SAP's fourth-quarter profit was hurt by a hefty payment to Oracle over the TomorrowNow lawsuit, but the software company's operations showed improvement.

The enterprise applications giant reported fourth-quarter earnings of 437 million euros ($596 million) on revenue of 4.06 billion euros, up 27 percent from a year ago. The company delivered software revenue of 1.51 billion euros, up 35 percent from a year ago. Software and software-related service revenue was 3.27 billion euros, up 27 percent. For 2010, SAP reported earnings of 1.82 billion euros on revenue of 12.46 billion euros.

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