Michael F. Koehler
Analyst
Thanks, Gregg, and good morning, everyone. Teradata got off to a good start in 2014. Q1 revenue of $628 million was up 7% as reported and up 8% in constant currency. Product revenue grew 10% year-over-year, and maintenance revenue grew 9%. In addition, non-GAAP product gross margin of 68.1% was a record for a first quarter. We also had another strong quarter with new data warehouse customer wins, adding the most new data warehouse customers for a first quarter since 2001. These wins demonstrate the continued demand for Teradata's data warehouse and analytics portfolio. Turning to the regions, the Americas' Q1 revenue of $384 million was up 8% over prior year and up 9% in constant currency. Some notable new customer wins included: a Fortune 100 global manufacturer, which added Teradata to integrate complex engineering data from multiple sources to support thousands of engineers in improving manufacturing quality; Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a DuPont subsidiary and a world leader in agricultural science, is implementing Teradata to help them improve the world's food supply; Century Insurance, which is implementing a Teradata integrated data warehouse, or IDW; and a major U.S. department store retailer, which is also implementing a Teradata IDW. As a note, we are now referring to EDWs as IDWs because integrated data warehouse is a more appropriate description of its role in our Unified Data Architecture going forward. Significant expansions and upgrades included one of the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturers, a top 5 U.S. insurance company that refreshed and expanded its IDW and expanded its UDA by adding Teradata Hadoop appliances and Teradata SQL-H connectors. One of the largest Americas communications and media companies added capacity to its IDW and integrated it with its Hadoop infrastructure. A top 5 global airline added Aster to its UDA and also refreshed and expanded their IDW. One of the largest U.S. pharmacy providers added a Teradata big data appliance that includes both Aster and Hadoop for advanced behavioral analytics to improve patient health. And Navy Federal Credit Union added Teradata's integrated marketing solution. Turning to our international region. Q1 revenue of $244 million was up 5% as reported and up 6% in constant currency. The EMEA portion of international grew 10%, while APJ revenue was down 4% as reported and up 4% in constant currency. New customer wins included a Fortune 100 chemical company, which is implementing Teradata for predictive analytics to reduce supply chain risks, as well as Bank of Taiwan; Blokker Holding, a leading Dutch retailer; Agirc-Arrco, a French pension fund; and a Fortune 500 bank in China. Some notable expansions and upgrades included one of the world's top 10 telcos, which is integrating call center data into its IDW to improve multichannel customer interactions; VTB 24, a leading Russian bank, which is expanding its Teradata environment to improve risk; and that Unilever; Megger of Switzerland; and one of China's largest banks. Overall, Q1 revenue came in a little higher than we had anticipated. This was primarily driven by the Americas closing some deals that were expected in Q2, which more than offset international revenue that came in a little lower than we'd expected. Looking at Q2, the Americas has fewer large deals in their funnel compared to what was closed in Q1. Depending on the timing of the Q2 larger deals in play, we could potentially have a sequential revenue decline from Q1 in the Americas. On the other hand, international has a good Q2 funnel and should have a stronger quarter than they had in Q1. Looking at the current range of outcomes for the Americas and international in Q2, we see a higher probability that total revenue will decrease versus increase in Q2 compared to prior year. Given the softness we are seeing in Q2, we now expect to be at the lower end of our prior guidance ranges. However, we are seeing some potential tailwinds as we look at the second half. We currently are expecting our total services revenue to grow mid- to high-single digits in the second half versus an estimated 4% in the first half. And within that, Consulting Services is projected to grow high-single digits in the second half versus low-single digits in the first half. This is primarily driven by increased data warehouse consulting backlogs and continued good services growth with Big Data and integrated marketing. The Americas data warehouse Consulting Services revenue, which declined the second half of last year and the first half of this year, is now projected to grow mid- to high-single digits in the second half. Second, we expect continued good growth in our Aster-Hadoop big data revenue and our integrated marketing revenue in the second half. And third, we should continue to see good revenue growth in the Americas outside of the top 50 customers. Revenue growth outside of the top 50 customers was in the mid-teens in 2013 and should be similar in 2014. Our largest headwind for revenue growth remains with our Americas top 50 customers. Although revenue was up over prior year in Q1, revenue is expected to be down from prior year in Q2. I'd like to provide an update again this quarter on what we are seeing in our top 50 customers and highlight some of the key factors that are contributing to our lack of revenue growth there. The Americas top 50 customer revenue represented approximately 1/3 of total company revenue in 2013. It has been trending lower since 2012 as we continue to have good growth outside of the top 50, while revenue in the top 50 has been declining. Overall, their IT budgets continue to remain constrained. Regarding their IDWs, some of the larger customers in the top 50 have well-built-out IDWs. The majority of their business transaction data has been centralized and integrated. Several invested heavily to build out their IDW platforms and did floor sweeps during 2011 and 2012 and have newer technology in place. As anticipated, some ETL workloads are being moved off of the IDWs to Hadoop. But so far, it has been less than what we had expected. As mentioned previously, some of these customers have been deploying dependent data marts with low-cost relational databases, as well as Teradata appliances, to offload some of the less sophisticated IDW workloads. But this concept is not new to us. Others are deploying dependent data marts with new technologies, including Teradata's, that are better suited to do specific workloads such as big computations for scoring in simulations or for new analytics, such as path, patterns and market basket analysis. Outside of the IDW is where many of these customers have turned their focus, their resources and investments to building out their analytical ecosystems. A number of these customers are innovators or early adopters of new technologies and have large and sophisticated IT organizations. They've been experimenting with new technologies the past couple of years to find the most optimized solutions for the various analytic workloads that now exist outside of the IDW. The non-IDW competition is different. We are competing for point solutions where specialized or good-enough technologies can be used. We have our own workload-specific appliances, including Hadoop, that compete for many of these workloads as well. We have seen some of our older, non-IDW appliances that were doing simple workloads get replaced by good-enough technologies and then redeployed to do more sophisticated workloads. In summary, we expect that all of our top 50 customers will buy something from Teradata in 2014. However, the non-IDW purchases have smaller deal sizes than the IDWs. Net-net, this is the biggest revenue headwind we are experiencing right now in the top 50. We anticipate that their revenue will be down from prior year, but likely to a lesser degree than the decline we saw in 2013. Going forward, our views on our UDA and the role that the IDW will play is consistent with Gartner's views. They state that the data warehouse is continuously evolving, not being replaced by newer technologies and not going away. The integrated data warehouse will remain a critical part of an analytical ecosystem, and Teradata's technology is highly differentiated with our ability to handle the concurrency and service level agreements of hundreds to thousands of mission-critical users and applications. The importance of an IDW and Teradata's differentiation has been confirmed with its adoption by our existing customers and is also reflected in our new customer wins. We have plenty of room for growth, given that the majority of our customers have not built out their IDWs, and there is plenty of room for growth from new customer acquisitions. In addition, we have a great opportunity to help customers implement and support their analytical ecosystems. There are benefits to having multiple analytic platforms that have different capabilities and different price points. But our customers tell us there is significant added complexity and added costs for IT and for business as well. The majority of our top 50 customers need help and customers outside of the top 50 with smaller IT staffs need much more help. We see this as a big opportunity for Teradata and is why we are investing in our UDA and our consulting, which is arguably one of the best there is today at data architecture, design and implementations. And we also see a big opportunity to make it easier for the mainstream market to do analytics on Hadoop. Aster is one example of this, enabling customers to use SQL BI tools and existing skill sets to gain analytical value from Hadoop, and we are working on more. Looking to the future, we will continue to focus and invest in 3 areas to grow our revenue: integrated data warehousing, big data analytics and integrated marketing cloud. First, we believe the IDW will remain the strategic, mission-critical, analytical foundation that companies rely on to optimize value from their data. Our leadership position was again noted in Gartner's latest Data Warehousing Magic Quadrant in Q1. We will continue to add IDW customers. We have plenty of room for new customer acquisition. We are a little over 20% penetrated in the Global 3000. Second, we're increasing our investments in big data analytics and consulting, and we're recently recognized by 2 analysts. Forrester ranked Teradata as one of the market leaders in its big data Hadoop wave and noted that few vendors can match our high-performance Hadoop appliance. And Ovum, the U.K. technology analyst, said our Aster Discovery Platform stands out as one of the most innovative solutions on the market today. And third, our integrated marketing cloud offers a big growth opportunity as companies focus on improving dialogues with customers to better understand, interact and serve them at scale. Gartner again highlighted our clear leadership in Marketing Resource Management in the first quarter. In summary, we will continue to be a leader and a beneficiary of this evolution in the analytics market. We are confident we have the right technology, solutions and services today, and we are excited about our R&D roadmaps and the new technologies we will be delivering. Shorter term, Teradata's revenue growth rate could remain limited, as our major customers evaluate and rationalize their analytics infrastructure. However, once our major customers have settled on their analytic ecosystem, especially this top 50 in the Americas, and have reset their spending baselines with Teradata, we believe we will then have the opportunity to grow revenue double digits again. And now I'll turn the call over to Steve.