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This is available on our website and as an exhibit to the Form eight ks furnished with the SEC prior to this call. Or a supplemental financial presentation, which is available on our website. With that, I'll hand the conversation over to John.

Thank you, David.

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as we share the results of our fiscal second quarter. I'm happy to share that once again, we've achieved strong supported by cloud ARR, new AI capabilities, new partnerships new logos, expanded client accounts and cloud migrations around the world. I'll share details on these growth drivers on this call. In Q2, our cloud ARR grew to $331,000,000 up 29% year over year. Cloud now represents 76% of our total ARR of $437,000,000 In the quarter, we earned SaaS revenue of $80,000,000 up 27% year over year. And total revenue of $121,000,000 up 17% year over year. Now I'd like to share some highlights from our fiscal second quarter.

I'll start with our continued success specifically our ongoing applied AI innovation. And its practical applications in professionals' daily workflows. This quarter, we introduced a new AI powered search feature within Intapp Assist for DealCloud. Applying even more generative AI to the daily work of professionals. Using natural language query, professionals are now more easily able to bring together multiple types of deal This ability to discover and analyze client and deal intelligence across complex datasets is helping professionals apply broader firm wide intelligence to their work.

Also deepened DealCloud's integration with Microsoft Outlook, helping professionals perform work even more seamless without needing to continually switch back and forth. We also created a new integration which allows users to leverage DealCloud's relationship intelligence functionality within Google Calendar and Gmail. Eliminating the need for manual data entry and app switching for that segment our market. Finally, expanded Intapp walls for Copilot to include comprehensive risk assessment data In addition to giving firms control over the data that Copilot is authorized to act The solution now also identifies and alerts compliance teams to previously unknown potential oversharing and security risks among the thousands of documents stored across the firm in OneDrive. It's another way that we're enabling the secure adoption of AI for our clients and continually strengthening our partnership with Microsoft.

Strategy and Intapp Intelligent Cloud. Since launching our updated and expanded partner program at the beginning of last fiscal year, we've seen strong growth in a number of our partnerships which is now 20% higher than a year ago with 137 data, technology and services partners, We formed several notable new integration partnerships [indiscernible] Including proms a commercial real estate data management platform and pass through a SaaS based investor onboarding platform Both of these new partners integrate within Intapp DealCloud to add additional capabilities for fund managers and investors in real estate and private capital. Meanwhile, our Microsoft partnership continues to be a growth lever and differentiator for our business. In Q2, we helped several of our clients purchase Intapp solutions through the Azure Marketplace, For example, one of the world's largest investment banks significantly expanded their adoption of Intapp DealCloud as The availability of Intapp solutions on the Azure Marketplace allowed the client to use some of their pre committed Microsoft spend to acquire our technology. This deal is a great example of the way our Microsoft partnership adds value for our clients. I'll turn now to Q2 wins. Both new clients and expansions. As well as cloud migrations.

First, I'm pleased to share that we're continuing to grow through the addition of new clients.

In accounting and consulting, new firms are adopting solutions across our product offering. For example, Alvarez and Marcel. A global consulting firm selected Intapp DealCloud to help its expanding corporate finance practice group manage origination, sales pipeline and deal workflows. Next, Milstead Langdon, a UK based accounting firm, shows InteP collaboration to automate workspace governance and gain greater structure and control around collaboration. Next, Armanino, a top 20 accounting firm in The U. S. [indiscernible] as its centralized solution to more quickly and accurately identify and resolve [indiscernible] We're seeing a similar trend in the legal industry. With new law firm clients also choosing Intapp solutions across our solution set, I'll share a few highlights. GADEN, shows Intapp compliance solutions to support and enhance its robust new business intake processes. By leveraging this advanced technology, Skadden aims to maintain its leading position in delivering a seamless and efficient experience to clients during the intake process. While also establishing more efficient workflows to enhance partner productivity and risk management. Next, Colin Biggers and Paisley, shows cloud based Intapp time to modernize its timekeeping practices enable more efficient work processes for [indiscernible] Next, Sackers selected Intac Intapp for its powerful enterprise relationship management [indiscernible] Additionally, new financial services firms continued to move away from their legacy horizontal CRM solutions [indiscernible] to centralize information improve utilization and reduce manual processes.

Wins this quarter include the investment banking arm of one of the largest banks in America. Asset management firm Cartesia and a growing European private equity firm. We see this trend as a significant growth area for Intap Intapp. This quarter, cross selling and up selling continue to drive strong cloud net revenue retention I'll share some notable examples. Law firms continue to add DealCloud to their Intapp solution stack.

Including three clients in the Amlaw 100.

Troutman Pepper Locke, chose DiehlCloud as its single consolidated Next, a Global 50 law firm moved off its legacy CRM and onto DealCloud, with Intap Assist for improved CRM access functionality and AI capabilities. [indiscernible] longtime users of Intapp time and compliance solutions added DealCloud and BuildStream as part of a strategic initiative to modernize its marketing, business development and pre billing technology. The firm is also migrating its existing Intapp portfolio to the cloud to enhance data integration and maximize the synergies across the Intapp platform. Large accounting and consulting firms also continued to add solutions I'll share a few. Aprio added Intapp conflicts to streamline operations, reduce manual reporting and improve tracking of gifts, entertainment compliance. Next, one of the big three consulting firms replaced its legacy compliance software with Intap employee compliance, to increase automation and scalability. Next, a large global consulting firm added Intap walls and Intap collaboration to facilitate the compliant use of Microsoft Teams and transform the firm's Microsoft three sixty five platform into a compliant engagement centric collaboration solution. Additionally, a Big four client firm expanded Intapp DealCloud further now adding professionals in its Ireland firm. To enable more efficient deal making and global collaboration.

And we're seeing success with legal clients choosing to migrate their Intapp solutions to the cloud this quarter. I'll share two more notable examples.

An Amlaw 50 firm is migrating Intapp to the cloud as well as adding Intap DealCloud to centralized lawyer and key client plans. And finally, Venish, is migrating both Intapp Time and Intapp BuildStream to the cloud to further streamline processes.

In conclusion, we're proud of our strong second quarter performance and we continue to be optimistic about the growth opportunities. As our Q2 performance has shown, we are growing by adding new capabilities and increasing our global enterprise go to market reach. We see continued opportunity both to add new clients across a broad TAM and to deliver greater value by expanding within our existing client base. We're serving a durable end market with our subscription revenue model. Industry specific cloud platform and applied AI and compliance capabilities. We have a great growth opportunity to drive AI, cloud adoption and modernization across all the industries we serve. As always, I'd like to thank our clients, our partners, our investors, our Board and our global Intapp team for their teamwork and dedication. Thank you all very much. Okay, David, over to you. Thanks, John.

Thank you everyone for joining us today. I'm pleased to report a strong second quarter performance. Driven by robust cloud adoption across Intac's vertical specific offerings and expanding enterprise client base and continued improvements in operational efficiency. As we enter the second half of fiscal twenty twenty five, we are well positioned to capitalize on multiple growth levers and drive sustained profitability at Let's begin with the fiscal Q2 results. Acquisitions on track expansions and the migration of on premise products to the cloud. As of December 31, 92% of our clients had adopted at least one cloud module. License revenue which represents the combined on prem revenue was $28,000,000 in fiscal Q2, approximately flat year over year. While price increases in contract expansions contributed positively These were offset by client migrations to the cloud reflecting the ongoing transition to our SaaS offerings. Professional services revenue totaled $13,200,000 up 4% year over year. Our strategic decision to outsource more activities to partners has allowed us to place greater emphasis on enhancing client satisfaction and driving co sell pipeline generation, supporting our long term growth objectives. Of our cloud solution. Revenue from our international operations accounted for almost a third of our total revenue this quarter and continues to provide growth opportunities.

International revenue grew 24% year over year in Q2. As highlighted in recent quarters, we continue to invest in and expand our alliances and partner ecosystem around Intapp. Our network now includes 137 data, technology and service partners, reflecting our significant growth. Notably, our co sell partners, which grew 30% year over year in Q2, are playing an increasingly pivotal role in client acquisition and retention through their implementation and expertise and value added integrations. Our enhanced partner program bolsters capabilities in deal generation technology, data and implementation, and we remain As we continue to emphasize our product led growth strategy, our new vertical SaaS AI offerings include Intapp assist now featuring our term SKU and intap walls for Copilot continue to make contributions in the quarter. While we are still in the early stages of product rollout, pipeline development and client provisioning we remain excited about the growth prospects ahead. Q2 non GAAP gross margin was 76.7 percent, up from 73.4% in the prior year period reflecting progress toward breakeven professional services gross margins and optimizing the relative top line contribution from that business. Non GAAP operating expenses totaled $74,100,000 compared to $68,600,000 in the prior year period, reflecting our continued investment in our product led growth.

As we continue to focus on our operational efficiency, non GAAP operating income was 18.99 as compared to $7,600,000 in the prior year period. Non GAAP diluted EPS was $0.21 in the Q2 of fiscal 2025 as compared to $0.11 in the prior year period. Free cash flow, which is defined as our cash flow from operations less capital expenditures, was $25,200,000 for the 2nd quarter or 21 percent of total revenue. We exited the quarter with $285,600,000 of cash and cash equivalents. Turning to our key metrics. Cloud ARR was up 29% year over year, while total ARR was up 20% year over year. Total remaining performance obligations were $615,300,000 up 37% year over year. Our go to market sales strategy remains focused on landing new logos and we've ended the quarter with over 2,650 clients. Of these, 728 had an annual recurring revenue of at least 100,000 up from $649,000 in the previous year. Our 119% cloud net revenue retention rate in Q2 highlights our ability to retain and steadily grow business with existing cloud clients. Now turning to our outlook. For the Q3 of fiscal 'twenty 5, we expect SaaS revenue of between $84,000,000 85,000,000 dollars As these are newly provided revenue outlook metrics, we'll also be providing the implied year over year growth outlook of between 27% 28%.

Total revenue in the range of 128.3 dollars Non GAAP operating income in the range of $18,500,000 and non GAAP EPS results of $0.21 to $0.23 using a diluted share count weighted for the quarter of approximately 84,000,000 common shares outstanding. For the full fiscal 2025, we expect SaaS revenue between $328,800,000 $332,800,000 And as these are newly provided revenue outlook metrics, we're also providing the implied year over year growth outlook of between 27 [indiscernible] Total revenue in the range of 4 98 point $5,000,000 $502,500,000 We also expect non GAAP operating income in the range of $70,200,000 $74,200,000 dollars and non GAAP EPS in the range of $0.83 to 0.87 dollars using a diluted share count weighted for the fiscal year 'twenty 5 of approximately 84,000,000 common shares outstanding. Thank you I'll now turn the call back to the operator. Thank you. Our first question comes from Aleksey Gogolov with JPMorgan. You may proceed.

Hello, everyone, and congratulations on great results. John, I was wondering if there has been any change to your guidance philosophy do you feel that you now have more visibility and can guide more accurately because it seems like in the past there were more significant beats And in terms of the demand environment, I think you recall that on the last earnings call, you suggested that demand is very strong and the pipeline is the strongest you've seen in history. That still the case? And if you could provide maybe some more color on top of what you said during your prepared remarks?

Sure. Thanks, Alexi. I'll take the beginning and then Dave you can address some of the guidance questions.

The quarter was very strong.

The pipeline is strong. And we actually brought in quite a few large deals We did go through the organizational change that we talked about in the last quarter and what we saw was a little bit of a back end loading of deals. So we had a lot of deals in December. This quarter. But overall demand is very good. The AI is being taken up very well. We talked about some new capabilities with Intapp Assist that have been adopted rapidly by the client base the deal cloud with Outlook integration is very strong. [indiscernible] OneDrive and some other areas, which were all very well received. So I'm optimistic about where we Dave, do you want to talk about the philosophy?

Yes.

Thanks, John. Yes, I would just echo the same thing. And then with respect to the guide itself, we continue to provide a very prudent guide that we have a lot of visibility in. We came into the quarter with a lot of pipe to convert. Very impressed with the teams of being able to enable that and convert that We also have to remember that with specifically with SaaS, at times if it's so back end loaded, the revenue yield on that is [indiscernible] And in many cases, you may be only getting a day or 2. Revenue in that instance. Or there could have been some deals that were signed that actually have a oneone of 25 start date. You kind of see that when you start triangulating the different metrics as a public SaaS company. You could step back and look at our RPOs our current RPOs, our billings, our deferred revenue on and on and on and it all correlates to the same attribute of having a very strong quarter that the team executed very well against.

Thank you, David. And a quick follow-up on your gross margins seems like another very strong quarter improving sequentially. It appears that service gross margins were improving as well. I was wondering if you have any midterm trajectory that you can share with us because you now have 3 quarters sequentially of profitable service gross margins where do you see them in the mid to So we haven't updated our formal metrics on that. Semi from to just get to breakeven. Will acknowledge the team has been over performing on that and has yielded profitability to below the line. And so again, our first and foremost has always been about serving our clients more from a customer satisfaction versus a top line growth or even profitability center? But it has it how it's been lined off and the economics applied, we've gotten some leverage from that. So very, very pleased.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Our next question comes from Parker Lane with Stifel. You may proceed.

Yes, guys. Thanks for taking the question. John, you've been working on the enterprise account go to market motion over the last couple of years and that was big emphasis on last quarter's call. Wondering if there's any update on how those additional resources are assisting there and whether or not there's been any incremental hiring or it's mostly been sort of shifting folks around and getting them really centered in on those large deal opportunities.

Thanks, Parker. I'm very pleased with the way that the group went through that update to the organization, we wanted to emphasize more coverage in the large enterprise accounts because there's so much TAM there for us continue to go pursue both landing new accounts and expanding within existing clients. Among those firms. And we did successfully make that change in Q1. In Q2, there were some account transitions that were still going on, but by the middle of the quarter, everything was done and we saw some very good results. From the team there in December people working together. We have continued to invest in the sales and marketing organization. We have a lot of growth ahead of us And so we're going to be conscious about doing that. But we're also seeing very good results. From the folks that we have on the field and I'm very grateful to the hard work that people put in and some of the really significant successes that we had there in December. So I'm very proud of the group Thanks, John. David, I think it was last year at the Analyst Day you talked about 300 to 500 basis points of margin expansion being sort of principle here.

Looks like you're set to run a little above that even at the midpoint of this guide. Can you just talk about some of the puts and takes there that have you delivering ahead of expectations this year and what we should expect going forward?

Yes. Thanks, Parker. We're able to really optimize our G and A function a lot sooner than had originally Intapp. And then obviously with services coming on top of that with the break in even to positive has yielded that opportunity set where we will continue to invest and just a reminder to everybody, we continue to be a product led growth organization. And so we will continue to invest in our product and engineering as well as our go to market functions where we see opportunities. And since we see a lot of opportunities, we'll continue to drop X amount of dollars in those set of functions as we continue to scale. Towards that $1,000,000,000 and in that long term model that we articulated back on. [indiscernible] When it was.

Thanks, David. Appreciate the color.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Koji Akyuta with Bank of America, you may proceed.

Hey, this is Natalie Howe on for Koji. Thanks for taking my question. So it's good to hear that there's healthy traction in your partnerships, especially with Microsoft. I wanted to ask how do you see those partnerships evolving from here? And how does your AI strategy come into play? I know you mentioned that there were some AI products that are also on the marketplace there. So will it potentially accelerate momentum And that Thanks, Natalie. Yes, the partners ecosystem, the alliances ecosystem that we have been investing to develop over the past few years is a core part of the strategy So much of our opportunity in the market can be positively influenced by great relationships with many of the expertise partners that we have in each of the verticals. Microsoft obviously is the largest relationship that we have and extremely strategic to us. Have been doing a lot of work with them on AI in this market in particular, how do we apply all of the technology that's increasingly available 2 specific business problems in these farms. And so the partner system is helping bring us opportunities It's also helping us deploy our software with particular solutions as we roll them out.

Could be in Tap Assist, for deal cloud or for terms or, walls for copilot or additional Intapp assist capabilities that we have coming up And Microsoft is actually working directly with us in their engineering team because of the closeness of the relationship and the importance of this market to make sure that we can bring not only Copilot, but all of our technology into those firms in very specific applied application that create value for the clients. And we've had a very positive reaction from the CIOs and the users and the executives in our client firms to the strength of our relationship, we will co sell With them, co demonstrate with them and then deploy together and it gives the clients a lot of confidence that we have an enterprise grade solution that is really unavailable anywhere else in the marketplace. So we're very excited about that. That ecosystem strategy.

Got it. Thank you. Appreciate that.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Terry Tillman with Truist Securities. You may Yes. Hey, John, Dave and David. Thanks for taking my questions.

First question is just on the strength in the cloud ARR. Just kind of extrapolating off of that, is there probably an expectation that there's going to be some seasonality and some lumpiness in maybe 4Q is kind of the strongest quarter And related to that first question, is there anything kind of baked in on some of your larger on prem customers maybe converting by the Q4? And then I have a follow-up.

Hey, Terry, it's Dave. Let me take the initial and John can add some comments there. Yes, we are seeing a seasonality form specifically in and around December June quarters. With our respective clients. And so coming off of a year ago, we feel very successful of where we've been able to do Even if you look at our first half, this fiscal year, we are actually ahead of our first half last fiscal year. And so even though we didn't get off to the best start for this fiscal year, we feel that we've over [indiscernible] for us in the back half of our fiscal 2025. With respect to the on prem to cloud transition, As I've indicated previously, we had a couple in flight this past quarter that We've started the initiation That work will time out in the next 6 to 9 months and then you'll see the full ratability up in the cloud ARR as well as in the SaaS revenue line. And so we'll continue to keep you updated as we continue to progress, but more and more of those deals and transitions are happening that will impact favorably to fiscal the back half of [indiscernible] That's great.

And then maybe the follow-up question, thank you for that.

Dave. John, you talked about a variety of deal cloud wins in legal, and then obviously some customers moving to cloud. I think you mentioned a time example and I'm totally short shifting in terms of all the other stuff you talked about. But what I'm curious about is sometimes in the past I'll have investors say, is the legal part of their business the slower growth kind of more of a part of their business? Curious if there's an inflection point or kind of an improving growth trend line in the legal side of your business, whether it's because Shift2Cloud, AI, deal cloud, etcetera. Just maybe you could share a little bit more the vitality on growth on the legal side. Thank you. Thank you for picking up on that, Terry. Was a very strong quarter across the board but we wanted to highlight some really exciting trends in legal and accounting consulting for just this reason, there have been questions about this. Underlying industries that we are serving are doing very well. And they themselves are optimistic about what the next few years pertains for activity that will drive their business and they're looking to invest in technology to support their growth.

As firms.

And we're perfectly positioned to bring modern cloud AI to these firms in an industry specific way and we've established now a reputation over many years as the trusted partner of them and of important players like Microsoft to be able to bring the modern systems to them in an industry specific solution.

So I do think there are important things happening many of these end markets because of the uptick in optimism more generally. And I think that plays through for us.

Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Saket Kalia with Barclays.

May proceed. Hey, great. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions here. John, maybe for you, just maybe hitting on that. On that that point around conversions. This was one of the bigger sort of declines that we've seen in on premise ARR, which is great, right, because it sounds like there's there's healthy conversion activity. There was healthy conversion activity here in Q2.

Can you just maybe talk about any changes that that Intapp is making to drive that? And how you think about sort of the journey for that on premise space going forward?

Thanks, Saket. Yes, obviously, this is a smaller and smaller part of our business as we continue to sell only cloud and grow the cloud business. But moving these important clients to the cloud is an important part of our operating plan. Place this fiscal year and we've done that. We have an executive leading this with a group that's focused on helping the law firms to make the migration. They want to go. One of the things that we try to emphasize as well is how many of our clients have cloud already. That number was in the 92 this quarter.

But we're excited about how receptive they are. It's more of a practical program, how do they prioritize this project among their various IT projects to move? And the more of the AI technology that we bring to the cloud and the more eager the firms are to get that AI working to support various activities inside their own firm, the more attractive it is on the business side for them to move in addition to just the IT project of consolidation. So I think that's really helping us and the Microsoft partnership is part of that too because now people can use the Mac agreements with Microsoft to move many of our firms, an increasing number firms have those. So it's all part of a general trend that we're optimistic is going to help us move these people and help them become even more successful with the more modern solution that we have in the cloud.

Got it.

That makes sense. Dave, maybe for my follow-up for you on that same topic. You just talk a little bit about just the high level economics of a conversion? I mean, should we think about a conversion sort of being 1 for 1 from on premise to SaaS? Or is there additional value that you're able to deliver in those conversions? Yes, I think we've started commenting over the last 90 days that there is additional value, either through contract compliance either through upsell and then obviously through the opportunity of cross sell. And what we've experienced thus far is a nominal 20% upside that we've been seeing at this point in time. Very helpful. Thank you. Our next question comes from Steve Enders with Citi. You may proceed.

Okay, great. Thanks for taking the questions here. I guess to start, I want to follow-up on some of the prior commentary on the go to market changes and the impact that's having. I guess, are we at this point kind of like broadly through the changes in the account structure And I guess secondarily, is there maybe any flow through or still kind of like any catch up spend that could potentially come in here in the next couple of quarters as as some of those changes kind of still come into effect?

Thanks, Steve. No, we are through. It took us a quarter, a quarter and a half and the team did a great job of making that change and we saw some really positive results [indiscernible] the accounts that folks were working with in December. We are going to continue to invest in sales and marketing generally and Dave you can talk about that. But for this particular transformation we're done.

Yes. Sorry, Steve. I was just going to add on. As normal course of business, we're going to continue to invest in our sales and marketing, obviously, through whether it be some nominal increase marketing or PieGen to adding more feet on the ground and ensuring productivity we start scaling and thinking about FY 'twenty six.

Okay, perfect. That's helpful context. And just quick follow-up, just housekeeping, any maybe like FX impact or any kind of movements this quarter that may be impacted either how we should think about second half outlook or ARR or billings in the quarter?

No, we had a very straightforward quarter, if you will, the FX impact for Intapp is very immaterial. Most of our [indiscernible] contracts are done in U. S. Dollar. We do have some in various local currencies, but again, it's immaterial. With respect to getting into a broader theme, which is thinking about December being a strong quarter. You're starting to see some evolving seasonality And then as I kind of intimated at the very beginning, To Alex's question is, we had a broad based success across a lot of our KPIs. That are more forward looking just outside of just pure SaaS revenue. So when you start putting contacts calculated billings, the current RPO, there was some strength there that would also indicate we had some deals that were signed not only back half of this of this calendar year and this quarter, but also a couple that were signed to go 1one of 25.

Okay, perfect. No, I appreciate the extra Intapp there. So thanks for taking the questions and I'll turn it back in the queue.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Alex Sklar with Raymond James. You may proceed. Great. Thank you.

Dave or John, on the strong cloud NRR expansion this quarter, any change between the buckets of of cross sell, up sell pricing retention in Q2 or year to date? And then John, specifically on cross sell, you added that slide at the Investor Day showing how underpenetrated you were on deal cloud and some of those services and legal base.

Really nice quarter this quarter on that. How big of an opportunity is that deal cloud cross sell within kind of that late stage pipeline? Well, Alex, I'll answer the first part. There was no material change from kind of how we view the cross sell, up sell opportunities that make up that overall cohort I'll tell you you, we like the success across all Churn continues to be very low for us. And absolute GRR dollars, if you will. So that motion, that enterprise motion continues to work very, very well for us. [indiscernible] Thanks, Alex. Message at Investor Day was absolutely the scale of cross sell, up sell opportunity that we have across all of our markets. We have a land and expand model As we've talked about, For legal specifically and deal cloud in legal or deal cloud in professional services more broadly, it's a huge opportunity. The firms there have built a lot of in house software or they have tried to use the horizontal classic CRM systems for a business model that is entirely different. Then a sales force [indiscernible] widgets from a price list, which is an excellent design if that's your business model, but for these professionals who sell their expertise and advisory services and each relationship is unique and each deal that they do, each engagement that they do is custom negotiated with a custom engagement letter and what they're going to is unique at the user perspective, and now with AI, how do you apply AI to really supercharge the way that these professional firms work?

And there are some of the largest businesses on the planet. It's 3% of the global economy these firms. So we think it's a massive opportunity to bring a purpose built to market system that supports growth for these firms, which is what they're facing now now with an AI set of capabilities that should enable these professionals to network among themselves and bring the expertise of their partners the full weight of the firm's knowledge and expertise to each engagement. So each client gets the full benefit of the firm's collective knowledge. That is not what a classic horizontal CRM is designed to do and it is exactly deal cloud is designed to do. So we're very excited. It took us a little while to get the early adopters and get the references and get the AI in and get everybody understanding what the transformation opportunity was, but it's really starting to pick up. And so we were very excited to be able to list those names on the call.

Okay, great color.

And then just a follow-up.

Kind of Steve's question before, but on the improved bookings exiting December, is the comment you were trying to make that you're seeing productivity back at levels before the changes in place? Or is there still some expectation that you can get productivity even higher from some of the changes around territories and and more enterprise reps broadly as we kind of think about Q3 and Q4?

I think one point is that we're through the transformation. So we had that [indiscernible] Another is that we did very well after that, would play through and actually paid off. So we're excited about that. I think we're setting up here for strong performance in 202526 because we have such opportunity that we just talked about in the large accounts. We wanted to make sure that we were covering those. So productivity is good, Can we do more? I think as we continue to grow into those large accounts, the size of deals that you can do are very significant. And so that by itself should help us with productivity number. I will say I'm very proud of the team's performance. They really did a ton of work here to bring in a very large pipeline and land a bunch of deals this quarter that we were excited to see. At the same time, there's a very good outlook here. So we've got a lot of optimism about where we're headed.

Okay, great. Thank you both.

Thank you.

Our next question comes from Brian Schwartz with Oppenheimer and Company. You may proceed.

Yes.

Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. John, just following up on the last [indiscernible] Are you seeing the linearity revert back to more historical trends? Here in fiscal 3Q versus what you saw in 2Q from the sales reorganization.

In terms of linearity per quarter, Dave, do you want to talk about the quarters and how we're describing them?

Yes. So if it's Brian, if it's within the quarter, yes, I mean, we're off to a good start And so we're very confident in the prudent guide that we've given With respect to last quarter, there was just a lot of deal activity And yes, we had a good start, but I'll tell you a lot of that came at the end of the year with everything else going on. And everybody's daily life and whatnot. So So I'm glad that the team executed and converted that pipe Do we see kind of that plan at this level, no, we shouldn't be as back end loaded our March quarter versus where we were at last December.

Good.

And then in terms of deal sizes, because it sounds like you're closing a lot of deals out there. Are you seeing average deal sizes increase too?

As we large accounts, that will drag up your average calculation. Now we said over the quarters that the larger accounts are harder to predict which quarter they're going to land in. So there's some inherent lumpiness and as we shift business more and more towards the large TAM opportunity the large end of the market or at least proportionally so. You're going to see some variability from quarter to quarter in large deals landing, but yes, on average, if you step back and look over a year or so or more, you should see numbers tick up because that's where we're investing to put more people and deals and that's where the TAM is really significant.

Last question for me, John, maybe just very high level, here on just what you're seeing from hearing from customers in terms of the macro outlook is it your sense that, people are more optimistic and does the macro feel better to you today than it did last time that we spoke? 3 months ago. Thanks again for taking my questions.

Thanks, Brian. Well, I think the the underlying trend for us It's still digitalization for this underserved industry. These firms historically have not been successful with the classic horizontal systems and yet they have the same need for enterprise software and cloud solutions and AI as all the other businesses in the world and they see it out there and they want for themselves versus building in house, but they needed somebody built for them. So I think the general growth trend for us is that we're selling into a digitalizing market that actually is a little behind some of the other markets But the people there are extremely highly compensated, highly valuable workers who are doing very important deal advisory legal work for the large corporate clients around the world and they benefit significantly when their work is better supported, better automated through technology. That being said, there are some secular trends in each of the end markets that have supported us private capital in particular. Being just a growth industry as more of the world's investment dollar shift to alternatives that's really helping that whole market for us as a business. And then the advisory services that we sell to have some very strong growth trends.

There's a lot of consolidation actually. It's one of the fundamental drivers for us is the accounting industry, but also the legal industry in order to serve the more significant corporate clients, they want to have a larger global footprint. So there's a natural incentive for these firms to form larger and larger enterprise class become larger and larger enterprise class solution providers in and of themselves. And that drives natural demand for software to enable those firms and those partners collaborate around the world. So it's a lot of reasons structurally. And then I think this more recent thing optimism is also true. I mean, we've heard it from our own clients and they're translating that from their clients flowing through to their business. So I think we're in a good spot here.

Thank you.

Thank you. I would now like to turn the call back over to John Hall any closing remarks.

Okay. Well, thanks everyone. We appreciate your attention and your question We have a great Q2 behind us and we're excited about our continued momentum in fiscal 'twenty 5. Thanks again for time today and we look forward to talking to you next quarter.

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