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| We are also targeting a further meaningful improvement in stock-based compensation as a percentage of revenue in 2025 and beyond |
| This resulted in operating margins rising 670 basis points versus last year to 19.1%, and adjusted, unlevered free cash flow margins increasing from 5.2% to 14.8% |
| The significant increase in our free cash flow reflects our increasing profitability, as well as efforts we have undertaken to optimize upfront channel commissions and improve our working capital efficiency |
| So, this gives me really great hope that, that segment will continue to perform |
| We also achieved record profitability, with quarterly operating margin of 20.5% and free cash flow of nearly $100 million, well above our outlook |
| And it would be, we think -- deals like that would provide long-term tailwinds to the business as a whole and would set up well for long-term growth |
| And we are extremely pleased with the traction we're now getting within the Teams ecosystem |
| And three, driving continued robust free cash flow generation, while materially reducing SBC, and maximizing free cash flow per share growth over the long-term |
| By and large, NICE inContact is a well-established enterprise leader |
| Customer and analyst feedback we're receiving from our new products gives me a lot of confidence and our ability to scale these products to at least $100 million of ARR by the end of 2025 |
| We saw strong trends from the enterprise side of the house |
| We believe this is a testament to RingCentral's ability to continue delivering a superior, differentiated solution in a competitive market |
| We are proud to have built a $2.3 billion recurring revenue business that is growing, profitable and serves over 400,000 customers across Enterprise, mid-market, and SMB |
| They are able to -- and have proven success in hosting multi-thousand seat contact centers with very complicated use cases |
| Second, expanding profitability |
| In fact, in this post-COVID world, Enterprise continues to be a strong growth driver for us |
| This strong presence with large customers and within the Microsoft Teams environment is a testament to the trust our Enterprise customers have in our products and our ability to add value to the Teams environment |
| Overall, Enterprise continues to be a growth driver for RingCentral, with a positive long-term outlook |
| Broadly speaking, customers have historically picked us because of our 99.999% reliability, which we achieved for the 22nd straight quarter, robust feature set, regulatory compliance, and depth and breadth of our integrations |
| But as the macro improves, we do believe these will be important tailwinds, several percentage point tailwinds to our growth |
| Their additional spend is a testament to their confidence in our ability to deliver a full communications platform, and add value to the Teams environment |
| We have put in place a strong financial foundation, and I believe we are set up well to deliver on our strategy of multi-product growth and expanding margins in 2024 and beyond |
| These categories have addressable markets that more than double our current opportunity to over $70 billion, providing multiple vectors for us to drive long-term, profitable growth |
| This is reflected in the over 600 basis points combined improvement in SBC as a percentage of revenue and free cash flow margin that we have shared in our guidance |
| And I do believe strongly that we can drive back to double-digit growth |
| Building on the significant margin improvement we achieved in 2023, we expect operating margins and free cash flow to continue to expand, all while reducing stock-based compensation |
| We continue to see strong demand for our Events platform |
| RingCX, in particular, is leveraging our RingSense technology, which is our AI platform and that is having very good traction out there |
| And I'm optimistic that we can, over time, get back into double-digit growth, even as we cross the $2.5 billion mark and beyond that |
| And it obviously has been quite successful for us and for them over the years and we stay committed to that relationship |
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| So, both of those elements together resulted in about a 200 basis point headwind to operating margin |
| Given still a bit of instability in macro, upsell for us is a little bit more challenged |
| So, we're guiding to 16% coming down from 20% |
| Issue is a bit more with upsell and in certain cases down-sell |
| But if I look at your topline growth now decelerating from 11% to now high single digit in 2024 |
| We did take a deliberately conservative approach to the way we guide on revenue for this year because there is still some macro uncertainty out there |
| Net new grants for 2024 will be down by approximately 50% |
| Another one is -- that I want to highlight is, I think there was some -- maybe confusion a few months ago about RingCentral, call it, retreating back into SMB |
| But founders, I'm sure, you will agree more than anybody, Vlad, are not satisfied with the single-digit growth rate |
| This results in total stock-based compensation coming down by approximately 350 basis points in 2024 |
| And then for CCaaS, I think the market, again, it's below 20% in terms of what third-party data is saying |
| So, you've heard me the last couple of quarters talk about seeing bookings much more back-end loaded, and it was quite exaggerated in the last two quarters and particularly in that final month of the quarter |
| Our commitment to innovation is unwavering |
| That would be a little bit hard to manage |
| One thing that I would just comment on is we did see a stabilization in SMB |
| So, I would say that it's certainly high -- far from being frothy |
| I think if you look across all the software companies that have reported up to now, and because of that uncertainty, we wanted to be prudent in the guide and what I would say is we're being very prudent |
| It has to make sense |
| So, core belief here is that by redoubling on new products, not introductions, I mean, we cannot be introducing the product per quarter |
| However, we have seen some stabilization in some of the macro trends that you've heard us call out in the last 12 to 18 months |
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