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| So, on Shape, I would say already great results |
| We're excited about the opportunities and progress being made with [E&Y] (ph) and Darwinbox, as they expand our platform further into their enterprise customer base and into new geographies for Docebo, including APAC countries, where Darwinbox is growing rapidly |
| Total revenue for the fourth quarter grew to $49.3 million, an increase of 27% from the prior year and exceeded our guided range |
| Overall, our profitable growth strategy resulted in a strong subscription revenue growth of 28% in Q4 |
| What you're seeing in the results come through as a positive on the EBITDA side is just a natural inflection point of the business and certain nuances on how we continue to optimize in certain areas |
| Number five, improving our expansion meaning upsell and cross-selling efforts with our current customers |
| Our investments in IT systems and workforce optimization have resulted in improved productivity and efficiency leading to improvements in our sales and marketing efficiencies |
| This positive financial and operational results enable us to make strategic investments in our future growth and maintain our industry leadership position through innovation |
| This has helped us achieve really good results with logos that we closed in quarter four |
| In effect what is consistently happening as we move upmarket is that you're going to continue to see Docebo focus on stronger unit economics in the mid to large -- mid-enterprise to large-enterprise segment |
| This integration brings improved AI content generation capabilities to our amazing products |
| So, in an interesting way, this focus on government has led us to get in deep with SIs starting from the government door, but opening up doors on the commercial side that perhaps before were not as open, and so we're reaping benefits on both sides of the equation |
| That was a very different motion compared to if you look at 2023, you would say that to be able to be successful in the mid-market and enterprise segments, we've successfully transitioned or we've done as best as we can and continue to work hard on transitioning more robust outbound motion, significant investments, as you know, from our partners, the ones that we called out, whether it's in the OEM channels, whether it's the [E&Y] (ph) or partner channels, actually [E&Y] (ph) that we signed, as well as other SIs that we work with in the government space |
| Our key growth metrics showed the continued improvement as a result of the investments we are making |
| Our improved execution within the enterprise go-to-market ecosystem is helping us tackle these challenges |
| That said, we continue to penetrate mid to large organizations with complex and multiple use cases, leading with a solution that delivers a fast ROI and add value to our customers |
| Geographically, we observed a positive trend in Europe, indicating a potential improvement in the market |
| North America, on the other hand, continues to maintain its strong performance, showcasing its resilience in the face of broader challenges |
| We're excited to report that subscription revenue increased by 28% and total revenues grew by 27% in quarter four, with total revenues exceeding the upper end of our guidance range |
| We are seeing very good traction |
| ARR growth was a result of our improving execution in the enterprise customer segment and our strong appeal across industry verticals |
| Adjusted EBITDA of 13.2% well exceeded our guidance |
| Our discipline to drive optimal growth at the right cost has helped us deliver quality growth with operating leverage |
| So, this is very good for us |
| In terms of our federal certification, which is what I think we're talking about primarily, is we're progressing really well and we are actually very optimistic in securing the sponsor shortly |
| They're helping us access a great number of high-quality deals in both enterprise and government segments |
| So, we're incredibly bullish on that technology |
| Having a clear path to FedRAMP certification, our collaboration with a big four system integrator and our preferred distributor, Carahsoft, position us well to succeed in both federal and SLED opportunities |
| We're increasingly optimistic about our ability to secure a FedRAMP sponsor as well as obtain our FedRAMP certification |
| We're seeing an uptick in the sale and the pipeline creation of the module Microsoft Teams, which we launched a few months ago and is starting to do really well for us |
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| Although, we're seeing in some sectors more than others some positive signals, but we remain cautious in our position around the sales cycles specifically |
| I think the additional element that I can speak to is L&D leaders are very concerned, remain very concerned with the topic of skills transformation |
| Net retention for the year came in at 104%, down from the prior year |
| I think that dropped a bit in '23 |
| On top of that, competitors that are there are not innovating fast enough |
| But I think what's important to also remember is that from a gross retention perspective, our gross retention was relatively flat year-over-year, slightly below |
| R&D investments in the fourth quarter were $9 million or 18.3% of revenue, a decrease from $10.3 million for the third quarter |
| There is also a palpable sentiment of how GenAI in itself will change the content world and whether the business of content will be disrupted by adoption of GenAI |
| What's baked into our next retention at a high level just to kind of give you some macro points here, specific to Docebo is that, the cautious spending, and we talked about some of the deliberate move that we've made in the past two years around mid-market enterprise |
| Secondly, you asked where we are diverting more our efforts and resources |
| On the sales and marketing side, as you think about the fact that 2023 was a year where you had higher quota capacity, less -- more investments -- major investments in technology where we upgraded our CRM, order to cash process, as well as the fact that the attrition levels are nowhere near the madness that was going on in 2020-'21 era, you're going to see just natural efficiencies come through the system because of those inefficiencies that have gone away that were there in the 2020-'21 era |
| So, I'd say from a enterprise trends, we continue to see some form of elongation in the processes and the trends that we've mentioned in the past haven't changed too much |
| There is more intentionality in continuing to execute on the expansion side |
| Now, this technology was built in-house, it was not competitive before |
| G&A as a percentage of revenue decreased to 17.4% for the fourth quarter compared to 17.9% for the third quarter of 2023 |
| If you sum those two, you will see competition pressure is [indiscernible] side, but we have these big stocks of very large and complex cases, which is very hard to change |
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