{"id":18587,"date":"2012-07-24T12:39:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=18587"},"modified":"2012-07-24T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:40:37","slug":"sap-keeps-positive-operating-profit-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/18587\/sap-keeps-positive-operating-profit-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP keeps positive operating profit outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAP kept its full-year outlook and said on Tuesday it continued to draw clients to its new cloud-based services in an uncertain economic environment, with all its regions posting revenue growth in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>SAP, which reported key figures on July 12, said it still expected 2012 operating profit to rise to between 5.05 billion euros ($6.1 billion) and 5.25 billion at constant currencies.<\/p>\n<p>It also expects cloud computing firm SuccessFactors, which it bought for $3.4 billion earlier this year, to contribute to an increase in full-year revenue from software and software-related services of between 10 and 12 percent.<\/p>\n<p>SAP is the world&#8217;s biggest maker of business software and competes with Oracle and IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Its integrated software systems are sold to many of the world&#8217;s biggest companies, such as Apple, GE, McDonald&#8217;s and Pepsi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/15916\/oracle-results-pacify-worried-investors\/\"><strong>Oracle results pacify worried investors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/17523\/oracle-buys-up-its-third-social-media-firm\/\"><strong>Oracle buys up its third social media firm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP kept its full-year outlook and said on Tuesday it continued to draw clients to its new cloud-based services in an uncertain economic environment, with all its regions posting revenue growth in the second quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,753,1250,1073],"class_list":["post-18587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-ibm","tag-oracle","tag-sap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18589,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587\/revisions\/18589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}