Hi, good morning. Welcome everybody to PTC's investor meeting here at LiveWorx for 2018. We've got a nice little agenda here lined up for everybody. For those of you who didn't get to see the keynote this morning, some pretty cool stuff. Jim is going to walk through some of that as well.
Jim will talk about our growth strategy and then Matt Cohen is going to talk about driving customer success, which is a major effort here at PTC and a topic near and dear to your hearts, I'm sure, concerning churn. Then Andy will give a financial update, update our targets for 2021 and talk about 2023 and some of the major assumptions that go into that. And we'll have a Q and A session. And then lastly, I just want to point out
from 3:30 to 4:30, we actually
have a demo power hour. So Extropolus shuts down completely and there's 85 different demos that are being run. Kristen sent you a note, we'll meet you down in Extropolos, give you a little bit of a guided tour. So those interested, that's where you can really see this technology, our own and our partners, on full display. Before I turn it over to Jim, just note that we'll be making forward looking statements, ask you to refer to the filings with the SEC on our website.
And also note that this presentation does not take into consideration ASC 606, and we'll be adopting that as of October 1 for our fiscal 2019. So with that, I'll turn it over to PTC's President and CEO, Jim Heppelmann.
Thank you, Jim. All right. Good morning, everybody. Can I see a quick show of hands if you did not attend the keynote? Okay.
So a few people didn't, most of you didn't. All right. So what I want to talk about first is just real quick reflection on the keynote address that I gave this morning and a couple of key themes in particular. One is this idea of place to a pace and it refers to change and really to the attitude of PDC that we have to be willing to embrace a pace of change, not just a change. And I think hopefully you saw that this morning.
We didn't just change one thing, we changed a lot of things. I talked about changing our headquarters, I talked about new partnerships, we showed all kinds of new technology and even within new technology like AR, we had a lot of new technology and so forth. So this is really an attitude that the company has, which is if we're going to win, especially in cutting edge technology markets where we now compete, we have to be moving fast. So we can't be your father's PTC anymore. And so place to pace gets us to the second thing, which is I like to remind people that we should think of the acronym PTC, which of course used to mean Parametric Technology Corporation, but officially now means nothing, sort of like 3 ms used to be Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, now it's just 3 ms.
But you can think of it informally as prepare to change. And that's an attitude that I want you to see, I hope you see in our employees and I hope that you see it manifested in our results still. Now, I talked about all the different things we're doing on the physical, digital and human fronts. And you can think of that as sort of a proxy for CAD and PLM being about physical products to a large degree, IoT and analytics being about the digital side and then AR really being a technology for smart connected humans. Now we're going to take a fun little starting point here and we're going to start with the punch line.
We are going to show you our 2023 plan is targeting $850,000,000 of free cash flow. Now we'll take you through the results, but I thought it'd be fun to start here and then explain what we have to do to deliver this $850,000,000 of free cash flow. And it really comes down to 2 main things that we must be successful with and that's growth and subscription and customer success. And that's really why I'm going to talk about growth and then Matt Cohen is going to talk about all the things he's doing to ensure that when we win business, it expands and grows into something much bigger over time. So that's the punch line.
Let's talk about the growth theme. So back in 2015, you heard me use this phrase this morning, but we said we're going to take a fresh look at things. We committed ourselves at that point to going through this subscription transition, which is a key part of the growth story because it's much easier to grow a subscription company. But we committed to some other things too. For example, we said we want to have a program around growth.
We aspire to much higher levels of growth. We want to convert to a subscription model and we want to drive up our margins at the same time. Now some people I think saw this as a triple windy, any one of these could be hard, all three at once, I don't know, Sounds really hard. But frankly, we've done a very good job and I want to show you about that. So we drive into growth back in 2015 when we had our last face to face meeting like this.
We told you we want to grow mid single digits. If you look at what's actually happened, we've been posting 40% growth in our IoT business, 10% or better growth in our CAD business and above market PLM growth. Now we have a couple of other littler businesses, but when you take all that and put it together, you get 10% total growth. So we've nearly doubled effectively what we promised you we would try to accomplish on the growth front when we last saw you in a room like this two and a half years ago. If we take a look at subscription, we said we want to be 70% mix by FY 2018.
We stand here today with an 80% subscription mix. We're sitting on $1,300,000,000 of deferred revenue and more than 90% of our software revenue in any given quarter now is recurring. And we're exiting FY 2018 at 85% mix. So I think we've done a very, very good job living up to the expectations we set around subscription as well. And then on the margin side, we said our goal is to have OpEx growth that's effectively at half the rate of the bookings growth.
It will ultimately become half the rate of the revenue growth, but as we're going through that revenue trough, we linked it to subscription. During that time, we've had a 4% CAGR on OpEx, which is less than half of that 10% growth we had in bookings. And we've done that by very, very disciplined portfolio management. We become miserly in where we spend money. And we still spend it, but we're funding all the new stuff, the growth stuff, while simultaneously increasing margins.
And if you look through the subscription effects, we're effectively at a 30% margin right now. So Andy will show you that we intend to take our margins kind of into the upper 30s, mid to upper 30s, but we're starting actually from a place that's 30% versus what the reported numbers would be, which are lower than that. So I think here too, we've done a very good job executing the vision and the model that we gave you when we last saw you. So let's dive a little bit deeper into the growth we're expecting and seeing actually on the industrial IoT front. So first thing that's worth noting is that the industrial IoT market has evolved a lot in the last couple of years.
It's kind of taken a better shape, a better form. We understand what we do and what Microsoft and others like that do. But basically the focus has moved up the stack. It's not just about connecting a thing to the cloud. It's about how do you build now an application or a solution that makes your business work differently because that thing is connected to the cloud.
That's really something that PTC excels at. We're at that layer above the cloud where you're trying to put this data to work in your business. We believe that IoT will be our biggest market by 2023. If you look at these numbers, it's kind of triangulating on a couple of different independent analysts and adding our own point of view. But we see the total industrial IoT market as $1,200,000,000 today.
We have more than 10% share and it's growing at a 40% CAGR. So we're a big participant in this market, probably the biggest, certainly one of the biggest and we're participating at the growth rate the market is. So I think we remain in good position to get our fair share of what will be a $6,800,000,000 market by 2023. If you look at what's happening in the market, there's a couple of different secular things happening. So first of all, there is a convergence of IT and OT in the factory.
And as you see 30% of IT and OT operations will be fully aligned by 2019 of course that's really the basis of our partnership with Rockwell and 30% by 2019 is good, but we've got to get to a much higher level beyond that. You see companies are trying to deploy digital platforms, which we bring ThingWorx and Vuforia together into what we call an industrial innovation platform and companies are using platforms like that to transform the way they do product creation, manufacturing, service, customer operations. And then finally, if you look on the right, there's a big shift happening with augmented reality technology. And it really is about making humans much more productive by giving them better access to digital information in a more, let's say, native type of way. And there's huge amount of interest in this.
I think you saw a huge amount of interest in the demonstrations that we did as part of the keynote. You can go look at more of them throughout the extrapolates and I think we're in a very strong position here. So there's very good secular things happening in the market and PTC is in a very good place to leverage these. We are by every major analyst report either a leader or the leader. So there are analyst reports that have come out from, I don't know, probably a dozen different firms, but these are the big three that are best known, Forrester, IDC and Gartner.
So Forrester put us in that leaders group with IBM, GE, Microsoft and Amazon. And of course this report was done in Q4 of 2016 and there's been some important development since. For example, we're now tightly aligned with Microsoft doing different things, but doing them in concert with each other. GE is a little less prominent in the market, frankly. They've been through some changes and retrenched a little bit.
So I really think it's PTC and Microsoft against IBM and that's a fight I'll take any day. If you look at IDC, similar story, almost identical story. In the case of the IDC report, the size of the bubble represented the actual market share you had. So you see that IDC did think of us as the biggest provider. And then the Gartner report, which is just a few weeks old, is also interesting.
So there's 2 messages in that report. 1 is that Gartner thinks the market's early and that's why nobody's in the leaders quadrant, But it's pretty clear in Gartner's view that PTC is the leader. It's an early market, but we're the leader. Now pretty typical of Gartner to publish a report in the first phase with nobody in the leaders' quadrant. If there was just one company in the leaders' quadrant, it'd kind of be game over in terms of analyst reports.
So nonetheless, that's a good outcome and I'll take that one as well. Okay. So let's talk about the use cases now that we're selling into. So the first one is what we call smart connected products or SEP, like that welder I had on stage was a smart connected product. The second is smart connected operations and that's where maybe a lot of different assets come together like in a factory and you're trying to manage the factory for efficiency.
And the third one is a term we came up with called smart connected systems, which is just how do we bring all this data together in new business systems. So I'm going to drill a little deeper into each of these. Let's start with smart connected products, like this great big radiology type of machine here. So this part of the IoT market now is about 7 $100,000,000 and growing at 38% and projected to be $3,300,000,000 in 2023. It's very, very attractive market, very attractive growth rates.
Again, surely we have 10% market share here. And this is a market that's continuing to do well. This whole concept of digital twins that can be used to understand and therefore optimize the performance of an asset in the field, both the operational performance but also the servicing of that asset in the field. This is a big value creation opportunity with Gartner Group suggesting there's $1,000,000,000,000 a year in value to be created. This is where our partnership with Microsoft really makes sense.
Now we'll also do things with Microsoft in the factory and elsewhere, but it's really when you have products distributed all over the world in order to aggregate the data, you must bring it back to a cloud. And so now our answer is bring it to Azure and we'll pick it up from there and put it to work in your business. So this was a very important partnership because it cleaned up a lot of confusion, a lot of wasted energy and it gave us a very, very strong partner. It's not just Azure, it's also the HoloLens and mixed reality and it's Dynamics. So this is really a situation where PTC is the main industrial solutions partner in the IoT space to Microsoft.
Where we're at with this right now is the partnership is just a few months old. We're working today more than 100 deals with Microsoft. A lot of those will start small in the land and expand model and expand from there. But quite a good pipeline, quite a friendly relationship. I'd say things are going very well, but of course it's early.
You remember we talked about Colfax and the company that made the welder. So we had that example of using ThingWorx to orchestrate a whole series of responses based on me welding my hand with the welder if you remember that in the keynote. That was just for fun. The second use case then is smart connected operations and operations here means like things working together in a process. So, this is really the smart factory story.
It's the Industry 4.0 story that most people talk about. It's really where it's not about collecting data and sending it back to the manufacturer of the asset. It's about collecting data from many different types of assets and sending them back to the owner of the assets. And this is a very heterogeneous, murky problem because you have to collect data from many different brands of machines and equipment and many different architectures and sensors and systems and so forth. And our Kepware acquisition in particular was a beautiful deal for positioning us to be successful here.
Of course AR, you'll see one of the primary use cases for AR is actually in smart connected operations. Now we think this is a very attractive market as well. Analysts recognize this market as $500,000,000 today. Again PTC with roughly 10% market share and growing slightly faster than the SCP market at 44% to what looks like a very attractive $3,500,000,000 market by 2023. So again, here's a quote coming from the World Economic Forum, where they're talking about Industry 4.0, but if you just look at it, they say 5 key technologies stand out.
The Internet of Things, check. Artificial Intelligence, check. Advanced Robotics, well, we don't make robotics, but there's actually a robotics track here at LiveWorx. We're certainly comfortable with that. Wearables, meaning augmented reality, check and 3 d printing, check.
So PTC has some incredible assets to participate in this market. Now, we have by ourselves generated some good momentum, some good handwitted if you will. And so at places like the logos you see here Fresenius Woodward who was on the stage with me, P and G, Herotech, these are customers who have already deployed ThingWorx and possibly Vuforia in their factories. But when we look at the size of the market and then we think about PTC's capacity to cover that market, we knew we had a challenge and we have some big ugly competitors like Siemens out there. So we wanted to say while we're in such a strong position, let's not squander any time trying to take market share.
We need a big partner who would align with us and really help us do a lot better there. So you remember this is the use case from Woodward in the factory. But anyway, that brings me to Rockwell Automation story and we announced a week ago a very exciting partnership with Rockwell. We see this as a transformative moment for both companies. Again, I think we each had a vision that's pretty similar.
Rockwell has been talking about connected enterprise and PTC hadn't necessarily used exactly those words, but we certainly had been talking about connectivity and how it transforms, bring 2 to bring 2 companies together and supersize both of them in the market. I mean, when I think of Rockwell, Rockwell's got 35,000 accounts and 1,000 bag carrying reps in them. Before this deal, we had about 20 calling on factories. So we're talking now we got a 10 20 to put it in perspective. It's a very, very big deal for PTC and a very strong commitment from both parties to each other.
Now what we've committed to do is to take our existing products, which are complementary and put them together in a new suite. So Rockwell has a well known MES product called FactoryTalk MES, MES meaning manufacturing execution system and then a brand new big data analytics machine learning technology called FactoryTalk Analytics. It was called Project SEIL for a while but they formalized the name as FactoryTalk Analytics. Very sexy stuff. If you want to see the demo of how our stuff and their stuff works together, you can't even tell who is who is when the combined demos is running.
And then of course on PTC, we have PTC side, we have some amazing technology, ThingWorx, CapWorx and Vuforia. So we're going to put this together into a suite which will have a brand name, but doesn't yet have a brand name because we the obvious one would be like Factory Works, but that one appears to potentially be conflicted. So we're looking at options. But that's what's going on there. So the idea is that Rockwell would sell all 5 products and PPC would sell all 5 products and therefore we both have a very broad and robust solution set.
Now, our strengths are very complementary and that provides a significant cross sell opportunity. So if you look at core automotive and industrial, both companies are very strong there. And then if you look at where Rockwell has strength, the PTC doesn't have thanks to our heritage. We don't have a heritage in consumer packaged goods or pharmaceuticals or chemicals or mining or oil and gas or metals and mining and stuff like that. But Rockwell has got a great footprint there.
Meanwhile, there's a lot of places we could help Rockwell get a bigger presence for their technology. I think virtually every deployment of Industry 4.0 technology sooner or later brings you to the point where you need new sensors and controls and upgrades and stuff like that. So I think while PTC is selling in that green circle, we're going to be creating opportunities for Rockwell in the industrial automation business and while Rockwell is selling on the left side, I think they're going to be creating opportunities for CAD and PLM and additive manufacturing and things like that for us as well. So very interesting and complementary fit. Now there's a couple of dimensions to the partnership.
Rockwell did make a $1,000,000,000 investment in PTC. We are going to take the $1,000,000,000 and buyback stock to offset dilution, but that's a way, a mechanism to bring Rockwell into the PTC shares. It really was done, as Blake said this morning, to cement the partnership. I mean there's just no way people cannot take this partnership seriously when there's $1,000,000,000 invested on both sides. And then there's no way you cannot take it seriously when Blake's going to be showing up to the next Board meeting.
So we welcome him onto the Board. I think that brings governance to the partnership up to a very high level. And then important dimension here is that Rockwell has committed certain meaningful minimums to PTC in terms of sales opportunity. So with that, I want to bring Blake up and turn the clicker over to him and let me let him talk to you a little bit about this partnership from his perspective. Blake?
Thank you, Jim. Well, good afternoon. I'm going to take a couple of minutes to tell those of you who don't know Rockwell Automation a little bit about the company and then why the relationship with PTC. And I'd tell you, I am just as excited as Jim is about the prospects beginning right now. So Rockwell Automation is the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information.
It's all we do as a single integrated business. Our strategy is to bring the connected enterprise to life. We integrate the real time control with information across our customers' enterprises to help those industrial companies and their people be more productive and that's our sole focus. And as IT and OT converge, customers are looking to add additional productivity on top of the basic automation of repetitive manual processes that's driven our industry for the last 30 years. And so by taking the data that is a natural byproduct of those real time control processes, you can turn that into useful insights that customers can reduce unplanned downtime and optimize their processes.
Every customer that we're talking to across a wide variety of production activities is interested in doing this to drive additional productivity so that they can compete successfully against their very strongest competitors around the world. These are the fundamental benefits of the connected enterprise, which is the strategy of Rockwell Automation. Now to the partnership with PTC. It's a natural result of this IT OT convergence and it speeds the time to value. This is a very fast moving field that's beginning to disrupt what has been kind of a stodgy industrial market for a long time.
And so this partnership dramatically increases the value that we can bring together to customers today. And really importantly, we have a lot of customers who have specifically been asking us to work together, PTC and Rockwell Automation. Unprompted, without leading the witness, they've said, look, PTC is present in the IT part of our enterprise. Rockwell, you know everything about the factory floor. It'd be great for the 2 of you to work together.
Together, we have the most comprehensive, flexible industrial software offering in the industry, period. And we have that today. Given the depth of the relationship, which involves going to market under an integrated suite with a common suite brand name, go to market and common development along with solutions delivery, we thought that the investment was appropriate. I'm joining the PTC Board in order to cement the relationship and also to look after our investment. And I'll tell you, I can't wait to start and I'm really glad that we're underway.
So thank you.
Thank you, Blake. Thanks, Jeff. Okay, that's great. So we want to talk quickly then about the 3rd use case in industrial IoT, which we call smart connected systems or SCS. So here customers are using a platform, our industrial innovation platform made of ThingWorx and Vuforia to bring in data from assets, sure, but also to blend data from PLM and CAD and SLM and ERP and CRM and MES into all kinds of powerful applications that allow you to look across these silos of information and get whatever point of view you need.
The demonstration we did with that welder in the keynote where something happened on the welder and it triggered a whole flow that ran across Windchill and Microsoft Dynamics and they created an AR experience and launched it out to somebody's cell phone and so forth. That would be kind of an example of what we're talking about here. Now the best example, well let me come back to that. Here again you see this concept of a digital platform and by a digital platform people mean reusable plumbing that you could use to solve many different problems. Like if you can blend data from all these different systems and build applications, well then we could build some for engineering, we could build some for manufacturing, we could build some for sales and marketing, we could build some for service and so forth.
So this is viewed as a big idea in the industry and ThingWorx is particularly good at this. The best example I was going to say of this concept is ThingWorx Navigate. So ThingWorx Navigate is a system that blends CAD, PLM and typically ERP information together into a set of kind of combined applications, applications that combine these data together. This is a case where by simply taking ThingWorx and bolting it on to Windchill, we were able to create just a tremendous new growth product. In fact, this is really if you think of this as a standalone product, it's kind of half Windchill, half Thingchill, but if you were to think of it as a standalone product, it'd be the fastest growing product line we've ever launched with $50,000,000 in bookings since we launched it a little over 2 years ago.
Some great customers, including some competitive wins. It's part of the Infineon deal. You might know Infineon used to be known as the Siemens Semiconductor business, I believe. So that shows some real strength that could have been a different option there. But anyway, real strength across a lot of different types of companies, a lot of different customers.
So let's go a little deeper into the IoT metrics. If you think of our land and expand model, we're actually doing good at planting seeds. We're doing good at growing the seeds and we're doing good at harvesting big accounts as they move to kind of broader production. Since Q2 of 'seventeen, we've seen 45% growth in early stage deployments. We've seen 35% growth in Phase 1 production deployments.
That's where you got something working and you want to expand it a little. So typically an ARR around 150 ks and we've seen 60% growth in customers with an ARR of greater than 500 ks. So these are seeds we might have planted 2 years ago that are really coming through and starting to materialize for us in a meaningful way. If you do look at the big deal momentum, so 6 figure deals, it's a nice story. If you look, there's been continuous growth in the number of transactions we've done quarter to quarter for many quarters in a row now.
What does that look like about 11, 12 quarters. So that's good. And if you look at the ARR now versus the bookings, you see that our ARR is growing at really the high end of anybody's market growth rate projections. So we've had a 37% growth in our ARR. At this point, IoT is a core business.
It's basically a quarter of our new bookings each quarter and growing. It's about the same size right now in terms of bookings as our PLM business, but growing much faster. So this will be at some point in time the most core of the core businesses, but right now it's kind of equal to PLM, but in the passing zone it's about $115,000,000 of our software revenue. Okay. Now let me switch a little bit to the solutions business, not IoT and AR, but everything else.
So first of all with Creo 5, Creo has had a tremendous resurgence due to great things we've done with the product, more importantly probably even due to great things we did to the distribution channel because actually the product never was that bad. We had some amazing technology. But it's a broad comprehensive powerful suite. What we launched today around additive manufacturing is very special because some companies say they're way ahead in additive manufacturing, but the tools they use to optimize designs for printers aren't actually their CAD tools. And those tools produce an output that isn't actually geometry.
So you can't bring it back into the CAD environment and further tweak it and combine it with other parts and assemblies and so forth. It's a dead end tool path. So only PTC has the type of technology I demonstrated today where you can do amazing things to optimize geometry, that whole story of mother nature and cell division if you remember, and then validate that that's good geometry that's going to meet the problem or address the problem and then check that it can be printed and come back you got yourself a full CAD part as if you never left the CAD system because in fact you never did. So this is a very interesting capability and ask Autodesk, ask Siemens, ask Dassault to show you their topology optimization and then ask them to bring it back up in the mainstream CAD system as a real CAD part. You're going to see they can't do that.
So this is a huge advantage for us. The other thing that's a huge advantage for us is the ANSYS partnership. But before I go there, we've had very good success. We've been delivering double digit growth now in CAD for more than 2 years and we've been outpacing the market growth rate by about 2 times. So very good run of success and then this ANSYS partnership is very interesting to us.
I hope you all some of you missed it this morning, but we announced with ANSYS a new partnership. ANSYS has some amazing new technology called Discovery Live, which is real time simulation. And what it does just real quickly technically is it runs on the GPUs, the graphics processors, those kind of things that like NVIDIA makes. So ANSYS found a way to take like finite element type simulation codes off the CPUs and run them on the GPUs to make them lightning fast. And so now the ANSYS discovery technology runs inside of Crayo.
And for those of you who missed the demo this morning, let me show you kind of an example. But the idea is it's inside Creo, it's embedded in Creo. Their new technology Discovery Live! But their mainstream technology called Discovery AIM will be also brought into Creo. That's a second priority.
That will be sold as an extension and an upsell to the Creo simulate capabilities that PDC already have, which are good, but a fraction of the waterfront that ANSYS covers. And then we're going to continue to work together on this digital twin idea where you take ThingWorx and ANSYS simulation and make it work together. If you want to see an example of that, you've got to go look at the Cirrus personal jet down there, the Vision SF50 they call it. So there's a personal jet down there. You can see how we have created computational fluid dynamics airflow and we can augment that back onto the airplane.
We can put that physical real airplane in a wind tunnel and show you computational fluid dynamics. That's this later story about digital twins with IoT and analytics and augmented reality and so forth. It's very exciting and frankly amazing stuff. Okay. So the first thing is what we're focused on right now, get that discovery live in Creo as fast as possible.
We'll follow that up with the broader AIM suite and then wherever we can, we'll work together to pursue IoT and pervasive simulation ideas. Okay, it's important to us because this is going to give us unbelievable competitive differentiation. You can't unsee Discovery Live running inside Creo, trust me. You see it, you say, oh my God, you can't forget about it. And that's the reaction I've had from every single Creo user that I run into.
I can't unsee that. It's very differentiable. It'll be differentiable in the big accounts. It'll be differentiable in the VAR space, you name it. We can use this to upsell the installed base because I think that a very high percentage of Creo seats will want to have Discovery Live.
It's like a real time spell checker in Word that finds problems as fast as you create them. Who doesn't want a spell checker? We'll be able to capture new market share because we have a big differentiator that nobody has and frankly I don't think anybody is close to having, but it's something that's important to everybody. And then we'll be able to penetrate and develop this industrial IoT market together. So we're very pleased to have ANSYS on our side.
Now a quick video of the actual integration. This is the part we're anchoring the part where you see those little pinpoints and here we're applying a couple of loads, so forces, so it's anchored and then forces on it. We're inside Creo and so ANSYS simulation comes right into the Creo part as we're working on it. And we can, for example, show how does it what are the stress levels. We can see a couple of red spots.
Red is bad, blue is good. And so a couple of hotspots there where quite frankly the design is not robust enough. And so as we come in and tweak this design in Creo, so we're making some design modifications, made that part a little bit thicker, I believe. And now as it updates, oh, wow, that hotspot is gone. So we just solved that problem.
So whereas we used to have like shaded models, now we have simulation shaded models, shaded with simulation kind of results. So this is really a powerful, powerful concept of being able to do real time simulation while you're doing the actual engineering design. Again, for those who missed the keynote, it used to be you would design for a while, stop designing and go simulate, you'd get a list of problems, you'd come back, you'd tweak those and add a few more ideas, call a time out and go simulate. By the way, call a time out meant call your buddy down the hall in the simulation department, send him a copy of your model, tell him the loads and so forth that you expect to be on this model, he'll get back to you tomorrow with the results and then you'll go back to another painful iteration. So this is very, very powerful stuff, every man kind of capability.
In our PLM business, we're seeing strong growth across a variety of markets and also a resurgence at the same time in the retail space, including a recent deal with a mother of all online retailers that we can't disclose, but a very interesting deal for us, but also gaining share with new logos like BMW, Infineon, Nike just went through a recompete of their whole PLM environment because they want take it to the next level and we won that again. So, lots of good stuff happening in our PLM business. We're very competitive there as well. If you didn't believe me, you can talk to Forrester and IDC. So Forrester just published in the last few months a PLM wave.
Now there had not been an analysis of the PLM market done for many years. But once again, you see PTC in the strongest position. So even in our core technology, we have very strong, very competitive technology. The one on the right is from IDC and it's talking about retail in about PLM in the retail market. So that's a specialized use case.
But you can see in the specialized market of PLM and retail, once again we're the leader with market share, We're the leader with technology and capability. Okay. So this stuff is all going well, but the next S curve is really augmented reality or what I introduced this morning really is smart connected humans. How do you provide digital information in a way that humans can process very, very quickly? So I want to tell you just a little bit about that.
This market is not as big today. It's generally viewed to be about 200,000,000 dollars By the way, we're doing just north of 20, sort of mid-20s, so 10% market share there again. This is an 80% growth market. Some analysts actually predict triple digits, but we'll take 80%, which would get it to $2,600,000,000 in 2023. So another great market opportunity.
If you missed the keynote this morning, talk to somebody who was there about what they saw because we have so much AR technology and such a competitive strength here that it's really surprising. Okay. So evidence of that is the 10,000 companies that have been engaged in Studio. Now keep in mind we have about 30,000 customers. So you could say roughly a third of them, not necessarily just our own customer base has already tried out this Vuforia technology through our Studio trial.
Studio is the AR product that's aimed at enterprise use cases. So like I said, a lot of traction, a lot of interest and north of $20,000,000 in bookings right now given us a little better than 10% market share. Now what are people doing with this AR technology? So if you go talk to those 10,000 customers and trust me a bunch of them are here, you can talk to them, you'll just have to find them. If you said what are you doing, well there's a whole bunch of things they're doing.
They're trying to do work instructions for manufacturing and service. They're using it to do design reviews and like putting those CFD air flows on that actual physical airplane would be an example of an engineering design review. They're using it for training, they're using it for sales, AR brochures and demonstrations and they're creating next generation human machine interfaces. But to us, there's a lot of use cases. However, we're going to start our focus really on work instructions for manufacturing and service.
That to us is the place that our technology best supports that the use cases create tremendous value. There are companies ready to buy it right now. So the reason they're ready to buy it right now is there are many studies out there from our customers and others that you can make workers 30% to 50% more productive by giving them AR based information. So powerful use case. I think if you remember, one of the guys I interviewed on the keynote today said that they were going to save $30,000 of productivity per year, I think it was.
And I did some quick calculation. I said that's 15 employees that you're going to be able to save because you've made the others so much more productive. So really strong story, lots of good stuff happening there. Just to show you in comparison to what you saw in the keynote, this is what it used to be like. If any of you ever bought some furniture from IKEA or someplace like that and had to put it together, that's the way you used to do it.
In the keynote you saw some much better, much more elegant ways to go about doing this type of stuff. To show you real quick, if anybody missed it, we'll give you a quick snippet from this BAE video. So this is a worker at BAE Systems assembling a bus battery using HoloLens and what she sees there are work instructions authored in Vuforia against the Creo design geometry. So we're repurposing the engineering models into work instructions and then delivering those work instructions along with text and so forth so that she can design it very quickly, very accurately and then we can actually verify that everything was done right and the assembly is just as it should be. Okay.
So I'll wrap it up there. But again, a key part of this $850,000,000 is our growth story. And I'll tell you on behalf of PDC, we feel pretty confident about it. We don't think that the growth story is a stretch at all. A number of tailwinds that would help us deliver or exceed that number even in the face of potentially some surprises here and there.
So we feel good about it. The second thing though we need to do is to execute on this subscription model and this customer success model so that when we plant a seed, it does ultimately grow into something that's big and very productive to harvest. So with that, I'm going to
turn it
with that growth subscription to margin story, I'm going to turn it over to Matt Cohen, who's going to talk you through the customer success. Matt? By the way, by way of introduction, Matt is our new EVP of Worldwide Field Operations. Just to remind you, when Craig Heyman was pushed away from us to become the CEO, over at Aviva in the U. K, it turns out we had Matt in waiting.
We already had Matt on a get ready to replace Craig in case we ever need it program. And so he stepped in. He's not our Chief Operating Officer, but he has most of the job. The difference is the R and D stuff is not under Matt. But Matt has sales, professional services, customer support, marketing, yes, marketing and renewals, maintenance and subscription renewal sales and so forth.
All right. With that, Matt, take it away.
Thanks, Jim. It's amazing how busy Jim keeps us. When you think about all those technologies moving so fast and then on the back end we have to make sure that customers actually adopt and are successful with that adoption. Because the whole future plan that great $850,000,000 number depends upon our ability to be able to nurture these customers along throughout their journey with PTC. And the reality is what we found is the perpetual world is profoundly different than the subscription world.
I think you see that out in the industry. You see that difference between legacy companies and how they approach the market and how some of the new subscription based, SaaS based, hot, new companies approach the market. In the perpetual world, it set up this kind of perverse relationship between vendor or software provider and customer, a relationship where you would try to stuff as much software as you could into that first big deal, get the customer to buy, get a nice maintenance stream and then walk away and move on to the next customer. And the customer themselves would sit there and try to negotiate as much software as they could upfront while they could get a big discount and then they were in it alone going forward. When we think about the subscription world, it's a complete change in model between software provider, between company and their customers.
Customers expect that as we move through this land and expand motion that they get a quick time to value and a real taste of first value before they engage further with you down throughout the lifecycle. In addition, they expect a deeper relationship, a more meaningful relationship and a relationship based upon shared success. If you do that relationship well, you're able to extract tremendous lifetime value from the customer and you're able to provide them a different level of value. But if you do that poorly, they leave you quickly. And so this shift from perpetual to subscription actually changes us in such a way that we're in it in a much more meaningful way with our customers.
We sometimes use that even in the sales process against some of our legacy perpetual competitors out there when we talk to them about our motion around customer success and what that can mean for their ability to be able to deliver success. As we try to break that down within PTC, we think about the idea of different phases of value. So you need to start with being able to help your customers define value. You need to drive them, as I said, to first value. Once you get them to first value, you can start to explore ways of getting to recurring value and ultimately to transformative value.
But the secret of subscription that we're finding that other companies have gone through this transformation have found is it's not just about setting up a recurring revenue stream. That's a good byproduct of being a subscription company. You get this continual revenue back to your company. But really, you create a different dynamic and a different relationship. And when you do that, you can actually get much more expansion revenue out of your customers.
You can actually drive up the lifetime value and you can actually find ways through your deeper relationship of uncovering value opportunities that you never would have seen in a perpetual world. So we at PTC have taken this pretty seriously. We've done what we have a tendency to do when we have big transformations. We've gone out and engaged industry best practices like organizations like TSIA. We brought in McKinsey on a pretty long term consulting project to help us with the transformation.
We've gone out and talked to companies out there that are best practice, that deliver best practice around these areas. And we've created for ourselves what we call our CARE program. And CARE, besides being a little bit of acute acronym, close, adopt, renew and expand, is an entirely new go to market model for us as a company, whereby we are freeing up our sales resources to go out and hunt new logos and new customers, while our customer success organization ensures adoption and renewal, which then allows us to be able to hand back to our sales motion expansion opportunities for long term growth. So care becomes the foundation of my entire organization. So as Jim mentioned, as I run this entire field organization from prospecting and marketing to sales to services and customer success, care is actually a foundational pillar, a foundational program for everything that we do.
The goal of care is to make sure that we create a comprehensive program that ensures we achieve best in class. And like our subscription program, that means making sure all of the company's resources are marshaled together across multiple work streams into different projects and programs to at the end of the day make sure that we are able to do everything from hearing the voice of the customer better, have better customer analytics, make sure we're having a better and clearer onboarding process for every customer across the board driving down into our DNA this customer success motion. Now CARE, as its goal, has ARR growth. I'm on a mission within the company to get us a little bit away from bookings growth and get us to focus in on ARR growth. Bookings growth and high bookings growth is a great driver of ARR growth.
But actually minimizing churn and allowing and making sure that we protect the ARR we have is an equally important driver. As we think about ARR growth, it starts with net retention. Net retention is a combination of starting ARR, what you churn, churn as defined as downgrades or customers who leave you, a price increase and a good healthy price increase model is important to a subscription company adding in expansion, which is both upsell and cross sell gets you to a new base of ARR out of that customer pool and then adding in new customers and perfecting the new motion around customer acquisition, the sea of care, adds to an overall healthy growth around ARR. For us within customer success and the customer success division within the organization, we are really relentlessly focused on this idea of gross churn. And gross churn again is clients who leave, clients who downgrade without the effect of price increase.
And when we look out at the industry, we see different best practices emerge depending upon if it's an enterprise space or a channel space. Now we at PTC are actually pretty lucky that we are stronger in the enterprise space. Now we are building a healthy channel and we're growing that channel. But as a percent of our business today, we are much heavier weighted in the enterprise space where churn is naturally lower. As we look at our emergence and our development, we're operating right around market rates today based upon the efforts that we've been able to do over the last 18 to 24 months.
But our goal stands getting as fast and as quickly towards the best practices that you see on the slide, both in the direct enterprise space as well as down in the channel. So let's dive down one level deeper from the CARE program to customer success. And what does customer success mean at PTC? So customer success is really this foundational idea of taking each and individual customer and solidifying the relationship at such a level that you're able to have pillars of your future growth. The more and more big trees that you can grow, the healthier the company is going to be for the long term.
And at PTC, what we did and we're one of the first in the industry to actually take such a dramatic approach to it is we brought together all of our post sales functions 2 years ago under our customer success umbrella. We took services, support, cloud, our advocacy function as well as our partner ecosystem and partner economy around services space and we brought them together into 1 unified customer success organization. And then we started to build up in the center this core success management function. And you all who cover subscription companies are very familiar with this idea of success management, generally dominated by a group of people called CSMs or customer success managers. Well, at PTC, we've been investing in this type of program around CSMs and around the packages and programs that enable them to be successful for a good period of time now as we started to go through our subscription transformation.
And our success management function has actually been recognized by places like TSIA and by Gainsight as a thought leader out in the industry in terms of our approach. And that approach is based upon the idea that we have success plans for every customer type. So every new subscription customer gets starter success. And that makes sure that in the 1st 90 days, we're on boarding customers, we're driving them towards value based outcomes and we're helping them taste that first value experience that I was describing at the beginning. As clients move through their life cycle, they can choose to partake of guided success where we are helping clients more in a digital or a one to many format managed success, we're actually holding the client's hand through the process and providing value added services or strategic success, which is a much higher level of partnership.
Someone in the hallway asked me, how did Colfax get up there so quickly? It's only 5 months in and they're already talking about the value they've been delivered and they're delivering in their keynote. Well, we have a strategic success manager at Colfax, 1 to 1 dedicated, whose only job is to wake up every morning, find out what Colfax needs to be successful and deliver the entire PTC ecosystem at their door to make sure that they get to value. These success plans have 3 core ingredients. As I mentioned, a CSM, a customer success manager, which is a total investment in group that we've been building up for a while now here at PTC.
It then includes the idea of success points, which is a new way to be able to bundle up services in a way that makes the CSM more effective. Success points allow people to consume bite sized services, things that can be delivered in hours or days, not weeks or months. So whether it's the IoT or AR space or frankly the CAD, PLM or SLM space, we can approach customers and talk about how quickly we can get them to value through this methodology and through this approach. And we can deliver what we call rapid outcomes to them to start to demonstrate that success, which helps us differentiate ourselves from the competition. And in early new markets, it allows us to be able to overcome the objection or fear that exists around how quickly I can get to value.
We've also invested in what we call success paths. And these are prescriptive steps that we can take a client through in order to deliver value. So if we think about IoT in the factory for a second, there are 7 key milestones that we've observed in each one of those factories that we've been delivering against over the last period of time. And our CSMs are focused in on making sure we take the client through each one of those steps to make sure they get a meaningful outcome and ultimately become a strong customer reference for PTC. So the subscription world, it is different.
It actually requires us to do things differently, to invest differently, to behave differently and to create a different relationship with our customers. At PTC, we've embraced that as a core piece of who we want to be going forward. We've built it into our organizational structure. We've created the programs as well as the policies that will allow us to be effective through that transformation. And ultimately, at the end of the day, our goal, just like the rest of the company, is to go grab as many new customers as possible, make them successful through that life cycle and help deliver to the bottom line of these exciting numbers that Andy is going to walk you through around our future growth.
Thanks, Matt. It's great seeing you all today. As we get started, I want to remind you that we first provided a long term business model for you in November of 2015. A year later, November of 2016, we updated that model, added about $200,000,000 of revenue, substantial cash flows to that model, and then we reaffirmed that last October. However, since then, we've overachieved what we had expected to achieve at that point in time.
So today, I'm going to update our model through FY 'twenty one for you and also share what we believe this looks like as we move forward into FY 'twenty three. We got a lot of requests from all of you to share FY 'twenty three with you so people could understand when the subscription transition is done, what does the business look like? Is the business still growing strongly, profits increasing, free cash flow increasing? As you saw by that free cash flow number, the numbers continue up into the right. It's actually an exciting place to be.
So let's start. Back in November of 2016, we laid these targets out for you for FY 'twenty one. Dollars 1,800,000,000 of revenue, most of it software, dollars 1,600,000,000 of that software. The assumption that 85% of all our new bookings would be subscription, that drives more than 95% of the software revenue recurring in FY 2021. Low 30s operating margins, that would drive $4.15 of non GAAP EPS and $525,000,000 of free cash flow.
Well, today, we're updating this for FY 'twenty one. So we expect $1,900,000,000 of revenue, again, most of it software, dollars 1,700,000,000 of that software, still 85% of our bookings subscription, more than 95% of the revenue recurring, low 30s operating margins. So the result is $4.30 non GAAP EPS $600,000,000 of free cash flow, So $75,000,000 more free cash flow based frankly upon the performance we've seen over the last couple of quarters and the trajectory we see as we move forward. The good stuff doesn't stop though in FY 2021. If you move forward to FY2023, we expect revenue of $2,400,000,000 again, most of it software, dollars 2,200,000,000 software revenue, more than 95% of that recurring.
We're going to still hold the subscription mix assumption at 85%, but rest assured we'll continue to try to move our businesses even more to subscription, very much focused on the kelpware business. And as we achieve any breakthroughs that would take that higher, we'll update you with that. Of course, a higher subscription mix would impact the other numbers to some extent, but we'll keep you posted as that moves forward. We are going to drive our non GAAP operating margins to 37%. Our revenue growth, we expect to be a sustainable 15%.
You put those two numbers together in that rule of 40, you see we're actually talking about something north of a rule of 50, a really great software company. $6.50 non GAAP EPS and that drives $850,000,000 of free cash flow, which for those of you who want to know how much that is per share, that would be $7.65 per share, assuming 111,000,000 shares out there. So let's start by looking at some of the underlying assumptions, starting with bookings. Now our markets are growing today at about a 13% aggregated growth rate if you look at the relative size of those markets. CAD and PLM are about combined 5% to 6% growth.
IoT and AR are in that 30% to 40% growth range. Frankly, as we built this bookings assumption of 13%, we actually assume that as the IoT market grows that the growth rate would tail off a little to the high 20s. So our underlying assumptions of the 13% growth is actually growing in that low to mid-30s for IoT and AR, trailing off to about 28% as we get out to FY 'twenty three. CAD and PLM growing at their market growth rates of 4% and 6% to 7% respectively. That gives you a 13% bookings growth rate.
We've actually raised that previously. We were targeting growing at about 10.5%. Now why did we raise that? We think we've got quite a few tailwinds that support this 13% growth rate and frankly give us the opportunity to overachieve that. Those tailwinds from a bookings perspective include number 1, real traction in the SEO market ANSYS partnership in this book We also haven't included the ANSYS partnership in this bookings assumption.
Again, we believe that could significantly grow our CAD business above the 4% market growth rate. We have presentation, I will give you a little bit more color on what those conversions should look like. We think it's a big long term opportunity for us. But again, that's another factor that we've left out and assumed is a tailwind to enable us to achieve this growth target. And finally, we haven't assumed that we grow CAD or PLM faster than their market growth rates.
And as you know, CAD is a 4% growth market and for 10 quarters now we've been growing in the double digits. So that is also another tailwind to for us that is not factored into the model that we're sharing today. So lots of tailwinds to offset any potential macroeconomic or market factors that we could face over the next 5 years. So we feel really confident in this number up here, which is why we've raised from that 10.5% to 13%. The other thing I'd like you to note is obviously as IoT and AR get bigger because the growth rate is so much greater, our growth in bookings actually accelerates over time.
So as you get to the out years in FY 'twenty three, you start seeing 14%, 15% bookings growth at that point in time. So moving to software revenue, you saw us hit the trough in Q1 of 'sixteen and we've since been growing our software revenue 'seventeen and FY 'eighteen. In fact, our FY 'eighteen guidance is for total revenue growth I'm sorry, total software revenue growth of 9% to 10%. But the recurring piece of that revenue growth is actually growing at a 14% to 15% rate in our guidance. So the fact that our subscription mix is increasing 1100 basis points this year means the perpetual revenue is going down, but we're still expecting 9% to 10% software revenue growth this year.
Starting next year, you'll see mid teens software revenue growth as our subscription mix only grows from about 80% this year to 85% next year. So mid teens offer revenue growth from fiscal 2019 all the way through fiscal 'twenty three, even as we exit the subscription transition. The higher level of bookings, driven by the IoT and AR growth, drives revenue growth in the mid teens. Again, what's notable about this is more than 90 5% of the software revenue will be recurring. In fact, last quarter, 91% of our software revenue is recurring.
So there's not a big leap of faith there that we'll get to the 95% plus. We will continue to be very disciplined about our OpEx. We are ruthless when it comes frankly to our portfolio management on the R and D side and on the sales and marketing side where it's actually harder to be ruthless, but we are ruthless at that. Just ask Matt's people about that factor. So we've been growing OpEx for the past few years at a 4% CAGR, which is less than half the rate of our bookings growth, which is over 10%.
We will continue through FY 2021 to grow OpEx at no more than half of our bookings growth rate. At that point, the subscription transition is done and we'll be pegging our OpEx growth on our revenue growth rate. Again, no more than half that growth rate. So obviously, if you grow OpEx slower than revenue, you drive margin improvement. As Jim highlighted, our margins today, if you were to look through the subscription transition based on our guidance this year, are really right around 30%.
Those margins will inflect next year. This year, we're seeing about 150 basis point improvement, growing to about 18% operating margins, our guidance, you'll see that inflect next year and it will grow by at least 400 basis points next year and the year after and the year after that as well, which will get us to about 32% or so operating margins in FY 2021, but we're not stopping there. You'll then see a continuation of about 200, 200 plus basis points a year. We expect by FY 'twenty three we'll have 37% operating margins. And again, I want to put this in perspective.
We're talking revenue growth of about 15% with 37% operating margins. Even I can do that math in my head. That adds up to 52%, way more than the rule of 40%, which is one of the strongest software business models in the market. One that, actually I'm awfully excited to be a part of driving that. So let me talk a little bit about our capital strategy before I move on.
Nothing has changed in our capital strategy from what we shared last year. We are a software company that is throwing off and we expect to continue to throw off significant free cash flow. So as a result, we believe we should be in a net debt position, reasonably leveraged. We don't think we should go above 3 times leverage unless there were some opportunistic transaction we were going to do because that way we'd always have access to the debt markets regardless of what's going on out there. So reasonably leveraged net debt position.
Specifically with the $1,000,000,000 Rockwell investment, we intend to use that to buy back stock. We will enter into an ASR as soon as the Rockwell transaction closes and that will execute over the next 10, 11 months. And assuming that the window is open when we actually enter into that transaction. But when the transaction closes, we'll enter into an ASR and immediately start buying back stock. In addition, we will continue to return capital to shareholders.
Our promise to you is we will return a minimum 40% of our free cash flow to shareholders. The one thing that you can take to the bank though is we're not going to sit on excess cash. For the past 2 years, we have actually returned more than 40% of free cash flow even though our free cash flow was quite a bit lower given the subscription transition. In FY 'seventeen, we returned 47 percent of free cash flow to shareholders. The $100,000,000 ASR that is finishing up as we speak represents about 47% of our free cash flow guidance that we've given for this year.
So if we have excess cash, we will return it to shareholders. The assumption here that shows 111,000,000 shares in FY2023 is based upon 40% free cash flow return to shareholders. So again, if we return more than that, that share count will be lower. A couple of items to note about our income tax rate. I get a few questions on this because currently our guidance for FY 2018 is 8% to 10%, yet for fiscal 2019 forward we've said 15% to 20% and many people think that's actually driven by the change in the federal tax laws here in the U.
S. But actually it has nothing to do with the U. S. Tax laws. This is actually an accounting change that the FASB instituted that results in us having to basically increase our non GAAP tax rate starting next year to that 15% to 20% range.
However, it has no effect on our cash taxes. We expect our cash taxes through FY 2023 to be about 10%. After FY 2023, they will increase up toward that non GAAP tax rate simply because we will have used all of our tax attributes, our NOLs will be used up by that point in time. But fundamentally, there is a difference between our non GAAP and our cash tax rate for those of you who model it can get really precise and model less cash going to taxes in your models out there through 2023. So the result of all that is PTC's financials will look like and frankly will be one of the best stories in software.
Frankly, very, very few companies can drive mid teens growth and high operating margins while delivering the kind of technology that you guys saw in the breakout session, which enables us to catch these next S curves that we think continue on frankly through the next decade from IoT into the augmented reality S curve and then frankly into the additive manufacturing S curve and what that means for design. So that's a pretty exciting future. So $850,000,000 free cash flow, our lawyers let me tell you that $7.65 per share. I'm allowed to tell you that. Thank you, PTC legal team.
The last thing I want to do is give you a little bit more insight into our support conversion program. We get a lot of questions on this. We have again in our FY 2018 guidance, the conversions that are in our pipeline are in that guidance. But in FY 2019 and beyond, conversion of our support base and the uplift that we get from that, which historically has been a like for like uplift of about 25%, those are not baked into our long term bookings assumptions. So they're not in that financial model that you saw.
But we do believe that this is a really attractive long term opportunity for us to get value. So let me kind of size what the opportunity looks like. To start off, we did probably about 9 months ago, we did some pretty about And what we learned from those studies was that about 50% of our customers see the value of a conversion and are interested in that value. So today we have about $500,000,000 of ARR in support. That means that about $250,000,000 of that support is something that customers are saying they're interested in converting, okay?
So if we get 25% like for like on that, that's about $60,000,000 of ARR opportunity for us out there. Given how much they value conversions today. Of course, we think that will increase over time. So that's about $60,000,000 of ARR. If you assumed we could get that over the next 5 years, that would be about $25,000,000 of bookings.
And again, I'm talking just the like for like bookings, not the additional add on sales that we do. That'd be about $25,000,000 of bookings per year, a tailwind for us that's not in that long term model. And that actually ARR of $60,000,000 over that time equates to 200 to 300 basis points of ARR growth that's not built into that model. So that's an opportunity up there. Now if you look at that $500,000,000 of support ARR, about $300,000,000 of that is in our enterprise customers today, okay?
So $300,000,000 of the $500,000,000 We did some more work to really understand that installed base of enterprise customers and it turns out that about 75% of them have support today that's below a 20% market support rate, which means we actually have a stick for about 75% of that $300,000,000 And so not just the value that they ascribe to conversions as indicated by the pricing studies, but we actually have a stick that we didn't realize we had until frankly just a couple of months ago. So with that, what we've decided to do under Matt's leadership is we are accelerating our conversion playbook. You're going to see more marketing to our customers about it. And we're also looking at ways that we can go after this more effectively and we'll share more of those as time passes. But we think it's a great long term opportunity.
And again, it's a tailwind for us to that overall financial plan that I just shared. So that's a wrap for me. And right now, why don't I ask Matt and Jim back up here and Tim and we can open it up for questions. Maybe
if I could, there's a couple of special guests here we should have introduced. So Bob Schechter, Chairman of the Board, can you stand up for a second? So Bob's our Chairman, has been for 5, 6, 7 years now probably. Corey Lassen, who joined the Board a year or 2 ago. I don't remember precisely now.
Paul Lacey has been on the Board for quite a while as well. Some management, Barry Cohen, who heads up our strategy function. Well, I see Kathleen Mitford back there. She runs products, so product management, R and D. Erinn von Staats is our Chief Legal Counsel in the corner back there.
Who else am I missing? I guess that's everybody. Okay.
All right.
Can I
just ask you to announce your name and affiliation for the webcast before your question?
Thank you.
Hi, Ken Talanian, Evercore ISI. You've announced 3 very important partnerships recently.
How should we think about
the time to integration from the product side? And what are some of the hurdles that you're looking for and some of the milestones we should think about along those lines?
Well, that integration varies. But in the case of Microsoft, I'd say we're in the market today. Our products are sufficiently integrated to sell together and you saw some examples like Colfax where they're actually in production. In the case of Rockwell, we have a little bit of integration work to be done, but some of that frankly could happen on-site even. So I think we're selling together as well.
We can do some field integration and then replace that with R and D double integration. In the case of ANSYS, it's a bit trickier because we have to actually embed their software in our software. That what we demonstrated today was about 6 weeks worth of work. So we've made some pretty fast progress. Now there's always an eightytwenty rule or something like that that you can make some visible progress quickly.
But that we expect to come into the market towards the end of the year as released in new versions of Creo and frankly back ported into some old versions of Creo, so you can buy it without upgrading Creo. But we'll start selling and demonstrating that everywhere. I don't think from this point forward you'll ever see another demo of Creo that doesn't have ANSYS Discovery Live! In it. So we'll begin to get some of the sales benefits of it already.
Great. One more? So as unrelated, but obviously the partnership with Rockwall brings opportunity to go into the factory floor. Should we think about more big deals coming out of that kind of relationship? Or is it more of a land and expand kind
of out there? Well, I think personally we should stick with land and expand because frankly the only way you get big deals in sort of what I've ever seen is to give up discounts to get them. So land and expand by the time the account gets big, it still has small discounts. So I mean I'm not saying we won't take any big deals if they're presented to us at good discounts, but what we won't do is take crappy discounts to get big deals. We've given up that habit.
By the way, that's one of the things Andy has quietly accomplished at PTC is that the big terrible discounting problem we used to have is completely gone.
Yes. I think I would just add that the I don't see the land process changing, but I do see the size of the expand process and the
opportunity there on that follow-up deal to leverage Rockwell's presence
to be
here.
Okay. Question back here.
Sterling Auty with JPMorgan. So one numbers question for Andy and one technology question for Jim. On the numbers Andy you talked about the 15% revenue growth. Is that a CAGR over that time frame? Because given the mix, I guess I could see 2 different profiles.
I could see your revenue growth accelerating all the way through 2023, fiscal 2023? Or does it actually peak and start to tail in terms of the revenue growth?
Yes. So, it is around that 15% all those years. And what drives the reason it doesn't peak and tail off is because IoT and AR are scaling. So the bookings growth is accelerating, which it will support that mid teens growth from that point on.
All right. Great. And then one technical question, Jim. The ANSYS Discovery is built in terms of the outcome of the simulation putting the parametrics back into SpaceClaim, which is their design platform. Is the embedded version that's going to come out later this year going to actually have the parametrics coming directly into Creo?
Or does it come into SpaceClaim and there's some sort of exporting?
How does that process work? There'll be no SpaceClaim in the solution. So Ansys acquired this company SpaceClaim, which was sort of an upstart CAD system a couple of years ago. But they repositioned it into a geometry tweaking tool. So that if you had a really complex CAD model and you wanted to tweak it for simulation purposes, you could do that in SpaceClaim and then simulate it.
Now they have built Discovery Live into SpaceClaim, but the problem is if you modify geometry in SpaceClaim, you can't take those modifications back into the native CAD tool where the part came from, meaning dead end broken tool chain, Okay. So when we talked to him, we said, we should just push this space claim out of the way for purposes of this partnership and build Discovery Live right into Creo because every change you make you're making to the master geometry not to copy that you can't bring back, right. So it's a very elegant powerful integration. And frankly, we have some provisions that if this goes well enough, ANSYS could begin to sell Creo with Discovery Live into the places they might go that we don't.
Thanks. Thanks. Jake Loushauer. Two questions. First, you highlighted the opportunity to reinvigorate the Creo business in 2 respects, the technology already within Creo as in Version 5 and then 67 down the road and then the increment potentially from Discovery Live.
You now have by my calculation the 4th largest active CAD base in the what are you thinking of in terms of share or size of base within the industry relative to some of your peers? And then secondly, I think Andy you showed a slide that ultimately IoT would be about half of the business. Could you talk about the profit contribution from IoT? Do you think it will be half or more of the profitability? Do you think and this one for Matt, it will retain the relatively low services intensity that we've seen to date for the deployments?
Or do you think as you scale with the expansion part, ultimately your services requirements would grow for IoT and therefore that would impinge upon the margins?
Okay. I'll take the first question, Andy the second and Matt the third. Yes. There you go. So on the share question, I'm not sure.
I don't have in my head how close we are to number 3 or number 2 or anything like that. But I think for us we're worried about growth rate. And what's happened back when our CAD business was not performing well, it's because we were not well represented in the low end of the market where the growth was. We were in the high end and then we had kind of a poorly performing channel. So what's really helped us in the last 10, 12 quarters is that we fixed the channel.
And so we're now being well represented in the low end of the market where the growthiest part of the market is. If we look at technologies though like the additive stuff, the Discovery Live stuff, just other things we're doing in general, it's making the product a lot sexier and a lot more well differentiated. Our additive stuff is going to make Autodesk additive stuff look like a joke. Discovery Live has no comparison in SOLIDWORKS or Autodesk or anything like that. So I think we're starting to get on top of a well performing channel some really powerful differentiators.
Now that said, the assumption Andy put in the model is that we grow with the industry. But clearly, if you look at what we want to hold ourselves to, we'd like to be able to outperform and really start taking share for real, not just getting our fair share, but actually taking share from others.
On the profit side, IoT is already on its path to profitability, absent the AR piece. So we're already growing the bookings and revenue much faster than expense. And as that business scales, it will look like any other scaled software business. We would expect it to be still high growth, so in the high 20s, low 30s range from the top line. But clearly, at that size, it should have margins like any other software business of that size.
I'm not going to commit to the amounts at this point in time. But obviously, that's a driver toward that 37% operating margin. And we expect the net sales curve really taking off is augmented reality. So that's when we'll be investing heavily in augmented reality at that point.
Right. So I think it's fair to say that the IoT business is on its way to a rule of 40 business. So we've got a high growth rate, so we don't have huge expectations. And frankly, it's not at 40 right now. But trust me, we're on it.
Yes. And then from a services perspective, I think we've got to differentiate between our services business and the services economy. As these products become much more mature and transformation initiatives begin, the services projects are large. When you have a Deloitte come in and frankly in the Rockwell relationship, Rockwell has a great services business that wants to participate. You're going to see big services projects as we go to enterprise scale.
Our role in that is going to continue to be small. We see ourselves providing a few subject matter experts that support those partners in the ecosystem and driving towards value from the back end rather than leading those implementations.
Yes. One way to look at it is our service business is about $170,000,000 right now. And Andy only had it $200,000,000 5 years from now. So we don't have growth aspirations for our service business because strategically it doesn't fit with the financial model we're trying to drive.
This is Shankar from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Quick question on the PLM Navigate business. It's a fast growing business now, but can you help us understand the overall TAM opportunity as you look into fiscal 2023? And where do you see that how big that business can be that year in 5 years? Can you help us understand, can you kind of penetrate more PRM accounts, kind of take share from other vendors as well as you kind of penetrate that market?
Yes. So I can get it. We're currently at like 200,000 seats, I think. And we did a very conservative estimate of our just our installed base and estimated that we could get to 3,000,000 seats. But that was a pretty conservative estimate.
Hypothetically, yes. Hypothetically, yes. Hypothetically, yes. Yes. So we're less Let
me say, the thing is don't think of just one navigate because now we're building applications for manufacturing, we're building applications for smart connected products. So not just a platform that you could build applications with, but prebuilt applications like Navigate and something like Navigate for factories and something like Navigate for services. But at the end of the day, somehow that all becomes part of the IoT growth story as well.
Yes. And I'll just add one more point, which is that piece that you were hinting on at the end, which is this idea of our base or someone else's base. Navigate is a great product for a heterogeneous PLM environment and we still find that at a lot of customers. Its ability to be able to knit together different enterprise systems. So Navigate actually gives us an avenue into other people's base as well as our own.
Hi, Saket Kalia at Barclays. So two questions. First, maybe for you, Andy. Can you just talk about how the ANSYS integration into Creo could maybe play into that move of maintenance customers to subscription? You gave us some great stats about the enterprise and sort of the 50% and stuff.
But can you talk a little bit about how we could be strategic around more simulation type
scenarios and subscription only? I think that's where he's going with that.
As we our CAD team in the enterprise has actually done a good job running campaigns in our largest accounts around kind of modernize your footprint of CAD in your account. And that has been a real driver of the value they see from a conversion. So it could be definitely part of a play. The more cool shiny stuff that people see as things that really bring value could definitely be a part of the play. Remember, our sales force only gets compensated on the incremental.
So they will always be driving for whatever is going to optimize the total sale into that account. But yes, it's another thing that could help drive conversions.
Got it. That's helpful. And then maybe for my Go ahead, Rob.
Thanks for the kind of relief.
Hey, Jim, this is the first time many of us have had a chance to hear directly from you on the Rockwell partnership. Appreciate the comments this morning and the presentation. But maybe you can give us some background, how did it come about, what was the driver behind it, what exactly does exclusivity mean? I mean, I know the definition of exclusivity, but I don't know what it means in this realm. And then the potential exit strategy for Rockwell, how would that be handled, things of that nature?
Thank you. Yes. Okay.
Those are good questions. So the way it came about is I've spent the last year pursuing every industrial automation company to try to talk about partnership potentials. And frankly, a lot of more interested. So we got to get a little picky. And we looked at all the fits and who had the most of this and the most of that and who could drive the biggest deal for us and so forth.
One of the things we found out kind of early is that we're not going to have a partnership with all of them because it's too strategic. As soon as one of them signs, the rest are angry. And they don't want they see this as something they need to have as differentiable. So they don't want to say, well, I also sell PTC stuff. So I'm just saying start with the idea that's very, very strategically important to them.
They're all aspiring to do what we're already really good at, okay? So it makes sense to partner, but in a strategic way. So we ultimately decided that Rockwell was the best partner. The $1,000,000,000 frankly, we could take it or leave it. We didn't do it for the $1,000,000,000 but we really do like the strategic message that that sends that they will be very serious about this partnership and frankly so will we.
It will be a boardroom conversation and so forth. So that's the $1,000,000,000 really just to cement the strategic partnership. It doesn't have a whole lot of meaning beyond that frankly. And then trying to remember what's the next part of your question? Exclusivity.
Oh, exclusivity. Yes. So what we agreed to is that first of all exclusivity would be limited to the SEO space,
number 1. Marketing operations, definitely not product. Back to automation
and then certain verticals and then again certain named competitors. So I would call it limited exclusivity. Now in our perspective, sure, we'd rather not give up exclusivity, but we already knew we could only have one partner anyway at this level of commitment. And we did get a very big commitment. Thank you, Blake.
He's not here anymore. So we did get a very big commitment from them. And I mentioned Blake has 1,000 paid caring sales reps. I'm having trouble looking past that and seeing what the next guy would also bring to the table because it will be a big project to arm those 1,000 guys and get them up and successfully driving business our way and driving business together. So it's limited exclusivity.
Our focus will be on making this partnership work. We don't have time to think about who else we might have had or might still have and so forth. This scratches my edge for the moment.
So one since this is an investor audience, the one thing I'll add is there are provisions in there that if there were a change of control of either company, then either party could cancel the exclusivity and there'd be a wind down period. We were very specific making sure that the investment was not above a certain level because we didn't want to block any other strategic opportunities out there.
There's no strategic block here.
Hi, Monica Garg from KeyBanc. Thanks for taking my question. First follow-up on the kind of the same partnership question here. Is it mainly for the IoT solution? Or would you extend it to the CAD BLM also?
And also will the Rockwell sales team will be taking PTC's CAD, PLM solutions also to the market?
Yes. Our thought on that right now is there's not a lot of value in extending it to CAD and PLM because there's so much growth to be had in IoT and AR in the factory. And they're so much better positioned to sell that that my view would be every cycle they spend trying to sell PLM is a wasted cycle. They could have been more productive trying to sell IoT and AR.
I did say that right.
So we could do that later. And what's interesting I think is maybe additive manufacturing because when you're talking to people who run factories about disruptive technologies, frankly additive does come up. Now we've told them, hey, just reference that one over to us because it's going to lead to a CAD discussion and we don't have time to train you all up in this CAD stuff. But if you've got a customer who wants additive, even if they're a Siemens shop, an Autodesk shop, Dassault shop, just give us a call. We'll come in and we'll show them that everything your partner could do in addition to the IoT, AR, analytics and MES stuff we're doing together.
And to follow-up with our Ensys partnership, you talked about kind of upsell opportunities with going with Discovery Live. Could you maybe share kind of an agreement that you have with ANSYS or any other details?
Yes. We are licensing the Discovery Live technology, embedding it in Crayo and paying a royalty back to ANSYS every time we do that. And we did make some commitments to them and trade for another form of exclusivity. So to us, that was a good deal. We're pretty convinced that the actual sales we drive will be much higher than any minimums we committed to them.
So we think it's a good deal. And again, we kind of like the exclusivity on our side.
Gabriela Borges from Goldman Sachs. Thanks for taking the question. For Matt, on the CARE program, how are you thinking about the appropriate amount of investment at the customer level? Is there a way of maybe benchmarking a penetration versus way of potential penetration could go? And how are you thinking about the time to ROI in those investments?
And the reason I'm asking is, as ANSYS has moved to more of a consulting based selling approach, they've actually seen a step back in margins. But that's not happening here. So any more detail there is appreciated. Follow-up is for Andy. We talked about where incremental investments are going, CARE program or venture reality.
Where are you rationalizing investments to meet the overall target of 5 half of bookings growth of OpEx growth of half of bookings growth? Sure.
Let me actually start. So broadly, if you looked at our business model, you'd see that our sales and marketing spend is frankly below best in class, below a target for our level of growth. And so we were spending money in basically doing care. We just weren't spending it effectively and clearly not efficiently. So by putting it all under one organization and then having very prescriptive plays depending upon the nature of the customer, the what's being sold through and the nature of the product, we're able to basically drive this care program without sacrificing even current profitability.
Lonnie, you go.
Yes. I think that's the accurate feed in here. So when you look at across our field organization, our spend ratios and the way the productivity we get out of that, we understand there's a couple of different areas where if we press on, we can free up dollars and free up cash to be able to go invest in our CSM talent and capacity. It starts actually before where Andy was, which is our leverage of the marketing organization and our ability to be able to actually drive marketing as a true partner in the selling process, which frankly, as some of you know, we've talked about it before, has never been a core muscle that's been active at PTC. And so as we start to be able to actually get the customers and prospects to us quicker through our marketing engine, it drives down our cost of client acquisition, which allows us to be able to focus in here now on the care.
As Andy mentioned, we look throughout our presales ranks and we see technical resources, technical account managers, frankly, people sitting in the support organization that all look like CSMs or customer success managers. And so we can start to pull those ingredients out and actually start to stand up a meaningful practice without going back and asking Andy and Jim for more money. Then we start to say, okay, as you are outlining, for certain types of clients, we actually want to invest in this structure. And for certain types of clients, actually, we'll give a little bit away for free, but we actually think there's so much value we can charge the clients for this. And so it's actually a hybrid model within those success plans that I was describing between for free and for pay, but we always make sure that the for pay you're getting 2, 3x times the value you would normally get from a services provider.
All that allows us to do this I think efficiently within the investment envelope that we have as a company. Can
I comment on this too? So one good example of where we've harvested the synergy is our presales engineers, what we call application engineers. So we were looking one day at how many of them we had. And we said, my God, we got a lot. Like 1.5 presales engineer for every sales guy, that's ridiculous.
So we dug into it. Well, it turns out they spent half their time doing post sales customer support. But it was a hobby, not a vocation. They had no systems, no training, no methodology and they only did it when they weren't on sales calls. So we said, well, that's ridiculous.
We've got a super efficient super inefficient situation here that what we should do is tell the presales application engineers, stop doing that. We've got a different very efficient organization ready to take that job off your hands. And frankly, if somebody want to transfer into that group, you can do that. But we're not going to be in this murky place where presales guys are doing post sale free support without any systems, any data, without us even hardly knowing they're doing it. So that's an example of a great big synergy.
Then I did want to say one other thing where we're dialing it down. Frankly, we are dialing back our efforts in SLM and ALM a little bit, just a little bit. And we're really focusing more. Now we're a couple of quarters into that and frankly the SLM numbers have gone up. Now why is that?
Well because we got very surgical about where we should try to sell SLM. So instead of running campaigns all over the place with very low productivity, now we have a smaller group really prioritizing the targets and going after the ones that are likely to be successful. So with many fewer people, the bookings are going up and the capacity is shifting over on to hotter things that are easier to grow.
Yes. Steve Wilson, Lupitas Asset Management. I'm really struggling and hopefully you can help me. So we go back 2 years and you talked about how you've outperformed. But 2 years ago, we were in an industrial slowdown, and now we're in a very strong backdrop.
So I'm trying to understand if you've done anything to try and figure out how much of this is just pockets have opened up, it's a strong environment as opposed to what it is specifically that you're doing. And then I'm sorry to be a party pooper, but we look at over the next 5 years, you have an uninterrupted economy. We're 9 years into an economic recovery, 5 more years, I mean, it's unlikely that we will continue. So could you just talk about the resilience of the company today? Because in the past, certainly, obviously, under the old model, you really faced much more of a headwind.
We're adding some new features. We're adding some new end markets. But at the end of the day, you're not going to be immune to the economy. So just talk about how much sway you see.
So, let me actually give you a backdrop to understand. We expected this question of how might the economy affect the long range model we put out there. So let me actually just address this. So this is, many of you know, the shape of risk. The bottom line is, is that we've laid out a model where the long range numbers we put out there are right there down the middle.
Now what could be a potential headwind? The economy could be weaker than it is today. We actually did not assume the economy is as strong as a fundamental assumption as it is today. The economy is very, very strong today, especially in the U. S.
We assumed a more average economy, realizing that sometime over this timeframe, there could potentially be a recession, which can impact our business, of course, especially in the core CAD and PLM. So potential headwind could be macroeconomic, could be FX, could be market factors, the market could develop at a slightly different rate. So we took that into account and we also identified a number of tailwinds, factors and assumptions that we did not put in our long range plan. Specifically, we didn't assume that the AR market takes off, as we hope and frankly believe it might. We didn't assume the Rockwell Automation Partnership strengthening our presence in SCO.
We didn't assume the ANSYS partnership. And again, to put that in perspective, if we were to, over the next 5 years, penetrate our creo base, just 25% of that creo base over the next 5 years. That's $100,000,000 right there, dollars 100,000,000 of ARR. So we did not put that in there. We did not put the conversions in there.
I quantify that could be $60,000,000 of ARR. And we didn't assume that we get to best in class retention. Today, our retention rates are right around industry average. We assumed we'd get a little bit better, but we didn't assume we'd get to best in class, which when you factor in price increases would get you to low single digit churn rate, call it maybe about 1% to 2% net of price increase. So all of those factors we left out of the long range model as tailwinds to offset potentially macro factors that aren't in our control.
Do you want to add anything?
Only that we didn't assume the Microsoft partnership. We didn't assume that additive manufacturing would change things. So there's a lot of upsides here. We had this model before we signed the Rockwell deal, frankly. And we said, should we take it up?
No, let's just use it as a safety factor.
Rob McCarthy with Stifel. Three quick questions. On the branding suite with Rockwell, think the close of the transaction is contemplated for about 60 days. Do you expect the branding suite announcement around that time or a little bit after?
Well, I've been so busy getting ready for Live Works in the last week and so forth that I haven't had enough time to work on this. But I think it'll come sooner because it's important to our story to have a brand there. And the brand, by the way, will belong to both of us. So to the extent the partnership ever breaks, the brand vaporizes. I think that'll probably happen, I'm thinking, in the next 30 days.
A follow-up in terms of I think you're transfixed by Rockwell's salesman, but also they have an incredibly huge installed base. Have you thought about what the opportunity could be there for you and incremental revenue? And what's contemplated the plan just monetizing that installed base they already have?
Yes. I mean, they do have 35,000 enterprise accounts and then of course many factories on average within them. So it is a very big installed base and a very big sales force. And I can tell you their sales force is very excited. They've had this connected enterprise story out there for a while and we are adding so much breadth and depth and acceleration to that story.
We're taking an idea and making it a reality kind of in one fell swoop. They're very excited. So yes, I can tell you I'm not going to tell you the size of the minimums, but I can tell you the minimums are substantial and you don't get to substantial minimums if you don't think you could do even better than that. This is the fallback place. So this should be a very important partnership sort of greater in magnitude than the ones that Andy monetized in that timeframe.
So it's a big deal.
And the final question just on the exclusivity. I think you talked about certain verticals. I mean Rockwell traditionally has been known as a very strong discrete competitor in automation and growing in obviously batch and hybrid, but not particularly strong in process. Is there an opportunity for you to partner somebody on the process side of the house in terms of end markets? And does that leave you some white space for any kind of potential there?
It does. Again, first of all, we're only limited to a named list and the list isn't that long. And also we can sell in there too. So if there's a place that Rockwell is not being successful, we either go in there ourselves or frankly we go in there with another partner who's not necessarily a name on the list.
Hey guys, over here Matt.
But again, just let me say, one of the we're very committed to the Rockwell partnership. Again, I'm having trouble seeing what's beyond it because it's so big. It's such a project for us now to go figure out how to get those 1,000 guys in the game, sell into those 35,000 customers. That probably would take all of our energy for the next 3 years in any case. That's the way I look at it.
Okay, sorry.
Actually a dovetail. I mean, it seems like a lot of the interest today is all these partnerships you guys are signing. And I guess, I have a 2 part question to that, sort of embedded in sort of this whole idea of enhanced partnerships. Within the OpEx growth that Andy you outlined to kind of get that mid teens growth top line growth rate. What are sort of the annual assumptions when you guys think of adding direct capacity?
Because there's a lot of levers that the partners can provide.
And I'm curious, like what are
your assumptions on headcount growth in the sales and marketing side?
There's no huge growth in size of the direct sales force or overall sales and marketing spend. There's a lot of very strong portfolio management happening in Matt's organization with Mike Tutulio, who runs sales, to really optimize what markets we deploy those people in, the sales coverage model by industry, by country, by product that they're selling, that's really the focus. Same as on the R and D side. You don't see us growing R and D spend. You haven't seen it grow much at all over the last couple of years.
It's fundamentally just driving rigorous portfolio management. And again, this is my 4th software company. I've never seen any software companies that got to the point where they couldn't actually still drive better portfolio management, better targeting of where they're investing money. Maybe ANTUS is the one exception that got to 48% operating margins
across the mid-40s. It will get challenging,
I'm sure.
Maybe just a quick follow-up then. One of the things we didn't talk about on the partnerships was we're getting a lot of additional leverage from the SIs. And I know there was a big effort to offload a lot of services to the channel several years ago. But how do you think about the SIs as a potential catalyst perhaps on the right hand side? Yes.
I mean, we see them playing a bigger and bigger role, especially in the new technology areas. In IoT, a lot of these transformation projects are first led by the SI. The SI is the partner of the customer who are then down selecting our technology pretty much exclusively to come in and be the backbone of those transformation projects. So you see the SIs running around the conference here this week.
Well, could I say that the 4 big sponsors that we're into do
is Yes.
Capgemini, Deloitte and Infosys. Infosys.
And then the next level down is the next level of SI partners. So what we find is that they're involved in these campaigns, they're involved in these accounts and universally they're selecting ThingWorx as the platform of choice behind those transformation programs. Yes.
Which shouldn't be a big surprise given how the industry analysts are kind of frankly declaring the winners and losers in IoT, which is what they always do in a software market. The fact that the top 3 all have ThingWorx as the leader or in the leader quadrant, lets you know that the SIs are going to build practices to go implement around the products that are going to win in the market.
Yes, just one addition here is we talk a lot about our 3 strategic partners. We still got an incredibly robust overall partner ecosystem. I'll leave here, go downstairs, hopefully on a run and go address a room full of all of our reseller partners, our SI partners and our OEM partners, hundreds of people in the room that actually are now excited to be able to be a part of ANSYS and Microsystems and Rockwell's story, but are investing heavily in the PTC footprint and are sitting there waiting to figure out what's next.
And Matt, could you confirm that none of the SI type companies were on the partner exclusion list with Rocco, right? No.
In fact, despite having a big services business of their own, they want to leverage our relationship with the big GSIs. They have good relationships with regional SIs, but they leverage our big relationships with the global system integrators that we're talking about.
All right.
So to ensure that we can get you guys to your next session, I think we'll wrap it there. Thanks for joining live here and on the webcast. Again, 3:30 down for the demo power hour. If you're interested, I'll be down there right by the X factory, the bottom of the escalators. Once again, thanks for joining and we'll talk soon.
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