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| So that's an area where we know for the long term, we're actually going to be able to sustain higher value and higher growth |
| For example, if we -- if we're delivering services within the quarter, it leads to some positive revenue or if we have our process automation, self-managed environment, deals done, that also has a positive contribution to revenue |
| Long-term demand remains strong as all enterprises seek to address similar high priority challenges |
| We've had a strong cadence of making strategic acquisitions that both accelerate our road map and give us access to fantastic technical talent |
| And we're starting to see a benefit as customers really understand that we have far more to offer than simply incident response |
| We're incredibly excited about the operations cloud opportunity and confident in our ability to execute |
| We are proud of our operating margin improvement and intend to continue to drive further margin expansion |
| Along the contributions to strengthen new business was a record-setting win with a long-standing enterprise software customer |
| And that still works positively for us as a company |
| But when I look forward and particularly into Q4 and into next year, we've really laid the foundation for being able to improve our performance in the enterprise and mid-market |
| The one is that we did see strong expansion growth and strong new acquisition in the enterprise and mid-market, which was positive in terms of helping customers matriculate into that space |
| Customer retention and growth in enterprise have also been more resilient over the past 12 months |
| We were honored to be recognized by Fortune in three Best Places to Work categories this quarter, including best workplaces in technology, best medium workplaces and PagerDuty's employees ranked us as a great place to work |
| And so, that, along with the way our teams are adapting well to the environment is encouraging and gives us a lot of confidence |
| With the increase in demand that we're seeing and the improvement that we expect to see both in terms of our own execution, we are expecting ARR growth to accelerate over the year |
| New and expansion ARR was the strongest of the fiscal year, reinforcing that even in a challenging operating environment, the operations cloud value proposition resonates |
| In Q3, we delivered solid results above the guidance ranges we provided for both the top and the bottom line |
| Our multiyear initiatives focused on profitable growth continued to deliver operating margin improvements with over 1,000 basis points improvement this quarter |
| The focus on enterprise leadership with our persistent pace of innovation underpins an increasingly efficient enterprise go-to-market practice |
| We saw really great new and expansion this quarter from an enterprise perspective |
| But when I look at it, I'm more optimistic about what value it brings for us next year because we believe that leveraging our go-to-market capabilities, along with the really great technology that the Jeli team has built will, in fact, allow us to accelerate the use of Jeli, and that will be positive to us from a sales perspective |
| And I think the adjustments that we've made over the past two quarters, in particular, have put us in a good place |
| And I think we're getting better and better at meeting customers where they are |
| We expect the initiatives we have in place to position us well for growth reacceleration during the next fiscal year |
| This account management approach complements our high-velocity land-and-expand motion that focuses on technical champions and practitioners and has enabled us to methodically improve the quality and quantity of enterprise wins |
| Incorporating Deli's talented team and technology will further differentiate the Operations Cloud as a system of action, going beyond instant response to drive quantifiable improvements in productivity and resilience |
| In enterprise and mid-market, our investments enablement are leading to improved new customer acquisitions, stronger expansion metrics, increase in larger multiyear commitments and strategic operations cloud multiproduct transactions |
| Customer reaction to this combination has been incredibly positive, and we look forward to expanding our incident management offering rapidly as a result |
| PagerDuty delivered solid Q3 top and bottom line results above the high end of our guidance ranges, with 15% revenue growth and a non-GAAP operating margin of 14% |
| Revenue upside along with a one quarter delay in realizing approximately $2 million of non-recurring expenses contributed positively to the operating income result |
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| That said, turning down grade dollars were unfavorable to our target and created a headwind to total business generated during the quarter |
| Macro volatility and uncertainty continues to pressure budgets and slow customer decision-making |
| Quarterly calculated billings were $109 million, an increase of 4% year-over-year and below the range of 8% to 10% provided during last quarter's call |
| Cautious spending by customers continued to impact SMB and caused increased negotiation around renewals |
| Total customer count of 15,049 declined year-over-year by 1% as demand among SMB and VSB accounts remain uneven |
| Our team identified high-priority business problems in collaboration with executives to anchor PagerDuty as a strategic partner to scale across technology and customer service teams |
| It's primarily customers who are reducing their spend because either their head count has actually declined as a result of the macro environment or their access to funding from a budgeting perspective has actually been significantly constrained |
| And third, tech debt and complexity continue to rise, creating material risk of operational and business failures, driving demand for automated and intelligent incident management solutions |
| I mean no question in a down market where you're seeing less head count growth, for instance, seat-based pricing can be a headwind |
| But at the same time, we have seen some customers having to constrain their spending at renewal |
| Just around the slowing in the 100,000 customers |
| So if I do the math, like it looks like you've more than flowed through the beat in the quarter, but also your NRR declined by about 4% sequentially to 110 and now you're guiding to 106 for 4Q |
| So, we saw a 10% growth in customers above $100,000, which is a little slower than what we've seen in prior quarters |
| Now that you have more headwinds in seat growth, it's now requiring some more strategic repositioning from the sales force |
| And while the market is still volatile and that causes some cautious spend behavior, we see more of that in SMB and lower mid-market and more reengagement around strategic discussions in enterprise |
| But I mean, is it fair to say that probably there's more pressure on billings in the fourth quarter on a year-over-year basis than third? Howard Wilson I think like from a comparison perspective, it tends to be -- Q4 is a large quarter for us |
| I know sort of last quarter, the thought was perhaps the setup was a bit conservative when you guys didn't pass through the beat |
| So, there is from a compare perspective, that will be tougher |
| In some cases, this has reduced sales cycle time, generated pipeline and reduced retention risk |
| So sometimes we actually have to help them out, whilst they're going through a tougher economic environment and be supportive so that they can, in fact, rather have more users on the platform rather than less |
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