Q4 2020 Earnings Call

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Thanks, Bye-bye, we closed fiscal year 20, with outstanding Q4 results with revenue earnings and free cash flow coming in above expectations recurring revenue grew 29% and we delivered 1.36 billion in free cash flow for the year.

Results were driven by strong growth in all geographies.

What a landmark year for us in construction is we absorb or acquisitions and integrated offerings into one platform the autogas construction costs.

Subscriptions now represent around 85% of our revenue and we exited the year with maintenance contributing less than 10%.

Fiscal year, 20, marquee and as a business model transfers transition for us and we are entering fiscal 2001 firmly positioned to deliver strong sustainable growth through fiscal 2003 and beyond.

It was three years ago that we first communicated our fiscal 20 pre cash flow. We have delivered on that goal, which is a testament to the adaptability and focused execution of the August ecosystem and the power of our park.

I want to acknowledge and thank our employees partners customers long term investors and everyone who helped us achieve these results while the path to delivering on our long term targets was not always moon, everyone, who stayed with us and believing that transition has been rewarded.

Beyond that the dramatically reduced upfront costs created by the subscription model have enabled a whole new class of customers to purchase our most powerful pools opening not only business opportunities for our business, but for the businesses of our customers as well.

Before we get into our resulting targets I want to mention that our thoughts are with those affected by the Corona buyers the safety and security of our employees is our top priority. We're also minimizing potential impact to our customers and partners. The events are not currently impacting our service levels, two or four customers or global R&D efforts.

We will continue to monitor the situation and take for cautionary steps.

Now I'll turn it over to Scott to give you more detailed on our results in fiscal 2001, guys. I'll then return with a summary of some important recognitions, we received and insights on key drivers of our business, including update on construction manufacturing and our progress in monetizing non compliant users before we open it up to QNX.

Thanks, Andrew.

As you heard from Andrew we have strong performance across all metrics with revenue earnings and free cash flow coming in above expectations.

Men are in markets with strong as indicated by our robust billings and current RPL growth and the summer revenue growth plus free cash flow margin for the year was 69%.

Revenue growth in the quarter came in at 22% versus a strong Q4 fiscal 19 with acquisitions contributing three percentage points of the growth.

Recurring revenue was driven by subscription revenue growth of 41%.

For the full year subscription revenue was up 53% and as Andrew mentioned subscriptions now represent approximately 85% of our revenue.

With the success of our maintenance to subscription program, we exited the year with maintenance revenue contributing less than 10% of the total.

Total air our came in at 3.43 billion up 25%.

Core EHR, our grew 21% and cloud air our grew 102% to 255 million.

When adjusted for acquisitions Cloud Air our grew an impressive 30% driven by strong performance of Bim 360 design.

Now the years passed since we completed the acquisitions, our entire construction portfolio will be organic starting first quarter fiscal 21.

Moving on to details by product and geography.

Starting with Autocad and Autocad LT revenue grew 24% in the fourth quarter again versus a strong Q4 fiscal 19 and 30% for the year.

Hey, you see grew 30% in Q4 and 35% for the year, while manufacturing rose, 15% in Q4 and 18% for the year.

In many was down 5% in the quarter, primarily due to a large upfront transactions in the fourth quarter of last year.

70 revenue was up 9% for the year.

Geographically, we saw broad based strength across all regions revenue grew 21% in the Americas, EMEA and 26% in APAC during the quarter.

We also saw strengthen direct revenue, which rose 26% versus last year and represented 31% of our total sales relatively in line with the fourth quarter of last year.

To strengthen our direct business was driven by large enterprise business agreements and our digital sales.

As we've indicated in the past we plan to provide an annual update on our subs and annualized revenue per subscription or arps performance.

During the year, we grew total subscriptions, 12% to 4.9 million with subscription plan growing 26%.

We added 181000 cloud subscriptions due to strong adoption of our Bim 360 family products as well as 79000 subscriptions from plan grid and building connected.

Arps grew by 11% for the year to $704 with core arps growing by 10% to $798.

With only one quarter left in our maintenance to subscription or into US program, we have approximately 400000 maintenance subscriptions less.

I'm proud to share that we've converted over 1 million maintenance subscriptions to date.

We'll be retiring maintenance after may 2021, the customers will have one last opportunity to renew their maintenance are trading their maintenance seat for subscription between now and May 2021.

Please refer to the slide deck posted on our Investor Relations website for additional details around the trade and offer.

As expected and consistent with last quarter, the maintenance conversion rate was 40% and of those that migrated upgrade rates came in at 26%.

Net revenue retention rate was again within the one tends to 120% range continuing to demonstrate the growing strategic value, we delivered to our existing customers.

Billings growth of 43% in the quarter and 55% for the year was driven by organic growth and as expected the normalization of our multiyear contracts.

To strengthen our multiyear commitments from our customers as an indicator of the strategic importance and business critical nature of our products.

Our long term deferred revenue ended up slightly higher than we anticipated, but our multiyear business is that a sustainable level and it's not creating a headwind to our future free cash flows.

Fiscal 20, we delivered 1.36 billion and free cash flow was 684 million coming in the fourth quarter delivering on a key goal we set out three years ago.

We expect to post annual growth in our free cash flows through fiscal 2003 and beyond as net income will start driving a greater portion of our free cash flows versus deferred revenue.

Our total remaining performance obligation of 3.6 billion is up 33% and our current remaining performance obligation of 2.4 billion grew 23%.

On the margin front, we continue to realize significant operating leverage due to strong revenue growth and diligent expense management.

For the full year non-GAAP gross margins were very strong at 92% up two percentage points from last year.

Our non-GAAP operating margin expanded by 12 percentage points to 25%.

We're on track to deliver further margin expansion and obtain approximately 40% non-GAAP operating margins in fiscal 2003.

Consistent with our capital allocation strategy, we continue to repurchase shares with excess cash during the fourth quarter, we purchased a little over 1 million shares for $191 million at an average purchase price of $189.52 per share.

During the year, we fully offset dilution from our equity plans purchasing a total of 2.7 million shares for $456 million on average price of $168.63 per share.

And now I'll turn the discussion to our outlook.

We have taken into account the current macro environment and potential risk involved with any disruption.

Our direct exposure to China is small and our experience with past outbreaks showed limited impact to our sales.

While we continue to monitor the situation more broadly we expect total revenue to grow 20% to 22% in fiscal 21, and expand non-GAAP operating margin by about five percentage points.

During the year, we plan to deliver free cash flow in the range of 1.63 billion to 1.69 billion up 20% to 24%.

When looking at the Quarterization of free cash flow for fiscal 21, given normal seasonality and strength of payment collections and large deal signed in the fourth quarter. We expect about two thirds of our free cash flow to be generated in the second half of the year.

Looking at our guidance for the first quarter, our strength in the fourth quarter presents a tough sequential compare given our normal seasonality. Other revenue in Q1 is expected to be about half as much as we experienced in Q4.

Slide deck on our website has more details on modeling assumptions for the fiscal first quarter and full year 2021.

And now I'd like to turn it back to Andrew Thanks, Scott.

We just closed a landmark fiscal year and delivered on the free cash flow target, we set over three years ago. When we began the business model transition.

Now let me give you some details about what is happening across our business.

First off fiscal 20 with not only a year financial achievements, but also a year, where we increasingly enables our customers to realize more sustainable outcomes in their work. In fact, we were recognized by the corporate nights for being in the top five of the world's most sustainable companies and Barron's ranked US 10 on their list of 100.

Most sustainable companies, making us the highest ranking software company on both list.

This recognition is not only a testament to how responsibly, we run our own business, but more importantly, how we help our customers meet their own sustainability goals, which brings me to construction.

Our construction business had an outstanding year and ended the year with great momentum, we're looking at construction in a more connected way than ever before and our offers a resonating with our customers.

The other has construction cloud delivers advanced technology, a network of builders and the power of predictive analytics to drive projects from the early phases design to planning building and into operations.

Customers are excited about the unified platform and our recognizing that the breadth depth and connectivity across our portfolio sets us apart from a competition.

For example, CRB a design build from with offices across the us and internationally with using each of our four product independently when they understood. Our vision for construction cloud to deliver a unified solution that integrates workflows connecting the office trailer and field CRP signed an enterprise business agreements Autodesk.

For the solutions offered under the construction cloud.

They are aligned with our vision of a unified solution that provides the entire construction lifecycle from design through long term maintenance with all the design and make data they need in one place. So information is not follow their lost and work gets done more efficiently.

Leveraging data efficiently is critical to CRB is new project execution concept, one solution, which brings time cost quality and safety benefits to everyone involved.

We provide the only truly connected solution for construction and during the quarter Metropolitan mechanical contractors MMC Revett customer decided to go with our construction solutions over competitors base in Minnesota MMC is a single source solution for the design and build of complex mechanical systems focused on.

Quality speed and sustainable outcomes, all driving towards a lower cost of ownership.

After completing a pilot with a competitor MMC was ready to move forward with the competitor, but they gave US one shot to Demarre solutions due to our leadership in design. After one demo. They chose our planned with solution and also decided to increase the deal to include building connected to integral part of the artist construction cloud.

The fast ramp time, and the ability to own their data no matter what system, a general contractor uses or key differentiators and they were impressed by the ease of pushing awarded bids to plan great.

Selling synergies between our acquired sales teams and the our debt sales team also showed strong momentum this year and we expected to be a business growth driver for us both here in the U.S. and internationally UNEV why 21 during the quarter one of the largest mechanical subcontractors and Australia increased the deployment of our solutions instead.

Currently the customer with using Bim 360 dock on some projects and was interested in using either plan grade ore Bim 360 on additional projects.

Our team explain the value kindred brings to the field and Bim 360 dock brings to the office highlighting the long term vision wanting to make our long term investment and recognizing the power behind the integration the customers invested in our portfolio.

As demonstrated by for example, we believe we're better positioned than any other vendors to capitalize on the international opportunity and we are aggressively investing in fiscal 2001 to expand our reach globally.

Other notable accomplishments of the year for our construction business included tanker delivered over 100 million an air are beating the target we laid out at the beginning of the year building connected cross the 1 million users.

Acquire construction solutions were included in 45 enterprise deals the product teams rolled out a comprehensive long term product integration plan and over 300 enhancement.

I'm very pleased with the progress our construction business made in fiscal 2000, and even more excited to continue building our world class platform.

We also made impressive stride in our core architecture market, where we continue to benefit from customers migrating from 2% to redesign our cadence a global design and consultancy firm headquartered in the Netherlands substantially increased our engagements with us this quarter as they work to become a leader in AI driven design.

Involved in some of the world's most complex projects are cadence aggressively transitioning from Twod to Threed collaborative work closing revett civil Threed improve work and demonstrate safety and they are not stopping there we are assisting in their adoption of general designed with fusion 360 as they are reimbursed.

I think traditional processes like facade design by exploring the redesign of elements without restrictions of traditional design processes and manufacturability.

Moving to manufacturing.

We continue to gain share and delivered revenue growth of 15% for the quarter, an 18% for the year.

Our advanced technology solutions are enabling our customers to migrate from traditional workloads to operate more efficiently in the cloud. We added 20000 fusion 360 commercial subscriptions. This year, establishing us is the leading cloud based multi tenant design and make solutions provider in the markets.

During the quarter spinner group, a German manufacturer of radio frequency technology investing in our product design and manufacturing collection over Solidworks. Their decision was driven by the comprehensive value of the collection and the ability to work, which is one partner versus multiple vendors for various point products in another.

Example, one of the world iconic Tar manufacturers standardize on fusion 360 for design, replacing Solidworks and Rhino the catalyst with collaboration as fusion enables them to collaborate across their acoustic electric and PCB divisions for the first time ever.

We're also seeing our leadership in them drive business with building product manufacturers as they need to fabricate product for buildings designed by our solution a multinational company well known in their industry for drywall gypsum boards selected our manufacturing collection and our APC collection this quarter to extend their offerings.

From drywall to predict manufactured building components in the industrialize construction market.

Our design and manufacturing solutions enable them to develop machine and factories for production and our APC solutions enable them to connect and worked collaboratively with their customers.

Adoption of Gener design is also continuing to drive business. For example, Goodyear use gener designed to optimize and internally produced hand tool. They were able to cut production time designed the tool Forex faster and make the park 10, x. faster than would have been the case using a traditional machining process and by combining at.

Additive manufacturing with CNC machining, they reduced their overall material costs and manufacturing time by 10 X. business results like these drove an increase in their EPA has investment as good here continues to drive faster innovation in design and manufacturing.

Given that we just finished the Oscars I also want to highlight some of the success. We are having in media and entertainment. Many autodesk customers are recognized for their industry, leading work throughout the year. One such example is like US and Oregon based stop motion animation studio recently nominated for an Academy Award and winner of the 2020.

He Golden Globe for best animated feature like a uses the full breadth of the Autodesk media entertainment portfolio, including three as Matt Maya and shotgun software.

Now onto the progress with monetizing Noncompliant users are ongoing investments in digital transformation have helped us significantly in this area as one indicator. This I'm excited to share that this fiscal year, we signed 62 license compliance deals over $500000 per deal and 14 of those deals were owed.

Over 1 million. This is almost three times a number we did in fiscal 19, the deals were across all regions and almost 20% of the fiscal 2000 deals over 500 K we're in China.

We're very pleased with our success in monetizing noncompliant user so far and this remains a key long term growth driver an area of investment.

Moving forward one of the key steps we are taking is moving to plans for people. Instead, a serial numbers. This will allow us to better serve our paying customers and will make our solutions harder to pirate.

Plans based on named users will give our customers visibility into their usage data, allowing them to optimize their license costs and enable us to better understand their needs. We moved our single user subscriptions to named users in fiscal 2000 and will also transition all of our multiuser subscriptions. This will mark the final milestone and becoming a true.

Fast company, giving us the ability to deliver incremental value and customized services to our customers.

We're also introducing a premium plan that offers additional security tailored administration capabilities support and reporting.

Please refer to the appendix of the slide deck posted on our Investor Relations website for more details.

To close I would like to look back at the last few years and take a moment to highlight what we've accomplished three years ago, we set of free cash flow target of $1.4 billion. This year, we delivered on that target. We did what we said we would do.

We are executing well and know how to adapt and flex and changing market conditions, we know how to manage our journey and have proven that with our fiscal 20 results looking out to fiscal 2003 beyond I'm more confident than ever in our strategy and the team executing on it we will continue to deliver great value to our customers.

With our connected and comprehensive platform and construction, we expect to keep gaining share in the manufacturing market as it moves to the cloud with less powered workflows and overtime, we are going to increasingly monetize the noncompliant user base.

We look forward to seeing many of you at our Investor Day on March 25, where we will have more time to share our strategic initiatives.

With that operator, we'd now like to open the call up for questions.

As a reminder to ask a question you will need to press star one on your telephone to withdraw your question press the pound Kane. Please standby well, we compile the Q and a roster.

Our first question comes from the line of Saket Kalia from Barclays Capital. Your line is now open.

Hi, Andrew Hey, Scott Hi, guys doing thanks for taking my questions here.

Hey, Saxer socket.

I'll focus my questions on some of the pricing changes here and maybe start with you Andrew.

You talked about the introduction of the standard and premium plan could you just sticking to what types of customers do you think would opt for premium and sort of broad brush how big of your base could could that premium plan sort of cohort b over time.

All right. So the standard plant already exists I remember the sand plant just subscription we have today and I think one of the at ways you want to think about premium as kind of like a mini enterprise agreement without the consumption element. So it's going to appeal to some of our larger accounts that get service to the channel and it's going to appeal to them for a couple of reasons first off.

Some of things are included in the premium plan include a single sign on supports wrath of directory. So it isn't the way that the customer kinda can manage their named user sets and deploy single sign on across six it's easier for them to manage the users. It's more secure because you can turn on and turn off users really quickly. So is that right theres a huge benefits. The other there were concerns.

Validating in and this is something a lot of our customers already having something called an LCR, which stands for extra territorial rights and that is a.

Something we've always sold on top of our traditional licensing to allow them to distribute licenses to subsidiary areas outside of their outside of where their.

Corporate headquarters are all right. That's another thing is included in there obviously another thing that appeals to larger accounts that are serviced by our channel. The other thing that theyre going to get is analytics capability will ever all of our customers are going and analytic capability, but what's going to show up in the premium plan as much deeper we're actually going to be making proactive suggested there's somebody analytics about how they can optimize.

And yet more out of their investment with autodesk or optimize their investment without it has more precisely when they do they also get us a slightly closer relationship with audit as through to support in terms that we provide so you can see this is going to appeal to larger accounts.

Now going to give you percentage of the base in terms of what that means we could try but but down to who is going to appeal to and I think it you can see how weve naturally introduced at the same time that we've introduced a discussion around ending the multiuser licensing because it allows you to manage named users a lot more effectively.

That makes sense.

And then actually dovetails into my follow up question for you. Scott can you just talk about that shift of multi user to named use your licensing I guess, specifically one of your studies are sort of anecdotes shown on how many started named accounts. There are for for our named users. There are for each multi user license if that makes sense.

Yes, yes, it does socket and as you'd imagine thats, something we looked pretty hard at as we designed the end of sale of multi user and what that trade in program would look like and runs right around two to one.

In other words to name users in the update on average being served by one multi user license. So thats. The reason we set the trade own program. The way we did I think for some customers. They will end up meeting a few more single users to support their base. If they were running a little hotter than that and for some they'll probably make the trade in program and in the future there may be a chance for them to either.

Size that or take the additional budget and hop into premium with that so its a.

Was designed at right around the average of what we see in terms of actual usage today.

No because you asked about that trade in program I, just want to make sure that we're all cleared up a why of that program because a couple of customer wise and a couple of Autodesk wise from a customer standpoint, a lot of our multiuser customers are already have named user name user licenses in their account third there that they're living in what we affectionately call hybrid Hell inside the company, where they're trying to manage two types of.

Different systems. This will put them all on our new subscription backend. So essentially brings all of these customers that live in hybrid environments into our new backend and provide them. All the same analytics that the the names users are getting so it is up there is going to be a lot of customer benefits associated especially when you layer on premium because of the control and security.

It's going to give you for Autodesk. This gets us one step further to retiring older systems that are based on serial numbers system. The kind that we have to maintain system that has think issues that getting the way of us knowing more about our customers. So we're going to have more knowledge about our customers. We have more information about what they're doing and we're going to able to service them a lot better.

Makes sense thanks, guys.

Thanks Saket.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Phil Winslow from Wells Fargo. Your line is now open.

Hey, Thanks, guys for taking my question guys already close the year.

Just wanted to focus in on the different industry verticals.

Thank you Phil It's obviously your manufacturing are you seeing obviously, there's a difference sort of between Geos that I wonder if you provide us with sort of tomorrow as more color and sort of how you closed out the year, there and how you're thinking about the the forward guidance through industry verticals.

Thanks.

Yes, Thanks, Bill and you may not have had a chance I know, it's a busy nights for everyone, but we posted some details by.

By both geography and by product family on the slide deck. That's on the web site. What you see as we were really strong in both we were strong in all three geos, both in the quarter and for the full year and across all product sets.

The one anomaly and we talked about this in the opening commentary was in media and entertainment.

Which actually showed a slight declines for the quarter year on year and that was really driven by one large multi year up fronts transaction that was done in Q4 year ago that skewed that for the full year media Entertainment grew about 9%. So we really saw strength across the board.

Our expectation looking into fiscal 2000, and you can see we go from an overall revenue growth rate of about 27%. This year to one that's in the 20% to 22% range next year.

Part of that is the there was about three points of added inorganic growth to our fiscal 2000 numbers. So yes takes it down to about 24% compared to 20 to 22 next year, which is just the law of large numbers.

Absolutely firms, we see growth in revenue and a strong percent growth next year as well.

You want to enter go ahead I mean, the only color is the our emoney business because of its size just continues to be sensitive to large deals. It always has been because of aside and even the sub segments within in our incentive to large deal. That's just the nature of that business.

Got it and then also just in terms opportunity that via noncompliance.

Users, obviously, you called out some pretty significant.

Changeover I mean, obviously on analyst day last year, you talked about I think it's about 1.7 million you're still in the base would be thinking about just the growth you saw on your overall user base. If this year how much of a recalls.

Or growth.

The core growth versus actually shifting those.

Talking about uses over.

Sorry, the non automotive as core that most of its.

Yes, sorry, sorry, so most of its core growth Phil so, but as I've said consistently went over again, we're getting better and better at talking to understanding and converting these non compliant users. That's why we gave you some of those staff as you can understand directionally. How this effort is going every year, it's going to come.

When you to get better and better and better our investment both from a system side and from our people side in terms of people. It actually handled directly noncompliant negotiations with customers are going up so you going to see this consistent performance and most of most of that that growth is just the core growth but.

I hope you're getting a sense for how this noncompliant usage starts to become quite an engine as we as we move forward.

Im going to say 12, no one seven sorry about that alright, thanks, guys.

Hi, Thanks so.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Matt Hedberg from RBC capital markets. Your line is now open.

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on a really strong ended the year.

I guess for either Andrew or Scott curious.

Andrew or Scott I think you mentioned youre taking into.

Account, the current macro with krona virus and exposure to China small I guess I'm wondering how you think about the broader Asiapac region, Japan or other regions and sort of right have you seen anything thus far amongst into the quarter.

Yes, I'm glad you asked the question first off into the whole the whole Corona virus situations that the human situation, it's kind of human tragedy and the best thing that can happen here for all of US is that it just gets resolved and contained relatively quickly and as a vaccine next year for the next flu season, but from a business perspective, how it impacts you is dependent on your business and.

We've looked pretty deeply at our business in here's here's kind of a label and I'll give you. If you are a software vendor that's exposed to large big deals from especially large industrial that have kind of global supply chain disruption you goodness feel some effects from this site that's not us. In addition, if you are.

In the travel industry, obviously, you're going to feel some effects from this but here's what's different about autodesk and here's why I want to albeit as to how we look at the business and and why we took into account from China effect in Q1, but we don't we don't see longer term effects. At this point, Okay. Now I will say it just becomes a pandemic all bets are off and we'll have a different discussed.

Ian but right now our business is is what we call. It almost micro verticalized, we cut across lots of different verticals and if not with industrial verticals. Its company size vertical we go from the biggest two to the smallest our business, especially in the first half of the year is not heavily dependent on large deals at large company.

Particularly large industrial so we don't see that kind of sensitivity in our business, but in addition, and I think this is super important treat understand it's one of the great things about being an indirect company.

Our business happens hyper locally and when I mean by that is the bar is especially in APAC the transition to transact with the customers are actually knew the customers right, you're not doing situation, where people travel or there's a there's a diet for salespeople heading in various directions I get the business done customers need our software the air software is now and the volume.

Are there. So this this combination of this micro verticalization the spread across various companies of various sizes and its hyper locality of our business is why when started last round, we didn't see much impact on our business. So right now what we've done look to China, Obviously, we just said alright.

More China, China with already having issues as well so we prudently looked at Q1 with regards to China looked at the short term impact, but we don't see right now any other impacts in our business of course like I said earlier pandemic kits will have a different discussions, but right now I just want you to pay attention to that.

Notion of highly Verticalized, Michael verticals different customer segment, and hyper local which is a great advantage of where we're at and Matt. If I can just tag on to that because there maybe some confusion also with our Q1 guide relative to.

What's out there in fact set and of course wasn't that said this is on guidance on a quarterly basis. It's interesting that shows sequential growth. The consensus does for Q4, which of course is not what we experienced last year since we've made the shift.

Last year, we saw a sequential decline and even saw sequential decline last year. Despite the fact that Q4 of the of 19 only had about a month of plan grid included in Q1 had an entire quarter of paying grid included and we still saw sequential decline what drives that by the way is not a recurring revenue decline and as we look at our guide for.

Q1 of of fiscal 21, we're not say recurring revenue decline. What we are seeing is and we've talked about this in the past this license and other line. It's always the biggest in the fourth quarter. It has to do with largely to do with some.

Products that we sell that we settle on a ratable basis, but the accounting still require them to be recognized upfront. So if you look at our license and other line in the fourth quarter to quarter. We just announced it was 42 million now we think it will be about half that big in Q1, that's really what's driving the sequential decline in so without commenting on.

How facts I got the 910 I'll say it it's not a we haven't taken into account a significant headwinds from Corona virus, we expect our recurring revenue it actually show slight growth sequentially again.

That's fantastic Great color and then maybe just one more for you Scott.

You are not guiding to air our which I think most of us expected.

Given its not a perfect metric for you guys like we saw in Q3 I'm just sort of curious if you could provide a little bit more color on that and we do you still think you'll talk to like your fiscal 2003 air our targets at some point.

You know, Matt we're not talking about and you nailed it it's because of some of the anomalies in the way. We we defined a or are we talked about this extensively on the Q3 call. It in relation to our Q4 guide.

It was a great metric as we were going through the transition and our PML had a mix of.

A significant amount of upfront plus ratable you needed to see how we were building that recurring revenue base at this point, we've built a recurring revenue base is 96% of our total revenues right. So doing a ARR, which when I gave you an annual number was in effect say, what's the fourth quarter recurring revenue and multiply by four it didnt accumulates through the year.

That's why we pull back on the metric I think you get as good if not better insight from just tracking revenue and knowing that 96% of that as recurrence you will still be able to calculated by the way I don't plan on on focusing on a during these calls but if you look at our personnel groomer. The way we calculated our AR was subscription plus maintenance revenue actual rich.

Adjusted for the quarter Comscore, we'll continue to report and those line items, you'll continue to be able to track that if you want I, just think hits us less reliable metric of where we're headed than revenue or current archeo, which you see in our results current IPO is up 23%.

Super Helpful. Then.

Thanks, Matt.

Thank you Sir our next question comes from the line of Jay Vleeschhouwer from Griffin Securities. Your line is now fan.

Thank you good evening.

Andrew Scott you used the word aggressively during your prepared remarks, I believe to refer to internal investments you will be making and on that point.

You now have by far a record number of openings and sales related positions.

Doing highest we've counted yes, yes.

By far the high if accounted in eight years.

And.

For territorial account execs named account inside sales license compliance.

And so the question is.

How are you thinking about that as a principal cost driver to your expense targets. This year and more importantly, the production or revenue production effects. If you would expect from that kind of substantial onboarding of sales capacity.

Number two.

You used to get the metric prior to the transition.

You are annual license volume.

Last reported numbers.

And we used to calculate it were about 600 650000 licenses if we continue to follow that method.

And impute volume of your business you are now it seems well above those last given numbers from a few years ago.

Would seem now the consumption of.

What are the product licenses and putting in particular collections is now in the high six figures are well above prior level. So would you concur with that.

Relation that youre.

Intrinsic demand consumption of Autodesk product is well above what it used to be.

Under the old way accounting.

And then finally with regard to be the changes in pricing towards single user.

Preference.

Would there'd be an implicit connection there Andrew to your view of an eventual consumption model could you get there only.

If you do in fact have this kind of named user pricing.

Okay, and I would say you answered you have two follow ups. The question. Okay. So first off let me let me start back to your first question about investment so I want I'll speak for Scott and then Scott can speak for Scott I want to make sure your who we know we're not losing any of our spent disappoint at all right, we're actually investing below our capacity.

Okay kind of deal make sure that we're we're staying in line with things you're seeing some of the areas. We're investing in go to market. We're also investing in R&D, we're investing begin construction that shouldn't surprise you.

But we're also investing confusion, we're investing in the architecture.

With with some of things we're doing around.

Generative and other types of things for architects and rabbits Revett as well. We're also in investing in our digital infrastructure. So yes, we are investing right and we said we would invest but we're investing prudently we're investing smartly and we're excited about it alright, because we see a lot of returned from.

The investments, we make and we've been we've been very deliberate about this now on your second point about the license, but I'm not going to comment specifically on that but I can.

I can tell you is that the.

The lower upfront cost of our products and the way we're going to market now it makes a difference okay.

And too many people spend a lot of time talking to the customers of our old maintenance customers and how you know this transition has been hard on them and their confusing in Russia, but there is a whole swath of customers that are just sitting there going how did autodesk stuff gets so cheap alright.

And in that that seems to be the forgotten people and yes. They are coming in they are excited about our product some of them are using rabbit when they never thought they could use rented or they use an inventor or they are using Max and if you season I think we've done with mass where we haven't Indy version of Maxim I mean, there is there's a there's a whole gamut of flexible.

Already we've layered out there for people that really really changes the way people buyer software and who is buying it who's paying for it and it is an exciting change in yes. It has it has impacts on about saying more about the specifics of what you asked for there now your third question and I remember it all three.

Now about this move to Andrew.

We have it's imperative for us to trip to complete the transition to SaaS excellence to be unnamed user company and once you get people. The named users are also getting them on our new subscription backend infrastructure, which is super important and as you scroll correctly said that backend infrastructure provides new types.

A flexibility that werent available in the previous hybrid world of that Neo dangling on some of the serial number based system in some of the other systems. So what you're going to see over the next 12 to 24 months is increasingly rolling out more flexibility to our customers with regard to how they can apply this name user capable.

Realty in multiple ways.

You mentioned consumption.

Premium plan kind of a layer in that direction. So you're right in assuming that we're going to be able to do much more flexible things with our customers as a result of what we've done it's been a heavy lift to get here all right. It's been an absolute heavy lift, but we're going to be 24 months from here in our customer's going to looking back and set up.

What I was complaining about 'cause. This this this is a better way too to engage about as Scott.

I'd be remiss on your first question if I didn't add besides we're continuing to maintain spend discipline. It was we built it up pretty diligently over the four years of staying flat and spend that's not going away.

But I think you also have to look at the increased spend not as increases, but we're increasing margin were at a point in our growth story, where we can both increased spend to drive future growth and increased margins. We added 12 points to our operating margin in fiscal 2008, you see the midpoint of our guide, we're adding five more points to our.

Op margin in fiscal 2001, and we've said, it's going to be 40% by the time, we get the fiscal 2003 so the.

Conversation around spend while interesting if what you're looking for is we're reinvesting that's a good conversation to have you should know and everyone should be confident we continue to manage that very diligently.

Thanks very much.

Welcome.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Heather Bellini from Goldman Sachs airline is now fan.

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question I appreciate the time.

Most of mine as an app, but I just I wanted to follow up on that multiuser pricing.

Change that you had and totally understand to Andrew your comments about kind of you need to go to named user.

Pricing model, but just wondering if there was anything you could share with us about maybe the impact that that helped drive in the in that quarter that just ended and how you're thinking about like whats reactions. Then what is what is the reaction from customers.

Who who are going to convert to that so far what's their feedback Tijuana.

Thank you so great great question Heather good to hear from you. Let me let me give you. Some some color here. So first off can we get increased the price of new multi user licenses new.

Right and.

We are new is exactly the same price right.

The 33% increase in multi user this is going to have very little impact on our existing customers right. The reason we did it was very simple between now in May when the two for 100 starts in in earnest. We've now set the price of the gaming is removed from the system. So what what we didn't want to see with.

It's kind of like sudden ordering of multi user licenses heading into the may two for one and and that's that's why we did we did this it was basically a signal like hey, here's what we're going we're heading into this new direction, we did not pull any materially significant business forward and the Q4. This had no no material effect on our Q.

Our results and to be Jericho therapy that no material effect on our Q4 results right. This was purely a tight genic change to to line up everything to the two for one offer most customers will not see a huge impacting that except for the few that are going to be adding some multi user licenses in there it's really.

Me too early to hear what customer impact is we did hear from some of our early evangelists and as a result, we were able to kind of adjust some of the some aspects of the program and do a few things it's that kind of address some of their concerns, but but so far you know it's too early.

Great I wouldn't expect sorry, you get on a push back on that yes. This is Scott I wouldn't expect it did want to push back on that given that we designed it to be two for one both in terms of price. If you buy a new multiuser now, but at the trade endpoint because that's what we see is the average number of single user name users that are being served by multi user license so should be.

Fairly neutral to most of our customers Okay, great and then I just had one follow up if I may just about the construction market then and the deal closed there in the quarter could you share with people kind of if this typically a greenfield market where.

There is no incumbent provider, except maybe excel or notebooks or is this one where or when you're closing business now with it.

Is there any any legacy replacement of the other vendor and just kind of how do you. How do you look out and see that competitive environment. Thank you yes.

For the most part you're going in and your digitizing and process from scratch point now would you have a competitor we compete with frequently we're winning a beating them more and more and we've actually kicked him out of some of our account because our customers do not like their business models and and that will increasingly make it easy to kick them out of our accounts. It's just not a good long term business model.

So we do have competitors that go into the same accounts, but essentially what you're doing is you're replacing analog to digital and or you're replacing email on on on mobile devices with some kind of process and process control now as we get deeper and deeper into Preconstruction planning model based construction.

Management interdisciplinary digital twins and all of the thing the kind of build out and then you actually starts fundamentally changing the customers processes, but heather here, you're essentially right youre, replacing analog with digital and that's that's where the money is and Thats where were going.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Our next question comes from the line of Brad Zelnick from Credit Suisse airline is now open.

Fantastic. Thanks, so much and first I just wanted to follow up on Heather's question on construction, it's great to see the enthusiasm in construction cloud can you talk about some of the learnings from combining the product portfolio and yet and how you will be more competitive in fiscal 2001, and also how big of a component of your mix can construction costs.

Become as we approach your fiscal 2003 target.

Yes, Okay. So first let me ask you about the to the customer reaction that construction cloud and one of things one lessons. We learned so one of the first things we learned it said, we had a winner and Bim 360 docs.

Because what we Didnt, we were building kind of this this next generation platform and it just so happens it all the acquired solution to put the incredibly nicely into this platform, which is super important because if you want to compete both inside the infrastructure business with the department of transportation and internationally.

Needless called an ISO compliant common data environment, which is what dock is going to be providing for our customers. So it's actually a huge competitive advantage to have this environment and Wheeler pretty quickly to the work we're doing with docs really kind of played nicely into that we also learn pretty quickly that we we have a huge mobile.

Advantage with what we've done with the the plan grid products and with Plainridge team has done and we're leveraging that advantage and expanding into other parts of our portfolio. We also discovered that the building network with building connected that by way of getting integrated with planned great at getting integrated with only those solutions is a is it an amazingly important asset not only.

To our customers, but to us in terms of understanding the construction climates.

We also have learned what it takes to go internationally. So one of the thing that we were well positioned to do better in any one and we're investing pretty heavily in as an international expansion for our construction portfolio construction International business. It always has been its local but it's also international and between our investment in the common data environment go to market stand up and various plays.

So you're going to see us start to grow internationally pretty significantly and there's nobody is that we compete with they can actually do some of the things that that we're doing there in terms of in terms of the construction environment. Now there is another part your question I want to make sure I answer it because I get carried away of what we learned what was the second part of their Brad.

Second part was just asking how big of a component of your mix, yes structured cap dot com as high as we look at fiscal 2003.

Yes, Brad Thanks for that I don't certainly want to get into giving that kind of granularity on our fiscal 23 guidance. What I'll give you a couple of comments. So that we've set a few times in the past and still believe constructions and X billion dollar business for Autodesk, because what you see is on the in the wake of the transactions, we didn't fourth quarter last year, we've done a great.

Integrating those we haven't lost any momentum in those acquired companies and in fact have seen in updraft in our organic construction business as a result of that so it's growing on a really nice path at this point you've seen what the what the inorganic keys looks like in our results.

Looking at our total cloud growth gives you good service because bim 360, because the organic piece of our construction business and it's the biggest piece of our cloud.

Our cloud results. So you get an overall sense of where construction is headed for us.

It's a sizable business and we'll continue to grow but I don't want to get into trying to give you a here's the let me start to break down the components of our fiscal 2003 targets.

Thats helpful. Scott I appreciate it and if I could just sneak in a quick follow up for you have about long term deferred which were much higher than we expected just given your continued traction of multi year, how should we think about long term deferred going forward, especially as you make changes to some of your multiuser products.

That's a great questions.

Thanks for asking us as obviously the long term deferred is our result of multiyear credit of multi year sales and we said this is the year, we expect multi year sales to revert back to them to the being right to the what we've seen when we sold multiyear on maintenance historically.

And that's what you see that one of the effects of that is of course, it drives long term deferred revenue and that's what you're seeing in our results.

I thought mid year that this was going to get that long term deferred as a percent of total deferred revenue would be in the mid 20% range. It's a couple of points higher than that.

As we've analyzed that and then we're keeping a close eye on how multi years running as we've analyzed this still feel like thats sort of sustainable level and it's below what we saw with maintenance. When we offered almost exact same offer for three years paid up front on maintenance long term deferred got up to 30% of total deferred at that point I don't see us getting to that level and.

Fact that they've long term deferred moderates a bit looking at fiscal 2001 as a percent of total deferred versus where it is but will stay on top of that and if to the extent, we need to make an adjustment and that offering will make that adjustment I certainly don't want to see that run at a level. That's that's on attainable are unsustainable I think the what may be in.

Slide in your question that you Didnt ask is this going to create a headwind for free cash flow and so besides the comments I just made on kind of the steady state that I see multiyear get into bear in mind, one other factor we've talked about this but but not since last investor day that as we look from fiscal 2000 after fiscal 2003, more and more of our free cash flow as that.

The majority beginning this year of our free cash flow will come from net income as opposed to coming off the balance sheet and growth in deferred revenue right. So as we scale, both the topline and improve our margins out through fiscal 2003, more and more of a cash flow comes right off the TNL and net income versus coming in growth in deferred.

Someplace, where I have to.

Chime in just a little bit since you mentioned that the free cash flow ramp one of that one of the things I want to make sure. We all kind of like sync up on here you look back three years every our three years later, okay. The business ended up free cash flow wise, where we expected it to be.

The past had numerous twists and turns numerous puts and takes we modeled it according to certain assumptions. We've adjusted assumptions as we went along we have an execution machine the knows how to adapt I just want you to remember when we give you three year targets. We are fairly confident we know where we're going and we know how to free cash flow is going.

To ramp and we know we know it's going to continue to ramp. We also know how to adjust as we execute through here and how attuned to move forward and make sure things happened the way they need to happen and I I. Just told you before the safe assumption is do assume we're going to do what we tell you we're going to deal and if there was any kind of.

Didnt things like Scott said my question I wanted you know we.

We've got our handles on the controls here for this business.

Thank you for US we're very complete answer thank you.

Sure. Thanks.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Sterling Auty from JP Morgan. Your line is now open.

Yeah. Thanks, guys two questions on the construction area.

Using the first one is when you look at your solutions now where are the biggest pockets of users in your customer base. So is that you see subcontractors owners et cetera, just understand where you're seeing the biggest buying power at the moment.

Okay. So right now gecs, our some of our biggest customers subs are starting to ramp up quite significantly alright, because remember you know with a building connected network. We have a lot of access to subs now so youre engaged with the with the sub ecosystem in a way that we were you were never before.

Or gecs are the biggest buyers.

But you also be surprise interdisciplinary engineering firms are big buyers as well because because of their internet connection to construction planning processes and things associated with that but yes, it's starting with the gcs, but it's been moving down market.

Quite significantly as we mature that we have an example in the opening commentary of a significant subcontractor.

All right and then the one follow up would be Theres, a lot of components that make up that construction echo system from project management to that management to the financials et cetera can you can you highlight with the solutions that you have where do you think your biggest areas of strength within that group is today and Directionally, where do you.

Building out that portfolio.

Yes. It is theres two anchor the strength that we have that are a pretty deep one is field execution, we are by far.

Massively advantage in the field execution side, the other areas it and closer to the front end of the processes in Preconstruction planning is another area, where where weve brought tools and capabilities close to the building information model and all things associated with that that are pretty powerful now there's one kind of thin layer technology, where we've we've been playing catch up.

And actually the it's not really a very deep technological mode to be honest bits and project management and in project costing that's something where we've been investing a lot of where a lot of the R&D investment is gone that that gap is clothing incredibly rapidly. The team has just.

Pounding out enhancements and that's the area, we pay attention to.

Because it's it's not technologically sophisticated but it's important and it's one of the areas that we've deployed to add those things and that will allow us to connect field and Preconstruction planning in a in a way that other people simply can't.

Understood. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tyler Radke from Citi. Your line is now open.

Hey, Thanks for taking my question. So maybe you could just talk about this new.

Pricing you're doing on that the multi user to maybe is there any and maybe just frame it in the context as some of the other pricing changes you've made in.

In terms of financial benefit.

What's kind of the timeframe that you expect.

To see the uplift play out and should we be thinking this is kind of a possible source of upside relative to the existing 23 targets, which were put out before this plan was announced thanks.

So so Tyler are you, referring the premium plan or are you referring to a new multiuser price the question I answered earlier.

The the pricing on the on multi user we don't see significant upside being generated by that that was that that was a stellar the tactical pricing action designed to prevent gaming as we headed into the two for one exchange in May So it's not that is not an accretive.

Change that kind of is going to drive business. The bigger the bigger story is the premium plan that layers on top of the multi user plant that will be a long term continuing opportunity for the us and it should be one of those things that increases your confidence in our ability to hit to our quite 23 targets all right now and I think thats kind of the.

The way you should look at it it's got to do and then no I think thats right I think that just of your question powder was around multi user and we did touch on that earlier and I think you always the other thing I'd add again is that the way we set the price.

And the trade in program around Multiuser moving them also named user was in sync with the are.

Now lets us of how many named users today are being supported by given multi use so should be pretty much a loss for most of our most user customers.

Great and is I think about the premium plan.

Sounds like that the multiyear event I mean.

I think about the.

Existing 23 targets I mean, those have been out there for for a number of years now.

Yes.

Any chance that have come analyst day that.

Maybe we look at targets beyond that or what's kind of here how are you thinking about.

Kind of long term targets now that 23 isn't isn't that far away.

Yes, I think I feel good about the targets we've laid out for fiscal 2003, let me start there and we sort of lost over it given all the other news it's in the environment, but.

Pretty proud of the fact that we hit the number that we laid out three years ago for free cash flow at the end of fiscal 21, which was no small task given the amount of transition we still had to go through and the changes we made an execution to get there. So we probably have to start there.

That's a that's a big stake in the ground the big milestone for us.

Looking out to fiscal 23, I feel equally confident and our ability to hit the target. So we've got out there of 2.4 billion in free cash flow.

Looking beyond that I think we'll continue to see the same trends that drive growth out through fiscal 2003 of course, extending beyond that I think that the relative magnitude of some of those will change obviously construction will be a bigger driver as we go further out in time, I think where we're headed with fusion in the manufacturing world will become a bigger driver further out in time, but many of the same drivers.

That get us to those 23 targets will extend well beyond fiscal two increase im not inclined at this point to put another quantitative target out there will be on fiscal 2003.

Great. Thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you at this time I'm showing no further questions I would like to turn the call back over to add by Lamba for closing remarks.

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Thanks, Bye-bye, we closed fiscal year 20, with outstanding Q4 results with revenue earnings and free cash flow coming in above expectations recurring revenue grew 29% and we delivered 1.36 billion and free cash flow per year.

Results were driven by strong growth in all geography.

It was a landmark year for us and construction as we absorbed our acquisitions and integrated offerings under one platform the Autodesk construction cloud.

Switching now represent around 85% of our revenue, we exited the year with maintenance contributing less than 10%.

Fiscal year 20 marked the end of the business model transfers transition for us and we are entering fiscal 21 firmly positioned to deliver strong sustainable growth through fiscal 2003 and beyond.

It was three years ago that we first communicated our fiscal 2000 free cash flow.

We have delivered on that goal, which is a testament to the adaptability and focused execution of the autogas ecosystem and the power of our Fox.

I want to acknowledge and thank our employees partners customers long term investors and everyone who helped us achieve these results.

Well the possible will bring on our long term targets was not always food.

Everyone, who stayed with us and believing that transition has been rewarded.

Beyond that the dramatically reduced ocwen costs created by the subscription model have enabled a whole new class of customers to purchase our most powerful pool opening not only business opportunities for our business, but for the business was up our customers as well.

Before we get into our results in Florida, I want to mention that our thoughts are with those affected by the Corona buyers.

Safety and security of our employees is our top priority.

We're also minimizing potential impact to our customers and partners. The events are not currently impacting our service levels to acquire customers or global R&D efforts, we will continue to monitor the situation and take precautionary stuff.

Now I'll turn it over to Scott to give you more detail about a result in fiscal 21 got I'll then return with a summary of some important recognitions. We received an inside a key drivers of our business, including updates on construction manufacturing and our progress in monetizing non compliant users before we open it up the QNX.

Thanks, Andrew.

As you heard from Andrew we have strong performance across all metrics with revenue earnings and free cash flow coming in above expectations.

And that are in markets with strong as indicated by our robust billings encourage RPL growth.

And the summer revenue growth plus free cash flow margin for the year was 69%.

Revenue growth in the quarter came in at 22% versus a strong Q4 fiscal 19 with acquisitions contributing three percentage points of the growth.

Strengthen revenue was driven by subscription revenue growth of 41%.

For the full year subscription revenue was up 53% and as Andrew mentioned subscriptions now represent approximately 85% of our revenue.

The success of our maintenance subscription program, we exited the year with maintenance revenue contributing less than 10% of the total.

Total air our came in at 3.43 billion up 25%.

Core EHR, our grew 21% and cloud Air our grew 100, a 2% to 255 million.

When adjusted for acquisitions cloud a ARR grew an impressive 30% driven by strong performance have been pretty 60 design.

Now the years passed since we completed the acquisitions, our entire construction portfolio will be organic starting first quarter fiscal 21.

Moving on the details by product in geography.

Starting with Autocad and Autocad LT revenue grew 24% in the fourth quarter again versus a strong Q4 fiscal 19 and 30% for the year.

Hey, you see grew 30% in Q4, and 35% for the year, well manufacturing rose, 15% in Q4 and 18% for the year.

And he was down 5% in the quarter, primarily due to a large upfront transactions in the fourth quarter up last year.

Any revenue was up 9% for the year.

Geographically, we saw broad based strength across all regions revenue grew 21% in the Americas, EMEA and 26% in APAC during the quarter.

We also saw strengthen direct revenue, which rose 26% versus last year and represented 31% of our total sales relatively in line with the fourth quarter of last year.

To strengthen our direct business was driven by large enterprise business agreements and our digital sales.

As we're going to get it in the past we plan to providing annual update on our subs annualized revenue per subscription or Arps performance.

During the year, we grew total subscriptions, 12% to 4.9 million with subscription plan growing 26%.

We added 181000 cloud subscriptions due to strong adoption of our Bim 360 family products as well as 79000 subscriptions from planned grid and building connected.

Arps grew by 11% for the year, so $704 with core arps growing by 10% the $798.

With only one quarter left in our maintenance to subscription or M. S program, we have approximately 400000 maintenance subscriptions left.

I'm proud to share that we've converted over 1 million maintenance subscriptions to date.

We'll be retiring magnets. After may 2021 customers will have one last opportunity to renew their maintenance or trade in their maintenance seat for a subscription between now and May 2021.

Please refer to slide deck posted on our Investor Relations website for additional details around the trading offer.

As expected and consistent with last quarter. The main this conversion rate was 40% and up those that migrated upgrade rates came in at 26%.

Net revenue retention rate was again within the one 2% to 120% range continuing to demonstrate the growing strategic value, we delivered to our existing customers.

Billings growth of 43% linked quarter and 55% for the year was driven by organic growth and as expected the normalization of our multiyear contracts.

To strengthen our multiyear commitments from our customers as an indicator of the strategic importance and business critical nature of our products.

Our long term deferred revenue ended up slightly higher than we anticipated, but our multiyear business is that a sustainable level and it's not creating a headwind to our future free cash flows.

Fiscal 2000, we delivered 1.36 billion and free cash flow was 684 million coming in the fourth quarter delivering on the key goal, we set out three years ago.

We expect to post annual growth in our free cash flows through fiscal 2003 and beyond as net income will start driving a greater portion of our free cash flows versus deferred revenue.

Our total remaining performance obligation of 3.6 billion is up 33% and our current remaining performance obligation up 2.4 billion grew 23%.

On the margin front, we continue to realize significant operating leverage due to strong revenue growth and diligent expense management.

For the full year non-GAAP gross margins were very strong at 92% up two percentage points from last year.

Non-GAAP operating margin expanded by 12 percentage points to 25%.

We're on track to deliver further margin expansion and the taking approximately 40% non-GAAP operating margin in fiscal 2003.

Consistent with our capital allocation strategy, we continue to repurchase shares with excess cash during the fourth quarter, we purchased a little over 1 million shares for $191 million at an average purchase price of $189.52 per share.

During the year, we fully offset dilution from our equity plans purchasing a total of 2.7 million shares for $456 million on average price of $168.63 per share.

And now I'll turn the discussion to our outlook.

We've taken into account the current macro environment and potential risk involved with any disruption.

Our direct exposure to China is small and our experience with past outbreaks showed limited impact to our sales.

While we continue to monitor the situation more broadly we expect total revenue to grow 20% to 22% in fiscal 21, and expand non-GAAP operating margin by about five percentage points.

During the year, we plan to deliver free cash flow in the range of 1.63 billion to 1.69 billion up 20% to 24%.

When looking at the Quarterization of free cash flow for fiscal 21, given normal seasonality and strength of payment collections and large deals signed in the fourth quarter. We expect about two thirds of our free cash flow to be generated in the second half of the year.

Looking at our guidance for the first quarter, our strength in the fourth quarter presents a tough sequential compare given our normal seasonality. Other revenue in Q1 is expected to be about half as much as we experienced in Q4.

Slide deck on our website has more details on modeling assumptions for the fiscal first quarter and full year 2021.

And now I'd like to turn it back to Andrew Thanks, Scott.

We just closed a landmark fiscal year end delivered on the free cash flow target, we set over three years ago. When we began the business model transition.

Now let me give you some details about what is happening across our business.

First off fiscal 20 was not only a year financial achievements, but also in euro we increasingly enables our customers to realize more sustainable outcomes in their work and.

We were recognized by the corporate nights for being in the top five at the world's most sustainable companies and Barron's ranked at 10 on their list of 100, most sustainable companies, making up the highest ranking software company on both lift.

As recognition is not only a testament to how responsibly, we run our own business, but more importantly, how we help our customers meet their own sustainability goals.

Which brings me to construction.

Our construction business had an outstanding year and ended the year with great momentum.

We're looking at construction in a more connected Wade ever before and our offers are resonating with our customers.

Construction cloud delivered advanced technology network with builders and the power of predictive analytics to drive projects when the early stage design to planning building into operations.

Customers are excited about the unified platform and our recognizing that the breadth depth and productivity across our portfolio sets us apart from a competition.

For example, the RV design build from with offices across the us and internationally with using each of our core product independently when they understood. Our vision for construction cloud to deliver a unified solution that integrates workflows connecting the office trailer and field CRP side in enterprise business, the Grand theft auto depth.

For the solutions offered under the construction cloud.

They are aligned with our vision of a unified solution to provide the entire construction lifecycle from design through long term maintenance with all the design and make data they need in one place. So information is not follow their loss and weren't getting done more efficiently.

Leveraging data efficiently is critical to CRB is new project execution concept, one solution, which bring time cost quality and safety benefits to everyone involved.

We provided only truly connected solution for construction and during the quarter Metropolitan mechanical contractors MMC Revett customer decided to go with our construction solutions over our competitors based in Minnesota MMC is a single source solution for the design and build of complex mechanical systems focused on.

Quality speed and sustainable outcomes, all driving towards a lower cost of ownership.

After completing a pilot with a competitor MMC was ready to move forward with a competitor, but they gave US one shot demarre solutions due to our leadership in design. After one demo they chose our planning resolution and also decided to increase the deal to include building connected to integral part of the audit of construction club.

The fast ramp time, and the ability to own their data no matter what system, a general contractor uses or key differentiators and they were impressed by the ease of pushing awarded bids to plan great.

Selling synergies between our acquired sales teams and the our that sales team also showed strong momentum this year and we expect it to be up business growth driver for us both here in the U.S. and internationally and Thats why 21 during the quarter one of the largest mechanical subcontractors and Australia increase the deployment of our solutions instead.

Currently the customer with using Bim 360 dock on some projects and was interested in using either plan grade ore Bim 360 on additional projects.

Our team explaining the value angry at brings to the field and Bim 360 dock brings to the office highlighting the long term vision Loren can make a long term investment and recognizing the power behind the integration the customers invested in our portfolio as demonstrated by example, we believe we are better.

Position than any other vendors to capitalize on the international opportunity and we are aggressively investing in fiscal 2001 to expand our reach global.

Other notable accomplishments of the year for our construction business include Pankratz delivered over 100 million an air are beating the target we laid out at the beginning of the year building connected cross the 1 million users.

Acquired construction solutions were included in 45 enterprise deals the product teams rolled out a comprehensive long term product integration plan and over 300 enhancement.

I'm very pleased with the progress our construction business made in fiscal 2000, and even more excited to continue building our world class platform.

We also made impressive stride in our core architecture market, where we continue to benefit from customers migrating from two to three design arcaded global design and consultancy firm headquartered in the Netherlands substantially increased our engagements with us this quarter as they work to become a leader in AI driven design.

Involving some of the world's most complex project, our cadence aggressively transitioning from Twod to Threed collaborative workflows, using revett civil Threed improve work and demonstrate safety and they are not stopping there we are focusing in their adoption of care design with fusion 360 as they are reimbursed.

Thanks for additional processes like put thought design by exploring the redesign of elements without restrictions of traditional design processes and manufacturability.

Moving to manufacturing.

We continue to gain share and delivered revenue growth of 15% for the quarter, an 18% for the year. Our advanced technology solutions are enabling our customers to migrate from traditional workload to operate more efficiently in the cloud we added 20000 fusion 360 commercial scripts.

This year, establishing the leading cloud based multi tenant design and make solutions provider in the markets.

During the quarter splinter group, a German manufacturer of radio frequency technology.

In our product design and manufacturing collection over Solidworks. Their decision was driven by the comprehensive value of the collection and the ability to work with just one partner versus multiple vendors for various point products and another example, one of the world iconic Qatar manufacturers standardize on fusion 360 for design.

The placing solidworks and lineup the catalyst with collaboration as fusion enables them to collaborate across their acoustic electric and PCB divisions for the first time ever.

We're also seeing our leadership in them drive business with building product manufacturers as they need to fabricate product for buildings designed by our solution a multinational company well known in their industry for Drywall Gibson Board selected our manufacturing collection and our APC collection this quarter to extend their offering.

Some dry wall to pre manufactured building components in the industrialized construction market, our design and manufacturing solution enables them to develop machine and factories for production and our APC solutions enabled them to connect and work collaboratively with their customers.

Adoption of Gener design is also continuing to drive business. For example, Goodyear use general designed to optimize and internally produced handful. They were able to cut production time designed the tool forex faster and make the part kinex faster than would have been the case using a traditional machining process and by combining.

Additive manufacturing with CNC machining, they reduced our overall material cost and manufacturing time by 10.

Business results like these drove an increase in their EPA the investment as good here continues to drive faster innovation in design and manufacturing.

Given that we just finished the Oscars I also want to highlight some of the success. We are having in media and entertainment. Many autodesk customers are recognized for their industry, leading work throughout the year. One such example is like US and Oregon based stock motion animation studio recently nominated for an Academy Award winner of the 22.

20 Golden Globe for best animated feature like a uses the full breadth of the audit as media entertainment portfolio, including through the at Matt Maya and shotgun software.

Now onto the progress with monetizing Noncompliant users are ongoing investments in digital transformation have helped us significantly in this area as one indicator that I am excited to share that this fiscal year, we signed 62 license compliance deals over $500000 per deal and 14 of those deals were over one.

Million. This is almost three times the number we did in fiscal 19, the deals were across all regions and almost 20% of the fiscal 20 deals over 500 K we're in China.

We're very pleased with our success in monetizing non compliant users so far and this remains a key long term growth driver and area of investment.

Moving forward one of the key steps, we're taking is moving the plans for people instead, a serial numbers. This will allow us to better serve our paying customers and will make our solutions harder to pirate.

Plant based on name users will give our customers visibility into their usage data, allowing them to optimize their license costs and enable us to better understand their needs.

We moved our single user subscriptions to named users in fiscal 2000 and will also transition all of our multi user subscriptions. This will mark the final milestone and becoming a true staff company, giving us the ability to deliver incremental value and customized services to our customers.

We're also introducing a premium plan that offers additional security tailored administration capabilities support and reporting.

Please refer to the appendix of the slide deck posted on our Investor Relations website for more details.

To close I would like to look back at the last few years and take a moment to highlight what we've accomplished three years ago, we set a free cash flow target of $1.4 billion. This year, we delivered on that target. We did what we said we would do we are executing well and know how to adapt.

And flex in changing market conditions, we know how to manage our journey and have proven that with our fiscal 20 results looking out to fiscal 23 and beyond I'm more confident than ever in our strategy and the team executing on it we will continue to deliver great value to our customers with our connected and comprehensive platform a concern.

Production, we expect to keep gaining share in the manufacturing market as it moves to the cloud with less seiwert workflows and overtime, we're going to increasingly monetize the noncompliant user base.

We look forward to seeing many of you at our Investor Day on March 25th where we will have more time to share our strategic initiatives.

With that operator, we'd now like open the call up request.

As a reminder to ask a question you wanted to press star one on your telephone to withdraw your question press the pound Kane. Please standby well, we've compiled the Q and a roster.

Our first question comes from the line of Saket Kalia from Barclays Capital. Your line is now open.

Hi, Andrew Hey, Scott Hi, guys doing thanks for taking my questions here.

Hey, Saxer socket, Hey, I'll focus my question is on some of the pricing changes here and maybe start with you Andrew.

You talked about the introduction of the standard and premium plan could you just sticking to what types of customers you think would opt for premium and sort of broad brush how big of your base could could that premium plan sort of cohort b overtime.

All right. So the standard plant already this I remember the standard plan just subscription yesterday and I think one of the ways you want to think about premium is kind of like a mini enterprise agreement without the consumption element. So it's going to appeal to some of our larger accounts they get service through the channel and it's going to appeal to them for a couple of reasons first off.

So many things that are included in the pension plan include a single sign on support throughout the directory. So this is the way that the customer can Doug can manage their named users that and deploy single sign on across it it's easier for them to manage the user. It's more secure can you can turn on and turn off users really quickly so that right. There's a huge benefit the other thing or concern.

Validating in and this is something a lot of our customers already have is something called and MTR, which stands for extra territorial rights and that is a.

Something we've always sold on top of our traditional licensing to allow them to distribute licenses to subsidiary areas outside of their outside of where their.

Corporate headquarters are all right. So that's another thing is included in there obviously another thing that appeals to larger accounts that are serviced by our channel. The other thing that theyre going to get is analytics capability will ever all of our customers are going and analytic capability, but what's going to show up in the Permian plan as much deeper we're actually going to be making proactive suggested there's some of the analytics about how they can optimize.

And.

Get more out of their investment with autodesk or optimize their investment without us more precisely when they do they also get us a slightly closer relationship with all of that through to support in terms that we provide so you can see this is going to appeal to larger accounts.

I'm not going to give you a percentage of the based in terms of what that means we could try but but that's the who is going to appeal to and I think you can see how weve naturally introduced at the same time that we've introduced the discussion around the ending the multiuser licensing because it allows you to manage May view, there's a lot more effectively.

That makes sense.

And actually dovetails into my follow up question for for you. Scott can you just talk about that shift of multi user to named use your licensing I guess, specifically one of your studies are sort of anecdotes shown on how many started named accounts. There are for for our named users. There are for each multi user license if that makes sense.

Yes, yes, it does socket and.

Imagine thats, something we looked pretty hard at as we designed the the end of sale of multi user and what that trade in program would look like and runs right around two to one.

In other words to name users in the update on average being served by one multi user license. So that's the reason we set the trade on program. The way we did I think for some customers. They will end up meeting a few more single users to support their base that they were running a little hotter than that and for some they'll probably make the trade in program and in the future there may be a chance for them to either.

So that or take additional budget and hop into premium with that so its a.

Was designed to right around the average of what we see in terms of actual usage today.

No because you asked about that trade in program I just want to make sure that we're all cleared up of why of that program because there's a couple of customer wise and has a couple autodesk wise in the customer standpoint, a lot of our multi user customers are already has named user name user licenses in their account there they're living in what we affectionately call hybrid held by the company, where they're trying to manage to types.

Different systems. This will put them all on our new subscription backend. So essentially bring all of these customer that live in hybrid environments into our new backend and provide them. All the same analytics that the the names users are getting so there is that there's going to be a lot of customer benefits associated especially when you layer on premium because of the control and security.

It's going to give you for Autodesk. This gets us one step further to retiring older systems that are based on serial numbers system. The kind that we have to maintain system that has think issues that get in the way about knowing more about our customers. So we're going to have more knowledge about our customers. We have more information about what they're doing and we're going to be able to service them a lot better.

Makes sense thanks, guys.

Thanks.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Phil Winslow from Wells Fargo. Your line is now open.

Hey, Thanks for taking my question Congrats already close the year.

Just wanted to focus in on the different industry verticals.

Selling general manufacturing, obviously, there's a difference sort of between whenever you provided some sort of some are more color on sort of how you closed out the year there and.

How you're thinking about the forward guidance sort of industry verticals.

Thanks.

Yes, Thanks, Bill and you may not have had a chance I know, it's a busy nights for everyone, but we posted some details by.

By both geography and by product family on the slide deck. That's on the web site. What you see as we were really strong in both we were strong and all three geos, both in the quarter and for the full year and across all product sets.

The one anomaly and we've talked about this in the opening commentary was an immediate entertainment.

Which actually showed a slight decline for the quarter year on year and that was really driven by one large multi year up fronts transaction that was done in Q4 year ago that skewed that for the full year media Entertainment grew about 9%. So you really saw strength across the board.

Our expectation looking into fiscal 2000, and you can see we go from an overall revenue growth rate of about 27%. This year to one that's in the 20% to 22% range next year.

Part of that is the there was about three points of added inorganic growth to our fiscal 2000 numbers. So yes takes it down to about 24% compared to 20 to 22 next year, which is just the law of large numbers.

Absolute terms, we see growth in revenue and a strong for sit growth next year as well.

You want to enter the only color as the our M&A business because of its size just continues to be sensitive to large deals. It always has been because of its size and even the sub segments within in our incentive to large deal. That's just the nature of that business.

Got it and then also just in terms opportunity that via noncompliance.

Theres, obviously, you called out some pretty significant.

Changeover I'm not at analyst day last year, you're talking about I think it's about 1.7 million.

Still on the base will be thinking about just the growth you saw your overall user base. This year, how much everybody calls.

Core growth.

The core growth versus actually shifting those.

Talk about uses over.

Sorry, the non core but most of it.

Yes, sorry, sorry, so most of its core growth Phil so, but as I've said consistently I went over again, we're getting better and better at talking to understanding and converting these non compliant users. That's why we gave you some of those staff as you can understand directionally. How this effort is going every year, it's going to come.

Can you to get better and better and better our investment both from a system side and from our people side in terms of people that actually handle directly noncompliant negotiations with customers are going up so you're going to see this consistent performance and most of the most of that that growth is just the core growth but.

I hope you're getting a sense for how this noncompliant news that starts to become quite an engine as we as we move forward.

Im going to say 12, now on seven sorry about that alright, thanks, guys.

Hi, Ben Thanks So.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Matt Hedberg from RBC capital markets. Your line is now open.

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on a really strong ended the year.

You know I guess for either Andrew or Scott curious.

Andrew or Scott I think you mentioned youre taking into.

Account the current macro with krona virus and exposure to China is small I guess I'm wondering how you think about the broader APAC region, Japan or other regions and sort of our have you seen anything yet thus far a month into the quarter.

Yes, I am glad I'm glad you asked a question first off into the whole the whole Corona virus situations like the human situation Thats kind of human tragedy and the best thing that can happen here for all of US is that it just gets resolving contained relatively quickly under the vaccine next year for the next flu season, but from a business perspective, how it impacts view it depends on your business.

We've looked pretty deeply at our business and here's here's kind of allay Atlanta I'll give you. If you are a software vendor that's exposed to law big deal from especially large industrial that have kind of global supply chain disruption you. Good feel some effects from this all right. That's not US. In addition, if you are.

In the travel industry, obviously, you're going to feel some effects from that but here's what's different about autodesk and here's why I want to albeit a said how we look at the business and and why we took into account from China effect in Q1, but we don't we don't see longer term effects. At this point, Okay. Now I will say it just becomes a pandemic all bets are off and we'll have a different discuss.

But right now our business is what we call it almost micro verticalized, we cut across lots of different verticals and it's not with industrial verticals indicates company side verticals. We go from the biggest two to the smallest our business, especially in the first half of the year is not heavily dependent on large deals at large company.

Particularly large industrial so we don't see that kind of sensitivity in our business, but in addition, and I think this is super important create understand it's one of the great things about being an indirect company our business have been hyper locally and when I mean, why that is the bar is especially in APAC that transition that transact with the customers are actually knew the cut.

Comers alright, you're not doing situation were people travel or there's a there's a diet score of salespeople heading and various direction. They get the business done comfortably meet our software. The air software is now and the bars are there. So this this combination of this micro verticalization the spread across various companies of various sizes and its hyper locality of our business.

Is why wouldn't sort of hit last round, we didnt see much impact on our business. So right now what we've done we looked at China, Obviously, we just said alright.

More China, China with already having issues as well so we prudently looked at Q1 with regard to China looked at the short term impact, but we don't see right now.

The impact in our business of course like I said earlier pandemic kits will have a different discussion, but right now I just want you to pay attention to that notion of highly verticalized, Michael vertical different customer segment, and hyper local which is a great advantage of where we're at and Matt If I could just tag onto that because there.

There may be some confusion also with our Q1 guide relative to.

What's out there in Factset and of course Watson Factset is is on guided on a quarterly basis. It's interesting that shows sequential growth. The consensus does from Q4, which of course is not what we experienced last year since we've made the shift.

Last year, we saw a sequential decline and even saw sequential decline last year. Despite the fact that Q4 of the of 19 only had about a month a player. It included in Q1 had an entire quarter paying rent included and we still saw sequential decline what drives that by the way as our recurring revenue decline and as we look at all.

Guide for Q1 of fiscal 21, we're not say recurring revenue decline. What we are seeing is that we've talked about this in the past this license and other line. It's always the biggest in the fourth quarter. It has to do with largely to do with some.

Products that we sell that we settle on a ratable basis, but the accounting still requires them to be recognized upfront. So if you look at our license and other line in the fourth quarter to quarter. We just announced was 42 million. We think it will be about half that big in Q1, that's really what's driving the sequential decline in so without commenting on.

How facts I got the 910 I'll say it it's not a we have taken into account a significant headwinds of Corona virus, we expect our recurring revenue actually show slight growth sequentially again.

That's fantastic Great color and then maybe just one more for you Scott.

You're not guiding to air our which I think most of us expected.

Given its not a perfect metric for you guys. If you saw in Q3 I'm just sort of curious if you could provide a little bit more color on that and.

Do you still think you'll talk to like your fiscal 2003 air our targets at some point.

We're not talking about and you nailed it it's because of some of the anomalies in the way we we defined a or are we talked about this extensively on the Q3 call. It is related to our Q4 guide.

It was a great metric as we were going through the transition and our PML had a mix of.

A significant amount of upfront plus ratable you needed to see how we were building that recurring revenue base at this point, we've built a recurring revenue basis, 96% of our total revenues right. So doing ARR, which when I gave you an annual number was an effect say, but the fourth quarter recurring revenue and multiply by four it didnt accumulate through the year.

That's why we pulled back on the metric I think you get as good if not better insight from just tracking revenue and knowing that 96% of that as recurring you will still be able to calculated by the way I don't plan on focusing on a during these calls but if you look at our PML remember the way we calculated our AR was subscription plus maintenance revenue actual risk.

Adjusted for the quarter Comscore, we'll continue to report in those line items, you'll continue to be able to track that if you want I, just say gets us less reliable metric of where we're headed than revenue or current ARPO, which you see in our results current ARPO is up 23%.

Super helpful color.

Thanks, Matt.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jay Vleeschhouwer from Griffin Securities. Your line is now fan.

Thank you good evening.

Andrew Scott.

You used the word aggressively during your prepared remarks, I believe to refer to internal investments you will be making and on that point.

You now have by far a record number of openings and sales related positions.

Doing highest we've counted yes, yes.

By far.

If I counted in eight years.

And.

As for territorial account execs named account inside sales license compliance.

And so the question is.

How are you thinking about that as a principal cost driver.

<unk> expense targets this year and more importantly, the production or revenue production effects. If you would expect from.

That kind of substantial onboarding of sales capacity.

Number two.

You used to give a metric prior to the transition.

For your annual license volume.

The last reported numbers.

And we used to calculate it were about 600 650000 licenses.

We continue to follow that method.

Impute the volume of your business you are now seems well above those last given numbers from a few years ago.

It would seem now the consumption of.

What are the product licenses, including in particular collections is now in the high six figures are well above prior level. So would you concur with that calculation that youre.

Intrinsic demand consumption of all of that product is well above what it used to be.

Under the old way accounting.

And then finally with regard to the changes in pricing to a single user.

Preference.

Would there'd be an implicit connection there Andrew to your view of an eventual consumption model can you get there only.

If you do in fact have this kind of named user pricing.

Wow, Okay that was a hearing you answered you got two follow ups. The question. Okay. So first off let me let me start back to your first question about investment. So I want I'll speak for Scott and then Scott can speak to Scott I want to make sure. Your who we are we're not losing any of our spend disappointing at all all right, we're actually investing below our capacity.

Anita kind of you'll make sure that we're we're staying in line with things you're seeing some of the areas. We're investing and go to market. We're also investing in R&D, we're investing begun construction that shouldn't surprise you.

But we're also investing confusion or investing in the architecture.

With some of things we're doing around.

Generative and other types of things for architects and rabbits rabbit as well. We're also in investing in our digital infrastructure. So yes, we are investing right and we said we would invest but we're investing prudently we're investing smartly and we're excited about it alright, because we see a lot of returned from.

The investments, we make and we've been we've been very deliberate about this now on your second worry about the license, but I'm not going to comment specifically on that but I can.

I can tell you is that the the lower upfront cost of our products and the way we go to market now it makes a difference okay.

Too many people spend a lot of time talking to the customers of our old maintenance customers and how you know this transition has been hard on them and their confusing they're not sure but there is a whole swath of customers that are just sitting there going how did all that stuff gets so cheap alright.

And in data that seems to be the forgotten people and yes. There are coming in they are excited about our product some of them are using rabbit when they never thought they could use revenues are they use an inventor or they are using Max and if you've seen some I think we've done with mass where we haven't Indy version of Maxim I mean, there is there's a there's a whole gamut of.

I think we've layered out there for people that really really changes the way people buyer Sabra and who is buying it and who is paying for it and it is an exciting change in yes. It has it hasnt I thought about thing more about this specific so what you asked for there now your third question and I remembered all three.

Now about this move to Andrew.

So we it's imperative for us to trip to complete the transition to south excellent to be a named user company and once you get people. The named users are also getting them on our new subscription backend infrastructure, which is super important and as you scroll correctly said that backend infrastructure provides new.

It's a flexibility that were available in the previous hybrid world of debt dangling on some of the serial number based system and some of the other systems. So what you're going to see over the next 12 to 24 month is increasingly rolling out more flexibility to our customers with regards to how they can apply this name.

Their capability in multiple ways.

You mentioned consumption.

The premium plans kind of a layer in that direction. So you're right in assuming that we're going to be able to do much more flexible things with our customers as a result of what we've done it's been a heavy lift to get here all right. It's been an absolute heavy lift, but we're going to be 24 months from here in our customers going be looking back at that up.

What I was complaining about because this this this is a better way too to engage about as Scott digital Jay I'd be remiss on that on your first question. If I didn't add besides were considered to maintain spend discipline. It was we built it up pretty diligently over the four years of staying flat and spend that's not going away.

But I think you also have to look at the increased spend not as increase those but we're increasing margin wrote a point in our growth story, where we can both increased spend to drive future growth and increased margins. So we had a 12 points to our operating margin in fiscal 2000, you see the midpoint of our guide, we're adding five more points to.

Our op margin in fiscal 2001, and we've said, it's going to be 40% by the time, we get the fiscal 23, so that conversation around Stonewall interesting if what you're looking for is where we invest thing. That's a good conversation to have you should know and everyone should be confident we continue to manage that variability.

Thanks very much.

Welcome.

Thank you Sir our next question comes from the line of Heather Bellini from Goldman Sachs. Your line is now fan.

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question I appreciate the time.

Most of mine has been asked but I just I wanted to follow up on that multiuser pricing.

Change that you had and totally understand Andrew your comments about kind of you need to go to what named user.

Pricing model, but just wondering if there was anything you could share with us about maybe the impact that that helped to drive in the in that quarter that just ended and how you're thinking about like whats reactions. Then what is what is the reaction from customers.

We're going to convert to that so far what their feedback Tijuana.

Thank you so great great question Heather good to hear from the let me let me give you. Some some color here. So first talking we did increase the price of new multi user licenses new.

Right and.

We are new is exactly the same price right.

The 33% increase in multi user this is going to have.

Very little impact on our existing customers right. The reason we did it was very simple between now and May when the two for one then starts in earnest.

We've now set the price so they gaming has removed from the system. So what what what we didn't want to fee would that kind of like sudden hoarding multi user licenses heading into the made two for one and that's that's why we did we did this to do is basically a signal like hey, Here's where we're going we're heading into this new direction, we did not pull any materially.

Inefficient business forward into Q4. This had no no material effect on our Q4 results going to be Jericho therapy that no material effect on our Q4 results Alright. This was purely a tight genic change to to line up everything to the two for one offer most customers will not see.

Huge impacting that except for the few that are going to be adding some multi user licenses in there. It's really too early to hear what a customer impact is we did hear from some of our early evangelists and as a result, we were able to kind of adjust some of the some aspects of the program and do a few things that they kind of address some of their concerns, but but so far you know it's too early.

Great I wouldn't expect sorry, you get on a first back on that yes. This is Scott I wouldn't expect that you'd want to push back on that given that we designed it to be two for one both in terms of price. If you buy a new multiuser now, but at the trade endpoint because that's what we see is the average number of single user name users that are being served by multi user license so should be fairly.

The neutral to most of our customers Okay, great and then I just had one follow up if I may just about the construction market men and the deal closed there in the quarter could you share with people kind of is typically a greenfield market where.

There is no incumbent provider, except maybe excel or notebook or is this one where when you're closing business now with it.

Is there any any legacy replacement of the other vendor and just kind of how do you. How do you look out and see that competitive environment. Thank you yes.

The more part you're going in and your digitizing a process from scratch flooding now would you have a competitor we compete with frequently we're winning a beating the more and more and we've actually kicked him out of some of our account because our customers do not like their business model and that will increasingly make it easy to kick them out of our account that it's just not a good long term business model.

So we do have competitors that go into the same accounts, but essentially what you're doing is you're replacing analog to digital and or you're replacing email on on on mobile devices with some kind of process and process control now as we get deeper and deeper into Preconstruction planning model based construction.

Management interdisciplinary digital twins and all of the thing the kind of build out and then you actually starts fundamentally changing the customers processes, but heather here, you're essentially right youre, replacing analog with digital and that's that's where the money is and Thats where were going.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Our next question comes from the line of Brad Zelnick from Credit Suisse. Your line is now fan.

Fantastic. Thank so much and first I just wanted to follow up on Heather's question on construction. It's it's great to see the enthusiasm in construction cloud can you talk about some of the learnings from combining the product portfolio and yet and how you will be more competitive in fiscal 2001, and also how big of a component of your mix can construction costs.

Become as we approach your fiscal 2003 target.

Yes, Okay. So first let me ask you about the to the customer reaction that construction cloud and one of things one working with our so one of the first things. We learned is that we had a winner and bim 360 dots.

Because what we Didnt, we were building kind of that this next generation platform and it just so happens that all the acquired solutions put the incredibly nicely into this platform, which is super important because if you want to compete both inside the infrastructure business with the department of transportation and internationally.

Neither of call it an ISO compliance common data environment, which is what dock is going to be providing for our customers. So it's actually a huge competitive advantage to have this environment and Wheeler pretty quickly to the work we're doing with docs really kind of played nicely into that we also learn pretty quickly that we we have a huge mobile.

Advantage with what we've done with the planned grid products and with Plainridge team has done and we're leveraging that advantage and expanding into other parts of our portfolio. We also discovered that the building network with building connected that by way of getting integrated with planned great at getting integrated with only the solutions is a is it an amazingly important asset not only.

To our customers, but to us in terms of understanding the construction climate.

We also have learned what it takes to go internationally. So one of the things that we were well positioned to do better in any one and we're investing pretty heavily in international expansion for our construction portfolio construction International business. It always has been its local but it's also international and between our investment in the common data environment go to market stand up and various plays.

You are going to see us start to grow internationally pretty significantly and there's nobody is that we compete with they can actually do some of the things that we're doing there in terms of in terms of the construction environment. Now there is another apart your question I want to make sure I answer it because I get carried away of what we learned what was the second part of their Brad.

Second part was just asking how big of a component of your mix, yes structure.

As we look at fiscal 2003.

Yes, Brad Thanks for that I don't certainly want to get into giving that kind of granularity on our fiscal 23 guidance I'll give you a couple of comments, though that we've set a few times in the past and still believe constructions and X billion dollar business for Autodesk, because what you see is on the in the wake of the transactions, we didn't fourth quarter last year, we've done a great.

Integrating those we haven't lost any momentum and those acquired companies and in fact have stated updraft in our organic construction business as a result of that so it's growing on a really nice path at this point you've seen what the what the inorganic piece looks like in our results.

Looking at our total cloud growth gives you a good sense because bim 362, the organic piece of our construction business that it's the biggest piece of our cloud.

Our cloud results. So you get an overall sense of where construction is headed for us.

It's a sizable business and we'll continue to grow but I don't want to go into trying to give you a here's the let me start to break down the components of our fiscal 2003 targets.

Thats helpful. Scott I appreciate it and if I could just sneak in a quick follow up for you about long term deferred which were much higher than we expected just given your continued traction of multi year, how should we think about long term deferred going forward, especially as you make changes to some of your multiuser products.

Now that's a great question.

Thanks for asking us.

Obviously, the long term deferred is our result of multi year right of multi year sales and we said this is the year, we expect multi year sales to revert back to them to the being right to the what we have seen when we sold multiyear Omega Thats historically.

What you see that one of the effects of that is of course, it drives long term deferred revenue and that's what you're seeing in our results.

I thought mid year that this was going to get that long term deferred as a percent of total deferred revenue would be in the mid 20% range. It's a couple of points higher than that.

As we've analyzed that and then we're keeping a close eye on how multi years running as we've analyzed the.

Still feel like Thats sort of sustainable level and it's below what we saw with maintenance when we offered almost the exact same offer for three years paid up front on maintenance long term the forgot to 30% of total deferred at that point I don't see us getting to that level. In fact, I think long term deferred moderates a bit looking at fiscal 2001 as a percent of total deferred.

It is where it is but will stay on top of that and up to the extent we need to make.

Adjustment and that offer will make that adjustment I certainly don't want to see that run at a level. That's that's on a payable are unsustainable I think the what may be implied in your question that you Didnt ask is is this going to create a headwind for free cash flow.

So besides the comments I just made on kind of the steady state that I've see multiyear get into bear in mind, one other factor we've talked about this but but not since last investor day that as we look from fiscal 2000 after fiscal 2003 more and more of our free cash flow is that the majority beginning this year of our free cash flow will come from net income.

As opposed to coming off the balance sheet and growth in deferred revenue right. So as we scale, both the topline and improve our margins out through fiscal 2003, more and more of a cash flow comes right off the PML and net income versus coming in growth in deferred.

Someplace, where I have to.

Chime in just a little bit since you mentioned that the free cash flow ramp wanted at one of the things I want to make sure. We all kind of like think up on your unit look back three years here. We are three years later, okay. The business ended up free cash flow wise, where we expected it to be.

The past had numerous twists and turns numerous puts and takes we modeled it according to certain assumptions, we adjusted the assumptions as we went along we have an execution machine the knows how to adapt I just want you to remember when we give you a three year targets. We are a fairly confident we know where we're going and we know how to free cash flows going.

To ramp and we know we know it's going to continue to ramp. We also know how to adjust as we execute through here and how attuned to move forward and make sure things happened the way they need to happen and I I. Just told you before the safe assumption is do assume we're going to do what we tell you we're going to deal and if there is that with any kind of high.

Didnt things like Scott said and that question I wanted you know we.

We got our handles on the controls here for this business.

Thank you for US we're very complete answer thank you.

Sure. Thanks.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Sterling Auty from JP Morgan. Your line is now open.

Yes, thanks, guys two questions on the construction area.

The first one is when you look at your solutions now where are the biggest pockets.

Users in your customer base. So is that you see subcontractors owners et cetera, just to understand where you're seeing the biggest buying power at the moment.

Okay. So right now gecs, our some of our biggest customers subs are starting to ramp up quite significantly alright, because remember the building connectedness network. We have a lot of access to subs now so youre engaged with the with the sub ecosystem in a way that we were you were never before.

Gecs are the biggest buyers, but you also be surprise interdisciplinary engineering firms.

Our big buyers as well because because of their internet connection to construction planning processes and things associated with that but yes, it's starting with the gcs, but it's been moving down market.

Quite significantly as we mature we gave an example in the opening commentary of a significant subcontractor.

All right and then the one follow up would be Theres, a lot of components that make up that construction Echo system from project management to bid management to the financials et cetera can you can you highlight with the solutions that you have where you think your biggest areas of strength within that group is today and Directionally, where do you.

Building out that portfolio.

Yes. It is theres two anchor the strength that we have that are a pretty deep one is field execution, we are by far.

Massively advantage in the field execution side, the other area in closer to the front end of the processes in Preconstruction planning is another area, where where weve brought tools and capabilities close to the building information model and all things associated with that that are pretty powerful now there's one kind of thin layer technology, where we've we've been playing catch up.

And actually the it's not really a very deep technological most to be honest, but it's in project management and in project costs things, that's something where we've been investing a lot of where a lot of the R&D investment has gone that that gap is clothing incredibly rapidly. The team is just.

Pounding out enhancements and that's the area, we pay attention to.

Because it's it's not technologically sophisticated but it's important and it's one of the areas that we've deployed to add those things now will allow us to connect field and Preconstruction planning in a in a way that other people simply can't.

Understood. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tyler Radke from Citi. Your line is now fan.

Hey, Thanks for taking my question. So maybe you could just talk about this new.

Pricing you're doing on that the multi user to name use there and maybe just frame it in the context of some of the other pricing changes you've made in.

In terms of financial benefit what's kind of the timeframe that you expect.

To see the uplift play out and should we be thinking this is kind of a possible source of upside relative to the existing 23 targets, which were put out before this plan was announced thanks.

So so tile are you referring to the premium plan or are you referring to a new multiuser price the question I answered earlier.

The the pricing on the on multi user we don't see significant upside being generated by that that was one dollarseight thousand tactical pricing action designed to prevent gaming as we headed into the two for one exchange in May So it's not that is not an accretive.

Change that kind of is going to drive business. The bigger the bigger a story is the premium plan that layers on top of the multi user plant that will be a long term continuing opportunity for the us and it should be one of those things that increases your confidence in our ability to hit to our quite 23 targets all right now and I think thats that's kind of.

The way you should look at it it's got to do and no I think thats right I think that just of your question. There was around multi user and we did touch on that earlier and I think Joe is the only thing I'd add again is that the way we set the price.

And the trade in program or a multi user moving them all to name user was in sync with the are.

Now lets us of how many named users today are they supported by given multi years, so should be pretty much a loss for most of our multi user customers.

Great and as I think about the premium plan.

Sounds like that's a multiyear event I mean I guess.

I think about the.

This thing 23 targets I mean, those have been out there for for a number of years now.

Yes.

Any chance that have come analyst day that.

Maybe we look at targets beyond that or what's kind of here how are you thinking about.

Kind of long term targets now that 23 isn't isn't that far away.

Yes, I think I feel good about the targets that we've laid out for fiscal 2003, let me start there and we sort of lost over it given all the the other news it's in the environment, but.

Pretty proud of the fact that we hit the number that we laid out three years ago for free cash flow at the end of fiscal 21, which was no small task given the amount of transition we still had to go through and the changes we made and execution to get there. So we probably ought to start there.

That's a that's a big states in the ground that big milestone for us.

Looking out to fiscal 2003, I feel equally confident and our ability to hit the targets that we've got out there of 2.4 billion free cash flow.

Looking beyond that I think we will continue to see the same trends that drive growth out through fiscal 2003 of course, extending beyond that I think the the relative magnitude of some of those will change obviously construction will be a bigger driver as we go further out in time, I think where we're headed with using in the manufacturing world will become a bigger driver further out in time, but many of the same drivers.

That get us to those 23 targets will extend well beyond fiscal 2003 Im not inclined at this point to put another quantitative target out though beyond fiscal 2003.

Great. Thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you at this time I'm showing no further questions I would like to turn the call back over to at by Lamba for closing remarks.

Thanks, and thanks, everyone for joining us today, we look forward to seeing you add on analyst day on March 20 trip that San Francisco office. These each other if you have any questions. Following todays call I would like to the initial from the honest with that we can end the call. Thank you.

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