Earnings Grow at Salesforce
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Salesforce.com (CRM:NYSE - commentary - research), a provider of Internet-based customer relationship management software, posted its first quarterly profit as a public company after the bell Thursday.
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Preliminary figures from retail research firm FootFall show numbers up as much as 25% on last year
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The company's fourth-quarter earnings beat analyst expectations.
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BusinessWeek Online - Salesforce.com  has the growth story down pat, but keeping up the pace can get tricky as competitors toughen your game. Investors sold Salesforce stock on Feb. 22 - even after news that the on-demand software services company won a whopping 90,000 net new subscribers during the three months ended Jan. 31.
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Software sales lead the show SAP shares were up more than four per cent yesterday as the software company released prelimary figures showing a 10 per cent growth in revenues.â¦
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Better margins yield much-improved earnings.
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The company said first-quarter profit rose 14 percent on strong sales growth across nearly all regions.
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Profit soared on increased sales volume, a lower tax rate and cost savings.
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Earnings meet analyst expectations, and company continues to gain momentum through wireless and fiber-to-the-home business.
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(InfoWorld) - SAP reported anÂ 8 percent jump in its second-quarter net income on Thursday, helped by a sharp increase in revenue from new software licenses. Net income for the quarter was â¬449 million ($605 million as of June 30, the last day of the period being reported), up from â¬415 million in the second quarter last year. That was equal to earnings of â¬0.37 per share, up from â¬0.34 per share a year earlier. Revenue from new software licenses climbed 18 percent to â¬715 million, from â¬604 million last year. Total revenue, including maintenance fees, support and other services, climbed 10 percent to â¬2.4 billion, up from â¬2.2 billion in the second quarter of 2006. The results were better than some analysts expected and showed that SAP is continuing to add new customers even while its main rival, Oracle, grows its applications business throughÂ acquisitions. For the comparable period, its financial quarter ending May 31,Â Oracle increased revenueÂ from new applications licenses by 13 percent, to $641 million. In SAP's biggest market -- Europe, the Middle East, and Africa -- total revenue was up by 12 percent, to â¬1.27 billion. Growth in the Americas, dragged down by the strong euro against the U.S. dollar, was just 6 percent, to give revenue of â¬853 million. SAP continues to grow fastest in Asia, where revenue climbed 20 percent to â¬304 million. CEO Henning Kagermann called it "an excellent quarter." SAP will continue to invest heavily in new products for the midmarket, he said in a statement. The company is spending â¬300 million to â¬400 million over two years to develop a new suite of on-demand applications, intended to offset slower growth from large enterprises. The results come as SAP continues toÂ battle Oracle in U.S. courtÂ for alleged corporate theft. Oracle charged that SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary hacked into Oracle's customer support Web site and downloaded software fixes and support materials for Oracle's PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications. SAP planned to use the materials to offer cut-rate services to Oracle customers, according to Oracle's lawsuit. In its response last month, SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made someÂ "inappropriate" downloadsÂ of Oracle materials. But it played down the extent of the transgressions and said SAP itself did not have access to the materials. A case management conference is set for September. Â
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Business software giant Oracle Corp. said Tuesday that first-quarter earnings rose 16 percent driven by new database license sales that rose 19 percent.
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Software developer Salesforce.com Inc. posted a sharp rise in second-quarter profit on better-than-expected revenue during its first quarter as a public company, but investors shunned the stock in late trading
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Continued improvement in its operational performance boosts second-quarter earnings.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle has reported a 16 per cent rise in quarterly net income as the world&#39;s second-largest software company benefited from steady demand for its flagship database software.
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InfoWorld - Next Monday, Salesforce.com will, in the words of one industry analyst, &quot;extend the value proposition of software as a service&quot; when it introduces Visualforce at its Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco.
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With strong international sales and growth in its services business, Symantec reported earnings Wednesday that beat analyst expectations.Excluding charges, revenue at the security and storage company grew 15 percent year over year, to $1.53 billion for the period ended Dec 28. Analysts had been expecting revenue of $1.45 billion, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Financial. Earnings were $0.33 per share, ahead of the analyst estimate of $0.28 per share.Symantec&#39;s international revenue -- which represents more than half of the company&#39;s business -- grew by 21 percent year over year, Symantec said. The Europe, Middle East, and Africa region was the fastest-growing with revenues up 26 percent from the previous year. Revenue in Asia grew by 19 percent, the company said.Service sales totalled just 6 percent of Symantec&#39;s revenue, but they grew by 40 percent from the previous year.The company&#39;s consumer and enterprise security businesses grew by just 8 percent and 9 percent, respectively. Symantec&#39;s data center management group saw sales jump 11 percent over the same period.Symantec raised guidance for its full fiscal year 2008, which ends March 28. It now expects revenue to be in the range of $5.90 billion to $5.94 billion, with earnings per share between $1.24 and $1.26. Analysts had been expecting annual revenue of around $5.79 billion with earnings per share at $1.16, according to Thomson.The company&#39;s shares leapt more than 7 percent on the results in after-hours trading, reaching $16.40 late Wednesday afternoon.
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The company said earnings jumped because of shipments recovered after a labor dispute and a rise in demand for specialty metals used in power plants.