Case Study: Black Horse One achieves paperless, real-time dressage scoring and 50% staffing reduction with SAP HANA Cloud

Black Horse One Brings Equestrian Sports Online with SAP HANA Cloud

Black Horse One is a German company that digitized equestrian dressage with its eDressage™ platform. The sport traditionally relied on in-person events, heavy paperwork and laborious scoring; the company needed to convince skeptical federations that technology could run competitions reliably (including remote events during social distancing) without errors or downtime, and to build a high‑performance, real‑time data infrastructure to handle critical, high‑stakes contests.

They centered their data landscape on SAP HANA Cloud—securely unifying GraphQL APIs, STOMP feeds and regional replication—to deliver scalable, low‑latency results, mobile paperless scoring and live statistics for fans and judges. Adoption quickly expanded: the platform is used at 58% of international shows, cut scoring personnel needs by 50% and reduced paper use by 92%, while improving reliability, fan engagement and federation acceptance.

Black Horse One

Daniel Göhlen

Founder