Marc E. Chardon
Analyst · Sidoti
Thank you, Tony, and thanks to all of you for joining us today to review our second quarter results which represented another solid performance. We're pleased to have generated non-GAAP revenue and profitability that exceeded the high-end of our guidance ranges. During the second quarter, we continued to build on the positive performance we've delivered during the past 2 quarters, and we made good progress on a number of our key priorities. We delivered a solid sales performance in the quarter and we continued to see improvement in our opportunity pipeline. The cost rationalization and operation efficiency improvements we have made in recent quarters are taking hold faster than we anticipated, generating a faster-than-expected and more meaningful improvement in our profitability. And we achieved a significant milestone with the release of The Raiser's Edge and Luminate Online integration, which enables the seamless sharing of data and information between them and will expand our opportunity to cross-sell these solutions, decrease implementation times and give our customers a 360-degree view of their supporters. We've been particularly pleased with the company's ability to rapidly improve profit margins as we integrated the Convio acquisition. Our 21% non-GAAP operating margin in the second quarter represents our highest margin performance since the third quarter of 2011, which was prior to the acquisition of Convio. To put this achievement in context, Convio had a non-GAAP operating margin of approximately 10% prior to being acquired by Blackbaud. Let me provide a brief overview of our second quarter financial performance. We delivered non-GAAP revenue of $125.7 million which exceeded the high-end of our guidance. We generated non-GAAP operating income of $26.4 million which is well above the high-end of our guidance range. Based on the company's solid performance in the first half of the year, along with our view on the second half of the year, we are narrowing our full year revenue guidance, which means a modest increase in the midpoint of our range, and we're increasing our full year profit outlook. Tony will detail our guidance later. For now, let me turn to the macro environment which remains stable in the second quarter. As we look ahead, we're not anticipating a material change one way or another in the near-term. The Blackbaud Giving Index experienced a minor deceleration during the quarter but it continues to reflect year-over-year growth. This environment of modest growth in overall charitable giving has been the reality for the nonprofit markets since the recession began nearly 5 years ago. We see no changes anytime soon. Blackbaud's market-leading portfolio of best-of-breed fundraising tools, CRM platforms and back-office solutions are tailor-made for the nonprofit industry to be able to enable improved constituent relationships and increase the efficiency and productivity of their fundraising efforts. I'd like to take a few minutes to review the performance of each of our business units, beginning with our enterprise customer business unit. ECBU performed at a high-level in the second quarter including signing 8 deals are CRM offerings. We saw a good mix of CRM deals in the quarter in a number of different verticals, including health care, higher education, religious and political. We had a healthy mix between new customers and upgrades from our sizable Raiser's Edge installed base. Signing deals at the low end of the CRM market has been a strategic priority for us, and we're pleased with the improved performance we are seeing in this segment of the market. We continue to see a solid pipeline of opportunities for our CRM portfolio, and we believe we are well positioned heading into the second half of the year. We also had very strong performance in terms of go lives, bringing 7 Blackbaud CRM customers live during the second quarter, including Best Friends Animal Society and Legacy Health. This represents the largest number of CRM customers we've ever brought live in a single quarter. This expanding set of referenceable customers is a significant asset for Blackbaud in future sales cycles. During the quarter, we also made good progress expanding the Luminate Online pipeline in the enterprise segment, and we're beginning to generate positive momentum with this offering. During the quarter, we closed our first joint Luminate Online-Blackbaud CRM deal, which we believe is a positive indication that customers are seeing the value of the combined offering. Joe Moye and his team have also made significant strides with our ECBU services organization, where the steps we've taken to improve our forecasting and staffing plans to drive improved utilization is having a positive impact. We think the new policies and procedures we've put in place will generate significant improvement in the future. Turning now to the general markets business unit, Kevin Mooney and his team once again delivered solid performance in the second quarter. We saw the mix shifts towards our subscription offerings continue during the quarter, as subscriptions outpaced licensed deals nearly 5:1. This is helping to drive our recurring revenue growth, which is -- now represents a significant majority of our general market business revenue. This is positive for Blackbaud as it gives us greater visibility and predictability into our financial performance. We were particularly pleased with the performance of Luminate Online in GMBU during the quarter. We see a significant opportunity over time to cross-sell Luminate Online in our sizable mid-market installed base. And with the Luminate-Raiser's Edge integration just entering general availability, we're in the very early stage of executing against this opportunity. Another positive driver in the general market business is the success we're having converting Blackbaud's legacy installed base of mid-market customers to our merchant services solution, which offers better payment processing rates and is integrated into a growing percentage of our products. In the second quarter, we added merchant services to the Education Edge, and there is also a significant opportunity to convert Convio's installed base once we integrate merchant services into Luminate Online. Our international business boasted solid results, even as the macro environment overseas has seen greater headwinds than we've experienced domestically. That said, during the quarter, Everyday Hero signed its 3,000th charity. We had several CRM go lives internationally, and we're seeing good customer interest in our CRM offerings. We're focused on closing as many of these opportunities as is possible this year, but we're also mindful that the macro environment can impact the timing of when large deals such as these close. We believe we're under-penetrated internationally and expanding the percentage of our business that we generate outside the United States is a key long-term priority for Blackbaud. In summary, Blackbaud has delivered better-than-expected results through the first half of 2013, as we see customers recognize Blackbaud as the strategic vendor of choice for the full life cycle of a nonprofit's fundraising and CRM needs. We believe Blackbaud is positioned to generate accelerating revenue growth over time while also delivering improved profitability, which we believe could drive meaningful shareholder value. With that, let me to turn the call over to Tony to discuss our financials in more detail.