Business software manufacturer SAP announced first-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates thanks to advances in its cloud operations, but the sale of its Qualtrics division caused it to cut its outlook for the entire year.
No further restructuring is anticipated for SAP this year, and the company still intends to integrate artificial intelligence techniques such as generative artificial intelligence in its services. It previously revealed plans to lay off 3,000 workers as it sought to reduce expenses.
Giant technology businesses have been upset by the current economic climate, yet the company was able to increase its sales in the first quarter by 10 percent to 7.44 billion euros which is nearly 8.2 billion USD, exceeding the average estimate issued by the firm.
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It claimed to be collaborating with the ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI, which receives funding from Microsoft Corporation.
We were studying ChatGPT for quite a while… we have built over 50 AI use cases, embedding them with our technology,” CEO Christian Klein said in an interview.
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Following the yearly Sapphire meeting he said, these kinds of uses will be accessible to customers the following month.
In order to look for flaws in AI use cases and prevent possible abuse of the technology, SAP additionally has an internal panel involving customers, researchers, as well as analysts, according to Klein.
The business was founded in 1972 and was initially known as System Analysis Programme Development with its German translation as Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung, subsequently becoming SAP. Ever since then, it has expanded from a five-person startup to a global corporation with over 105,000 staff members based in Walldorf, Germany.
SAP developed the global benchmark for the software for enterprise resource planning (ERP) via the release of its initially developed SAP R/2 and SAP R/3 solutions. Now, SAP S/4HANA advances ERP by processing massive volumes of data in memory and supporting cutting-edge technologies like AI (Artificial Intelligence) & ML (machine learning).
The profitable cloud business of business had revenue growth of 24 percent year over year, roughly in line with expectations. Profits from Qualtrics, a business SAP dissolved last month, have already been subtracted from the most recent income assessment.
SAP projects a non-IFRS operating profit for the year of between 8.6 and 8.9 billion euros, which is a 200 million euro decrease from the prior year. Forecasted cloud revenue is now expected to range from 14 to 14.4 billion euros, a decrease of 1.3 billion euros.
“Underlying guidance is essentially unchanged, although updated to reflect the disposal of Qualtrics,” Jefferies analysts wrote in a client note.
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