Chief Financial Officer Luka Mucic said customer adoption of the latest cloud version of SAP’s business database was strong and this  would accelerate as it markets a new business transformation offering to clients.

Mucic said that the run rate - or current annualised revenue - of the cloud version of its S/4HANA cloud database was currently 800 million euros.

Nearly 3,300 customers were running S/4HANA in the cloud, of which 2,000 were live, a number that was “building up very quickly”, Mucic told a news conference after SAP reported its 2020 results.

SAP this week launched a new all-in-one package to offer ‘business transformation as a service’ to help its 400,000 customers transform their businesses from traditional software licences to cloud-based architectures.