Carlos A. Rodriguez
Analyst · David Togut with Evercore
Thank you, Sara, and good morning, everyone. We had a good start to fiscal '15 as we intensified our commitment to delivering innovative solutions to help our clients manage and optimize their workforce to meet their business needs. During the quarter, we continued to execute well against existing initiatives, including mobile adoption and cloud migration. We deployed new solutions to further differentiate ADP in the marketplace. And by successfully completing the spin-off for our Dealer Services business, we are now truly all-in on Human Capital Management or HCM. Going forward, our energy in investment is squarely focused on serving our clients across the full HCM spectrum, from recruitment to retirement. And while many companies are focused on technology alone, ADP is focused on the end-user and delivering value-added services powered by leading-edge technology. We are helping employers manage their most important asset, their people, by backing up our workforce management technology with comprehensive service and compliance expertise. Before I get to the quarter's performance, I would like to spend a few minutes talking about our commitment to HCM, which is supported by investments in innovation that drive our future growth. Our nearest Innovation Lab located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City opened earlier this year and has become a catalyst for accelerated product development. The engineers in the lab, together with thousands of world-class ADP engineers across the globe, have driven a number of our recent product introductions. At the end of the quarter, we started to roll out our reimagined user experience, which we view as the ultimate convergence of innovation and intense client focus. The new user experience offers an intuitive and responsive platform, allowing employees to integrate critical HR processes into their daily work streams and creating a unique experience for employees. We plan to roll out this new user experience to 22 million payroll solutions users in North America by the end of calendar 2014 and across many other solutions in our portfolio throughout calendar 2015. Adding to our client-centric offerings, we recently introduced the ADP Marketplace, which opens up our platform and grant clients, partner companies and third-party developers access to our application programming interfaces, commonly known as APIs. This helps our clients more seamlessly integrate critical applications with our system of record, further optimizing the entire HCM process with our cloud platforms. And to help businesses manage one of the most critical challenges they face today, ADP recently expanded its suite of Affordable Care Act or ACA compliance tools. We believe ADP Health Compliance is the most comprehensive solution on the market and the only one able to manage all of the labor-intensive regulatory interactions between employers, their employees, government agencies and public exchanges. Featuring the new user experience, ADP Health Compliance is a perfect example of our innovative cloud-based technology backed by ADP's team of dedicated ACA and regulatory compliance experts. With many companies in the U.S. currently unprepared to manage ACA compliance, we believe we are hitting the market at just the right time with this solution. And we are proud to see that ADP solutions are being recognized. Forrester Research recently named ADP a SaaS HR management systems leader, citing our innovation, user-friendly platforms and expanding big data solutions as key drivers of improved workforce engagement. This endorsement from an independent adviser, whose key role is to help companies make savvy technology decisions, sends a clear message to potential clients: Our solutions will help you make decisions that will drive business success. So now for ADP's performance in the quarter. I'm pleased with the good performance we had to the start of the fiscal year. ADP reported revenue growth of 9%. Worldwide new business bookings growth was a solid 11%, and we continue to successfully drive client migrations to the cloud while improving profitability. During our fourth quarter call, I described our refined 3-pillar strategy focusing on the HCM market. I think the best way to discuss our first quarter growth in new business bookings is in terms of how it aligns to each of our strategic pillars. First, in the U.S., we saw growth across all of our strategic platforms, RUN, Workforce Now and Vantage, with solid attach rates, particularly for our benefits and talent modules. Performance in the upmarket was strong, with sales of Vantage contributing to our overall growth in the quarter. Second, our business process outsourcing solutions, which we offer across all segments of the market, from small to large businesses, had strong results during the quarter. The PEO continues to perform well with small businesses, and we also saw increased demand for our comprehensive services in comprehensive outsourcing products in the mid- and upmarket. Finally, we continue to leverage our global presence to offer clients HCM solutions where they do business. Our multinational solutions performed well in the quarter, with growth coming from small to very large multinational corporations. During the quarter, we continued to migrate clients to our newer cloud-based solutions. At the end of the quarter, more than 460,000 businesses were supported by our cloud services. We also continue to deepen ADP's engagement with clients and end-users through our success with mobile. We now have more than 3 million users on our mobile app, an increase of more than 18% in the last quarter alone. Our first quarter achievements are a reflection of an effective strategy, combined with the commitment of 52,000 ADP associates who are pushing everyday to deliver on behalf of our clients. And with that, Jan will now walk you through the first quarter results.