Jim Benson
Analyst · JPMorgan. Please proceed with your questions.
So, I want to make sure I have the two questions. So, one, you want to get a bit of color on kind of the geography kind of view of things. And then obviously, I understand your point about fiscal ‘24 not necessarily on our guide, but specifically around customers in their budget decision. So, I would say relative to kind of the geography dynamics, I would say that obviously, the macro environment is affecting all geographies. I will say for our third quarter, we did perform a bit better than we expected in our EMEA region. That certainly has been a region that we had called out previously as being a region that’s soft. So, better execution in the EMEA region. And I would say a little bit softer in North America. But in general, I would say it’s a dynamic macro environment everywhere. But I would say our performance was a little bit stronger in EMEA in the third quarter and a little bit weaker in North America. But I wouldn’t necessarily suggest that, that is a significant change from what it’s been. But I think that we just had better execution in EMEA in the third quarter. And relative to the customers and their budgets, I think your – the way I have kind of seen it, we are beginning our budget cycle. So, as you can imagine, I am dealing with it myself that I think customers are looking at their budgets. They are scrutinizing areas of their IT spend specifically and trying to prioritize areas that they believe are more strategic. So, I would say budgets are probably going to be conservative. But they are still spending, and they are spending on areas that help them optimize. And as Rick outlined, we believe that the space that we are in is actually an area that they are continuing to spend money on. And so to me, it’s not so much a budget question. It’s more of a as you are going through deal cycles, you are just dealing with just a longer cycle, you are dealing with more approval levels, which just slows deals down. And so in particular for our specific guide for the fourth quarter, where you are acknowledging that deal cycles sometimes can push from month-to-month. But in general, the demand healthy is strong – demand environment is strong.