Mark J. Barrenechea
Analyst · BMO Capital Markets
Thank you, Paul, and welcome, everyone, to our fiscal '13 Q3 earnings call. We are committed to delivering value to our stockholders through technology innovation, strategic acquisitions and, now, through a dividend program. Over the last 12 months, we have generated $333 million in operating cash flow and we're running our business at record operating margins. We have always been committed to rewarding our stockholders' investment in OpenText and the board has decided that it's the right time to adopt a quarterly dividend program and announced a $0.30-a-share dividend. On an annual basis, this is roughly equivalent to 20% of our annual cash flow. We have built-in engine at OpenText that delivers superior cash flows and value. Today's dividend program announcement is a clear indication of the company's confidence in our financial model, EIM strategy and execution. On to the quarter. Within Q3, we generated $338 million in revenues, up 16% year-over-year. Adjusted net income was $74 million, up 25% year-over-year. We generated a record cash flow of $117 million, up 21% year-over-year. Our fiscal 2013 target model range for adjusted margins is 26% to 30% and we expect to finish the full fiscal year at the upper end of this range. Adjusted EPS was $1.26, up 24.8% year-over-year. Further, we delivered $69 million in license revenues or 13% organic license growth year-over-year. The sales teams executed well against a solid pipeline. We closed 8 license deals over $1 million compared to 5 deals over $1 million last quarter and 1 deal over $1 million in fiscal '12 Q3. Q3 ASP was $297,000, our highest ASP in 6 quarters. 39% of our sales were with new customers, 47% were partner-related. These metrics are right in line with our expectations. As for industries, public sector, technology, financial services, services, consumer goods and basic materials were all double-digit contributors. Americas license contribution was 46%; EMEA, 44%; and APJ, 10%. EMEA and the Americas executed well within the quarter and APJ was in line. We continue to invest in sales and we expect these investments will yield results over time. As I discussed in the past, the investment areas include improved field leadership. There's a direct relationship between leadership and results and we've attracted a new generation of leadership to deliver against our EIM opportunity; second, expanding our sales capacity and coverage, including emerging markets. This includes India, Latin America, South Africa and the sub-Sahara, Eastern Europe, to name a few; improving our selling productivity; cross-selling new products into our installed base; increased pipeline and revenue generation from our existing partners while attracting new partners and building new channels; telesales, our newly formed group that will contribute in the coming quarters; and new product introduction into the field. Our sales strategy and execution is working. With Q3 performance and Q4 pipeline, we continue to expect second half fiscal 2013 over second half fiscal 2012 license growth. Let me spend some time on our services lines. The Customer Support business performed at historic highs of $166.6 million in revenue, with adjusted margins of 83.6%. The renewal rate is in the low 90% range. Both metrics were in line with our expectations. The Cloud Services businesses delivered $44.4 million in revenues within the quarter. And within the quarter, we delivered SecureiX, a new secure e-mail service. In the first 30 days, we have approximately 100 companies trialing this new service. Our cloud servers deliver secure transactions, fax, EDI, notifications and, now, secure e-mail. We are focusing on secure, enterprise quality, reliable information exchange. As for our Professional Services business, we delivered $57.6 million in revenues and 16.8% in adjusted margins. Third quarter revenues and margins were down due to timing of customer projects in North America and APJ. Customers clearly value OpenText Professional Services and this is reflected in our margin performance. Year-to-date, our cumulative margin is 23%, up 11% year-over-year. We also delivered 7 new or upgraded products within the quarter. Let me walk through this by pillar. First, discovery, our new product, InfoFusion. InfoFusion is our information access platform and is now GA. And it is an important new product for us. This is a smart in-context enterprise search product, allowing customers to fuse together content platforms with single sign-on, easy search and semantic navigation. Next pillar, BPM Assure. Our BPM focus is Assure. Assure provides prebuilt process components and a library of out-of-the-box solutions that accelerate time-to-market and time-to-value for horizontal line of business and applications from case management across HR, IT, finance and more. Assure emphasizes our recent leadership position in the Forrester's Smart Process Application wave and points to a promising future in our BPM business. And the next pillar is CEM. We introduced StreamServe 5.6. StreamServe is our market-leading customer communications platform. With enhanced usability to support for non-technical business users, to create high-impact communications in Microsoft Word and deep integration across CEM, BPM and ECM. StreamServe is built for high-volume, multichannel customer communications across the web and print. Also in CEM, Media Management. Media Management is our next-generation digital asset management solution. Media Management 7.2 is a proven market leader, recognized by Forrester and other industry analysts for helping marketing organizations create and manage their brand assets and accelerate time-to-revenue for high-impact multichannel customer campaigns. In the information exchange pillar, we introduced SecureiX. This is our innovative secure messaging platform for any to any secure e-mail communication, an exciting growth opportunity for us. In the ECM pillar, OpenText Archive is our new solution for massively scalable archival of critical enterprise information across SAP, Exchange, SharePoint and OpenText. We have integrated our archiving solutions into a single data management platform, providing faster time-to-deployment, a single source for information for archiving and discovery while allowing for reduced hardware costs. With OpenText Archive, we have offered enterprises a true single source of the truth, an ideal platform for compliance and discovery. And lastly, SAP Employee File Management. We continue to innovate in our SAP franchise with our new Employee File Management solution. With this software, we deliver on the promise of managing unstructured information tied to back-end transactional systems and on-structure data. This is our unique position of strength, enabling us to truly manage on-structure content wherever it may live within the enterprise, including ERP. It was a strong quarter of innovation across the 5 pillars. Let me turn to customer successes in the quarter. Freescale, who is extending its deployment with our information exchange solutions to build a virtual desktop infrastructure, allowing for a centralized virtual infrastructure for worldwide EDA application access. This has and will fully result in enhanced productivity for engineers, design wins and quicker time-to-market and, thus, increased revenues. The Planning Inspectorate, the U.K. government agency responsible for handling over 20,000 planning cases every year, has invested in OpenText Content Server, OpenText Template Workspaces and OpenText StreamServe. This will enable them to greatly improve their efficiency and readiness with a changing planning landscape in the U.K. RS Components, the trading brand of Electrocomponents PLC, has invested in OpenText Archive for SAP solutions for robust, secure and easy access to all archived invoices. This has enabled them to be highly organized and has given them access to all the tools they need to leverage their global presence. Other customer wins include Hydro-Québec, CGI, Volvo and Hoffman-La Roche. Let me provide a few additional important highlights from the quarter. Our executive management team has now completed the hiring of Kevin Cochrane as our CMO. Kevin joins us from Adobe and brings to OpenText an incredible track record and perspective on products, go-to-market strategies and field enablement. Kevin is a real talent and a great addition to the executive leadership team. We completed the acquisition of Resonate Knowledge Technologies, a.k.a. RKP. RKP was an OpenText partner and their products are fully integrated into our ECM products. RKP brings to OpenText customers the ability to easily create compelling user interfaces in report writing. Ease of use is a main focus for us to drive further adoption of Content Server. Further to this, our customers can expect us to place more of an emphasis on the developer and developer software. The developer makes all things possible. And we see an opportunity to create a larger ecosystem around our software and our company. Further, OpenText was honored as being named the SAP 2013 Pinnacle Award winner as SAP's #1 Go-to-Market partner. The relationship between SAP and OpenText has never been stronger. We had a strong Q3 with SAP. I'm pleased to announce that OpenText will be supporting SAP's HANA platform and offering a set of products and upgrades for OpenText's SAP customers to leverage the HANA platform. Our first native HANA solution will be available in the second half of the calendar year. Let me wrap up my prepared remarks by saying our sales strategy, our EIM strategy and our financial model are working. Our operating cash flows increased 21% year-over-year. We expect to complete fiscal 2013 in the upper end of our target range for adjusted operating margins. Our adjusted EPS is up 25% year-over-year. I'm pleased with our 13% organic license growth and we expect second half-over-second half license growth. We are investing in products and the sales force, which I'm confident will yield results. We are committed to delivering value to our stockholders through technology innovation, strategic acquisitions and, now, a quarterly dividend program. With that, let's open the call for your questions.