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| The quotes from all the customers profiled in our earnings slides demonstrate our progress in this strategy |
| Our service revenue performance reflected better-than-expected usage activity for our CPaaS business in the Asia Pacific region as well as contribution from new products |
| Q2 '24 gross profit dollars grew approximately 1% year-over-year higher than overall revenue growth as we continue to focus on profitability |
| We can have more productive contact center agents that we pay more to that offer better customer experiences that improve reorder and renewal rates across industries |
| Cash flow from operations was $17.5 million for the quarter driven by strong profitability and solid cash collections, partially offset by cash interest paid of $12.9 million |
| The combination of improved revenue and carefully managed operating expenses resulted in non-GAAP operating profit of $23.8 million, up approximately 160% year-over-year |
| We offer our chatbot ICA, which is based on Cognigy, but we also have customers running Balto and Awake and others that are phenomenally successful |
| For Kevin's sake, I mentioned, we're very cash flow positive and profitable, and we're driving a return of money to investors |
| We have a terrific contact center platform that can enable next-generation AI technologies |
| Improvement in our CPaaS business was a significant driver of the quarter-on-quarter growth as existing customers increase their business with us and we added new customers |
| The CPaaS team has done a great job retooling the business over the past year and I'm excited by the new opportunities we have identified, both in the APAC region and worldwide |
| Now more than ever, I believe our CPaaS business will prove to be a competitive advantage for us |
| We are very pleased with our financial performance so far this year |
| We demonstrated continued discipline in managing our operating costs, which allowed us to deliver non-GAAP operating profit above our guidance range |
| Increasing cash flow from operations, while reducing shareholder dilution is our financial North Star and we are very focused on driving improvement in those metrics over the long-term as the best way to build shareholder value over time |
| We saw early indications of success in our results this quarter as our adoption of new products increased |
| Customer satisfaction and retention remained high within the 8x8 customer base, reflecting the investments we made in our customer success organization as well as continued innovation in our solutions |
| And I think we're really uniquely positioned to capture that |
| I think it's very successful because we view Microsoft as a strong partnership |
| So far Fuze has performed better than our original financial model |
| But really it's continued to strengthen the balance sheet, continue to strengthen the company overall and reaccelerate growth as quickly as possible |
| We have delivered positive non-GAAP operating income and cash flow from operations for 11 consecutive quarters, and we plan to continue generating positive cash from operations and operating margin as we build momentum |
| Year-over-year non-GAAP operating profit grew 162% and cash flow from operations increased 26% versus the prior year |
| We continued the trend of delivering solid bottom line profitability as we achieved 12.8% non-GAAP operating margin, well above the high end of our guidance range |
| We have great product market fit |
| I could not be more excited for our future, from my due diligence during the interview process, and my first few months here, I'm extremely confident that there is tremendous potential for 8x8 |
| With the recent innovations introduced in last year, we can effectively compete head-to-head in the CCaaS market, with or without the incredibly strong foundation of our market-leading UCaaS solution |
| And so I'm super bullish on AI making contact center jobs substantially better |
| We continue to generate very solid levels of cash |
| We're cash flow positive business |
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| This created a headwind in our enterprise ARR metrics and the customer count |
| Other revenue for the quarter was $7.2 million slightly below the prior quarter and generally in line with expectations |
| What we've seen is a little bit of – I think last quarter is probably the worst |
| It does make us a little bit more cautious in terms of our forward guidance and expectations |
| As I have traveled around the world talking with customers and partners, innovation roadshows in the US and Europe, I have come to the conclusion that our biggest challenge is awareness |
| Look, I think we've sort of peaked in the worstness |
| Other revenue gross margin came in at negative 3.5% for the quarter, compared to negative 11.2% in Q2 2023 |
| I think we're past the worst The question really is the top 400 customers -- and they're a little bit of each one is a little bit of a snowflake |
| I think probably the worst quarter was last quarter |
| We expect cash flow from operations to decline sequentially, but remain over $10 million |
| This is a tough environment |
| Lisa Martin, who joined four months ago as our Chief Revenue Officer, is up to the challenge |
| So I think last quarter was a tougher quarter for macro |
| So I would say look it's not it's a little worse than it was a quarter ago, but it's not meaningful |
| Total non-GAAP spending as measured by cost of goods sold plus R&D, plus sales and marketing, plus G&A was down approximately $17 million or nearly 10% year-over-year and reflects our strategic cost realignment actions taken in the prior fiscal year |
| What I've seen is a little bit of downsell pressure not so much on the logo side, but a little on the downward on the downsell side 100 seats becomes 97 seats, because they've shrunk their play |
| The number of enterprise customers was impacted by approximately 50 customers moving from enterprise to mid-market as we saw some effects from the current economic environment |
| Solving this issue and overcoming outdated perceptions of our solution is a multifaceted challenge |
| The timing of hardware shipments and professional services deployments impacted other revenue which in turn impacted the gross margin on other revenue in the quarter |
| We saw a little bit slight improvement this quarter and I’m not – we’re hopeful it will be a little bit better next quarter |
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