Joo Mi Kim - Qualys, Inc. Philippe Courtot - Qualys, Inc. Melissa B. Fisher - Qualys, Inc..

Bill Choi - Wunderlich Securities, Inc. Jack Andrews - D. A. Davidson & Co. Christopher Speros - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Jackson E. Ader - JPMorgan Securities LLC Michael Wonchoon Kim - Imperial Capital LLC Matthew Swanson - RBC Capital Markets LLC Siti Panigrahi - Wells Fargo Securities LLC John A.

Lucia - JMP Securities LLC Steven Couche - Stephens, Inc. Patrick E. Colville - Arete Research Services LLP.

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Qualys's Fourth Quarter 2016 Earnings Conference Call. This call is being recorded. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions for asking a question will be given at that time.

I would now like to turn the call over to Joo Mi Kim, Vice President, FP&A and Investor Relations. Please go ahead, ma'am..

Thanks, Michelle. Good afternoon, and welcome to Qualys's Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2016 Earnings Call. Joining me today to discuss our results are Philippe Courtot, our Chairman and CEO; and Melissa Fisher, our CFO.

Before we get started, I would like to remind you that our remarks today will include forward-looking statements that generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Actual results may differ materially from these statements.

Factors that could cause the results to differ materially are set forth in today's press release and in our filings with the SEC, including our latest Form 10-Q and 10-K.

Any forward-looking statements that we make on this call are based on assumptions as of today, and we undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events. During this call, we will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measure.

A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures is included in today's earnings press release. The press release and a company investor presentation are available on our website. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Philippe..

one, strong business performance, as evidenced by our new business renewal and upsell trends; two, a winning product and partnership strategy with an expanding and fully integrated product portfolio and new key partnerships; three, a balanced financial strategy as we continue to grow the top line of the business, building a strong foundation of recurring revenues while maintaining industry-leading profitability.

With that, I'll turn the call over to Melissa to discuss our financial results and guidance for 2017..

the MSSP contract's negative effect on deferred revenue; a large multi-year prepaid deal received in Q4 of 2015; and an increase in deferred tax assets relative to Q4 2015. Capital expenditures were $4.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, compared to $5.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Now I'd like to talk to you about how we are approaching guidance for 2017, starting with revenues. For the full year 2017, we believe revenues will range from $224 million to $228 million, which represents a normalized growth rate of 16% to 18%.

We expect our reported revenue growth rate to be negatively impacted by approximately 300 basis points, of which 150 basis points is estimated to be driven by our current FX forecast, which assumes a similar geographic mix.

The remainder of the negative impact is due to the higher estimated one-time bump in revenue from the restructured MSSP contract in 2016 relative to 2017. As I indicated during our Analyst Day in November, we believe there's a real opportunity to sustain and even accelerate our revenue growth rate over the next few years due to our new solutions.

However, because our new solutions are in the early stages of adoption, our 2017 revenue guidance does not assume a material contribution from new products. This guidance is informed by our 2016 results, during which new products released since 2015 contributed approximately 5% of total bookings.

This figure was mostly due to our Cloud Agent, which included the associated subscription to either Vulnerability Management or Policy Compliance.

For the first quarter of 2017, we expect revenues to be in the range of $52 million to $53 million, representing an estimated normalized growth rate of 16% to 18% based on our current FX forecast, as well as the previously mentioned impact from the MSSP contract.

We believe we'll see accelerating adoption of our new solutions during 2017, leading to an uptick in bookings over the second half of the year. We're excited about our prospects in web application security with our first quarter new releases of our Web Application Scanning and Web Application Firewall solutions.

Our File Integrity Monitoring and Indication of Compromise solutions will go into beta in Q1 as we said at our Analyst Day. Let me now explain how we are thinking about investments and profitability this year. In 2016, we balanced growth and profitability by hiring 174 net new employees and releasing a series of product and platform enhancements.

Our adjusted EBITDA margin was 34%, which was flat compared to 2015, and in dollars, up $11.3 million year-over-year to $68 million. In 2017, as we discussed at our Analyst Day, we plan to continue to invest to ensure we have the necessary scale and capacity to support our growth.

We anticipate purchasing more servers and storage for our platform as well as hiring significantly in R&D. In addition to growing our sales force, we expect to increase our marketing spend, as we decided to time new branding initiatives with RSA and our Q1 product releases.

We expect our operating expenses to sequentially increase over the year, and these investments in total to decrease our operating margins 200 to 300 basis points from 2016. We expect capital expenditures in 2017 to be in the range of $20 million to $25 million, weighted toward the back half of the year as we invest for the rollout of new products.

We also signed a lease in Q4 2016 for our new headquarters, which will require additional one-time CapEx of $13 million to $15 million, approximately 50% of which will be reimbursed by our landlord. In the first quarter of 2017, we expect CapEx to be between $5.5 million and $6.5 million, including the spend related to our new headquarters.

We believe 2017 will be a pivotal year for Qualys, as we invest to accelerate growth, enhance our leadership position in cloud security, and set ourselves up for expanded margins in the future.

Like Philippe, I'm excited about our rollout of additional products and features, which will provide us a growing foundation of profitable recurring revenue while providing our customers greater security in a scalable, cost-effective manner. With that, Philippe and I would be happy to answer any of your questions..

Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Bill Choi with Wunderlich. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Okay. Thank you.

Just wanted to see if you could provide some magnitude of the total number of the large upsells that were pushed out in terms of billings? And also, just getting a little more perspective about what kind of deal closures you're expecting in Q1? Whether you expect all those pushouts to get completed in Q1?.

Essentially, Bill – so, essentially, we had two. We had a little bit more than two, but essentially two, two big one, the ones which were already mentioned. It was $850,000, which we closed early in January. The second one was close to $500,000 that we are expecting to close, in fact, in a week or two. And there was a couple of minor ones.

And in term of a deal closures for the quarter, I think we're pretty much on track with all the deals, essentially because we do not have, by the way, major big deals. As you know, these big deals, they come – they don't come every month.

So this quarter, we have a lot of deals, but not major deals that we have not closed or that we don't – that we're not 100% sure we will close..

Okay. And then....

Does that answer your question?.

Yes. Yes. Also wanted to get some perspective on the feedback on these new products. Obviously, you're beta testing them in Q1. But you've been engaging customers about those upcoming betas throughout 2016.

How are they thinking about either budgeting for these already? Or do they have to evaluate, test and then scrounge up budgets as they get more comfort? Do you have any sense whether they're already planned for that? Thanks..

Yeah. This is a very good question. So, on the File Integrity Monitoring, we essentially already had the significant demand for quite a few banks, essentially financial institutions asking us to give them budgetary pricing so they could budget. And this is the model.

It is an agent that we're going to sell significantly at much higher price than our Cloud Agent for VM or Cloud Agent for Policy Compliance because of – essentially of the value that we bring and the fact that we eliminate a lot of cost of maintaining traditional enterprise solutions. So that's for the File Integrity Monitoring.

The detection of the IOC, the detection of Indication of Compromise, we didn't really have the many people looking for the budget because that's much more something that they want to do in many ways. Everybody wants to know that your devices have been compromised or not. So it's not really a replacement here. It's more a very nice add-on to VM.

The way we price it is very attractive. So we don't really see much pricing pushback. And so this is something that we expect also to see the very good adoption. The third one, which today we're trying to accelerate, is go-to-market, which we have a huge demand for it as well. It's our Digital Certificate management.

As you may recall, we already capture all of the information about the digital certificate. This is something that we have, meaning, who has signed them, when they expire, et cetera, and on a global scale. And then the only missing part is essentially the updating of those certificates, and that's where our agent comes in.

So this is what we're currently building. We expect today – I will not make a firm commitment because we are trying to add additional engineering resources, but we're looking at having that solution in beta in Q2, and then we know we have a huge almost immediate adoption because that's a huge problem that every large customers will have.

And the Patch Management will come later. This is more will be more in the Q3 timeframe, as well as our Passive scanning..

And I would just add on, from the statistics that we provided about Cloud Agent, we're getting very good feedback. One thing I want to make sure people heard was out of our top 10 new customers for the quarter, four of them were purchasing Cloud Agent, so we see a lot of momentum there..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Jack Andrews with D. A. Davidson. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Hi. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question.

Philippe, I was wondering at a high level, since you offer organically built cloud solutions, as you introduce more products over the next few quarters, are you starting to run into situations where because of the functionality you offer in the cloud, there may not necessarily be a traditional incumbent anymore? And then I guess said another way, are you seeing more greenfield opportunities as your product portfolio broadens?.

Oh, significant, because what we see – now, that's another very good question. We see today a lot of our large customers having essentially what we call the digital transformation of their business, moving into cloud solutions, and this is what Qualys is extremely well-positioned.

We have not spoken much of what we do on securing the cloud, but this is another big initiative that we have that we call Cloud 360. We already have our agent fully embedded on Microsoft Azure, whereby any Microsoft Azure customers can, at a click of a mouse, provision an agent for trial.

That agent is automatically activated, and now they can have the view of the security and compliance of their applications and their infrastructure on Azure and via the Microsoft Security Center.

We're doing the same thing with many other cloud providers, and we see quite a few number of company migrating their IT legacy infrastructure to cloud environment. So we're very ready for that.

We're also working on containers, and there's a lot of things that we're doing here part of our Cloud 360 initiative which, in fact, we'll present in great details at our next Analyst Day..

Thanks.

And just as a quick follow-up, can you provide an update on how you're thinking about the overall federal market opportunity here?.

So the federal market opportunity, we're very happy to have been won FedRAMP certified. We also had a major win with Lockheed Martin, and we're currently today working quite a few new federal customers. As you know, federal takes time, so we're not anticipating much revenues in 2017, but I think we're very well-positioned for the federal market.

Very happy with that. So we're beefing up our federal practice, and really starting to line up federal integrators..

Thank you very much..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Gur Talpaz with Stifel. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Hi, this is actually Chris Speros on for Gur. You mentioned that over 2 million Cloud Agents have been purchased in the last year.

Can you talk about the degree to which these agents are being adopted by new customers and driving new customer adoption versus being sold into your current installed base?.

Yeah. That's again. So, essentially, what we see is that today, as we mentioned, a very strong adoption from our existing customers. I would say this is a no-brainer. With the new customers, we see most of the new customers adopting the Cloud Agent from the get-go, and it becomes a very good differentiator.

I don't have exactly the statistics, but maybe....

Yeah..

...you can give me a sum here?.

In terms of mix, it skews towards existing customers. Our business, because of the size of our renewal base and the upsells, anything in our business ends up skewing towards existing. So it's been a mix, but it's still more existing customers than new. But we feel pretty good. It's a pretty healthy mix..

Yeah. We see most of the new business customers are taking the Agent as well, so that's what we see. And again, as I mentioned, that's a good differentiator..

Got it. Thank you. And one more, if I may. You also mentioned that the number of customers spending over $100,000 with you is up over 30% year-on-year.

Can you talk about what specifically you believe is driving this increased enterprise spend?.

Yeah. There's two very simple factor. One is that more continuing VM, Vulnerability Management, deploying. And essentially, the use case now becomes to do the global IT asset inventory. This is something that we really believe in. We're extremely well-placed. Well, I would say we're better than anybody on the market.

Once we add passive scanning, we'll be not only able to identify and catalogue everything that you know you have, but we are going to be able to discover very easily rogue devices. So, in that case, the full inventory of what you know and of what you don't know, and that's a foundation that every company must have.

And what is very unique about Qualys is that we do that across on-premise solutions, endpoints, and then lastly, cloud. So that's what drive that expansion of VM.

As I mentioned, in fact earlier, a huge upsell of $850,000 from one of our existing customer, and the second, essentially, the adoption of additional products, of additional solution, which is really going very well..

Got it. Thank you, guys..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Sterling Auty with JPMorgan. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Great. Thanks. Hi, guys. This is Jackson Ader on for Sterling. A quick question on expenses. As far as the hiring investments and the head counts you're going to add in the year, I know you mentioned that it's probably going to increase throughout the year.

But is it going to be perfectly linear? Is there going to be any kind of seasonality to that?.

Yeah. I think that there'll be just typical seasonality in terms of in Q4, you end up hiring a little bit less because people don't often move jobs if they seek to get their year-end bonuses. So, there's nothing out of the ordinary, other than, I think, typical seasonality..

Yeah. And historically, that's the way we've been managing our business, essentially, that kind of balance between growth and profitability. But really focus on building a very strong foundation of profitable recurring revenues. So over the years, we are always managing well our head count versus our growth, and that's what we have been doing.

Today, if there's an acceleration, it's in India, which of course is a significant strategic advantage, as we discussed earlier. And we're really been doing very well in India. And we're continuing investing in India..

Okay.

And then just to follow up on that, would you expect that the expenses that the majority of them will be in India for 2017 like you've been seeing?.

Not really, because it's the big advantage in terms of more head count in India growth....

Right..

...but not in term of expenses because you have essentially....

Right. Right..

...ratio of 6:1 or 7 or 8:1. So it's significant..

Okay.

And then just a quick follow-up on can you guys remind us the cash tax impact or the GAAP tax rate impacts that you're going to see in 2017?.

Yeah. So, as you're aware, (35:01) came into effect. So it's about the excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation hit the book tax expense instead of hitting APIC. So for Q1 – this is driven by, in part, stock option exercises. As it's been publicly disclosed, Philippe exercised a large option grant earlier in January.

That's what's driving the large Q1 benefit of 145% for an effective tax rate..

Right. Okay. Thanks, guys..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Michael Kim with Imperial Capital. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Hi. Good afternoon, guys.

So, with the five new solutions planned in the road map for 2017, and you talked a little about the need for growth investments in the R&D line, can you talk a little bit in how you feel about sales capacity and the need to maybe invest in the field organization or account manager, and how we should think about that building out over time?.

Yes. So as you know, our sales force, again, is divided into two category, the hunters and the farmers. With the farmers, it's almost mathematical. With the growth of the customers, we essentially grow our technical account manager post-sales, as we call them.

And of course, the big advantage we have here is that because we do now the dollars per customers is increasing. Of course, we don't need to double if one customer is $1 million dollar customer a year, and becomes a $2 million customers a year, I don't need to double that head count. So here, we have a very – and that's a big base.

Remember, this is the core of our business. Then our looking – so this is almost mathematic. It goes with the growth, but we are very predictable.

On the new business side, essentially, we have now – our new business is really coming – more than 50% of our new business is coming from partners, despite some of the very big deals that we do as new business directly. So that's essentially where the investment we've seen our sales force is to add more new business people.

That's what we're currently looking, and in fact, we're looking at people who can now start selling at a higher level. We have now the ability to sell to the CIO, which we'd never had before, doing the top-down sale. We could provide to the companies the full view of their global IT assets.

We can now provide them with a continuous view of the security and compliance posture on those assets, and now with the IOC, also telling them which of these assets have been compromised or that we believe are very suspicious. So that allows us to have a much more top-down sales, as opposed to the bottom-up sales that we did in the past.

So that's where we're putting the focus. And of course, they're being very strong partners, and you would see the partner that we'll announce at RSA give a significant ability to grow our new business as well, so which is a much more balanced and much more profitable than I think a lot of feet on the ground..

Yeah. And I would just add we're very excited about the two VP positions that we filled..

Yeah..

Hiring someone for the VP of EMEA, as well as promoting someone from within for U.S. sales, which he thinks will help sort of organize and help elevate the discussion to the CIO..

Yeah, and I'm going to be, as I mentioned in the – and I'm going to actively look for an EVP of Worldwide Sales, somebody who has really knows how to sell at the top. That's essentially – we're building a very good sales force, which knows the business very well.

I think it's adding more new business people, and as well as people who can help us connect at higher level in the organizations..

Great. And then just going back to some of deals that got pushed into Q1, some of them did sound a bit on the larger side.

Are you seeing any change in buying patterns? Maybe additional reviews on the part of the enterprise customers? And any general trend in the lengthening of sales cycles?.

No, what we see – no, as far as our business is concerned, we don't see any change. In fact, what we see today is that now they appreciate more and more the cost saving because we have significantly more new product.

So now we start to speak, in fact, in term of ROI, sometimes about the money we can save them if they consolidate few of their application. And that's very specific with the File Integrity Monitoring, for example.

With Policy Compliance as well, these are really application where we saved a lot of dollars because you don't need all these amount of service and infrastructure, as you know, to manage our cloud-based solutions as opposed to these traditional enterprise legacy software, I will call them, which requires hundreds of servers and updates, et cetera, extremely costly, not so much on the term of their maintenance per se, of their license, but in term of what the costs associated with managing them, updating them, et cetera..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Matt Hedberg with RBC Capital Market. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Thanks. This is actually Matt Swanson on for Matt.

Philippe, can you talk a little bit about the competitive landscape in the WAS market? And maybe as it relates to the updates that are coming out RSA and how that leaves you positioned?.

one is the ability to automatically scale, so now instead of having to configure the scanners to scan large numbers of application, you don't care, you just point the scanners, and they automatically load balance. And now we can scan very easily thousands of web applications. That's the one thing.

And the second thing, and you will see why it's important to have the one-click patching, because what's the purpose of scanning thousands of web application if you cannot fix the code? So you need, of course, to eliminate the vulnerabilities. And the only practical way today on web application is to do the virtual patch.

So, the second thing that the Web Application Firewall brings to the table is the ability to essentially scan the REST APIs, which open the door now to us looking at the mobile web applications. So that's again – that's the kind of a new market.

And now, with the one-click patching, essentially we identified a vulnerability, and now we have made that very easy, with one click, the ability to patch. What was missing before, the mistake we had made that we had made that automatic. And then of course, nobody wanted to have that automatic. And so we had to open up everything, the key model.

So now we can show exactly what the engine recommends that we do. So people can look at that, and then if everything is fine, tap click and the virtual patch is pushed and installed. So they go hand-in-hand. So that, we think, is going to do two things. One is accelerate our growth of Web Application Scanning.

But also at the same time, add additional revenues with the Web Application Firewall. So we're very happy. It went GA like I think, last week, or a few days ago. So now it's GA. And we start to see some very good results..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Siti Panigrahi with Wells Fargo. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Melissa, this first one on housekeeping.

Did you say that VM solution growth for Q4 was 16% and 2016 was 19%?.

That's correct, Siti..

And what about the similar growth rates for the other security solutions like that?.

Yeah. So for Q4, it was 22%, and for the year, 26%..

Okay. Okay. That's helpful.

Now, looking at your guidance for 2017 of 16% to 18% normalized growth rate, if I compare that to your normalized 20% growth rate earlier, what are your assumption in terms of VM market growth? Are there any factors, like, you know, competitions, or any other factors that influence your growth rate for 2017? Any color would be great..

Yes. Sure. So you know we had a great quarter across new products as well as across VM. When we've talked about VM historically, we've talked about how VM has grown 19% both in 2015 and 2016 continually outperforming the market, and that's because the innovation we've done around VM-related solutions.

And so, we talked about at Analyst Day, if you looked at the original core VM solution was approximately 83% of revenue, three years ago, was only approximately 75% revenues today. But because of we're in the early stages of adoptions of our new solutions, our guidance does not assume a material contribution from new solutions..

Okay.

Do you expect any kind of revenue stream coming from ThreatPROTECT or Cloud Agent? Any of the new product probably more in the 2018 timeframe? Or what's your expectation on that?.

Yeah. We haven't baked in the material contribution from new solutions and we would include that in it as well.

I provided the color that, you know, for the years 2016, these solutions contribute to bookings – they were about 5% of total bookings, but that also includes the underlying, for Cloud Agent, the underlying Vulnerability Management or Policy Compliance subscription. So we feel very good about the momentum but it's early stages of adoption for us..

In term of revenue impact..

Right. In terms of revenue impact. That's correct..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of John Lucia with JMP Securities. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the question. You said your revenue was negatively impacted by deal pushouts out of Q4 into Q1, some of which have closed, yet your Q1 guidance doesn't seem to reflect that. The Q1 guidance is for historically low sequential growth if you look at Q1.

Can you just help me understand that?.

Yeah. So look, as we said, we had a great quarter. We had record new business in the quarter. We saw strong performance in new solutions with Cloud Agent bookings accelerating 90% sequentially and ThreatPROTECT almost doubling. We saw increasing dollars from multi-product adoption from our enterprise customers.

But Q1 is a seasonally low quarter for bookings for us, and because we're in the early stages of adoption of our newer solutions, we're not assuming material contribution in our guidance. And we also have headwinds from MSSP and FX that we've taken into account..

Okay. And I guess I want to circle back on the new products. You've had the new products like Cloud Agent. I think Cloud Agent was introduced two years ago. ThreatPROTECT, I think was a year ago. I know there's been significant product innovations that have happened since then or updates.

But why aren't we seeing these products be meaningful in 2017? Do you just need more time or is there a catalyst, like a product release or something that'll drive the growth in 2018? I'm just curious why we're not seeing meaningful contribution in 2017 from these products..

Yeah, it just takes time for the adoption. There are two things that we're impacted from, right. One is the adoption of new products and then the time it takes to impact our revenues because we have a ratable revenue recognition model.

We see a lot of interest from the Cloud Agents, but in certain situations, it involves getting the buy-in from IT in order to implement them. And so, all of our customers are giving us very good feedback and, as we said, we have approximately 1 million Cloud Agents in trial, so we feel very good.

But we think it's prudent to guide based on no material contribution to our revenues from these..

Yeah. And also, if you say that the Cloud Agent is about – it will be two years old in August of this year, essentially, but ThreatPROTECT is much younger also as well. So of course, we have a lot of Cloud Agent.

ThreatPROTECT is essentially a 30% increase in the – or net to us, let's say, is about 20% net if you count the resellers and so forth on our current VM, so that's, of course, very good. But it takes – as Melissa mentioned, it takes some time. So we are being prudent..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Steven Couche with Stephens. Your line is open. Please go ahead. Mr. Couche, your line could be muted..

Sorry. It was. This is Steven on for Jonathan, and thanks for taking the question. So most of my questions have already been answered, but just a quick modeling question, with regards to cost of revenue moving forward, it makes sense that you have some additional expenses there ahead of your revenue ramp.

I guess, looking into the back half of 2017 and probably into 2018, should we expect gross margin to tick back up into the 80-ish range? Or should we think about 79% as kind of the new run rate? And can you give us kind of a broad timeline on when we should expect you to grow into those additional expenses? Thanks..

Yeah. So in terms of cost of sales, we're going to be adding expenses throughout the year. So while we don't guide to gross margin, you could see some pressure there. And it's a bit early to give color on 2018..

Okay. Great. That's all I have. Thank you..

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Patrick Colville with Arete Research. Your line is open. Please go ahead..

Hi, there. Thanks for taking my question. So profitability implied in your guidance seems to be kind of falling for next year. Is that due to continued R&D investment? And I guess the kind of second half of that question is R&D as a percent of sales is quite high versus software companies more broadly and security companies.

Is that something we can expect to trend down over time?.

Yeah. So, as we indicated at our Analyst Day, and then we confirmed here, this 2017 is the year of investment for Qualys. And as such, because we see such an opportunity to sustain and even accelerate our growth rate, we are making investments across the company.

A lot of it is going to be head count in R&D, as we add people to support the rollout of new products, so that's not only engineers and QA around specific new products, but it's also people who are developing additional capacity in the back end to support the additional customer base that we expect to get.

So that's going to be a lot of it, but there'll also be areas, I talked about like sales and marketing, both of my head count perspective as well as the branding, as well as expenses around branding, which we decided to time around the RSA Conference..

Yeah. And just to add a little bit more color on the engineering side to give you some example. We're continuing to expanding our back end significantly. So we introduced ElasticSearch capabilities. I'm very happy to report that, believe it or not, we're up today 9 billion data points index on with our cluster of ElasticSearch. That's significant.

So now, we're adding additional components to our back end, such as (51:49) and Cassandra for essentially analytics. So all of that, of course, requires investment in the back end, and of course, as you continue delivering new services on the top of these back-end capabilities. That's where you really get the leverage.

So, we're still investing for the future. We have built a very powerful platform. We're going to introduce passive scanning. So it's all about getting more data, more power. We've just announced that we have expanded, in fact, our data centers to adding three more, one in the U.S. and then we have three shared platform in the U.S.

We have added one in India, which is going to serve the Indian market. We're starting to see very good traction as well as Asia-Pac, and another one in Amsterdam, we have one in Swiss historically, and we still have one in Switzerland, but just added another one Amsterdam.

And the specific reason of that additional one in Amsterdam is to comply with the EU regulation, whereby you need to have your data in a EU country, and Switzerland is not, as I'm sure, you all know, an EU country. So now we're in Amsterdam, and this is – they are both – that these three additional data centers are operational already..

Got it. Thanks very much, and see you next week at RSA..

Okay. Thank you..

Great..

Yeah. Very happy to see you there. By the way, I invite all of you to come at the booth. We have a huge, huge display, 7x9. We're working to showcase our solution. It's quite impressive. And high definition, you know, 4K display. So that should be fantastic. So, we cannot wait to see you there, and you could see what we're doing..

Thank you. And I'm showing no further questions at this time, and I would like to turn the conference back over to Joo Mi Kim for any closing remarks..

Thanks, Michelle, and thank you, all, for attending our Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2016 Call. As Philippe mentioned, we look forward to seeing many of you at the RSA Conference in San Francisco next week. Thank you..

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating in today's conference. This does conclude the program and you may all disconnect. Everyone, have a great day..