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 Thank you, Ryan, and good afternoon, everyone. I'll review operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, compared to the prior year's quarter and discuss certain balance sheet highlights. We saw strong demand for managed services during the first quarter of 2024, resulting in a 53% lift in bookings over the prior year quarter and the highest total in 7 quarters. This demand will begin to show in revenues over the next several quarters, and we believe bodes well for our growth resurgence. Managed Services bookings for the first quarter of 2024 totaled $9.3 million compared to $6.1 million for the prior year's first quarter, a 53% increase. The increase was primarily due to a strong sales pipeline that has been building over the past 6 months, both in the quantity of opportunities created and the dollar value of those opportunities. In Q1, the new opportunity dollar amount was up 105% year-over-year, which bodes well for coming quarters. A percentage of our new opportunity pipeline converts into bookings, which subsequently convert into revenue. As a reminder, I

Thanks, Peter. Our management remarks will be rather concise this quarter, given that our most recent call with you was just about 6 weeks ago. In Q1, managed service bookings at I

Thank you, Ryan. We are excited about the organic growth in bookings and continued potential we are seeing in managed services, along with the beginning of a recovery cycle with SaaS. In December, we successfully acquired  Hoozu and

Thank you, sir. At this point, we have no questions from the lines. I will now hand over to Ryan Schram for closing remarks.

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