SAP says could beat targets on cloud's silver lining

By Harro Ten Wolde and Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe's biggest software company SAP said it could accelerate past full-year financial targets in the fourth quarter, its most important period of the year, as it confirmed the strong quarterly results it had outlined last week. SAP results were buoyed by faster growth in its newer, Internet-based cloud business compared to the first half of the year, while sales of its mainstay packaged software held up in the face of global uncertainty