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| As Dave also mentioned, while we are not completely out of the woods on how customers are working through historical entitlements, our renewal rates improved in Q4 compared to Q3, and our pipeline conversion as well as our sales-driven customer activity also improved in Q4 compared to Q3 |
| I think we certainly felt better in Q4 than it had previously, and that translated into better pipeline conversion rates |
| We feel good about our positioning |
| So, yes, we're feeling very good that both of those things are sort of mature, both from a customer willingness as well as the product readiness |
| Our confidence here comes from tangible proof points during the quarter, specifically improving renewal rates and overall better pipeline conversion |
| We are seeing strong customer interest for this and are taking steps to expedite our delivery |
| We reported solid fourth quarter results that exceeded our top and bottom line guidance with revenues of $156 million, representing year-over-year growth of 15%, and are pleased with our current non-GAAP remaining performance obligations performance which reached $483 million, representing 21% year-over-year growth |
| That's why we're feeling good about changing the default motion around Terraform Cloud |
| Positive free cash flow generation combined with a strong cash balance puts us in a position of having excess cash relative to our operating needs and any potential midterm M&A expected cash needs |
| We expect positive free cash flow results during this fiscal year other than in Q2 which has collection seasonality related to seasonal Q1 bookings |
| And while there's still a big OpEx focus from all of the largest customers in the world around their overall software spend, we're optimistic that as the pipeline we're generating now yields into the second half of the year that we'll be in a good position for the second half |
| But similarly for us, we get better visibility into the usage, lower cost of support and ability to deliver innovation to them more quickly |
| We saw some early evidence of positive results in our fourth quarter with improved field execution and improved renewals |
| On a final note, as you know, we posted two strong cash flow generating quarters in Q3 and Q4 in fiscal '24 |
| We also currently expect our gross margins to remain strong throughout the year in the low to mid 80% range |
| And again, on the sales-driven customer count, we've -- we ended up pretty strong in Q4 |
| We strongly believe the simplified, multiproduct messaging will help us win more deals like these in FY25 |
| And I would say we're particularly pleased with the work that Susan has been doing, and I speak for the team say we -- I really enjoyed working with her, and that is certainly helping our go-to-market motion |
| We are further turning the dial toward commercial differentiation, which we believe will have a positive impact on wind rates and on renewals |
| I have to remind us that she has been part of a couple of different companies going from the $600 million scale to the $1 billion plus, and that's certainly what it takes to do so, and we're super bullish about the work she’s doing |
| Q4 is a strong budget flush quarter where we see the highest number of large multiyear contracts |
| During the fourth quarter, one of our larger land deals on Terraform Cloud demonstrates the power of our differentiated commercial products for customers |
| But for the most part, we saw positive signs, which we reflected in our prepared remarks and which also was the basis for how we were thinking about the growth recovery and our path back to sort of a 20% quarterly revenue growth rate sometime in the 2026 period |
| As Dave mentioned, we also expect the momentum in CRPO to put us on a path to reach 20% quarterly revenue growth during fiscal 2026 |
| This provides significant value for customers who want to manage their risk and operational efficiency, and we believe will be another significant driver to land new opportunities and strengthen renewals |
| We believe the combination of abating market headwinds due to consumption optimization, as well as the three operational initiatives of GTM simplification, increased commercial product differentiation and more enterprise-ready HCP cloud offerings, puts us on a solid position to achieve improved bookings in fiscal '25 |
| And I certainly feel so we're good about it |
| That's going to have positive impacts to our operations, and that's going to result in positive momentum in terms of growth rates starting in the back half of the year |
| As Dave mentioned in his remarks, there continues to be pockets of optimization among customers, but the environment in Q4, as well as the outlook for fiscal 2025 from a macro perspective, appears to be better than fiscal '24 |
| Landing our customers on cloud first with HCP enables them to realize value faster |
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| All of those have not been impressive in the fourth quarter continued to show deceleration |
| This travel agency had experienced significant resource constraints that made it difficult to deploy applications on BareMetal as fast as they needed |
| We will continue with the measured investment posture we've demonstrated in fiscal 2024, growing expenses slower than revenue growth |
| Given our entitlement model and as we have discussed before, there is a lag between bookings momentum and accelerating revenue growth rates |
| As we've scaled, there's a challenge in enabling and onboarding reps to be able to tell all the aspects of the stories that we service |
| And as we mentioned, over the last year, we saw an elongation in the land cycle leading to year-over-year declines in the absolute value of land combined with more land deals |
| Navam, just to clarify, you commented that Q2 should be the trough for cRPO growth |
| And so there is just this natural lag as the market starts to recover |
| We're not out of the woods |
| While the ecosystem has clearly standardized on our community edition products, we need to drive more value for our commercial customers |
| They're not on the hook operationally |
| I think we certainly saw signs of optimization abating in the fourth quarter of last year |
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