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Enterprise giant SAP has reported an increase in both revenues and operating profits for the latest quarter – but execs were forced to explain a slowdown in cloud bookings. The results for the quarter ended September 30, released today (PDF), showed total revenues of €5.59bn – up 4 per cent year-on-year – and an operating …

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  1. CentralCoasty
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    Why, just....why?

    Its always amazed me that something so ugly, so cumbersome, un-user-friendly, complex, difficult to maintain, update, fix or manage is the top software time after time in reviews of ERP's and related systems.

    I worked out the SAP business model long ago... make something SO complex that once someone's bought it, its just going to be too expensive and awkward to migrate off to something else.... h^ll - even its own version upgrades are the stuff of worst nightmares.

    Nearly ever customer bastardises SAP out of existence - why - because SAP allow it.... brilliant strategy.... customers are tied to them forever.... easier to close the business and move to a new one than try to migrate off of SAP.

    Do SAP care about cloud? No. Not really - they want their fingers in it just incase - but their focus is, and will remain in the huge money generated off of licencing.

    (End of rant from a long-term SAP PM who's in desperate need of a weekend)

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Re: Behind their 'paywall'

    The future of SAP is in the cloud, just not their cloud.

    AWS, MS, GCP is where the majority of applications will go, for very good reason, its a scale game and they're the only guys who are in the game, even GCP has a mountain to climb.

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      Re: Behind their 'paywall'

      I don't think there is any chance they build their own data centers and lay fiber around the world. They are partnered with GCP... probably going to take awhile to actually move SAP's install base though.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    SAP doesn't get Cloud

    SAP's only success in cloud has been through acquisition.

    They don't really have a Cloud strategy. Most of their traditional SAP applications on SaaS are way too vanilla or immature for most customers.

    Maybe they should take a look at how Microsoft has transformed itself from licensing to Cloud Services.

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