SAP Second Quarter Performance Result at a Glance

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Strong financial Q2 Result has been declared by SAP for the year 2018 and has raised. The result states the financial result for its second quarter in which the total revenue of the Company has been declared as $6.95 billion dollars that is up four percent from its previous results while for non-IFRS it is € 6.014bn that is also 10 percent better year over year. 8% increase or €0.98 non-IFRS has been reported for IFRS. This article discusses overall declarations done by SAP for its second quarter performance. You can read it to know the exact result of the declaration.

As per the Forbes

Forbes that is a well-known site for such declarations says that software giant SAP announced its second-quarter earnings on July 18. The market was expecting strong growth across various segments of the company, especially in its core business segments that include ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management. Even in the near future, the company growth is also improved due to its expansion in the Internet of Things or IoT domain.

SAP has announced to double its business in CRM or customer relationship management domain it could drive better and significant business values in long term.

Key Points of Q2 Result

In its announcement of Q2 Result, SAP has announced below listed bullet points:

• Just like and in continuation with the previous quarter result cloud business of SAP is supposed to be the key driver of Q2 revenue growth. SAP has adopted new S/4 HANA platform due to which new and better results have been produced by the cloud platform of SAP. Many other cloud-based services of the SAP - SAP Leonardo, Digital Supply Chain Management, SAP Analytics Cloud will complement the top line growth of the Company’s top-line growth.


• Due to the mix of cloud and on-premise business platforms the software and cloud margins may remain subdued due to the negative shift in the mix of the Company’s revenue for on-premise and cloud business platforms.


• Expected 2018 fiscal revenues of the company is supposed to be in the range of €24.8billion to €25.3 billion in the terms of constant currency. On yearly basis, this revenue will grow nearly by 7%.

Financial Report on SAP’s performance

Strong financial results have been announced by SAP for 2018 second quarter. As the company is growing in cloud platform so by switching to SAP HANA and SAP S/4 HANA. SAP HANA and SAP S4/4HANA migrations have led the way of growth to the company. Here we are also going to give you the detail of Q2 performance result of SAP.com, given by Approyo. Below-listed points are discussed for its quarterly performance:

• Revenue growth for cloud environment has been accelerated by 30% IFRS and by 40% for Non-IFRS at Constant Currencies even in the Outpace competitive environment.


• New bookings for cloud platform has been increased and improved by 29%


• Digital, strong and core innovative customer cycle – 600 S/4 HANA customers have been added in Q2. Now the number of cloud customers of S/4 HANA has become around 9000 and the double-digit operating growth has been continued and improved by 13% for IFRS and for Non-IFRS customers it has been improved by Constant Currencies.

An Introduction to various cloud platforms of SAP:

1). SAP S/4 HANA

With the next generation ERP of SAP that is S/4 HANA customers can massively simplify the landscape of their IT infrastructure and they can easily turn their real-time data into actions. The business model used by the companies can also be improved for the digital economy across all industries.

Now SAP S/4 HANA has more than 8,900 customers that are being increased by 41% year over year. Even in the second quarter of this financial year around 600 new customers have been signed up for the SAP services. Among all customers approximately 40% were new.

2). SAP Leonardo

SAP Leonardo delivers powerful and innovative platforms and for that, it brought together industry expertise and deep processes. It has also merged cutting edge software capabilities and various thinking methodologies like IoT, Big Data, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Analytics.

Regional Performance of Revenue in the Second Quarter of 2018

In EMEA region SAP has very strong performance it shows 10% (IFRS) and 12% (non-IFRS at constant currencies). The support revenue and cloud subscription has been performed strongly and grew by 40%(IFRS) and 46% (non-IFRS at constant currencies) with UK and Germany being highlighted. SAP has provided and offered strong double-digit growth in the Middle East, UK, and Germany, in short in another of its business quarter it has gained a solid and single-digit growth in its quarter.

Even in the American region, it has had significant improvement. Software and cloud revenue was up by 4% for IFRS and It has been growing by 11% for non-IFRS at constant currencies. SAP revenues for cloud subscription and support services have been improved by 42%(IFRS) and 52% (non-IFRS at constant currencies) with Japan and China being highlighted.

Even after looking at the result of its second quarter SAP is updating its expectation for 2020, that depends on the cloud performance of SAP. In most challenging currency environment SAP expects the revenue generated by its cloud platform in the range of €8.2 to €8.7 billion.

Final Words:

Finally, it can be seen that SAP has gained much-improved revenue in its second yearly quarter. In this way, it has gained a better position in the competitive environment. Moreover, as per the current era of SAP performance, we can say that it has provided the best performance as compared to its competitors. These performances have done quite well and SAP expects even increased revenues due to its improved and better result of the second quarter.