Welcome to Oracle's first quarter 2020 earnings conference call. I'd now like to turn today's call over to Ken Bond, Senior Vice President. Ken?
Thank you, Holly. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us on short notice. Welcome to Oracle's first quarter fiscal year 2020 earnings conference call. A copy of the press release and financial tables, which includes a GAAP and non-GAAP reconciliation and other supplemental financial information can be viewed and downloaded from our investor relations website. On the call today are Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison, and CEO, Safra Catz. As a reminder, today's discussion will include forward-looking statements, including predictions, expectations, estimates, or other information that might be considered forward-looking. Throughout today's discussion, we will present some important factors relating to our business, which may potentially affect these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are also subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from statements made today.
As a result, we caution you against placing undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and we encourage you to review our most recent reports, including our 10-K and 10-Q and any applicable amendments for a complete discussion of these factors and other risks that may affect our future results or the market price of our stock. Finally, we are not obligating ourselves to revise our results or publicly release any revision to these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. Before taking questions, we'll begin with a few prepared remarks. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Safra.
Thanks, Ken, and thank you all for joining us on such very short notice. Of course, September 11th is an important day for our country and for us at Oracle. Many of you know that we lost 11 of our employees and many friends that day, and we honor all the victims today and every day. May their memories be a blessing to all of us. We originally planned to hold this call tomorrow. However, as Mark will be taking a leave of absence for health-related reasons, we felt it made sense to share all of our news at once. Mark was extremely engaged with the business through the end of the quarter, but now he needs to focus on his health and taking care of himself.
As the three of us have always worked as a team on managing Oracle, Larry and I will cover Mark's responsibilities during his absence with support from the rest of our strong management team. Now, switching to the first quarter, I will review our non-GAAP results using constant dollar growth rates unless I state otherwise. Though the effects of the currency movements in Q1 were modestly more than expected, with a 1.3% headwind to total revenues and a $0.01 headwind to earnings per share, both results were in line with my guidance range. Total Cloud services and license support revenues for the quarter were $6.8 billion, up 4% and accounting for nearly three-quarters of total company revenues, and most of all of this revenue is recurring. Cloud and on-premise license revenues were $812 million, down 6%, coming off 15% license growth last quarter.
As a reminder, because Q1 is normally our smallest quarter, we tend to see more volatility in new software license growth rates in Q1. In terms of ecosystems, GAAP applications ecosystem revenues were $2.8 billion, up 3%, with Fusion Apps up nearly 40%, including Fusion ERP up mid-40s and Fusion HCM up low 30s. NetSuite ERP was up in the mid-20s. Vertical SaaS was up high single digits, while Data Cloud was down in the low teens. On a trailing 12-month basis, more than 90% of our application ecosystem revenue is now recurring. GAAP infrastructure ecosystem revenues were $4.8 billion, up 3%, with total database revenue up similarly, highlighted by BYOL and Autonomous Database revenues, both up triple digits, but off a small base for now. On a trailing 12-month basis, more than three-quarters of our infrastructure ecosystem is now recurring.
In terms of geographies, we saw double-digit revenue growth in cloud revenue in all regions, with especially strong results in Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The growth margin for cloud services and license support was 86%. As we continue to scale and grow, I expect our cloud growth margins will go higher, driving an acceleration in our gross profit growth. Total revenue for the quarter were $9.2 billion, up 1% from last year.
Non-GAAP operating income was $3.8 billion, up 4% from last year, and the operating margin was 42%, up from 41% last year. The non-GAAP tax rate for the quarter was at 9.8%, slightly below our base tax rate of 20%, and EPS was $0.81 and up 16% in constant dollar and 14% in USD. The GAAP tax rate was 13.9%, and GAAP EPS was $0.63 and up 13% in constant currency and 11% in USD. Operating cash flow over the last four quarters was $13.8 billion. Over the last four quarters, capital expenditures were $1.7 billion, and free cash flow was $12.2 billion. We now have approximately $36 billion in cash and marketable securities, and the short-term deferred revenue balance is $10.9 billion.
As we've said before, we're committed to returning value to our shareholders through technical innovation, strategic acquisitions, stock repurchases, prudent use of debt, and a dividend. This quarter, we repurchased 89 million shares for a total of $5 billion. Over the last 12 months, we have repurchased 611 million shares for a total of $31 billion, and over the last five years, we have reduced the shares outstanding by more than 25%. The board of directors increased the authorization for share repurchases by an additional $15 billion and again declared a quarterly dividend of $0.24 per share. My guidance today is on a non-GAAP basis and in constant currency. Assuming current exchange rates remain the same as they are now, currency should have a 1% negative effect on total revenue and $0.01 negative on EPS. Of course, that could change.
For Q2, total revenues are expected to grow 1%-3% in constant currency, and assuming a 1% currency headwind, total revenues are expected to grow from 0%-2% in USD. Non-GAAP EPS in constant currency is expected to grow between 10%-12% and be between $0.88 and $0.90 in constant currency. Assuming the $0.01 headwind, non-GAAP EPS in USD is expected to grow between 9%-11% and be between $0.87 and $0.89 in USD. For fiscal 2020 and the third consecutive fiscal quarter, I expect that we will report double-digit EPS growth in constant currency. Total CapEx for fiscal year 2020 is expected to be around $2.2 billion, but it could move a little depending on our bookings and how much we need to invest to accommodate them.
My EPS guidance for Q2 and fiscal 2020 assumes a base tax rate of 20%. One-time tax events could cause actual tax rates for any given quarter to vary from our base tax rate. I expect that in normalizing for these one-time tax events, our tax rate will average around 20% for fiscal year 2020. I'm turning the call over to Larry for his comments, who will spend a little time highlighting some of the key wins we had during the quarter, with emphasis on back office applications, and then talk about autonomous database.
Thank you, Safra. As you're already aware, our back office applications business has been reporting excellent growth for a number of quarters now, and we have a massive opportunity ahead of us in both ERP and HCM. Not only do we have an enormous installed base of existing ERP and HCM customers who can upgrade to the cloud, but more than half of the current ERP and HCM market is served by companies who have no SaaS upgrade path. These companies' products are vulnerable to being replaced, and we're in the process of replacing them. Our investments in Oracle Fusion have not only enabled our strong back office results over the last few years, but they've positioned us to become not just the biggest back office player in the cloud, which we already are, but the biggest back office player, period. Cloud, on premises, all of it.
With that, here are some key Fusion ERP wins from Q1. DP World, Shaw Communications, Bangkok Bank of Thailand, who's upgrading their Oracle E-Business Suite with our Fusion Financial Cloud Service and our Fusion Financial Enterprise Performance Management. Envision Healthcare, where we beat Workday, we're replacing Envision Healthcare's legacy system, which is an Infor Lawson system. Express Scripts, who's in the process of migrating from Oracle Hyperion on-premise to Fusion EPM in the cloud. This is their first cloud application. Lyft, who's upgrading a portion of their ERP system, that started out as NetSuite but is now Fusion, as they plan for growth going forward. MediaNews Group, another competitive win against Workday. National Oilwell Varco, in a nice expansion, both their EPM and supply chain management that we closed last year. They're adding more products, they're adding more of the overall Fusion Suite.
NGL Energy Partners has also bought our Fusion ERP suite and supply chain management. Penn National Gaming is an online gaming company, and that was a competitive win against an unnamed German company located in a town called Walldorf. Standard Group Limited, a large garment manufacturer, where we beat that same Walldorf German company. Southern Company is a utility that was running E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite Financials, and PeopleSoft HCM, and they're moving to the Fusion Cloud Suite overall. Financials, HCM, everything. Continuing, we've got some great additional HCM wins. BAE Systems chose Fusion HCM to upgrade their HR technology and standardize on the cloud. Dubai Holding, where we're expanding our relationship by adding both Fusion HCM and Taleo for recruiting. Envision Healthcare is adding Fusion HCM to the already purchased Fusion ERP suite.
A very large transportation entity in the U.K., an airport, who is a long-term E-Business Suite customer, is moving from on-premise to the Fusion suite in the cloud. Here's a company everyone's always heard of and probably has visited many times, McDonald's. McDonald's chose our HCM. They chose our payroll. This was a battle between us and Workday. We won, and we're displacing their on-premise legacy system. Nestlé. Southwest Gas, where we're displacing SAP, and we beat Workday, as Southwest Gas decided to move from SAP on-premise to the cloud, and they picked us. The University of Texas, and we're actually engaged with them on not only providing cloud technology, but also consulting support to migrate them from PeopleSoft on-premise to Fusion HCM in the cloud. It's just not a bunch of customer wins that marks our success.
Industry analysts, including IDC, are taking notice as they survey their customers. In the 2019 SaaSPath survey that IDC released in May of 2019, it surveyed over 1,500 of their SaaS customers on their experience with top SaaS vendors, including Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft, all of them. Oracle SaaS had the highest rating among all SaaS vendors surveyed, period. You can see, we're at the beginning of a back office upgrade cycle that will benefit our applications ecosystem for years to come. We're already overwhelmingly the largest ERP system in the cloud. Again, it won't be long before we're just the largest ERP supplier, period. The second area I'd like to talk about is the Autonomous Database, because we think this is a game changer. All right. Game changer. Interesting term. Sound like a cliché, little bit of marketing hype.
Let me explain how important this is. Autonomous technology is the key element that differentiates a second-generation cloud from a first-generation cloud. In a first-generation cloud, your real benefit, you were going to rent computers, you only pay for what you use. That's a great benefit, obviously. It's a first-generation cloud. Pay for what you use when you use it. Second-generation cloud, not only do we deliver the benefits of pay per use. We also take the human labor out of running the cloud. That's an even bigger economic saving. Sharing computers and renting computers is not as costly as paying for the labor to run those computers. From an economic advantage, a second generation autonomous cloud is much less expensive to run than a first generation cloud. That's not what's really important.
What's really important is the second-generation autonomous cloud prevents data theft, which you can never do in a first-generation manual cloud. Let me point out how reasonable Amazon was when they refused to accept responsibility for the configuration errors made by the people at Capital One. They have a policy that, you have control of your data, you have control of your system. You are responsible for running your system, and if you make mistakes, it's on you, it's not on us. That is not an unreasonable position. When you have a totally manual system and your users are responsible for configuring the system, when your users are responsible for backing the system up, when your users are responsible for encrypting the data, when your users are responsible for patching the systems, user errors can lead to catastrophic results.
In a manual system, there's no way to prevent that. In an autonomous system, the Capital One data breach could never have happened because the Oracle Autonomous Database doesn't let human beings configure the system. It configures itself automatically. The Oracle Autonomous Database system doesn't ask human beings to patch it, to close security holes. The system automatically patches itself while running. The Oracle database doesn't ask if you want to back it up or if you want to encrypt your data. It does all of this automatically while it's running. The only way you can prevent data theft is to eliminate human error. The only way you can do that is with an autonomous database, and we have one, and our competitors don't. This is a very big deal. What's the greatest thing about autonomous driving? Everyone's looking forward to autonomous driving.
They say it's a threat to Uber and all this other stuff. Okay, that's all interesting. The greatest thing about autonomous driving, it's going to reduce human pilot error and cut down on accidents by 90%, 95%, 98%, 99%. It's going to save lives. It's going to come close to eliminating pilot error. The Oracle Autonomous Database, the Oracle self-driving database, prevents users from making catastrophic mistakes resulting in data loss. There is no way to do it in a manual cloud. End of story. That's what I mean by game changer. You want to prevent data theft, you better be prepared to pay less because we take the labor out. We have huge cost savings. There are no human beings involved. They can't make those kind of mistakes. All right.
We're still early on in the Autonomous Database in terms of it's only been around. We announced it in Oracle OpenWorld 2017, two years ago, and really showed up in 2018. Now we're beginning to get some traction with this exciting new technology. It's proving to be the most exciting and successful new product offering in the history of our company. I got it. Here's some recent data. In Q1, we added more than 3,700 new Autonomous Database trials. We now have over 2,000 customers, paying customers, for the Autonomous Database. We're seeing incredible pull-through with the Autonomous Database. You come to Oracle, the Oracle Cloud, to use the Autonomous Database, and then you use a variety of other services.
About 45% of the people who are using the Autonomous Database are also using our Oracle Analytics Cloud. They're also using Microsoft Analytics, they're using Cognos, they're using a variety of other tools. Primarily, they're using Oracle Analytics. We've added many customers to the Autonomous Database that weren't Oracle customers at all. 13% of the people using Autonomous Database had never bought a database from Oracle Corporation. 43% of the workloads that are going onto Autonomous Database are net new. They're not moving them from on-premises to the Autonomous Database, half are moved from on-premises to Autonomous Database. Almost the other half, 43%, are just net new applications. We've had some fabulous wins in the quarter. We have over 500 wins, Autonomous Database wins in the quarter.
I'm not going to mention all 500, but 7-Eleven is moving all their point-of-sale data to the autonomous data warehouse. Cargojet Canada, Johnson Controls, LATAM Airlines is moving their on-premise data centers to OCI to get the advantage and security of the autonomous database. Siemens Energy, Stanley Black & Decker getting much faster data reporting on their analytics. Oh, yeah, one more company moved to autonomous database, Uber. With that, let's turn it back to the operator.
Thank you, Larry. Holly, before we go to the Q&A, just a couple clarifications because I had a couple of emails on this. The non-GAAP tax rate for the quarter was 19.8%, and then for fiscal year 2020, we expect for the full year, this will be our third consecutive year of double-digit earnings growth. With that, Holly, why don't we turn it up to Q&A?
All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to ask a question, please press star then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw a question, press the pound key. Our first question will come from the line of John DiFucci, Jefferies.
Thank you. I'm sure I speak for everyone just to briefly say that our thoughts and prayers are with Mark and his family at this time. Also knowing Mark for years, I'm sure he'd like us to sort of get back to business. I'm going to move right to question here. There was this Cloud services and license support was strong this quarter, but license was not as strong as we modeled it anyway. I realize it's a seasonally slow first quarter, and you said it follows the strongest and, yeah, with really strong fourth quarter, strongest we've seen in quite some time. Is there anything else you can share on that line? Any further color? For instance, BYOL has gotten a lot of traction, right? Could that cause your financials just to start to trend more seasonally, sort of like it used to?
I mean, it started to get a little more even. It was still seasonal, but a little more even. Should we be starting to think of seasonality, how Oracle used to be even more seasonal? We're also hearing, you hear it too, you hear from some other companies that talk about macro pressure. Are you seeing any of that at all? I'm just curious. Any color would be helpful.
Sure. That's easy, John. It was actually something very, very simple. First of all, outside of North America, our license was up quite a bit, in fact, internationally. What we had done in North America is we did do a split in the sales force. We'd been telegraphing that we were doing that before. We split the North America tech sales force between selling cloud, a group selling cloud, and a group selling new licenses. The group selling new license was a new group. I expect that they will more than recover during the year. That's the only weakness we had, and it was simply just a slow start as we reorged the North America tech sales force as we split it.
There's no macro issue, there's no actual regular issue, and of course, the thing is that in Q1, small numbers make a big difference, and so they just kind of outsize. No, we don't see anything, and that's really all it was.
Okay. That's helpful, Safra, and that makes sense, and sort of we're hearing things about that. Just a quick follow-up, maybe for Larry. Larry, last quarter, you had really strong results in the database options, and most especially ones related to the Autonomous Database. I'm just curious, in this quarter, again, seasonally softer first quarter, can you talk about the options themselves? I'm thinking more about things like, my favorite's multi-tenancy, there's others that are important, too.
I think multi-tenancy, in-memory, all of the database options that are used with the Autonomous Database, I think are selling very, very well. Again, the reorg in North America had a great impact on that because those are licensed sales, and then they bring those licenses to the cloud. People buy multi-tenant, they buy rack, they buy in-memory, they then pick those options and their existing licenses up, and they move them to the cloud. Some of those sales were delayed because of the reorg, but we think the demand is enormous, and we think the leading indicator is just the number of trials we've signed up in Q1. Our cloud sales force, in terms of the cloud activity, we had incredible cloud activity.
We expect, again, we signed more than 500 deals with Autonomous Database deals in Q1, 3,700 new trials to 500 signed paying customers, more than, and we expect to double that in Q2. We expect to go from well over 1,000 paying customers and that pipeline to just start building. That is the best early indicator, and that will drive not only cloud revenue, but also license revenue because of the options.
Next question, please.
Great. Okay. Thank you.
Our next question will come from the line of Brad Zelnick, Credit Suisse.
Great. Thanks so much. I'll start just by echoing John's sentiment and wish Mark a very speedy recovery. I wanted to dig in a little bit to the great momentum that you're seeing in cloud ERP. You gave a lot of color, Larry, in your comments, but perhaps if you can help us understand what the demand patterns look like amongst existing customers migrating versus new logo business that you're able to attract. As well, that market has always been a fragmented market. Is there any evidence that you might be benefiting from consolidation finally in ERP, which has so many players in the long tail. Thank you.
Let me talk about some of the easiest consolidation where we're picking on Lawson. We actually have sales territories, which are Lawson healthcare sales territories. We go after the Lawson healthcare customers, and we've rolled up a bunch of those. I'd say about a third of their customers, of Lawson healthcare customers, are in our pipeline, either already converted or in our pipeline. We expect to win all of those. We've just added some new sales territories, which are Lawson retail territories, which is a combination of our Fusion financials and our retail merchandising products. We think that's also a very vulnerable company that Infor really. Well, they've tried. A lot of people have tried to build cloud systems. It's not easy. I can attest to that. I have lots of scars. Fusion took 10 years to get going. It's a big deal.
NetSuite, that overnight success, took 20 years, been in business over 20 years. Salesforce been in business over 20 years. It takes a while to build these very complicated systems. Lawson doesn't really have anything. We're taking a bunch of their customers. The one that's extraordinary is that SAP really does not have a true cloud system. SAP is doing some hosting. They don't have a true cloud system. Now we're seeing some of their larger, not the very largest companies, but some of their medium large companies go ahead and pick us, and we're converting them. We are in conversations with their very largest, SAP's very largest customers. We're in the middle of converting one of their very largest customers. We think that, of course, is the huge opportunity. Right now, Oracle and SAP has about half the ERP market.
Sorry, it's a very long answer. The two of us have about half the ERP market, and the other half of the ERP market is, as you say, highly fragmented. We started out by targeting the highly fragmented guys who are really weak and vulnerable. We think the opportunity exists to roll it all up. If you look at our market share, I'm almost afraid to mention what our market share in ERP in the cloud is. What is it, 95%?
A lot.
I don't know. I'm guessing, but I don't know, because I don't know of any other cloud ERP system other than NetSuite and Fusion. Maybe 95% is low. It sounds a little crazy, but SAP really did not rewrite their code. They really don't have a cloud system. We have an opportunity to go after them and just put that aside. There's that whole other half of the ERP marketplace, which is companies that a lot of people have never heard of. Yeah, I think we can consolidate virtually all of them. I don't know how to describe it. It's a crazy opportunity. You don't see this happen very often.
Next question, please.
Thank you.
Our next question will come from the line of Phil Winslow, Wells Fargo.
Hey, thanks for taking my question. I just wanted to echo Mark here, just wishing you the speediest recovery and all the best. To the team, congrats on a solid start to the year. I just wanted to follow up on John's question on the database. One of the questions I get from investors is sort of the trajectory of database, because obviously, we're getting some metrics from you guys that's showing an inflection in terms of customers, also just trials out there. How do you think about just the, I guess, the shape of the curve of database growth going forward with all these different levers?
Well, because the growth rate is so extraordinary, we're not forecasting it. When Safra gives you a forecast, she's not forecasting this incredibly steep growth curve in autonomous database. We're giving you, I would say, a conservative point of view, especially in terms of autonomous database. Again, this is a case where we have a technology that nobody else has. We are the dominant database supplier on the planet Earth. We're bigger than IBM and Microsoft combined. In the previous battles, in the previous war on-premise, we were bigger than Microsoft and IBM combined, our two biggest competitors. There are a bunch of open source cloud databases, and a lot of them are specialized, and there are probably a dozen of them, or more for that matter. None of them are autonomous. None of them are secure. None of them patch themselves while running.
None of them give you 99.995% availability. We're 100 times more reliable. Seriously, 100x more reliable than these guys. We have the only system that we can pretty much ensure that your data can't be stolen because you can't make pilot errors. You can't make mistakes because all of those decisions are automated. We're sitting in two markets that we have an opportunity of completely dominating and owning. One is ERP, where we've been in it for a while, and you actually can see the data. You can actually see the curve, and we have enough years of data that you can see the slope of the curve, and you can do these market share studies, and there are all these analyst reports and all that. We've made great progress in that, and you can see it.
In the Oracle Autonomous Database, all you can do is listen to me talk about this extraordinary technology, and we're so early on in the curve. We've got such little data in the curve. I understand and even we're planning, let's wait and see what this turns out to be. We have this gigantic install base that's, I think, going to go to Oracle Autonomous Database. It's not just that. It's not safe to go to any other database. That's a pretty good differentiator. It's our second extraordinary opportunity. The ERP back office in the cloud, Oracle Autonomous Database in the cloud. We're successful in those two markets, should be enough to make a living. Next question, please.
Thank you. Our next question will come from the line of Heather Bellini, Goldman Sachs.
Great. Thank you so much. Again, I'm going to echo everyone's thoughts for Mark, and thoughts are with him and his family. Just wanted to ask two quick questions. One, if I could, Safra, I know John DiFucci asked some questions about the environment, you talked about the North American sales reorg. I was wondering, just we've seen a lot of results since early August come in where maybe results haven't been as good as people wanted. I'm just wondering if you saw any elongation in sales cycles, if there's anything you can share with us there, just globally from what you've been seeing.
Secondly, just a question related to OCI. I know obviously OpenWorld's next week, there'll be a lot of partners to talk to. A lot of the partners we've been speaking to of late have talked about a real pickup in momentum there. Just wondering if you can share with us what you're seeing. Thank you.
Sure. Actually, we feel like we've got a lot of momentum here at Oracle. The issue regarding markets, either abroad or in the United States, we're not seeing it. We're on very, very positive momentum from a product cycle point of view. Our Fusion products are basically killing it. It's doing amazingly. Autonomous Database and the whole OCI is so compelling, and we are on the field, and we are expanding globally, that we have just so much good news happening around the world that we're not seeing the weaknesses. To the extent that there are, we just have a lot of company product momentum ourselves. I know that I will not be able to hold Larry back from answering your second question, so I'm just unleashing him in advance of OpenWorld. Go ahead, Larry.
Okay. Next week at Oracle OpenWorld, we started with Oracle Autonomous Database in 2018. We continued to make improvements there and speeding it up, we're not stopping at Oracle Autonomous Database. At Oracle OpenWorld, we'll be announcing a whole bunch of new autonomous services. No one is doing this. We're not stopping at Oracle Autonomous Database. You're going to see a bunch of arguments where we take that same machine learning technology and develop other autonomous services. We're on our way. It's our goal to deliver the world's first and only completely autonomous cloud. The most important thing is keeping your data safe. You really should have an autonomous operating system.
You should have a bunch of autonomous services to operate that cloud, so human beings aren't given the opportunity to make mistakes, and people can concentrate on building applications rather than managing the plumbing of the cloud, which is complicated and error-prone and expensive. We want to get rid of the expense, get rid of the errors. Started with Autonomous Database. You'll see a bunch more announcements of new autonomous services in OCI. OCI is definitely on a roll. As people come to look at Autonomous Database, they look around in the Oracle Cloud, and they see our analytics, our compute. I can talk about all these other things, but we really have a second-generation cloud that's highly differentiated from our friends in Amazon or Google.
Thank you.
Next question, please.
Our next question will come from the line of Mark Moerdler, Bernstein.
Thank you very much for taking the question. Again, I echo everyone else. Please tell Mark that our thoughts are with him and his family. Larry, Safra, given Autonomous Database adoption commentary, how good it's going, can you give us some more color based this quarter on how the revenue lift is occurring as customers are moving to the Autonomous Database, based on what you're seeing in sales that are going now, how that's trending? Any sense to think about how large Autonomous Database revenue is? Any color would be appreciated.
Well, our approach, sometimes I'm critical of Amazon. Sometimes I try to learn from what they do. They were the innovator in cloud, you give them credit for that. I think the strategy of land and expand, which is what Amazon has used in marketing their products. You get in for one project and you're successful on that project, then you go to the next project. It's been very different than the way Oracle's been selling in the past. We have adopted, with Autonomous Database, we've adopted that land, start small, get in there on a project, just demonstrate how great this technology is, and then get another project and another project after that.
We've adopted this land and expand approach, and we have many examples where people have been successful in their first projects, have moved on to two more, then moved on to 10 more after that. We see, again, the opportunity is gigantic. The fact that we added almost 4,000 trials, they're short of 4,000 trials in Q1 as an example of how we're really getting traction now, and the word is getting out about how good the Autonomous Database is. How big is it as an overall market?
It's billions. The reality is that most of our customers have been waiting for us. They've not brought those critical, large and security-conscious workloads, they've not brought them to the cloud so far. They didn't bring them to the other vendors. The other vendors are all actually having trouble in the enterprise with these important workloads. They've been waiting for us. As they've started to bring smaller workloads in, they can start quite small, and then their next bite is 10 times the size, and the opportunity is often 1,000 times the size. That's what we're starting to see. How long will it take? I don't know. We're trying to just go with it. You have to understand that many of these can also go just pay as you go. They're never forecasted. A customer just tries it, and before you know it's expanding.
Yeah.
The opportunity is literally enormous because many of these workloads, they can't go to the cloud any other way. Those that have tried have been either unsuccessful or it's been both expensive and risked their security situation. This is a very powerful moment for us. We're not going to overplay it here. We're just going to ride along with it. You're going to hear at Oracle OpenWorld from some of these customers. It's very much like originally when we started to talk to you about our engineered systems, where a customer would try a little bit. They'll try one, a quarter, and before you know it, they had dozens. This is the next level for those critical workloads that only can work in our cloud.
Thank you.
Next question, please.
Appreciate it.
Our last question for today is going to come from the line of Raimo Lenschow, Barclays.
Hey, let me echo as well, all our prayers are with Mark and his family. Just going back, I had two quick question, one number question, which was on deferred software. In theory, that should grow. Can you just maybe talk a little bit about why that declined this quarter? The bigger question was more for me around ERP. Larry, you talked about you saw some medium-sized SAP customers starting to look. Is it, in terms of going bigger, is it a question of functionality and capability or more around referencability? If I look at you just delivered full quarters numbers. You closed the quarter in 11, 12 days and were able to deliver that, which is a record I've seen, and you guys are using Oracle Fusion, so it seems like a very powerful solution.
I'm just wondering what's holding it back at this point. Thank you.
First I'd like to thank you for noticing the amazing close we did on Fusion Financials. We actually, I got to tell you, the team, I think, is pretty happy with this result and realize that all of our customers should be easily doing the same thing. First, yes, this was a very quick close, but we've got the technology and the people to do it. Let me just answer your deferred revenue comment. I just want you to understand, gross deferred revenue is actually up 3%, okay? We net it to a bunch of things that ultimately are simply timing changes related to collection. That's really the only thing. There's nothing unusual. Next quarter, you may see something different. It's literally a matter of when we pay some things, and that kind of shows up in the operating cash flow.
In deferred revenue, it's simply timing of collections. There's a little bit impacted by currency, but the gross deferred revenue number is actually up 3%. It's just netted down, and it's just a matter of the timing of our collections. Nothing to see here.
Okay. The question about SAP, what are our big SAP customers waiting for before they make a decision to move to Oracle? It's been very interesting. I've spent a lot of time in Germany and talking to some customers, and they want to move. I've talked to several very large customers say, "We'd like to move to the cloud. We'd like to move to Fusion." Moving to another SAP system, some of these guys are facing bills of $1 billion to migrate for this SAP upgrade, all of the consultants. It's a big pill to swallow to do the upgrade to HANA, what they call S/4HANA in the cloud, except it's not really a cloud.
For no benefit.
Basically it's the same code you had before. It really is pretty much the same code you had before. The customers really want to do it. What they're waiting for is one really large customer who's already done it. They are worried. They don't want to be first. These big customers are conservative. They don't want to be first. We are in the middle of one of their largest customers, converting them to Fusion. As soon as we can talk about that publicly and use that as a reference, which will probably take another six months before we can do that, maybe less, but that's pretty close, before they're live and several of their divisions on Fusion. Almost every business leader I talk to in Germany wants to make the migration. They just have to be assured that it will work.
We've won some deals in the high end of the mid-market against their SAP incumbents, and they're in the process of converting. We can get them converted much faster and get them live much faster than we can this one of the largest enterprises on Earth that we're converting. As we get a few of these references, we think customers want to use modern technology. They want to move to the cloud. They can do that with Fusion, and they cannot do it with SAP. We think it's a huge opportunity for us, but we have to have a core of references before these big guys are going to move.
Okay. Thank you. That's very clear.
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