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| Finally, we have a proven committed field organization, which in my biased view is the best in the industry to help ensure our customer base continues to benefit from our technology |
| But the bottom line is this, in an uncertain year, we strengthened our position in the marketplace by focusing on what was in our control, namely accelerating new logo acquisition, continuing to innovate our market-leading multiproduct portfolio, investing in the success of our customers and delivering balanced growth and profitability |
| We have made tremendous progress with our bottom line |
| At the same time, non-GAAP operating income improved by over $44 million year-over-year, exceeding the high range of our guidance by nearly $3 million, a big, big highlight for the year |
| And our adjusted free cash flow improved $72 million year-over-year, allowing us to generate over $44 million of cash in a year |
| And so we feel good about the strategy that allows us to continue to set ourselves up to be in a great position for long-term durable growth regardless of what happens in the overall macro |
| We remain confident in our customer retention and product stickiness as we have a differentiated product portfolio that is mission-critical for our customers |
| It's worth noting that this year, we reached record levels of overall gross retention |
| The operating margin improvements for Q4 and the full year are the result of disciplined spending as we remain committed to improving our bottom line |
| And the fact that we have a $600 million opportunity within our installed base outside of volume, we think, gives us a lot of ability to also grow within our installed base |
| Throughout the fiscal year, we realized continued margin performance from optimizing our hyperscalers and increasing efficiency |
| Non-GAAP subscription gross margin in Q4 was 82%, an improvement of over 280 basis points year-over-year |
| This will bring us runway for accelerated growth in the second half of the year |
| We significantly improved our bottom line and accelerated our new logo growth |
| In fact, our focus on efficiency yielded a significant $72 million improvement on our full year adjusted free cash flow compared to last year |
| And as such, we now enter FY '25 in a stronger position |
| Now what enabled the strategy, of course, is our differentiated technology and our amazing customer base |
| We will keep our retention rate strong while improving profitability margins and increasing free cash flow generation |
| To summarize, as I look back on fiscal year '24, the strategy we put in place at the start of the year has put us in a good position for fiscal year '25 |
| And you compare that to the growth of the GDP in the large countries, you can certainly see that our customer base continues to grow and continues to have a much healthier outsized growth compared to the general economy |
| And obviously, when that happens, we believe this is something that will benefit us |
| And those do help us drive top line subscription growth that has a very positive almost 83% margin this company |
| And so from an overall trend for what we do and the market's need for what we do, we feel really, really good |
| When it comes to specific deal cycles, we're seeing two ends of the spectrum, right? On the smaller deals, and let's call it, less than 500k, we're actually seeing those deals close faster, and we're seeing good, good, healthy demand |
| This is the right strategy and over the long run that makes us a stronger company |
| Our customers with multiple products as well as our highest ARR accounts, they have the highest level of customer satisfaction |
| For the full year, our non-GAAP subscription gross margin was 82%, which represented an improvement of over 230 basis points |
| What we are going to do is continue to focus on signing on some great new logos with the confidence that this will only make us stronger if and when the market for ERP projects reflects |
| Adjusted free cash flow was $14.6 million in the quarter, a significant improvement of nearly $32 million over Q4 of last year |
| And as long as we continue to do that, you're going to see us ability to grow with our customers |
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| You all saw that our Q4 ARR growth fell short of where we were trying to land |
| Non-GAAP professional services gross margin for Q4 was negative 10%, a decline of 215 basis points year-over-year |
| For the full year, our non-GAAP professional services gross margin was negative 4% |
| The revised expectations were driven by the macroeconomic pressures we talked about as well as an unexpected customer churn we experienced |
| The first instance we saw in Q4 was a large customer that had experienced macro headwinds in their industry, and they face digital transformation and budget cuts |
| And our service revenue is going down materially year-over-year |
| And as we've seen, especially the SaaS market, which is more than 50% of our business, as we've seen growth rates come down, that's been a headwind for us this year |
| Like many other companies, one year ago, we were seeing signs of a general slowdown in IT spending |
| For the full year, professional services revenue was $48.3 million, a year-over-year decline of 16% |
| This abnormal customer-specific churn created a one point headwind in both ARR growth and DBRR |
| I mean, the company that did not go live, that industry is definitely hitting headwinds, if you will |
| As Tien noted, our DBRR this quarter was impacted by an unexpected churn from a large customer that had yet to go live |
| large company really facing some big macro headwinds |
| As Tien noted, these metrics reflect the headwinds we saw in Q4 and early Q1 due to churn activity by two customer-specific instances |
| As we continue to expand our partnerships with SIs, our professional services revenue decreased by 22% year-over-year, ending Q4 at $10.5 million and represented 9.5% of total revenue |
| And so when you take those, we just have a lot fewer billable days and that continues to put pressure on it |
| And I think the thought was going back a couple of years is we're going to kind of sacrifice service revenue to invest in the channel and offer them up that implementation revenue |
| As we disclosed in our SEC filings several weeks ago, seller-based retention ended at 106%, down two percentage points, both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year |
| We're clearly running at a negative gross profit |
| And as we're just seeing elongated sales cycle, I think we were to be really judicious and not assume that we're going to have some of the larger deals that we had because that's really quite a lot of headwind on us this year |
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