Tianyi Jiang
Analyst · Derrick Wood with Cowen & Company
Thank you, Marc and thank you to everyone joining us on the call today. I'm very pleased to report that 2022 is off to a great start. We delivered a solid first quarter, highlighted by robust SaaS revenue growth and continued progress on our innovation road map. Total revenue for the first quarter was $50.3 million, ahead of our guidance. On strong SaaS revenue of $26.6 million which was up 45% from the same period 2021. We grew total ARR 30% year-over-year to $167.4 million. Our commitment to create innovative solutions to meet the evolving business needs of our customers over the past 20 years continues to set AvePoint apart. The first quarter was no different with many exciting enhancements to the AvePoint confidence platform which enables organizations to secure collaboration data, sustain connections between people and ensure business continuity. With 66% of enterprise IT spending shifting to cloud technologies in 2025 and more than half of businesses identifying optimization of their use of cloud as a top priority, our resilience suite ensures business continuity and compliance with data retention and other regulatory guidelines. This is why we were able to successfully onboard a global leader in application testing and quality engineering services to protect the data in its entire Microsoft 365 environment as well as extend that protection to a Salesforce CRM data and an HR application, leveraging the Salesforce platform. The global scale of our confidence platform with 14 deployments across data centers around the world ensures the firm can also satisfy its local data sovereignty requirements. Our Fidelity suite preserves data integrity as organizations transform from one system to the next, capturing data for compliance or integrating SaaS applications to streamline the way users work. Our control suite enables IT to deliver central services at scale with automation and repeatable businesses template. This, in turn, empowers business users and delegated businesses or department owners to control their budgets, licenses, users and workspaces. In Germany, we're automating the security, provisioning, governance and life cycle of Microsoft 365 collaboration spaces for our customers 10,000 users, so it can focus on its mission, to develop solutions addressing basic human needs of food, energy and building. As many companies continue to navigate global supply chain disruptions, our platform's deep integration with Microsoft 365 enables one of the world's largest managed transportation and logistics providers to save time, reduce costs and increase productivity in order to follow through on its commitment to achieve supply chain excellence for its customers. With that point, this firm is centralizing the management and governance of its Microsoft 365 Workspaces, leading the charge to shift its mindset from using file shares decrease its exposure to risk and ensure its data is protected and easily restored. During the quarter, we released a number of upgrades to our confidence platform to partner with organizations on their digital transformation journeys, including robust data protection capabilities with the introduction of ransomware detection within our resilient suite, the extension of our FedRAMP authorization across our platform and introducing two new products, Apple Entrust and Confide. Ransomware tax hit companies every 11 seconds with the cost to recover in the millions of dollars. When mci group a global engagement and marketing agency with 60 offices in 31 countries experienced ransomware attack with the user's OneDrive, it quickly realized the need for additional data protection to retain documents for 5 years and financial documents for 10 years as well as the ability to execute granular restores of data. With that point, mci group was able to add to its ransomware resiliency and achieve unlimited retention of data in Microsoft 365 with multiple daily backups and satisfy its 24/7 internal support SLAs for data recovery. The digital transformation underway reflects the importance of upholding the highest security standards for companies implementing cloud solutions, including public sector and federal organizations. Since our initial FedRAMP authorization last year, we invested in the authorization of solutions that go beyond our Microsoft 365 offerings, including Salesforce and Google Workspace to help organizations like the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Treasury, IRS and others in highly regulated industries to collaborate with confidence. As a result of our FedRAMP authorization, Apple is now working with a small business administration to reduce risk of data loss for critical business content containing Salesforce through automatic backup and ability to restore content out of place to another Salesforce environment. Digital transformation is also transforming the way that people interact and transact. As companies like WPP continue innovating offerings for how people shop in e-commerce, its 100,000 employees around the world are using Microsoft 365 to power this innovation through greater collaboration and productivity. With that point, WPP manages its growing SaaS operations through streamlined management and can now gain full visibility into its entire Microsoft 365 ecosystem with consolidated and secure dashboards which give a better understanding of the applications, features and site users are accessing most so they can make appropriate adjustments to increase adoption. We also expanded into innovative purpose-built applications tailored to the modern workplace through the launch of Confide, a virtual data room powering highly secured digital collaboration. A recent Deloitte survey of merger acquisition professionals found 87% organizations are managing deals in a purely virtual environment despite half the respondents citing cybersecurity as their greatest concern. Confide security stores data within customers' own Office 365 tenant and tailors access for only business leaders who should be privy to sensitive information. A key differentiator from other forms of private channels that exist within Microsoft Teams, Slack or Google Workspace. The feedback since launching Confide with customers as well as our partner community is positive in terms of how it builds on the power of our confidence platform, positioning us as a holistic partner through our organization's M&A journeys as well as its flexibility to evolve over time to address other typical business user use cases where Confide can apply. Since launching our global partner program last July, we have continued to accelerate our mid-market growth rates as well as reach small- and medium-sized businesses with the same enterprise-grade technology available to Fortune 500 businesses. Our channel ecosystem expansion is continuing in line with our geographic and market segment expansion. Our MSP business primarily focused on the SMB market continues to grow in triple digits and this portion of our channel business is expected to reach 10% of our total ARR by end of the year. During the quarter, we added new SIs and VARs as well as distributors like D&H, a leading technology distributor of IT solutions in North America. D&H modern solutions team enables partner to take advantage of the fast-growing market in SMB cloud managed services by equipping them with key technologies across in-demand solutions segments. Strategic distribution partners like D&H play a pivotal role in expanding our partner channel to continue enabling us to scale and deliver cloud services through their cloud marketplaces. Finally, we extend our commitment to meet the needs of an evolving ecosystem with the introduction of our AvePoint's certification program launched with technical and sales tracks to empower partners to best use AvePoint technology and design custom cloud solutions. It will also signal a differentiated level of expertise in our industry-leading technology to help them source more business and exceed competitors. Our direct sales team continue to drive our enterprise business, quickly responding to evolving market trends and help customers solve their complex business problems. As companies like multinational IT consulting firm, Sycor, continued to adopt Microsoft 365 for greater communication, collaboration and productivity. AvePoint ensures the firm can meet its data protection and GDPR requirements, while enabling smooth management of Microsoft Teams and automating business processes to save time and reduce costs so they can focus on serving their customers. We also saw success with our existing customer base as they continue their cloud transformation and look to gain more value from their own cloud investments. The number of our customers with over 100,000 ARR increased to 358 in Q1, up 33% year-over-year. Before Jim goes over the numbers, I want to touch on the share repurchase activity. Since our last earnings to now, we have repurchased approximately $4.8 million in shares. In summary, we reported a solid first quarter and continue to execute on our initiatives which will drive a strong 2022. With that, I'll turn it over to Jim to discuss our financial results in more detail.