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| So I'd say, for us, it's a good thing coming, and we're excited about it |
| As Jeff said, we are confident in the underlying strength of our business |
| Next, we continue to see strong overall customer demand and bookings for our Integrated Solutions |
| And our teams have good line of sight to resolve the majority of the issues we're currently seeing as we proceed through the balance of the year, and we expect to normalize hardware gross margins by the second half of 2023 |
| There is buy-in across the entire senior management team on managing our cost base while protecting investment in our subscription business to drive improved profitability and long-term value creation for our shareholders |
| And lastly, with the continued strong subscription performance, ARR growth and bookings trend, combined with our proactive measures in managing cost to protect against near-term macro headwinds, which continue to have full confidence in our long-term growth strategy and the outlook for the year |
| We continue to see strong adoption of our Creative Tool subscriptions and Enterprise subscription and SaaS offerings, which resulted in quite solid growth in our overall subscription business in the quarter |
| Subscription ARR grew year-over-year at over 31% at constant currency to $150 million, which helped drive total ARR to $247 million, representing growth over 9% year-over-year at constant currency |
| Our subscriber base continued to grow nicely with us adding approximately 20,700 active paid software subscriptions, which brings our total to over 526,700 at the end of the quarter, representing an increase of 22% year-over-year |
| Our Creative Tools are an essential part of our subscription growth, and we continue to see strength in this area, especially for the key products, Pro Tools and Media Composer |
| First and foremost, we're quite pleased with the performance of the strategic recurring revenue portion of the business in Q1 with our subscription and SaaS business continuing to perform very well |
| I'm really excited about the new Pro Tools innovation that is coming from music creators and we look forward to unveiling it later this year as we strongly believe that extending Pro Tools deeper and wider into the music creation space should drive meaningful acceleration in subscriber growth |
| Adoption of enterprise subscriptions continues to trend very well, increasing our confidence in the growth trajectory of our overall subscription business |
| And ARR per subscription seat continued to improve as enterprise subscriptions becomes a larger portion of the business |
| We expect continued strong growth in our subscription business and a positive trajectory given the strength in our bookings the last 2 quarters |
| Additionally, with the improvements in our cost structure, we expect to see significant growth in profitability and cash flow in the second half of the year |
| As I mentioned earlier, we did continue to see good customer demand and bookings for integrated solutions in Q1 |
| So 20% year-over-year bookings growth, that's a really strong number, especially given the macro |
| We also continue to expect to see gradual improvement in the Integrated Solutions gross margins beginning in the second quarter of 2023 that will eventually return to 40% plus margin levels in the second half of the year |
| In the past, Pro Tools first has been a great performer for us |
| The new MTRX II, which utilizes newer FPA technology that is less expensive and has better availability is expected to begin shipments during Q2 and should improve volumes and margins in this important product area |
| While we experienced issues with our audio hardware, we saw continued success and solid financial performance with our storage business |
| New product offerings to new markets as well as the cloud and on-prem software subscription options that we now offer have driven sustained success in this area of the Integrated Solutions business |
| We believe ARR will accelerate in the second half with improving growth from Pro Tools, continued transition of MediaCentral maintenance cost to subscription, renewal of our first cohort of MediaCentral enterprise customers a positive uplift in the second half of the year and a rebound in our hardware maintenance revenue |
| Our enterprise subscription agreements are quite valuable for the company, especially with a multiyear contractual commitment as well as the resulting uplift and increase in ARR that we are realizing |
| As a result, we're highly confident that our Integrated Solutions gross margins will improve in Q2 '23 and get back to more normal levels of 40% plus in the second half of the year |
| And along with other significant cost-savings initiatives that we're executing on this quarter, we have confidence that we can offset the temporary margin shortfalls that we're currently experiencing to help ensure that we stay on track to deliver on our profitability and cash flow targets for the year |
| And that product has so far the downloads we're getting and the conversions we're getting from that product have been very, very successful |
| Extending on my earlier remarks, we are seeing sustained strength in our opportunity funnel and sales pipeline and continued to see strength in our overall bookings in the quarter, which were up more than 20% year-over-year |
| We are driving additional price increases to recapture margins, including surcharges on aged backlog, and we expect to see an improvement in our key component costs |
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| This created substantial and unexpected gross margin headwinds for audio hardware, which impacted overall profitability and free cash flow in the quarter |
| And as I highlighted before during the first quarter, we did experience greater gross margin headwinds than we anticipated with our audio hardware products |
| During the first quarter, maintenance revenue was $22.6 million, down 20% year-over-year |
| Our Integrated Solutions gross margin was 29.2% in the first quarter, down 1,200 basis points year-over-year |
| Non-GAAP gross margin was 64% for the first quarter, down 280 basis points year-over-year and down 180 basis points at constant currency |
| Adjusted EBITDA was $12.7 million in the first quarter, down $6.5 million year-over-year, reflecting the lower gross profit from Integrated Solutions and higher operating expenses as discussed |
| Finally, non-GAAP earnings per share was $0.15 for the first quarter, down $0.18 year-over-year, reflecting the lower adjusted EBITDA and higher interest expense due to increase in base rates |
| Together, these impacts caused a $3.5 million year-over-year gross profit decline in the quarter, which flowed directly to operating income and EBITDA |
| Specifically, gross profit on audio hardware was adversely impacted by temporary higher cost of producing these products as we work through resolving the impacts of the macro supply chain situation on this specific portion of our business |
| This was due to a decline in Integrated Solutions gross margin despite strong margin improvement from our strategic subscription and maintenance revenue as discussed previously |
| Perpetual license revenue was $0.5 million in the first quarter of '23, a decrease of 89.5% year-over-year as we continue to deemphasize perpetual software and move to subscription software as we execute our plan to end-of-life perpetual solutions |
| It's part of the reason that, and the supply chain audio headwinds is the reason we're taking a little more cautious stance on Q2 |
| Though as we work through resolving the ongoing supply chain issues, we did face more significant temporary challenges and costs in the quarter specific to our audio hardware products than we had anticipated |
| Free cash flow was negative $6.5 million in the quarter, down $11 million year-over-year due to the reduction in adjusted EBITDA and higher inventory to support the planned increases in Integrated Solutions shipments starting in Q2 '23, plus timing of receivables collections at the end of the Q1 |
| Additionally, the unshipped Integrated Solutions backlog, which was $20 million at March 31, negatively impacted the maintenance ARR as the unshipped orders would have contributed about $2 million to maintenance ARR negatively impacting ARR growth by 1% |
| We have seen an associated decline in software maintenance from Q4 to Q1 |
| I think what I can say from experience in watching this happen before, it can cause a near-term headwind as people start to delay purchases or upgrades or -- it's interesting, we, I saw some people back in the previous strike do all their upgrades during the strike because they had downtime to do it |
| And when we looked at it, when you think about the components of it, the audio hardware challenges that didn't drag maintenance was a driver |
| Approximately $1.5 million of the year-over-year gross profit decline was due to purchase price variation in the cost of components for audio hardware |
| Obviously, Q1 was a little bit of an issue on the audio hardware, but we expect to recapture that lost margin as we think about the second half plan |
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