Peter Gassner
Analyst · Deutsche Bank
Thank you, Rick. I will first summarize our financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year, then provide a few highlights before turning it over to our CFO Tim Cabral, for a detailed overview of our financials. We had a strong Q4 with revenue of $62.8 million up 58% from a year ago. Full year total revenue was $210.2 million by 62% from the year prior. We also continued to deliver solid profitability with a non-GAAP operating margin of 23% for the quarter and 22% for the year. We have had a great year, and I would like to thank our employees. It’s a lot of fun to work with such a talented, dedicated group of people. The spirit of teamwork makes Veeva a great place to work. And thanks to our customers for putting your trust in Veeva. Our growth is a reflection of our customer success. We are executing well against our strategy to become one of the most important technology partners to the life sciences industry. I believe we are in the very early days of what will be a significant industry cloud opportunity. As customers move to more flexible tailored solutions and capitalize on unique data sets. Last year we broadened our product portfolio. We grew Veeva CRM and the Veeva Vault content management platform and application suite. Late in the year, we introduced a Veeva network product line for customer master data management. At the end of the fiscal year $198 life sciences companies relied on Veeva Solutions. This includes 147 Veeva CRM customers, 69 for Veeva Vault and 6 for Veeva Network. In all, they utilized Veeva in more than 80 countries around the globe. Our CRM business has had healthy growth in the quarter and the year. We are very pleased with the continued uptake of Veeva CRM and had a number of notable CRM expansions in Q4. One customer went live with 7000 users across 30 countries in the quarter. Another went live with more 6000 users in China after a project of less than six months. Our Veeva CRM product is on release 20. Seven years of development as resulted in a product with considerable depth that meets most of our customers global, functional and regulatory requirements with no customization required. We have an outstanding product team, a highly skilled team of implementation consultants and a large and experienced global network of implementation partners because of this we have become very efficient getting users live and successful on Veeva CRM. A prime example is one of our CRM projects for the top 20 pharma. By this summer, they expect to be live with their first 15,000 users across more than 40 countries. This project started only last summer. A 12-month project for 15,000 users in over 40 countries is a pace unheard off with traditional offerings. This is non-trivial in a validated environment that requires compliance with the ever changing government regulations of each major country and region. To put this in perspective before Veeva global CRM deployments in pharma would take at least four years and were pretty good failures because there was so much customization and system validation required. A few years into the project there was already time for an upgrade which is in itself another major project. Looking ahead, we see momentum building for multi-channel CRM as life sciences companies expand their Veeva deployments to better serve their customers across multiple communication channels. Our global content partner program of more than 200 trained, Veeva trained creative agencies provides considerable leverage in advancing Veeva’s multi-channel CRM products such as an Approved Email. We also announced today, we have extended our partnership with salesforce.com through 2025. This additional 10-year joint commitment built on our successful longstanding relationship and its great news for our customers. salesforce.com has been an outstanding partner for us in CRM right from the start. The advances in the salesforce.com one platform over these seven years have just been amazing. Thanks to Marc Benioff, Keith Block, George Hu and the whole of salesforce.com team for their partnership. We are also seeing tremendous progress in Veeva Vault, our content management platform in suite of applications. Vault was our first major expansion outside of CRM into a new software category. Veeva Vault is now on release 7. The opportunity for Veeva in content management is not only in pharma and biotech, but extends well beyond into many segments of life sciences including animal health, consumer health, medical device, diagnostics and to service providers like CROs. Today we have five of the applications. Each is focused on the different area and each represents a major market opportunity in its own right. Vault is gaining momentum, we continue to add new customers and build traction with some of the biggest leaders in the industry. Vault had a great Q4. In the quarter, we signed more than 10 new Vault customers including our first ever seven figure Vault deal. We were selected by a multi-billion dollar life sciences company outside of traditional pharma and biotech. This is a legacy system replacement and Vault will ultimately be the enterprise standard for all regulated content management across this enterprise. Vault is the first product from Veeva. And just last week, we signed our second seven figure annual contract value deal, this one with a top 10 pharma company. A global Veeva CRM customer, they selected Vault eTMF as a standard to manage clinical trial documentation for all their clinical trials around the world. This is a large system with millions of documents, thousands of users, very complex work flow and strict compliance requirements. Moving to Vault will provide this customer greater efficiency, visibility and flexibility in a crucial phase of the drug development process. We also helped them maintain compliance and collaborate more easily internally and with their CRO partners. Vault is replacing their custom application built by a systems integrator on our legacy clients’ server content management platform. This selection is great validation that Veeva Vault eTMF is functionally rich enough to our top ten pharma and send the positive message to our customers and prospects. Our top priority is ensuring they are successful with their Vault eTMF implementation. Based on that success, we anticipate the potential to expand with additional Vault applications into other areas of the organization. We are seeing good progress in Vault in Europe and Asia as well. In addition to the new deals I mentioned, we recently announced Ipsen, a $1.4 billion Paris based specialty pharma as committed to Vault as their enterprise standard to replace their legacy client server document and management system. Veeva Vault is their first Veeva product and they are starting with Vault submissions. A pipeline for Vault continues to build and we are encouraged by what we are hearing from customers and prospects. The content management challenge is one of the biggest problems our customers face in one of our bigger opportunities. They see potential for material efficiency gains through use of the Vault platform in applications as an enterprise-wide standard. We are also making great progress on Veeva Network, our newest product line. Version one of Veeva Network became generally available at the end of October for the U.S. and China and we are now on version two. We have a handful of early adopters, customers ranging from emerging biotechs to top 50 pharmas. Since the product launched, we have signed our first seven figure deal and we had our first customer a small biotech go live. In this market we are replacing a mix of data providers and customer applications built on client server platforms. The Veeva Network pipeline is growing in the U.S. and China and we are also in early discussions with some of our strategic customers about the potential to utilize network globally over time. Veeva Network is a perfect example of what we see has a game changing data opportunity for industry cloud. Not only can we provide software and data together in one cloud-based solution, but with the critical mass of industry players in the cloud over time we can create a powerful network effect generating unique data assets that have never been available before. Let me close by sharing my thoughts on the coming year. Our focus remains customer success. This success and our expanded product footprint position us to deliver sustained long-term organic growth, and become the life sciences industries most trusted technology partner. Our base CRM business is growing and provides a powerful foothold from which we will continue to expand into multi-channel CRM and our other product lines. We are on a path to live, happy, reference customers in Network and Vault setting us ourselves for leadership in two substantial new markets. I’m pleased with our progress for both the quarter and the year and very excited about the opportunity ahead of us. With that, I will turn the call over to Tim for more details on our financials.