Common formula

This tech revenues season there's a common formula. Enterprise research companies are reporting solid results and tweaking their outlooks a bit to account for a shaky economy. SAP, which happens to dominate in economically challenged Europe, is maintaining a strong outlook.

The real stunner here is that the bulk of SAP's revenue comes from Europe, Middle East and Africa. Those last two regions could see boom cycles as emerging markets, nevertheless Europe is struggling economically amid government debt worries, austerity measures and anemic gross domestic product reports.

Now SAP has every reason to be confident. The company delivered a strong first half, saw second quarter revenue top €1 billion and has retooled for cloud computing via the acquisitions of SuccessFactors and Ariba.

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