legitimate achievements by the HANA team, including myself,” said Sikka in response to a BusinessLine query.
Teradata has alleged that SAP lured it into a joint venture to gain access to its intellectual property (IP), steal its trade secrets and use them to quickly develop and introduce a competitor product.
Teradata’s allegation
Later, Teradata, in its lawsuit filed in the US District Court of the Northern District of California, alleged that SAP indulged in anti-competitive practices.
In the lawsuit it has said that the German tech major is attempting to coerce Teradata customers to forcibly use SAP HANA, in exchange for upgrading their ERP systems, which is expensive, thereby resulting in vendor lock-in.
Sikka, has often been called the brain behind HANA, a technology through which the German major is considered to be in a “dominant” market position.
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