However, gains elsewhere were held by down a 2-percent drop in software revenue. Cloud subscription and support revenue was up by 72 percent, but that was on a base of about $403 million while software revenue fell to roughly $2.15 billion. SAP, however, says the cloud run rate is about $2 billion. Support revenue reached about $2.9 billion. The software decline was worse in constant currencies, off 5 percent, while the cloud revenue rose by 59 percent under the same metric. Operating profit rose by 1 percent but was down 2 percent in constant currencies. SAP does not provide detailed comment about results when issuing preliminary numbers. Final results will be released on January 20 and accompanied by an earnings webcast.