o9 Solutions is committed to protecting its valuable intellectual property against illegal theft and copying
DALLAS, November 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — o9 Solutions, Inc. (“o9” or the “Company”) announced today that it has filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas against SAP SE of Baden-Württemberg, Germany and SAP America, Inc. (NYSE: SAP; FWB: SAP; FWB: SAPA) (“SAP”). The complaint alleges that SAP uses stolen trade secrets and confidential documents, including for its Integrated Business Planning supply chain management software and services, as well as its associated marketing and sales activities.
International industrial espionage and technology theft pose major threats to American technology investment and innovation. o9 believes that SAP intentionally misappropriates its trade secrets and sensitive business information, allowing SAP to compete unfairly by circumventing investments in innovation. o9 explains in its complaint how SAP’s behavior was aided by at least three former o9 executives who were entrusted with access to o9’s trade secrets but who conspired with SAP while still working at o9. The lawsuit alleges that these executives downloaded tens of thousands of files before resigning from o9 to join SAP, where they now hold key roles in executing SAP’s strategy to unfairly compete with o9 using technology and business information misappropriated from o9 Solutions.
Chakri Gottemukkala, co-founder and CEO of o9, said: “o9 has created its market-leading platform for AI-driven business planning and execution through significant investment in research and development. We are proud of the innovations of the o9 Digital Brain platform powered by its Enterprise Knowledge Graph technology, and the value it generates in the market.
Mr. Gottemukkala continued: “o9 believes that the evidence of SAP’s coordinated attack against o9 is clear and convincing. We will vigorously protect o9’s valuable intellectual property and confidential business knowledge while continuing to develop breakthrough technologies that will benefit our customers in many industries around the world.
In its complaint, o9 alleges that during the period prior to their resignation, through a series of serious misrepresentations, these three former o9 executives accessed and downloaded more than 20,000 highly confidential files related to o9’s technologies, including confidential architecture and technical design, marketing, sales, business roadmap, and other types of confidential and trade secret documents. The complaint alleges that concurrent with these acts, benefiting from o9’s confidential business knowledge, SAP began marketing and selling technologies and services containing innovations invented, designed, developed and deployed by o9.
o9 seeks to prevent SAP from possessing, accessing and using o9’s trade secrets and confidential files. o9 will also sue for damages. The complaint can be viewed at https://o9solutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-11-25-o9-Complaint.pdf.
o9 Solutions is represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
About o9
o9 is a leading enterprise insights and AI platform that helps businesses create agile, adaptive, and autonomous planning and execution models to transform business decision-making in environments of increasing volatility and uncertainty. Whether improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply, and driving visibility and collaboration across the multi-tiered supply chain to improve resiliency at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new products and business initiatives to drive revenue growth and improve margins, long-term, tactical, or execution decision-making can be made faster and smarter on o9’s digital brain platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations such as enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced forecasting algorithms, demand and supply balancing, scenario planning, real-time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods – including best practices in organization, process and change management to transform the agility of business decision-making.
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