Short Take: SAP takes stake in e-commerce firm

SAP, a German provider of enterprise business software, announced today that the SAP Venture Fund Europe has made an equity investment in Heiler Software, Stuttgart, Germany. Heiler Software develops e-commerce technology. Heiler Software's HighCommerce is an e-commerce product that enterprises can deploy to create efficient Internet sales and procurement systems. The SAP Venture Fund is a division of business software maker SAP.