OREANDA-NEWS. SAP SE today announced its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2015.

SAP again delivered strong growth in the cloud, outpacing most pure cloud competitors even without the contribution from the Concur acquisition. Third quarter non-IFRS cloud subscriptions and support revenue grew 116% year-over-year (90% at constant currencies) to €600 million.[1] New cloud bookings, the key measure for SAP’s sales success in the cloud, increased 102% in the third quarter to €216 million.[2]

The Company had very strong top and bottom line growth in the third quarter. Non-IFRS cloud and software revenue increased 19% (12% at constant currencies) to €4.12 billion. Non-IFRS operating profit increased 19% (15% at constant currencies) to €1.62 billion.

“SAP is enabling companies to Run Simple,” said SAP CEO Bill McDermott. “Whether it’s optimizing the customer experience, collaborating with partners across a digital network, engaging your workforce or managing your core operations with S/4HANA – we are helping our customers go digital. The HANA database and platform are the foundation for a ‘live system strategy’ enabling companies to capture the immense Internet of Things opportunity. This new architecture defeats complexity and radically increases speed so businesses can execute their mission in real-time. Our strong Q3 results are the latest validation of our strategy.”

“What I am particularly pleased about is that our operating profit grew even faster than our revenue. This reflects the positive impact of our business transformation and our continued focus on operating excellence across all of our lines of business, as shown in particular by an almost 9 percentage point year-over-year increase in our cloud gross margin,” said SAP CFO Luka Mucic. “In addition, we continued to increase our operating and free cash flow. In fact, we exceeded €3.2 billion for the first nine months in operating cash flow, while free cash flow marked an 8% increase year-over-year.”