Good afternoon. My name is Jamaria and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the salesforcedot com Q1 'thirteen Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session.
Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. David Hablick, Head of Investor Relations. Sir, you may begin your conference.
Thanks, Jamaria, and good afternoon to everyone joining us today to discuss salesforce.com's 1st quarter fiscal year 2013 results. The details of our results can be found in a press release issued about an hour ago or in our Form 8 ks filed with the SEC. Joining me today as always to discuss our Q1 performance, Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO as well as Graham Smith, our Chief Financial Officer. In response to your feedback, we'll try to shorten our prepared comments today, leaving more time for your questions. However, because we want to get to as many of you as possible, callers will be limited to one question and we will be muting lines after questions.
During today's discussion, either in our prepared remarks or in response to your questions, we may offer incremental metrics to provide greater insight into the dynamics of our business or our quarterly results. Please be advised that this additional detail may be one time in nature and we may or may not provide or update these metrics in the future. In addition, please note that our commentary today will primarily be in non GAAP terms. Reconciliations between GAAP and non GAAP metrics for both our reported results and our forward guidance can be found in our earnings press release. And finally, it's possible that we may reference certain none of these services or features not yet currently available in our discussion today, because we can't guarantee the future timing or or features, we recommend customers make their purchase decisions based on services and features that are currently available.
With that, let me make this call official with a brief safe harbor. The primary purpose of today's call is to provide you with the information regarding our fiscal Q1 2013 performance. Some of our discussion or responses to your questions may contain forward looking statements. These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should any of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should our assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual company results could differ materially from these forward looking statements.
All these risks, uncertainties and assumptions as well as other information on potential factors that could affect our financial results are included in our reports filed with the SEC, including our most recent form on Form 10 ks, particularly under the heading Risk Factors. To access our press release, our historical results, any of our SEC filings, a webcast replay of today's call or simply to learn more about Salesforce, I encourage you to visit our Investor Relations website. With that, let me go ahead and turn the call over to Mark.
Hey, thanks David. Salesforce dotcom's Q1 was a great start to our fiscal year, absolutely spectacular. And let me just go through some of these highlights of the quarter. It's just awesome. Revenue for the Q1 was up 38% from a year ago to $695,000,000 We just couldn't have asked for anything more.
And we now have an annual revenue run rate of nearly $2,800,000,000 Operating cash flow exceeded 210 $1,000,000 an increase of more than 50% year over year and that absolutely is our strongest Q1 cash flow ever, 50% year over year growth. Deferred revenue more than $1,300,000,000 which is up 46% year over year only better by the dollar value of book business which now on and off the balance sheet now tops $4,000,000,000 So that's an increase of more than $400,000,000 from the Q4. Now given our strong financial results and the pipeline of new business, we're thrilled to announce today that we are raising our full fiscal 2013 revenue guidance again. And after becoming the 1st enterprise software company new milestone for our industry. The high end of our guidance keeps us on track to finish the year with a full year revenue growth rate of 32%.
And I'm sure everyone recognizes there aren't too many enterprise software companies delivering that to the market for this year. Growing software company of its size. Salesforce has always been a catalyst and evangelist for change in enterprise software. It's been a promoter of cloud. It's been a promoter of social.
It's been promoter of mobile. And those three axes really have defined who we are today. Now in the 1st decade of our business, we pioneered the shift to cloud. Today, we're redefining what it means to be the social enterprise. They're looking for a deeper connection with customers and employees.
They're looking to delight their customers in a whole new way. They're building social profiles that deliver a more complete picture of customers, employees' social networks to rapidly collaborate, motivate, align their workforces and building customer social networks to better market, sell and service their customers. And they're building product social networks to help integrate their products and bring those back into the social enterprise as well. Our social enterprise vision has opened a door for thousands of companies and empowered them to revolutionize how they engage with their customers and their employees. And since sharing our vision for the social interface enterprise at Dreamforce last year, we've gone around the world now to more than 200,000 people face to face joining our events to learn how they can use these social, mobile and cloud computing technologies to drive their businesses to a whole new level.
Now with the sales cloud, with our service cloud, with our marketing cloud, the heart of our CRM strategy built on our social enterprise platform, the core of our business at Salesforce, our customers have the tools to create a true social front office. And Salesforce is recognized as the leader in each of these 4 critical categories and let's just review that briefly. According to Gartner, salesforce.com has surpassed Oracle last year and now has the number 2 market share position in the overall CRM market, which includes both the cloud and on premise CRM. Now, of course, we're already number 1 far and away in cloud CRM, and now we are number 2 overall, which includes cloud and on prem. 2, the service cloud and the sales cloud are now both the absolute market leaders in customer service and Salesforce automation in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
So if you look at Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Sales Cloud, we are number 1 in SFA on premise or cloud. Salesforce.com is number 1 in Salesforce Automation. And if you look at the just published customer service Magic Quadrant, salesforce.comservicecloud is the one, whether it's on premise or in the cloud, 1 in customer service. Now the Marketing Cloud, based on our Radian 6 technology providing the foundation of our Marketing Cloud and also including our data.com capabilities is rated by Forrester as a leader and visionary in enterprise marketing platforms. And Forrester also named our social enterprise platform, which includes force.com and Heroku as the leading social enterprise platform for coders and business developers.
The combination of our social enterprise vision and our clear leadership in each of these core markets is what's driving our success with customers today. A great example is the largest transaction in our history, which we closed at the start of this quarter with an insurance company. They are building a customer social network to connect hundreds of thousands of employees with millions of customers, prospects and even Facebook fans. Their vision is to empower their entire customer facing team, including their sales forces, their customer service organizations, their marketing organizations, their claims agents with a single view of customers across any of their channels. Customers can start a conversation in the call center, finish an application on the website, ask a question on Facebook, get a response on Twitter.
They're pulling customers together and putting them in the driver's seat and at the heart of their social enterprise. The world's largest food distributor, Sysco, spelled S Y S C O not C I S C O swapping out SAP and deploying the sales cloud and chatter and Cisco Social Enterprise will be able to create an interactive community with 100 of thousands of restaurants, educational facilities, hotels, venues that they serve. In addition to that insurance company and Sysco, another great win in the quarter is direct from Japan, the Nippon Life Insurance Company, Japan's largest life insurance provider. They leveraged force.com to deploy an insurance policy management application to thousands of users in less than 30 days and that's the speed of cloud, mobile and social at which our customers want to transform their businesses today versus the traditional months or years it takes with the traditional legacy enterprise software companies. The post office in the U.
K. Is taking its 400 crown branches digital by creating a social enterprise for its entire team of financial service advisors and citizens of the U. K. Will soon be able to book appointments and engage with advisors online. And another great win in the quarter, the makers of Chivas and Absolute.
Pernod Ricard is one of the world's leading beverage brands and selected Chatter and force.com to create enterprise for employees, customers and distributors. We use their products extensively here at Salesforce and during this analyst call. Pernode plans to create a wall to wall employee social network to boost innovation, extend its strong culture of entrepreneurship and by linking force.com with on premise back office systems and applications for node will be able to power its entire workforce with next generation social mobile and cloud apps. Vodafone is swapping out Oracle and puts salesforce.com at the heart of its social enterprise transformation in Germany. Their vision is to build a customer and an employee social network that will integrate their back office, Amdocs and their Oracle Financial Systems empower a new level of customer insight for their management and sales teams.
And Meritage Homes builds homes across the U. S. Is rolling out an amazing configuration app on force.com that's going to allow us agents to modify home options on the fly. And with force.com, our sales cloud and chatter, Meritage is bringing together its front and back office systems, linking people with the documents they need to close deals faster, another great innovation by our our customers. And one last customer I wanted to mention on the call today, Morningstar is a great win against Microsoft.
They're bringing together sales and service teams across hundreds of product lines, including the sales cloud and chatter. Morningstar's social enterprise will allow sales teams to collaborate on deals from the road, deliver a consistent brand experience to customers wherever they are. Other new or add on transactions in the Q1 include Abbott and Allergan Allstate and Amazon, Barclays and Chanel, Citrix, Fuji Xerox, Honda and Nestle, Office Depot, Horakuten, which is Amazon's the Amazon dotcom of Japan and Tokyo Marine and thousands of others. The pace at which these companies are embracing the social enterprise is amazing and it's driving outstanding levels of usage. We now have nearly 2,000,000 apps built on our force.com and Heroku platforms.
Our ability to deeply integrate our social front office solutions with back office systems like SAP and Oracle, the core back office systems of our customers combined with our social front office systems is helping many of our customers like Activision, Burberry and Quiberly Clark transform with the speed of social. And I'm delighted to announce that we delivered 54,000,000,000 transactions for the quarter, an increase of 72% from a year ago. 54,000,000,000 transactions, that's more than 800,000,000 transactions every business day. And to put that into context, that's more than double the number of posts on Twitter every day that the salesforce.com delivers as core transactions in its service. In closing, I want to remind everyone about the next stop on our Cloud Force roadshow.
Cloud Force London, our largest European event with 14,000 people registered to attend will be happening in London next week, May 22 at the ExCeL Center. It is going to be a phenomenal, phenomenal event. I also want to remind everyone to save the day for Dreamforce. It's coming up. It's September 18 through 21st right here in San Francisco and it's going to be featuring some spectacular speakers, including Jeff Immelt, our great customer at General Electric.
The CEO of GE will be speaking on GE becoming a social enterprise. You'll also be hearing from General Colin Powell as well as an entire day of motivation, energy and excitement featuring world class motivational guru, Tony Robbins and great musical performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's going to be an awesome Dreamforce and now is the time to sign up by going to www.dreamforce.com. And with that, I'm going to turn the call over to Graeme Smith, our Chief Financial Officer to discuss the financial details of our Q1. Graeme?
Thank you, Mark. We are off to an excellent start in fiscal 2013. First quarter results were better than we had expected with strong execution and continued reduction in our attrition rate. With the goal this year of delivering robust top line revenue growth and improving profitability, we were also pleased to post EPS above our prior guidance. We delivered strong operating cash flow, as Mark mentioned, with 1st quarter cash flow exceeding $210,000,000 That's our best Q1 on record.
And our pipeline of new business continues to grow as does deferred revenue and book business on and off the balance sheet. Given our strong start, we're very pleased to be raising our full year revenue guidance by $50,000,000 with the high end of our projected range now at $3,000,000,000 I'll talk more about guidance in a minute, but let me start by highlighting some of the key financial metrics from the quarter. Q1 revenue of $695,000,000 was up 38% over last year. Q1 revenue was actually up 39% year over year excluding the effect of $6,000,000 of FX headwind. And this was our strongest constant currency revenue growth in more than 3 years.
Revenue in the Q1 benefited from a continued decline in dollar attrition, which fell for the 11th straight quarter and is now in the low teens on a percentage basis. Dollar attrition is now at its lowest level since started reporting the number back in the Q1 of fiscal 2010. On a geographic basis, we posted strong year over year revenue growth in each of our major regions. Revenue in the Americas grew 43% to $485,000,000 Revenue in Europe was $118,000,000 that's up 25% in dollars and 33% in constant currency. And revenue in Asia was $92,000,000 an increase of 32% in dollars and 30% in constant currency.
Our business mix continues to become more diverse with more than 40% of new business in the quarter coming from non sales cloud contracts. Turning to the income statement. Operating profit grew faster than revenue in Q1 with operating profit up 45% over last year. This enabled us to grow operating margins by nearly 60 basis points year over year, driven principally by improvements in G and A, even as we executed on key growth initiatives. First, we continued to hire aggressively in Q1 adding more than 500 new employees, with of course the emphasis on sales and engineering roles.
Our total employee population is now more than 8,300 that's up 51% from the quarter last year. 2nd, we continued our investment in corporate and product marketing in Q1, including staging some of the largest Cloud Force events ever in cities like Chicago, Washington, D. C. And San Francisco. Higher operating margins, along with a lower than anticipated tax rate, enabled us to translate overachievement on the top line to the bottom line with non GAAP EPS coming in at $0.37 and that was $0.03 above the high end of guidance.
The lower tax rate contributed about $0.02 of that EPS overachievement, while the other $0.01 was due to better operating leverage. Our tax rate in the quarter was lower than expected as a result of our finalizing the tax accounting related to our acquisition of Radian6. Operating cash flow in Q1 was $213,000,000 that's up 53% over last year, a great result. Cash flow in the Q1 benefited in part from the 2 invoicing effects that contributed to our strong cash flow in the 4th quarter, including longer invoice durations. This quarter, we also collected the last tranche of the large multiyear invoice discussed in the Q4.
However, this amount was more or less offset by the one time tax payment of $40,000,000 related to our acquisition of Radian 6, which we have highlighted on earlier calls. Free cash flow, which we define as operating cash flow less CapEx, was $168,000,000 in Q1. That's up 50% over the Q1 last year. Free cash flow yield or cash flow percentage of revenue was 24% in the Q1, again, up from 22% in Q1 last year. CapEx was approximately $45,000,000 in the Q1, up 64% over Q1 last year.
New office build outs and equipment related to headcount growth continue to be the largest driver of CapEx spending. Deferred revenue in Q1 was approximately $1,300,000,000 up 46% over the Q1 last year. Excluding an FX headwind of approximately 18,000,000 dollars deferred revenue on a constant currency basis increased 48% over Q1 last year. On a sequential basis, currency had no material impact on deferred revenue. In Q4, we discussed how increased discipline around annual invoicing contributed to the improvement in current deferred revenue and how a multiyear invoice contributed to the increase in long term deferred revenue.
In Q1, deferred revenue benefited from the same 2 invoicing effects. Excluding these effects, 1st quarter deferred revenue grew approximately 30 percent year over year or 32% in constant currency. This was consistent with 4th quarter deferred constant currency revenue growth of 31%, excluding those same two effects. As a point of reference, about 2 thirds of total invoicing dollars in Q1 were from annual invoices, a significant improvement over last year. Our balance sheet backlog, which is unbilled business that is booked but not yet invoiced, was $2,700,000,000 in the Q1.
That's an increase of more than 20% from Q4 and approximately 60% up over Q4 sorry Q1 last year. Our average contract length remains between 12 24 months. Taken together, deferred revenue plus backlog now exceeds $4,000,000,000 As we've said in the past, our deferred revenue balance has a lot of moving parts and our focus on annual invoicing has added another variable. While deferred revenue overall is clearly benefiting from longer invoice durations, it's very difficult to predict net sequential changes in deferred revenue. In addition, it's important to understand that the deferred revenue benefits from longer average invoice durations in prior quarters actually a sequential headwind to deferred revenue in subsequent quarters as the deferred revenue amortizes from the balance sheet to the P and L.
As a result, we expect a lower dollar benefit from invoice changes in Q2 than in Q1 just as we saw a decline in the dollar benefit from invoice changes from Q4 to Q1. And we expect this effect will continue through end of the year. In that context, our best estimate is for 2nd quarter deferred revenue to be approximately flat sequentially. And on an adjusted basis, excluding the effects of the invoicing changes, to be up slightly, consistent with our historical trend. Let me close the guidance.
For the full year, we are raising our revenue outlook by $50,000,000 to $2,970,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 which represents growth of 31% to 32% over fiscal 2012. We now estimate full year non GAAP EPS in the range of $1.60 to 1.63 dollars This is 0 point 0 $1 higher than our prior guidance. While we received a $0.02 tax benefit in Q1, we now expect a higher share count to reduce full year non GAAP EPS by roughly that same amount of $0.02 Our non GAAP EPS estimates reflect a slightly lower tax rate of 37% for the full year. This takes into account the lower tax rate in Q1 we discussed along with an anticipated quarterly tax rate of about 38% for Q2 through the remainder of the year. For Q2, we anticipate revenue in the range of $7.24 $1,000,000 to $728,000,000 for year over year growth of approximately 33%.
We expect Q2 non GAAP EPS in the range of $0.38 to $0.39 We expect operating cash flow in Q2 to grow slightly faster year over year than our revenue growth rate as we continue to migrate customers to annual billing. All of the underlying assumptions for our non GAAP guidance as well as our GAAP guidance and a complete GAAP to non GAAP reconciliation can be found in our earnings press release issued today. Just to conclude, we had a great Q1 with top line revenue and bottom line EPS that exceeded guidance. We continue to deliver outstanding cash flow from operations and our backlog of business on and off the balance sheet is now more than $4,000,000,000 We look forward to updating you on our progress in Q2. Meanwhile, we hope to see many of you in Cloud Force London next week.
With that, we'll open the for questions.
Our first question comes from Tom Ernst with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead with your question.
Yes. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thanks for taking my question. Mark, I'd like to ask you a question that's kind of in the thread of common questions I get from investors about the balance between the hype in cloud and social versus is it real. So the question I've got for you is, if we look at kind of the downfall of some of the last generation technology like Siebel, it was almost that they were too successful selling and never got the usage and adoption.
As your business is kind of continuously evolving here from a viral adoption to more strategic purchase, how are you changing the organization to make sure that you're connecting with the customer driving success? And are you actually measuring that success staying high and sustainable? Thank
you. Well, I think the most exciting thing that's happening this week certainly is the Facebook IPO tomorrow. And there's a couple of exciting things about Facebook. Number 1 is that we've just never seen an application, a complex application of this size, of this scale with 1,000,000,000 registered users, half of whom will log in every day. And you just have to take a step back and just say, wow, in terms of adoption.
And the new user interface models that have been created there like the feed, the status update, profiles, groups, I mean, we've been talking about this now for some time in our various forums. And I'm number 1 just in awe of that. Number 2, you just see the level of interactivity between users is really just awe inspiring. And we've really adopted as fast as we can those user interface models into our own business and then brought them of course to the mobile platforms, brought them into the social platforms with Salesforce Chatter and into our core business, which is our sales cloud, our service cloud, our marketing cloud and our social enterprise platform built on Chatter. And you've seen if you go to trust.salesforce.com, our transaction volumes have just been really awesome.
I mean, you were just anticipating this 1st $1,000,000,000 transaction day@salesforce.com. You can see days this week that where we've hit 800,000,000 transactions. I mean, that's just awesome. And the question will be when are we going to have 1,000,000,000 transactions a day. And I think you probably can see that those are happening faster than ever before at 2 between 2 10 and 2 40 milliseconds per transaction.
That's usage. That's growth. That's adoption. And that's what we're focused on. And the only reason we're successful at Salesforce is because our customers are successful and that's what we focus on every day is the customer successful.
That's our number one value in our company, the trust that we have with our customer and making them success. And then after that, it's really all about creating that customer for life experience, where they're day in and day out execution of our business that you've seen now as we've delivered. Next month will be, I think, our 8 years as a public company since we went public in, I think, a public company since we went public in, I think it was June 2000 and 4, right? So I mean it's been consistent levels of execution and those are really the things that we focus on. And I think it's we'll continue to focus on those things.
And that will create the success. And the companies maybe who have come before us and have not been as successful as we have been, I think it's mainly they just weren't focused on the customer success at the end of the day. And I know that seems quite basic, but there's different ways to run-in the company and different motives and that's ours.
Our next question is from Adam Holt with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead for your question.
Thanks very much and congrats on a great start to the year. My question is about the off balance sheet number. That's an eye popping number and obviously there's a big client that's contributing to that. But could you maybe walk through some of the elements behind that quarter on quarter increase in the off balance sheet number? And how should we be thinking about the seasonality of that number through the duration of the year?
Thank you.
Adam, hi, this is Graeme. Yes, of course, the large customer we signed, the largest in our history, the 9 figure deal was certainly helped that backlog number significantly. But we also had some big renewals in the quarter. And when clearly we have large customers with large annual order values renewing for multiple years, that's very encouraging to us and really helps add to that backlog number. So we did a great job on renewals this quarter.
As you heard, we finally got to the low teens attrition rate, which is great. And I do point out, we still see our average contract length between 12 24 months. So it's not this number is getting skewed or anything like that. So we're still in that 12 to 24 month average contract length, but we're just renewing. We're renewing well.
We're renewing often. We're renewing for longer contract periods and that's just really help boost that overall backlog number.
Our next question is from Heather Bellini with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead with your question. Hi. Thank you. This question is for Mark.
Mark, I was wondering if you could talk to us a little bit. I mean, you got the Magic Quadrant for Gartner this quarter for Service Cloud. I'm wondering if you could share with us where you think that market is in terms of kind of tipping into the SaaS favor? When are we going to start to see those big rip and replaces from the legacy on premise deals that were signed over a decade ago? And if you could also just frame for us how big of an opportunity, if you thought, if you could give us an idea of how you think that how attractive that market is for you?
Well, it's I think we've been talking about this now for a few years in terms of how excited we are about Service Cloud and how much we've invested. And it's turned into a massive business for us and far exceeded all of our expectations. I think that the exciting part about Service Cloud has been the growth and the huge transactions that we've signed. We also have created our Service Cloud for small business now that we've delivered with desk.com and I'm sure you've seen that as well. So we're really not only focused on the very high end of the market, but the low end as well.
And I think when you look at Service Cloud, when you look at Sales Cloud, Sales Cloud, of course, is just a much, much bigger business today, but Service Cloud is growing at a faster rate. So you're just going to see this just incredible tear of that business and we're investing more in service cloud than ever. And then we've got our Marketing Cloud right behind it that we're very excited. And as I said, it's really that Sales Cloud, the Service Cloud and the marketing cloud built on our social enterprise platform that is just awesome. And we're happy with our strategy.
We really do focus like you mentioned, Sales Cloud, the absolute leader in the Magic Quadrant, Service Cloud, the absolute leader, Marketing Cloud Platform, all these things are they competitive, Are they winning deals? Are they at the top of their game? And in our area, in cloud, and in many cases, not just in cloud, but as I said, it's number 1 in cloud or on prem. So I'm very excited about service and I think that it will continue to perform this year at an extraordinary
rate. Our next question is from Brent Thill with UBS. Please go ahead with your question.
Mark, there was some concern going into the quarter about some of the sales changes that went on in Q1. I was wondering if you could maybe articulate the changes that were made. And obviously, it didn't seem to have any impact on the current quarter. And I had a quick follow-up for Graham.
Well, we're a fast growing company. We're the fastest growing. And that means that our organizational models that were competitive at $1,000,000,000 are not the right organizational models at $3,000,000,000 And so we make slight adjustments every year. And those slight adjustments generally take place in the Q1. This year was no exception.
But at the end of the day, it just sets us up to continue our growth and execution of our business. And we don't go into the nitty gritty because it would be kind of pathetic, I think, at some level to kind of like try to tell you how our sales force is organized. But at the end of the day, we're very excited. I mean we have a tremendous focus on the enterprise led by Blair Crump, who is former executive at Verizon running their enterprise business. And we've got an incredible business, small and medium business being run by Hilary Poplaw.
She's doing a fantastic job. And it's these kind of these two businesses together that work so unbelievably well and it's under the auspices of our Vice Chairman, Frank Van Bivendal, who kind of ensures that our core distribution it's a great organization. I couldn't be more prouder of them and their
success. Next question, please.
Our next question is from Kash Rangan with Merrill Lynch. Please go ahead with your question.
Hi. Thank you very much. Mark, I'm just wondering if you could comment on how trends for new business signings worked out during the month of April. There's been quite a bit of debate. 1 famous technology company in the Valley talked about how their business, not that it's a proxy for your business, but their business progressively weakened as the quarter came to a close.
I'm wondering if you can share with us how your pace of new business held up in the month of April? That's it for me. Thank you.
Well, February, March April were all very strong months. And we had that only offset in March that we had previously discussed with you, we closed our largest business deal largest business deal of all time, which was this massive transaction. But then through the quarter, we saw some great transactions emerge in Europe. We saw some great transactions emerge in Japan and our U. S.
Business is also outstanding. So I felt very good about business during the whole quarter. And I think we're as you can see from these numbers well set up to deliver an outstanding year, which is why we're raising our guidance now to 3 dollars 1,000,000,000 for the year.
Our next question is from Nathan Schneiderman with Roth Capital. Please go ahead with your question.
Hi, Mark and Graham. Thanks very much for taking my question. Hey, Mark, in past quarters, you've given us metrics on the number of 7 figure deals and the number of 8 figure deals. I'm sure we'd all love to hear that if you'd be willing to share it this quarter?
Yes. We've talked about that and we do that on a periodic basis, but not on a regular basis because we just don't want to set the expectation up that on this call we're going to discuss the specifics of our bookings during the quarter and or the specifics of the deals. But it's certainly our intention that on a 3 or 4 quarters. We show that to you, but we don't plan to do that on a regular and consistent basis. I don't think that that's an appropriate estimation of our business anyway.
And tell you why. We're not a company that's based on big deals. Yes, we close big deals. Big deals are exciting. We do a 9 figure deal, an 8 figure deal, a 7 figure deal.
But the reality is that we do a lot of deals during the quarter and we do a lot of business during the quarter. And this company has never been able to make its quarter on a big deal. And it makes its business happen on a solid book of business that's highly distributed between, as I mentioned, small and medium business product line and an enterprise product line. And both of those product lines are delivering consistently and effectively across the 7 or 8 countries that we do business in across the world. And that's how we really make our business.
I think that if we emphasize the 7 or 8 digit deals to you, it's and while as I said, we will do it on a regular basis, we it does not characterize kind of the true nature of our business, which is many, many transactions happening over the quarter delivering a strengthened portfolio of customers in all markets.
Our next question is from Pat Walravens with JMP Securities. Please go ahead with your question.
Great. Thank you. Mark, do you think the window is closing on the on premise license model faster than the Oracles and SAPs of the world expected? And is it happening faster than you expected? Well, I think that you can look at their license revenue growth over the past couple of quarters both Oracle and SAP.
And I don't think it's anything to write about. And I think that if you compare that to our growth rate or the growth rate of companies like us in our category cloud companies or even private companies who are in the cloud, companies that have our model, the multi tenant shared model, I mean, you just you can see where the future is. And if you're going to start a software company today, you're not going to start it as an on premise company. It's just it would be unheard of. And I think that really speaks to it.
I don't know any venture capitalist that's starting a software company today. So it's not the future. And I think that what is the future is cloud, is social, is mobile. And I'm a huge fan of our peers in the public markets and in the private markets as well who have pioneered these models. And I think they represent what the future of our industry looks like.
And as you can see with our numbers in this quarter, you can do it at scale that this is what Oracle used to look like.
Our next question is from Mark Murphy with Piper Jaffray. Please go ahead with your question. Yes.
Thank you. Mark, when you consider the deal pipeline for the second half of the fiscal year, are you sensing a turning point in your ability to engage specifically at the CIO level in larger and more expansive deployments that are absorbing more of your products upfront as a result of this social enterprise positioning?
Well, I think that we have a strong portfolio and a strong pipeline ahead. We are very excited about the pipeline and the opportunity for the fiscal year. And when I look out at those, it's a pretty big mix of customers who have not used us before, but we have a lot of customers that we have relationships with that are expanding and growing and adding what we call adding on. And I think it's a good balance to that. Graeme, do you want to kind of comment on that?
Yes. I think that's right. You've already talked about the portfolio of different businesses. And certainly, we have some customers where we start with a complete set of solutions and all the different products. But others, for example, some of the transactions in Q4 we saw were just around one product and then we'll look to expand from there.
So I don't think you can really typify it. But certainly, overall, our pipeline growth has been good.
Our next question is from Jason Maynard with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead with your question.
Hey, good afternoon, guys.
Mark, I have a question for
you on the competitive positioning. SAP this week at Sapphire was talking about no big upgrade to their core apps for I guess 7 or 8 years. And post SuccessFactors, they're going all in on I guess non integrated best of breed apps in the cloud.
And I'm curious to see if
you think this will impact customer buying decisions and frankly your sales strategy into their installed base? Thanks.
Well, we're in some of their largest most important customers in the world and we're in dialogue with those customers on a regular basis. Some of those customers have become some of our largest and most important customers. And I think SAP does a great job on the back office. They a great general ledger and it's on premise and it works point of sale system whatever it is for forces and Dreamforce and you see the fever, many Cloudforces and Dreamforce and you see the fever with customers and prospects that they want to become social enterprises. And if you watch the South Fire videos, which I did, I just it could have happened last year, it could have happened 2 years ago, it could have happened 3 years ago.
I didn't understand what was new and exciting. And if the new most newest and exciting thing at SAP is the acquisition of SuccessFactors, well then God help SAP because that just isn't that exciting. I mean that was a sub-one billion dollars company that makes a human performance management software that you log into once a year. So where's the action and the vision? I think that they've they're a great company with a great product line that customers use in their back office.
But I think that they have not shown us the future of the company and of the industry. And I think it's kind of well represented by what we saw last week. And for us, we're trying to do our best to demonstrate the future of our industry. And that's why major customers like well, I guess Kimberly Clark is a great example who is a Cloud Force in San Francisco have shown how you can have a great salesforce.comsocialfrontoffice combined with that back office. And if you go to YouTube and you type Kimberly Clark Social Enterprise, you'll see the video of their global CIO, Ramon Baez is probably the most respected CIO in the SAP ecosystem, used to be the CIO at Honeywell, talking about how this is the perfect fit.
It's the best of both worlds. He has had his SAP back office now for a couple of decades, the SAP mainframe that's in the closet. And then they've got all their generation applications and systems being in sales force. That sounds great to me.
Next question please.
Our next question is from Tom Roderick with Stifel Nicolaus. Please go ahead with your question.
Hi guys. Good afternoon. So, Graham, I wanted to try on this deferred revenue issue and just make sure I get a little bit more clarity here and also thinking about sort of the pace of deferred as we go through the year. But can you just clarify what the total impact from sort of the invoicing changes and the longer term changes were to Q4 and then into Q1? Just trying to get an apples to apples compare on that and then how we think about Q2.
And then I still understand where you're kind of guiding to thinking about deferred revenue in Q2. As we think about the rest of the year, Q3 was sort of down sequentially. Is that kind of the right pattern to think about as we model out the rest of the year and then a big ramp into Q4?
Yes. I mean, so this is as I say, there's a lot of moving parts in this number. If you remember, when we talked about Q4, we had overall coming out of Q4 net benefit on Doctor of just around 100 $50,000,000 to total deferred and that was split roughly between 2 items. 1 was the change in annual invoicing discipline and the second was the multiyear invoice that you can see or saw showing up in long term deferred. So if you sort of roll that forward to Q1, the net benefit actually is slightly less, because as I mentioned earlier, what we do when we accelerate the invoicing to annual is you actually create a headwind for Doctor the next quarter.
So roughly $150,000,000 benefit at the end of Q4, roughly $140,000,000 net benefit at the end of Q1. So that's why when we talk about the guide for Q2, we say the actual total that we'll report will be roughly flat. But if you we expect when you back out the net sort of cumulative benefit on Doctor of these changes, it will actually be slightly up. And that's kind of the trend we've seen over the last couple of years with Doctor moving from Q1 to Q2.
Our next question is from Rick Schwerland with Nomura Securities. Please go ahead with your question.
Yes. Graham, I'm struggling as well with the adjustments for the effect of the changing terms. If I adjust last quarter and this quarter, do I end up with actually faster or let's call it organic growth sort of after the adjustments? I think I'm coming up with about 36% growth in billings as adjusted versus the 34% reported number. But I'm still playing with the math.
Am I doing it the right way?
Yes. I think you're thinking I mean, obviously, we don't Rick, we don't talk about billings because for all the reasons we've said in the past, we don't get a particularly accurate representation of what's happened in the quarter. If you want to do that calculation, basically, yes, it adds a little to the 34%, I think, that you would calculate normally on the balance sheet accounts. It adds a couple 1 or 2 points to that number for that calculation. That's terrific.
I was
terrific. I was braced for a lower number. But when I realized I got to adjust last quarter as well, I realized, well, actually year over quarter looking at it from last quarter, it actually, I think it helps you a little bit. All right. So that's relief.
Mark, I was I think I might have missed a little bit on your response to the earlier question about Cisco's comments. There was also a lot of speculation about your enterprise business being slower. And then Chambers made his comments. And you guys obviously had a terrific quarter. Have you noticed any change in your enterprise?
Was the mix different in the quarter? Was enterprise slower? Any indication you could read across to what's happening in the broader economies?
For us, I think that we at fundamental level believe that we're still very much a distribution constrained organization and we're just trying to hire as many salespeople as we can around the world and get them properly organized and in their seats and trained and able to deliver on the opportunity. And it's not that the overall economy can't affect us. We saw when the whole world imploded, it did slightly impact us, but probably not as much as everybody else, because when you have this level of growth and differentiation from competitors, our greatest challenge is just the ability to close the business. And that's honestly what we're focused on. When we look at these pipelines, obviously, by the nature of our business, when we look at the Q2 pipeline, it's unlike anything we've ever seen in size and scale.
And then the challenge is how are we going to close it and wrap it up, because there's only so many of us. And that's how kind of how we look at the business and we don't really take into consideration these kind of things that we're hearing about. And I've got the highest, highest respect for John Chambers and Cisco, but their business in pushing out switches is not directly related to our ability to close Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Platform Transactions and help our customers to find their social enterprises. Our customers are trying to grow their top lines and that's what we are. We're a top line company.
We're a company that helps our customers close more business. And that's all we're focused on every day is our customer success the that's all about getting those salespeople in their chairs and out there and closing. And we've done a good job of that. That's why you can see the $3,000,000,000 guide for this year. That's why you see your these implied billions numbers that you're talking about are doing just fine.
And at Salesforce, it's never good enough. And we work we think we have to work harder and that we can even do better. And that's our goal is to do better and to deliver. And I've talked about this a few times, but it's been on my mind more than we get that sales cloud to the level where it needs to be for the $10,000,000,000 a year and the service cloud and the marketing cloud what Graham and I spend the time on. And we've got revenue goals for each of those buckets.
And we're working hard to deliver them. And that's where we are.
Our next question is from Richard Davis with Canaccord. Please go ahead with your question.
Thanks very much. Mark, how do you think about making your franchise in the developer world specifically for us as good as you have at the application layer? And I realize the 2 are interlinked, but do you think of those separately or how do you get people really playing on the S Dev side of that equation?
Yes. Well, I think there's a it's a multi dimensional problem. And for us, we've got developers who are inside our existing customers. And those are core developers and they love things like force.com. You've got ISVs who are building applications on force.com like companies that you've maybe read about in the Wall Street Journal, Ken Andy, which is building manufacturing on force.com or FinancialForce that's building the ERP solution or BMC Software building Remedyforce and others.
And then you've got in addition to those ISVs, you've got kind of independent developers who are building on Force, but they're also building on our Heroku platform and Facebook developers, of course, can access that Heroku platform right from inside Facebook, which is awesome and has created a lot of growth in the application number. And then you have developers who are building applications for websites and for interactive capabilities also on Heroku. So it's not one developer, it's many different developers and our developer numbers are at record levels. And we're speaking I think with a competitive product for developers in a way that we've never been able to before. We've just really been able to beef it up since our acquisition of Heroku.
It's really that really changed the tone in our ability. And you saw that at our cloud stock program at Cloudforce, where we had a whole developer pavilion. So we are very focused on the developer, but we are focused on the developer as part of our overall strategy and it's one of 4 critical legs of our stool to make that happen, which is the social enterprise platform is core, but so is sales service and marketing as
well. Our next question is from Phil Winslow with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead with your question.
I guess, Thanks for the great quarter. One of the things you were talking about earlier obviously was the marketing cloud. Mark, just wondering as you kind of envision the future how you sort of see the marketing cloud evolving both from a B2B and a B2C perspective? Thanks.
Well, I've spent a lot of my time thinking about that question this quarter, because I'm sure like you have, I have been reading a lot of stories about Chief Marketing Officers who are spending more on technology than ever before. That is a common story today. And I think an increasingly common story is that the CMO is going to spend more on technology in a company than the CIO. And that has not happened yet in most companies, but I believe that it will. And that is a whole new opportunity emerging and we need to double and triple down internally at Salesforce on creating that marketing cloud.
We are very fortunate about a year ago to buy the number one marketing company with Arabian6 doing social listening. And we're really looking at what are all the things that we need to develop to deliver that marketing cloud. And I am really excited about the marketing cloud. I really think it is a multibillion dollar opportunity, just as we've seen the sales cloud is and the service cloud is and the platform is. So I'm trying to get my thinking around that.
And by the time we get to Dreamforce, I think we're going to have a lot to talk about in regards to the Marketing Cloud. And you can already see a couple of strong tenants of that. And I just mentioned a few of those to you. We've got, of course, Radian 6, which is doing amazing. We've got Heroku, which lets you build interactive applications for Facebook or for the web.
We've got site.com that we introduced Cloudforce San Francisco, which is lets you deliver your website. And we've also have data.com, which is the critical data that marketers need to be able to figure out who their customers are and get key marketing materials and information to them. So that is the core of the marketing cloud today, Radian6, Heroku, site.com and data.com. And then the question is for us, how do we build a full marketing suite? How do we become the marketing desktop?
How do we have the marketing front office? And we're looking at that. And I think that's a very, very exciting opportunity. And then just like Heather was talking about how exciting Service Cloud is, she's absolutely right and it's stellar. And of course, I've been talking about Sales Cloud 13 years and you're going to hear me talk a lot about the Marketing Cloud, I think over the next decade.
All right. We're down to the final stretch here, maybe 1 or 2 more questions.
Our next question is from Derrick Wood with Susquehanna International. Please go ahead with your question.
Great. Thanks. Graham, I was wondering the $140,000,000 number you gave, does that include the impact from the 9 figure deal? And if not, could you give us what came on the balance sheet from that? And then I guess for Mark back to kind of the macro question.
If you were to see some budgets come under pressure, are there proof points that you could look at past deal flow that has helped that accelerate decision making to move off of on premise and over to cloud given the ROI? Thanks.
Derek, the $150,000,000 and the $140,000,000 numbers for Q4 and Q1 don't include the invoicing impact of the 9 figure deal because that's a normal deal. Those two numbers we've given for Q4 and Q1 are changes that we want to call out either because it's a multiyear invoice or because it's a change in sort of invoicing from quarterly or semiannual to annual. So the 9 figure deal was just a normal annual deal and so it's not included in those numbers? Yes. I'll tell you that in today's world and the world has changed and we're going see that tomorrow with the Facebook IPO that it's a social world and it's a mobile world and it's a cloud world.
And social, mobile and cloud have really been defined by Facebook. That's what Facebook is today. And that's what we're trying to be at Salesforce, but we're trying to deliver it through our sales cloud and service cloud and marketing cloud and platform. If you haven't redefined your company at this point around those pieces, you're probably grasping for straws in your strategy. We saw that yesterday at Sapphire and we've seen that with other competitors as well where they're just trying to sell the past as the future and the past does not equal the future.
And by the time we get to Dreamforce and you see the power of our customer base, 100,000 attendees attending Dreamforce this year in September. When you see major CEOs show up and say they're using salesforce.com like Jeff Immelt at General Electric and you hear the incredible stories of success of these customers, you're going to our customers themselves and users. And I'm sure everyone on our customers themselves and users. And I'm sure everyone on this call is looking at their iPhone or their iPad or their Android device or some other mobile technology and maybe they've got Twitter or Facebook in front of them. And we just didn't have that 4 or 5 years ago.
And yesterday, I rewatched Steve Jobs rolling out the iPhone in 90 in 2007. And it just inspired me that the world can change so fast that so many exciting things are happening. And now you do have these great new profits emerging like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. And our job is just to listen and follow them, because I think the enterprise is going to get pulled into the future through these consumer services and that's what salesforce.com is going to help our customers do. All our customers do.
All right. I'm getting some tired stares here. So we're going to take one last question. Let's bring it home strong.
Our last question is from Steve Ashley with Robert W. Baird. Please go ahead with your question.
Wow, I'm under a lot of pressure. Actually you pointed out that large deals and that's your whole business you make a lot of it on base hit. And I just want to talk about maybe the small and midsize business. How do you continue to see that represent the same kind of percentage of your business? And then also desk.com, Concurforce, some of the initiatives you've talked about in the past to bring into that market?
Are you having any success selling into that small and midsize market with those products?
Well, desk.com and do.com are phenomenons. With do.com, we have now more than 100,000 customers on there who have created more than 1,000,000 tasks, which is amazing. We've never seen any kind of growth like that before. And that's a very much a future for Salesforce. It's not where our revenue is today, but we look at that almost like our Skunk Works or our R and D center.
And these new companies that we bought that we're nurturing along and that we honor and respect because, hey, we respect the future at Salesforce. And what we see in companies like that is what we have to become in the mainstream. And we look at those as beacons of the future. And if you're not using do.com, you should be. I mean, it is something I use every day.
It's phenomenal. And for small and medium business, dash.com is awesome. And we've also talked about all the other great services of Salesforce, even great capabilities like we have like our database.comservice, letting customers roll out their databases, our site. Com for websites. And of course Salesforce Chatter and you can see that at chatter.com where you can sign up and just get going and we've seen so many customers there and we have these massive customer implementations now with Chatter.
We didn't have time to talk about that in deep depth on the call, but I was just reviewing that with the head of our chatter unit and the size and scale of the chatter deployments are as large as they've ever been. So a lot of exciting oars in the water and working to get to that $10,000,000,000 business in the era of Facebook and Twitter that we are paying attention to these next generation companies and we are working hard to build those concepts to who we are as a company, so we can deliver that in the mainstream of the enterprise.
All right. I think that wraps things up. Before we sign off here, I want to encourage everyone to attend our upcoming Cloudforce London event. As Mark indicated, that's next Tuesday, May 22 at the ExCeL Center in London. The event is going to be hosted by Co Founder, Parker Harris, as well as our Chief Operating Officer, George Hu.
And this is an event you absolutely won't want to miss. We already more than 12,000 customers registered. You can go ahead and register at marczyk@dreamforce.com or you can go ahead and just send me an e mail. We'll make sure to get you in. We look forward to seeing everybody there.
Thank you for joining us today and we look forward to catching up with you soon. Bye bye now.
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