Marc E. Chardon
Analyst · Stifel
Thank you, Tony, and thanks to all of you for joining us today to review our first quarter results, which represented a solid start for 2013. We're pleased to have delivered non-GAAP revenue and profitability that were above the high end of our guidance ranges. In the first quarter, we began to benefit from the significant actions we've undertaken in recent months to realize cost synergies as we integrated the Convio acquisition. This includes the initial cost synergies that we achieved in 2012, plus an additional $9 million to $10 million of annualized cost savings that we initiated during the first quarter of 2013. With our improving operational efficiency, Blackbaud is now better positioned to deliver both higher profitability and make important investments in our business that will help our much-larger company to scale more effectively and efficiently for many years ahead. We believe that our ability to improve the efficiency of Blackbaud, following the integration of Convio, will drive increased shareholder value. In addition, we're focused on taking the steps necessary to ultimately realize the revenue synergy potential of our combined company as another important lever in shareholder value creation. We're still in the early stages of implementing our integrated product strategy and we're encouraged by the customer feedback and our differentiated ability to deliver best-of-both-worlds online fundraising and CRM offering. Now let me provide a brief overview of our first quarter financial performance. We delivered non-GAAP revenue of $116.2 million, which exceeded the high end of our guidance. We generated non-GAAP operating income of $20.9 million, which was well above the high end of our guidance range. Due to a combination of solid revenue performance, greater-than-expected cost savings from the actions we undertook in January and the timing of certain investments that we plan to make in our business. From a macro perspective, the environment in the first quarter resembled what we saw in the fourth quarter, which we would characterize as stable. We're seeing modest growth in the Blackbaud Giving Index, which is encouraging, but we also have to keep in perspective that many nonprofit organizations have barely reached the donation levels that they experienced prior to the recession. At the same time, reduced funding levels from government agencies have put pressure on many sectors. While this clearly creates a challenging environment, it also underlines the need to invest in new or updated fundraising software and related solutions to optimize their relationships with constituents and, ultimately, the donations raised. We believe the unmatched breadth of Blackbaud's product offerings and our best-of-breed fund raising, CRM and back-office solution, position us as the vendor of choice for nonprofits looking to improve their operations. I'd like to take a few minutes to review the performance of each of our business units. The enterprise customer business unit got off to a solid start in the first quarter, including closing 9 deals across our CRM offerings. We continue to see a healthy pipeline of opportunities with our CRM offering and the replacement cycle of 20-year-old, outdated legacy systems that we've talked about in the past is beginning to play out. While we still barely have scratched the surface with respect to the largest nonprofit organizations in the world, we also believe that there is a significant opportunity to bring our CRM offerings downmarket. We are optimistic that we will see a continued strength in our CRM business going forward. We also continue to make progress in rebuilding the Luminate Online pipeline in the enterprise segment of the market during the quarter. It will be a multi-quarter process to get the Luminate Online business back to where we'd like to have it, but we continue to receive favorable feedback from customers regarding our commitment to the product and the enhancements that we're making. We remain confident that our acquisition of Convio will generate revenue synergies over time, though the sales of these subscription-based SaaS offerings means it will take time for improved sales activity to impact our income statement. In our general markets business unit, which posted solid results in the first quarter, the mix shift that we have seen in recent years towards subscription deals continued to progress. Recurring revenues now represent the strong majority of our general markets business, which is enhancing the visibility and predictability of our revenue in this meaningful contributor to Blackbaud's overall financial performance. We're pleased with the performance of the Luminate Online offering in the midmarket as well. And similar to the ECBU, we're seeing good progress in the general market business with expanding pipelines for this strategic offering. We expect Luminate Online will not only enable us to increase cross-selling activity into our sizable installed base, but it would also open up new opportunities for Blackbaud to sell into prospects that don't have a Blackbaud CRM. We also saw solid performance with our flagship fundraising product, the Raiser's Edge, including great enthusiasm related to our new mobile functionality for this product, that is widely recognized as the industry standard. Our continued innovation for the Raiser's Edge contributed to solid new sales activity in addition to our ability to maintain best-of-class retention rates across our large installed base of accounts. We also saw continued traction with our Financial Edge subscription offering, which we introduced last year, and we see that as an additional driver of increased subscription revenues over time. Our international business also continues to perform well overall. We have an expanding pipeline of opportunities internationally, particularly with our CRM offerings, which we're working hard to close during 2013. In addition, Everyday Hero, while still relatively small, continues to deliver strong results. And we see the individual fundraiser and multi-charity event fundraising markets as an exciting growth opportunity. We currently have 5 disparate multi-charity event fundraising platforms in various markets around the globe, and we're making investments to standardize on Everyday Hero as our unified platform in the future and sell it into new markets, including our core domestic market. Our improving execution and momentum internationally is counterbalanced by the fact that the macro environment in Europe continues to be meaningfully more challenging than in the United States. We remain optimistic on the long-term opportunity to increase our international revenue contribution from its current 13% level. From a product perspective, during the first quarter, we unveiled important product releases, including: a major release of our Infinity platform that will enable improved integration into our data warehouse for all of our Infinity-based products like Blackbaud CRM, Blackbaud Direct Marketing and ALTRU, which will drive greater efficiencies in the customers' ongoing operations; an updated version of our Blackbaud CRM, that includes a mobile CRM offering, improved international capabilities and the ability to link a constituent social media accounts directly to their constituent field; updates to Luminate Online, which include website pages, for example, donation forms and team-fundraising pages, optimized to work across all mobile devices and operating systems and the integration of Blackbaud merchant services into Luminate Online; and an updated version of our [ph] mobile, which brings the power of the industry's most robust fund raising platform directly to tens of thousands of individuals via their smartphones. We have a robust product roadmap we're working against in 2013, including integration between Raiser's Edge and Luminate Online, which is expected to be generally available in this second quarter, as well as increased mobile, social and cloud functionality. Our focus from a product development perspective is to expand on the best-in-class capabilities our solutions provide. Another area of focus is analytics, and during the quarter, we were delighted to announce the return of Wendy Fox to Blackbaud, where she will be heading up a newly created information management and strategic services line of business inside the enterprise customer business unit. Wendy is one of the nonprofit world's leading experts on how to leverage the vast amount of donor and constituent data that nonprofit organizations have in order to improve their ability to maximize donations and meet their objectives. We're thinking customers are thinking more strategically about the value of the data that resides in their systems, and we see a significant opportunity for Blackbaud to be the strategic vendor of choice for nonprofits looking to unlock that value. Finally, to provide a quick update on our executive transition process. About a month ago, our Board of Directors engaged a leading executive recruiting firm to manage the search for my successor. We're encouraged by the interest that we're seeing from potential candidates and are in the process of determining who will be interviewed by the board. We're looking to finish the process as quickly as possible, of course, but the most important thing is that we find the right individual to select and to lead the next stage of Blackbaud's growth strategy. In the meantime, I remain fully committed to the company, our customers and our shareholders. In summary, Blackbaud delivered solid first quarter results and demonstrated our ability to deliver improving levels of operational efficiency and profitability. We've made significant progress in better equipping the organization to deliver improving revenue and profitability growth over the long-term. We continue to believe Blackbaud is well-positioned to successfully scale the company to our longer-term goal of $1 billion, or greater, in annual revenue. With that, let me turn the call back to Tony to discuss our financials in more detail.