Q1 2025 Appian Corp Earnings Call
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Speaker Change: Good day, and welcome to the Appian First Quarter 2025 earnings conference call. All participants will be in the listen only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero.
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Speaker Change: I would now like to turn the conference over to Jack Andrews, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Speaker Change: Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Today we'll review Appian's first quarter 2025 financial results. With me are Matt Calkins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Mark Lynch Interim Chief Financial Officer. After prepared remarks, we'll open the call for questions.
Speaker Change: During this call we may make statements related to our business that are considered forward-looking.
These include comments related to our financial results.
Speaker Change: Trends in Guidance for the second quarter and full year 2025.
Speaker Change: our go-to-market and growth strategy, our market opportunity and ability to expand our leadership position, our ability to maintain and upsell existing customers, and our ability to acquire new customers.
Speaker Change: These statements reflect our views only as of today and don't represent our views as of any subsequent date.
Speaker Change: We won't update these statements as a result of new information unless required by law. Actual results may differ materially from expectations due to the risks and uncertainties described in our SEC filings.
Jack Andrews: Additionally, non-GAAP financial measures will be discussed on this conference call. Reconciliation of gap to non-GAAP financial measures are provided in our earnings release. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO , Matt Calkins. Matt? Thanks, Jack. Thanks everyone for joining us today.
Matt Calkins: In the first quarter of 2025, Appian's cloud subscription revenue grew 15% year over year to 99.8 million.
Matt Calkins: Subscriptions revenue grew 14% to 134.4 million. Total revenue grew 11% year over year to 166.4 million. Our cloud subscription revenue retention rate was 112% as of March 31st.
Matt Calkins: Adjusted EBITDA with $16.8 million, a strong follow-up to the prior quarters Adjusted EBITDA of $21.2 million, and a continued demonstration of our inherent earnings potential.
Matt Calkins: We held our annual conference last week, Appian World. Our focus was squarely on AI and AI agents and how AI can be deployed inside a process to deliver practical value.
Matt Calkins: I appreciate the many customers who spoke about their experiences with Appian, the value they created using Appian AI.
Matt Calkins: and the success they achieved. Speakers from Aeon, NASA, and Magnetual shared stories of how their organization's optimized processes with Appian. New Berger Berman revealed it on board tens of billions of dollars in funds faster with Appian. Hitachi reported reducing operating expenses by 20% using Appian. A claim autism uses Appian to ingest medical documents accelerating its patient intake process by 83%.
Thank you.
My keynote was about bringing AI to work.
Matt Calkins: By that, I mean finding the place in your enterprise where work is heaviest and most important and deploying AI there.
We focus on AI, the worker, not AI, the helper [inaudible]
Matt Calkins: In order to make AI a worker, you must integrate AI into a business process because that's how the most critical work is done by teams taking coordinated action.
Thank you very much.
Matt Calkins: We don't believe in asking AI to make staggering leaps of creativity.
Matt Calkins: Not in 2025 anyway. Instead, AI is for doing regular work with superhuman efficiency.
Matt Calkins: Things like document intake and response, which AI can do faster and better than anyone else.
Matt Calkins: My favorite conference session was called Saving Millions with Boring AI.
Matt Calkins: because it pretty much sums up our approach to AI straightforward, even boring, and immensely productive.
We focus on practical results over height.
Matt Calkins: But don't let our use of the word boring fool you. We're getting incredible results
Matt Calkins: It's natural that the focus of the AI Revolution would shift to supporting technologies like processes. The major AI models are convergent. The most important decision and AI applications may be not which AI you use but how you deploy it.
Matt Calkins: Our belief as you know if you've heard me before is that AI should be deployed in a process.
Matt Calkins: In an appian process AI is easier to deploy safer and more powerful.
Speaker Change: Appian makes AI easy to adopt for example, a leading Australian insurer deployed an application to ingest documents automate underwriting processes using Appian AI.
Speaker Change: Before appian hundreds of underwriting specialists spent days manually processing quotes with limited accuracy now in minutes, our AI classifies documents and extracts data with over 96% accuracy. So the insurer can quickly opened and progressive cases.
Speaker Change: Customer expects to run these processes, 50% faster and generate millions more dollars in revenue annually.
Speaker Change: Last year that'd be launched a multi tiered pricing model that allows us to monetize AI and other exclusive features since then nearly half of our new logos have purchased the AI inclusive upper tiers revenue from these AI inclusive tiers more than doubled in Q1 relative to Q4.
Speaker Change: Rising to $9 million. This is not yet a large share of our quarterly subscriptions revenue, but it demonstrates our early moves to monetize AI and our customers' willingness to pay for it.
Speaker Change: Our customers become more efficient when they use our platform.
Speaker Change: And association of U S financial regulators is one example, this group is an existing appian customer its state regulators process thousands of product filings annually, 50% faster when using our platform. This was even without AI.
Speaker Change: In Q1, it expanded its use with a seven figure software deal to upgrade its existing licenses to our new pricing model and deploy Appian AI.
Speaker Change: Our a I classify as these documents that extracts pertinent data from each filing now the group expects to eliminate manual verification and saved tens of thousands of additional labor hours annually.
Speaker Change: The central message of my keynote involved AI agents.
Speaker Change: I explained the three primary behaviors of an agent.
Lawrence: Thanks, Good act and its Lawrence.
Speaker Change: And I explained why Appian agents have an edge in all three behaviors I'm going to walk through them right now briefly.
Speaker Change: First of those three behaviors is thinking.
Speaker Change: Thinking refers to exploring data with repeated queries of disparate sources to decide on the best course of action.
Speaker Change: More data and agents can explore the better it will sink.
Speaker Change: That happens data fabric allows the agent to roam the entire enterprise of data not limited to a single silo or data source.
Speaker Change: Our data fabric is industry, leading functionality adopted by 97% of our incoming cloud users our data fabric gives the agents more than universal access.
Speaker Change: It also grants them speed, because our queries are automatically performance tuned and security.
Speaker Change: Because we run those curious with the appropriate users credentials.
Speaker Change: Due to a surge in AI related usage data fabric queries are up 166% year over year to nearly 7 billion queries in Q1.
Speaker Change: Second part of my behavior list is acting.
Speaker Change: Acting as a second thing that these agents do when it refers to an agent implementing its decision.
Speaker Change: Appian agents act exclusively through processes.
Speaker Change: That's all they can do is is launch processes no surprise there because we are a process company.
Speaker Change: Successful we track all these things our process mining capability gives us an edge in collecting data for the benefit of our agents. The more you know the more you can learn for example, a large U S healthcare system will use app I.
Speaker Change: You'll start by analyzing a series of patient focused processes like medical procedure preauthorizations of denials to reduce overhead costs by 20% at the end data fabric will consolidate data from a dozen systems. So the group can use our process.
Speaker Change: Identify key bottlenecks the group we use these insights to prioritize an I T roadmap of workflows to automate with our platform.
Speaker Change: [noise] eight remain cautiously optimistic about the evolving opportunity.
Speaker Change: Q1, our federal government bookings, including both new software and services grew 59% compared to the same period last year at a long history of delivering value within the government.
Speaker Change: The department of Labor for example, saves tens of millions of dollars annually using Apion apian applications. Our mission critical the government procures $464 billion in annual budget on the apian platform.
Speaker Change: We offer a solution called government acquisition management or Gam Gam helps agencies automate highly regulated processes for procuring goods and services last year Appian launched procure site to complement the suite procure site.
Speaker Change: Is an AI driven website it applies a I to several major public data sets. So government professionals can glean insights from past procurements to help generate new ones over 80 federal agents and sub agencies today to make their effect.
Speaker Change: We continue to sign new customers and win big expansions in our key verticals. Here's some examples first a U S. Civilian agency purchased a seven figure software deal and became a new customer this quarter, it's selected our platform to manage.
Speaker Change: We won this competitive deal because we were the only vendor to meet all the customers' requirements. During our custom demo next a U S agency supporting the department of Defense catalogs and manages nuclear inventory using apian this quarter it shows modern.
Speaker Change: Solution. My final story is about a top Australian bank that became a new gapian customer this quarter it'll use our platform to modernize customer service processes like credit card disputes and customer account updates Appen AI will ingest nearly 75 million.
Speaker Change: Annually and Appmient data fabric will consolidate data from all related systems into a single workflow tools. So service agents can reduce their sla's from ours two minutes.
Speaker Change: [noise], it's important to me that Aten's investors know aten's intentions, so I'll share with you now to essential internal metrics, which we'll report on quarterly going forward. The first is what we call weighted rule of 40.
Speaker Change: This is the most important number that we manage the company towards it's a combination of growth and margin like a typical rule of 40, but we wait growth twice as much as margin in the current quarter, our weighted rule of 40 scores 27.
Speaker Change: Which is the sum of four thirds cloud subscription growth plus two thirds adjusted EBITDA margin I explain the math. So you can see that the factors add up to two just like in a regular rule of 40 metric. Some happy an executives have waited rule of targets.
Speaker Change: And all of them will over the next few quarters happens other top objectives to increase sales and marketing efficiency. This became my primary objective in 2023 and after much work we're seeing some results. This Q1 our network.
Speaker Change: Sales rep rose more than 30% compared to the same period last year, we want to share our progress with you using a new metric C. Slide four in the presentation called G. T M productivity, that's go to market productivity it measures the.
Speaker Change: Sales and marketing the numerator is the sum of total revenue and the quarterly changes in short term deferred revenue over trailing 12 months. The denominator is trailing 12 months non-GAAP sales and marketing expenses as you'll see in the chart, we're showing steady progress.
Speaker Change: [noise] Appian hired Sars Tanga as our new Chief Financial Officer. Starting later this month Sarge has over 20 years of financial experience. Most recently as senior Vice President of Finance at Mongo, DB, where he led financial planning strategic finance business.
Speaker Change: And analytics and then as their interim CFO I'm excited to welcome him to Atkins executive team I. Thank Mark Lynch for serving as our interim CFO. During this search he'll remain Unhappien's board of directors with that's.
Speaker Change: Thanks, Matt and thank you everyone joining us today I'll review the financial highlights for the quarter and then we'll provide guidance for Q2 and the full year 2025, happy and exceeded the guidance range as we provided on our key metrics of cloud revenue total revenue and adjusted.
Speaker Change: Cloud subscriptions revenue was 99.8 million an increase of 15% year over year total subscriptions revenue was $134.4 million, an increase of 14% year over year on a constant currency basis total subscriptions revenue grew 15.
Speaker Change: Three year professional services revenue was $32.1 million flat growth compared to the first quarter of 2024 as a reminder, services revenue can be volatile quarter to quarter. We continue to expect professional services revenue to decline as a percentage of total.
Speaker Change: Subscriptions revenue represented 81% of total revenue compared to 79% in the year ago period, and 82% in the prior quarter. So revenue was $166.4 million, an increase of 11% year over year.
Speaker Change: Revenue retention rate of 110% to 120% on a quarterly basis, our international operations contributed 36% of total revenue compared to 37% in the year ago period cloud net new ACV bookings were approximately 82%.
Speaker Change: Total net new software bookings in Q1, consistent with the prior year, let's turn to profitability metrics non-GAAP gross margin was 78% compared to 76% in the year to a period and 80% in the prior quarter our subscriptions.
Speaker Change: Was 89% compared to 90% in both a year ago period and prior quarter. This margin remains best in class in enterprise software.
Speaker Change: Adjusted EBITDA was positive $16.8 million versus our guidance of positive $8 million to $10 million and compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of 1.3 million in the year ago period. This outperformance relative to our guide was largely driven by T.
Speaker Change: [noise] prioritizing low cost regions for hiring and by greater than expected term license and services revenue non-GAAP net income was $9.8 million or 13 cents per diluted share compared to a nine GAAP net loss of $4.9 million or seven cents.
Speaker Change: For the first quarter of 2024. This is based on 74.1 million diluted shares outstanding for the first quarter of 2025, and 73.3 million diluted shares outstanding for the first quarter of 2024.
Speaker Change: As of March 31, 2025, cash and cash equivalents and investments were $199.7 million compared with 159.9 million at the end of last year for the first quarter cash provided by operations was $45 million compared.
Speaker Change: For the same period last year total deferred revenue was $262.5 million as of March 31, 2025, an increase of 16% from the year ago period. As we stated on past calls the majority of our customers are invoiced on an annual.
Speaker Change: We have large customers that are built quarterly or monthly due to the variability of our billing terms changes in our quarterly deferred revenue are generally not indicative of our business momentum. We continue to believe cloud subscriptions revenues better indicator of our business momentum than billings are.
Speaker Change: And also for subscriptions revenue, regardless of whether the customer deploys to the app in cloud their private cloud or on prim before discussing guidance I'll share a few observations about macroeconomic and business conditions. The U S dollars weaken since we last provided.
Speaker Change: A currency tailwind having exceeded the high end of our Q1 guidance for cloud revenue and toll revenue and at this point in the year, we have not seen any material changes in our sales pipeline or the cadence of our business given the macro uncertain macroeconomic uncertain.
Speaker Change: Government and thus a wider range of potential outcomes, we're taking a prudent approach to guidance for the remainder of 2025 for the second quarter of 2025 cloud subscription revenue is expected to be between 101 and $103 million representing year of year growth between.
Speaker Change: Total revenue is expected to be between 158 and $162 million representing year over year growth between eight and 11% adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2025 is expected to be between negative five and negative $2 million.
Speaker Change: Yep earnings per share is expected to be between negative 15, and negative 11 cents. This assumes 74.8 million fully diluted weighted average shares outstanding for the full year 2025, we are increasing the high end of our previously stated guidance.
Speaker Change: Regarding cloud subscriptions revenue and total revenue while maintaining the original low end of those guidance ranges. We're also increasing our overall adjusted EBITDA range for the year for the full year 2025 cloud subscriptions revenue is expected to be between.
Speaker Change: In $423 million, representing year over year growth of between 14, and 15% total revenue is expected to be between 680 and $688 million representing year over year growth of 10% to 12%.
Speaker Change: First we expect Q2 professional services revenue will be flat compared to a year ago for the full year, we expect professional services revenue to be approximately flat or increase by low single digit range compared to a year ago second we anticipate term license revenue will decrease.
Speaker Change: Percentage on a year over year basis, as we anniversary a difficult comparison from a strong Q2 24 third we expect Q2 adjusted EBITDA to be a loss due to the combination of term license seasonality and the cost of running our annual.
Speaker Change: Fourth total and total other income and interest expense will be approximately 3.5 million in Q2, and 14 million for the full year 2025 fifth capital expenditures will be between one and $1.5 million in Q2 and between three and four.
Speaker Change: 2025, finally, our guidance assumes F X rates as of May 2nd 2025, now, we'll turn the call over for questions operator.
Speaker Change: Certainly we will now begin the question and answer session to ask a question you May Press Star then one on your telephone keypad, if you using a speaker phone. Please pick up your handset before pressing the keys if at any time. Your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question. Please.
Speaker Change: At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster.
Speaker Change: The first question comes from Sanjit Singh with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
Sanjit Singh: Thank you for taking the questions and congrats on the continued progress on the profitability profitability, that's really nice to see I won that to ask about the good government performance this quarter.
Sanjit Singh: To what degree was there any sort of potential pull forward in the Q1 ahead of some of the.
Sanjit Singh: 30 around ordering patterns due to Doge and as we think out into Q Q3, the federal government government end of fiscal year spend what sort of the baseline assumptions that you guys are making for respect to the UN federal budget spending.
Sanjit Singh: Alright. Thank you for the question first of all I don't believe pull forwards to have been a meaningful factor in Q1, I I'm not aware of any pull forwards. So I I hesitate to say I'm sure. It was zero, but I I don't believe it to be meaningful.
Speaker Change: I think that we're we're keeping possibilities open we're cautiously optimistic about how Q3 will be awesome. That's great to hear and then just as a follow up if I look at sort of the cloud net retention rate certainly within the range that you guys have talked about historically 110 one.
Sanjit Singh: It did dip down.
Sanjit Singh: Meaningfully in Q1, and it doesn't sound like that's coming from the government side of the house any sort of spending hesitation, you're seeing on the on the enterprise commercial side of the business that drove that drove that network down a four points quarter.
Sanjit Singh: Not really first of all it's it's a reminder, that this is a a trailing metric 12, you know, it's basically 12 months over 12 months. So it's backward looking basically I had a couple of things happen. There was some downsells in Q1 of 2024 that are through the calculation now.
Mark Lynch: Predominantly unrelated Downsells and also we had some revenue growth rates and some of the customers level off during the the recent 12 month period, so those kind of conspired to lower the rate a little bit appreciate the color. Thanks Mark.
Speaker Change: Our next question comes from Raymons Chow with Barclays. Please go ahead perfect. Thanks, Thanks for all the clarity on federal and congrats on the quarter, Matt I wanted to ask on a I and the new Agentic World.
Speaker Change: How do you like and you know I appreciate you as a founder you always think more a bigger picture than other guys. How do you think this new world is going to play out I mean, you clearly have a lot of success, but there's obviously a lot of noise.
Speaker Change: Blocking noise in the market of people everyone is doing agents now and agent et cetera, like how do you think like what's ultimately the big thing for a customer and how you fit in there and then follow up remark yeah. This agent's topic. It's both the most important application of AI and as such an exceptionally.
Speaker Change: And that we use words like boring. This is all an intentional sort of disassociation that we're trying to make between our between our approach, which is result centric and customer focused and and using AI to practical effect versus the.
Speaker Change: I'm sorry, what's people start paying attention to agents for for their impact agents are actors, they're the actors of the AI World AI should be taking action. We believe in AI. The worker. This is exactly what we're here for is to use a I to.
Speaker Change: Regulated and audited and guard railed and and provide provisioned with information and tracked and and so you need all that structure you need all the structure around AI you can't just make an AI agent and let it loose in the enterprise and therefore.
Speaker Change: The process infrastructure that we provide as a requisite for productive application of a I agents simply a prerequisite and to the degree that anyone else is gonna make value with their agents, it's going to be because they approximate the.
Speaker Change: Even if they don't achieve the functionality, we're providing with our process infrastructure is there anything on the like I know billings is not really a measure that you focus on but like some of the stores are still kind of paying attention.
Speaker Change: Yep, that's clear thank you.
Speaker Change: The next question comes from Steve Anders with Citi. Please go ahead.
Steve Anders: Okay, great. Thanks for thanks for taking the questions. This morning.
Steve Anders: I guess to start I mean, good to hear the on the AI side good to hear the solid usage expansion year over year and it goes pretty clear coming from the conference.
Steve Anders: What I was looking like but I guess I just want to ask on how you're feeling about incremental kind of monetization I think you called out 9 million or so in the quarter coming from the Aitiers that you have available, but just how do you feel about you know that you usage that you're seeing driving you know.
Steve Anders: Revenue opportunities and adoption of those plans moving forward.
Steve Anders: [noise] I am pleased with the willingness of customers to spend on AI I think there's a recognition that this is creating great value and so that's moving along nicely partly you could make a case for not even trying to monetize at this point in the future as powerful.
Steve Anders: I think we're moving toward monetization a little sooner than I might otherwise planned just to try to create a a demonstration of the tangibility of the results, we're creating because I feel like we need that contract with the market we want to show that.
Steve Anders: Appreciate it so while I could understand right not trying to monetize it I also think that it's a good idea for us to demonstrate that in order to just make a statement and yeah. The value is there for sure. It's wonderful value as I estimated last quarter I feel like our.
Steve Anders: Doubled in in the wake of AI, which is the best thing that's ever happened to the process automation industry.
Steve Anders: Alright, no that's a very clear great to hear.
Steve Anders: And then just on you know new with with Sers coming on on board and and New CFO. Starting later this month I guess, what's kind of the the mandate or the key area focus for for him is he starts to to get ramped up in the role and.
Steve Anders: I guess, it's kind of a piece of that how are you kind of viewing the the ability to drive margin or kind of the the levers to drive margin moving forward here.
Steve Anders: Oh, let me say I'm really excited to have search coming onboard. He's an exceptional addition to our team I don't want a preempt our strategy by talking about it right now I think there's a lot of great opportunities, where we're gonna make substantial progress and I.
Steve Anders: Yeah, Let me, let me just stop at that.
Speaker Change: Okay perfect. Thanks for taking the thanks for taking the questions here.
Speaker Change: [noise]. Our next question comes from Jake Roberg with William Blair. Please go ahead.
Jake Roberg: [noise] yeah. Thanks for taking my questions and yeah, great to hear that those AI skews hit 9 million in the quarter can you talk about the the use cases or areas of the platform that are driving the most demand on that front and then is there any sense of large of a pricing.
Jake Roberg: Solutions on just a per customer basis.
Jake Roberg: Yeah, that's right well, we've got it priced at 25% uplift and that May that may fluctuate, but right now that's our easy we're just asking 25% to add a I.
Jake Roberg: As for the primary use cases, well there as I said in the comments they're regular work.
Jake Roberg: They're regular work that otherwise could be done in a rote manner, but but AI is just so terrifically. Good at it. It's it's processing documents and gathering information and making simple decisions that you might have otherwise tried to delegate to a person or a business rule set.
Jake Roberg: Just terrific at document intake it can read anything at this point it can read ripped receipts or handwritten notes or or emails or faxes or whatever you've got coming into your organization. It can respond to consort. It can extract data. These are.
Jake Roberg: As opposed to a lot of the stories you hear about how a is supposedly supposed to be used where it's out thinking people I couldn't disagree more with that right now a is a fantastic worker to place in the middle of the heaviest work in the most important work the organization does.
Speaker Change: Okay. That's helpful. And then Datafabric toes I think we're up 166% I think you start monetizing that solution when customers connected to Mo multiple data sources. So can you talk about how that's progressing and then there's also some other players in the market that are obviously talk.
Speaker Change: Plus understand how your data fabric comparison contrast to those you know it is so important to emphasize how our data fabric is different because the need for a data fabric has become so important now everyone is using the term, but what they have.
Speaker Change: In general what I would've called it that a fabric, but we're talking about a semantic layer similar to a virtual database that allows you to interact with data objects across the enterprise as if they were local objects the semantic layer makes them local effectively they.
Speaker Change: Viewed and queried and manipulated and combined in a local manner right. It's not just a layer of integration. It is far more than that it's a semantic layer that makes everything you integrate to into a local addressable object secondly, it's.
Speaker Change: It's performance tuned four there's a security layer, so you're running queries under variable credentials, depending on who's answering. The question. This is this is probably our best feature along with process itself and the integration of AI with process put this.
Speaker Change: Hall of Fame top three features it's an extraordinary piece of functionality and it is strictly differentiated from anything on the market today that goes by the name of data fabric that I'm aware of.
Speaker Change: That's helpful. Thanks for taking the questions.
Speaker Change: Our next question comes from Nick Altman with Scotia Bank. Please go ahead awesome. Thank you guys I wanted a circle back to the $9 million of of a I revenue. How are you guys thinking about contribution from a I nanim.
Speaker Change: Let me talk about the net new ACV, that's being driven by AI just to kind of help us think about where that can shake out in in 2025.
Speaker Change: Yeah, that's right well, we're going to continue our push to bring customers to the higher tiers. The AI laden tiers, we've done that mostly focusing on new customers over the past year, we're broadening that into a campaign to.
Speaker Change: Saw from my notes a few have already made that jump. We are also going to transition in our whole industry is going to transition away from per seat pricing. That's my prediction because per seat pricing is going to move in the opposite direction with AI success.
Speaker Change: Priced by something else it could be it could be nodes. It could be cases, it could be consumption of some sort and within a solution or a highly understood context, it could be value or value correlates. So.
Speaker Change: We're all going to be adopting different pricing mechanisms in order to capture AI as an upside instead of effectively having it as a downside as it removes necessary seats. So there's going to be a little bit of a pricing transition across this industry this year and.
Speaker Change: And we're on the way to to making that careful transition. Okay. Great. That's helpful. And then the net new bookings per sales rep up more than 30% that's encouraged and we're starting to see some of those efficiencies show.
Speaker Change: I I guess my question is like how how durable do you think some of those productivity gains are through the rest of the year because on one side, they're very encouraging and can help out that weighted rule of 40 target you outlined on the flip side you guys are relatively early.
Speaker Change: Market motion, maybe some of that pipeline was generated when you add a larger sales force. So any color you can provide on kind of how durable those sales productivity gains are as you be get through the rest of the year I think that'd be really interesting. Thanks.
Speaker Change: Well I don't wish to quote any targets on the metrics that we've recently revealed including the ones that we will be reporting on next quarter as designated I would sooner classify them as durable than non durable. According to your terms I Don.
Speaker Change: And the new seriousness intention that we have brought to the sales organization. The the terrific professionalism that we are bringing the these are the real factors and these are enduring factors great. Thank you.
Speaker Change: We have our next question from Derrick Wood with T. D. Caven. Please go ahead great. Thanks, guys. This is cole on for Derek I, just want to start off on the I'm Gonna go to market I mean, you know it.
Cole: It sounds like you've you've made some good good progress inefficiencies I I'm just wondering how much of that is coming from this renewed channel focus and narrowing the the scope of channel partners versus direct reps. Thanks.
Cole: X the narrowing of partners is an example of something was very successful demonstrably measurably successful last year, we motivated a small group of our most trusted partners to seek business with us and it dramatically expanded.
Cole: Line in 2024, we continue that because it has worked so well I saw more evidence of how well it was working last week at Appian World. Our partners. Our enthusiastic those that are focused partners are are working hard to maintain that designation those.
Cole: We also have another category called champion partners that lead us into a new market and I see a boom of interest for for partners, especially if they're not focused partners on becoming champion partners. So that they can receive our our attention in at least one market.
Cole: Great motivational tool a great alignment tool with our partners, we will certainly keep it up great. Thanks, and then just a follow up on the on the Gam suite I could you just remind us is there any sort of an a C V uplift that that comes with that and if so.
Cole: Yeah, well like the Gam suite has a price it isn't so much an uplift it's a separate product and the Gam suite has has a price I don't know if it's published it might be on G. S. A but you know it's substantial if you want the gam suit.
Speaker Change: [noise] that's S. S. Seven figure for sure a seven figure a year proposition no matter how small your organization. So it's a it's a meaningful sale when we place it appreciate it thanks.
Speaker Change: [noise]. The next question comes from Devin O with Keybanc capital markets. Please go ahead.
Devin O: Great. Good morning, Matt Good morning, Mark Thanks for taking my questions here I want to first off maybe just start with some of the exciting public announcements that came out of happy in world. This year, when I talked to customers at the conference seems like intelligent documenting and extra.
Devin O: Wiley adopted product among your customers could you maybe share more on what's been driving success in the adoption there and you learnings you can kind of port over to some of the new AI agent offerings that you can maybe replicate a success you've seen at a.
Speaker Change: I I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the product announcements at Apmin World I was incredibly excited I felt like all four of the major features that I announced could have been the headline feature at a typical annual conference of course, they were all related.
Speaker Change: More agent related but there was also the one composer that allows you to create a new application through the use of AI, having a I b. The author of the application and that was exceptionally well received and I can tell you that early users absolutely love that.
Speaker Change: Some of the best feedback I've ever seen with regards to IDP or intelligent documenting this has long been our number one AI use case like literally for years. This has been number one and we made it sharply better in this.
Speaker Change: Of advancements I D. P used to be a feature that you trained per document. So if you had a certain format of document coming in you would train the AI to recognize it and know where to extract different pieces of information. The new version you don't have to train on any form.
Speaker Change: Use it out so you can give it something in you know in handwriting or in a novel format or an email or or whatever it is it could be in the wrong language and and AI is just going to going to figure it out and the level of accuracy with which it does that is.
Speaker Change: It's both more adaptive and more accurate than anything we've been able to offer in the past and customers really love. It I build it in the conferences read anything I said you call. It IDP, but you could just Oh you could also just call it read anything.
Speaker Change: I I appreciate the contacts to really helpful. And then just a quick follow up I I do you want to dial a little bit deeper into a comments around public sector. I mean, it seems like things are still going well and you were cautious cautiously optimistic and you mentioned bookings growth 59%.
Speaker Change: I I mean, how did kind of that bookings performance compare to your internal expectations in a quarter any color on you know how that figure kind of compared you know last quarter or maybe last year's anything you can share would be helpful. Thank you.
Speaker Change: Yeah, well it is a year over year comparison of course, and I would say that that exceeded my expectations.
Speaker Change: But I'm I'm sticking with cautious optimism that's what we said word for word last quarter and I think it's the right position to take right now and I'm I'm glad that the numbers are bearing us out, but I don't want to get out ahead of them I want to just let this storytell itself.
Speaker Change: Another another factoid out there is that the federal revenue Federal government revenue grew year over year of 21% versus the total revenue for App during the quarter was 11% so that strong.
Speaker Change: Strong revenue growth as well.
Speaker Change: Got it really appreciate the color. Thank you.
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