Manhattan (MANH) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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DATE

April 21, 2026, 4:30 p.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• President and Chief Executive Officer — Eric Clark
• Chief Financial Officer — Linda Pinne
• Head of Investor Relations — Michael Bauer

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TAKEAWAYS

• Total revenue -- $282 million, up 7%; excluding license and maintenance, revenue increased 13% due to accelerated cloud adoption.
• Cloud revenue -- $117 million, up 24%, with over 1% attributed to FX tailwinds; management cited one-time cloud overage fees and lower churn as contributors to outperformance.
• Services revenue -- $126 million, up 4%, driven by higher deal volume and cross-sell/upsell activities across both new and installed customers.
• Remaining performance obligations (RPO) -- $2.35 billion, up 24% year-over-year and 5% sequentially; 38% of RPO is expected to be recognized as revenue in the next 24 months.
• Net new bookings mix -- Over 55% of new cloud bookings came from net new logos, including the company's largest ever Order Management System (OMS) deal completed via Google Cloud Marketplace.
• Adjusted operating profit -- $91 million, with an operating margin of 32.4%; margin improvement offset increased go-to-market investments.
• Adjusted EPS -- $1.24, up 4%; GAAP EPS was $0.82, down 4% due to higher tax expense from reduced stock-based compensation benefits.
• Operating cash flow -- $84 million, up 12%, resulting in a 28.3% free cash flow margin and a 33.1% adjusted EBITDA margin.
• Deferred revenue -- $356 million, up 20% year-over-year.
• Share repurchases -- $150 million deployed in the quarter, with $350 million remaining under the current repurchase authorization.
• Contract duration -- Average length held steady at about 5.5 to 6 years, supporting multi-year visibility.
• Cloud migration progress -- 23% of on-prem customers have migrated or started migration to the cloud, indicating significant remaining conversion opportunity.
• 2026 revenue guidance -- Targeting total revenue of $1.147 billion to $1.157 billion (midpoint $1.152 billion), implying 11% growth excluding license and maintenance attrition; cloud revenue midpoint raised to $495 million (21% growth).
• Full-year adjusted operating margin outlook -- Increased to a 35% midpoint, with quarterly targets of approximately 34.7% for Q2, 36.9% for Q3, and 36.1% for Q4.
• Full-year adjusted EPS guidance -- Increased to $5.29 to $5.37; GAAP EPS midpoint raised to $3.59.
• Active Agent (AI) adoption -- Early pilots showed a 5% improvement in order cycle times and labor reduction at one retail customer, "double-digit percentage" reductions in loading times at a healthcare customer, and up to 75% fewer exceptions for a food distributor, driving customer ROI and accelerating broader pilot interest.
• Forward deployed engineer (FDE) expansion -- Approximately 120 new hires added to the services team for AI and agent deployment, with an additional 70 roles open or pending.
• Cloud maintenance attrition -- Maintenance revenue expected to decline 17% to approximately $108 million as cloud migration continues; license revenue maintained at ~$1 million per quarter.
• Regional deal activity -- Largest Q1 deals closed in Europe and APAC, demonstrating geographic diversification; all regions contributed to bookings momentum.
• Win rate -- Consistently above 70% across competitive sales cycles.

RISKS

• Chief Financial Officer Linda Pinne stated, "the macro environment remains volatile. While clarity from external variables remains limited," leading to continued conservative financial guidance for Q2 to Q4 despite strong Q1 results.
• GAAP EPS decreased by 4% due to "higher-than-expected tax expense due to a decrease of stock-based compensation benefits," directly reducing profits.
• Management indicated that Q1 cloud revenue benefited from "onetime cloud overage fees that would not be recurring," implying that growth rates may not sustain at current levels.

SUMMARY

Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ:MANH) reported record first-quarter results, driven by 24% cloud revenue growth, strong net new bookings, and improved services performance, prompting management to raise full-year guidance for total revenue, operating margins, and EPS. Early AI agent pilots delivered measurable productivity gains and customer ROI, accelerating adoption across multiple verticals. Cloud migration continued, with a substantial on-premise base yet to convert, and geographic diversity in deal activity highlighted the company's expanding reach and pipeline resilience.

• Management emphasized the strategic importance of the unified Active platform, with major Q1 deals citing operational advantages of single-application warehouse and transportation management.
• President and CEO Eric Clark stated that "over 55% of new cloud bookings were generated from net new logos," indicating expanding market penetration beyond the legacy customer base.
• Reported contract durations of 5.5 to 6 years provide significant revenue and cash flow visibility over multiple periods.
• Cloud overage fee upside and lower churn in renewals were acknowledged as one-time or non-recurring, prompting maintained conservatism for the balance of the year's financial outlook.
• RPO guidance for the year was reiterated at $2.62 billion to $2.68 billion, representing 18%-20% growth, with the mix influenced by deal size and timing variability.
• AI monetization will be primarily derived from a paid 90-day pilot transitioning to subscription pricing, with margin modeling and consumption-based pricing structures designed to ensure continuity with current SaaS margins.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• RPO (Remaining performance obligations): The total contracted revenue not yet recognized, providing an indicator of future booked revenue streams for software and services companies.
• OMS (Order Management System): A technology platform that automates and tracks orders from inception to fulfillment across various commerce channels.
• FDE (Forward deployed engineer): Services and R&D staff deployed directly within client operations to co-develop, configure, and deploy advanced products, including AI agents, accelerating value delivery and product adoption.
• Active Agent Foundry: The company's feature set enabling clients to create, deploy, and customize autonomous and interactive AI agents integrated within its supply chain and omni-channel software suite.
• Cloud migration: The process of moving customers from legacy on-premises software to cloud-based, subscription-delivered solutions.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Good afternoon. My name is Joe, and I will be your conference facilitator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Manhattan Associates First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, this call is being recorded today, April 21, 2026. I would now like to introduce you to your host, Mr. Michael Bauer, Head of Investor Relations of Manhattan Associates. Mr. Bauer, please go ahead.

Michael Bauer: Great. Thanks, Joe, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Manhattan Associates' 2026 First Quarter Earnings Call. I will review our cautionary language and then turn the call over to our President and Chief Executive Officer, Eric Clark. During this call, including the Q&A session, we may make forward-looking statements regarding future events or Manhattan Associates' future financial performance. We caution you that these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results may differ materially from the projections contained in our forward-looking statements.

I refer you to Manhattan Associates' SEC reports for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in our projections, particularly our annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 and the risk factor discussion in that report and any risk factor updates we provide in our subsequent Form 10-Qs. Please note that the turbulent global macro environment could impact our performance and cause actual results to differ materially from our projections. We are under no obligation to update these statements. In addition, our comments include certain non-GAAP financial measures to provide additional information to investors. We have reconciled all non-GAAP measures to the related GAAP measures in accordance with SEC rules.

You'll find reconciliation schedules in the Form 8-K we filed with the SEC earlier today and on our website at manh.com. Now I'll turn the call over to Eric.

Eric Clark: Great. Thank you, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us as we review our first quarter results and discuss our increased full year 2026 outlook. Manhattan is off to a strong start to 2026, navigating a volatile global macro, reporting record better-than-expected results. On solid demand, our Q1 revenue growth accelerated, highlighted by 24% growth in cloud revenue and our services revenue growth also continues to steadily improve. Throughout 2025, we spoke about the strategic investments that we're making to improve our go-to-market effectiveness and accelerate our selling velocity.

And while results from these initiatives will certainly not be linear, these investments have started to pay off in the first quarter and contributed to RPO increasing 24% to $2.35 billion. New customer bookings remained strong as over 55% of new cloud bookings were generated from net new logos with the largest Q1 deal influenced by Google Cloud Marketplace. We also experienced notable deal volume improvements across all deal types as well as a larger contribution from products beyond Active Warehouse, including Active Omni, Active Transportation and Active Planning. And we had strong bookings from all regions.

Our win rate metric continues to be consistently above 70%, and our renewal performance was solid and supportive of the plan that we highlighted last quarter. All of this provides a glimpse into the large opportunity that we have across all of our industry-leading solutions. In summary, bookings momentum continued in Q1, aligning with our goal of accelerating both ramped ARR and cloud revenue growth. From a vertical sales perspective, our end markets are diverse, and we have healthy established footprints across numerous subsectors, which include retail, grocery, food distribution, life sciences, industrial, technology, airlines, third-party logistics and more.

For example, Q1 deals included a global retailer that became a new logo Active Warehouse and Active Transportation customer, one of the world's largest retailers became a new logo Active Omni customer, a large auto parts distributor became a new logo active warehouse and active omni customer. An HVAC-focused distributor became a new logo active warehouse and active transportation customer, a global wellness retailer converted from on-prem to active warehouse and a multinational food distributor that was an existing active transportation customer expanded to become an active warehouse customer. In addition to several other impressive Q1 deals, our active agent pilot program is off to a better-than-expected start.

As I mentioned last quarter, our active agent offering consists of 2 primary elements: a set of base agents ready to be activated immediately and our agent foundry offering, which enables our customers to quickly build and deploy their own agents within the Active platform. And because we build all these agents directly into the Active platform, our customers don't need to implement costly and complex external data lakes to make them work. Our unified cloud-native API-first architecture enables us to deploy agents with almost no configuration or additional upfront effort, embedding AI agents directly into the workflow, no data lakes, no latency, deployed in minutes, not months, creating value for our customers in real time.

And although our AI product set has only been in the market for 1 full quarter, we have an impressive list of pilot and paying customers that stretches across our diverse end markets and include some of the world's most distinguished and identifiable organizations. For perspective, these customers include a global manufacturer and distributor of engineered components, a global 3PL, a global energy management and industrial automation company, a global manufacturer and distributor of beauty products, a global health care services company as well as several more Tier 1 retail brands, grocery chains and others.

We're very excited that these existing active customers are interested in beginning their agentic journey with Manhattan, and we're focused on helping them drive higher productivity, ROI and improved levels of customer satisfaction as we expand active agents across our customer bases. For this quarter's product update, I'd like to go a bit deeper on our Active Agent foundry and some of the strong deployment results, which provide a bit more insight into why we believe AI is a significant opportunity for Manhattan and why we are uniquely positioned to win. Core to our Agentic AI philosophy is the concept of embedding both interactive and autonomous agents directly within the workflows of our key users.

Rather than wave planners and shipping supervisors trying to incorporate stand-alone disconnected AI platforms, our active agents meet them where they live all day within our waving screens, within fulfillment progress monitors and within labor planning UIs. By making AI ever present and highly available, our AI capabilities feel natural. They're steeped in both domain expertise and real-time operational data, always making suggestions and ready to take action autonomously. Our teams of forward deployed engineers assist our customers to activate our base agents and to build their own agents using our agent foundry.

As we look across the early success stories, we see an even balance in the value created by base and custom agents, and we believe that trend will persist. One of the real advantages of building with Foundry is the ability to quickly target specific pockets of opportunity within a particular customer operation. For example, one of our retail customers here in the U.S. saw a 5% improvement in order cycle times and reduced labor requirements in their largest distribution center via the use of a Foundry-developed custom agent. In this case, the agent dynamically reallocates resources to ensure replenishments are completed in time for orders to be fully picked and shipped.

The continual matching of work to be completed within the requisite resources available is one of the most challenging issues a DC operator deals with nonstop each day. Unlike a manufacturing facility with a steady and predictable flow of work, DCs experience continuous peaks and valleys of different types of activity. This variability is driven by the inherent unpredictability of customer ordering and the high variability of what actually makes up those orders. In this case, the active agent looks both upstream and downstream, dynamically determining the work that needs to be done in each zone and continuously optimizes the assignments to ensure orders are complete and to maximize order shipment volume.

The next example of a Foundry-created agent comes from one of our health care customers. From an operational standpoint, it's often just a few unfilled units which stand in the way of large orders being ready to ship. This customer worked with our forward deployed engineers to create an agent which actively seeks out these aging units, ensuring that tasks are created and prioritized to get shipments completed faster. The use of this agent resulted in a double-digit percentage reduction in loading times and improvement in on-time shipment departures. On the base agent front, a number of our customers are using our WAVE Coordinator Agent to make sure orders are effectively turning into executable tasks.

This agent finds and repairs any data conditions within items, orders, tasks or users, which prevent the optimal flow of work to the floor, ensuring every unit on every line, on every order has a path to clean execution. Specifically, this agent resulted in improved on-time shipments for one of our food distribution customers as exceptions requiring triage were reduced by up to 75%. And for one of our industrial distribution customers, this very same agent increased line shipped by over 30% and improved order cycle times by over 25%. Now these are meaningful improvements that drive revenue and ROI for our customers. By leveraging case studies like this, in Q1, we saw strong demand for active agents.

We now have dozens of customers in various stages of AI maturity, exploring and realizing benefits as we leverage our FDE teams to continue to build additional agents for these customers and introduce the Active Agent Foundry to more of our active customers. As you'd imagine, active agents will feature prominently at our Momentum user conference next month. Each of our product tracks will feature the latest in our Agentic AI capabilities, and we'll have a number of customers giving testimonials to the power of our embedded active agents. One of the important additions to this year's conference will be an active agent boot camp.

The day before the conference begins, we'll host an interactive session where customers can get hands-on experience with Foundry. They'll choose a relevant issue from their own operations and work in a live sandbox guided by our FDE team to build and test their agents. This hands-on experience is key to moving quickly from interest to production use cases. We're happy to give as many customers as we can an opportunity to experience the ease and power of our active agent Foundry, we can't wait to see what they come up with in Las Vegas next month. I'll close out my product updates by providing a bit more detail on 2 important wins that I highlighted earlier.

First, we closed a substantial new logo order management deal with one of the world's largest retailers. This deal represents our largest ever OMS bookings deal and speaks to the ongoing power of having the most capable and scalable OMS product in the industry. While historically, this customer chose to build their e-commerce tech stack in-house, their e-commerce business grew in scale and complexity to the point where they no longer believed it made sense to build the back-end intelligence layer on their own. So we're proud to welcome them into the Manhattan family. And finally, the power of solution unification continues to deliver for us.

Both during the sales process and in our implementation results, we're bringing solutions to life only possible when warehouse and transportation are truly unified. We closed a large unified warehouse and transportation deal at a major retailer in Q1, in large part due to the power and simplicity of running a single application for distribution and logistics. That unified approach lowers integration complexity and accelerates time to value. This win adds to the growing list of customers recognizing the value of the unified active platform.

Next month at Momentum, our customers and prospects will hear directly from one of our large retail customers as they share the valuable benefits they're already achieving from having warehouse and transportation live together on the Active platform. So with a strong pipeline across our product suite, numerous opportunities to drive growth and our unique ability to consistently deliver leading innovation to the supply chain commerce universe, we're very optimistic about our long-term growth opportunity. So that concludes my business update. And as you all know, we have a new CFO. So before I introduce Linda, I'd like to thank Dennis Story for all of his contributions over the past 20 years.

And now I'd like to introduce you to our new CFO, Linda Pinne. As many of you know, Linda previously served as our Global Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. And with her 20-plus years of experience right here at Manhattan, she brings a wealth of company-specific industry and financial expertise that I'm sure all of you will appreciate. So with that, I'll hand it over to Linda to report on our financial performance and outlook, and then I will close out our prepared remarks before we open it up to Q&A. So Linda, over to you.

Linda Pinne: All right. Great. Thanks, Eric. Before I jump into the numbers, I'd like to thank Eric and the Board for the opportunity to lead our talented finance team. I look forward to helping Eric and the rest of the team execute on the enormous opportunity in front of us. Regarding Q1, our global teams continued to perform well, delivering better-than-expected top and bottom line results in a volatile macro environment. FX volatility continues to impact us. In Q1, it was a 2-point tailwind to year-over-year total revenue growth, which was in line with the outlook we provided last quarter.

However, it was an approximate $5 million headwind to sequential RPO growth and about a $25 million tailwind to year-over-year RPO growth. Now to our results. Our growth rates are reported on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise stated. For the quarter, total revenue was $282 million, up 7%. Excluding license and maintenance revenue, which removes the compression driven by our cloud transition, our total revenue was up 13%. Cloud revenue increased 24% to $117 million. The better-than-expected performance was driven by a combination of strong execution, catch-up overage fees and lower-than-modeled churn rates of our renewal portfolio. Services revenue was also better than expected and increased 4% to $126 million.

We ended Q1 with RPO of $2.35 billion, up 24% compared to the prior year and 5% sequentially. As Eric previously highlighted, the strong Q1 performance was driven by a good mix of both sales from new and existing customers. This includes renewals, which were in line with our 2026 annual plan that we discussed last quarter. Contract duration remains at about 5.5 to 6 years, resulting in 38% of RPO to be recognized as revenue over the next 24 months. Q1 adjusted operating profit was $91 million with an operating margin of 32.4%. The better-than-expected performance was driven by strong cloud revenue growth, which offset some of the increased go-to-market investments we highlighted in Q4. Turning to EPS.

We delivered better-than-expected adjusted earnings per share of $1.24, up 4%. GAAP EPS was $0.82, down 4% and was adversely impacted by higher-than-expected tax expense due to a decrease of stock-based compensation benefits. Moving to cash. Q1 operating cash flow increased 12% to $84 million, resulting in a 28.3% free cash flow margin and 33.1% adjusted EBITDA margin. Turning to the balance sheet. Deferred revenue increased 20% year-over-year to $356 million. We ended the quarter with $226 million in cash and $0 debt. Accordingly, we leveraged our strong cash position and invested $150 million in share repurchases in the quarter and have $350 million remaining in the share repurchase authority we announced in March. Moving to our 2026 guidance.

As noted on prior earnings calls, our goal is to update our RPO outlook on an annual basis. Also, as previously discussed, our bookings performance is impacted by the number and relative value of large deals we close in any quarter, which can potentially cause nonlinear bookings throughout the year. So with that, we continue to target RPO of $2.62 billion to $2.68 billion, which represents a range of 18% to 20% growth. Moving to the P&L. Our long-term and long-standing financial objective is to deliver sustainable double-digit top line growth and top quartile operating margins benchmarked against enterprise software comps.

These are drivers to our best-in-class return on invested capital as we maintain a balanced investment approach to growth and profitability. As Eric highlighted, the macro environment remains volatile. While clarity from external variables remains limited, given our strong Q1 performance, we are raising our full year total revenue, operating margin and EPS outlook. This guidance is also provided in today's earnings release. For total revenue, we expect $1.147 billion to $1.157 billion, with the $1.152 billion midpoint, comparing favorably to our prior outlook and representing 11% growth, excluding license and maintenance attrition and 7% all in. This continues to include a 1-point tailwind from FX. For Q2, we continue to target total revenue of $285 million to $289 million.

For the rest of the year, at the midpoint, our targets remain at about $296 million for Q3 and accounting for retail peak seasonality, $287 million for Q4. For adjusted operating margin, we are increasing the midpoint to 35%, up from our prior midpoint of 34.75%, which includes a 100 basis point headwind from our license and maintenance revenue attrition to cloud. At the midpoint, we continue to expect adjusted operating margin to be about 34.7% in Q2, 36.9% in Q3 and accounting for retail peak seasonality, 36.1% in Q4. Our full year adjusted EPS range is increasing to $5.29 to $5.37.

On a quarterly basis, we are targeting Q2 EPS of $1.30, Q3 of $1.43 and accounting for retail peak seasonality, $1.36 in Q4. For full year GAAP EPS, our midpoint increases by $0.14 to $3.59, and we are targeting Q2 GAAP EPS of $0.86. So here are some additional details on our 2026 outlook. We are increasing our cloud revenue midpoint to $495 million, representing 21% growth and continue to target $121.5 million in Q2, $126 million in Q3 and $130.5 million in Q4. We expect services revenue to increase 3% to $518 million, which continues to assume $131.5 million in Q2, $137 million in Q3 and accounting for retail peak seasonality, $124 million in Q4.

On attrition to cloud, we expect maintenance to decline 17% to about $108 million, and we continue to target $27 million in Q2, $25.5 million in Q3 and $25 million in Q4. We expect license to be about $1 million per quarter and hardware to range between $6 million and $6.5 million per quarter. Finally, we expect our tax rate to be about 22% and our diluted share count to be about 60 million shares, which assumes no buyback activity. In summary, a great start to the year and solid execution by the Manhattan team. Thank you, and back to Eric for some closing remarks.

Eric Clark: Great. Thank you, Linda. We're very pleased with our strong start to 2026 and our continued business momentum. Manhattan's business fundamentals are solid, and we have numerous opportunities to continue to accelerate profitable growth and reduce time to value for our customers. Thanks to everyone for joining the call, and thank you to our global team for the great execution. That concludes our prepared remarks, and we'd be happy to take any questions.

Operator: [Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from the line of Terry Tillman with Truist Securities.

Terrell Tillman: Eric, Linda, Mike and Dennis. A nice job on the bookings. Good to see that. I'd be remiss if I didn't say something about Dennis though. I think that was almost 80 Manhattan calls that I think you've been on. Congrats to all your accomplishments and best of luck in retirement. And Linda, congratulations to you as well as the new CFO.

Linda Pinne: Thank you.

Terrell Tillman: Yes. I had two questions. First, I definitely wanted to ask about agent and Eric, you gave a lot of good color there. I appreciate that. My two part on Agentic is, if you look through the rest of the year, how do you see the progression from these pilots and POCs into potentially scaled revenue. And then the second part is, I saw a demo at NRF going back what seems like months ago. And there is the opportunity to actually let this run autonomously then, like WAVE Coordinator Agent. How many of these early adopters are actually just letting it ride and just operate autonomously? And then I had a follow-up.

Eric Clark: Okay. Yes. So in terms of scaling and monetization, as you know, we launched in Q1, and our primary go-to-market is through a 90-day pilot. So that is a paid pilot. And at the end of that pilot, we have the conversation about converting to subscription. So in Q2, while we continue to sign up additional pilot customers, we'll also be having conversations with the Q1 customers about conversion to subscriptions. And in fact, those conversations have already begun with many of them. So we expect this to continue to scale as we go throughout each quarter. And I think we'll have more clarity on what that means as we go throughout each quarter.

So we continue to take a conservative approach to the monetization, and we expect to have a bigger impact, obviously, in '27 than we'll have in '26. And then in terms of the second part of autonomous agents, all of our agents are designed to be -- well, I shouldn't say that. Most of our agents are designed to be autonomous if they so choose. So they can be working alongside a user and providing suggestions to a user. And then when the user feels comfortable, they can allow the agent to work autonomously. Again, you go back to our architecture that's all micro services, all API-driven.

So this concept that's been kicked around in the AI space here recently about headless we're set up for headless. Our user interface can be the screens that we build or our unit of interface can be an AI agent.

Terrell Tillman: Yes. Got it. That's helpful. Just my follow-up question -- follow-up question just on this, so I'll just -- I'll throw it out there. On cloud subscription revenue, it was 24% growth, that's acceleration. How much of that, though, was FX? I think you all called out total revenue had about 2-point benefit. But I'm just curious how much of the revenue acceleration is kind of core versus FX? And then for the full year, maybe an update on FX impact to subscription revenue.

Linda Pinne: Yes. So for the quarter, it was a little bit over 1% tailwind on the cloud revenue. And for the full year, we're also expecting about a 1% overall tailwind on our revenue.

Operator: [Operator Instructions] And the next question comes from the line of Brian Peterson with Raymond James.

Brian Peterson: Congrats on the strong quarter. And Dennis, it's been really great working with you. So I wanted to ask on the RPO. Obviously, it was much stronger than we expected. The net new mix at 55%, it looks like that held steady. Is there any commonality in the deal timing or the deal sizes that drove some of that net new, Eric? I'd love for you to unpack that a little bit.

Eric Clark: Yes. So I think one of the really good signs that we're seeing, and I mentioned it a bit in my prepared remarks, is the investments that we made and the strategy that we put in place last year to increase deal volume across all of those deal types is paying off. So our deal volume across all these types was up in Q1. So not nearly as dependent on large deals. In fact, the largest 2 deals we closed in the quarter came from Europe and APAC. So we saw a good variation of deal size. And that allows us to I think, to be more aggressive in that space as well.

And when you look at the 55%, that kind of continues from the success that we had in new logo last year. But I've always said over a period of time, it's kind of going to go back to thirds. And we looked at that data. And if you go back 3 years, over the past 3 years, it is in thirds, but we've been really, really strong in the past 5 quarters of bringing in new logo. And we continue to see great pipeline, and we continue to have great win rates against our competitors. So we expect that to continue.

Brian Peterson: That's great to hear. And Eric, I'd love to get an update on some of the fixed services aspects that you were talking about. I know last quarter, you mentioned there was some interest in that. Any update on the uptake there? And how should we think about that impacting services in 2026?

Eric Clark: Yes. So -- and that kind of goes back again to increase in deal volume, just the number of deals that we closed in Q1 and also increase in deal volume and dollar volume across cross-sells and upsells. So we've got the team actively engaging looking for those opportunities to expand within our customer base, and we're seeing good success there.

Operator: The next question comes from the line of Joe Vruwink with Baird.

Joseph Vruwink: Great. And I'll also extend my congrats to Dennis and Linda. More of a thematic question maybe, but when it comes to software categories that still have a fair amount of on-prem deployments, there seems to be a growing appreciation that's maybe not well suited to take advantage of AI. And so we're starting to hear more anecdotes and feedback that modernization campaigns need to pick up. Obviously, Manhattan kind of has its own irons in the fire to accelerate conversion activity. But are you starting to see the customer mindset change and maybe their planning windows are shifting forward on this idea that they need to pick up the pace?

Eric Clark: Yes. And we talked about that last year as well. We started to see some of the tone and the pace changing when we were able to go out and offer fixed fee, fixed time frame deployments when they saw a way to get there quicker. And then the fact that we can offer them -- once they get to the Active platform, we can offer them base agents that they can turn on and use day 1. So all of these are absolutely creating more interest.

But I also agree with your point that we've moved up now to about 23% of our on-prem customer base has converted or started the conversion to the cloud, but we still have a large installed base and a large opportunity to go do additional conversions. And I agree with your point that those probably aren't ripe for AI takeover. Those are conversions that are going to happen within our ecosystem.

Joseph Vruwink: Okay. Understood. And then just on the strong RPO addition in 1Q, and it seems like that was driven by the new logo performance, even though I appreciate a lot of good volume there, but I guess the dollars skewed more towards new logos. How much of that maybe relates to this dynamic around ERP upgrades still happening? And if you're on maybe an attach with your ERP vendor historically, you're starting to see that be a feeder and the conversion on that getting upgraded into a Manhattan solution being high?

Eric Clark: Yes, that definitely continues to be a tailwind for us, and we see significant pipeline in that space. But I think same answer that I gave last year when we talked about this, an even bigger tailwind is some of our competitors in the industry that haven't made the investments in cloud and haven't made the investments in a unified platform. We continue to have just kind of off-the-chart win rates when we compete for their incumbents, and we're taking a lot of business from our competitors.

Operator: And the next question comes from the line of Dylan Becker with William Blair.

Dylan Becker: I'll echo congrats to Dennis and Linda here as well, too. But maybe, Eric, starting for you, if we kind of go back to the Agentic deployment conversation. I thought it was pretty impressive some of the statistics you disclosed and kind of value those early pilot customers are seeing. I guess, to one, maybe the first aspect, how that's maybe driving or fueling your expectation of scaling kind of that proof-of-concept cohort, if you will, right, just kind of tied to the value and referenceability that those customers are seeing as well as maybe layering in conviction on that conversion or their willingness to kind of pay for those agents over time.

I understand kind of the conservatism in the framework, but how that's kind of layering confidence in the contribution here over, obviously, '26 and then '27?

Eric Clark: Yes. So there's a lot of excitement about the opportunity here. And in terms of customers being willing to pay for it in some of the early conversations we've had around moving from pilot to subscription, there have been customers that have justified the entire ROI just by reduction in overtime. So when they look at all the different ways they can get value out of these AI agents, we aren't seeing customers have a problem justify the ROI of what they're getting. So that gives us pretty good confidence. But again, we're early. So we're still very conservative in what we're putting in, in terms of revenue for this year.

But I think you look at what we did in terms of number and volume of deployments and agents that we put in, in Q1 in the very first quarter this was available, and I expect that to continue to grow and build as we go through the next 3 quarters. So I think when we start talking about outlook for 2027, there should be a meaningful impact from AI.

Dylan Becker: Very helpful. And then if we do kind of stick on the topic of kind of accelerated deal volume and velocity attributable to a lot of the structural kind of changes that have taken place over the last year or so, if you will. I think it's impressive to see that the services piece is stepping up in light of kind of the fixed contract dynamic, I guess.

How should we think about or how are you guys thinking about the implications of that relative to kind of the broader software or subscription and services kind of mix shift as you're layering on more cloud contracts and maybe those customers are realizing value faster, kind of that pull-forward implication, if you will, to subscription revenues?

Eric Clark: No, thank you. And it's a great question because as we've talked about in previous calls, we've got a lot of focus and investment on speed and simplicity and making it faster and easier for our customers to deploy and faster and easier for them to recognize, reduce that time to value. And in doing that, obviously, that makes services projects shorter. So when you look at our revenue growth, it's because we're doing more services projects. And some of that is the active selling that we're doing into our installed base. Some of it is this newfound opportunity around forward deployed engineers.

You look at what's happening in the AI space and some of these large foundation companies, and model companies are creating partnerships with all of the consultancies out there because they don't have forward deployed engineers. And even some of the large cloud companies that have very, very small services teams, they've got to go create partnerships with those same consulting companies to try to create interest in deploying their AI agents.

So I think what we're seeing is this services team that we have here at Manhattan has become a massive advantage for us because we are skilling and tooling teams of forward deployed engineers that are made up of people from R&D and services engineers that can very quickly get these agents active and productive and adding value to our customers, and we can do that at scale. So I think, again, one of the things that our customers love hearing from us when we're having these AI conversations because, by the way, as you know, they're having AI conversations with every one of their partners and everybody else trying to get in the door.

We're the only people that can come and say, we can turn these on and have you actively using them and getting value on day 1.

Operator: And the next question comes from the line of George Kurosawa with Citi.

George Michael Kurosawa: Okay. I wanted to touch on the cloud revenue upside, a lot stronger than what we've seen in recent quarters. You called out some components of that in terms of improving churn in the renewal book, I believe, and then something on the overages side. Maybe you could just double-click on some of those dynamics and how we should think about how sustainable those drivers are going forward?

Linda Pinne: Yes. So as you mentioned, we mentioned 3 drivers. One, of course, was just strong execution in the quarter. We also did have some onetime cloud overage fees that would not be recurring. And then as you noted, we had lower than modeled churn on our renewals. But again, as far as going forward, we're continuing to take a conservative position on our outlook for Q2 to Q4, keeping those metrics in line with what we previously disclosed last quarter, just given the volatility in the macro environment right now.

George Michael Kurosawa: Okay. That's great color and makes sense. I wanted to touch on this forward deployed engineer concept you just touched on, Eric. Maybe if you could talk about that's a concept you guys have been leaning into in the most recent quarters, if there's -- what you had to change kind of structurally, if there's any specific hiring that you had to do, just how you sort of put that group into place? And maybe if you could just talk a little more about the impact that you're seeing there?

Eric Clark: Yes. So as I mentioned a quarter ago, we were hiring early in Q1. And to date, we've added about 120 headcount into our services team, and we've got another roughly 70 either pending start or open. So we continue to add talent into our services team. And really, that's just based on demand.

But when you look at what we're doing with forward deployed engineers, the bulk of those FDEs are coming from people that have experience here at Manhattan across the services engineering team and the R&D team because we want people that are deep in our product and deep in understanding supply chain and deep in understanding our customers' needs so that we can quickly create those custom agents within the foundry.

Operator: The next question comes from the line of Guy Hardwick with Barclays.

Guy Drummond Hardwick: So a question on the pilots. So once the 90-day pilots are completed, what kind of uplift are you seeing in terms of percentage uplift to the SaaS subscription contracts?

Eric Clark: Yes, it varies. We're not disclosing price list information on that, but it varies based on how they're using it, where they're using it. And all of AI has a cost, right? How many times are you hitting LLMs and how many APIs and et cetera, et cetera. So it's a unique conversation with each customer.

Guy Drummond Hardwick: Okay. But I think I understand that you have guided to that the margins to be similar for SaaS. Is that correct?

Eric Clark: Yes. Yes. We've modeled it so that the margin remains consistent.

Guy Drummond Hardwick: Okay. And just sorry, my follow-up actually, in terms of the fixed fee deployments, what percentage of the services revenue is that now or what you expect it to be this year?

Eric Clark: I don't have an answer for that. We haven't modeled that. But that's something that we'll continue to do more and more fixed fee because when -- as we put more and more automation and AI into the way we deliver services, that's part of how we sell the value of what we're delivering. So when you're using AI and automation, you don't want to sell services by the hour, you want to sell it by the outcome.

Operator: The next question comes from the line of Parker Lane with Stifel.

J. Lane: Eric, you talked about customers not really having any trouble justifying the ROI of agents. So maybe zooming in again on the pricing model here. What has been the reception to the more subscription-based arrangement for paying for agents versus a true consumption? And are you contracting in a similar fashion in terms of duration? Or are you giving smaller windows to sort of analyze that level of utilization and adoption over time and then go back and rework the subscription arrangement?

Eric Clark: Yes. So the one thing that we have shared about pricing is that our intention here was to make it simple. Back to the speed and simplicity and easy to understand, easy to buy, easy to operate. So while all AI will be based on some kind of consumption because there is a cost to the consumption, we work with them to identify based on the POC and the pilot what kind of consumption are you using to do these tasks and automation that you want to do. And that's how we come to an uplift. And the reason that works is because a lot of these customers are somewhere along their journey in deployment.

So they still have committed uplift. So rather than having to reprice the AI and talk about consumption all the time, we let it grow with them.

Operator: The next question comes from the line of Mark Schappel with Loop Capital Markets.

Mark Schappel: Really nice job on the quarter. Eric, I was wondering if you could just share some more details on the large deal completed through the Google Marketplace, including maybe how it originated, how it kind of grew during the quarter? And also, does it include your agents?

Eric Clark: Yes. So if you go back to last year, I think the largest deal that we've ever closed in Europe went through Google Cloud Marketplace. And now this is the largest order management deal we've ever done and one of the largest deals we've done in APAC that's gone through Google Cloud Marketplace. So -- and I would say this one is similar to the other one. And there have been other smaller deals, too, but it's interesting that 2 of our largest deals in Europe and APAC have gone through the marketplace.

And in both of those cases of the large deals, I wouldn't say that was the determining factor of why they did it, but it certainly reduced some of the friction because these customers have committed spend with Google, and this allows them to retire some of that committed spend as they work with us. So we view it more as an opportunity to help close deals and be a differentiator at this point, more so than creating net new pipeline. Is that the question you were looking for?

Mark Schappel: Yes, I think that's sufficient. And then as a follow-up, of the base agents that you released, I believe, in January, I know it's still early, but which ones are generating the strongest customer interest so far?

Eric Clark: Well, the one that I mentioned and kind of give some examples of -- we've got multiple customers getting different types of value using the exact same agent is the WAVE planning agent. We've also had a lot of success with our labor agent. I would say we've got probably a couple of agents in each product that tend to be the hot couple of agents. And then what customers use beyond those top 2, it varies by customer. And then everybody is adding custom agents.

Operator: The next question comes from the line of Chris Quintero with Morgan Stanley.

Christopher Quintero: Eric, Linda, great to speak with you again, and congrats on the CFO role. And Dennis, congrats on all your accomplishments over the years. I wanted to ask about the go-to-market changes. Really great to see that already impacting the results here with RPO. So maybe, Eric, just curious kind of which one of those are really the ones that are benefiting you today? And how do you think about the remaining ones impacting you later on in the year and into the future?

Eric Clark: Yes. So I think we look at several things when it comes to how that team is building pipeline in terms of total pipeline dollars, but also volume of deals in the pipeline at different sizes, volume of deals of different sizes across cross-sell, upsell. The cross-sell and upsell that comes from renewal and all these different metrics. So what we're seeing is volume increases in all of these areas because we have specialists focused on all of those areas, and we have people focused on those areas that's the only way they make money.

So I think what we've done is we've created just more opportunities to find both subscription and services revenue across our new logo opportunities and our installed base.

Christopher Quintero: Got it. That's helpful. And then I wanted to ask about services. Obviously, a bit more macro-sensitive part of the business. And we did hear about some services partners having some projects kind of getting delayed because of macro volatility and customer nervousness. But curious to get your sense on what you saw in the quarter and if you're even seeing any of that yourself on your services business.

Eric Clark: Really haven't seen that, and I'm not aware of partners that have seen that. So typically, when partners see that, we hear about it. But no, I haven't seen that in the quarter.

Operator: And the next question comes from the line of Lachlan Brown with Rothschild & Company, Redburn.

Lachlan Brown: Congrats on the quarter. With the customers that have been on the pilot program for your agent solutions, how has the overall consumption been of these products? I guess listening to your remarks, it sounds like it's been pretty strong, but just any commentary on whether it's been over, under or in line with expectations? And has this changed any initial thinking around available consumption usage when they move to the subscription package?

Eric Clark: No. Maybe what I'll start with is, I mentioned in the prepared remarks, we had -- when you think of product sales in Q1, the breadth of product sales was probably the most diverse that it's been since 2022. So we're really selling across every one of our products. We're also offering these AI agents across all of these products. So we've got customers actively using agents across every product. And as I mentioned before, it depends on how they use them and where they're using and how much consumption and that consumption is how we determine how we create that price with that customer. So no big challenges, big issues there.

I think it's all been coming in as we expected.

Lachlan Brown: Appreciate it. And maybe one for Linda. Just on the upward revenue guidance revision, quite a notable increase at the bottom end, but a small increase at the top end of the range. So could you just run us through the puts and takes in the outlook with the confidence to raise the lower end while being somewhat conservative at the top?

Linda Pinne: Yes. I mean it's pretty much the same. I mean, basically, we took our beat from Q1, and we applied that to each one of our metrics. So we raised all 3 metrics. But as I mentioned before, we are keeping the Q2 to Q4 parameters, the same that we had mentioned on last quarter's call. Just again, we're executing well. We're very optimistic, but it is only the first quarter, and there's a lot of volatility in the macro environment. So we felt it was prudent to keep our out quarters the same as what we had previously communicated.

Operator: This concludes the question-and-answer session, and I will turn it back over to Eric Clark for closing remarks.

Eric Clark: Yes. Well, again, thank you all for joining. Really proud of the team and the execution from the team to deliver a really strong Q1 and position us very well for 2026, and we're excited about where we are and look forward to continuing to deliver. Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time, and we thank you for your participation.

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