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9/2/2015 SAP’s Worst of Worst Cases Arise in Our Downside Scenarios Analysis Trefis http://www.trefis.com/stock/sap/articles/288000/sap%E2%80%99sworstofworstcasesariseinourdownsidescenariosanalysis/20150407 1/4 SIGN UP LOG IN HOME ALL COMPANIES MY TREFIS FAQ METHODOLOGY 1 of 12 SAP’s Profit Takes a Beating Even as Cloud Business Continues to Grow 2 of 12 Currency Tailwinds Expected to Lift SAP’s Q2 Results, But Tough Times Lie Ahead? SAP Kills Two One Stone, In Predictive An Big Data & Io Relevant Articles on TREFIS SAP’s Worst of Worst Cases Arise in Our Downside Scenarios Analysis April 7th, 2015 by Trefis Team 22.13% + Upside 65.59 Market 80.10 Trefis SAP SAP Rate | votes | Share SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) is one of the world’s leading software companies and provides enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, supply chain management and customer relationship management applications to business enterprises. SAP currently has a market capitalization of $87 billion, placing it behind Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) but ahead of Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) in terms of market capitalization. In 2014, SAP had revenues of about $21 billion [1 ] , led by its resource planning software , which accounted for over 30% of its total revenues. The applications offered by SAP primarily run on its flagship HANA platform, which the company introduced a few years ago. Recently, SAP completely overhauled the HANA platform to release the updated SAP S/4HANA platform, which includes support for cloud computing and inmemory simplifications (Read: Has SAP Bet The House With The Biggest Update to its ERP in Two Decades? ) SAP spent 2 years and considerable resources on the development of S/4HANA, and its success is crucial for the company’s future. This is because S/4HANA is SAP’s answer to rising competition from rivals Oracle and Salesforce. So far, even in the face of heavy competition from the two biggest cloud computing companies in the world, SAP has managed to maintain largely stable revenues and margins. Whether it is able to hold its ground in the future also to protect its top and bottom lines, will determine the course of the company. In light of the above, we believe that the two biggest factors that can significantly depress SAP’s valuation in the medium term are: » Failure of SAP S/4HANA to take off » Margin erosion due to heavy competition We have a price estimate of $78 for SAP SE , which is about 10% higher than its current market price. See our complete analysis of SAP SE here Failure of SAP S/4HANA to Take Off (~25% Downside) S/4HANA is touted as SAP’s biggest update to its ERP platform in two decades. SAP claims that its new platform redefines the way ERP works and offers drastically improved speed and performance. Realizing the mounting prominence of cloud computing, SAP is offering the S/4HANA in onpremise, softwareasaservice (i.e., Cloud), and hybrid variants. Most notably, the S/4HANA will run on SAP’s inmemory system, so named HANA, rather than more commonly used databases offered by Oracle and Microsoft. With SAP’s HANA system, abundant random access memory is used to upload entire data sets to allow for real time data analytics. It should be noted that each of the aspects noted above can be characterized as SAP’s response to its competitors’ products. Oracle’s ERP platform has long been criticized as cumbersome to set up, while SAP’s focus has always been improving simplification with every new product. Salesforce is making huge strides in cloud computing and Oracle is quickly catching up. This made it crucial for SAP to jump on the cloud computing bandwagon, which it has with the S/4HANA. The huge amount of time and resources that were devoted to the development of S/4HANA make it crucial for the new platform to succeed. The importance of S/4HANA for SAP is best demonstrated by SAP Hasso Plattner’s statement, “If it doesn’t work, we’re dead. Flat out dead.” [2 ] Indeed, having pegged its fortunes strongly first to HANA and the to S/4HANA, the company has a lot riding on its success. However, there are a number of reasons why S/4HANA may not succeed to the necessary extent. The biggest factor that may make or break S/4HANA is its reliance on SAP HANA, which is an innovative and somewhat specialized alternative to conventional database computing. Database customers are notoriously sticky due to the very high switching costs involved in the migration to a new database system. Given that S/4HANA’s ERP Sign up for the complete Trefis experience. Your Email Address: Signup for Free Community I'm pretty sure were an Oracle did not buy Sun for the hardware. Read More Thanks for sharing these information! but i used OneCRM software.I would recommend... Read More "Further, the company no longer expects to maintain a revenue growth rate of over 30%,... Read More Most Popular Analysis Schlumberger To Buy Cameron, Gets A Better Price Than Halliburton Baker Hughes Deal

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SAP  SE  (NYSE:  SAP)  is  one  of  the  world’s  leading  software  companies  and  provides  enterprise  resourceplanning,  business  intelligence,  supply  chain  management  and  customer  relationship  managementapplications to business enterprises. SAP currently has a market capitalization of $87 billion, placing it behindOracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) but ahead of Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM)  in  terms of market capitalization.  In

2014, SAP had  revenues of about $21 billion  [1],  led by  its  resource  planning  software, which  accounted  forover 30% of its total revenues.

The applications offered by SAP primarily run on its flagship HANA platform, which the company introduced afew  years  ago.  Recently,  SAP  completely  overhauled  the  HANA  platform  to  release  the  updated  SAPS/4HANA  platform,  which  includes  support  for  cloud  computing  and  in­memory  simplifications  (Read:  HasSAP  Bet  The  House  With  The  Biggest  Update  to  its  ERP  in  Two  Decades?)  SAP  spent  2  years  andconsiderable resources on the development of S/4HANA, and its success is crucial for the company’s future.This  is  because S/4HANA  is SAP’s answer  to  rising  competition  from  rivals Oracle and Salesforce. So  far,even in the face of heavy competition from the two biggest cloud computing companies in the world, SAP hasmanaged  to maintain  largely stable  revenues and margins. Whether  it  is able  to hold  its ground  in  the  futurealso to protect its top and bottom lines, will determine the course of the company.

In light of the above, we believe that the two biggest factors that can significantly depress SAP’s valuation inthe medium term are:

» Failure of SAP S/4HANA to take off» Margin erosion due to heavy competition

We have a price estimate of $78 for SAP SE, which is about 10% higher than its current market price.

See our complete analysis of SAP SE here

Failure of SAP S/4HANA to Take Off (~25% Downside)

S/4HANA  is  touted  as SAP’s  biggest  update  to  its ERP platform  in  two  decades. SAP  claims  that  its  newplatform redefines  the way ERP works and offers drastically  improved speed and performance. Realizing  themounting prominence of cloud computing, SAP is offering the S/4HANA in on­premise, software­as­a­service(i.e., Cloud), and hybrid variants. Most notably, the S/4HANA will run on SAP’s in­memory system, so namedHANA,  rather  than  more  commonly  used  databases  offered  by  Oracle  and  Microsoft.  With  SAP’s  HANAsystem,  abundant  random  access  memory  is  used  to  upload  entire  data  sets  to  allow  for  real  time  dataanalytics.

It  should  be  noted  that  each  of  the  aspects  noted  above  can  be  characterized  as  SAP’s  response  to  itscompetitors’ products. Oracle’s ERP platform has long been criticized as cumbersome to set up, while SAP’sfocus has always been improving simplification with every new product. Salesforce is making huge strides incloud  computing  and  Oracle  is  quickly  catching  up.  This  made  it  crucial  for  SAP  to  jump  on  the  cloudcomputing bandwagon, which it has with the S/4HANA.

The huge amount of time and resources that were devoted to the development of S/4HANA make it crucial forthe  new  platform  to  succeed.  The  importance  of  S/4HANA  for  SAP  is  best  demonstrated  by  SAP  Hasso

Plattner’s  statement,  “If  it  doesn’t  work,  we’re  dead.  Flat  out  dead.”  [2]  Indeed,  having  pegged  its  fortunesstrongly first to HANA and the to S/4HANA, the company has a lot riding on its success.

However, there are a number of reasons why S/4HANA may not succeed to the necessary extent. The biggestfactor that may make or break S/4HANA is its reliance on SAP HANA, which is an innovative and somewhatspecialized alternative to conventional database computing. Database customers are notoriously sticky due tothe very high switching costs involved in the migration to a new database system. Given that S/4HANA’s ERP

 

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applications  based  on  the  new  platform  will  function  on  HANA  alone  and  not  an    customer’sincumbent  database,  SAP  may  have  an  uphill  battle  in  getting  customers  to  switch  from  its  installeddatabases.  SAP  itself  seemingly  realizes  the  risks  involved  and  thus,  it  has  partially  hedged  its  bet  on

S/4HANA by continuing support and updates for the original SAP HANA Business Suite through 2025. [3]

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If the above scenario plays out and the SAP S/4HANA does not take off, SAP could lose market share acrossall  its  application  categories  (ERP, BI, CRM and SCM).  In  such a  case, we estimate  that  the  company willlose cumulative revenues of almost $6 billion from 2015 to 2017. Further, its projected non­IFRS EPS in 2017will  be 15%  lower  than our existing  forecast. As a  result, we believe  that  if SAP S/4HANA  fails  to  take off,SAP’s valuation could be lower than our existing estimate by over 25%.

Margin Erosion Due to Heavy Competition (~15% Downside)

SAP has maintained gross margins of around 80% for its software products consistently since 2008. However,the software industry is in the midst of a transition to cloud computing and SAP has been relatively late to thegame. The SAP S/4HANA is  the company’s attempt  to  level  the playing field and ensure that  it doesn’t  losethe cloud opportunity  to  its competitors. However,  that hasn’t stopped rivals  like Salesforce and Oracle  fromtaking  potshots  at  the  company.  Oracle’s  Chairman  and  CTO  Larry  Ellison  recently  stated  that  SAP’s

presence in cloud computing is negligible, [4] while Salesforce recently stated that  it aims to overtake SAP in

the  latter’s  home  market,  Germany.  [5]    That  said,  in  its  year­end  earnings  release,  SAP  sized  its  SaaSbusiness in 2014 at 2.3 billion Euros.

This  increasingly hostile competition is set to heat up as the global cloud computing market expands further.This may result  in  laggards  like SAP having to resort  to aggressive pricing strategies, which will put marginsunder  pressure.  The  simultaneous  presence  of  the  original  SAP  HANA  platform  alongside  the  newer  SAPS/4HANA  may  also  result  in  much  higher  selling,  general  and  administrative  expenses  than  expected,resulting  in  lower  operating margins.  Our  current  projections  are  based  on  the  assumption  that  SAP’s  costsavings  program  can  generate  enough  savings  to  largely  offset  the  higher  SG&A  costs.  However,  it  isprobable  that  the expenses associated with maintaining dual  platforms may be higher  than expected, whichcan add to the downward pressure on margins.

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If  such  a  scenario  plays  out,  SAP’s  gross  margins  on  its  software  products  may  decline  from  the  current80.5%  to  76.5%  by  2017.  This  will  depress  the  estimated  2017  non­IFRS  EPS  by  approximately  10%,resulting in a decline of 15% in SAP’s valuation.

Indeed,  we  have  suggested  that  consider  the  worst  of  worst  cases.  And  so  we  will.    In  the  event  SAPS/4HANA  platform  fails  to  take  off  and  the  company’s  margins  contract  simultaneously,  we  estimate  thatSAP’s 2017 non­IFRS EPS may shrink by about 25%, resulting  in a decline of nearly 40% in the company’svaluation.

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tags: SAP MSFT ORCL CRMUmut Cikla commented 1 months ago

SAP has delivered constant double digit growth for the last 12 quarters. This shows that the market and itscustomers have strong belief in SAP's strategy. I can't understand the reasoning and meaning of this article. It isbiased and discussing only some failure scenarios. What about the scenarios that SAP is continuing to delivergrowth and strong quarters as it has been doing so far?

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Notes:1.  Based on 2014 average exchange rate of $1.1766 per Euro [↩]2.  SAP  founder  Hasso  Plattner:  ‘If  this  doesn’t  work,  we’re  dead.  Flat­out  dead.’,  Business  Insider,

February 5, 2015 [↩]3.  SAP S/4Hana: Big Bet On ‘Simplified’ ERP, Information Week, February 4, 2015 [↩]4.  Oracle Fiscal 2015 Third Quarter Earnings Call Transcript, Seeking Alpha, March 17, 2015 [↩]5.  Salesforce aims to surpass SAP on German market, Reuters, March 28, 2015 [↩]

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