# SAP’s WalkMe acquisition and the digital adoption market

> SAP’s $1.5 billion acquisition of WalkMe turned digital adoption from a software afterthought into a strategic enterprise layer. The deal highlights a broader market that stretches from enterprise guidance and process compliance at WalkMe and Apty, to self-serve product onboarding at UserGuiding and Candu, customer-success operations at SmartKarrot, and predictive retention at Churned. The practical lesson is to buy against the failure point - navigation, activation, execution, or retention - and measure the business outcome instead of the number of tooltips shipped.

## Achievements

- SAP completed its acquisition of WalkMe on September 12, 2024, for an equity value of about $1.5 billion.
- The $14.00-per-share cash consideration represented an approximate 45% premium to WalkMe’s June 4, 2024 closing price.
- SAP positioned WalkMe alongside Signavio and LeanIX as part of its business-transformation portfolio.
- WalkMe continued to support workflows across SAP and non-SAP applications after the transaction.

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — SAP completed the WalkMe acquisition and said WalkMe’s AI capabilities would contribute context-aware, proactive help across workflows.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sap.com/products/acquired-brands.html

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