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| Looking forward, we're more optimistic than ever about the opportunity in front of us |
| To wrap up, we delivered a good quarter in the context of a more challenging market environment with another consecutive quarter of growth in our content and platform segment, flat sequential performance in our ILT segment and meaningful improvements in adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow |
| Our team delivered another quarter of revenue and bookings growth in our high margin SaaS based content and platform segment |
| Our LTM dollar retention rate was 101%, up 3 percentage points, highlighting our progress and growing share of wallet within existing customers |
| At the bottom line, we generated higher profitability on both the dollars and margin basis |
| Jeff Tarr And I'd say the B2B is growing stronger than the B2C, which the B2B market has been softer for everyone, B2B is strong |
| So we're seeing acceleration in the content and platform business and also converting into revenue, seeing nice revenue growth in content platform |
| So obviously, if you then consider that our dollar retention rate is a little over 100% for the company overall then at the low end of the market, the dollar retention rates are lower, and that's where we have an opportunity to meaningfully improve our customer retention at the high end |
| Our team is firmly committed to translating this progress into improved profitable growth and meaningful shareowner value creation |
| So we've been actively developing, learning journeys and courses that are designed to give people the skills to use generative AI across the enterprise, across all functions, across all content areas, and there's been a really strong uptake |
| In an environment where many SaaS companies are facing higher levels of churn and erosion, our dollar retention rates are trending positively |
| Retention rates in our content and platform segment remain strong, demonstrating the value we deliver to our customers and our team's ability to up sell and cross sell our broad range of solutions |
| Over the course of this year, we have expanded adjusted EBITDA margins approximately 500 basis points from 16% of revenue in Q1 to 18% in Q2 to 21% in Q3 |
| These strategic moves have positioned us as the leading provider of transformative learning experiences to the world's largest and most sophisticated organizations, organizations with acute and complex reskilling, upskilling and workforce transformation needs |
| I am proud of our team's progress to strengthen our position as a market leader, innovator and workforce transformation partner for the enterprise, while seizing the exciting opportunity created by generative AI |
| Taken together, these metrics are indicative of our success cross selling and upselling solutions with our largest customers, and the potential for growth across our customer base overall |
| We've seeing acceleration in the LTM growth of platform and content and good metrics there |
| But net-net, we believe that we're performing well in the high growth segment of the market and that's the upper end of that market, and feel good about how we're positioned |
| In terms of where we see the greatest strength, it's at the high end of our market, it's with our larger customers, it's where the needs for reskilling and upskilling are particularly complex and where our ability to deliver integrated global solution is competitively very strong, that's where we're seeing the growth |
| Our offering, spanning leadership in business skills, technical training and compliance, all delivered on our industry leading learning experience platform, allowed this customer to consolidate down from five vendors and deliver a better learning experience at lower total cost |
| First, overall, the platform and content business is performing well and we're seeing momentum in that business |
| So on the ILT side, early in the quarter, we were seeing good metrics and some real momentum in that business |
| And finally, we had a sizable land and expand success story, growing a content and platform customer win from earlier this year by adding a seven figure commitment to deliver instructor led training that support this technology company's culture of innovation through skills growth and talent development |
| Content and platform third quarter revenue was $101 million, up 3% year-over-year and marking another quarter of growth for this segment |
| What we're seeing from customers and analysts is a very strong reception, there's a few that we have a market leading offering here in CAISY |
| The customer reaction and market feedback to CAISY has been exciting, validating our position as a forward thinking and innovative industry pioneer |
| We believe our recent investments in talent and product will position us to capture more of this growing market opportunity |
| These strengths are reflected in our improving dollar retention rates, especially at the high end of our market where DRR is 110% and a healthy pipeline of new opportunity |
| We are seeing good early returns from this infusion of new talent, and I look forward to the positive impact they will have on our business in the future |
| And we remain confident in our ability to unlock value for all of our stakeholders as we execute our long term strategy |
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| As we look to the balance of the year, a more cautious economic backdrop has prompted us to temper our near term outlook, particularly with respect to ILT |
| On a combined basis, total revenue for the company was $139 million, down marginally year-over-year as the content and platform segment growth was offset by ILT |
| In general, I'd say, overall, the market for that product is softer and because it's a transactional business, has a little less visibility than the rest of our company |
| For the third quarter itself, free cash flow was negative $13 million and in line with our expectations for quarterly seasonality |
| The demand environment for in person and virtual instructor led training continues to be choppy as we've seen corporations shifting some of their IT training priorities and budget resources |
| Our instructor led training segment remained stable sequentially but was down year-over-year, in part, due to a noncore product line that we are exiting |
| As a result, year-to-date free cash flow was negative $20 million, favorably compared to negative $37 million in the prior year-to-date period |
| According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report, nearly one quarter of all jobs will be disrupted in the next five years due to new technologies, including generative AI |
| And we've heard from our largest tech partners that ILT spending is down overall year-over-year, and we experienced that same trend |
| Our adjusted net loss was $23 million or $2.82 per share |
| At the lower end of the market, we're seeing price competition as we've seen over the last few years and we're taking steps to address that with a competitive entry level offering, which we recently launched |
| On a year-to-date basis, cash flow from operations was negative $9 million, while we invested $12 million in capital expenditures and capitalized internally developed software |
| IoT revenue was a similar story, flat sequentially at $38 million but down 9% year-over-year, which was consistent with the second quarter comparison |
| Let's turn now to our more transactional ILT segment where bookings were stable and roughly flat sequentially at $46 million but down 4% year-over-year |
| Our GAAP net loss was $28 million or $3.45 on a per share basis |
| General and administrative expenses of $17 million or 12% of revenue were favorably down 6% year-over-year as we continue to focus on streamlining the organization |
| Ken Wong Jeff, maybe I wanted to maybe first touch on the softness you saw in Europe |
| On a sequential basis compared to Q2, total operating expenses were favorably down $7 million or 6% |
| Jeff Tarr But the platform and content business is healthy |
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