Adobe Inc.
Q1 2013 Earnings Call Transcript

Published: 20 Mar 2013

[Operator:]

[Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the call over to Mr. Mike Saviage, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

[Mike Saviage:]

Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. Joining me on the call are Adobe's President and CEO, Shantanu Narayen; as well as Mark Garrett, Executive Vice President and CFO. In the call today, we will discuss Adobe's first quarter fiscal year 2013 financial results. By now, you should have a copy of our earnings press release, which crossed the wire approximately one hour ago. We've also published our earnings call prepared remarks and slides and a document containing our financial targets on Adobe.com. If you would like a copy of these documents, you can go to the Investor Relations page and find them listed under Quick Links. Before we get started, I want to emphasize that some of the information discussed on this call, particularly our revenue, subscription and operating model targets and our forward-looking product plans is based on information as of today, March 19, 2013, and contains forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainty. Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in such statements. For a discussion of these risks and uncertainties, you should review the forward-looking statements disclosure in the earnings press release we issued today, as well as Adobe's SEC filings. During this call, we will discuss GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation between the 2 is available in today's earnings release and on our Investor Relations website in the investor data sheet. Call participants are advised that the audio of this conference call is being broadcast live over the Internet in Adobe Connect and is also being recorded for playback purposes. An archive of the call will be made available on Adobe's Investor Relations website for approximately 45 days and is the property of Adobe. The audio and archive may not be rerecorded or otherwise reproduced or distributed without prior written permission from Adobe. I will now turn the call over to Shantanu.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon. I'm happy to report we delivered revenue of $1,008,000,000 in Q1, with non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.35. Both results were above our targeted ranges for the quarter. Our Q1 results demonstrate we're executing well on our strategy, delivering strong product innovation across our Digital Media and Digital Marketing businesses and becoming more mission-critical to both our Creative and Marketing customers. In Digital Media, we're redefining the creative process with Creative Cloud. We drove strong Creative Cloud adoption in Q1. We exited the quarter with 479,000 paid subscriptions, and recently, we crossed the 0.5 million mark. With this momentum, we are on track to reach our goal of 1.25 million paid subscriptions by the end of this fiscal year. Creative Cloud is becoming the go-to destination for creative professionals, satisfying their need to access all their Creative tools and services, as well as sync and store their work and collaborate with their colleagues. Creative Cloud subscription growth is being driven by its attractive pricing, as well as frequent product, feature and service enhancements we are providing. The value and rich features of Creative Cloud is also helping us achieve our goal of bringing in new customers. The buzz about Creative Cloud is increasing, and we are seeing significant growth in the number of free Creative Cloud users. We currently have more than 2 million free and trial members, all of whom become a funnel of prospects that we target for conversion to paid subscriptions. Our Creative Cloud for Teams offering was introduced at the end of last year, and we're starting to see good traction with it on Adobe.com. We expect to see the same momentum in the channel as we continue to educate our customers and partners on its value proposition. Larger enterprise customers continue to adopt Enterprise Term License Agreements or ETLAs. Desktop ETLAs are the first phase of the Creative Cloud for enterprise offering, which will integrate with Digital Publishing Suite and Adobe Marketing Cloud capabilities. During Q1, we continued to expand the value of our Creative Cloud offering. In December, we announced the acquisition of Behance, the leading online social media platform for Creative professionals. Behance is the location of choice for Creatives to showcase and share their work. All Creative Cloud members will soon gain access to the basic Behance capabilities, while paid Creative Cloud subscribers will also have access to premium Behance features. The acquisition of Behance accelerates our strategy to bring great community features to Creative Cloud, making it the ultimate destination for creatives worldwide. Product updates for Creative Cloud members during Q1 included

[Mark S. Garrett:]

Thanks, Shantanu. In the first quarter of fiscal 2013, Adobe achieved revenue of $1,008,000,000, exceeding our targeted range of $950 million to $1 billion. GAAP diluted earnings per share in Q1 were $0.13. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.35. Key business highlights in the quarter included exiting Q1 with 479,000 paid Creative Cloud subscriptions. This helped drive Creative Annualized Recurring Revenue to a total of $233 million exiting Q1, an increase of $80 million versus Q4's exit of $153 million. We grew Adobe Marketing Cloud revenue by 20% year-over-year and achieved strong bookings growth. Our total deferred revenue grew sequentially by $80 million to a record $700 million. We exited the quarter with 31% of our Q1 revenue as recurring, up from 26% in Q4. Looking at our business segment results. In our Digital Media segment, we achieved revenue of $688 million. This segment has 2 major components of revenue

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Thanks, Mark. We just spent 3 days with our customers at our Digital Marketing Summit and their excitement about this business is palpable. As the leader in this category, we're incredibly well positioned to take advantage of this massive opportunity with the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Creative Cloud momentum continues to build. We are regularly releasing new innovation and are dramatically enhancing and simplifying the creative process for our customers. We encourage you to attend our MAX conference in May, where we will be making some exciting announcements. We look forward to seeing you then. Mike?

[Mike Saviage:]

Thanks, Shantanu. Before we begin Q&A, I have a few logistics items to go over. First, for those investors and financial analysts who want to stay current on the latest Adobe news, we encourage you to follow Adobe on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and to frequently check Adobe's corporate blogs on blogs.adobe.com. In addition, tv.adobe.com is a great resource to learn more about Adobe's products and solutions and check out new customer case studies. Adobe's Investor Relations website provides easy access to these resources. We also use Twitter to highlight news and interesting stories or articles, which can help the investment community stay on top of what's happening. Follow Adobe_IR on Twitter to track what we have to say. Second, we will send out invitations this week to investors and analysts to attend MAX in May in Los Angeles. On Monday, May 6, the first day of MAX, we will host a meeting with Wall Street attendees in the afternoon. This meeting, which we will webcast, will include Shantanu, Mark and David Wadhwani. They will review progress with adoption of Creative Cloud, discuss MAX news and provide additional information to help analysts model our Creative business. Contact Adobe Investor Relations to get more information for how to attend and go to max.adobe.com to learn more about the event. For those who wish to listen to a playback of today's conference call, a web-based Adobe Connect archive of the call will be available from the IR page on Adobe.com later today. Alternatively, you can listen to a phone replay by calling [phone]. Use conference ID number 16765134. International callers should dial [phone]. The phone playback service will be available beginning at 4 p.m. Pacific Time today and ending at 4 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, March 22, 2013. We would now be happy to take your questions. Operator?

[Operator:]

[Operator Instructions]

[Shantanu Narayen:]

And before we get started, I also want to apologize. We received feedback that the phone line and audio quality was poor. I do hope you all have access to the prepared remarks, which are available on Adobe.com. But in addition, absolutely feel free during the Q&A to ask us to repeat any of the data that we might have provided in the prepared remarks. Thank you.

[Operator:]

Our first question comes from the line of Peter Goldmacher with Cowen & Company.

[Peter L. Goldmacher:]

Two quick questions. Can you talk about ASPs on the 153,000 subscribers in the quarter? It looks like they were ticking up, and you talked about more people taking the entire -- taking suites, so I'd love to know about that. And Digital Marketing, by our organic calculation, was about 16%, which was a little bit lighter than we were hoping for. Would love some more color on that.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

So, Peter, let me get both of your questions. The first one on the ASP, I think it was relatively flat. And so that's what I would share as it related to the ASP of the subscriptions that we saw. I mean, we certainly had, as we talked about, 153 new -- net new subscriptions in the individual and team, so we are pleased with that. And Digital Marketing, what I did say on CNBC earlier today was also the fact that bookings actually grew a very healthy over 25%, so we're very pleased with the strength in the business. And the revenue grew as well, 20%. One of the things to remember in that particular business is that there still is a certain amount of business that's taken on-premise, the Adobe Experience Manager, and so there's certainly a growing of the pipeline that happens during the quarter. And then we're rebuilding that healthy pipeline. So underlying trends in both of the businesses, very strong.

[Peter L. Goldmacher:]

Can I just ask you a quick question on the bookings number. Are you seeing contracts get a little bit longer to drive your total bookings? Are people willing to commit for longer duration? Is that partially what's driving that bookings number to 25%?

[Mark S. Garrett:]

Peter, it's Mark. The bookings number that we're talking about is just annual contract value, so it's just the first year's worth of any agreement with the customer.

[Operator:]

Next, we have the line of Brent Thill with UBS.

[Brent Thill:]

Shantanu, could you talk about the impact of Team Edition in the quarter? And I have a quick follow-up for Mark.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Sure. So, Brent, as we mentioned, we have introduced the Team Edition. It's available both through Adobe.com, and so small and medium businesses and teams and marketing departments can actually transact business directly with us, as well as you are now making that available in the channel. During Q1, the majority of the net new subscriptions that we saw were actually continued to be individual, both in the commercial as well as in the education space. Adobe.com is off to a good start, and we're aggressively educating the channel partners as well as new online partners that will be effective channel for us on the team, and so we continue to expect to see acceleration in the team with channel partners Q2 through Q4.

[Brent Thill:]

Okay. And, Mark, just on EMEA, down double digits year-over-year and sequentially. Can you just give us your view what's happening there and specifically how you think about the pipeline for the rest of the year for EMEA?

[Mark S. Garrett:]

Yes, Brent. Europe did well for us frankly. It's a little different looking at the mix, especially as it relates to Creative because as we move to subscriptions more and more, obviously, that has an impact on reported revenue until we get through the transition. But we did not see any unusual problems in Europe. Europe is definitely stabilized and is performing well, and the business looks good going forward.

[Operator:]

Next we have the line of Ross MacMillan with Jefferies.

[Ross MacMillan:]

Mark, is there any way to size the ETLA component within Creative? And the reason I'm asking is because obviously, that's incremental to the individual and team subs. Any color on that you could help us with?

[Mark S. Garrett:]

Well, so I'll tell you how you could go do it. You could take the number of subscribers times that average revenue per user per month, which has been, as Shantanu just said, relatively consistent, times 12, and that will give you an ARR number. The difference between that ARR number and the ARR number that we reported for total Creative is basically going to be the ETLA component.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

I think it's fair to say that the ETLA business, the transition on the sales side to being able to sell these term desktop ETLAs is going well, Ross.

[Ross MacMillan:]

Yes, that was my sense. So what happens when you introduce enterprise subscriptions? How should we think about that ETLA to enterprise subscription transition?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

I would actually, Ross, look at what we are offering today, which is these ETLAs as the first phase of the enterprise offering. It enables an enterprise customer to get all the benefits of the desktop products with all of the enhancements and innovation that we add to it. What we are also seeing among enterprise customers is a desire to make sure that these desktop products continue to work with the server-based products that we have. We announced at Summit, Ross, that the next version of the Adobe Experience Manager has a digital asset management component, so that's an add-on. We also have Digital Publishing Suite, that's an add-on, and Adobe Experience Manager, that's an add-on. So I would actually say that the transition to the enterprise offering has begun, and the sales force is focused on getting enterprise customers to buy the term license.

[Mark S. Garrett:]

And keep in mind, the enterprise ETLA numbers do not get reflected in our subscriber counts, right?

[Ross MacMillan:]

Right, exactly. And then maybe sort of very last one. I know that last year, you'd helped us think about an equivalent unit growth number by using the sort of proxy for the perpetual or upgrade license price. Any way to think about that as we move through Q1 in terms of what you think the like-for-like units look like on the Creative side?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Yes, Ross, we did see unit growth in the quarter, so I'll state that. But we'll provide updates on that. More on an annual basis, I think Mike talked about at MAX, we'll provide further color and update into the business. But I think big picture, we're on track. Subscriptions are doing well, the product offering's being well received and individual team and enterprise initial offering are all now in the market.

[Operator:]

Next we have the line of Walter Pritchard with Citigroup.

[Kenneth Wong:]

This is Ken Wong for Walter. Just a quick question on the 1.25 million sub guide for the year. I mean, your run rate in February, and I guess a little bit in March, would suggest you guys are kind of 10,000 to 12,000. And you guys probably to have hit mid-20s in the back half to achieve those goals. What gives you comfort that you guys can get to that 1.25 million number?

[Mark S. Garrett:]

Ken, yes, it's Mark. As we pointed out in the prepared remarks, the ramp just accelerates as we go through the year, so the net additions each quarter gets larger. Each sequential quarter as we go through the year, it gets us to that 1.25 million. Some of that's just going to be more and more awareness of the offering. Some of that's going to be the viral nature of the offering. Some of that's going to be the constant innovation that we put out in the offering, as people see more and more go to the cloud. And the customer feedback is really what gets us confident in reaching that 1.25 million.

[Kenneth Wong:]

Got you. And then as we start to anniversary the Creative Cloud offering that you guys introduced last year, how should we think about retention rates there?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

I think when we talked about our targets for the year, we said that the 1.25 million is certainly net of any attrition that we would expect. As you point out, we're coming up on the first anniversary for those who subscribed to it, and we're confident that there's a lot of innovation. But there is a retention rate that we have built in and an attrition that we have built into our targets.

[Operator:]

Your next question comes from the line of Jennifer Lowe with Morgan Stanley.

[Jennifer Swanson Lowe:]

Great. I just wanted to drill into that 2 million free number on the Creative Cloud, and that number is getting -- I mean, it was big last quarter, it's even bigger now. What's your sense of the conversion rates potentially for that population? And where are those users coming from at this point? What's your sense there?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Jennifer, I think in terms of who is signing on for our trial or a free membership, there are really 2 kinds of folks who are signing up

[Jennifer Swanson Lowe:]

Great. And maybe just switching gears a little bit and following up maybe on Peter's line of questioning earlier on. You've got 25% bookings growth in the Digital Marketing business within the cloud component of that. The revenue growth is a little bit slower than that. Is there a reason why we shouldn't see the revenue growth there start to approximate that 25% bookings growth number? Or is there some -- in theory, it should. So is there some reason why it wouldn't or we shouldn't be thinking about it that way?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

There'll always be a lag, Jennifer, between the bookings and the revenue. The way we charge our customers is after they make a contract with us, we have to get their servers up and running. And until they start to run transactions through our servers, they will not be participating. So I think there's always going to be a lag between the bookings and the revenue. But certainly, we've said that we expect to see 20% revenue growth, given how large we believe the market is.

[Operator:]

Our next question comes from Steve Ashley with Robert W. Baird.

[Steven M. Ashley:]

I see a headline going across some newsletters that Kevin Lynch has resigned and left the company or is going to leave. I wonder if you can confirm that and if that's true, maybe give us a little color on that.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Sure, Steve. Yes. I mean, Kevin has made significant contributions during his time at Adobe, and I am really grateful for that. He's decided it's time for a new adventure. And he's off on that and we're on our adventure and momentum in our business continues. So I wish him well, but yes, that is confirmed.

[Steven M. Ashley:]

And will you do a search to backfill his position?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

No, Steve. At this point, we have no plans to backfill the CTO position. As you know, Bryan Lamkin rejoined the company and so Bryan is taking on all of the responsibility for both the long-range advanced technology that we are doing within the company, as well as the cross business unit product integration.

[Steven M. Ashley:]

Great. And then I just had a question on hiring at your customers. We've really not seen a lot of hiring of marketing professionals in several years but I've seen a couple signs that maybe that's picking up, and I was just wondering if you had any comments on that.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

I think in terms of the 2 macro trends that we continue to look at, Steve, is certainly, the amount of data that's being created and the amount of video that's being created, mobile applications, digital publications just continues to go up and to the right. And then marketing, there is more and more of that spend that's moving digital. So I think both macro trends are positive. I don't track myself the hiring among our customers, but I think as Mark said, the stability that we saw in all geographies seems to suggest that the economy is doing well.

[Operator:]

Next we have the line of Mark Moerdler with Sanford Bernstein.

[Mark L. Moerdler:]

So 2 quick questions. The first was, it appears -- it's obviously that Digital Media drove the beat and yet subscriptions was higher. Are we seeing a tick-up in license acquisition in here as pure play license or license upgrade? Can you give some sense in terms of this?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Mark, I think the strength in the Creative business was across-the-board. You are right in pointing out that both reported revenue as well as subscriptions was strong. And I think it just reflects the underlying strength of that business.

[Mark L. Moerdler:]

Okay. Is -- the other part of that, is the convert from this -- are we seeing an increase in the convert from month-to-month to annual in here? Do you measure that? Can we get a sense of it?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

We do measure that. I think the fundamental trends in the subscription business have always been that the entire Creative Cloud is the majority of the subscriptions that we have. And within that, an annual commitment is the majority. So that really hasn't changed. And I think some of those numbers are actually numbers that are in the prepared remarks. And so that part may have been unclear, but it's available for you, Mark, on our website.

[Mark L. Moerdler:]

But no, I know the number is in there. I was just going to see if there was any sense in terms of whether you're having success in converting month-to-months to annuals?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

No, I think there are folks who use it as an on-ramp and that's been successful. I think the vast majority of people are already signing up for the annual subscription and the entire subscription, which I think just reflects the value that's available in the entire Creative Cloud offering.

[Operator:]

Next we have the line of Jay Vleeschhouwer with Griffin Securities.

[Jay Vleeschhouwer:]

A pricing question and a product question. In terms of pricing on the Digital Marketing side, is there a case to be made that you could or should offer some or all of the solutions on a rentals basis? Is there a case to be made that in addition to the annual or multiyear contracts, that some kind of periodic rental availability of some part of Digital Marketing might make some sense? And then on the Digital Media side, could you just talk about your thoughts on making the upgrade, packaged upgrades, increasingly unappealing economically to further drive customers towards the cloud. Then a follow-up or 2.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Yes, Jay. So first the question on Digital Marketing. At Summit, as you know, we announced these 5 solutions

[Jay Vleeschhouwer:]

Okay. Just 2 follow-ups. On the product side, could you, with respect to the integration you talked about of Marketing Cloud and Creative Cloud, explain how something like Digital Publishing Suite can help induce business on the Digital Marketing side, and in reverse, how something like CQ could induce incremental business, not only in Digital Marketing, but also on the Digital Media side? And then lastly for Mark, does the change in earnings guidance for the year take into account at all the discontinuation of packaged products that you've now talked about? Have you built in some reduction of cost of revenues from that?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

So you want to take the second question?

[Mark S. Garrett:]

Yes, sure. So Jay, as you pointed out, we are moving away from shrink-wrapped, boxed product. We will have some savings from that, in the fact that we don't have to manufacture and ship that boxed product anymore. That's factored into the guidance. I mean, it didn't really drive that $1.45. The $1.45 is really driven through the R&D tax credit, and more so than anything else, the beat that we had in Q1. The savings on the packaged products does, to some extent, get offset by the fact that we have storage costs and things like that through the Creative Cloud offering. But there are savings there.

[Shantanu Narayen:]

And to answer your first question, Jay, I think virtually every Chief Revenue Officer or Chief Marketing Officer, as they think about the various channels through which they communicate with their customers, application stores and online web properties are now part of the same story. And so if you're an automotive manufacturer that wants to create, in fact, a website and wants to create a manual digitally, you want to have a similar workflow to do that. One is executed through DPS, one is executed through the Adobe Experience Manager. If you're a media company, you're certainly going to make sure that what you provide on your web is consistent with the way in which you provide your digital publications. We are now up to something like 250,000 digital publications that are delivered, editions everyday through the iStore. So we're continuing to see progress in DPS, not just with digital magazines, but also with training material and manuals, collateral, catalogs and retail information that's going out there. So there is really a lot of synergy between going into a large customer, communicating that we have the desktop applications to allow them to create the video they want, the mobile applications they want, as well as the web content and to have both of our service solutions work seamlessly with that.

[Operator:]

Next we have the line of Brad Zelnick with Macquarie.

[Brad A. Zelnick:]

I have one for Shantanu and a follow-up for Mark. Shantanu, can you talk about how you're doing against your goal of driving overall Creative unit growth? The subscription numbers look really strong this quarter, but can you give us a sense of which users are making the transition? How do you think you're doing in converting piracy and getting version laggards on board?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Yes. So Brad, we did see unit growth in the quarter, which again we said last year that we grew units approximately 13% for last year, so while we are not providing a specific number, I can confirm that we are actually growing units. We're seeing certainly a new customer base that's coming on, a customer base that's never done business with Adobe. And whether it's as a result of they are the next generation of Creative or the affordable pricing, we're attracting customers. And we are seeing more and more people on prior versions as we provide affordable on-ramp for them also moving. I would say the majority of the subscriptions today is still individual, as I mentioned, in both commercial and freelancers in commercial and education. And I think the focus in the remaining quarters is going to be on team. And in the enterprise space, we are seeing -- Matt and the sales force are seeing good adoption of the enterprise term license agreements as well.

[Brad A. Zelnick:]

That's helpful, Shantanu. And Mark, on margins, I appreciate your past commentary that earnings should grow at least as fast as revenue from here, and while gross margin should come down with the transition to cloud products, shouldn't you also see offsetting leverage in sales and marketing over time as it presumably costs less to renew a customer than to acquire a new one? So just net-net, is it unreasonable to think that this business can eventually return back to the 35%-plus margin level that you were at?

[Mark S. Garrett:]

So Brad, I'm not going to get into kind of long-term margin profile right now. Obviously, margins will go up from this year into next year. We said that revenue grows, margins grow, earnings grow. We are focused more on driving earnings at least as fast as revenue growth. And while clearly, margins will improve from here, it's going to depend a lot on where they go relative to the mix, not only of just what happens in the Creative product as it relates to subscriptions, but also the total mix between Creative and Digital Marketing as Digital Marketing will never be at the margin profile that our old business was. So again, we're focused on revenue growth and earnings growth, and margins will improve from here. I'm just not at a point where I want to give you a long-term target.

[Operator:]

Next you have the line of Mike Olson with Piper Jaffray.

[Michael J. Olson:]

I missed a couple of minutes earlier so you may have talked about this. But in talking with the channel partners, they're definitely itching to get the Creative Cloud enterprise offering. In what quarter are you expecting that Creative Cloud Enterprise is going to hit and will that result in a material step-up in adds when that's available?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Mike, we didn't provide a specific date as it relates to channel partners. We said the focus has really continued to be on team right now and making sure we educate them, have the right incentives for them to renew the existing installed base. And we'll provide further updates on all of that stuff at MAX.

[Michael J. Olson:]

Okay. Let me just try. In the interest of kind of looking at the kind of linearity of sub adds. So when it does hit, will it cause a big spike up in adds in that quarter whenever that quarter is?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

So again, I think it's important to remember that the units that we described will be units for individual and team. The ARR number that we communicate will be ARR associated with enterprise units that we have. And so the way we're going to continue to report it is we will certainly report individual and team, and we will report total ARR, which includes enterprise units.

[Operator:]

Next we have Heather Bellini with Goldman Sachs.

[Sonya Banerjee:]

This is Sonya Banerjee on for Heather Bellini. I guess just one quick question on the Creative Cloud. How should we be thinking about the core perpetual base and the pace of migration to subscription this year? In other words, can you touch on the assumptions that you've baked into your targets for this year or even longer term as it relates to perpetual migration?

[Mark S. Garrett:]

Sonya, this is Mark. Well, we obviously guided to 1.25 million subscribers this year. We guided to 4 million subscribers by the end of 2015. And obviously, the majority of the subscribers are going to be people moving over from perpetual to subscription. We are going to attract new users but the majority of the subscriber base is going to come from existing customers.

[Sonya Banerjee:]

That makes sense. I guess part of the reason I asked the question is because at recent events, it seems like you've spoken to potentially introducing incentives to accelerate the migration of perpetual CS users to the Creative Cloud. So that's part of the reason why I was asking. Are these incentives likely to come this year? Is this a longer-term event?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

Again, I think we've said this is the heart of the transition this year, so the numbers that we expect our baked into our targets.

[Operator:]

Our next question comes from Phil Winslow with Credit Suisse.

[Philip Winslow:]

Just got a question back on the -- your marketing initiatives there. You've seen a lot of consolidation across the Digital Marketing ES space. Oracle, salesforce.com, et cetera. Shantanu, just wondering if you get a sense of how you just feel about your portfolio there. And as it starts to evolve, how we should think about the product segments that you might expand into?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

I think we feel terrific about our portfolio, and I think you're seeing that relative to the success that we are having. We're the leaders in analytics, which I think is the core of providing insights to our customers. We're the leader in the technology space as it relates to re-platforming of the websites with our Experience Manager solution, which is certainly a worldwide phenomena that you're seeing. Everybody's gearing up for mobile and tablets. And so we feel very good about the product portfolio that we have. And the affinity that we have with marketers as a result of the brand and heritage that we've had with these customers is absolutely unparalleled. So others are going to take different approaches of going into IT. We are focused on CMOs. We've said that, that is the big growth opportunity for us. We're the big data company for marketers. And we continue to intend to innovate in that space.

[Operator:]

Your last question comes from the line of Brendan Barnicle with Pacific Crest Securities.

[Brendan Barnicle:]

Shantanu, kind of wanted to follow up on that prior question. You guys have historically partnered for your eCommerce platform, but as you increasingly integrate Digital Media and Marketing and see the continued evolution that you're discussing within the marketing category, is it time to bring an eCommerce platform in-house?

[Shantanu Narayen:]

We have some great partnerships in that space right now, so we have a joint solution with customers in that space. I think eCommerce is an important component. But the beauty of the Marketing Cloud that we have right now is that there are so many adjacencies, and continuing to partner with them actually just continues to lift our ecosystem. We mentioned in the prepared remarks that there were a number of these partners all presenting at our Summit, so whether it's email partners like ExactTarget or eCommerce, as you asked, like hybris. We have some great partnerships that are in there, Silverpop, Responses, Deloitte Digital. So I think the partnership strategy is actually very sound, and we continue to partner with a lot of these folks to build a complete solution. Well, thank you again for joining us. I think if you think about the Q1 results, it clearly demonstrates the strong momentum and, frankly, excellent execution that we're -- against our stated growth objectives. We're pleased with the subscriber growth that we are seeing and we're seeing traction in both the team as well as the enterprise offerings, which are relatively new. And there is an exciting product roadmap as we continue to reimagine the Creative process. And in Digital Marketing, I think it's clear that it's acknowledged to be an explosive new enterprise category, also based on some of the questions that you've asked. In our DNA, it's clear we're about creativity and marketers have a very strong affinity to our brand, and the business is doing really well. And our differentiation, frankly, is closing that loop, the last millisecond of content delivery, which is integrating our content offering and content delivery platforms, we believe, will continue to be a unique advantage for us. So we're driving innovation, serving our customers well and building, as Mark said earlier, a really meaningful recurring revenue stream. We hope to see all of you at MAX, and thank you for joining us today.

[Operator:]

This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.