Mark J. Barrenechea
Analyst · Cormark Securities
Thank you, Paul, and welcome, everyone to our fiscal '13 Q4 earnings call. Let me begin with a few summary points before I get too deep into my prepared remarks. First, we have EIM right. We continue to see momentum build around our strategy and innovation in EIM, with both our customers and our ecosystem. In our customers, we are securing major new enterprise wins, tight EIM, including Hasbro and Ralph Lauren. In the ecosystem, we are seeing growth and expansion of our partner community on a worldwide basis. Over 150 new partners joined the OpenText family, including new digital agency and system integrators throughout the last 12 months. Further, we see more and more industry thought leadership including, most recently, industry analyst Forrester Research, identified EIM and EIM strategies as a key investment priority for enterprises. EIM is the next generation of enterprise software and we are confident that our momentum around new wins and new partners will continue to build in fiscal '14. Secondly, we improved our annual adjusted operating margin by 200 basis points to 29.3%, while onboarding a significant acquisition, EasyLink, that was performing below our operating margin. Further, we added $174 million in Cloud Services revenue and grew our overall margin profile. Third, annual adjusted net income grew from $270 million to $329 million, a 22% year-over-year increase. And fourth, in a challenging environment, we grew license in Q4. We grew license in Q3. We grew license second half of 2013 over second half 2012 by 6%. And our EIM momentum is increasing. The topics I'd like to be covering today include our progress in fiscal 2013, our Q4 and fiscal 2013 results, the EIM market, and our views on fiscal 2014. Let us get right into them. Fiscal 2013 was a pivotal year for OpenText. The company set forth an ambitious but measured agenda. And I trust you can see, outside looking in, what I can see inside looking out: solid progress over the last 12 months. Let me start with my view of our important accomplishments in the year. We repositioned the company from content management to enterprise information management and thus expanded our aspiration centered on being a long-term strategic partner with the world's largest and most important enterprises and governments. I have a whole section reserved on EIM in today's remarks. Second, the company transitioned from many business units, small and large, to an organizing principle centered on 3 key areas: function, geography and customer. Today's organizing principles are clear. Expansive controls are concise. And the structural scale more effectively and with greater efficiency. Fiscal 2013 was the first full year with this improved structure, which led to improved operating performance. We have strengthened our existing leadership team with industry veterans such as Muhi Majzoub in Engineering, James Mackey in Corporate Development, Gary Weiss in iX and Cloud, Kevin Cochrane in Marketing and Manny Sousa in HR. We also promoted within the company, James McGourlay to lead Worldwide Customer Services and Walter Köhler to lead Worldwide Professional Services. We have the best team imaginable to deliver on our strategy. During the year, we were all saddened to see Greg Corgan in Worldwide Field Operations transition out of OpenText. But it was the right thing, as Greg needed to focus on personal matters. We all wish him the utmost best on his journey to a complete recovery. I've always been and will always be fully engaged with our customers and field teams. From account strategy to forecasting and pipeline management to closing business. I am deeply involved in sales operations and dedicated to leading our field organization while we continue our search for a Worldwide Leader of Field Operations. Further, we strengthened our field leadership teams across many of our selling regions. Simon Harrison in EMEA, Steve Best in North America, Graham Pullen in APAC, Robert -- Roberto Rogente joined to lead Latin America, Noriyuki Hayakawa-san joined to lead Japan and Bernadette Nixon joined to lead our corporate teams for BPM Inside Sales and our portfolio products. We also recently welcomed Jay Chou to OpenText, to lead our China operations. Our Field Team Leader positions are now filled. Our distribution strategy got wider and deeper during fiscal '13. We expanded our direct selling capabilities, our SAP relationship got stronger, gained a stronger focus on SIs and agencies, we created an inside sales function and hired our first 20 telesales personnel, and we added 157 new value-added partners during the year. Let me highlight some of our early successes from our new VARs in fiscal '13. Bytes Technology helped us close the SAP [indiscernible] in South Africa. Antochi [ph] helped us close CGE USC Technologies in Chile. Dotload helped us close the World Food Program in Italy. Enrico [ph] Hong Kong helped us close the electric company of Macau. We added Epam and CGI as new STIs and new XIs. And added Site Works as a new agency. Our license business grew 6%, second-half-over-second-half, in a challenging environment which demonstrates that our programs and investments are working and providing us momentum as we enter fiscal 2014. Our strong operating model got even stronger. And our operating performance improved while we made key investments in the company. You can see this operating performance improvement in the year-over-year margin expansion. We initiated a dividend program. We have always been committed to delivering value to our stockholders through technology innovation, strategic acquisitions and now, through a dividend program. We are innovating. Fiscal '13 was a turn-the-corner year for us in innovation. We have a better balance between innovation and consolidation. We introduced major new product releases such as InfoFusion, Archiving, 10.0, the Tempo Series and WEM 8.5, each of which are contributing to the company. And lastly, the cloud. During the fiscal year, we acquired 3 businesses: EasyLink, RKT and ICCM. RKT for reporting information visualization. And ICCM for SmartProcess applications, both on top of our BPM platform. With EasyLink, we acquired a cloud platform. The business performed in line to our expectations, was bright line accretive to our fiscal '13 results and is now pipeline platform for messaging services and Managed Hosting in the cloud. Unlike a majority of cloud businesses I have reviewed, OpenText is demonstrating a well-run business can operate profitably in the cloud. Fiscal 2013 was a pivotal year for OpenText and we have made solid progress. Let me transition on to our Q4 and fiscal 2013 results. In a challenging environment, we executed prudent management. And by prudent management, I mean we delivered adjusted operating margin, adjusted operating income and adjusting earnings growth both the year-over-year and sequentially. As for Q4, we delivered $347 million in revenue, up 13.6% year-over-year. License was $79 million, up 1% year-over-year and up 6% second-half-over-second-half. Adjusted net income was $85 million, up 23% year-over-year. And adjusted EPS was $1.43, up 22% year-over-year. Professional Services was back on track with $61.7 million of revenues and adjusted margin of 22.8%. Our adjusted operating margin was 29.5%, up 180 basis points year-over-year. America has contributed 54%, EMEA contributed 36% and APJ contributed 10%. We completed 20 deals over $500K. That's inclusive of our deals over $1 million, which were 5. Public Sector had its best performance in 5 quarters and our Services vertical had a strong quarter with 23% contribution. We also had a solid quarter in our ECM and CEM pillars. Whereas we grew license 1% year-over-year, 14% sequentially and 6% second-half-over-second-half, our execution was below our expectations in North America. The issues are related to deal execution in conversion. And I am focused on increasing the consistency of our performance in North America. Customers that purchased within the quarter included Alcatel-Lucent, Apotex Pharma, Consol Energy, Daimler in Southeast Asia, the Dangote Group Sahara, Deutsche Post, the European Food Safety Authority, Hasbro, MAN Diesel & Turbo, Marvel Entertainment, National Health Laboratory Service in South Africa, Ralph Lauren, State of New Jersey, Tullow Oil, the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, U.S. Department of Education and the Wellington City Council in New Zealand. As for the full fiscal year, we delivered $1.36 billion in revenue, up 12.9% year-over-year. License was $280 million, down 4.8% year-over-year. Adjusted net income was $329 million, up 22% year-over-year. Our adjusted EPS was $5.57, up 21% year-over-year. Our adjusted operating margin was 29.3%, up 200 basis points year-over-year. Notwithstanding our challenges in license growth on the first half of the fiscal year, we remain prudent in operations and drove strong growth and adjusted net income in EPS, 22% and 21% respectively, and delivered record adjusted operating margin. Further, we entered fiscal 2014 increasing our adjusted operating margin target model by 100 basis points to 27% to 31%. Let me move on to the EIM market. Markets change. The PC era is dead. ERP has matured. The EIM era is just beginning. We live in an information society, where information is the lifeline of an organization. Information sources have exploded over the last years and with that, many challenges are created. From data sovereignty, fragmentation, management, security and more, making decisions has become more complicated due to the number of data sources. Our data suggests that less than 10% of the Fortune 5000 have a formal or comprehensive information management strategy. Not dissimilar to that of ERP 20 years ago, when the Fortune 5000 were under-automated, or running one-off, custom systems. It is time to invest in EIM. EIM allows enterprises to speed time to innovation, time-to-market and time to revenue, while reducing costs in governance and compliance risks. And since information is the ultimate competitive advantage in today's digital economy, Enterprise Information Management is becoming mission-critical for CIOs, to drive business insight, innovation and impact across all lines of business, from manufacturing to marketing to sales to customer services. I define EIM to include 4 technology layers, intersecting with 5 functional pillars. The technology layers include: Platform Technologies, Applications, Analytics and the Developer. The 5 functional pillars include: ECM, BPM, CEM, iX and Discovery. By 2016, EIM is estimated to be a $19 billion market, with a CAGR of 10%. These numbers do not include analytics. We strive to be #1 in each of our functional pillars, while delivering deep integration across them all. Today, I am announcing the most comprehensive and largest engineering project in the history of OpenText. That project is code-named Red Oxygen. Red Oxygen intends to bring new levels of integration across our EIM products and deliver a set of information management suites, each targeted to specific buying centers in the enterprise. Based on our EIM pillars, each suite will contain groundbreaking innovations to extend our market leadership in each of our core product markets. We will not rest until we're #1 in each pillar. Across suites, we intend to lever shared services for Process Management, Discovery and Archival. With unification, innovation and common services, we intend, with Red Oxygen, to make our products simpler to buy, simple to deploy, simpler to use, simpler for the developer. There is power in simplicity and power in what we believe to be the most exciting engineering project in OpenText's history. Project Red Oxygen will be unveiled in detail at Enterprise World in November. And to have some fun of this, William Shatner will be joining me live at Enterprise World for the launch. Project Red Oxygen, our largest engineering project in the history of the company, suites of information management software designed to work together, compelling new capabilities in integrations. We expect customers to benefit from Project Red Oxygen in the second half of fiscal 2014. With that, let me transition to 2014. I am outlining 4 core messages for the new fiscal year. First is what I call intelligent growth. OpenText is focused on growing our earnings, cash flows and creating value for our stakeholders while investing in those markets we know we can win in. Further, we know these investments and programs are meeting their objectives, when our license business is growing at the market rate, which we estimate today to be 10%. I call this intelligent growth. Second, establishing a broad EIM ecosystem as influential as the ERP ecosystem. The EIM ecosystem is internal and external to the company and includes the innovations I mentioned above and Project Red Oxygen, also going wider and deeper with our distribution, including our direct selling organization, inside sales, strategic partners, system integrators, agencies, OEMs and VARs. Further, creating compelling tool services and communities for the information developer and industry leading programs that help CIOs increase their adoption of EIM. The ecosystem is a force multiplier for OpenText. Third, improved performance in established markets. Whereas we have made marked progress in our established Western European and North American businesses, there's still more progress we need to make. This ranges from operations, programs and execution, all contributing to improved results. Fourth, accelerated results in fast growth markets. OpenText defines fast growth markets as Latin America, China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, South Africa and the sub-Saharan, Middle East, as well as Russia and Eastern Europe. We have identified over 3,000 key target accounts and believe we can see a $2 billion market opportunity for OpenText in these fast growth markets alone. And we are now focused on accelerating our results here. The progress over the last year and the defined market opportunity gives me the confidence to invest in these fast-growing markets. We have penetrated only 20% of the top 3,000 accounts in some form. We have proven we can close million dollar deals and have established customer references in fast growth markets. It's time to invest more and accelerate our results. Let me wrap up my remarks for the call. Fiscal 23 was a pivotal year. We launched EIM, established the organization structure, strengthened the leadership team, put in place a functional model for sales with a named account strategy and built stronger distribution channels. We fostered an innovation culture, entered the cloud and proved our operating performance, initiated a dividend program. And our license business grew 6% in the second half of the year. Fiscal 2013 highlights include: 12.9% revenue growth, 22% adjusted net income growth and 21% adjusted EPS growth. The ERP era has fully matured, the EIM era begins. And we are well underway in the largest engineering project in the history of the company, Red Oxygen, which will define the future of EIM and OpenText. We have laid out another ambitious year ahead: intelligent growth for the EIM ecosystem, improved performance in our established markets and accelerate our results in our fast growth markets. I find that momentum tends to build on itself. And I am confident that our pace of improvements in fiscal 2013 will build on itself as we enter fiscal 2014. With that, let us open the call up to your questions.