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SAP SE

Earnings Release Jan 20, 2015

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Bill McDermott CEO

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2014: A year of fast expansion in cloud & profitable growth

Top Line Performance

  • Cloud revenue +45%
  • Run rate now exceeds €1.7B
  • Cloud deferred and backlog €3.0B, €1.4B added in 2014
  • SSRS revenue up 7% @cc despite less upfront and more ratable new business

Operating Income

  • Non-IFRS operating profit increased to €5.64B
  • Operating profit increase despite less upfront and more ratable revenue and increased cloud investment

  • Rapid transition to cloud and growing core

  • Fastest growing cloud company at scale with most cloud users
  • 1,850 Suite on HANA customers up >100% from 1 year a year ago

  • World's largest business network 1.7M companies transacting >\$700B

Revenue + deferred + backlog growth Market share gains vs. key competitors

All revenue figures are Non-IFRS reported unless otherwise stated, @cc = constant currencies 3

SAP is leading the Cloud transition in the industry

BUSINESS NETWORK BUSINESS TO BUSINESS COLLABORATION

SAP HANA CLOUD PLATFORM Integration | Development | Customers | Partners

SAP HANA broad adoption across industries and use cases

HANA is the great Simplifier

Differentiators

  • Real-time
  • Massive simplification and scale
  • Open

Customers

  • More than a database
  • Big data ready and proven

>5,800 SAP HANA

>1,850

SAP Business Suite on HANA Customers

World's largest Business Network to innovate the future of business within and between companies – and people

Massive cost savings AND the world's largest and most efficient sales channel

1.7 million companies transacting >\$700 billion

Strong growth across all regions FY 2014 - Cloud Subscription Revenue & SSRS

All revenue figures are Non-IFRS reported unless otherwise stated, @cc = constant currencies

SAP is helping the world's leading companies to Run Simple

2015 outlook and path to 2020

Fast cloud growth, growing highly predictable revenue and operating profit

  • Growing cloud business 7X (2014–2020), reflecting organic growth rates unmatched for a company of our scale
  • Adding close to €10bn total revenue by 2020
  • In 2018 cloud overtakes license SAP will reach a scale in its cloud business which clears the way for operating profit expansion

ambition

2020

€7.5 to €8bn Cloud subs

€26 to €28bn Total revenue

70% to 75% Support + Cloud subs – share of revenue

€8 to €9bn Operating profit

FY 2014 – Exceptional growth in Cloud

SAP's Outlook at the
beginning of FY 2014
SAP's Outlook after
Q3 for FY 2014
Actual Performance
2014
Cloud subscription and support revenue
(Non-IFRS @cc)
€950m to €1bn
Upper end was +32%
€1,040m to €1,070m
Upper end of this range
represents a growth rate
of +41%
€1,098m*
Software and Software-related Service
Revenue
(Non-IFRS @cc)
+6% to +8% +6% to +8% +7%
Operating Profit (Non-IFRS @cc) €5.8bn to €6.0bn €5.6bn to €5.8bn €5.63bn
Effective Tax Rate (IFRS) 26.0% to 27.0% 26.0% to 27.0% 24.8%
Effective Tax Rate (Non-IFRS) 27.5% to 28.5% 27.5% to 28.5% 26.2%

© 2015 SAP SE. All rights reserved. 11 * Includes Concur contribution of €45m (@cc)

Unique combination of fast growing Cloud & solid core business

  • Cloud revenue: +45% yoy (+45% @cc)
  • Annual run rate: >€1.7bn / \$2.0bn
  • Deferred revenue: €699m, +56% yoy (+40% @cc)
  • Calculated billings: +104% yoy (+78% @cc)
  • Backlog: +94% yoy >€2.3bn for FY
  • Order entry for new business in cloud was ~1/3 of software revenue for FY

  • Stable core business with software & support revenue: +4% (+5%@cc)

  • SW revenue: -3% (-3%@cc)
  • Resilient support revenue: +7% (+8%@cc)

SSRS +7% @cc achieving FY guidance

Broad Cloud offering with three different business models

Public Cloud

  • Cloud applications with mainly SuccessFactors, CEC*, Suite solutions
  • Classical subscription SaaS model is the most comparable cloud offering to pure cloud vendors

  • Market leading with Ariba, Fieldglass and Concur

  • Steady predictable revenue stream with a very high stickiness
  • Stable revenue growth rates

Private Cloud

  • Supporting mission critical processes
  • High set-up costs
  • Longer time to revenue
  • Order entry will flow into future revenue

Powerful mix shift to high growth Cloud business leading to higher share of predictable revenue

Cloud subscriptions and support revenue

Non-IFRS, in € million

Combined total revenue

Non-IFRS, in € billion Share of Cloud subscriptions & support and support revenue

Gross margin development 2014

Operating profit grew 3% to €5.63bn* while significantly expanding our Cloud delivery capabilities Non-IFRS, FY/14

© 2015 SAP SE. All rights reserved. 16 * At constant currencies

Net liquidity declined sequentially by €6.7bn to €-7.7bn mainly due to the debt financed acquisition of Concur

ONE Service and income statement amendment Impact on FY 2014 numbers, Non-IFRS

SAP will amend the structure of its income statement, starting with Q1 2015

Cloud subscriptions and support
1,101
Cloud subscriptions
and
support

1,101
Software
4,399
Software licenses
4,399
Support
9,373
Software support
€-539

8,834
Software and
support

13,773
Software licenses
and
support

13,233
Software and software-related service revenue
14,874
Cloud & Software
14,334
Prof. services and other service revenue
2,706
€+539
Services

3,245
Total revenue
17,580
Total revenue
17,580

All amounts in € million. Due to rounding, numbers may not add up precisely.

Outlook for the full year 2015

SAP's Outlook
FY 2015
Basis for
Comparison 2014
Cloud subscription and support
revenue (Non-IFRS at cc)
€1.95bn to €2.05bn
(upper end +86*)
€1.10bn
Cloud & Software Revenue**
(Non-IFRS at cc)
+ 8% to 10% €14.33bn
Operating Profit (Non-IFRS at cc) €5.6bn to €5.9bn €5.64bn
Effective Tax Rate (IFRS) 25.0% to 26.0% 24.8%
Effective Tax Rate (Non-IFRS) 26.5% to 27.5% 26.2%

© 2015 SAP SE. All rights reserved. 19 ** Formerly known as Software and Software-related Service Revenue

2015 outlook and path to 2020

Growing a more predictable revenue business while steadily increasing operating profit

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