Teradata Corp (TDC) 2011 Q1 法說會逐字稿

Welcome to the Q1 2011 Teradata earnings call.

My name is Sean and I will be your Operator for today's call.

At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.

Later we will conduct a question and answer session.

Please note that this conference is being recorded.

I will now turn the call over to Mr.

Gregg Swearingen.

Mr.

Swearingen, you may begin.

Good morning.

And thanks for joining us for our 2011 first quarter earnings call.

Mike Koehler, Teradata's CEO, will begin today by summarizing Teradata's 2011 Q1 results.

Steve Scheppmann, Teradata's, Chief Financial Officer, will then provide more details regarding our financial performance, as well as our increased guidance for 2011.

Darryl McDonald, Teradata's Executive Vice President of Applications, Business Development, and CMO is also in the room to answer questions.

Our discussion today includes forecasts and other information that are considered forward-looking statements.

While these statements reflect our current outlook, they are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary materially.

These risk factors are described in Teradata's 10-K and other filings with the SEC.

On today's call, we will also be discussing certain non-GAAP financial information, such as earnings per share, excluding stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related items, as well as free cash flow, and constant currency revenue comparisons.

A reconciliation of our non-GAAP results to our reported GAAP results, and other information concerning these measures, is included in our earnings release and on the investor page at Teradata's website at Teradata.com.

A replay of this conference call will also be available later today on our website.

Teradata assumes no obligation to update or revise the information included in this conference call, whether as a result of new information or future results.

I'll now turn the call over to Mike.

Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us.

Teradata got off to a good start in 2011, with Q1 revenue of $506 million, up 18% over Q1 of 2010.

Non-GAAP operating income was up 27% over prior year.

And non-GAAP EPS of $0.48 was up 17%, despite a much higher effective tax rate.

Our increased focus and investments in R&D, consulting services, partnerships, and sales territories are helping Teradata to accelerate revenue growth and increase new account wins.

New customer wins in the first quarter were the highest ever recorded during the past 10 years.

In addition to the four key growth initiatives we have been executing the past three years, we have now added two strategic platforms for future growth with our recent acquisitions.

Aster Data for unstructured big data, and Aprimo for integrated marketing management and applications.

Turning to the region results, the Americas revenue was up 22% over a strong Q1 in 2010 when revenues grew 23%.

The Americas also had a record Q1 for data warehouse new customer wins.

Wins included some of the largest companies in financial services, healthcare, retail, and travel.

United Airlines is replacing a large competitor's data warehouse with Teradata to improve realtime customer interactions and enhanced revenue management.

A leading healthcare solutions company is implementing Teradata to drive new insights, enhance collaboration and speed the exchange of critical patient information.

Another great new customer win was one of the largest retailers in the US.

We now have eight of the top 10 global retailers relying on Teradata for operational and strategic insights.

Retail was strong in the US and also globally in the quarter.

Other wins included one of the largest rental car companies, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and Royal Sun and Alliance Insurance in Canada.

The Americas also had a good quarter with Aprimo new customer wins, including AutoNation, and Designer Shoe Warehouse, which is a Teradata customer and has purchased Aprimo's Marketing Studio On Demand to enhance marketing operations.

Upgrade and expansion activities in the Americas were particularly strong in Q1.

Wal-Mart, one of our long-time valued customers, is implementing their next generation integrated data warehouse with Teradata.

Wal-Mart is partnering with Teradata to strengthen its analytic capabilities and also help meet sustainability goals, with a 50% reduction in floor space and a 40% reduction in energy consumption from our latest data warehouse technology.

Best Buy is upgrading their Teradata system to better measure store operations and profitability.

More than 40,000 Best Buy users interact with their Teradata system, processing about 2 million queries every day.

In the government sector, the United States Postal Service added dual active capability to its integrated Teradata warehouse for their mission-critical applications.

And the US Navy is expanding their Teradata environment to help provide integrated insights around aircraft maintenance, flight, and usage information.

Other expansions in the Americas included Boeing, Discover, Ford, and WellPoint in the US, and BBVA Bancomer in Mexico.

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa region also had a good Q1, with revenue growing 18% over prior year to $125 million, and up 15% in constant currency.

Several new customer wins were in the financial services industry, including PKO, the largest retail bank in Poland, which was a new customer win for both Teradata and Aprimo.

PKO will be deploying our multi-channel campaign management application to help analyze consumer preferences and channel usage, enabling the bank to deliver highly personalized marketing offers and increase cross sell revenues.

Another win was at one of the largest banks in eastern Europe, which installed Teradata to consolidate numerous competitive data marts.

This will provide the bank better insights and provide a more cost effective BI environment that will scale to address their future requirements.

And at Lloyd's, we had an Aprimo new customer win.

Lloyd's is one of Teradata's large financial services customers, and will use the Aprimo marketing suite to coordinate and automate marketing operations.

In EMEA and also on a global basis, we are experiencing good growth in financial services, as marketing, compliance, risk, and customer initiatives continue to fuel demand for Teradata.

Expansions and upgrades in EMEA included DHL, which is integrating country level data marts into its growing integrated data warehouse, providing more accurate and up-to-date costs and profitability information.

One of the largest automobile manufacturers replaced several data marts with Teradata to improve performance, reduce costs, while increasing overall IT efficiency.

In the past year, they have consolidated marketing, sales, services, and procurement data and data marts, and going forward, they will be expanding into the quality and warranty areas.

Migros Turk, the largest retailer in Turkey, is upgrading their Teradata system to measure store profitability and more effectively adjust cost structures.

Migros additionally uses Teradata for customer marketing.

Other expansions and upgrades in EMEA included Air France, Barclay's, Belgicom, Nordia Group and Telenor.

Turning to Asia-Pacific and Japan, revenue of $74 million in Q1 was up 4% over prior year, and down 3% in constant currency.

Within the region, we saw growth in the greater China area, Korea, and Japan.

Concerning the earthquake in Japan, we would first like to express our sympathy to the people of Japan and our deep admiration of how they are dealing with the disaster.

I would also like to recognize the outstanding work and commitment put forth by the Teradata team in Japan, supporting both our customers and our employees.

We did not experience any material impact to our business in the quarter, but it's a little too early to tell if there could be an impact longer term.

New customer wins in APJ included U Co-op Federation, Japan's second largest retail consumer cooperative, which is integrating customer information across the enterprise and improving its analytics for better customer service and profit.

PT Bank China Trust in Indonesia, and also a leading bank in Hong Kong.

We also saw some key communication industry expansions in the quarter.

KDDI, which is Japan's second largest telecommunications company, and became a Teradata EDW customer two years ago, is now adding a Teradata Extreme Data Appliance to execute new and complex analytics, along with SAS, on their Hadu web log data from mobile devices.

This will enable KDDI to track and predict customer behaviors and improve their service.

And at SmartTone Mobile Communications, Hong Kong's leading mobile operator, they expanded their EDW as a result of the increases in customer usage of mobile computing devices, and to support their objective of providing the best network service.

Other upgrades included China Trust Commercial Bank, Coca-Cola West Japan, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Seven Card Service, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and West Bank Bank.

Looking to the future, the explosion of data will continue.

IDC says this explosive growth means that by 2020, our digital universe will be 44 times as big as it was in 2009.

Whether data grows by 44X or 22X by 2020, it's a lot of data that corporations will need to manage and extract value from.

We now have 13 customers that are members of the Teradata Petabyte Club.

And we closed another order in Q1 for an Extreme Data Appliance that is several petabytes alone.

The number of companies with petabyte data warehouses will continue to grow.

And the new data types from sources such as social media, web interactions, mobile and sensors will provide the ability for corporations to innovate and compete with new analytics.

This in turn will drive more usage and users onto the integrated data warehouses like never seen before, and require data warehouse providers to be able to manage extreme scale and complexity.

This is what Teradata does so well today.

And with the acquisition of Aster Data, we will be enhancing our customers' ability to do analytics with unstructured big data.

We also just released the 6680 Active Data Warehouse, which is a game-changer in being able to effectively deal with big data in an integrated data warehouse environment.

This industry-first hybrid data warehouse allows customers to mix and match extreme performance, high cost storage media, like solid state flash drive, with lower performance, lower cost storage options like traditional hard disk drives.

And our industry-first Teradata virtual storage software automates the placement of data on the different storage devices based on its usage.

Data usage can shift from hot to warm to cold and back again, based on age, users, and applications changing dynamically.

Teradata will make it possible for our customers to meet the challenge of managing the data explosion and extracting value from it, with the most cost efficient and optimized data warehouse environments in the industry.

Moving on to Aprimo, the acquisition has made Teradata a leader now in integrating marketing management.

Marketing presents a great opportunity to grow revenues with Aprimo's suite of marketing applications.

But in addition, Aprimo serves as a foundation to build out more applications and to leverage their software-as-a-service and cloud capabilities more broadly longer term.

The integration is well underway and we have already merged our existing Teradata applications into Aprimo.

Overall sales activity is up and we have had good activity in our Teradata user base, including wins in the first quarter.

Regarding our initiatives to broaden Teradata's market reach, we continue to hire and ramp up our consulting services business.

Revenues grew 18% in Q1 and our managed services growth was particularly strong, as more customers look to Teradata's deep experience to manage their BI environments.

Our partnerships continue to progress.

SAS and Teradata recently announced the SAS high performance analytics on Teradata.

In addition, we continue to leverage our joint product advisory team that has been established to provide input for future Teradata SAS offerings.

With SAP, we continue to progress towards general availability of SAP BW on Teradata.

We currently have two customers in ramp-up or early deployment, and several more customers who are waiting for GCA and are enthusiastic about the performance and value SAP BW on Teradata will bring them.

We continue to add sales territories and plan to exit the year with at least 505, or up 30 at a minimum from 2010.

We added a team last year in the US to cover customers outside of the Global 3000, and have had very good success.

Numerous new accounts have been won, momentum is building, and we are adding more head count in 2011.

And last, our platform family appliance pipeline and revenue continues to grow at a rapid pace, and is contributing to our increase in new customer wins.

In Q1, our 2000 class data warehouse appliance revenue accounted for slightly above 10% of our product revenue.

And it's on a trajectory that could approach the mid teens longer term.

In closing, we are increasing 2011 full year revenue guidance to 14% to 16% growth.

And we're increasing our non-GAAP EPS guidance range to $2.13 to $2.23.

Included in the revenue guidance is 4 points of benefit from currency.

Steve Scheppmann will now provide more details on our first quarter results and on our full year guidance.

Steve?

Thanks, Mike.

And thanks for joining us this morning.

We had another strong quarter in Q1, driving revenue growth of 18% that yield growth in non-GAAP earnings per share of 17%.

Product revenue of $235 million improved 18% from the first quarter of 2010, and increased 16% in constant currency.

Services revenue of $271 million grew 18% and was up 16% in constant currency.

Within our services revenue, consulting services increased 24% and maintenance services improved 13% in the quarter.

Before I get into more of the operational details, let me discuss the special items we incurred in the first quarter of 2011.

As I mentioned last quarter, we were required to make purchase price accounting adjustments associated with Aprimo's deferred revenue on our opening balance sheet.

These adjustments will negatively impact our operating results on a comparative proforma basis.

Under US GAAP, we were required to reduce Aprimo's deferred revenue and related activity by approximately $7 million, or $0.02 per share.

This adjustment had a rippling effect throughout our income statement, negatively impacting GAAP operating margins and EPS.

Transaction, integration, and reorganization costs of approximately $7 million, or $0.03 per share, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles of approximately $3 million, or $0.01 per share, and finally, noncash stock-based compensation expense of approximately $9 million, or $0.04 per share.

Given that these special items impact several line items throughout our income statement, I will limit my commentary and leave more time for Q&A, my discussion, unless highlighted differently will focus on the relevant income statement line items on a non-GAAP basis, excluding the impact of the before-mentioned special items.

For further transparency, we have added a GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation schedule to our earnings release format.

This schedule, which has been posted to our website in the past, is now included as Schedule E of our earnings release.

We often include a table including EPS on a GAAP basis to a non-GAAP basis for special items in the footnotes of our earnings release.

We provide this non-GAAP information because we use this information internally to manage the business.

And this basis of presentation provides a more comparable analysis when analyzing our performance against our peers.

Moving to our operating results, gross margin in the first quarter of 2011 was 55.7% compared to 55.2% in the first quarter of 2010.

The improvement in gross margin from the year-ago period results in an improvement in our product gross margin.

Product gross margin in the first quarter was 67.6%, up 360 basis points from 64% in the first quarter of 2010.

The improvement was primarily due to a more favorable mix of transactions in the Americas and the EMEA regions as compared to the first quarter of 2010.

Consistent with other aspects of Teradata's business, including revenue and margins, our product gross margin can be very inconsistent quarter by quarter, driven primarily by product or deal mix.

For example, in Q2 2011, may be a good example of this variability.

As Mike mentioned, we are seeing good activity for our extreme big data appliance, or our 1000 series, and anticipate a large 1000 series transaction in Q2.

This activity is correspondingly included in our full-year revenue guidance for 2011.

It's great to see the demand for our big data appliance, which is incremental activity to our core EDW business.

However, as we have said before, the product gross margins on these 1000 series appliances, driven by the higher storage component, are meaningfully lower than our product gross margins generated by our core EDW or even our 2000 series appliance.

As a result, significant revenue from this type of sale would lower our product gross margin.

But as we said in the past, to counteract the possible fluctuations on our quarterly performance, you should analyze this on a comparable 4 to 6-quarter basis to smooth out the inherent quarterly operational variations in our business model.

Services gross margin, on the other hand, in the quarter declined to 260 basis points to 45%, versus a very strong 47.6% in Q1 of 2010.

Margin improvement in our maintenance business was not significant enough to offset the margin headwind on overall services gross margin created from the adding incremental consulting resources to meet the anticipated increased demand for our consulting services.

Our consulting services business has been expanding its head count in response to growing business opportunities, which initially can have a negative impact on margins, particularly while new consultants are being trained and are not fully productive.

During their 6 to 9-month ramp-up stage, these new resources do not generate revenue, so investing in additional consulting resources create a short-term headwind to overall services margin.

Moving through a brief geographical view of gross margin on a GAAP basis.

In the Americas region, gross margin was 57%, a decrease from the 57.9% in the first quarter of 2010.

The decrease was from lower services gross margin.

Gross margin for the EMEA region in the first quarter was 56%, a nice improvement from the 53.8% in the first quarter of 2010, benefiting from favorable deal mix versus the prior year period, which offset lower services margins.

Gross margin in APJ for the first quarter was 40.5% versus 46.5% in Q1 2010.

The decline was due to the timing of product revenue versus services revenue, which is not uncommon for Teradata and the impact is amplified in our smallest region.

Turning to our operating expense structure, SG&A expense in Q1 2011 was $136 million, an increase from the $115 million in Q1 last year.

The increase was primarily driven by the addition of SG&A from Aprimo, higher selling expense from the increased number of sales territories, as well as higher commissions related to the higher revenue.

As we discussed in previous quarters, we expect a continued increase in our selling expense in 2011, as we continue to add more sales territories to reach more new customers.

R&D in the quarter was $33 million versus $31 million in the first quarter of 2010.

The increase included the addition of Aprimo's R&D expense.

I would like to remind everyone that we invested more in our R&D activity than what is reported on the R&D expense line item on our income statement.

To see our total R&D spend or investment, you need to add the R&D expense and the amount we capitalized, which is included in the line item, Additions of Capitalized Software, on the statement of cash flows.

In Q1, the total is approximately $52 million compared to approximately $46 million in Q1 2010, or a 13% increase.

And, as you may recall, we then amortize the capitalized software costs over time back through the income statement, which shifts the cost of product revenue and impacts our product gross margin.

For the full year 2011, on a GAAP basis, we expect approximately $165 million to $170 million of R&D expense, including Aprimo and Aster Data R&D.

Teradata's operating margin on a non-GAAP basis in the first quarter was 22.7% in Q1 2011 versus 21.2% in Q1 2010 as our non-GAAP operating income increased 27% year-over-year.

Our non-GAAP effective tax rate in Q1 2011 was 29%, up from the 23% effective tax rate in the first quarter of 2010.

The tax rate in the first quarter 2010 benefited from the recognition of a $5 million foreign net operating loss carry-forward.

To summarize it all up here, for the quarter, excluding special items, non-GAAP EPS was $0.48 in Q1 2011 compared to $0.41 in Q1 2010, a 17% increase, despite a 26% increase in our non-GAAP tax rate.

We expect our non-GAAP tax rate for the full year to approximate 28%.

Our non-GAAP tax rate is a little higher than our GAAP rate due to the majority of the non-GAAP adjustments residing in the US.

Turning to the cash flow.

Net cash provided by operating activities was $106 million in Q1 2011, down from the $138 million generated in the first quarter of 2010.

The decrease in cash from operating activities was due in part to the increase in the receivables balance, due to the significantly higher revenues in Q1 2011, as well as the timing of cash collections of receivables sequentially and year-over-year.

Recall that we had a strong free cash flow quarter in Q4 2010 due in part to the favorable timing of collections, which in turn then had a corresponding negative impact on free cash flow in Q1 2011.

I point this out because this is yet another example of how it is common for the impact of AR to move up and down for Teradata from a quarter to quarter basis due to the size and timing of transactions, particularly quarterly.

To further highlight the timing of receivables collections, we collected approximately $249 million of cash from receivables in April of 2011 compared to $148 million for the same period last year.

With respect to our accounts receivable, DSO was 85 days as of March 31, 2011 compared to 76 days as of December 31, 2010.

The incremental cash collections I previously described in April would have reduced the DSO by 14 days as of March 31, 2011.

After $27 million of capital expenditures, which include additions of capitalized software, development costs, and expenditures for property and equipment, versus $21 million in the first quarter of 2010, we generated $79 million of free cash flow compared to $117 million of free cash flow generated in Q1 2010.

I would like to remind everyone that we are now including Aprimo in our cash flow statement, which increases working capital line items, such as accounts receivables beyond Teradata's historical trend levels.

Even though free cash flow was lower in the first quarter versus the prior year, free cash flow was still 120% of net income, which is in line with our expectations that on an annual basis, our free cash flow should approximate our net income, plus or minus $35 million each year.

However, as I mentioned before, this relationship can fluctuate quarter to quarter.

As a reminder, Teradata defines free cash flow as cash flow from operating activities, less the capital expenditures for property and equipment and additions to capitalized software.

Turning to the balance sheet, we had $778 million of cash as of March 31, 2011, a $105 million decrease from the end of the fourth quarter, due to the funding of the Aprimo acquisition.

We closed the Aprimo transaction during the quarter, and we used the entirety of our pre-existing $300 million revolving credit facility, as well as approximately $225 million, or $200 million net of cash on Aprimo's balance sheet, of our US cash to fund the purchase price.

Additionally, we closed the Aster Data acquisition on April 5 and funded that transaction with a new $300 million term loan.

Since the transaction was completed after the end of the quarter, our March 31 balance sheet does not reflect the Aster acquisition, or funding of the acquisition.

Furthermore, due to our receiving a significant amount of cash from accounts receivable collections immediately after March 31, we subsequently used those funds to primarily pay down a $300 million credit facility by $280 million, leaving a current remaining outstanding balance of $20 million on the revolving credit line.

The net effect of all these, quote, post quarter-end items is as of April 29, we had approximately $600 million of cash, approximately $100 million of cash in the US, and $500 million offshore, with $300 million of total debt, $300 million on the new term loan, and $20 million on the revolving credit facility.

As a result of our acquisitions, we did not repurchase any shares in the quarter.

As we said before, we expect that the rate of our buyback will continue to fluctuate each quarter, taking into account, among other things, our working capital needs, our stock price, alternative uses of cash, US cash balance, and economic and market conditions.

That said, we do anticipate buying back stock in 2011.

We have approximately $161 million of board authorization remaining for our open market share repurchases.

To provide further transparency around currency movement and the potential impact on our 2011 revenue, we provide a schedule on our website detailing out how currencies have moved since the respective periods in 2010 to indicate how this movement is expected to impact our year-over-year revenue comparisons in 2011.

Assuming the currency exchange rates as of the end of April, and assuming currency rates do not change throughout the remainder of just 2011, we expect currency to provide an approximate 4 points of benefit for us in 2011, with an approximate 6 point benefit in Q2 based on the exchange rate as of the end of April.

Turning to full year guidance.

After another solid quarter in Q1, and we are looking at a healthy pipeline for Q2, so we expect to get off to another good start in the first half of 2011.

However, at this time in our year, based on how our operational model works, it's hard for us to have the same level of predictability to accurately forecast revenue growth in the second half of the year.

Turning to our EPS guidance, we expect to see a continuation of what we saw in Q1.

Higher selling expense due to increased compensation, presales, and other related costs associated with the new territories we added in 2010, and those we expect to add in 2011.

We expect services margins to improve sequentially from Q1, as we begin to absorb the costs of the additional consulting resources.

And we continue to expect higher R&D investments versus 2010.

Incorporating these factors into our EPS guidance, we expect GAAP EPS of $1.76 to $1.86.

However, this is based on and includes the following assumptions.

First, approximately $33 million, or $0.12 a share of stock-based compensation expense.

$9 million in Q1, and $8 million per quarter for Q2 through Q4.

Second, approximately $16 million, or $0.06 a share, of estimated purchase accounting adjustments related to the Aprimo transaction.

Third, approximately $24 million, or $0.09 a share, of amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets.

Fourth, transaction, integration, reorganization related costs, approximately $28 million, or $0.10 a share.

And finally, based on a weighted average share outstanding assumption of an estimate of 172 million shares.

Based on these assumptions and exclusions, we expect our increased expectations for revenue growth and EPS to more than offset the previously discussed $0.03 dilution associated with the Aster Data transaction.

And as a result, we are increasing our non-GAAP EPS guidance to $2.13 to $2.23 per share for 2011.

We're off to another good start in 2011 and we look forward to the remainder of the year.

We are also looking forward to completing the integration of the Aprimo and Aster Data businesses into Teradata, and increasing our addressable market reach into these two new exciting market opportunities.

And with that Operator, we're ready to take questions.

(Operator Instructions) Wamsi Mohan from Bank of America.

Thank you, good morning.

Can you help us understand, of the $506 million in GAAP revenue, how much of that was from Aprimo in calendar 1Q?

Hello, Wamsi.

Yes, what you'll see on the Aprimo transaction is revenue for 2 months because the close was late January.

And it approximates $10 million on a GAAP basis.

Now, if you remember, we had the non-GAAP adjustment, and so in total, what you'll see on the GAAP financial statements are approximately $10 million for those 2 months.

Okay, great, thanks.

That would suggest about 15% growth ex M&A, including FX, and 13% organic.

So it's fair to say that your organic growth is continuing to accelerate here?

We had a very positive and strong first quarter organically, yes.

Okay, thank you.

And your product margins also expanded in the quarter.

And Steve, I think you alluded to the fact that 10% of revenues were still from appliances.

Does that suggest that the mix of appliances were skewed towards smaller size?

And can you comment on how material appliance sales were to the middle market?

The appliance sales, Wamsi, from an overall perspective, were slightly above low teens growth on the appliances in Q1.

Nothing that was unusual that we saw in the pipeline.

The margin dynamics, again, stayed pretty consistent than what we've seen.

So, there wasn't really anything unusual in the product margin.

It's very typical on Teradata from that product margin performance.

With respect to what I've seen going forward, I commented upon the large extreme data appliance possibly in Q2.

But again, I don't see anything unusual in the appliance margins in Q1.

We've said in the past that our average ticket on the appliances is about $500,000.

The margin dynamics are lower than the EDW on the 2000 series.

But again, nothing was unusual in that performance in Q1.

The product margins were basically in line with what we saw for 2010, when you look at the whole year.

And Q1 of last year we had a lumpiness downwards in product margin.

Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley.

Thanks, good morning.

I have a couple of questions on the quarter, but I first want to ask one on your go-to-market strategy.

We've started to hear from value-added resellers that analytics is now a driver of their business with lower priced appliances.

What, if, any plans do you have to work more closely with channel partners to complement the direct sales strategy?

Katie, this is Mike.

We've been working with SIs and other channels for the past several years.

We work with the global SIs, as well as local SIs in various countries and geographies around the world.

A lot of it is a sell-with model because of the depth of our consulting services organizations, but we've had good success, generally speaking, around the world.

Is it fair to say that there's more interest from those partners, or would you characterize it as similar to the past few years?

Overall, I would say it's somewhat similar.

Okay.

And then on the quarter, there was a huge jump in deferred revenue, both sequentially and year-on-year in the March quarter.

Can you just talk about whether you view that for an indicator of strong revenue growth, or were there some drivers of lumpiness in March?

Katy, the biggest driver was the addition of the Aprimo transaction.

Even though we had purchase price accounting adjustment to write down the deferred revenue, there was still a significant amount of deferred revenue that did, in fact -- we were able to retain on our balance sheet.

In addition, the total of what I've usually shared is subs and maintenance still represent greater than 70% of that deferred revenue balance.

So nothing unusual.

And some of it, we continued to have maintenance growth from the strong product growth last year flowing through.

So again, the biggest indicator is the Aprimo transaction.

Overall, I'm still in excess of 70% on maintenance and subs in that deferred revenue balance.

So nothing really unusual other than the maintenance growth that we had off the product revenue growth from last year.

Okay.

And then lastly, the increased revenue guidance appears to be entirely currency-driven, the 4 points versus an expectation of a 2-point benefit previously.

And that's despite the first quarter beat and the strong uptake of the 1000 series appliance that you discussed.

How should we read into that as it relates to your view of the pipeline for the remainder of the year?

When we look at the pipeline, Katy, where we sit right now, we feel good about being at the higher end of the revenue guidance for the first half.

And currently, what we've modeled in for the second half is more towards the lower end of the guidance range.

It's not being driven by anything other than we've got a very good handle on the services part of our business.

And on the product side, as you know, we operate with not a lot of backlog.

And given that, we've taken a more conservative view of somewhere around double digits on the product revenue growth as we get into the second half.

Okay.

And so it's fair to say that the pipeline remains strong, the only issue is visibility and timing of closings and as you gain that visibility, you'll reflect that in guidance as we go through the year?

Correct.

Pipeline remains strong across the entire platform family.

So from EDW to the 2000 to the 1000.

And that's correct.

Nabil Elsheshai from Pacific Crest.

Hello, guys.

Thank you for taking my question.

Couple things.

One, you've mentioned and highlighted the partnership of SAP, a couple initial customers, and several more in the pipeline.

I was wondering if you could talk about the characteristics of those deals and those opportunities.

Are they typical traditional EDW type of deals, are they larger, smaller, what do they look like?

I think Nabil -- this is Darryl -- I think it's two looks.

One is, a couple of the accounts is where Teradata has an EDW and they want to take advantage of putting BW on there with the other non-SAP data.

We are also seeing in some of the new accounts that we're landing, that our SAP customers -- and they may be upgrading to the new suite -- they are looking to implement this as a new footprint.

Again, the value they see in BW on Teradata is, one, increased performance, and then, two, the ability to integrate the non-SAP data with the SAP data for more insight on their analytics.

Okay.

And then switching gears, you had a good consulting quarter and you've been hiring aggressively.

Any color on what type of growth rate do you think?

We've talked in the past about how that correlates with product growth.

But do you see that accelerating to keep up with product growth, or does it continue to lag in that area?

The correlation with product growth isn't clear.

Separate of the product growth, Nabil, we are seeing very good demand for consulting services.

We're also driving demand for consulting services.

And we've increased a number of our offers over the past couple years in the area of BI consulting, as well as managed services.

And basically the demand to have better data architectures, better environments for the data, the demand is very strong.

And we did have an excellent quarter in terms of consulting services revenue growth.

We're continuing to hire and ramp and we do have the opportunity in the consulting services to do a mid double-digits type of growth in 2011.

Okay, great.

And the last one, you guys did your annual product refresh, but you changed the product number, so that seemed to indicate what you guys consider a fairly major refresh of the flagship EDW products.

So number one, is it possible that that could drive a stronger than normal upgrade cycle?

And two, what kind of interest are you getting from the SST version of the new 6000 series?

The product you're referring to, Nabil, is the 6680 that we just released 2 or 3 weeks ago.

And the reaction in the market, quite frankly, has been overwhelming.

It's a game-changer.

It not only utilizes different storage devices, but it automatically places data based on its usage between hot, warm, and cold storage media.

And the key is, it does it automatically, because the usage of data varies depending on who the users are, what applications it is, and everything else.

And to get the maximum performance out of an integrated data warehouse environment, you want to have as much solid state type of technology in play as possible, but it's very expensive.

And you want to mix that with less used data with less expenses type of storage media.

So there is strong demand.

And could we get an uptick?

There is that possibility and the reception by customers and analysts has been extremely strong.

And for that version of it, when you look at the pipeline, since it's so new, is it more customers looking to migrate their existing or do floor sweeps so that they have the solid state drive configuration?

Or is it new customers and new opportunities who are driving it?

It's both.

But in the case of a new customer that's starting off in an integrated data warehouse type of environment with a meaningful number of user applications and so forth, it's a no-brainer, because the cost performance of it surpasses everything in the industry, including ourselves.

In the user base, it does create some interest because most of our users -- all of our users -- are on one type of storage medium.

Either all solid state, and the vast majority all conventional storage.

The other thing is, this software that automatically places data, that is Teradata virtual storage, and that is a key piece that we have that no one else in the market has.

The other thing, Nabil, that's unique on this platform and this software is that the environments are very dynamic.

So if you think about analytics, new data, new users, new applications, it's constantly changing.

And so the ability to automate that brings a lot of efficiency to organizations, they don't need as many people, but yet they are constantly tuning their environment for performance, which allows them to get more performance at lower costs.

Bhavan Suri from William Blair and Company.

Please go ahead.

Yes, guys, just a couple of follow-ups on Nabil's question there.

If an existing customer was looking at the 6680, can you add that on to the existing system, or would that typically require a floor sweep?

Yes, with the new platform, it will require them to look at going with the new platform going forward and then coexist with future generations of the 6000.

But it wouldn't back integrate with the 5500 series?

No

That's a good question, because we do coexistence across our whole EDW family.

And this one is such a game-changer and unique in its technology.

We'll continue to offer all conventional storage platforms so our customers can continue coexisting and building out their EDWs without a floor sweep.

But you're correct, to take advantage of this technology, it's a floor sweep.

The 5000 is still available for customers that want to continue to grow that footprint.

Sure.

And on the competitive front, have you heard much or have you run into the HANA appliance from SAP?

How does that play in with this concept of BW on Teradata when SAP's thinking of a data warehouse appliance too?

Yes, we do see HANA in the marketplace working with SAP and their customers.

We think that it's a perfect add-on or addition to the ecosystem.

So we think that there's a place for the EDW, we think there's a place for BW, and we think there's a place where HANA plays in the enterprise.

As we consult with customers, we position it for the right technology for the right business and technology solution that the customer should drive.

Just one last one from me, any concerns about the LSI acquisition and potentially pricing changing on that front?

Or do you have contracts in place to manage that?

We don't have any concerns at all, and NetApps will be a great partner with us, just like LSI was.

Matt Summerville from KeyBanc.

Good morning.

Just a question on Teradata and Aprimo.

Could you talk a little bit about, in the quarter the deal flow you saw there?

And, Mike, you talked about it a little bit in your prepared remarks.

How much of that right now is coming from the core Aprimo funnel versus buildout of that funnel as a result of now being under the Teradata umbrella?

I'm trying to get an early read on, 4 months into the deal or so, the kind of success you're having in driving that funnel now that it's part of the organization.

Most activities coming from the Aprimo funnel pre Teradata.

And we're very cognizant to keep that flow going and Aprimo will continue to build that.

What we're very encouraged about is the amount of additional activity and wins we've had with Aprimo into the Teradata user base.

And I called out a couple of those that we could name, by name, in the prepared remarks.

So overall working exceptionally well.

And then, Steve, on a non-GAAP basis, I think originally you were a little bit hesitant to give more specifics on anticipated accretion from Aprimo in 2011.

Now that that's closed, is there any more detailed number you can give us on that?

No, Matt.

We basically, as I said a couple months ago, basically break-even and slightly accretive in 2012.

We just basically incorporated that right into the guidance range.

There's really not much movement.

It's still basically break-even on a non-GAAP basis that we have built into the guidance that we gave of $2.13 to $2.23.

We basically raised the guidance $0.06 in theory and minus a $0.03 dilution, estimated dilution from Aster Data.

So the net increase was $0.03, to incorporate that into our guidance.

So Aprimo's still basically tracking at where we thought it would be with our acquisition model as being basically break-even on non-GAAP.

Ed Maguire from CLSA.

Yes, good morning.

Had a couple of questions.

On the regions, it seems like Europe really is rebounding pretty healthy.

But Asia continues to lag.

And I know you mentioned that Japan was not a big issue in the quarter.

But could you comment more broadly in terms of your sense of tone of business in both of those regions and where you also see potential for Aprimo and Aster outside of the US?

On the core Teradata data warehouse business, over the years we've seen a little bit of lag in market adoption outside the US as it relates to integrated data warehousing or enterprise data warehousing and so forth.

And sometimes international tends to trail the US.

And we're seeing very strong pickup in EMEA, as you said.

And in APJ, we have been lagging.

Now, in APJ, there's different countries, different cells, different factors.

And we have been talking about the softness in Japan as it relates to Teradata the past year or so.

And we were encouraged.

Japan grew their business in the first quarter and looks like they will be growing in 2011.

APJ overall, we think in constant currency, there's a big currency benefit there.

At this point, we think there's a very good opportunity they will get up into the higher single digits.

And we realize that trails the rest of the world, but we're making headway there.

Regarding Aprimo and Aster Data, the concentration of their revenues is primarily in the US.

And that presents a great opportunity for us to expand outside the US.

And in particular, we have good activity with Aprimo in EMEA, and we've had some nice wins there since the acquisition.

Brad Reback from Oppenheimer.

Hello, guys, how are you?

So, Mike, as you talk about the acceleration demand out there and this explosion of new data sources, et cetera, could you maybe help us understand why you're not hiring more sales teams?

We're hiring, Brad, at a rate, we'll hire at a minimum 30 more teams this year, put in place at a minimum 30 more teams this year.

We do have the opportunity to add more.

You can see the uptick in our SG&A in the first quarter.

It's basically all selling expense.

We are trying to balance a little bit what the operating income yield is on the revenue growth that we're experiencing.

And it's worthy of consideration.

I think it's a fair question and it's something we're always looking at.

Great.

And then just one follow-up.

On this big deal that you're working on, the 1000 series in the quarter, could you give us any sense of how that customer intends to use the product?

They will be using it with big data.

Yes, it's a big data project.

And I think as Mike talked about, some of the areas that we're seeing on the consulting side is we're seeing more and more customers experimenting with big data and their enterprises, how to leverage that immediately and also long-term in their initiatives.

So it's centered around that type of a project.

If I can add, Brad, this is a large enterprise data warehouse customer.

It's really why we're starting to refer more and more to an integrated data warehouse, because not everything in the enterprise belongs being integrated.

So this is data that's specific to a certain limited number of users.

It's not valid across the entire organization.

And basically it's a several petabyte data mart that's dealing with big data analytics.

And we see great market opportunity for us.

It's what we call our Extreme Data Appliance.

Does this deal include Aster as well, or is there an opportunity to pull Aster through?

This does not deal with Aster.

Aster gets that working directly with Hadu.

Yes.

In the future, there might be an opportunity to leverage it, but right now this is a Teradata solution that we've been working on prior to the Aster acquisition.

Okay.

That concludes.

I would like to thank everyone for joining the call today.

We're off to a very strong start in 2011.

And I think, more importantly, we feel very good about the foundations we've laid for future revenue growth, and not just about 2011, but looking at the opportunity for Teradata longer term.

So, thanks, everyone.

Look forward to talking to you again next quarter.

Have a good day.

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