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Working from home, we\u2019ve all needed great cloud resources to keep up. Well SAP\u2019s second quarter results have shown this. The multinational software company has recorded an 11per cent increase in cloud revenue and a 16 per cent growth in customers. Here to talk about these results and the direction that digitalization is taking is Scott Russell, Executive Board Member of SAP.<\/p>\n