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| In summary, we are very pleased with our strong performance in 2023 |
| Last year, we executed very strongly against that strategy, and I believe we are entering Informatica most exciting year ahead |
| This was driven by a relentless focus on executing our cloud-only consumption-driven strategy, and strong customer momentum |
| These results are a testament to the power of AI-powered IDMC platform and category leadership in data management as a mission-critical component of the modern data stack |
| We now have over 50 partners, including 8 of our GSIs certified as part of our program and strong interest in Power Center Cloud Edition |
| In summary, our strong results demonstrate that Informatica with our AI-powered IDMC platform and category leadership in data management is a mission-critical component of the modern data stack |
| And third, our cloud-only consumption-driven strategy has multiple growth engines |
| I'm incredibly proud of our accomplishments and very excited about the opportunities ahead on our cloud-only consumption-driven journey |
| Thank you to all our employees across the globe, our customers across the globe and our partners across the globe for making it a remarkable year |
| Q4 was another solid financial quarter across the board with key growth and profitability metrics exceeding our expectations, delivering a strong close to 2023 |
| As I discussed at our December Investor Day, the trajectories of these 3 categories of ARR and revenue, that is the strong growth of our cloud business and the gradual decline of our self-managed subscriptions and maintenance are the direct result of our cloud-only strategy, and we expect more of the same in FY '24 and beyond |
| This was driven primarily by new cloud workloads, strong net expansion with existing customers and steady renewal rates |
| New cloud workloads, strong net expansion with existing customers and steady cloud renewal rates drove cloud subscription net new ARR of $166 million year-over-year and $67 million quarter-over-quarter |
| We have a unique and differentiated AI-powered platform, helping enterprises automation, data intelligence and increased efficiency to drive more workloads and many, many use cases |
| The Self-managed Subscription portion of our 3 buckets of ARR and revenue did outperform our expectations for 2023 |
| Last year, we executed very strongly against our cloud-only strategy, and I believe we are entering Informatica's most exciting year ahead |
| We saw good growth in our average subscription ARR per customer, which reached over $298,000 in Q4, a 13% increase year-over-year |
| Our level of engagement with enterprise customers is stronger than ever |
| Supported by our growing partner ecosystem, customer success initiatives and healthy cloud pipeline |
| I mean 62% year-over-year growth and transactions is really impressive |
| We also received a strong rating in the product service and technology methodology categories for the 2023 Gartner vendor rating report, being the only data management provider that Gartner covers in that report |
| But we think that because we have the best data management products delivered on the industry's only platform that serves multivendor, multicloud and hybrid workloads that we at least will maintain our market share, and we think we're going to grow it |
| This marks the 18th consecutive time, we have been positioned highest on the ability to execute access, and furthest on the completeness of vision access |
| The University has been a long-standing Informatica's power center and MDM customer for over 2 years and have successfully undergone cloud migration projects for both areas |
| And large transformation projects, customers want somebody at scale like us, best products or platform and the ability to drive customer success and value creation for customers |
| The place that I'll point to is and what makes me very excited is that all the large SIs |
| Operating income was $162 million in the fourth quarter, growing 42% year-over-year and exceeding the midpoint of our November guidance range by $22 million |
| I people are pretty excited, and what we've done is, first of all, on migration, Power Center Cloud edition is a tremendous accelerate |
| It's a great opportunity |
| Like where is that coming from, is it particular verticals? Is it anything driving that comment because that's really exciting to see just from an overall industry perspective, and certainly feels like you guys are well positioned to monetize that |
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| Self-managed subscription ARR declined in the quarter as expected to $516 million, this was down 2% sequentially and down 5% year-over-year |
| And earlier this week, we heard from Teradata some pressure on some large customer losses |
| Maintenance ARR was down approximately 6% year-over-year to $494 million, in line with expectations |
| As we have previously discussed, the accounting impact of our mix shift to cloud subscription sales and away from self-managed on-premises sales creates a headwind to GAAP revenues |
| The thing is that, that was excess capacity sold by the Hyperscalers that customers had to draw down |
| Implementation, consulting and education revenues comprised the remainder of this category, down $7 million year-over-year, consistent with last quarter |
| Foreign exchange negatively impacted subscription ARR by approximately $5.6 million on a year-over-year basis |
| Using exchange rates from Q4 last year, international revenue would have been approximately $7 million lower in the quarter, representing international revenue growth of 16% year-over-year |
| Our quarterly subscription renewal rate was approximately 89%, down 3.7 percentage points year-over-year due to lower self-managed subscription renewal rates, offset by higher Cloud Subscription renewal rates |
| Foreign exchange negatively impacted total ARR by $7 million on a year-over-year basis |
| Foreign exchange negatively impacted cloud subscription ARR by approximately $2.3 million on a year-over-year basis |
| So we went belly up, so we have to be worried about going belly down |
| And it turns out that there are a meaningful number of customers out there that are federal government that are agencies that have difficulty moving to the cloud in the short term |
| We didn't see significant getting ahead in terms of selling excess capacity to be very honest |
| This was a slightly slower decline than we forecast in November |
| Our ARR and revenue fall into 3 major categories; cloud subscriptions, which delivered 37% ARR growth in FY '23 and self-managed subscriptions, which we no longer actively sell and are therefore gradually declining and maintenance on on-premise perpetual licenses, which is also in gradual decline |
| And Excel by itself doesn't deliver any value when you basically create a good model and put good data in that Excel model in this conversation, you get data from us, puts out a big inference |
| And we knew that, by the way, not all of number best-of-breed also as much as they said that |
| Sorry, we lost the call and back |
| Mike McLaughlin And part of that is the fact that unlike some of those companies that suffered from optimization in 2023 and 2022 |
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