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  • Operator

  • Good afternoon. My name is Chris, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Workiva Inc. Q4 and full-year results conference call.

  • (Operator Instructions)

  • Adam Rogers, Investor Relations Manager, you may begin your conference.

  • - IR Manager

  • Thank you and good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Workiva FY14 fourth quarter and full-year earnings conference call. This afternoon we'll begin given comments from Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Matt Rizai; followed by Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, Stuart Miller; and then will turn the call over to questions.

  • Also on the line today is Marty Vanderploeg, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Mike Sellberg, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer. A replay of this call will be available until March 18. Information to access the replay is listed in today's press release which is available on our website under the investor section.

  • As a reminder, today's conference call is also being broadcast live via webcast. Before we begin I'd like remind everyone that today's call we will be making forward-looking statements regarding future events and financial performance including our guidance for the first quarter and full FY15. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties.

  • Workiva cautions that these statements are not guarantees of future performance. All forward-looking statements made today reflect our current expectations only, and we undertake no obligation to update any statement to reflect the events that occur after this call. Please refer to the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements.

  • Also, during the course of today's call we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of non-GAAP to GAAP measures and certain additional information are also included in today's earnings press release. With that, we will begin by turning the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Matt Rizai.

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • Thank you, Adam, and thanks to everyone for joining us today on this call as we report our fourth quarter and full-year 2014 financial results. The fourth quarter capped a great year for Workiva, and our Wdesk productivity platform delivering strong revenue growth. Our total revenue for the quarter was $30.1 million, up 28% over fourth quarter of 2013.

  • For full-year 2014, we generated total revenue of $112.7 million, up 32% over the prior year. Workiva ended 2014 with 2261 customers including more than 65% of the Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies. Our revenue growth was due to increasing market share in the SEC compliance market while gaining customers [cease and use] cases in our non-SEC market.

  • In fact, non-SEC grew at a faster rate than SEC in 2014, which is a trend that we expect to continue in 2015. Beyond SEC compliance we saw strong demand in 2014 in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and management reporting as well as in risk and statistical reporting in the financial services sector.

  • We believe that the market for SOX, which is Sarbanes-Oxley, compliance is considerably larger than the SEC market, and our revenue in our first quarter selling our SOX solution grew at a rate similar to the growth we saw in the first few quarters of selling our SEC solutions. We also saw strength, as I mentioned in management reporting, which encompasses a wide range of business data collaboration use cases including board reporting, monthly operation reviews and [SG&A,] just to name a few.

  • The other area of growth was in financial services including banks, insurance companies and investment management companies that continues to find new cases for Wdesk including ORSA, which is Own Risk and Solvency Assessment, DFAST, which is Dodd-Frank Act stress testing and statutory reporting. Custom adoption of our Wdesk platform continues to grow driven by our customers' organic use of our solutions across their enterprises and by our sales and marketing efforts that drive awareness and adoption of our solutions. We believe we are well-positioned to capitalize on our nearly $7 billion addressable market opportunity, and we are optimistic that we can create a large re-occurring revenue stream over time.

  • Overall, our results demonstrate our continued solid execution and value we deliver to our customers. We have users who tell us that if their employees stop buying Wdesk, then they would quit their job. Wdesk is that valuable to our customers. Stuart Miller, our CFO will spend more time going through our financial results and performance metrics shortly. But before he starts, I would like to spend just a few minutes telling our story to those who are not yet familiar with Workiva.

  • This is our first conference call as a public company. As you know, we completed our initial public offering in December 2014. The IPO provides us with a greater resources to invest in our growth initiatives and also helps to further increase our market awareness. I want to thank our past investors, and I also want to thank and welcome our new shareholders.

  • There is an explosion in the amount of data that enterprises need every day. Approximately 90% of the data is unstructured or residing outside of ERP systems in various locations and formats. At the same time, regulation is increasing which drives additional risk and cost of producing meaningful reports on a timely basis. For companies with employees spread across the globe, collaboration and accountability becomes even more difficult. Legacy systems and technologies that rely on error-prone, manual processes are ineffective at helping executives leverage their business data to make realtime decisions. Accuracy and efficiency have become mission-critical.

  • Our Wdesk productivity platform transforms how companies collect, manage, analyze and report their rapidly growing volumes of business data. Wdesk includes integrated word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications built upon our data management engine with our patented live-linking technology data only needs to be entered once and it's instantly updated throughout the Wdesk with a full audit trail saving time and improving accuracy. Wdesk allows multiple users to simultaneously author, review and publish data-linked documents and reports. Wdesk helps our customers mitigate risk with more control and productivity than ever before.

  • In March 2013 we released Wdesk to meet strong customer demand for our flexible, collaborative, data-linking productivity platform. Wdesk expanded our solution set from SEC reporting to many solutions that we market today which includes compliance, risk, sustainability and management reporting and enterprise risk management. These solutions encompass many use cases.

  • We target large opportunities by identifying significant business data challenges that companies face across many industry verticals. We then market and deliver solutions that solve those critical business pain points. The value we deliver to our customers is validated by our 96% customer satisfaction score, our high revenue retention rates and our Net Promoter Score of 74.

  • So, how do we grow our business currently? And, how do we plan to drive continued solid growth in the future? There are two main parts of our growth strategy. First, our sales and marketing teams will continue to sell our proprietary technology platform and solutions to new Wdesk customers. Today, we serve over 2200 organizations in nearly every industry. With more than 34,000 target organizations in our addressable market, we believe we have just scratched the surface in terms of market penetration.

  • Second, we expect to generate growth by expanding the use case -- use of Wdesk throughout our current customers' organization by adding new users for existing solutions, as well as selling more solutions to our customers. As I mentioned previously, the success we are having with Wdesk for SOX compliance is a great example of how we are executing on our growth strategy. Today, we've got more than 100 organizations including Advance Auto Parts, FirstMerit Corporation in Gulfport Energy Corporations use Wdesk to increase efficiency in documenting, implementing and assessing internal controls over financial reporting as required under SOX.

  • We estimate the addressable market for SOX is over three times the size of opportunity for SEC reporting, which is the primary driver of our growth today. SOX is that much bigger because the number of co-workers who work with SOX compliance linearly grows with the size of the company. In addition, there are a large number of companies that manage internal controls under SOX guidelines because both private and public companies follow these protocols.

  • A great way to illustrate how SOX is driving our land and expand strategy is to look at a customer use case. FirstMerit Corporation started using Wdesk to file its 10-K with the SEC but soon adopted Wdesk for a broader range of solutions. FirstMerit has grown its number of Wdesk seats by more than five times for its employees who use Wdesk for SOX compliance including COSO frame -- framework mapping. COSO is for Committee of Sponsoring Organizations. FirstMerit relies on Wdesk live linking to ensure internal control information is consistent across documents and departments.

  • In addition to SOX compliance reporting, we see strong demand in the financial services market for risk reporting which includes capital planning, resolution and recovery plans, stress testing and internal risk assessments. We have customers with hundreds of employees collaborating on documents that are over tens of thousands of pages long. Wdesk's ability to collect and link business data inside one version with granule control and a full audit [follow-up] trail provides enormous value to every regulated industry such as financial services.

  • Increasing Wdesk functionality is another way we're expanding within our client base to capture solid growth opportunities. For example, now we have more than 100 customers that are using Wdesk data collection, which provides a secure and efficient way to bring critical information from across organizations into a single source of trusted business data.

  • At the Whirlpool Corporation, for example, 120 people from multiple departments use Wdesk data collection to securely gather, aggregate and manage unstructured and structured business data. Each Whirlpool region saves approximately 75 hours per quarter by eliminating administrative non-value-added processes. Over time, we also expect to increase our footprint in Europe where the growth drivers for our solutions are similar to those in the US and Canada.

  • For example, we see significant opportunities in Europe for Wdesk to be used to document, implement and assess internal controls over corporate financial reporting which are similar to the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in the US. In addition sustainability reporting is now mandatory for large companies in Europe, so we see a growing need for business data collaboration and streamlined corporate reporting.

  • In summary, our fourth quarter was strong. Were excited by the breadth of the opportunities that our proprietary technology platform, attractive business model and strong competitive position provide us as we further our expansion and continue to drive long-term shareholder value. With that, let me turn it over to Stuart Miller, our Chief Financial Officer. Stuart?

  • - EVP, Treasurer & CFO

  • Thank you. As Matt mentioned we are pleased with our results for the fourth quarter and full-year. I'll begin by reviewing our fourth quarter and FY14 results, and then I'll comment on our first quarter and full-year 2015 financial outlook. Thereafter, we'll open up the call to your questions.

  • We generated total revenue in the fourth quarter of $30.1 million representing an increase of 28% from the fourth quarter of 2013. Broken down by reporting segment, subscription and support revenue was $25 million, up 31% over the prior year period. Professional services revenue was $5.1 million, a 16% increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

  • Before running down the P&L, let's turn to supplemental metrics. We ended 2014 with 2261 customers, a net increase of 334 customers from year end 2013. For the month of December 2014, our subscription and support revenue retention rate was 97%, which we believe demonstrates the power of our platform and the excellence of our customer service teams.

  • Our retention rate provides a high level of visibility and predictability into future revenue and cash flows. Customers being acquired or ceasing to file SEC reports continue to be the largest contributing factors to attrition reflected in our revenue retention rate. With add-ons our subscription support revenue retention rate was 104.1% for the month of December compared with 108.4% in September 2014.

  • Here's some context for understanding the change. Our quota carrying sales force is divided into three groups, hunters, farmers and hybrids. The majority of our sales force hunts for new logos. Our farmers manage existing accounts and make add-on sales. In April 2014, we began shifting the focus of our farmer teams toward new use cases with larger target deal sizes such as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and risk reporting.

  • As we expected, the time devoted to training our farmer teams and the redirection of our farmer teams attention toward new decision-makers at our customers affected add-on revenue recognized in the fourth quarter of 2014. Focusing our farmer teams on these new higher ACV use cases is the right strategic move for us. In fact, we had good success selling SOX and risk reporting in the fourth quarter to our existing customers. Bur given our subscription revenue model, the impact is largely absent from the December 2014 retention rate with add-ons since most of these new contracts didn't start generating meaningful revenue until January 2015.

  • Moving down our P&L, I will talk about our results before stock-based compensation, in other words, on a non-GAAP basis. We show a reconciliation to GAAP in the press release, which is available in the investor section of our website at www.Workiva.com. First, I'll address cash-based incentive compensation, an expense item that relates to headcount, so it spreads across four line items, cost of revenue, R&D, sales and marketing and G&A.

  • Accruals for cash-based incentive compensation in Q4 of 2014 totaled $3.7 million versus $1 million end of Q4 2013. Post IPO we shifted more incentive compensation to cash instead of stock. In Q4, the $2.7 million additional accrual equated to 880 basis points of expense. Going forward, we expect the accrual for incentive compensation to be more evenly distributed throughout the year.

  • Gross profit was $20.3 million in the fourth quarter, up 19% from the prior year period and represented a gross margin of 67.5%. Subscription and support gross profit was $19 million or 76% of subscription revenue compared to $15 million or 78.4% of subscription revenue in the fourth quarter of 2013. The higher accrual for cash incentive compensation and higher salaries accounted for substantially all of the fourth quarter reduction in gross margin on subscription and support.

  • Professional services gross profit was $1.3 million or 25.9% of professional services revenue compared to $2.1 million or 48.5% of professional services revenue in the same period last year. The decline in our professional services gross profit reflected hiring and training additional consultants ahead of our first quarter seasonal peak. Managing seasonal demand for services is a challenge. We decided to increase hiring and training in the second half of 2014 in anticipation of managing to a more sustainable utilization rate during our seasonal peak in the first quarter of 2015.

  • Turning to operating expenses. R&D expense in the fourth quarter was $11.6 million, an increase of 36%, from $8.5 million in the prior year's fourth quarter (technical difficulty) as well as higher compensation expense. Sales and marketing expense increased 34% in the quarter to $13.7 million. The increase in sales and marketing expense was driven primarily by additional headcount as well as increased advertising expenses to address the significant market opportunities for our expanded Wdesk solutions and use cases.

  • General and administrative expenses were $4.8 million, an increase of 34% compared with $3.6 million in the prior year's fourth quarter. Higher headcount, compensation and professional fees, used to support our operations as a public company account for the increase in G&A expense. Operating loss was $9.8 million compared with an operating loss of $5.2 million in the prior year's fourth quarter. Net loss was $10.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2014 compared to a net loss of $5.1 million in the prior year period. Non-GAAP net loss per share was $0.33 in the fourth quarter of 2014, compared to $0.16 in the prior year period.

  • Now, I will recap our full FY14 results. Total revenue was $112.7 million, up 32% year-over-year. Subscription and support revenue was $91.3 million, increasing 40% over 2013. Professional services revenue was $21.4 million, up 7% from the prior year.

  • Moving down the P&L and again focusing on non-GAAP expenses, gross profit was $79.7 million, rising 31% year-over-year, and representing a 70.7% gross margin. Operating loss was $31.2 million, compared with a loss of $25.9 million the prior year. Net loss was $33.8 million in 2014, and net loss per share was $1.05 which compares to a net loss of $26.2 million in 2013 or $0.83 a share.

  • Turning to our balance sheet and our statement of cash flows, at December 31, 2014, we had cash and cash equivalents of $101.1 million, compared to $18 million as of December 31, 2013 and $20.3 million as of September 30, 2014. Net cash used at operating activities was $3.5 million in 2014, and we invested $8.6 million in capital expenditures in that year. In 2013, Workiva used $10.5 million of cash and operating activities and invested $9.5 million in CapEx.

  • There is one additional item I'd like to mention. In the course of preparing our audited financial statements for 2014, we identified and corrected a non-material error related to our accounting for reimbursements received pursuant to a government jobs training program. This correction was not material to any of our annual financial statements and had no impact on reported revenue or total cash flow in any period. The correction related solely to the timing of the recognition of reimbursement we received for a government jobs trading program. The correction increased our previously reported net loss for the first nine months of 2014 by $143,000. Details of this correction are summarized in table 2 of the appendix to our press release and are summarized in note 2 to the audited financial statements that is included in our Form 10-K which we filed this afternoon.

  • Now, I'd like to finish with our guidance for 2015, and our guidance on non-GAAP loss from operations and non-GAAP loss per basic share exclude the impact of stock-based compensation. You can see the reconciliation to guidance on GAAP numbers in the press release.

  • For the first quarter of 2015, we expect total revenue to range from $33.5 million to $34 million. We expect non-GAAP operating loss to range from $6.7 million to $7.2 million. GAAP operating loss is expected to be in the range of $9.1 million to $9.6 million. We expect non-GAAP net loss per share to range from $0.18 to $0.20. GAAP loss per share is expected to be in the range of $0.24 to $0.26. And our loss per share guidance assumes 40 million basic shares outstanding.

  • For the full FY15, we expect total revenue to range from $139 million to $142 million. We expect non-GAAP adjusted operating loss to be in the range of $37 million to $40 million. GAAP operating loss is expected to range from $48 million to $51 million. Non-GAAP adjusted net loss per share is expected to be in the range of $0.92 to $1 a share. GAAP loss per share is expected to range from $1.19 to $1.27. Again, our loss per share guidance for the full year assumes 40 million shares outstanding.

  • I also want to talk about prepays which show up on our balance sheet as deferred revenue. We expect change in deferred revenue in the first quarter of 2015 to be relatively flat compared to December 31, 2014. Starting in the second quarter of 2015, we will be implementing two shifts in policy on prepays that will affect change in deferred revenue.

  • First, we're reduced incentives for long-term contracts so that we can capture more margin. Second, for new customers we are standardizing to a one-year contract and will apply an up charge to any new customer who wants to sign a quarterly contract. We plan to extend this policy to contract renewals in the third quarter. With these changes in policy, we expect the change in our deferred revenue balance year-to-year to grow approximately half the amount it grew in 2014.

  • In summary, Workiva had a solid fourth quarter from both a financial and operating perspective. Demand remains robust for our solutions, and we will remain focused on executing our strategic growth plan to capitalize on our multi-billion dollar market opportunity. With that, we would now like to take your questions. Operator, we are ready to begin the Q&A session.

  • Operator

  • (Operator Instructions)

  • Jennifer Lowe, Morgan Stanley.

  • - Analyst

  • I think when you all were on the road with the IPO, one of the things that you spent some time talking about was a plan to increase sales hiring and use some of the IPO proceeds to fund that. Just curious if you have an update for us on how the sale hiring is progressing.

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • Our update is pretty much on plan the way we had communicated on the road show in terms of focus is to really spend a lot of our resources on the marketing and sales side and focusing on our hiring additional professionals to the sales organization. And everything is going as planned.

  • - Analyst

  • Great. Maybe taking that a step forward, a look at the guidance for Q1 versus the full-year guidance, it looks like the midpoint of revenue guidance is around 20% for Q1, accelerating to 25% for the year. Maybe, Stuart, can you talk through the levers there and what should drive that accelerating growth trajectory as you move through the year?

  • - EVP, Treasurer & CFO

  • Sure. I think the biggest item there, of course, relates to seasonality. Because, remember the first quarter is our biggest quarter because of the outsized number in professional services, which doesn't grow at the same rate as subscription revenue does. But, the other part of the equation, really, is just gathering momentum that we are seeing.

  • - Analyst

  • Just one last one for me and a little bit of a clarification. Stuart, you mentioned with 104% renewal plus upsell, as I understood it sounded like that was just almost a lagging function were some of these newer focus on bigger upsell deals really isn't going to kick in until next year. I guess two questions there.

  • One, if you look at that mix on a bookings basis versus the revenue basis, is it reasonable to think that would've been higher than 104%? And as you roll into 2015, is the expectation there that that should move higher, as well?

  • - EVP, Treasurer & CFO

  • As you know, we don't talk about bookings, but I can tell you that based on the data that we're seeing internally, it's heading in the right direction.

  • - Analyst

  • Great. Thank you.

  • Operator

  • Michael Nemeroff, Credit Suisse.

  • - Analyst

  • Congratulations on a good Q4 and a good 2014. Just following up on Jen's question on the sales headcount hiring. Could you maybe give us a sense on where -- you said it's going according to plan. Can you give a sense to whether you still need to do more on the farmer or the hunter side? And, what those targets are, maybe, for the year specifically?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • We had talked about, as a matter of fact, we were expecting to grow our sales organization between 25% to 30%. And our focus, obviously, is to make sure that we're bringing a lot of hunters into the organization, but we are also focusing on making sure that the expansion side of the business is going well and therefore, we are expecting to continue the same plan to higher farmers, but our focus is on the hunter side. Marty, do have any addition to that?

  • - President & COO

  • We are having good success finding strong candidates. And we've been able to fulfill all the hiring goals that we've had internally.

  • - Analyst

  • That's great and helpful. Thanks. Maybe on the renewals. Just trying to understand. Is there anything related to pricing? Has pricing held? Have you seen some elasticity? Are you able to increase prices on renewals? If you could just help us understand that, that would be helpful.

  • - President & COO

  • Sure. As you know, we had our first price increase last year that affected 600 companies. Some of those price increases didn't really start hitting until 2015. And we're going through a very meticulous review of contract renewals this year and will be implementing the price increases as appropriate. We've not seen any real pushback on it.

  • - Analyst

  • Just lastly for me. Could you give us a sense for the number of average seats per customer? Or, maybe either just qualitatively how that's been trending and what your expectations are for 2015?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • I don't think we give that guidance at all from the -- in terms of number of seats. But I think qualitatively, as we talked about, we are pretty comfortable with our plan in terms of expansion in 2015, and I think we'll -- we continue to feel that way, and we believe that everything is going on plan.

  • - Analyst

  • That's great. Very helpful. Thanks again.

  • Operator

  • Tom Roderick, Stifel.

  • - Analyst

  • Matt VanVliet on for Tom. First as relates to some of the new sales processes around SOX and data management, could you give us just generally the breakout of how the now 100 plus customers in each of those breakout between existing customers that are using SEC reporting and net new customers?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • Sure. As you know, we have a pretty extensive base of customers, and as a matter of fact, some of the new opportunities that we end up really getting into, was really through communicating with our customers, understanding how they are using Wdesk platform. And as a matter of fact that's how we really got excited about the opportunity to have customers and the companies to use Wdesk for their SOX processes.

  • And so by definition, most of the customers that we have acquired so far has come from the expansion part of our strategy. As of now, a lot of the companies that you are talking about, in terms of the first 100, came from our current customers.

  • - Analyst

  • Following up on that, in terms of those deals and seat pricing, how firmly are you sticking or able to achieve kind of the list price as you expand out through those customers when you are adding the new functionality? And, how much to expand through that whole group, are you looking to discount?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • In terms of, obviously, we feel that our platform is quite valuable and at least that's what our customers are telling us in terms of how valuable it is. So, we really don't think from a discount point of view at all. However, obviously, and we have done this in SEC, too.

  • The first customers that we start introducing and they do a lot of work with us, and they do get some break in terms of pricing as they start using it. And eventually they get into the right proper pricing point of view. That's pretty much the pricing strategy.

  • I think that we tell our sales organization that if we provide the right proper value proposition, that pricing is really secondary compared to what our customer's getting, in terms of -- we are pretty serious from multiple customers that we see, that if Wdesk goes away, they are quitting their jobs. We really focus from the value proposition point of view.

  • Of course, for the initial customers who start really helping us, in terms of pilot these ideas and everything else, we always give some kind of a price break that will normalize as time goes on. But from a pricing point of view, we really don't focus on discounts, in general.

  • - Analyst

  • Great. Thank you, guys.

  • Operator

  • Terry Tillman, Raymond James.

  • - Analyst

  • This is Brian Peterson in for Terry. Thanks for taking the question. Could you guys talk about the seasonality of new seats on the platform? It sounds like that's going pretty strongly and that should ramp into 2015. But I'm curious, just given that most of that is probably coming from SEC and compliance, is that weighted towards any particular quarter?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • Marty, do you want to answer that?

  • - President & COO

  • Sure. In the software industry, in general, Q1 is always the slowest quarter, and that's been even more exaggerated in our SEC business. On the other different applications where we are selling seats, we don't see as much seasonality, and so we think that's going to help us, certainly, as we continue to grow those businesses.

  • - EVP, Treasurer & CFO

  • Can I clarify one thing?

  • - President & COO

  • Sure.

  • - EVP, Treasurer & CFO

  • There are sort of two aspects of seasonality. First quarter is our seasonal peak as far as revenue goes, but it's a seasonal trough as far as sales go.

  • - President & COO

  • That's correct.

  • - EVP, Treasurer & CFO

  • Sales as bookings, we don't disclose bookings.

  • - President & COO

  • In terms of adding feeds, it's our slowest quarter.

  • - Analyst

  • Got it. That's helpful. Then, on the SOX, I know you guys have over 100 customers, now. I don't want to set a target for you, but as we think about that business, maybe four or five years from now, what type of penetration do you think you could get relative to your 2000 plus existing customers? Thanks.

  • - President & COO

  • Well, I'd like to sort of answer the question this way. We're seeing a very similar dynamic to our SEC expansion at that stage, several years ago. We're getting very good reception when we talk to people that have experience with our platform. So, we expect that to be good, in terms of how we deal with the SEC, just in the general market. So, we are very bullish on that.

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • As we indicated, SOX market we see, there's quite a bit bigger than the SEC market, just because there are a lot more people involved, and really, the number of people involved really scales with the size of the company as well. On top of that, we also have private companies who have SOX-like protocol and processes that they go through. So, we are pretty excited about it.

  • - Analyst

  • Sounds good. Thanks, guys.

  • Operator

  • Steven Ashley, Robert W Baird.

  • - Analyst

  • I think I'd just like to drill down on SOX a little more. You called out a couple of times, Matt, on the call, that the TAM of the businesses maybe three times the size of SEC's. My question is average deal size that you are actually seeing for an initial deal for SOX versus SEC. Can you give us a little thought on how that might relate?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • I think, in terms of -- when you talk about initial -- we have some companies who came in earlier, and they were able to test under the trials and so forth. But, I think we're seeing that -- we definitely see that as we talked about it the average deal size, is somewhat bigger than the SEC side and as we move forward, I think that's going to be more so.

  • But, we do definitely, now that we're getting into more and more customers, we do definitely see the average deal sizes climb up toward being bigger than the SEC deals.

  • - Analyst

  • But we shouldn't think of them as being three times bigger or anything like that for an initial?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • No. We're not giving any of those guidance.

  • - Analyst

  • Sure. Is there land and expand kind of aspect to those SOX business? I know it's new. You sold it for a couple quarters. Do expect there to be kind of a follow-on business after an initial purchase?

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • Yes. Absolutely. Marty, do want to --

  • - President & COO

  • Certainly as we saw in the SEC business, I think maybe more amplified on the SOX side, is that customers when they buy the solution, buy it for a set of people that they envision would be sort of the key people. And then as they enjoy the benefits expand, significantly.

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • We are also seeing that we're even getting customers who were not a customer before and got into SOX, and now they're looking and buying seats for the SEC side of it. We're also seeing some excitement from that end in terms of expansion. By definition, as you know, I don't know how familiar you are with FAST processes, but there are so many different groups that get touches from an exposure point of view. We are already seeing comments and indications that definitely will help SOX by sell through help to our expansion of opportunity, not just because they're doing SOX, but they are doing other things within their own groups.

  • - Analyst

  • Terrific. Maybe just lastly for me. You have several products kind of in the pipeline, a couple that I'm just eying myself as issue manager, task and flow manager. Are those still in terms of timing and status? Are they still on schedule?

  • - President & COO

  • This is Marty. Yes. Those products, along with the evidence management for SOX are on schedule.

  • - Analyst

  • Perfect. Thank you so much.

  • Operator

  • Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the question-and-answer session. I will turn the call over to Matt Rizai for any closing remarks.

  • - Chairman & CEO

  • Thank you very much, everybody. In closing I want to thank you for joining us today, and, operator, now you may end the call. Thank you.

  • Operator

  • This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.