John Shackleton
Analyst · TD Securities
Thank you, Paul, and good afternoon, everyone. I'm pleased with our performance for the quarter. With over 52% increase in license revenue year-over-year and a 17% increase in adjusted earnings per share, we delivered strong value to our shareholders. By concentrating on existing installed base and focusing on new sales in emerging markets, we have a good balance of opportunities in the pipeline. Even in this tough economy, we remain comfortable with our pipeline and margin targets for fiscal 2012. As Paul mentioned, in the quarter, we generated $65 million in license revenue, with North America responsible for 51% of revenue, Europe 41%, with the remaining 8% primarily coming from Asia Pac. While we're still navigating the economic challenges of global IT spend, we're seeing particular pick up in emerging markets, with areas like China being well-served by our partners and territories such as Brazil, flourishing under our own internal sales team. Overall, we can close the quarter with a combined sales force of approximately 425 quota-carrying sales execs. In Q1, we saw license revenue broken down by vertical at 19% from business services, 19% from technology, 14% from public sector, 12% from financial services, 10% from base materials, 7% from consumer goods, 7% from healthcare, 4% from industrial goods, 4% from utilities and 4% from conglomerates. In the quarter, 47% of our license revenue came from new customers and 53% from our installed base. Taking a closer look at transactions in the quarter. We had 15 transactions over $500,000, an additional 7,000 -- sorry, an additional 7 transactions over $1 million. This compares to 3 transactions over $500,000 and 2 transactions over $1 million in the same period last year. Examples of significant wins include the global engineering firm Hatch, a long-term customer of Open Text. They have extended their investment in Content Server as the main project repository serving as their primary platform for customer collaboration during active projects. Hatch has also extended their solution to include Content Lifecycle Management. The EADS Group, a global leader in aerospace and defense, purchased Open Text Extended ECM for SAP Solutions and Employee File Management for SAP Solutions. These solutions will help the group make processes simpler and more integrated. Kloeckner, European's largest independent distributor of steel, purchased several Open Text solutions, including Email Management from Microsoft Exchange, Application Governance & Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint, Open Text Extended ECM for SAP Solutions and Vendor Invoice Management. The main objective for the purchase were to increase efficiency in the centralized architecture and to fulfill international compliance requirements. We're also pleased to announce Citizen1, a social collaborative platform for research and development in South Africa, now used as Open Text Social Workplace. Citizen1 was established in collaboration with the South African academy -- Academic CIO Forum and Center for Chief Operating Officers Research in Africa. In addition, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Secretariat, we announced plans to introduce Commonwealth Connect, an innovative cloud-based social media portal. This will be introduced to the heads of Commonwealth at the government meeting taking place in Perth this week. This is similar to our G-20 application. License revenue from partners and resellers was approximately 44% in the quarter. SAP continues to track at just over 10% of our annual license revenue. Speaking of partners, we had a few announcement related to Microsoft this quarter. We announced the availability of a new version of Open Text Email for Microsoft Exchange, featuring proved support for large or geographically dispersed environments. This enhance records management capabilities and easier and faster administration. We also released legal content management for Microsoft SharePoint designed for law firms and corporate legal departments using Microsoft SharePoint 2010. At Oracle World this month, we had lots of partners and prospects showing interest in our Fusion stack. We continue to see growing demand for Open Text Content Access and Accounts Payable for Oracle applications. The pipeline remains strong for these new business areas. The consolidation of Metastorm and Global 360 is going well. As mentioned on the last quarter call, we expect some typical disruption in first year license sales. The license revenue run rate for both Metastorm and Global 360 business are expected to decline in a 5% to 10% range. For the first year, however, once the consolidation is complete, we expect the BPM business to return to normal growth rate in fiscal 2013. As Paul mentioned in September, we acquired Operitel, a small company based in Ontario, Canada, specializing in learning management systems and enterprise learning portals. Operitel's solutions include social and mobile learning management. Turning to our outlook for FY '12. The industry analysts continue to tell us that they expect ECM license revenue to grow in the 7% to 11.5% range over the next few years. Overall, we remain confident in our pipeline and are happy with our current operating model. With that, I'd like to open the line for questions, operator.