It included a GUI builder and a business rules engine that enabled developers to create a Web application rapidly using MS SQL Server or Oracle in the backend.

Rather than continue to focus on these requirements, the company decided to move to the OTC (also known as the Pink Sheets) in order to remain publicly traded.

Most of the employees in the acquired companies were laid -off with the majority work being offshored to its India office in Bangalore[dubious – discuss].

In early 2009, Versata made another major overhaul of its business model when it asked all its employees in India to work as contractors through oDesk for a gDev which is an entity incorporated by Trilogy to manage its outsourcing activities.

Sam Baxter, Ted Stevenson, Scott Cole and Steve Pollinger of McKool Smith represented Versata on this case.

iRunway India Private Limited and NTrak LLC were the technical consultants and provided end-to-end litigation support to McKool Smith.

[4][5] The case has been rumbling on for a couple of years now, hinging on Versata-owned patents that cover mechanisms for pricing products.

It alleges that SAP illegally excluded Versata from selling to vast majority of large ERP customers.