SAP sees cloud, support revenue topping software by 2018
German business software maker SAP expects its revenue from cloud subscriptions and support to be higher than its revenue from software licenses in 2018, reflecting an industry trend.
This would be a dramatic shift for a company, which earlier had licenses and support of its business software as its mainstay business. There was considerable skepticism whether it would be able to quickly make the transition to the cloud with a new revenue model based on subscriptions rather than one-time payments.
The market has moved significantly for SAP and its rivals like Oracle from on-premise software and services to applications delivered through the cloud on a subscription model.
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