The past few quar­ters have been inter­est­ing ones for SAP. Not only did the soft­ware com­pa­ny unveil its plans to realign its strat­e­gy, but it also — like vir­tu­al­ly every oth­er com­pa­ny oper­at­ing today — had to con­tend with the COVID-19 epi­dem­ic and over a year of remote work­ing for many office work­ers around the world. 

“Let me sum it up. Last year, we have updat­ed our strat­e­gy [and] com­plet­ed the realign­ment of the com­pa­ny to focus SAP on the suc­cess of our cus­tomers,” said Chris­t­ian Klein, SAP CEO. ​“Now we are in exe­cu­tion mode, and the future for SAP is bright. Q1 was a per­fect start and growth point for our strat­e­gy. RISE with SAP already worked as an accel­er­a­tor for cus­tomers’ busi­ness trans­for­ma­tion in the cloud.”

Through­out the call, Klein, along with SAP CFO Luka Mucic and Scott Rus­sell, head of cus­tomer suc­cess orga­ni­za­tion at SAP, high­light­ed some of the pos­i­tive finan­cial trends the com­pa­ny has seen over this first quar­ter of the year.

“Look­ing at the bot­tom line, we achieved the high­est Q1 oper­at­ing prof­it in our his­to­ry,” said Klein. ​“This quar­ter was one of the strongest quar­ters in the his­to­ry of SAP.”