SAP continues to surpass all of its ambitious Cloud Wars Top 10 opponents by a significant margin in the very competitive and quickly changing enterprise apps industry. This includes surpassing Salesforce and Oracle by a factor of three.

In a market segment crowded with enterprise-apps vendors that have continuously shown over the past 20 years that they can meet and surpass the demands and expectations of the most demanding companies in the world, those numbers are strategically significant because they are direct reflections of customer choices. The charts below show how drastically SAP's revenue figures compare to those of its strong competitors, whom it has continuously excelled over the last year and even grown its advantage over.

Although these firms' quarterly earnings do exhibit some cyclical unpredictability, experts do not believe that this influences the relative outcomes for their most recent quarterly numbers. In the case of SAP, Christian Klein's company has shown over the last 12 months that it has the exceptional capacity to accelerate its growth rate even as its applications business grows.

SAP had a growth rate of 27%, generating revenue of over $5.09B at the end of its quarter. These SAP numbers for the last four quarters demonstrate an incredibly stable trend of increasing growth rates for cloud revenue, Business Suite (previously Cloud ERP Suite) revenue, and current cloud backlog throughout 2024.

When combined, they demonstrate a strong applications company that is expanding faster as it becomes larger, and future growth is virtually certain because of its quickly expanding backlogs all year long.