{"id":10152,"date":"2014-02-04T00:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/feb\/04\/sap-on-right-mix-cloud-mobile-on-premise\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:44:31","slug":"why-sap-believes-in-the-right-mix-of-cloud-mobile-and-on-premise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-sap-believes-in-the-right-mix-of-cloud-mobile-and-on-premise\/","title":{"rendered":"Why SAP believes in the &#8220;right mix&#8221; of cloud, mobile and on-premise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When SAP announced its fourth quarter financial results last month, the focus from analysts and the media was on one particular aspect.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind a fourth consecutive year of double digit growth, or a 69% increase in full revenue on its HANA platform. Everyone&rsquo;s eyes turned to the mid-term outlook, and specifically this titbit: the company has revised its target of between &euro;3bn and &euro;3.5bn revenue in cloud, as well as its 35% operating margin target, from 2015 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;SAP anticipates the fast-growing cloud business along with growth in support revenue will drive a higher proportion of more predictable, recurring revenue in the future,&rdquo; the company explained in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion drawn from this, naturally, was one where the German business software firm was enjoying rip-roaring success from its cloud solutions, but at the expense of its on-premise sales, the company&rsquo;s traditional money maker &ndash; which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When SAP announced its fourth quarter financial results last month, the focus from analysts and the media was on one particular aspect.<br \/>\nNever mind a fourth consecutive year of double digit growth, or a 69% increase in full revenue on its HANA platform&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}