TSE:TCS Tecsys Q1 2024 Earnings Report C$39.70 -0.47 (-1.17%) As of 04/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern Earnings HistoryForecast Tecsys EPS ResultsActual EPSC$0.08Consensus EPS C$0.04Beat/MissBeat by +C$0.04One Year Ago EPSN/ATecsys Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$41.98 millionExpected Revenue$40.57 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$1.41 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ATecsys Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date9/7/2023TimeN/AConference Call DateFriday, September 8, 2023Conference Call Time8:30AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckInterim ReportEarnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Tecsys Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrSeptember 8, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Texas First Quarter Fiscal Year 20 24 Results Conference Call. Please note that the complete 1st quarter report, including MD and A and financial statements, were filed on SEDAR Plus after market close yesterday. All dollar amounts are expressed in Canadian currency and are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. Some of the statements in this conference call, including the question and answer period, may include forward looking statements that are based on management's beliefs and assumptions. Operator00:00:37Actual results may differ materially from such statements. I would like to I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Peter Barrington, Chief Executive Officer at Texas. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:59Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Joining me today is Mark Butler, our Chief Financial Officer. We appreciate you joining us for today's call. As many of you saw in our results posted yesterday, our company began fiscal 2024 with another solid quarter led by record revenue and strong fundamentals. Speaker 100:01:18With 44% growth in SaaS revenue, we've seen the results of our investments over the last several quarters in Business Development and R and D. We believe our continued momentum is a testament to our clarity of vision, sustained investment in technology and obsession with our customers' success. Our primary mission remains unchanged to empower supply chain users to perform their tasks efficiently and effectively. Done right, organizations running these supply chains are able to operate more efficiently, mitigate risk, adapt Market demands differentiate themselves from competition and seize opportunities to grow. Our role at Texas is to provide the right combination of software, services and expertise to meet those business objectives. Speaker 100:02:02And that's what we have been doing. We have consistently demonstrated our ability a technology partner to provide solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations. Much of this will be on full display in a couple of weeks, where we will be hosting the 2023 Texas User Conference, our first since the pandemic. With a high level of We have higher registration numbers than any event in our 40 year history. We've been laying the groundwork for this event over the last few months and have been promoting a remarkable lineup of customers and strategic partners to help strengthen our base and put the spotlight on the business successes experienced From Werner Electric's journey of innovation and AI driven augmented cluster building to insights at St. Speaker 100:02:48Luke's Health Systems speaking about their visionary consolidated pharmacy service center. From Intermountain Health and Baylor Scott and White Health North America sharing their supply chain management stories. We are confident that the successes of our customers will create new market opportunities. And with AWS, Locust Robotics, Zebra Technologies, RISE NOW and other partners, we have more We look forward to hosting an amazing user conference where we have the opportunity to showcase innovation, best practices and knowledge sharing. Turning back to the results, I'd like to take a moment to summarize the key events of the Q1 of fiscal 'twenty four and results of operations. Speaker 100:03:36Mark will then walk us through the financial results in more detail. And finally, I'll comment on our outlook, followed by Q and A. Our company began fiscal 2024 with sustained growth underscored by that 44% year over year SaaS revenue growth, a 23% increase in total revenue and a healthy RPO up 36% over the same time last year. We added new logos across verticals and geographies, including 2 new healthcare networks in the quarter, one of which was in Canada. We also signed a new healthcare network in August just after the quarter end. Speaker 100:04:11We again closed solid base business, including significant expansions across verticals and renewals that extended commitments from existing customers. Our SaaS bookings at $1,900,000 in the quarter were down compared to the same quarter last year. Q1 of last fiscal year was an unusual comp with pent up demand releasing post COVID and an exceptionally large order in that quarter as well. Q1 of this fiscal year was a more normal Q1 with summer vacation impact. We remain encouraged by continued solid new pipeline creation and overall market activity. Speaker 100:04:45So as we close out another successful quarter, pleased that we continue to capitalize on the opportunities in front of us. We continue to add new hospital networks and global brands to our repertoire of clients, and we enjoy an expanding pipeline of new SaaS opportunities, expansions and conversions. We see a solid path for shareholder value creation As we continue to invest in the solutions we sell and in the manner in which we sell them, Texas is proving to be among the best cloud based solutions available in the markets And we have the people, the partners, the products and the plan to provide what the market demands. Mark will now provide further details on our Q1 financial results as well as financial guidance on several key metrics. Speaker 200:05:30Thank you, Peter. We're pleased with strong performance in our Q1 ended July 31, 2023. We had yet another record in total a record quarter in total revenue at $42,000,000 That's 23 percent higher than $34,200,000 reported for the same period last As many of you know, a significant portion of our revenue, in fact about 73% this quarter is denominated in U. S. Dollars. Speaker 200:05:58As a result, movements in currency exchange rates have an impact on our reported revenue and growth. FX rates, including the impact of hedging, had a positive $1,500,000 impact on revenue in the quarter compared to the same quarter last year. On a constant currency basis, total revenue growth was 17% in Q1 of fiscal 'twenty four compared to the same quarter last year. Total revenue excluding hardware increased 16% compared to the same period last year or 11% on a constant currency basis. We continue to experience strong and steady revenue streams underpinned by a 44% increase in SaaS revenue, up from $8,000,000 in Q1 fiscal 'twenty three to $11,500,000 in Q1 of fiscal 'twenty four. Speaker 200:06:51On a constant basis, SaaS revenue was up approximately 38% compared to the same quarter last year. SaaS Remaining Performance Obligation or SaaS RPO was $139,400,000 at the end of Q1 fiscal 'twenty four. That's up 36% from $102,500,000 at the same time last year. On a constant currency basis, that growth was 33%. Maintenance and support revenue for the 3 months ended July 31, 2023 was $8,300,000 That was flat compared to the same quarter last year were down about 4% on a constant currency basis. Speaker 200:07:33Maintenance and support revenue generally follows the trend of license revenue and We expect that as current customers migrate to our SaaS offering, maintenance and support revenue will decline over time. Professional services revenue for the quarter was $14,900,000 that was up 9% from 13,600,000 reported for the same quarter last year were up 5% on a constant currency basis. As we've noted in the last few quarters, we're starting to see the impact of our transition to SaaS ultimately have on our professional services revenue line. That is, we're seeing a continued reduction in custom development work as customers opt for a more out of the box approach to platform implementations. We're also continuing to experience the increased collaboration of our partner ecosystem and helping to implement our suite of solutions. Speaker 200:08:29While we expect that over time these factors will continue to moderate our professional services revenue growth, we had another solid quarter of professional services bookings, which I'll speak to in a moment. As we disclosed in our published MD and A, we expect total services revenue, so that's combined SaaS, maintenance, support as well as professional services ranging between $34,500,000 $35,500,000 per quarter in the short term. Hardware revenue in Q1 fiscal 2024 was $6,800,000 up 77% compared to the same period last year. As a reminder, we sell primarily third party hardware to our customers for warehouse operations and in hospital point of use storage and tracking. While hardware revenue can tend to be uneven, It is a key component of our market offering and thereby supports our recurring revenue business. Speaker 200:09:29Like last quarter, our hardware backlog remains strong, driven primarily by hospital network point of use orders. Turning now to bookings. SaaS bookings are reported on an annual occurring revenue basis. And as Peter mentioned, SaaS bookings were $1,900,000 in the quarter, which is down 50% compared to $3,900,000 in the Q1 of last year. Professional services bookings were $13,800,000 in the quarter. Speaker 200:09:57That's up 42 percent compared to $9,700,000 in the same quarter last year. Professional Services backlog was a robust to $40,200,000 at July 31, 2023, that's up 31% from the same time last year. For the Q1, total gross profit was $19,500,000 that's up 32% compared to $14,800,000 and Q1 of last year, and that's led by higher gross profit contribution from SaaS, maintenance, support and professional services. As a percentage of revenue, total gross margin was 46% in the quarter compared to 43% for the same period last year. Combined SaaS, maintenance and support and professional services gross profit margin for the 3 months ended July 31, 2023 was 50% compared to 46% in the same period in fiscal 2023. Speaker 200:11:00The main component of the increase in this gross profit margin was SaaS margin expansion. There was also some tailwind here from FX. Switching now to our expenses for the quarter. Operating expenses increased to $17,700,000 That's higher by $3,100,000 or 21 percent compared to $14,700,000 in Q1 of fiscal 2023. The increase was primarily the result of higher research and development costs as well as higher sales and marketing Looking ahead to Q2 of fiscal 2024, we expect sales and marketing costs to temporarily increase, primarily due to added marketing program investment, including costs related to our user conference, which as Peter mentioned is in September. Speaker 200:11:52We also expect that research and development costs will increase slightly in Q2 resulting from investment in our and product offering and the normal impact of our annual salary increase cycle. Net profit Speaker 300:12:09for the quarter was $1,200,000 Speaker 200:12:10or $0.08 per fully diluted share compared to $40,000 or 0 for fully diluted share in the same period last year. Compared to the same period last year, net profit was positively impacted by the higher contribution from SaaS and associated higher gross profit and favorable foreign exchange. Adjusted EBITDA was $3,200,000 in Q1 of fiscal 2024 compared to $1,500,000 last year. Net profit and adjusted EBITDA were both positively impacted by favorable foreign exchange of approximately $1,200,000 compared to the same period last year. We ended fiscal 2024 with a solid balance sheet position. Speaker 200:12:53We had cash and short term investments of $31,900,000 and no debt. Q1 net cash used in operations was $6,900,000 primarily the result of normal Working capital changes in that quarter. Finally, with respect to financial guidance, with our growing SaaS revenue driving up recurring revenue, We have greater visibility into future revenue. As a result, recall the last quarter for the first time we provided financial guidance. We would like to reiterate that guidance for total revenue growth in fiscal 2024 in a range of between 10% 15%, Total SaaS revenue growth for fiscal 2024 in a range between 35% 37%. Speaker 200:13:39And in terms of profitability, we are reiterating financial guidance for adjusted EBITDA margin in fiscal 2024 of 6% and the fiscal 'twenty five adjusted EBITDA margin in a range between 8% 9%. I'll now turn the call back to Peter to provide some outlook comments. Speaker 100:14:01Thanks, Mark. Texas stable growth continues through the Q1 of fiscal 2024 with a strong balance sheet and a robust backlog and sales pipeline. We are seeing widespread buyer intent across target markets, solid opportunity cycles and a highly capable sales team with the tools and talent capitalize on a market that is ready to invest in new technology. We continue to solidify our leadership position in the healthcare market supported by a great partner network and rising adoption of the clinically integrated supply chain and consolidated service center model. The upcoming November 2023 compliance deadline for the U. Speaker 100:14:38S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act provides a favorable backdrop for our consolidated pharmacy inventory management solution. With customer proof points from organizations like Parkview Health and St. Luke's Health System, we're well positioned to be the preferred vendor to support this developing best practice. Our expanding our expanded healthcare sector offering and growing Our converging distribution business continues to represent a massive market opportunity. Speaker 100:15:14We continue to hone our sweet spot there And a realization that heightened consumer expectations are here to stay. So in summary, I want to remind analysts and investors of some key themes for fiscal 'twenty four and beyond. First, a sustained commitment to our expanding SaaS revenue model, which will drive changes in the way we deploy solutions and delight customers. Secondly, a continued strategic partnership approach characterized by deeper and stronger alliances. This will help us tap into new and fuels our scalability around the world. Speaker 100:15:543rd, an emphasis on advancing and deepening our healthcare vertical covering our healthcare vertical covering both MedSurg and Pharma. We continue to solidify our position as the go to provider for healthcare supply chain solutions. Lastly, a continuous evolution of our distribution and omnichannel business platform that takes advantage of innovative technologies and the power of data. And as a final point, I'd just like to stress across our markets that we will place emphasis on customer success. We have long stood by the philosophy of customers for life. Speaker 100:16:26A big part of that formula is to deliver value quickly, stay connected and then expand on the value delivered. With that, we will open the call up for questions. Thank Operator00:16:38you. Thank You will hear a 3 tone prompt to acknowledge your request. Our first question comes from Amar Azat with Industrial Alliance. Please proceed. Speaker 400:17:13Good morning. It's Andre on behalf of Ameren. Thank you for taking our questions. You're tracking above your guidance for top line in SaaS growth last quarter you also had strong momentum. Just wondering what's driving the outperformance relative to your initial guidance And do you foresee this momentum continuing? Speaker 200:17:37You want to Speaker 100:17:37take that one, Mark? Speaker 200:17:39Yes, sure. Yes, thanks for the question. I mean, I think Our top line revenue was really strong. And when we provided the guideposts there for total revenue, We were thinking about a full year and that's the guidance we provided. I think the thing you have to watch pretty In our numbers is that hardware number in our P and L, which can move around quite a bit. Speaker 200:18:06And we had a pretty robust hardware quarter This quarter, we also have a pretty good backlog. But if you look across last year, our hardware quarters range from $3,800,000 to $6,900,000 So there's quite a bit of movement that can happen in there. So I think That provides a little color around that 10% to 15% guidance range that we provided and are sticking with for right now. Speaker 400:18:37Got it. Thanks. And how much are you budgeting for your user conference later this month? Speaker 200:18:45Yes. I mean, that's We haven't really disclosed that number, but I mean really rough orders of magnitude, That's roughly $500,000 event for us. Speaker 400:18:59Got it. Thanks. And one more for Amit. The last couple of calls you noted that you didn't see many opportunities for inorganic growth due to rich pricing. Just wondering how that has evolved since the last Speaker 100:19:14Paul? Yes, there's no real change there. I mean, we continue to Look around and look at what's out there, but we have not our focus at this point is on the organic side. Speaker 400:19:29Thank you. I'll pass the line. Speaker 500:19:32Thank you. Speaker 200:19:32Thanks for the questions. Operator00:19:36The next question comes from Gavin Fairweather with Cormark Securities. Please proceed. Speaker 500:19:43Hey, good morning. Maybe just a quickie for Mark to start. Just looks like the CAD strengthened a little bit in the quarter. Can you just discuss The impact that FX had on ARR growth this quarter? Speaker 200:19:58Yes. And Yes. The headline growth there, I mean, I think we if you think about it Sequentially, we moved from like a 132 level last quarter to 136 Well, also I think there was about maybe 3 to 4 percentage points of upgel in there. Speaker 500:20:27Got it. And then maybe for Peter, just can we dig it a little bit deeper into the healthcare sales environment? How would you Kind of describe buyer intent, obviously saw a couple of new healthcare networks join in one subsequent quarter. But I guess when you look into the pipeline, how are you thinking about the number of IDNs and how are they moving and how are you thinking about your the ability to increase the pace of IDN Speaker 200:20:53Yes, I mean, we're sort Speaker 100:20:55of waiting to see and actually fully pick up Speed, it seems to be accelerating. That team is probably Round numbers, that team is probably 30% larger. The sales team is right 30% larger than it was this time last year. And yet they are very busy. The total Pipeline in sales in Healthcare is up measured by sort of SaaS Potential SaaS revenue is up over 50% from this time last year. Speaker 100:21:29So we're seeing a lot of excellent activity. At the same time, we are seeing frankly, it seems like half of the management teams who are trying to close deals with were in Europe for a vacation this summer. So it's everything is now returning as we get into September and things that we pick up speed. So we'll have to see how the year works out. But if I look at the sort of what we see on the dashboard, great sales team, significantly larger than it was last year and a pipeline up by more than 50 So we're feeling pretty bullish about the outlook in Healthcare, that's for Operator00:22:06sure. Okay. Speaker 500:22:07Good to hear. I mean, maybe some of that will turn into a tailwind in the quarters ahead here. Maybe Just on maintenance, been holding pretty steady. I keep expecting a bit of a deceleration. Maybe you can update us on The planned pace of migrations and how those conversations are going, I mean, you talk about maintenance kind of starting to moderate in the years Speaker 200:22:37I think the conversions from on prem To SaaS, they do continue. And if we look at our pipeline there, the activity there, it's actually the pipeline is actually ahead of where we expected it to Right now in terms of addition additive conversion opportunities, but you raise a good point like we're expecting that number to go down And it doesn't. Our retention rates are super high. In fact, they took we measure those LTM and they ticked So like 97 percent gross retention in this last 12 month period ended July 31, 2023. So really solid retention is helping support that number a bit. Speaker 200:23:26The other thing is Some of our other businesses, in particular that hardware business and that proprietary technology business that we do, it does attach some maintenance and support to that business. And so That's conspiring also along with price increases and strong levels of retention to kind of moderate the decline there. But We do see that conversion pipe building and expect that it's going to continue to head Down rather than out that total maintenance and support line. Speaker 500:24:04Got it. And then maybe lastly before I re queue, Just on SaaS gross margin, you provide that kind of illustrative walk over the next few years on kind of services gross margins SaaS gross margins. I'm curious how the back end optimization work is progressing in that deck. You kind of have assumptions around 75 incremental gross margin on SaaS. Curious if that kind of incorporates some of the efforts you're making on the back end And if there's also an opportunity to kind of improve the existing SaaS base as well? Speaker 200:24:38Yes. It does incorporate that. But I mean, I think the more we scale there and the more we scratch and invest there, the more efficient we become. So we're making we continue to make progress on the key metrics in there Our public cloud and restructure costs as a percentage of revenue, we continue to make progress there. That's with platform optimization and overall infrastructure efficiency, how we set up the platform and utilize on public cloud infrastructure. Speaker 200:25:17So we continue to make progress there. And the other vectors are the other main vectors are cloud operations, Costs and our ability to execute there. So we measure that metric as internally As cloud operation costs, ex public cloud infrastructure costs and monitor that as a percentage of revenue. And we see that still doing interesting things as well as we scale and continue to leverage Our technology, our platform and external technologies that we use to monitor, etcetera, that help us manage that metric. So, I think there's more goodness to continue to squeeze out of that margin as we move forward to scale. Operator00:26:17Our next question comes from John Hsu with National Bank. Please proceed. Speaker 300:26:24Good morning, guys, and thanks for taking my question. I also have a question on gross margin. So you guys definitely have a decent margin expansion this quarter driven by the SaaS business. So from a modeling perspective, is this improvement permanent? And also how should we think about the margin profile in future quarters? Speaker 200:26:44Yes. I mean, I think we provide I would direct you to our investor deck there, John, and we provided some kind of Projection numbers, I hesitate to call them forecast, but sort of projection numbers based upon some assumptions. And we saw We started publishing those a couple of quarters ago. We outperformed what we expected there in Q4 slightly. And I would say right now we're tracking with our expectations and I would leave it at that. Speaker 300:27:22Okay, thanks. And in terms of ARR, how should we read into the Q1 number given it's just sequentially flat It's also because of the timing of deal lumpiness? Speaker 200:27:34Yes. I mean, the ARR number Being sequentially flat, I think we had we have that The $1,900,000 book SaaS bookings number, which was not a fantastic quarter. So That didn't drive up that ARR as much as it otherwise would have increased. So I think that's probably the main driver for the sequential flatness there. Speaker 300:28:08Okay, thanks. Last question is to Peter. So Peter, you mentioned your sales team is 30% larger than compared to last year. So my question is around your Speaker 100:28:25So that's where the bulk of the growth has gone and that's where we've seen the substantial increase in the size of that team. We do plan to continue to invest in the team. I When you look at our LVV to CAC numbers, general guidance in sort of best practices in the SaaS world, If your LTV to CAC is above 3%, you should be pouring more money into sales and marketing. And if you look at our general trend over the last 4 quarters or 8 quarters or whatever time frame you want to pick, we're well above that number. So we continue to invest more in sales and marketing. Speaker 100:29:00You'll continue to see that We limit our investment there largely just to manage productivity. There is a point to which you grow that organization too quickly and you can actually end up with declining sales results because you have just too many new people, not enough Sort of in-depth knowledge of the marketplace, you start blowing opportunities and so on. So we so that the practical considerations of growing an excellent sales team What limits the investment there, because the underlying financial metrics that we track and the KPIs we track tell us that we should be continuing to expand that team quite rapidly. Speaker 200:29:42And John, just Going back to your last question about ARR, I failed to mention, but I should have the FX impact, the sequential FX impact from the end of Q4 to the end of Q1 was actually a negative drag on that ARR number. That kind of offset the gains of the increased Narrow from the SaaS bookings. Speaker 300:30:10Okay. Thanks, Peter. That makes sense. Speaker 100:30:16Thank you. Operator00:30:19Our next question comes from Suthan Sukumar with Stifel. Please proceed. Speaker 600:30:26Hi, Daniel on for Suki in today. Good morning, Peter and Mark. My first question here is on your EBITDA beat this quarter. Can you speak to what drove the beat? Was it due to the pace of timing of growth investments? Speaker 600:30:39Or are you seeing early leverage benefits in the business? Speaker 200:30:45Daniel, can you repeat that question? I didn't quite hear the beginning of kind of broke up a little bit for me at the beginning. Speaker 600:30:52Yes, sure. On your EBITDA beat this quarter, can you speak to what drove the beat? Was it due to the pace or timing of growth investments? Speaker 200:31:03Yes. I mean, we our OpEx was up pretty significantly in the quarter, but The big contribution the big change was the contribution margin in the quarter, which was really solid, as we mentioned, driven mostly by SaaS expansion, but also with a little bit of FX tailwind in that number. Speaker 600:31:32Okay. Good. On professional services revenues, growth appears to be quite healthy again this quarter. Is there anything specific to call out? And can you speak to how much partner engagement there was during the quarter? Speaker 200:31:47Yes. I mean, I think the thing to call out there, Daniel, is our backlog heading into this quarter was very large. We did actually quite a bit of bookings in the quarter as well. So it continues To be over $40,000,000 of backlog, which for us historically is still a very robust number. So we think that probably bodes pretty well for the upcoming quarters. Speaker 200:32:17In terms of partner engagement and partner involvement, I guess Peter mentioned, we've got a whole we've got just a great, great stuff happening on that front. We continue to add Interested SI partners, they're more and more involved in our deals. They're more and more involved on the front end on opportunities. And that gang is getting, yes, it's getting the names that are in that group are getting bigger and the participation is getting You know, Mark Folsom, so we're pretty excited about what's happening there. Speaker 600:32:56That's good to hear. Now just to quickly recap in case I missed it. I think you mentioned that you guys won 2 additional IDN wins this quarter. What are your expectations for the year? Is this still around 12? Speaker 100:33:16Yes, it's a good question. We debate that all the time. I mean, we're seeing we are seeing ever larger opportunities. At the same time, we are Seeing quite a large number of opportunities, average deal size continues to sort of slowly increase. So where that number will land, it's hard to call. Speaker 100:33:36We certainly are investing Sales organization and structuring sales organization to continue to drive that number up and we would like to see us get in the 12 ish range for the year and continue our markup. Our plan is still to get to the point where we can add 20 networks a year, which we'd like to get to within a couple of years. But we're not that's not a firm forecast. That's just what we're trying to accomplish. Speaker 600:34:05Okay. Last one for me. Can you just update us on the current demand environment for the complex distribution side. And have you seen any changes in urgency from a customer at this quarter? Speaker 700:34:20No, not Speaker 100:34:20really a change in urgency. We aren't seeing deals starting to flow on that side. We've got I think we'll see more signed deals probably in this quarter on that side. We'll We did see some activity in the Q1 on that side. So it seems like that marketplace is starting to Get out of panic mode, the inventory is flowing, the ports are wide open, the factories are open, that Things are just generally returning to normal. Speaker 100:34:51As they return to normal, we're kind of back to where we were in 2019, which is that whole sector, Realizing that they're running platforms that were implemented in time for Y2K. And it's they're not really designed for today's world at all. So we are seeing action on that side. And I think as I think I said in the spring, we kind of expected that it would be sometime this fall that the deal flow would Operator00:35:30Our next question comes from of Stephen Lee with Raymond James. Please proceed. Thanks. Speaker 700:35:37Hey, guys. I may have missed it, but the SaaS growth 40%. Did you say how much came from the current customers and how much from new logos? Speaker 200:35:50Yes, we didn't say that. But in the quarter, The bigger driver there this quarter was expansion business. Speaker 700:36:04Okay. Okay. That's fine. And also on your bookings, what would be the split between Healthcare and Complex? Speaker 200:36:17Yes, I don't we didn't really disclose that one either, Stephen, but it would have been actually, it would have been tipped. It would have been It was actually pretty even because the expansion deals had included Some nice complex distribution customers. So those I think it would have been it would in fact, it was slightly tipped towards healthcare, but Complex was definitely contributing to that one as well, but slightly more than 50% healthcare. Speaker 700:36:55Okay, got it. And then when you're talking about bookings here, it applies Both ARR and PS, right, Mark? Speaker 200:37:02No, I'm talking SaaS. Speaker 700:37:05Oh, you're talking SaaS. Okay. Got it. Got it. Okay. Speaker 700:37:07And then just Peter, your comment earlier, I heard you say your total pipeline in Healthcare is up 50%. But then the number of IBMs you won was 2. Does that mean conversion is very lumpy? Can you talk about conversion rates? Speaker 100:37:28Yes. I mean, conversion rates are not only lumpy, but in Healthcare, we don't have Not much conversion left to do. I mean most of the maybe not most, but I mean a significant portion, I'm trying to think now off the top Mark, we're probably at a point where what, 75% of our healthcare clients are already on SaaS? Speaker 700:37:49Yes. Speaker 100:37:50Something like that, even more. So there's not that much conversion left to do there. What You're mainly seeing there is that the expansion in existing SaaS hospital clients It's continuing to be quite strong. So when we look at our pipeline, our pipeline includes some very significant opportunities, Building out this asset customer basis, could you It's Jay that sort of heard one of these networks speak up for themselves. Speaker 700:38:38Right. When we think of significant opportunities with existing customers, is the cycle quicker, shorter? Speaker 100:38:47Yes, for sure it is. For sure it is. I mean, we already have a relationship. We've already got trust built up. They've already got a good understanding of our Platform and how to use it, but it usually builds up an internal team that knows how to support our platform internally from an end user standpoint. Speaker 100:39:06So it's definitely quicker. I mean, there's agreements, I'm just thinking like in Q1, for instance, we signed Fairly substantial expansion and extension of contract, SaaS contract, and that whole process took less than 90 days. Got Speaker 700:39:24it. And last one for me, and again, I probably missed it, but did you say how much is your partner influence deals in the quarter? Thanks. Speaker 200:39:33Yes. What we did disclose there, Steve, is the percentage of our pipeline Operator00:39:51Gentlemen, there are no further questions at this time. Speaker 100:39:56Okay. Well, thank you everyone for joining us. And as usual, if you have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mark or I, and we will talk to you at the end of Q2. 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There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Texas First Quarter Fiscal Year 20 24 Results Conference Call. Please note that the complete 1st quarter report, including MD and A and financial statements, were filed on SEDAR Plus after market close yesterday. All dollar amounts are expressed in Canadian currency and are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. Some of the statements in this conference call, including the question and answer period, may include forward looking statements that are based on management's beliefs and assumptions. Operator00:00:37Actual results may differ materially from such statements. I would like to I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Peter Barrington, Chief Executive Officer at Texas. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:59Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Joining me today is Mark Butler, our Chief Financial Officer. We appreciate you joining us for today's call. As many of you saw in our results posted yesterday, our company began fiscal 2024 with another solid quarter led by record revenue and strong fundamentals. Speaker 100:01:18With 44% growth in SaaS revenue, we've seen the results of our investments over the last several quarters in Business Development and R and D. We believe our continued momentum is a testament to our clarity of vision, sustained investment in technology and obsession with our customers' success. Our primary mission remains unchanged to empower supply chain users to perform their tasks efficiently and effectively. Done right, organizations running these supply chains are able to operate more efficiently, mitigate risk, adapt Market demands differentiate themselves from competition and seize opportunities to grow. Our role at Texas is to provide the right combination of software, services and expertise to meet those business objectives. Speaker 100:02:02And that's what we have been doing. We have consistently demonstrated our ability a technology partner to provide solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations. Much of this will be on full display in a couple of weeks, where we will be hosting the 2023 Texas User Conference, our first since the pandemic. With a high level of We have higher registration numbers than any event in our 40 year history. We've been laying the groundwork for this event over the last few months and have been promoting a remarkable lineup of customers and strategic partners to help strengthen our base and put the spotlight on the business successes experienced From Werner Electric's journey of innovation and AI driven augmented cluster building to insights at St. Speaker 100:02:48Luke's Health Systems speaking about their visionary consolidated pharmacy service center. From Intermountain Health and Baylor Scott and White Health North America sharing their supply chain management stories. We are confident that the successes of our customers will create new market opportunities. And with AWS, Locust Robotics, Zebra Technologies, RISE NOW and other partners, we have more We look forward to hosting an amazing user conference where we have the opportunity to showcase innovation, best practices and knowledge sharing. Turning back to the results, I'd like to take a moment to summarize the key events of the Q1 of fiscal 'twenty four and results of operations. Speaker 100:03:36Mark will then walk us through the financial results in more detail. And finally, I'll comment on our outlook, followed by Q and A. Our company began fiscal 2024 with sustained growth underscored by that 44% year over year SaaS revenue growth, a 23% increase in total revenue and a healthy RPO up 36% over the same time last year. We added new logos across verticals and geographies, including 2 new healthcare networks in the quarter, one of which was in Canada. We also signed a new healthcare network in August just after the quarter end. Speaker 100:04:11We again closed solid base business, including significant expansions across verticals and renewals that extended commitments from existing customers. Our SaaS bookings at $1,900,000 in the quarter were down compared to the same quarter last year. Q1 of last fiscal year was an unusual comp with pent up demand releasing post COVID and an exceptionally large order in that quarter as well. Q1 of this fiscal year was a more normal Q1 with summer vacation impact. We remain encouraged by continued solid new pipeline creation and overall market activity. Speaker 100:04:45So as we close out another successful quarter, pleased that we continue to capitalize on the opportunities in front of us. We continue to add new hospital networks and global brands to our repertoire of clients, and we enjoy an expanding pipeline of new SaaS opportunities, expansions and conversions. We see a solid path for shareholder value creation As we continue to invest in the solutions we sell and in the manner in which we sell them, Texas is proving to be among the best cloud based solutions available in the markets And we have the people, the partners, the products and the plan to provide what the market demands. Mark will now provide further details on our Q1 financial results as well as financial guidance on several key metrics. Speaker 200:05:30Thank you, Peter. We're pleased with strong performance in our Q1 ended July 31, 2023. We had yet another record in total a record quarter in total revenue at $42,000,000 That's 23 percent higher than $34,200,000 reported for the same period last As many of you know, a significant portion of our revenue, in fact about 73% this quarter is denominated in U. S. Dollars. Speaker 200:05:58As a result, movements in currency exchange rates have an impact on our reported revenue and growth. FX rates, including the impact of hedging, had a positive $1,500,000 impact on revenue in the quarter compared to the same quarter last year. On a constant currency basis, total revenue growth was 17% in Q1 of fiscal 'twenty four compared to the same quarter last year. Total revenue excluding hardware increased 16% compared to the same period last year or 11% on a constant currency basis. We continue to experience strong and steady revenue streams underpinned by a 44% increase in SaaS revenue, up from $8,000,000 in Q1 fiscal 'twenty three to $11,500,000 in Q1 of fiscal 'twenty four. Speaker 200:06:51On a constant basis, SaaS revenue was up approximately 38% compared to the same quarter last year. SaaS Remaining Performance Obligation or SaaS RPO was $139,400,000 at the end of Q1 fiscal 'twenty four. That's up 36% from $102,500,000 at the same time last year. On a constant currency basis, that growth was 33%. Maintenance and support revenue for the 3 months ended July 31, 2023 was $8,300,000 That was flat compared to the same quarter last year were down about 4% on a constant currency basis. Speaker 200:07:33Maintenance and support revenue generally follows the trend of license revenue and We expect that as current customers migrate to our SaaS offering, maintenance and support revenue will decline over time. Professional services revenue for the quarter was $14,900,000 that was up 9% from 13,600,000 reported for the same quarter last year were up 5% on a constant currency basis. As we've noted in the last few quarters, we're starting to see the impact of our transition to SaaS ultimately have on our professional services revenue line. That is, we're seeing a continued reduction in custom development work as customers opt for a more out of the box approach to platform implementations. We're also continuing to experience the increased collaboration of our partner ecosystem and helping to implement our suite of solutions. Speaker 200:08:29While we expect that over time these factors will continue to moderate our professional services revenue growth, we had another solid quarter of professional services bookings, which I'll speak to in a moment. As we disclosed in our published MD and A, we expect total services revenue, so that's combined SaaS, maintenance, support as well as professional services ranging between $34,500,000 $35,500,000 per quarter in the short term. Hardware revenue in Q1 fiscal 2024 was $6,800,000 up 77% compared to the same period last year. As a reminder, we sell primarily third party hardware to our customers for warehouse operations and in hospital point of use storage and tracking. While hardware revenue can tend to be uneven, It is a key component of our market offering and thereby supports our recurring revenue business. Speaker 200:09:29Like last quarter, our hardware backlog remains strong, driven primarily by hospital network point of use orders. Turning now to bookings. SaaS bookings are reported on an annual occurring revenue basis. And as Peter mentioned, SaaS bookings were $1,900,000 in the quarter, which is down 50% compared to $3,900,000 in the Q1 of last year. Professional services bookings were $13,800,000 in the quarter. Speaker 200:09:57That's up 42 percent compared to $9,700,000 in the same quarter last year. Professional Services backlog was a robust to $40,200,000 at July 31, 2023, that's up 31% from the same time last year. For the Q1, total gross profit was $19,500,000 that's up 32% compared to $14,800,000 and Q1 of last year, and that's led by higher gross profit contribution from SaaS, maintenance, support and professional services. As a percentage of revenue, total gross margin was 46% in the quarter compared to 43% for the same period last year. Combined SaaS, maintenance and support and professional services gross profit margin for the 3 months ended July 31, 2023 was 50% compared to 46% in the same period in fiscal 2023. Speaker 200:11:00The main component of the increase in this gross profit margin was SaaS margin expansion. There was also some tailwind here from FX. Switching now to our expenses for the quarter. Operating expenses increased to $17,700,000 That's higher by $3,100,000 or 21 percent compared to $14,700,000 in Q1 of fiscal 2023. The increase was primarily the result of higher research and development costs as well as higher sales and marketing Looking ahead to Q2 of fiscal 2024, we expect sales and marketing costs to temporarily increase, primarily due to added marketing program investment, including costs related to our user conference, which as Peter mentioned is in September. Speaker 200:11:52We also expect that research and development costs will increase slightly in Q2 resulting from investment in our and product offering and the normal impact of our annual salary increase cycle. Net profit Speaker 300:12:09for the quarter was $1,200,000 Speaker 200:12:10or $0.08 per fully diluted share compared to $40,000 or 0 for fully diluted share in the same period last year. Compared to the same period last year, net profit was positively impacted by the higher contribution from SaaS and associated higher gross profit and favorable foreign exchange. Adjusted EBITDA was $3,200,000 in Q1 of fiscal 2024 compared to $1,500,000 last year. Net profit and adjusted EBITDA were both positively impacted by favorable foreign exchange of approximately $1,200,000 compared to the same period last year. We ended fiscal 2024 with a solid balance sheet position. Speaker 200:12:53We had cash and short term investments of $31,900,000 and no debt. Q1 net cash used in operations was $6,900,000 primarily the result of normal Working capital changes in that quarter. Finally, with respect to financial guidance, with our growing SaaS revenue driving up recurring revenue, We have greater visibility into future revenue. As a result, recall the last quarter for the first time we provided financial guidance. We would like to reiterate that guidance for total revenue growth in fiscal 2024 in a range of between 10% 15%, Total SaaS revenue growth for fiscal 2024 in a range between 35% 37%. Speaker 200:13:39And in terms of profitability, we are reiterating financial guidance for adjusted EBITDA margin in fiscal 2024 of 6% and the fiscal 'twenty five adjusted EBITDA margin in a range between 8% 9%. I'll now turn the call back to Peter to provide some outlook comments. Speaker 100:14:01Thanks, Mark. Texas stable growth continues through the Q1 of fiscal 2024 with a strong balance sheet and a robust backlog and sales pipeline. We are seeing widespread buyer intent across target markets, solid opportunity cycles and a highly capable sales team with the tools and talent capitalize on a market that is ready to invest in new technology. We continue to solidify our leadership position in the healthcare market supported by a great partner network and rising adoption of the clinically integrated supply chain and consolidated service center model. The upcoming November 2023 compliance deadline for the U. Speaker 100:14:38S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act provides a favorable backdrop for our consolidated pharmacy inventory management solution. With customer proof points from organizations like Parkview Health and St. Luke's Health System, we're well positioned to be the preferred vendor to support this developing best practice. Our expanding our expanded healthcare sector offering and growing Our converging distribution business continues to represent a massive market opportunity. Speaker 100:15:14We continue to hone our sweet spot there And a realization that heightened consumer expectations are here to stay. So in summary, I want to remind analysts and investors of some key themes for fiscal 'twenty four and beyond. First, a sustained commitment to our expanding SaaS revenue model, which will drive changes in the way we deploy solutions and delight customers. Secondly, a continued strategic partnership approach characterized by deeper and stronger alliances. This will help us tap into new and fuels our scalability around the world. Speaker 100:15:543rd, an emphasis on advancing and deepening our healthcare vertical covering our healthcare vertical covering both MedSurg and Pharma. We continue to solidify our position as the go to provider for healthcare supply chain solutions. Lastly, a continuous evolution of our distribution and omnichannel business platform that takes advantage of innovative technologies and the power of data. And as a final point, I'd just like to stress across our markets that we will place emphasis on customer success. We have long stood by the philosophy of customers for life. Speaker 100:16:26A big part of that formula is to deliver value quickly, stay connected and then expand on the value delivered. With that, we will open the call up for questions. Thank Operator00:16:38you. Thank You will hear a 3 tone prompt to acknowledge your request. Our first question comes from Amar Azat with Industrial Alliance. Please proceed. Speaker 400:17:13Good morning. It's Andre on behalf of Ameren. Thank you for taking our questions. You're tracking above your guidance for top line in SaaS growth last quarter you also had strong momentum. Just wondering what's driving the outperformance relative to your initial guidance And do you foresee this momentum continuing? Speaker 200:17:37You want to Speaker 100:17:37take that one, Mark? Speaker 200:17:39Yes, sure. Yes, thanks for the question. I mean, I think Our top line revenue was really strong. And when we provided the guideposts there for total revenue, We were thinking about a full year and that's the guidance we provided. I think the thing you have to watch pretty In our numbers is that hardware number in our P and L, which can move around quite a bit. Speaker 200:18:06And we had a pretty robust hardware quarter This quarter, we also have a pretty good backlog. But if you look across last year, our hardware quarters range from $3,800,000 to $6,900,000 So there's quite a bit of movement that can happen in there. So I think That provides a little color around that 10% to 15% guidance range that we provided and are sticking with for right now. Speaker 400:18:37Got it. Thanks. And how much are you budgeting for your user conference later this month? Speaker 200:18:45Yes. I mean, that's We haven't really disclosed that number, but I mean really rough orders of magnitude, That's roughly $500,000 event for us. Speaker 400:18:59Got it. Thanks. And one more for Amit. The last couple of calls you noted that you didn't see many opportunities for inorganic growth due to rich pricing. Just wondering how that has evolved since the last Speaker 100:19:14Paul? Yes, there's no real change there. I mean, we continue to Look around and look at what's out there, but we have not our focus at this point is on the organic side. Speaker 400:19:29Thank you. I'll pass the line. Speaker 500:19:32Thank you. Speaker 200:19:32Thanks for the questions. Operator00:19:36The next question comes from Gavin Fairweather with Cormark Securities. Please proceed. Speaker 500:19:43Hey, good morning. Maybe just a quickie for Mark to start. Just looks like the CAD strengthened a little bit in the quarter. Can you just discuss The impact that FX had on ARR growth this quarter? Speaker 200:19:58Yes. And Yes. The headline growth there, I mean, I think we if you think about it Sequentially, we moved from like a 132 level last quarter to 136 Well, also I think there was about maybe 3 to 4 percentage points of upgel in there. Speaker 500:20:27Got it. And then maybe for Peter, just can we dig it a little bit deeper into the healthcare sales environment? How would you Kind of describe buyer intent, obviously saw a couple of new healthcare networks join in one subsequent quarter. But I guess when you look into the pipeline, how are you thinking about the number of IDNs and how are they moving and how are you thinking about your the ability to increase the pace of IDN Speaker 200:20:53Yes, I mean, we're sort Speaker 100:20:55of waiting to see and actually fully pick up Speed, it seems to be accelerating. That team is probably Round numbers, that team is probably 30% larger. The sales team is right 30% larger than it was this time last year. And yet they are very busy. The total Pipeline in sales in Healthcare is up measured by sort of SaaS Potential SaaS revenue is up over 50% from this time last year. Speaker 100:21:29So we're seeing a lot of excellent activity. At the same time, we are seeing frankly, it seems like half of the management teams who are trying to close deals with were in Europe for a vacation this summer. So it's everything is now returning as we get into September and things that we pick up speed. So we'll have to see how the year works out. But if I look at the sort of what we see on the dashboard, great sales team, significantly larger than it was last year and a pipeline up by more than 50 So we're feeling pretty bullish about the outlook in Healthcare, that's for Operator00:22:06sure. Okay. Speaker 500:22:07Good to hear. I mean, maybe some of that will turn into a tailwind in the quarters ahead here. Maybe Just on maintenance, been holding pretty steady. I keep expecting a bit of a deceleration. Maybe you can update us on The planned pace of migrations and how those conversations are going, I mean, you talk about maintenance kind of starting to moderate in the years Speaker 200:22:37I think the conversions from on prem To SaaS, they do continue. And if we look at our pipeline there, the activity there, it's actually the pipeline is actually ahead of where we expected it to Right now in terms of addition additive conversion opportunities, but you raise a good point like we're expecting that number to go down And it doesn't. Our retention rates are super high. In fact, they took we measure those LTM and they ticked So like 97 percent gross retention in this last 12 month period ended July 31, 2023. So really solid retention is helping support that number a bit. Speaker 200:23:26The other thing is Some of our other businesses, in particular that hardware business and that proprietary technology business that we do, it does attach some maintenance and support to that business. And so That's conspiring also along with price increases and strong levels of retention to kind of moderate the decline there. But We do see that conversion pipe building and expect that it's going to continue to head Down rather than out that total maintenance and support line. Speaker 500:24:04Got it. And then maybe lastly before I re queue, Just on SaaS gross margin, you provide that kind of illustrative walk over the next few years on kind of services gross margins SaaS gross margins. I'm curious how the back end optimization work is progressing in that deck. You kind of have assumptions around 75 incremental gross margin on SaaS. Curious if that kind of incorporates some of the efforts you're making on the back end And if there's also an opportunity to kind of improve the existing SaaS base as well? Speaker 200:24:38Yes. It does incorporate that. But I mean, I think the more we scale there and the more we scratch and invest there, the more efficient we become. So we're making we continue to make progress on the key metrics in there Our public cloud and restructure costs as a percentage of revenue, we continue to make progress there. That's with platform optimization and overall infrastructure efficiency, how we set up the platform and utilize on public cloud infrastructure. Speaker 200:25:17So we continue to make progress there. And the other vectors are the other main vectors are cloud operations, Costs and our ability to execute there. So we measure that metric as internally As cloud operation costs, ex public cloud infrastructure costs and monitor that as a percentage of revenue. And we see that still doing interesting things as well as we scale and continue to leverage Our technology, our platform and external technologies that we use to monitor, etcetera, that help us manage that metric. So, I think there's more goodness to continue to squeeze out of that margin as we move forward to scale. Operator00:26:17Our next question comes from John Hsu with National Bank. Please proceed. Speaker 300:26:24Good morning, guys, and thanks for taking my question. I also have a question on gross margin. So you guys definitely have a decent margin expansion this quarter driven by the SaaS business. So from a modeling perspective, is this improvement permanent? And also how should we think about the margin profile in future quarters? Speaker 200:26:44Yes. I mean, I think we provide I would direct you to our investor deck there, John, and we provided some kind of Projection numbers, I hesitate to call them forecast, but sort of projection numbers based upon some assumptions. And we saw We started publishing those a couple of quarters ago. We outperformed what we expected there in Q4 slightly. And I would say right now we're tracking with our expectations and I would leave it at that. Speaker 300:27:22Okay, thanks. And in terms of ARR, how should we read into the Q1 number given it's just sequentially flat It's also because of the timing of deal lumpiness? Speaker 200:27:34Yes. I mean, the ARR number Being sequentially flat, I think we had we have that The $1,900,000 book SaaS bookings number, which was not a fantastic quarter. So That didn't drive up that ARR as much as it otherwise would have increased. So I think that's probably the main driver for the sequential flatness there. Speaker 300:28:08Okay, thanks. Last question is to Peter. So Peter, you mentioned your sales team is 30% larger than compared to last year. So my question is around your Speaker 100:28:25So that's where the bulk of the growth has gone and that's where we've seen the substantial increase in the size of that team. We do plan to continue to invest in the team. I When you look at our LVV to CAC numbers, general guidance in sort of best practices in the SaaS world, If your LTV to CAC is above 3%, you should be pouring more money into sales and marketing. And if you look at our general trend over the last 4 quarters or 8 quarters or whatever time frame you want to pick, we're well above that number. So we continue to invest more in sales and marketing. Speaker 100:29:00You'll continue to see that We limit our investment there largely just to manage productivity. There is a point to which you grow that organization too quickly and you can actually end up with declining sales results because you have just too many new people, not enough Sort of in-depth knowledge of the marketplace, you start blowing opportunities and so on. So we so that the practical considerations of growing an excellent sales team What limits the investment there, because the underlying financial metrics that we track and the KPIs we track tell us that we should be continuing to expand that team quite rapidly. Speaker 200:29:42And John, just Going back to your last question about ARR, I failed to mention, but I should have the FX impact, the sequential FX impact from the end of Q4 to the end of Q1 was actually a negative drag on that ARR number. That kind of offset the gains of the increased Narrow from the SaaS bookings. Speaker 300:30:10Okay. Thanks, Peter. That makes sense. Speaker 100:30:16Thank you. Operator00:30:19Our next question comes from Suthan Sukumar with Stifel. Please proceed. Speaker 600:30:26Hi, Daniel on for Suki in today. Good morning, Peter and Mark. My first question here is on your EBITDA beat this quarter. Can you speak to what drove the beat? Was it due to the pace of timing of growth investments? Speaker 600:30:39Or are you seeing early leverage benefits in the business? Speaker 200:30:45Daniel, can you repeat that question? I didn't quite hear the beginning of kind of broke up a little bit for me at the beginning. Speaker 600:30:52Yes, sure. On your EBITDA beat this quarter, can you speak to what drove the beat? Was it due to the pace or timing of growth investments? Speaker 200:31:03Yes. I mean, we our OpEx was up pretty significantly in the quarter, but The big contribution the big change was the contribution margin in the quarter, which was really solid, as we mentioned, driven mostly by SaaS expansion, but also with a little bit of FX tailwind in that number. Speaker 600:31:32Okay. Good. On professional services revenues, growth appears to be quite healthy again this quarter. Is there anything specific to call out? And can you speak to how much partner engagement there was during the quarter? Speaker 200:31:47Yes. I mean, I think the thing to call out there, Daniel, is our backlog heading into this quarter was very large. We did actually quite a bit of bookings in the quarter as well. So it continues To be over $40,000,000 of backlog, which for us historically is still a very robust number. So we think that probably bodes pretty well for the upcoming quarters. Speaker 200:32:17In terms of partner engagement and partner involvement, I guess Peter mentioned, we've got a whole we've got just a great, great stuff happening on that front. We continue to add Interested SI partners, they're more and more involved in our deals. They're more and more involved on the front end on opportunities. And that gang is getting, yes, it's getting the names that are in that group are getting bigger and the participation is getting You know, Mark Folsom, so we're pretty excited about what's happening there. Speaker 600:32:56That's good to hear. Now just to quickly recap in case I missed it. I think you mentioned that you guys won 2 additional IDN wins this quarter. What are your expectations for the year? Is this still around 12? Speaker 100:33:16Yes, it's a good question. We debate that all the time. I mean, we're seeing we are seeing ever larger opportunities. At the same time, we are Seeing quite a large number of opportunities, average deal size continues to sort of slowly increase. So where that number will land, it's hard to call. Speaker 100:33:36We certainly are investing Sales organization and structuring sales organization to continue to drive that number up and we would like to see us get in the 12 ish range for the year and continue our markup. Our plan is still to get to the point where we can add 20 networks a year, which we'd like to get to within a couple of years. But we're not that's not a firm forecast. That's just what we're trying to accomplish. Speaker 600:34:05Okay. Last one for me. Can you just update us on the current demand environment for the complex distribution side. And have you seen any changes in urgency from a customer at this quarter? Speaker 700:34:20No, not Speaker 100:34:20really a change in urgency. We aren't seeing deals starting to flow on that side. We've got I think we'll see more signed deals probably in this quarter on that side. We'll We did see some activity in the Q1 on that side. So it seems like that marketplace is starting to Get out of panic mode, the inventory is flowing, the ports are wide open, the factories are open, that Things are just generally returning to normal. Speaker 100:34:51As they return to normal, we're kind of back to where we were in 2019, which is that whole sector, Realizing that they're running platforms that were implemented in time for Y2K. And it's they're not really designed for today's world at all. So we are seeing action on that side. And I think as I think I said in the spring, we kind of expected that it would be sometime this fall that the deal flow would Operator00:35:30Our next question comes from of Stephen Lee with Raymond James. Please proceed. Thanks. Speaker 700:35:37Hey, guys. I may have missed it, but the SaaS growth 40%. Did you say how much came from the current customers and how much from new logos? Speaker 200:35:50Yes, we didn't say that. But in the quarter, The bigger driver there this quarter was expansion business. Speaker 700:36:04Okay. Okay. That's fine. And also on your bookings, what would be the split between Healthcare and Complex? Speaker 200:36:17Yes, I don't we didn't really disclose that one either, Stephen, but it would have been actually, it would have been tipped. It would have been It was actually pretty even because the expansion deals had included Some nice complex distribution customers. So those I think it would have been it would in fact, it was slightly tipped towards healthcare, but Complex was definitely contributing to that one as well, but slightly more than 50% healthcare. Speaker 700:36:55Okay, got it. And then when you're talking about bookings here, it applies Both ARR and PS, right, Mark? Speaker 200:37:02No, I'm talking SaaS. Speaker 700:37:05Oh, you're talking SaaS. Okay. Got it. Got it. Okay. Speaker 700:37:07And then just Peter, your comment earlier, I heard you say your total pipeline in Healthcare is up 50%. But then the number of IBMs you won was 2. Does that mean conversion is very lumpy? Can you talk about conversion rates? Speaker 100:37:28Yes. I mean, conversion rates are not only lumpy, but in Healthcare, we don't have Not much conversion left to do. I mean most of the maybe not most, but I mean a significant portion, I'm trying to think now off the top Mark, we're probably at a point where what, 75% of our healthcare clients are already on SaaS? Speaker 700:37:49Yes. Speaker 100:37:50Something like that, even more. So there's not that much conversion left to do there. What You're mainly seeing there is that the expansion in existing SaaS hospital clients It's continuing to be quite strong. So when we look at our pipeline, our pipeline includes some very significant opportunities, Building out this asset customer basis, could you It's Jay that sort of heard one of these networks speak up for themselves. Speaker 700:38:38Right. When we think of significant opportunities with existing customers, is the cycle quicker, shorter? Speaker 100:38:47Yes, for sure it is. For sure it is. I mean, we already have a relationship. We've already got trust built up. They've already got a good understanding of our Platform and how to use it, but it usually builds up an internal team that knows how to support our platform internally from an end user standpoint. Speaker 100:39:06So it's definitely quicker. I mean, there's agreements, I'm just thinking like in Q1, for instance, we signed Fairly substantial expansion and extension of contract, SaaS contract, and that whole process took less than 90 days. Got Speaker 700:39:24it. And last one for me, and again, I probably missed it, but did you say how much is your partner influence deals in the quarter? Thanks. Speaker 200:39:33Yes. What we did disclose there, Steve, is the percentage of our pipeline Operator00:39:51Gentlemen, there are no further questions at this time. Speaker 100:39:56Okay. Well, thank you everyone for joining us. And as usual, if you have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mark or I, and we will talk to you at the end of Q2. 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