SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Survey software provider Qualtrics went public two years after German software giant SAP bought the company for $8 billion. The move Thursday marked the latest achievement for a company that has become one of the crown jewels of a technology corridor near Salt Lake City that Utah likes to call “Silicon Slopes.” The move brings more notoriety to the company just months after founder and executive chairman Ryan Smith purchased the NBA’s Utah Jazz. Qualtrics shares opened at $30 apiece, above the $27-$29 range the company expected. The shares are trading on the Nasdaq imdex under the symbol XM.