enterprise software giant sap posted continued strength in its cloud business offsetting a sharp decline in the company’s old onpremise software licensing business and overcoming some weakness in european economies for the third quarter germany’s sap ticker sap posted revenue of €78 billion 769 billion up 15 from a year ago including a 10 percentage point bump from favorable foreign exchange rates and ahead of the wall street consensus forecast of €76 billion for sap which reports results in euros the recent strength of the dollar has the effect of boosting revenue the opposite of the impact seen by us companies reporting in dollars