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| Simultaneously, we are also working to improve gross margin by driving efficiencies and leveraging the benefits of growing global scale |
| And that is, again, an amazing offering of opening the door and saying, "Bring us your enterprise product, if you want to get it supported, you want to get it managed, you want us to extend the life, you want to get better service on it." We believe we can do that better than anyone else on just about every enterprise product out there |
| Whether the client goal is to consolidate IT landscape support or managed services under a single trusted partner, extend the operating life of the software product or release or just obtained better and more responsive support, we believe Rimini Custom is an exciting new solution |
| We only have technology partnerships that we use to provide our clients value, leverage and access to what we believe are strong solution opportunities |
| With our new Rimini Custom offering, we believe that we are even better positioned to meet the current and evolving IT service needs of private and public sector organization in the years ahead |
| Q4 and fiscal year 2023 results: For the fourth quarter and full year 2023, we continued focusing on improving sales execution across our expanded portfolio of solutions and being able to deliver the full portfolio of solutions globally |
| As our current and prospective clients learn more about the unique offerings and value of our expanded solutions portfolio, they are responding positively and buying across the full portfolio |
| We also have some evolution going on in Japan, where we have a very strong client base, our largest in all of Asia Pac as we now roll out our additional services there, and we've reconfigured the Salesforce to be able to handle that |
| Throughout 2023, we saw our end-to-end ERP outsourcing solution Rimini I solutions for SAP products and Salesforce AMS solution continue to gain sales traction globally |
| So, I'm very confident in our ability to go out and position these products |
| To deliver our full solutions portfolio globally, we continue to grow our workforce and expand our capabilities backed by innovation and technology that provides additional leverage for increased capacity, profitability and revenue growth |
| Summary: We remain confident that we are continuing to take the right actions and making the right investments to accelerate growth, increase profitability, enhance shareholder value and bring our litigation with Oracle to a successful conclusion |
| Moreover, our margin performance in light of the pressures highlighted previously, underscores the advantage of our global footprint with centers of excellence in geographies where both the talent and value remain attractive compared to higher-priced talent markets |
| And we believe we are also the best provider of the managed service for those products |
| Again, Salesforce is a big complex platform requires additional work and support just like any other enterprise platform and Rimini Street is well positioned to provide those services to clients, even to other big service providers like NTT, who utilize us to manage their Salesforce platform |
| We help our clients achieve better business outcomes such as accelerated growth, lowered operating costs, increased investment in innovation and improved competitive advantage |
| Demand environment and competitive advantage: We continue to see strong demand for a proven, reliable, trusted partner for mission-critical transaction system services that can allow organizations to consolidate their preferred IT service providers for streamlined vendor management, increased aggregated purchasing power and better business outcomes |
| We have an average engineer response time of less than two minutes, 24 by 7 by 365 and earn an average client satisfaction score on our support delivery and onboarding services of 4.9 out of 5, where 5 is excellent |
| We brought them over from Adobe, a very strong player |
| Just always remembering, we generally have it so much better and so many others suffering in harm's way |
| We're giving wider scope of responsibility to vice presidents and above to get better leverage, but that's all about making sure that we're able to support and drive higher revenues and a more accelerated growth into '24 and beyond |
| Rimini Custom is, unlike anything else we've ever launched, it's basically opening the door and saying Rimini Street is the best provider of enterprise software support in the world |
| It was a fantastic week of learning and training for the global organization |
| We believe we have already delivered over $8 billion of savings and reinvestment opportunity to our clients |
| Seth Ravin Well, I think we're seeing, again, good strength across all platforms |
| And now as an end-to-end provider of mission-critical IT support, products and services, Rimini Street has the broader portfolio of solutions needed to be recognized as a key IT service partner that can help enable our clients to lower operating costs and achieve their goals from developing IT strategy and building roadmaps through plan execution |
| What that means is we're very good at hiring just in time |
| Not only is Rimini Street a global leader in its deep technical capabilities to run, manage, support, protect, connect, monitor, customize, configure and optimize mission-critical enterprise application, database and technology software, but Rimini is also growing technical and business capabilities to assist clients with innovation projects that include cloud, open source products, automation, workflow, data, analytics, AI, reporting, application modernization, license management, migrations, integration, security and global IT governance |
| We are seeing a good year-over-year improvement in G&A spend due to some restructuring measures and the initial substantial investments that were required to develop and launch our expanded portfolio of solutions are largely completed |
| And in the ANZ market, we have a new leadership there as well, where we've turned things around, I believe |
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| As noted in previous earnings calls, we are expecting continued gross margin pressure as we scale to meet new client engagements |
| Lastly, FX headwinds, as noted, also impacted cash flow |
| We note that for the full year 2023, our total revenue measures, on a constant currency basis, was negatively impacted by 0.6% due to FX movements |
| And then on the international business side, the year-over-year growth rates decelerated for the third consecutive quarter at about 4.5% just in the fourth quarter |
| We had some issues in the EMEA area, which we, of course, have taken significant steps |
| You suspended revenue guidance for the obvious reasons |
| The decline in our revenue retention rate for the year ended December 31, 2023, was due to attrition during the fourth quarter as certain clients did not renew specific subscriptions, however, in some cases, maintained or added subscriptions for other products |
| We had some issues down in the ANZ, the Australia, New Zealand area |
| One of them, I think, was a loss we shouldn't have had |
| Gross margin declined during the back half of 2023 as a result of continued investment in and expansion of our global engineering team needed to serve new client engagements in advance of related ratable contract revenue recognition |
| And that is a process that always creates risk for us |
| The total customer count was down quarter-over-quarter |
| I think as you guys will understand, every time you reconfigure a Salesforce, you have a little bit of lag and disruption into the operation |
| On a cash flow basis, for the fourth quarter, operating cash flow declined $1.1 million |
| So, those two contributed to some of the challenges |
| What's driving the deceleration? Is there anything in the bookings trends that suggest a reacceleration in the first half of '24? Seth Ravin Well, again, without getting into the guidance side of things, just focused on the business, we had some issues |
| I think you're watching us relay that we are not looking to reduce costs |
| And if you look at some of the bigger losses that happened, as I mentioned, related to management changes of M&A, where they decided to go a different direction, you have some of them where they had some internal issues that they needed to address in terms of dropping this product line, adding another |
| Some customers who had extended finally moving forward those projects that have been delayed during the pandemic |
| court issued a permanent injunction known as the Rimini I injunction enjoining certain activities related to the manner in which Rimini provides support on certain Oracle product lines |
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