SAP 軍隊s the pace on cloud, buys $2.4 bln U.S. ソフトウェア 会社／堅い
By Eric Auchard and Douglas Busvine
WALLDORF, Germany, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Europe's 最高の，を越す 科学（工学）技術 company SAP 発表するd a $2.4 billion U.S. 取得／買収 to help it 上げる 歳入s from its cloud 壇・綱領・公約 and CEO 法案 McDermott said it would 簡素化する its 全体にわたる 商売／仕事 this year to 支える 利ざやs.
The German company is 中途の through a 戦略の 移行, 目的（とする）ing to 軍隊 the pace on developing its S/4 HANA cloud 壇・綱領・公約, which now counts 7,900 顧客s, and 離乳する 顧客s off ソフトウェア sold under licence and 任命する／導入するd at offices and factories.
The 転換 has squeezed 利ざやs in 最近の years because the cloud 商売／仕事 model is based on subscriptions which take longer to 支払う／賃金 off - in contrast to one-off, up-前線 ソフトウェア licence 支払い（額）s that was the thrust of its 商売／仕事 for １０年間s.
But McDermott told Reuters the 戦略 was now 耐えるing fruit after SAP 概して stabilised its operating 利ざやs in the fourth ４半期/4分の1 at 35.2 パーセント.
Acquiring U.S. sales ソフトウェア 会社／堅い Callidus, in a 取引，協定 発表するd on Tuesday, will help SAP in its ambition to become the market leader in いわゆる 前線-office ソフトウェア used in sales and marketing, building on its strength in 支援する-office ソフトウェア that is used by companies to 持続する 支配（する）／統制する over far-flung 多国籍の 操作／手術s.
In an interview at SAP's sprawling campus in Walldorf, Germany, McDermott said SuccessFactors, the human 資源s 使用／適用 acquired by SAP for $3.4 billion in 2011, would be fully migrated to the cloud this year.
"This year, the entire company will be on one 壇・綱領・公約," McDermott told Reuters after SAP 発表するd 2017 results that met its twice-raised 指導／手引 but （機の）カム in just shy of 分析家 期待s.
He 述べるd Callidus as a "tuck-in" 取引，協定 that would not move the needle on 歳入s but that he valued for the company's market leadership and 革新.
As Callidus was on the cloud, it would help SAP 達成する a 2020 goal of havin g "predictable" 歳入s of 70 to 75 パーセント of the total. These grew by 1 百分率 point to 63 パーセント in 2017.
"We did that to get another cloud 歳入 stream in the mix," McDermott said.
SAP 繰り返し言うd a 予測（する） for 2020 of 非，不，無-IFRS operating 利益（をあげる） of 8.5 to 9.0 billion euros ($10.5-11.1 billion) on 歳入 of 28 to 29 billion euros.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
The world economy is "about as good as it gets", the 56-year-old American said, 押し進めるing 支援する against 恐れるs that rising 貿易（する） 保護貿易主義 could 傷つける globally diversified 商売／仕事s like SAP.
McDermott has just 完全にするd a week of hectic 法人組織の／企業の 外交 in which he met French 大統領 Emmanuel Macron in Paris and dined with U.S. leader Donald Trump at the World 経済的な 会議 in Davos, Switzerland.
He 述べるd a combination of プロの／賛成の-growth, fair 貿易（する） and low 税金 政策s as 有益な to 商売／仕事 in a world economy that was 成し遂げるing 堅固に across all 地域s.
"大統領 Macron is 提携させるd, to a 確かな extent, with 大統領 Trump on a lower 税金 率," he said of his 最近の 会合s with the leaders.
All of SAP's 地域の 商売／仕事s are growing at 二塁打 digits, McDermott said, 最高潮の場面ing "hyper growth" in 中国.
SAP said it 推定する／予想するd total 非，不，無-IFRS 歳入 of 24.6 to 25.1 billion euros ($30 bln-$31 bln) for 2018, in line with the 予測（する）s of 分析家s 投票d by Thomson Reuters.
But the 見通し also 最高潮の場面d that the company 推定する／予想するs 利ざやs to 増加する faster in 2018. 歳入 is 始める，決める to grow by around 5 to 7 パーセント, 除外するing 通貨 translation 影響s, it said, while operating 利益（をあげる） is 均衡を保った to 増加する by 8 to 11 パーセント.
It 予測（する） 2018 非，不，無-IFRS operating 利益（をあげる） of 7.3 to 7.5 billion euros, 追加するing that the 実施 of IFRS 15, a new accounting 支配する on 歳入 承認, would 追加する 200 million euros to 利益（をあげる）s.
SAP 株 were little changed - 落ちるing a fraction of 1 パーセント to 貿易（する） at 91.72 euros in Frankfurt at 1022 GMT. ($1 = 0.8079 euros) (Rep orting by Douglas Busvine and Eric Auchard; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Susan Fenton)
