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Bookings Metrics
We offer both
perpetual and subscription licensing options to our customers, as well
as monthly software rentals for certain products. Given the difference
in revenue recognition between the sale of a perpetual software license
(revenue is recognized at the time of sale) and a subscription (revenue
is deferred and recognized ratably over the subscription term), we use
bookings for internal planning, forecasting and reporting of new license
and cloud services transactions. In order to normalize between perpetual
and subscription licenses, we define subscription bookings as the
subscription annualized contract value (subscription ACV) of new
subscription bookings multiplied by a conversion factor of 2. We arrived
at the conversion factor of 2 by considering a number of variables
including pricing, support, length of term, and renewal rates. We define
subscription ACV as the total value of a new subscription booking
divided by the term of the contract (in days) multiplied by 365. If the
term of the subscription contract is less than a year, the ACV is equal
to the total contract value.
License and subscription bookings equal subscription bookings (as described above) plus perpetual license bookings plus any monthly software rental bookings during the period. Total ACV equals subscription ACV (as described above) plus the annualized value of incremental monthly software rental bookings during the period.
Because subscription bookings is a metric we use to approximate the value of subscription sales if sold as perpetual licenses, it does not represent the actual revenue that will be recognized with respect to subscription sales or that would be recognized if the sales were perpetual licenses, nor does the annualized value of monthly software rental bookings represent the value of any such booking.
Total Deferred Revenue
Total
Deferred Revenue consists of Billed Deferred Revenue and Unbilled
Deferred Revenue. We define Unbilled Deferred Revenue as contractually
committed orders for license, subscription and support with a customer
for which the associated revenue has not been recognized and the
customer has not been invoiced. We do not record Unbilled Deferred
Revenue on our Consolidated Balance Sheet until we invoice the customer.
Billed Deferred Revenue primarily relates to software agreements
invoiced to customers for which the revenue has not yet been recognized.
Software Revenue
Any reference
to “total recurring software revenue” or “recurring software revenue”
means the sum of subscription revenue and support revenue. Any reference
to “total software revenue” or “software revenue” means the sum of
subscription revenue, support revenue and perpetual license revenue.
“Subscription revenue” includes cloud services revenue.
Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR)
To
help investors understand and assess the success of our subscription
transition, we provide an Annualized Recurring Revenue operating
measure. Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) for a given quarter is
calculated by dividing the portion of non-GAAP software revenue
attributable to subscription and support for the quarter by the number
of days in the quarter and multiplying by 365. (A related metric is
Subscription ARR, which is calculated by dividing the portion of
non-GAAP revenue attributable to subscription for the quarter by the
number of days in the quarter and multiplying by 365.) ARR should be
viewed independently of revenue and deferred revenue as it is an
operating measure and is not intended to be combined with or to replace
either of those items. ARR is not a forecast of future revenue, which
can be impacted by contract expiration and renewal rates, and does not
include revenue reported as perpetual license or professional services
revenue in our consolidated statement of income. Subscription and
support revenue and ARR disclosed in a quarter can be impacted by
multiple factors, including but not limited to (1) the timing of the
start of a contract or a renewal, including the impact of on-time
renewals, support win-backs, and support conversions, which may vary by
quarter, (2) the ramping of committed monthly payments under a
subscription agreement over time, and (3) multiple other contractual
factors with the customer including other elements sold with the
subscription or support contract. These factors can result in
variability in disclosed ARR.
Navigate Allocation
Revenue and
bookings for Navigate are allocated 50% to Solutions and 50% to IoT.
Constant Currency Change Metric
Year-over-year
changes in revenue and bookings on a constant currency basis compare
reported results excluding the effect of any hedging converted into U.S.
dollars based on the corresponding prior year’s foreign currency
exchange rates to reported results for the comparable prior year period.
