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Greetings. And welcome to the UiPath Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2023 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions]
Please note, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Kelsey Turcotte, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations for UiPath. Kelsey, you may begin.
Good afternoon. And thank you for joining us today to review UiPath’s fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2023 financial results, which we announced in our earnings press release issued after the close of the market today.
On the call with me are Daniel Dines, UiPath’s Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer; Rob Enslin, Co-Chief Executive Officer; and Ashim Gupta, Chief Financial Officer. Rob will start the discussion and then turn the call over to Daniel. After that, Ashim will review our results and provide guidance. Then we will open the call for questions.
Our earnings press release and financial supplemental materials are posted on the UiPath Investor Relations website, ir.uipath.com. These materials include GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations. We will be discussing non-GAAP metrics on today’s call.
This afternoon’s call includes forward-looking statements about our ability to drive growth and operational efficiency and our financial guidance for the fiscal first quarter and full year 2024. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements due to many factors, and therefore, investors should not place undue reliance on these statements.
For a discussion of the material risks and uncertainties that could affect our actual results, please refer to our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2022, and other reports filed with the SEC, including our annual report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2023, to be filed with the SEC. Forward-looking statements made on this call reflect our views as of today. We undertake no obligation to update them.
I would like to highlight that this webcast is being accompanied by slides. We will post the slides and a copy of our prepared comments to our Investor Relations website immediately following the conclusion of this call.
Now I’d like to hand the call over to Rob.
Thank you, Kelsey, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We ended the year with a very strong fourth quarter, reflecting the progress we have made on our strategic initiatives and the strength of our AI-powered Business Automation Platform.
I’d like to thank the UiPath team and our partners for their hard work and focus throughout the year, as well as our customers for placing their trust in us. Ensuring customer success every day is the foundation of our future.
ARR ended the year at $1.2 billion, driven by net new ARR of $94 million. Excluding the FX headwind of $38 million, total ARR grew 34% year-over-year.
Fourth quarter revenue was $309 million. Total revenue for the fiscal year was $1.1 billion. Excluding the full-year FX headwind of $71 million, fiscal year revenue grew 27% year-over-year.
On the bottomline, a record fourth quarter non-GAAP operating margin of 22% drove full-year 2023 non-GAAP operating margin to 6%. We believe this strong finish to the year accelerates our path to profitability and serves as the baseline for our fiscal year 2024 non-GAAP operating margin outlook of 9.5%, an approximately 350-basis-point expansion year-over-year.
Executing a restructuring, driving efficiencies and streamlining our organization has increased our focus, enhanced business agility and leaves us well positioned to continue to expand our market share and leadership in automation. Driving growth at scale while increasing non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow is central to how we manage the business.
Our Automation Platform changes how organizations operate, innovate and grow, enabling our customers to quickly see a meaningful return on investment. For example, in the fourth quarter, a North American warehouse retail chain expanded their UiPath deployment adding Task Mining and software robots to scale their automation program across more than 330 outlets.
Wins like this are a great example of how value-selling with the right sales motion expands our footprint in existing customers. This is where our new go-to-market structure that creates coverage density and our new sales tools like the Northstar model come into play.
Northstar is designed to help the team better articulate the tangible results our Automation Platform delivers, particularly to the C-suite, driving organizational focus around automation and firmly establishing UiPath as a strategic part of a customer’s digital transformation journey.
Northstar also helps the team expand deals. During the fourth quarter we closed a record number of deals over $1 million, increasing our cohort of customers with $1 million or more in ARR to 229. Customers with $100,000 or more in ARR, increased to 1,785.
The fourth quarter was a good backdrop for our February sales kick-off where we trained the team on the full platform and a variety of new tools to build intimacy with customers, sell outcomes, drive new logos, increase expansion and build scale through partners.
Looking ahead to 2024, the team is ready to go, our enterprise and corporate segmentation models have been rolled out and accounts are assigned throughout the organization. We also continue to leverage insights gleaned from our customers with a vertical sales motion.
For example, in financial services, following a successful deployment at TD Securities, TD is now expanding automation across several lines of business at the bank to help deliver improved client experiences, productivity, and efficiencies.
And, in healthcare, Quest Diagnostics selected Document Understanding over other document processing competitors because of our high level of data accuracy with both structured and unstructured data, to help them analyze and process millions of documents.
To support our vertical strategy we have introduced Solution Accelerators which serve as templates to guide customers through deployments for common use cases. We have 10 Solution Accelerators available in our marketplace, with initial offerings focused on finance, healthcare, and IT and we plan to add additional verticals.
BilledRight, a medical billing and operations company, is implementing two Solution Accelerators to automate the processing of healthcare related data into administrative systems, expecting to save over 40,000 hours annually.
Partners also benefit from the changes and investments we are making in our go-to-market resources. This includes global systems integrators, as well as more regionalized partners which not only expand our reach and scale, but are instrumental in helping customers build and execute a robust automation program.
For example, EY is helping the State of North Carolina incorporate Document Understanding and expand their automation program from COVID driven use cases to back office automations across their enterprise.
And, as we previewed at Investor Day, we are in the process of transitioning our smaller customers to our ecosystem of distribution partners, providing new sources of revenue for our partners and deeper enablement for these customers, while allowing our sales teams to focus on higher value opportunities.
Many of our partners also have very successful automation programs of their own, such as Capgemini and Ingram Micro, which expanded in the quarter as they continue to grow their internal automation programs and deliver our market leading capabilities to their client base.
And finally, you will notice we rolled out a new positioning for our brand earlier this week, which included the introduction of our new brand tagline, The Foundation of Innovation. This communicates not only the power of automation to transform businesses today, but also the potential to fundamentally change how quickly customers can move from idea to execution.
I am inspired by how much we have accomplished in our fiscal year 2023, launching our largest platform release to-date, completing the groundwork for our next phase of growth and delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers and partners. While there is always more work to do, I believe we are well positioned to drive UiPath to the next level as we enter fiscal year 2024.
With that, I will turn the call over to Daniel. Daniel?
Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to echo Rob’s thanks to our team, customers and partners. You are all critical to our ongoing success. Before we move on, I’d like to add some color around this afternoon’s 8-K announcing that Chris Weber, our Chief Business Officer, is leaving UiPath. Chris will remain with us through a transition period that ends on April 30th, the last day of our first quarter. We wish him the best and thank him for everything he has done for UiPath.
Moving forward, Rob will assume leadership of our go-to-market function as part of his day-to-day Co-CEO responsibilities. As many of you know, Rob has over 30 years of sales experience at both Google Cloud and SAP where he built a strong track record of growing sales organizations at scale.
At the same time, our Co-CEO structure has freed me up to spend much more time with our research and development team, which is where my passion lies. We have a market leading platform and our talent is a major competitive differentiator for us that will continue to strengthen our position in the market. I am really excited to once again assume day-to-day leadership of the R&D team.
This streamlined organizational structure will allow us to move with even more agility and efficiency which is good for UiPath and for our customer’s growth. As we enter fiscal year 2024 I am pleased with how the teams are positioned and look forward to a strong year.
Turning to the business highlights, I am gratified by our recent placement as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Robotic Process Automation report that was published in February. Among other things, the report states that we have evolved from an RPA pure play into what we refer to as a business Automation Platform.
It also notes that we have added capabilities such as process mining, intelligent document processing, API integration and low-code app development to our product, thereby turning it into an Automation Platform.
The Forrester report also acknowledges that our investments in software-as-a-service deployments and re-architecting the product to turn it cloud-native are paying off. We ended the fiscal year with over $350 million in cloud ARR, including both hybrid and SaaS offerings.
A great example of a cloud deployed customer is Fiserv, who continues to grow and expand their automation deployment by incorporating Test Suite, Automation Hub and Process Mining to accelerate their delivery of operational excellence.
We recently released new functionality in Test Suite to make it easier to migrate assets from legacy solutions to UiPath to provide tighter collaboration for application lifecycle management and testing tools. Not only does Test Suite open a new market in application testing for us, but it helps ensure quality and resiliency which allows customers to automate faster.
A great example is Swisscom, which, after successfully implementing RPA and Test Suite in their finance, IT, HR and Customer Service departments, is rolling out automation across their entire organization to improve customer service, attract and retain talent, enhance operational efficiency and launch new growth engines in B2B with automation-as-a-service.
Our customers also benefit from real-time advances in AI. The role of AI in automation is not new for us. We have made significant investment in AI for years and from inception it has been infused into every part of our platform.
For example, we use AI to build large language models for capabilities like Document Understanding and Communications Mining, which we acquired with Re:infer. During the quarter we closed the largest Re:infer deal ever with a customer who plans to use it to interpret customer sentiment across millions of emails per year to reduce manual processing, client churn and enhance customer experience.
Coming later this year, Clipboard AI shows what AI can do for knowledge workers in their day-to-day roles. By leveraging large language models and understanding the structures of content, Clipboard AI intelligently transfers data between documents, spreadsheets and apps, eliminating the need for repetitive copy and paste. We plan to share more on this and other AI innovations at our AI summit later this month.
We have always had an open platform and believe that the power of automation is best unlocked when you can work with every application and business system including our ongoing relationship with Open AI.
Later this quarter we plan to release a preview of our GPT connector that will allow users of our low code development tools to easily utilize GPT to generate content in automations. There are countless use cases where customers can benefit from software robots that are able to write content and generate responses. Our vision is to arrive at a place where anyone can train and use AI to make their work easier and more productive.
Looking ahead, the automation market presents a massive opportunity and we remain focused on building a generational business that drives shareholder value through growth at scale, margin expansion and meaningful positive non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow.
With that, I will turn it over to Ashim.
Thank you, Daniel, and good afternoon, everyone. Unless otherwise indicated I will be discussing results on a non-GAAP basis and all growth rates are year over year. I also want to note that since we price and sell in local currency, FX continues to be a headwind to our results.
The tangible value automation creates is resonating with customers, particularly in a constrained environment, and while we expect ongoing macroeconomic variability and FX headwinds, we enter fiscal year 2024 positioned to execute.
Turning to the fourth quarter, ARR totaled $1.2 billion, an increase of 30%, driven by fourth quarter net new ARR of $94 million. Full year net new ARR totaled $279 million. Excluding the FX headwind of $15 million, fourth quarter net new ARR totaled $109 million. For total ARR, excluding the FX headwind of approximately $38 million, total ARR grew 34%.
We ended the fourth quarter with approximately 10,800 total customers, including new logos like The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Zoetis, Daimler and Bank of Maharashtra.
Moving on, our dollar based net retention rate for the quarter was 123%. Normalizing for FX and excluding the impact of Russian sanctions, our dollar based net retention rate was 129%. Dollar based gross retention of 97% continues to be best-in-class.
Revenue grew to $309 million. Normalizing for the FX headwind of approximately $14 million, revenue grew 12%. For the full fiscal year, we reported revenue of $1.1 billion, an increase of 19% year-over-year. Normalizing for the year-over-year FX headwind of approximately $71 million, full fiscal year revenue grew 27%.
Remaining performance obligations increased to $894 million. Normalizing for the FX headwind of approximately $18 million, RPO grew 34%. Current RPO increased to $562.5 million.
Fourth quarter total gross margin was 87% reflecting ongoing investments in support and cloud infrastructure as we scale the business. Software gross margin was 93%.
Fourth quarter operating expenses were $199.5 million. We ended the year with 3,833 total employees.
GAAP operating loss of $45 million included $99 million of stock-based compensation expense. Full year GAAP operating loss was $348 million, including $370 million of stock-based compensation.
Non-GAAP operating income was $69 million, resulting in a record fourth quarter operating margin of 22%. Full year non-GAAP operating income was $65 million or a 6% operating margin.
As Rob said, our results reflect the positive impact of our restructuring efforts combined with a continued focus on discretionary cost management and resource allocation that prioritizes higher return initiatives.
Fourth quarter non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow was $101 million and for the full fiscal year, non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow was neutral, in line with our stated objective. We have a very strong balance sheet which is an important asset in the current operating environment, with $1.8 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities and no debt.
Now, let me turn to guidance. For fiscal year 2024 we have maintained the topline growth rates we committed to at Investor Day and included a nominal increase as the dollar has weakened since late September.
We are also assuming the macroeconomic environment does not improve, including weakness in North America and that the sales force repositioning builds momentum as we move throughout the year.
And, finally, we have meaningfully accelerated our path to 20% plus long-term non-GAAP operating margin, as we now expect fiscal year 2024 non-GAAP operating margin of 9.5% and non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow margin of 8%.
For the fiscal first quarter 2024, we expect ARR in the range of $1.245 billion to $1.250 billion; revenue in the range of $270 million to $272 million; non-GAAP operating income to be approximately $5 million; and we expect first quarter basic share count to be approximately 558 million shares.
For the fiscal full year 2024, we expect ARR in the range of $1.425 billion to $1.430 billion; revenue in the range of $1.253 billion to $1.258 billion; non-GAAP operating income to be approximately $120 million.
Before I close, I want to leave you with modeling points and our management philosophy. Starting with fiscal 2024 modeling points. We expect the year-over-year foreign exchange headwind to continue in the first quarter. First half net new ARR to be approximately $100 million. First half revenue to be approximately $555 million. Second half net new ARR and revenue to reflect similar seasonality as fiscal year 2023.
Full year non-GAAP gross margin to be approximately 84%. Non-GAAP operating income to reflect similar seasonality as fiscal year 2023. And fiscal year 2024 non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow of approximately $100 million. Please note, we expect non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow to be positive for all quarters in fiscal 2024 and to follow normal seasonal patterns which ramp into the fourth quarter.
As a reminder, we started amortizing sales compensation expenses at the beginning of fiscal year 2022 which creates a 200-basis-point headwind to non-GAAP operating margin in fiscal year 2024 relative to 2023.
Finally, we are actively managing stock-based compensation to lower dilution, which we expect to be in the range of 3% to 4% year-over-year for fiscal year 2024. Looking ahead, we anticipate to continue to calibrate the need for competitive compensation packages while reducing overall dilution.
In closing, we are committed to managing the business to the Rule of 40 plus, which we believe we can achieve given the strength of our global team, our market-leading Automation Platform, the power of our financial model and the size of our market opportunity.
With that, I will now turn the call over to the Operator. Operator, please poll for questions.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Raimo Lenschow with Barclays. Please state your question.
Hey. Thank you. Congrats. That was a very strong finish. And the -- my question was like the last few weeks, we had a lot of news flow and news items around the advancement AI with ChatGPT, et cetera. Can you remind us please, like, how you are playing in there in terms of either doing it yourself or partnering with the other guys and how do you see the evolvement of AI for your own business? And then I have one follow-up. Thank you.
Hey, Raimo. This is Daniel.
Yeah.
Well, it’s a little bit unusual to start talking about technology in our earnings call, but I think that’s a great sign. I am actually very excited on the progress that is happening on the field. And as you know, we are heavy users of AI and we have a really solid research and development arm around AI for the past five years.
We have kind of the best AI in the world when it comes to computer vision to understand application screens. And in this -- with this new advance in generative AI, I think, the best platform will be the most favor, because generative way, it’s basically a creator tool.
So in our case, this is going to accelerate the adoption of our platform. It’s going to help democratize the access to creating automations. And if you feel in the same time, while why you are not using the best tool out there when you can have the AI tool drive faster adoption.
So I think this combination between AI and the tool that the platform that is capable of fulfilling with AI comments, it’s a great combination and they are import to infuse -- continue to infuse generative across our platform.
I would like to emphasize the use of GPT-3 and large language models in our upcoming Clipboard AI and this is going to be a tool that cater to all business users, basically will allow everyone to transfer to -- transfer information from any source, every document to any application.
Imagine many a few dozens of fields converted transform in one step. It’s going to save tremendously in terms of productivity. And we are using a huge combination of our own AI models, GPT-3, Google, Amazon, everything that is combined there. So I am -- again, I am extremely bullish for the prospects of UiPath with adopting the generative AI technologies.
Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you for that Daniel and great to get from you. The other question is for Rob, with Chris leaving, like, as far as we understood, like, Chris’ role was to meet the sales more e-commerce driven to kind of have a better kind of more efficient way to go into the mid-market. Where are we on this project or his journey and how do you think that will continue or do you expect any disruptions? Thank you and congrats from me again.
Yeah. Raimo, thank you. Great question. Look, first, we want to thank Chris for all the efforts you put into it. He’s done a great job with the team. Remember, we are very aligned from the very beginning on our plan with the go-to-market organization both Daniel, myself and Chris, and we are well on our way with that transformation.
So I would say there’s going to be minimum disruption to the field. We feel really good about the execution. The team is really positive about the progress we have made from Investor Day and where we continue to make and we will update up for the future.
Plus, we are reporting a significantly strong leadership team and with them reporting to me, we will feel like we can actually execute even faster, get closer to customers and deliver even more value to our customer base.
Yeah. Raimo, I would like to add that, having Rob here and Rob is known to everyone that he is one of the best go-to-market leader on this planet. Having the opportunity to have Rob leading directly go-to-market in his -- as part of his day-to-day responsibilities, it’s actually a great news for us. I think we continue to streamline this company, I think this is the right size of the company right now, and we are really poised to more efficiency and to even accelerate our growth profile.
Thank you. and our next question comes from Keith Weiss with Morgan Stanley. Please state your question.
Great. Thank you. This is Dion on for Keith. I want to ask on your Q1 guide. I mean it looks really healthy entering the year and so I was curious, since we already have mid-March now. Is there any color you can sort of provide on what you are seeing a few weeks into the quarter here? How is the demand environment shaping up and how are you executing out there?
So, Dion, thanks for the question. We see the environment very much the way we saw it in October. And in our Q1 guide, we have actually accounted for foreign exchange, the continuing -- the continuation of foreign exchange pressure particularly in Q1.
But also just assume the same variability in the macroeconomic environment, including North America having the macro pressures as well. When we look at our pipeline, we are pleased with the continued progress on the execution of our sale -- of our positioning that Rob and Daniel talked about.
And overall, we have given an extra actual buffer of conservatism in there or a little extra buffer to account for the environment that’s there. So our philosophy has been the same. We have guided to what’s in front of us with -- while still accounting for a little buffer for the variability in the macroeconomic environment.
That’s great to hear. And then maybe one more question on the net retention rate, obviously, it’s come down slightly from last quarter, but the magnitude is, obviously, way less than it was in the previous quarters. So any way you can sort of frame what you are seeing with customers, particularly among your large customers and how should we think about the net retention rate on a go-forward basis, are there any levels where we could see that stabilize?
Yeah. Let me start and I will turn it over to Rob. So reported net dollar retention rate of 13%. Again, foreign exchange has pressure on that number, when you normalize for foreign exchange is actually at 128%.
And we see that our value or our incremental ARR continues to be driven by the highest propensity to -- customers with the highest propensity to invest in automation and especially in the Global 2000, Fortune 500, we have had a record number of million-dollar-plus deals, which I think is great momentum. Rob?
And I would just add, I spent a lot of time in Europe and Asia in January, and I would tell you that the customer discussions are at a significant sea level discussion, the platform is resonating with customers, the brand around foundation for innovation is resonating with customers, and in this environment, I feel really good about where our product is positioned within our customer base.
Excellent. Thank you.
Our next question comes from Kirk Materne with Evercore ISI. Please state your question.
Hey. This is Chirag Ved on for Kirk. Thanks for taking the question and congratulations on the strong finish to the year. Going off the prior question, are you noticing any differences in the growth and expansion of different customer cohorts. Meaning are newer customers perhaps slower at growing on the platform when compared to early adopters or vice versa, are there any trends that you might note here?
Our cohorts have actually behaved pretty relatively similar, Kirk. Remember our -- the general customer journey is a land size of around 25 -- Chirag, sorry, is around $25,000 and from there we see customers expand their use cases similarly and kind of move up that curve very well.
Our -- the older the customers, that’s where you see the seven-digit and $1 million-plus deals kind of move as they have more confidence internally about their ability to scale automation and the culture moves in that direction.
Our platform also continues to help that. I think the addition -- the continued maturation of process mining, task mining, broadening with the Re:infer acquisition, our platform adds more value and so we do see more customers interested in more parts of our platform, that is helping at every stage.
Yeah. And I would just add to that, we talk about growth products, but if you look at Document Understanding and the Re:infer Product Communications Mining, we are seeing really good results with customers as they expand into those products. Test Suite has had a big impact.
And I would also just say that, in an environment we are operating in right now, many of the larger customers are into, what I call, a stack consolidation. And our platform fits nicely into that process, as customers continue to figure -- find ways to innovate from the existing environment. So this is all good for our platform.
Got it. And maybe if I could just sneak one more in here. Ashim, can you talk to the factors that are driving operating leverage expansion within your business and the stronger than expected margin guide…
Yeah.
… that give you confident in looking ahead?
I think the team has done an incredible job execution. Like I think every UiPath employee understands that operating leverage from -- goes from delivering value to our customers and starts with the topline, while managing expenses and finding more ways to be efficient.
What I think we are really proud about in 2023 -- in fiscal 2023 is our ability to execute and streamline the organization in tough environments. I think we have done that. We continue to show that as we have -- as Daniel talked about in terms of streamlining the organization.
Across the Board, I think, the magic formula is you stay consistent on growth and you manage your cost. Operating leverage actually is kind of -- is just a natural result from that. When you look at fourth quarter, it speaks to that in the numbers and that’s why you see our operating margin really strong.
I do want to make a note, you also see it supported by strong free cash flow generation and I think that we look at both of those items. And we have also noted in our guidance this year that we look at every quarter to be positive from a cash flow standpoint and that’s just from working both of those muscles simultaneously.
Thank you. And our next question comes from Matthew Hedberg with RBC. Please state your question.
Great. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the results. Yeah. I wanted to look outside of U.S., could you give us a sense for the opportunities in sort of like broader EMEA and APJ, just in terms of both the land and the expand opportunity?
Yeah. We are very pleased. Actually, Daniel and myself, we are in the Middle East, where we opened up our by office with his excellency, the Head of Digital Transformation in UAE. And we are very pleased with the team had their sales kick off. We are very pleased with where we are going, the talent we have in the team.
We are also starting to see, as I mentioned earlier on, significant discussions around platform with larger companies wanting to actually go all in with the UiPath from an RPA and expand into the other areas of our solution.
We have also seen significant interest in attended automation, strangely enough in markets like Denmark and Sweden, we have seen where companies want to drive employee empowerment, because they are actually having constraints in terms of resources and finding the resources we are finding significant benefits in that space. So I would say, our European team is coming along very nicely. We are cautiously optimistic about the opportunity in that space.
In the Asia-Pacific market, we have made some adjustments according to what we said at Investor Day. Lee is on Board now, probably, Lee Hawksley is on Board about three months. We have got some new leadership in India, a new leadership in Southeast Asia.
And I would say, we are at the very beginning of that, but cautiously optimistic that we can take the work that we have done in Europe and in North America, and execute pretty well in Asia-Pacific as well.
Got it. Thank you. That’s super helpful. And then, Ashim, for you, you guys have a diversified base of users. But can you give us a rough sense for exposure to both sort of the tech and financial services vertical?
Yeah. I mean on the banking financial vertical is a strong vertical for us. We have talked about -- we have given some of those figures, historically, we don’t disclose them on a quarterly basis, but they are one of our largest segments, financials and health care.
Just to qualify a little bit, when we look at the exposure, like, it’s kind of we have evaluated it. A lot of our major customers are in the large institutions, like, JPMorgan, like, some of the major banks that are out there. And so, with that, we feel really good about our position of where we are there right now.
I would just add to the financial services. I mean, when you look at the opportunity to have drive efficiencies in financial services I think we had a tremendous amount of value in that. We see our solution sets like Document Understanding having huge benefits in healthcare and in insurance because of the straight through document processing that we can achieve and the results. With our Northstar value proposal is having a difference in financial services, insurance and healthcare.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Bryan Bergin with TD Cowen. Please state your question.
Hi, guys. Good afternoon. Thank you. I wanted to follow-up on margin first. So can you just bridge what you did in 4Q here, the strong 20% plus value planned out for fiscal 2024 and specifically, if you can maybe talk about the areas of cost efficiency that you benefited most from here in 4Q? And then any of those benefits that don’t recur initially in 2024 or areas that you are leaning back in to invest?
Yeah. I think the -- I will always emphasize. I think our operating margin starts with delivering in the topline. which we have all of our teams focused and we have this market in front of us that allows us to deliver numbers like the revenue number we did.
Bryan, in terms of the specific cost areas, I -- frankly, we had cost productivity across the Board and I really want to just emphasize. I think from product and engineering to G&A to sales and marketing, every team has contributed in the right way.
Most of what we have seen, like everything that we have realized, we look at that as something that is recurring. There are some -- always some timing elements that go into a quarter such as sales commissions accruals, those types of things that have some accounting associated with it in terms of seasonality.
But all of the efficiencies that we have seen in terms of rationalizing organizations, streamlining organizations, finding productivity and discretionary costs. Those are things we see as sustainable as we go forward and that’s why we feel really good and confident about the 350 basis points that we are expanding the year even off of a higher beat in the fourth quarter from where we ended.
Okay. And then on the product, Daniel, can you talk about client appetite that you have seen around discovery products and I heard a reference customer there, I think, around Communications Mining. So I am curious how you would compare the uptake of that product versus what you saw in the past around Task Mining and Process Mining when you brought those to market?
It has become very clear in the last year, I’d say that, the discovery pillar is an essential part of a full-fledged Business Automation Platform. And we are making steady progress, first of all, in Process Mining. We have released a great version on the cloud. And we are really bullish on our prospects on being sizable player in the Process Mining market.
We have been one of the first company to invest in Task Mining and this is one of the most ambitious AI project that we have ever attempted. And the new transformer-based models give us even better hopes into getting more of the Task Mining. To a quick reminder, what we are trying to achieve is basically watching over the shoulder people doing business processes by AI configuring how the processes themselves.
And Communication Mining, it’s our latest addition to the platform by acquiring Re:infer. It’s again, it’s a large language model based on transformers. We have seen great traction, especially with our -- some of our large customers, especially banking customers that use our Communications Mining technology to classify millions of emails and taking action based on the email.
So, again, this shows the power of an integrated platform. You discover and then you automate, and ultimately, you operate. To me, it’s again, it’s a great point that our bet three years, four years ago on this platform is becoming successful today.
Thank you. And our next question comes from Michael Turrin with Wells Fargo Securities. Please state your question.
Hey. Great. Thanks for taking the question. Much appreciated. In terms of just the growth guide, Ashim, we can appreciate that there have been a lot of improvements that you have put in place you are guiding for 10% up to 18% for the full year on the topline. Can you just maybe level set how much of the growth improvement comes from some of the go-to-market and product changes we have been talking about since the Investor Day versus the math of lapping some of the headwinds you have experienced and just how to think through the progression there?
Yeah. So, maybe just as I start, I think, we finished fiscal year 2023 at 19% revenue growth and we encountered a significant FX headwind in 2023. So that helps to level off, Michael. So adjusted for that actually we feel -- we -- we feel like it was a good growth -- a good delivery in 2023.
That being said, when we look at our guidance philosophy, we talked about 18% at Investor Day. We accounted for the weakening dollar within our guidance. We adjusted and put an additional buffer for the foreign -- for the macroeconomic volatility or variability that we see in front of us and then we accounted for the repositioning and the execution time line that Rob has outlined. So when you take that all together, we actually -- we feel good about our guidance in 2024 and we continue to guide to see what we have in front of us with those qualifications.
Yeah. And I -- this is Kelsey. I want to step in quickly. We gave a lot of very specific modeling points in the script, which I think will be very helpful to you as you put your models together tonight.
So we will post all of that information on our prepared remarks to the website as soon as we are finished tonight and if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us, but I think this will help you put your FY 2024 model together.
That’s very helpful. Just a quick follow-up on margins. I mean, obviously, the Q4 margin results are strong and stand out. The expansion targets for the year are in line with the targets that were presented at the Investor Day. Still strong expansion, but with the second round of cost reduction that went into place in November, were those something that was contemplated alongside the Investor Day targets or can you just help us understand if there are areas of reinvestment on the product side or other things that you are also contemplating that keep the range in a similar state even with the second reduction?
Yeah. I think, net-net, we look at we look at keeping our workforce relatively stable. We don’t see any major investments or major decreases at this time, and so overall, I think we have factored our actions from last year into this year.
Now are there areas that we invest in? Yes and that’s why we continue to look for opportunities to streamline the organization, and every UiPath employee continues to look for areas of efficiency together, particularly, in our discretionary spend. So that’s kind of how we have looked at it.
I would say all of our actions have been baked in. We will invest in the areas needed to execute and to continue to take advantage of the market, the opportunity that we see in front of us. But we feel like we can relatively fun not to keep the size of the organization relatively similar.
Thank you. And our next question comes from Mark Murphy with JPMorgan. Please state your question.
Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the question. This is Audi Wu [ph] for Mark Murphy. Congrats on the quarter. Just wanted to call in the past six months to nine months, both for UiPath and a lot of other vendors, we have heard that customers are kind of really kind of slowing down and trying to pick the right tools and then kind of going all in on them and you guys have been kind of focusing on the post sales motion. So some of the success we are seeing clearly in your results just from those changes you guys have made to the sales?
Yeah. I mean, I think, we laid out very clearly that at Investor Day, where we were going, what we were going to do around pricing, packaging, the segmentation of the organization, the execution around the growth products and delivering on the platform and we feel like we have executed really, really well around that.
With the environment, part of the question, Audi is, if the environment hasn’t changed, we kind of were cautiously -- cautious about the environment and we have continued to focus on driving the forecasting at the right approach, making certain that our investments are focused on the right level that we are actually connecting to the C level customers and that were actually part of their budgeting cycle and that’s what we are focused on and I think that’s paying dividends.
But I’d also just say as well, when we launched 23.10 [ph], which was the technology platform, that allowed us to be competitive in the discovery area and we absolutely are starting to see some real traction with these Document Understanding and the Re:infer product in the marketplace.
I would say that our customers are looking for an Automation Platform is what I have said from the very beginning. Automation is an important aspect to every customer’s journey, and if you want to move with speed and agility, you need Automation and we feel like we are clearly the leader in Automation Platform space.
Great. Thanks for the answer there. And then just, ultimately, on the -- in terms of contract renewals, any patents to call there, any trends we should watch for as we go through fiscal 2024?
I don’t see any, we feel like we are on top of contract renewals. We don’t see any significant changes in the contract renewals. Our customers -- we continue to focus on expansion, as well as a key aspect for customer -- that are existing customers and we will continue to drive expansion. We think we have significant upside in the existing customer base as well.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. Our next question comes from Brad Sills with Bank of America Securities. Please go ahead.
Wonderful. Thank you. I wanted to ask if you could provide an update as to which of those solutions that you are selling into under the new go-to-market are you seeing success. Obviously, some big changes to more solution selling approach. I would love to get any color as to which verticals or solutions are you starting to see success with, which one should we see as more up and coming? Thank you.
Yeah. Hi, Brad. Good question. Document Understanding is we, I mentioned it earlier, Document Understanding, we are seeing significant traction in Document Understanding. The value proposition around it is very clear, it’s almost crystal clear in terms of the value customers can receive. Our straight through processing is really high and so when you have customers that have significant invoice or payment systems or claims payment systems, we see significant value in that.
At Test Suite we are seeing value in that. That’s actually very unique in an Automation space. There’s nobody that connects testing with Automation, so that’s significant. And then companies like E&Y where they have used Process Mining solution with the audit practice and we have seen process there.
What I would say, overall, though, is we are seeing more and more companies start to look at the platform as an opportunity, enterprise license agreements are becoming more significant in the discussion. We are having a lot more discussions with customers look and say, when you look at their full stack can your Process Mining, Task Mining, Document Understanding, can it replace many of these other applications in a platform, make it more consistent, easier to implement, faster to implement. And then on top of that, I would say, our solution accelerates are actually starting to have an impact as well as we help customers achieve the Automation results much faster.
Thank you. Next question comes from Terry Tillman with Truist Securities. Please state your question.
Yeah. Thanks. I will give it to one question, but I can’t help myself. I really do appreciate Ashim all the color on the first half and second half. Hopefully, our model won’t be so out of whack going forward then. It’s very helpful. I guess, Rob, for you, the question I would have is, you got a lot on your plate in terms of the go-to-market efforts and now you are kind of taking the role as Chief Business Officer as well, so you got a time on your plate. But what about partners? I know at the low end, partners are important to like kind of over first-line customer kind of engagement. But these global SIs or the regional boutiques or the ISVs, it seems like with some of these products like Document Understanding, I mean, you have a really good opportunity to really partner together and drive a lot of incremental revenue. So what are you doing or what are some guideposts on partner side of this go-to-market transformation you are working on? Thank you.
Yeah. Good question. So we -- I think we -- I believe we made significant progress with partners like E&Y. I was on the Automation, the Worldwide Automation, I guess, event yesterday with E&Y, which is touching, I think, five or six markets around the world, over 1,200 of the customers there.
When we are talking about how Automation can help deal with inflationary aspects, different economic disruption that customers are taking -- take labor arbitrage and so on. So I feel like we are making significant progress with partners like E&Y.
I would also say with Accenture, we are making progress. They continue to be fully supportive, incredible opportunities in Europe as well with Accenture and we are starting to see that play through and many of the others are also now starting to see Automation as a big play.
When you look at how a partner sees the Automation space. In the past, they saw it in terms of many different products, many different types of solutions trying to solve and now they UiPath as a go-to player in the Automation space to help drive customers. And there’s nothing that can drive business results faster than Automation. You can get it often and you can get it on top of many other solutions. So it’s non-disruptive in many ways.
And in my discussions in Europe, as I said, I have started to see a significant amount of discussion as well, not only in terms of those discovery or those growth products, but also in terms of attended automation to solve constraints in the healthcare environment and how they are dealing with different levels of labor shortages in those markets.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael Turits with KeyBanc. Please state your question.
Hey. This is Billy on for Michael. Just wanted to ask how you are thinking about new versus expansion going into next year? Thank you.
Yeah. We have kind of -- I would just assume the same split that we have historically had, which is the 70-30 split for our net new ARR. That’s the assumption, I think, we continue to have and it’s been fairly.
Yeah. I would just add to that. There was a question earlier around e-commerce and distribution. We are distribution partners. I should have answered this, our distribution partners are actually investing more in markets and they are actually starting to see bigger upside opportunities in that space. So we feel positive about the acquisition of customers as well.
And remember, we always said that, we were going to focus on creating a highly efficient density model as well, which fits the customers that want to expand into the platform area and with our new growth products as well.
Thank you. Next question comes from Scott Berg with Needham. Please state your question.
Hi, everyone. I will certainly echo congrats on the strong quarter. I guess one question I am going to ask is on the Solution Accelerators now that they have been in the market for a little while. What’s the ARR trends on those like relative to maybe how you sold the platform historically. I just didn’t know if you have seen any changes either up or down in terms of how you are able to land with those versus landing without them? Thanks.
Yeah. So, good -- so, Scott, on that, I would say, we now -- I think between 10 and 16 Solution Accelerators are in the market. We are seeing significant uptake on them in -- on the marketplace, sorry and we are seeing significant uptake on the Solution Accelerators.
As I said very earlier and we will continue to bring them out is the speed at which customers are using them. They are driving the bigger opportunities that we are working on. We don’t actually charge for Solution Accelerators, but we are definitely seeing that they are benefiting us, as we help customers drive enterprise license agreements, how they want to use it and the speed at which we can accelerate them. So they are certainly helping the sales cycle and helping customers get faster return to value.
Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of the question-and-answer session. I will now turn the call over to management for closing remarks.
Yeah. This is Robert here. I just want to thank everybody. I appreciate your time and I really look forward to spending time with many of you over the next couple of weeks from Daniel, myself and Ashim and Kelsey. Thank you, everybody.
Thank you. This concludes today’s conference. All parties may disconnect. Have a great day.