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SAP SE — Earnings Release 2014
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
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Operating profit increase despite less upfront and more ratable revenue and increased cloud investment
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Rapid transition to cloud and growing core
- Fastest growing cloud company at scale with most cloud users
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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
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Order entry for new business in cloud was ~1/3 of software revenue for FY
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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
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Classical subscription SaaS model is the most comparable cloud offering to pure cloud vendors
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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