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UNITED STATES 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
Washington, D.C. 20549 

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)
(cid:3) ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 

For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 

OR 

(cid:4) TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM                      TO                    

001-35840 
Commission File Number 001-35840 

Model N, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter) 

Delaware
( State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

777 Mariners Island Boulevard, Suite 300
San Mateo, California
(Address of principal executive offices)

77-0528806
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

94404
(Zip Code)

(650) 610-4600
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (650) 610-4600 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Common Stock, Par Value $0.00015 Per Share; Common stock traded on the New York Stock 
Exchange stock market 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None 

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. YES (cid:4) NO (cid:3)

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. YES (cid:4) NO (cid:3)

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing 
requirements for the past 90 days. YES (cid:3) NO (cid:4)

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required 
to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that 
the Registrant was required to submit and post such files). YES (cid:3) NO (cid:4)

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Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§229.405) is not contained herein, and will not be contained,
to the best of Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment 
to this Form 10-K. (cid:4)

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emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” 
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or 
revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  (cid:3)

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Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). YES (cid:4) NO (cid:3)

The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the Registrant, based on the closing price of the shares of 
common stock on The New York Stock Exchange Stock Market on March 31, 2017, was approximately $243 million.

The number of shares of Registrant’s Common Stock outstanding as of November 3, 2017 was 29,329,972. Portions of the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy 
Statement relating to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled to be held on February 16, 2018, are incorporated by reference into Part III of this 
Report.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

Item 1. Business..............................................................................................................................................................................
Item 1A. Risk Factors........................................................................................................................................................................
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments ..............................................................................................................................................
Item 2.
Properties............................................................................................................................................................................
Item 3. Legal Proceedings ..............................................................................................................................................................
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.....................................................................................................................................................

PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities........
Item 6.
Selected Consolidated Financial Data................................................................................................................................
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations ............................................
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk ...........................................................................................
Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data............................................................................................
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure ...........................................
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.....................................................................................................................................................
Item 9B. Other Information...............................................................................................................................................................

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.................................................................................................
Item 11. Executive Compensation....................................................................................................................................................
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters..........................
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence...................................................................
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services ............................................................................................................................

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PART I.

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This report contains forward-looking statements regarding future events and our future results that are subject to the safe harbors 
created  under  the  Securities  Act  of  1933  (Securities  Act)  and  the  Securities  Exchange  Act  of  1934  (Exchange  Act).  All  statements
contained  in  this  report  other  than  statements  of  historical  fact,  including  statements  regarding  our  future  results  of  operations  and 
financial position, our business strategy and plans, and our objectives for future operations, are forward-looking statements. The words 
“believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “goal,” “plan,” “intend,” “expect,” “seek”, and similar expressions are 
intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations
and projections about future events and trends. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and 
assumptions, including those described under “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors,” and elsewhere in this report. Moreover, we operate in a
very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to
predict  all  risks,  nor  can  we  assess  the  impact  of  all  factors  on  our  business  or  the  extent  to  which  any  factor,  or  combination  of 
factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of 
these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the future events and trends discussed in this report may not occur and actual results could 
differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. 

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You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events and circumstances reflected in 
the  forward-looking  statements  may  not  be  achieved  or  occur.  Although  we  believe  that  the  expectations  reflected  in  the  forward-
looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements. We are under 
no duty to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this report or to conform these statements to actual results
or revised expectations.

As used in this report, the terms “Model N,” “we,” “us,” “our,” and “the Company” mean Model N, Inc. and its subsidiaries

unless the context indicates otherwise.

Item 1.

Business

Overview 

Model N is a leader in Revenue Management solutions. Our solutions transform the revenue lifecycle from a series of disjointed 
operations into a strategic end-to-end process. With deep industry expertise, we support the complex business needs of the world’s 
leading brands in life sciences and technology across tens of thousands of users located in more than 100 countries. A representative 
list  of  our  customers  from  life  sciences  and  technology  includes  AstraZeneca,  Boston  Scientific,  Johnson &  Johnson,  Microchip
Technology and Novartis.

Many companies, in particular in the life sciences and technology industries, experience a gap between the strategic importance
of  revenue  management  and  the  current  state  of  their  revenue  management  processes.  Historically,  companies  tended  to  rely  on  a 
disjointed  patchwork  of  manual  processes,  spreadsheets,  point  applications  and  legacy  systems  to  manage  their  revenue  processes. 
These processes and systems operated in isolation from one another and were labor intensive, error prone, inflexible and costly, often 
resulting in missed revenue opportunities, suboptimal margins and increased revenue compliance risk. Current industry trends, which 
include  shortening  product  lifecycles,  tightening  compliance  and  regulatory  controls,  increasing  channel  complexity  and  growing
volumes of transactional data are causing these outdated processes and legacy systems to become increasingly ineffective.

Our expertise in cloud-based revenue management solutions and knowledge of the life sciences and technology industries has
enabled us to develop software designed to meet the unique, strategic needs of these industries, such as managed care and government 
pricing for life sciences companies and channel incentives for technology companies. Our solutions are also applicable to companies 
in  industries  that  sell  complicated  configurations  of  products  such  as  in  manufacturing.  Model  N  Revenue  Cloud  transforms  the
revenue  lifecycle  into  a  strategic,  end-to-end  process  aligned  across  the  enterprise.  Our  industry  specific  solution  suites  –  Revenue 
Cloud  for  Pharma,  Revenue  Cloud  for  Med  Tech  and  Revenue  Cloud  for  High  Tech  –  offer  a  range  of  solutions  from  individual
products to complete product suites. Deployments may vary from specific divisions or territories to enterprise-wide implementations.
In  addition  to  industry  specific  clouds,  Revenue  Cloud  provides  a  broad  set  of  multi-tenant  cloud-based  products  for  a  variety  of 
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Overview of the Life Sciences and Technology Industries

The life sciences and technology industries are large and highly fragmented. Companies in both industries market their products
to a global customer base through diverse channels. Significant costs are required to launch a drug to the global market. Regulatory 
pressures, consolidation, and other factors in these industries continue to drive a significant focus on revenue management.

Management  of  the  revenue  lifecycle  is  a  strategic  imperative  and  source  of  competitive  advantage  for  life  sciences  and 
technology  companies  as  they  address  increasingly  globalized  markets,  sophisticated  buyers,  complex  channels  and  expanding
volumes of data from internal and market sources. 

Several trends specific to these industries further complicate revenue management.

Life sciences: 

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the  emergence  of  large  group  purchasing,  managed  care  organizations  and  integrated  healthcare  delivery  networks  drive 
increased pricing pressure, contract volume and complexity; 

increased customer and channel incentives and rebates result in the increased risk of extending unearned discounts and the
overpayment of rebates; 

shift of purchasing influence from physicians to economic buyers makes price and commercial terms key decision making 
factors; 

increased  spending  on  healthcare  by  governments  instead  of  commercial  entities  adds  further  regulatory  oversight  to 
transactions; and 

increased  scope  of  government  mandates,  frequency  of  regulatory  reporting  and  audits,  and  fines,  all  of  which  increase 
administrative burden and monitoring costs. 

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shortened product lifecycles drive rapid pricing changes and require quick responses to quotes and competitive bidding; 

increased number of core technology products sold into different end markets with segment-specific pricing; 

cyclicality and rising R&D costs are contributing to a focus on maximizing sell time, margins and revenues;

increased complexity of multi-tiered global distribution channels which intensify channel conflict and price erosion; 

changing financial reporting requirements due to channel complexity; and 

increased use of off-invoice discounting to offset upfront discounts and mask end-customer pricing result in a lack of price 
transparency that can erode gross margins. 

Challenges to Effective Revenue Management 

Traditionally,  companies  addressed  revenue  management  through  a  patchwork  of  manual  processes  and  inflexible  and  costly 
custom solutions. This outdated approach to revenue management impedes the ability of companies to respond to changing market 
conditions, preventing them from maximizing revenue and increasing their revenue compliance risk. Critical challenges include: 

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Incomplete and unreliable information for key strategic decisions.  Legacy manual processes and systems used to manage
the revenue lifecycle creates silos of data causing companies to make strategic marketing, pricing and resource allocation 
decisions that are often based on incomplete or inaccurate information. As a result, revenue strategies can be suboptimal, 
budgets may be misallocated, and sales and marketing efforts can fail to positively impact revenues.

Revenue  leakage  due  to  inadequate  contract  management  and  enforcement. Customer-specific  contracts  with  complex 
pricing  and  commercial  terms  are  common  in  many  industries,  in  particular  life  sciences  and  technology.  When  the 
commercial terms of these contracts are not automated and monitored systematically, deviations from contract pricing can 
occur, volume commitments can be missed, unearned discounts may be given, and revenue can be lost.

Revenue leakage due to overpayment of incentives. Life sciences and technology companies process massive volumes of 
rebates and incentives. A lack of centralized, automated and enforceable processes can result in overpayment of incentives. 
Revenue  leakage  is  also  driven  by  inconsistent  global  pricing,  poor  price  concession  controls,  and  unmet  contractual
volume commitments. 

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Ineffective pricing across geographies and complex channels. Sophisticated buyers deploy global procurement strategies
to discover and exploit regional and channel differences in pricing and contracting. The inability to enforce a single price
for a specific sales opportunity across regions and channels can result in channel conflicts, which result in price and revenue
erosion. 

Inaccurate  financial  reporting. Complex  contracts  and  distribution  channels  have  made  it  more  difficult  to  obtain  and 
process financial information, which can result in inaccurate financial reporting. For example, technology companies face 
significant complexity in financial reporting and revenue recognition at the point of sale in their distribution channels. Life
sciences companies have significant challenges correctly accruing their massive rebate and incentive claim volumes. 

• Difficulty  complying  with  complicated  government  regulations. Satisfying  the  regulatory  requirements  of  numerous 
federal and state programs is increasingly complex for life sciences companies. For example, government-driven programs 
require complex monitoring and reporting to compute and pay mandated rebates and fees under numerous federal and state
programs.  Government  audits  can  expose  ineffective  management  of  these  regulatory  requirements  and  can  result  in
penalties or program ineligibility.

Our Solutions 

Our solutions enable customers to achieve significant returns on investment through increased revenues and gross margins while 

addressing vital business objectives:

• Driving optimal pricing and contracting strategies. Our customers use our solutions to develop, deploy, monitor and drive
optimal pricing and contracting strategies. Our solutions consolidate information across the revenue lifecycle and provide 
visibility  into  historical  volume,  price  and  contract  performance  trends.  Our  pricing  analytics  enable  our  customers  to 
identify untapped revenue opportunities across customers or products and make better pricing and contracting decisions. 

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Realizing greater value from contracts. Our solutions enable customers to codify and automate complex pricing, incentives 
and financial and fulfillment terms that previously resided mainly on paper contracts. Our customers are able to maximize 
the value of contracts and realize additional revenue by tracking their customers’ performance and enforcing contract terms.
Our solutions automatically price orders in real-time and enforce contract pricing and commercial terms. Our solutions also 
enable customers to track and execute other revenue-enhancing financial terms, such as negotiated price increases. 

• Maximizing revenue by standardizing and enforcing pricing and discounting policies. Our solutions allow customers to
standardize  pricing  policies  that  can  be  enforced  automatically  across  the  enterprise  and  the  channels  to  restrict 
unauthorized sales practices and discounting by sales personnel. By raising the visibility of, requiring authorization of, and 
enabling rapid resolution of, non-standard pricing, our customers can use our solutions to reduce unauthorized discounting. 
Through our channel solutions, our customers can gain visibility into and enforce channel pricing, and reduce price erosion 
caused by different price quotes for the same end customer. 

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Executing  and  optimizing  channel  incentives. Our  solutions  enable  customers  to  manage  the  entire  incentive  lifecycle,
from contracting to recognition and payment. Accurate management allows our customers to eliminate unearned discounts 
and overpayment of incentives. Our solutions also provide our customers with greater cross channel visibility to manage the 
effectiveness of their channel incentive programs. With this insight, our customers can better utilize their channel incentives
to positively influence channel behavior and thus increase revenue. 

Achieving accurate financial reporting. With our solutions, customers can manage all aspects of the contract-to-payment 
process related to calculating, monitoring, processing and triggering payments to end customers and channel intermediaries. 
For example, by automating all rebates, these liabilities can be accurately accrued, enabling our customers to consistently
record accruals in compliance with financial accounting requirements, while ensuring customers and channels are credited 
on a timely basis.

Automating  government  regulatory  compliance  to  reduce  revenue  risk. Our  solutions  enable  customers  to  comply
systematically  with  government  regulations,  policies,  procedures,  and  pricing  and  reporting  requirements.  Further,  by 
automating  and  integrating  contract  terms,  incentives  and  pricing  into  mandated  price  and  payment  calculations,  our  life 
sciences  customers  are  better  able  to  manage  compliance  with  the  terms  of  critical  government  programs  that  provide 
significant sources of revenue. 

Our Competitive Strengths 

We believe our key competitive strengths include: 

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Comprehensive  approach  to  revenue  management. Our  solutions  address  the  end-to-end  revenue  management  lifecycle. 
Our integrated, end-to-end application suites enable our customers to transform their revenue management processes from 
disjointed tactical operations into a cohesive, strategic, end-to-end process. Providing suites of cloud-based solutions is an
advantage that enables us to address both decision making and process automation.

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• Deep  domain  knowledge. Our  expertise  in  the  revenue  management  needs  of  life  sciences  and  technology  companies
enables us to develop solutions that address the unique demands of these industries. By incorporating best practices into our 
industry-specific  solutions,  implementation  methodologies  and  support  programs,  our  customers  can  experience 
significantly accelerated time to value. Our team possesses the deep industry expertise in life sciences and technology to
enable our customers to maximize and accelerate the transformational benefits of our solutions. 

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Strong installed customer base. We have established a reputation for delivering revenue management solutions to leading
life sciences and technology customers. Our close customer relationships provide us with insight into how these companies 
use our solutions and help us to maintain a competitive advantage by anticipating their future requirements. We also believe 
that the use of our products by respected industry leaders also increases the value of our brand in these industries.

Talented team focused on customer success. We employ experts from the life sciences and technology industries in key 
customer-facing  and  development  roles.  Additionally,  we  have  established  strong  core  values  that  start  with  a  focus  on 
customer success. Our customer focus has resulted in close relationships with our customers and a strong reference base for 
sales opportunities.

Products

We provide solutions that span the organizational and operational boundaries of functions such as sales, marketing and finance,
and  serve  as  a  system  of  record  for  key  revenue  management  processes  including  pricing,  contracts,  rebates,  incentives,  channel
management,  and  regulatory  compliance.  Our  solutions  are  purpose-built  for  the  life  sciences  and  technology  industries  and  are 
designed  to  work  with  enterprise  resource  planning  (ERP)  and  customer  relationship  management  (CRM)   applications  that  do  not 
typically  provide  revenue  management  capabilities.  Our  solutions  enable  real-time  pricing,  contract  management,  vertical  sales 
management  (such  as  for  the  semiconductor  industry),  and  channel  incentives  management,  including  rebates,  incentives  and 
regulatory compliance. Our Revenue Cloud suites are comprised of several  solutions, which are integrated to work together but which 
may be deployed individually. For example, when deployed as an interconnected suite, our solutions allow prices that are set up in the 
price management process to flow into the quoting process. Similarly, closed deals are captured in contract management and can be 
synchronized with ERP systems and into regulatory reporting as required by government agencies. Our solutions provide critical data 
that  is  typically  not  available  in  either  CRM  or  ERP  systems,  such  as  prices,  quotes,  contracts,  incentives  and  rebate  claims.  Our 
solutions can also provide customers predictive revenue insight optimization of sales and marketing investments and offers, as well as
customer profitability intelligence. Our solutions are delivered via four distinct cloud-based offerings:

Revenue Clouds for Pharma and Med Tech – These Revenue Clouds help life science companies optimize revenue throughout 

the commercialization process and reduces revenue leakage, while adhering to government regulations. 

• Government  Pricing. Helps  customers  optimize  revenue  and  reduces  risk  of  fines  and  other  penalties  due  to  non-

compliance with regulatory pricing requirements. 

• Medicaid.  Helps  customers  comply  with  regulatory  requirements  and  pay  rebate  claims  timely  and  at  correct  rates  for 

government Medicaid programs.

• Global Pricing Management. Enables a streamlined pricing process by consolidating information into a single system of 

record, which provides users’ access to accurate and up-to-date information. 

• Global  Tender  Management.  Optimizes  revenue  regionally  and  globally  by  enabling  opportunity  segmentation  and 

targeting, optimal bid pricing and post-award tracking to manage the contract lifecycle and award value.

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Provider  Management.  Reduces  the  risk  of  non-compliance  with  regulatory  requirements  throughout  the  institutional 
contracting process.

Payer Management.   Reduces the risk of non-compliance with regulatory requirements throughout the pharmacy benefit 
manager and payer contracting process.

Revenue  Cloud  for  High  Tech-    Revenue  Cloud  for  High  Tech  enables  customers  to  modernize  their  sales  processes  by

adopting a strategic approach to manage the revenue lifecycle by planned revenue.

• Deal Management. This subscription increases deal conversion and pricing consistency with pricing, quotes and contracts

natively supporting the High Tech Channel end-to-end. 

• Deal Intelligence. This subscription controls price concessions and determines ideal prices using in context analytics.
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Channel  Management.   This  subscription  provides  manufacturers  a  clearer  view  of  inventory,  including  the  ability  to
evaluate and perform actions, such as price protection and stock rotation and match available inventory to quotes. 

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Sales  Conductor.  This  subscription  extends  Salesforce  Sales  Cloud  with  purpose-built  capabilities  for  the  semiconductor 
and electronic component industries. 

Rebates Management.   This subscription centralizes control of rebate programs to reduce upfront discounts and effective
management of all rebate programs. 

Channel  Data  Management.  This  subscription  automates  the  process  of  collection,  cleansing,  validation  and 
standardization of channel partner data, such as POS, inventory, and claims. 

Revenue  Cloud  –  a  suite  of  software-as-a-service  (SaaS)  subscriptions  designed  to  automate  the  Revenue  Management 

lifecycle:

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Configure  Price  Quote.  Streamlines  the  quote  to  contract  process  by  enabling  the  configuration  of  complex  services, 
bundles  and  solutions  into  a  single  interface.  This  application  provides  integration  with  the  SAP  ERP  system  and  SAP
Variant Configurator. 

Contract Lifecycle Management. Enables organizations to create and manage all types of sell-side contracts in one place
including service contracts, sales contracts, NDAs, statements of work, and more. The solution enables users to create and 
manage contracts directly.

Rebate Management. The solution enables companies to define rebate programs, track and calculate rebate earnings and 
accruals on transactions, point-of-sale, inventory, or any data set, and provide visibility across the organization. 

Technology 

Our suites of Revenue Cloud solutions are architected in layers. The first layer is composed of end-user operational and analysis 
solutions. The middle layer is comprised of supporting services and business engines, and the lowest layer is comprised of a unified 
technology platform used to construct and support all modules in higher layers. The platform also provides access to the normalized 
operational database where the transactional revenue management data used by the operational solutions are stored. It also provides
access and facilitates the synchronization with the de-normalized analytics database where the revenue management data used by the 
analytics solutions are stored.

Our Revenue Cloud solutions are built on a variety of industry standards, depending on the solution, such as Java EE, HTML5,
Amazon  Web  Service  and  Force.com,  which  give  the  end-users  an  intuitive  and  familiar  browsing  experience.  These  standard 
technologies enable us to offer our customers a familiar technology environment that is widely understood and utilized, as well as the
ability to use certain solutions on a tablet and other mobile devices, including smart phones running iOS and Android.

Our  technology  platform  has  allowed  us  to  quickly  develop  new  solutions,  features  and  functionalities.  We  believe  that  the
platform is configured to meet the needs of broad horizontal markets as well as specific vertical markets and, within each instance, to
meet the specific needs of each of our customers. The flexibility of the technology platform has also allowed us to add mobile device
support  and  deploy  cloud-based  solutions  in  a  rapid  and  efficient  manner,  and  we  believe  it  will  enable  us  to  continue  to  add new
capabilities in the future. 

Our  technology  is  designed  specifically  to  handle  the  complex  calculations  and  massive  data  sets  associated  with  revenue 
management processes typical in the life sciences and technology industries. With the expansion of global deployments, scalability 
has also been a key requirement of our customers and has been a focus for us across all of the layers of our application suites. 

Our  solutions  have  been  designed  to  ensure  high  reliability,  strong  security  and  the  technology  platform  includes  a 
comprehensive  set  of  built-in  features  and  management  tools  to  allow  optimal  and  continuous  operation.  The  Revenue  Cloud  for 
Pharma, Revenue Cloud for Med Tech, Revenue Cloud for High Tech and Revenue Cloud suites are only offered to our customers 
through  the  cloud.  We  operate  a  reliable  architecture  designed  to  reduce  the  risk  associated  with  infrastructure  outages,  improve
system scalability and security, and allow for flexibility in deployment. The environment for our cloud-based solutions is designed to 
be secure and provide high availability with disaster recovery capabilities. 

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Services and Customer Support 

We offer a comprehensive set of services to assist our customers through the full lifecycle of new business transformations or 
upgrades  of  existing  solutions.  We  help  our  customers  define,  implement  and  support  or  manage  our  solutions.  We  provide 
implementation services, managed services and strategic services both on and off-shore, as described below.

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Implementation  services. We  assist  our  customers  in  the  implementation  or  upgrade  of  our  Revenue  Cloud,  including 
project  management,  design  and  solution  blueprint,  process  improvement,  application  configuration  or  customization, 
systems  integration,  data  cleansing  and  migration,  testing  and  performance  tuning,  production  cutover  and  post  go-live 
support. 

• Managed  services. We  offer  managed  services  for  customers  using  our  solutions  either  on-premise  through  a  legacy 
contract  or  in  the  cloud,  which  include  systems  administration  and  infrastructure  management,  application  support,  and 
education services, including process, application and end-user training. 

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Strategic services. We assist our customers in defining best practices and strategies in revenue management, assessing the 
capability of existing transaction and decision support solutions, developing business cases for change and transformation
plans and answering strategic questions.

Customer support. We deliver customer support from support centers located in United States, as well as at our offices in 
India.  We  offer  a  range  of  support  offerings,  including  24x7x365,  packaged  into  varying  levels  of  access  to  our  support 
resources. 

For project delivery, we use a standard implementation methodology incorporating lessons learned from past work to ensure the 
success  of  our  current  projects.  This  methodology  enables  us  to  predictably  estimate  project  costs  and  schedule,  and  proactively 
mitigate most implementation challenges.

In  addition,  we  have  cultivated  relationships  to  promote  and  assist  with  the  implementation  of  our  solutions  with  consulting
firms. While we do not maintain formal contractual relationships with these firms that require them to promote our solutions to their 
clients, we work with them for implementation and other professional services projects. As a result, these firms have expertise in our 
technologies and best practices and have invested in building out their practice areas with our revenue management solutions.

We deploy our resources globally through offices located in the United States, India, and Switzerland. 

Customers 

As  of  September  30,  2017,  we  had  162  customers.   For  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2017,  revenues  from  our  life
sciences  and  technology  customers  accounted  for  approximately  80%  and  20%  of  our  total  revenues,  respectively.  Our  customers 
range  in  size  from  the  largest  multi-national  corporations  to  smaller  companies.  Our  customers  represent  a  range  of  sub-verticals
within  the  larger  life  sciences  and  technology  industries,  including  biotechnology,  pharmaceutical,  medical  device,  semiconductor,
electronic component, consumer electronics and software. 

We pursue close, long-term relationships with our customers because we believe strong customer relationships are the key to 
our success. Customers of our Revenue Cloud solutions enter into a software-as-a-service agreement that provides for a subscription
to our solutions as well as implementation services. Customers maintaining on-premise implementations under legacy contracts also
purchase,  at  their  discretion,  maintenance  and  support  services  on  an  annual  basis.  We  often  sell  to  multiple  divisions  within our 
customers’ organizations, which have the ability to independently purchase solutions and services directly; however, we treat multiple 
divisions as a single customer to the extent they are part of a single organization. During the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017 
and 2015, one customer, Johnson & Johnson, accounted for approximately 11% of our total revenues. However, during the fiscal year 
ended  September  30,  2017,  no  customer  represented  more  than  10%  of  our  subscription  revenues.  During  the  fiscal  year  ended 
September 30, 2016, no customer accounted for more than 10% of our total revenues.

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We  primarily  target  large  and  mid-sized  organizations  worldwide  through  our  direct  sales  force.  Our  sales  and  marketing
programs are also organized by geographic region. We have historically focused our sales efforts in the United States and Western
Europe, but we believe markets outside of these regions offer a significant opportunity for growth and we intend to make additional
investments  in  sales  and  marketing  to  expand  in  these  markets.  We  augment  our  sales  professionals  with  solutions  engineers  and 
industry domain experts via our Center of Excellence. These professionals work closely with prospective customers during the sales 
process. Our marketing team supports sales with demand generation, competitive analysis and sales tools, and contributes to the sales
process through lead generation, brand building, industry analyst relations, public relations and industry research. 

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We host an annual customer conference, Rainmaker, which plays a significant role in driving sales of our solutions. Customers
are  invited  both  as  attendees  and  participants  to  deliver  sessions  relevant  to  the  interests  and  practices  of  the  life  sciences  and 
technology industries. We also invite potential customers to this conference in order to leverage our strong customer relationships to
accelerate sales cycles. In addition, Rainmaker provides a forum to build our eco-system of strategic partner relationships, offering 
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Research and Development 

Our  research  and  development  organization  is  responsible  for  the  definition,  design,  development,  testing,  certification  and 
ongoing maintenance of our solutions. Our research and development expenses were $31.1 million, $23.7 million, and $17.9 million
in the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016, and 2015, respectively. We also capitalized $0.4 million, $1.1 million and $2.5 
million  of  software  development  costs  in  the  fiscal  years  ended  September 30,  2017,  2016,  and  2015,  respectively,  related  to  the 
development of certain additional software as a service offerings that will only be offered through the cloud. These capitalized costs
include all direct employee related costs. Our efforts are focused on developing new solutions and technologies and further enhancing
the functionality, reliability, performance and flexibility of existing solutions. When considering improvements and enhancements to
our  solutions,  we  communicate  with  our  customers  and  partners  who  provide  significant  feedback  for  product  development  and 
innovation.  We  focus  our  efforts  on  anticipating  customer  demand  and  bringing  our  new  solutions  and  enhancements  of  existing 
solutions  to  market  through  a  seasonal  release  schedule  (Spring,  Summer,  and  Winter)  in  order  to  remain  competitive  in  the 
marketplace. We also closely monitor the changes in business environment and regulations in our target industries, particularly in life 
sciences,  where  quick  deliveries  of  updates  to  our  solutions  are  critical  to  allowing  our  customers  to  remain  in  compliance  with t
government regulations. 

Because  our  solutions  often  serve  as  a  system-of-record  for  our  customers’  revenue  management  processes,  our  research  and 
development  efforts  reflect  the  extensive  IT  needs  of  our  customers  in  both  life  sciences  and  technology.  Our  research  and 
development efforts continue to focus on enhancing our solutions to meet the increasingly complex infrastructure requirements of our 
customers in these industries.

Our  product  development  process  is  based  on  deep  industry  knowledge  and  familiarity  with  the  specific  requirements  of 
individual customers, combined with continued innovation using state of the art software development processes and tools. We follow 
an “agile” development process, which helps us clarify requirements and receive feedback early, accommodate changes and deliver
products that better match the overall needs of our customers with higher quality. 

As of September 30, 2017, our research and development team consisted of 249 full-time employees globally. 

Competition

The  market  for  revenue  management  solutions  is  highly  competitive,  fragmented  and  subject  to  rapid  changes  in  technology.
We  face  competition  from  spreadsheet-assisted  manual  processes,  internally  developed  solutions,  large  integrated  systems  vendors,
providers of business process outsourcing services, horizontal revenue management solutions and smaller companies that offer point 
solutions. Companies lacking information technology (IT) resources often resort to spreadsheet-assisted manual processes or personal
database  applications.  In  addition,  some  potential  customers,  particularly  large  enterprises,  may  elect  to  develop  their  own  internal 
solutions,  including  custom-built  solutions  that  are  designed  to  support  the  needs  of  a  single  organization.  Companies  with  large
investments  in  ERP  or  CRM  applications,  which  do  not  typically  provide  revenue  management  capabilities,  may  extend  these
horizontal  applications  with  customizations  or  point  solution  applications  in  order  to  address  single  or  a  small  set  of  revenue
management sub processes or drivers. Common horizontal applications that customers attempt to configure for this purpose in the life 
sciences and technology industries include large integrated systems vendors like SAP AG and Oracle Corporation. We also encounter 
competition from small independent companies, which compete on the basis of price, unique product features or functions and custom 
developments. 

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industry brand, reputation and customer base. 

While  we  believe  that  we  compete  favorably  on  the  basis  of  each  of  the  factors  listed  above,  many  of  our  competitors  have 
greater name recognition, larger sales and marketing budgets and greater resources than we do and may have pre-existing relationships
with our potential customers, including relationships with, and access to, key decision makers within these organizations, and major 
distribution  agreements  with  consultants  and  system  integrators.  Moreover,  many  software  vendors  could  bundle  solutions  or  offer 
them at a low price as part of a larger product sale. 

With the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect competition to intensify in the future. We also expect
enterprise software vendors that focus on enterprise resource planning or back-office applications to enter our market with competing
products. In addition, we expect sales force automation vendors to acquire or develop additional solutions that may compete with our 
solutions.

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Intellectual Property 

We  rely  upon  a  combination  of  copyright,  trade  secret,  trademark  and,  to  a  lesser  extent,  patent  laws,  and  we  also  rely  on 
contractual  restrictions,  such  as  confidentiality  agreements  and  licenses,  to  establish  and  protect  our  proprietary  rights.  As  of 
September 30, 2017, we had eight patent applications pending and five issued patents expiring between 2023 and 2034. We have a
number of registered and unregistered trademarks. We maintain a policy requiring our employees, consultants and other third parties
to  enter  into  confidentiality  and  proprietary  rights  agreements  and  to  control  access  to  our  software,  documentation  and  other 
proprietary information. We also believe that factors resulting from our length of presence in the market and significant research and 
development investments, such as our deep expertise in life sciences and technology revenue management practices, the ability of our 
solutions  to  handle  the  complexities  of  revenue  management  processes,  the  technological  and  creative  skills  of  our  personnel,  the 
creation of new features and functionality and frequent enhancements to our solutions are essential to establishing and maintaining our 
technology leadership position.

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Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy or obtain and use our technology 
to develop products with the same functionality as our solutions. Policing unauthorized use of our technology is difficult. The laws of 
other countries in which we market our application suite may offer little or no effective protection of our proprietary technology. Our 
competitors could also independently develop technologies equivalent to ours, and our intellectual property rights may not be broad 
enough  for  us  to  prevent  competitors  from  selling  products  incorporating  those  technologies.  Reverse  engineering,  unauthorized 
copying  or  other  misappropriation  of  our  proprietary  technology  could  enable  third  parties  to  benefit  from  our  technology  without 
paying us for it, which would significantly harm our business. 

Employees 

As  of  September 30,  2017,  we  employed  864  people,  including  407  in  services  and  customer  support,  249  in  research  and 
development, 138 in sales and marketing and 70 in a general and administrative capacity. As of such date, we had 475 employees in 
the United States and 389 employees in international locations. We also engage a number of temporary employees and consultants.
None of our employees are represented by a labor union with respect to his or her employment with us. We have not experienced any 
work stoppages and we consider our relations with our employees to be good.

Segments

We  have  one  operating  segment  with  one  business  activity,  developing  and  monetizing  revenue  management  solutions.  Our 
Chief  Operating  Decision  Maker  (CODM)  is  our  Chief  Executive  Officer,  who  manages  operations  on  a  consolidated  basis  for 
purposes of allocating resources. When evaluating performance and allocating resources, the CODM reviews financial information as
presented on a consolidated basis. Accordingly, we have determined that we operate in a single reporting segment. For a discussion of 
revenues, operating profit or loss and total assets, please see Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. 

Geographic Information 

See Note 12 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. 

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Corporate Information 

We were incorporated in Delaware on December 14, 1999. Our principal offices are located at 777 Mariners Island Boulevard,
Suite  300,  San  Mateo,  CA  94404,  and  our  telephone  number  is  (650) 610-4600.  Our  website  address  is  www.modeln.com.  The 
information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not part of this report. Model N is our registered trademark 
in the United States and in various international jurisdictions. Model N, the Model N logo and all of our product names appearing in 
this report are our trademarks. Other trademarks appearing in this report are the property of their respective holders.

Available Information 

We  file  annual,  quarterly  and  other  reports,  proxy  statements  and  other  information  with  the  Securities  and  Exchange
Commission (SEC) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act). We also make available, free of charge 
on the investor relations portion of our website at investor.modeln.com, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 
10-Q,  current  reports  on  Form  8-K,  and  amendments  to  those  reports  filed  or  furnished  pursuant  to  Section 13(a)  or  15(d)  of  the
Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed electronically with the SEC. You can inspect and copy our reports, 
proxy statements and other information filed with the SEC at the offices of the SEC’s Public Reference Room located at 100 F Street, 
NE, Washington D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of Public Reference
Rooms. The SEC also maintains an Internet website at http://www.sec.gov/ where you can obtain most of our SEC filings. You can 
also obtain paper copies of these reports, without charge, by contacting Investor Relations at (650) 610-4600. 

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ITEM 1A. Risk Factors

Our operating and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties. You should carefully consider the risks and
uncertainties described  below,  together  with  all  of  the  other  information  in  this  report,  including  the  Consolidated  Financial 
Statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this report, before deciding whether to invest in shares of our common stock.
The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of,
or  that  we  currently  believe  are  not  material,  may  also  become  important  factors  that  adversely  affect  our  business.  If  any  of  the 
following  risks  or  others  not  specified  below  actually  occurs,  our  business,  financial  condition,  results  of  operations,  and  future
prospects  could  be  materially  and  adversely  affected.  In  that  event,  the  market  price  of  our  common  stock  could  decline,  and  you 
could lose part or all of your investment.

Risks Related to Our Business

We have incurred losses in the past, and we may not be profitable in the future.

We  have  incurred  net  losses  of $39.5 million and $33.1 million  for the  fiscal  years  ended September  30,  2017 and  2016, 
respectively. As of September 30, 2017, we had an accumulated deficit of $175.3 million. We expect that our expenses will increase in
future  periods  due  to  our  recent  acquisition  and  as  we  implement  additional  initiatives  designed  to  grow  our  business,  including, 
among  other  things,  increasing  sales  to  existing  customers,  expanding  our  customer  base,  introducing  new  solutions,  enhancing 
existing solutions, extending into the mid-market and continuing to penetrate the technology industry and integrating the personnel, 
products, technologies and customers of Revitas. Operating expenses related to personnel costs such as salary, bonus, commissions
and  stock-based  compensation  as  well  as  third-party  contractors,  travel-related  expenses  and  marketing  programs  may  increase  our 
expenses  in  future  periods.  In  the  near-term,  our  revenues  may  not  be  sufficient  to  offset  these  expected  increases  in  operating
expenses, and we expect that we will incur losses. Additionally, we may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, 
delays  and  other  unknown  factors  that  may  result  in  losses  in  future  periods.  We  cannot  assure  you  that  we  will  again  obtain  and 
maintain profitability in the future. Any failure to return to profitability may materially and adversely affect our business, results of 
operations and financial condition.

Our operating results are likely to vary significantly from period to period and be unpredictable, which could cause the trading n
price of our common stock to decline.

Our operating results have historically varied from period to period, and we expect that this trend will continue as a result of a 

number of factors, many of which are outside of our control and may be difficult to predict, including:

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our ability to expand and improve the productivity of our direct sales force;

our ability to attract and retain new customers and to improve sales execution;

the continued ability to transition from an on premise to a cloud-based business model;

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the  timing  and  volume  of  incremental  customer  purchases  of  our  cloud-based  solutions,  which  may  vary  from  period  to 
period based on a customer’s needs at a particular time;

our ability to successfully expand our business domestically and internationally;

disruptions in our relationships with partners;

the timing of new orders and revenue recognition for new and prior period orders;

changes  in  the  competitive  landscape  of  our  industry,  including mergers  or consolidation  among  our customers 
or competitors;

the complexity of implementations and the scheduling and staffing of the related personnel, each of which can affect the 
timing and duration of revenue recognition;

issues related to changes in customers’ business requirements, project scope, implementations or market needs;

the mix of revenues in any particular period between license and implementation, and SaaS and maintenance;

the timing of upfront recognition of sales commission expense relative to the deferred recognition of our revenues;

the timing of recognition of payment of royalties;

the timing of our annual payment and recognition of employee non-equity incentive and bonus payments;

the budgeting cycles and purchasing practices of customers;

changes in customer requirements or market needs;

delays  or  reductions  in  information  technology  spending  and  resulting  variability  in  customer  orders  from  quarter  to
quarter;

delays  or  difficulties  encountered  during  customer  implementations,  including  customer  requests  for  changes  to  the 
implementation schedule;

the timing and success of new product or service introductions by us or our competitors;

the amount and timing of any customer refunds or credits;

our ability to accurately estimate the costs associated with any fixed bid projects;

deferral  of  orders  from  customers  in  anticipation  of  new  solutions  or  solution  enhancements  announced  by  us  or  our 
competitors;

the  length  of  time  for  the  sale  and  implementation  of  our  solutions  to  be  complete,  and  our  level  of  upfront  investments 
prior to the period we begin generating revenues associated with such investments;

the amount and timing of our operating expenses and capital expenditures, and our ability to timely repay our debt;

price competition;

the rate of expansion and productivity of our direct sales force;

regulatory compliance costs;

sales commissions expenses related to large transactions;

technical difficulties or interruptions in the delivery of our cloud-based solutions;

seasonality or cyclical fluctuations in our industries;

future accounting pronouncements or changes in our accounting policies;

increases or decreases in our expenses caused by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, as a significant portion of 
our expenses are incurred and paid in currencies other than the U.S. dollar;

general economic conditions, both domestically and in our foreign markets; and

entry of new competitors into our market.

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Any one of the factors above or discussed elsewhere in this report or the cumulative effect of some of the factors referred to
above  may  result  in  significant  fluctuations  in  our  financial  and  other  operating  results.  This  variability  and  unpredictability  could 
result in our failure to meet expectations of investors for our revenues or other operating results for a particular period. If we fail to 
meet or exceed such expectations for these or any other reasons, the market price of our common stock could decrease.

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We must improve our sales execution and increase our sales channels and opportunities in order to grow our revenues, and if we 
are unsuccessful, our operating results may be adversely affected.

We must improve our sales execution in order to, among other things, increase the number of our sales opportunities and grow 
our revenue. We must improve the market awareness of our solutions and expand our relationships with our channel partners in order 
to increase our revenues. Further, we believe that we must continue to develop our relationships with new and existing customers and 
partners, and create additional sales opportunities to effectively and efficiently extend our geographic reach and market penetration. 
Our  efforts  to  improve  our  sales  execution  could  result  in  a  material  increase  in  our  sales  and  marketing  expense  and  general  and 
administrative expense, and there can be no assurance that such efforts will be successful. We have experienced challenges in sales
execution  in  past  fiscal  quarters,  and  if  we  are  unable  to  significantly  improve  our  sales  execution,  increase  the  awareness  of our 
solutions, create additional sales opportunities, expand our relationships with channel partners, leverage our relationship with strategic
partners, such as Salesforce, or effectively manage the costs associated with these efforts, our operating results and financial condition
could be materially and adversely affected.

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Failure to adequately expand and train our direct sales force will impede our growth.

We rely almost exclusively on our direct sales force to sell our solutions. We believe that our future growth will depend, to a
significant extent, on the continued development of our direct sales force and its ability to manage and retain our existing customer 
base, expand the sales of our solutions to existing customers and obtain new customers. Because our software is complex and often 
must  interoperate  with  complex  computing  requirements,  it  can  take  longer  for  our  sales  personnel  to  become  fully  productive 
compared to other software companies. Our ability to achieve significant growth in revenues in the future will depend, in large part, on 
our success in recruiting, training and retaining a sufficient number of direct sales personnel. New hires require significant training 
and  may,  in  some  cases,  take  more  than  a  year  before  becoming  fully  productive,  if  at  all.  If  we  are  unable  to  hire  and  develop
sufficient numbers of productive direct sales personnel, and if these sales personnel are unable to achieve full productivity, sales of our 
solutions will suffer and our growth will be impeded.

Our sales cycles are time-consuming, and it is difficult for us to predict when or if sales will occur.

Our sales efforts are often targeted at larger enterprise customers, and as a result, we face greater costs, must devote greater sales
support to individual customers, have longer sales cycles and have less predictability in completing some of our sales. Also, sales to
large enterprises often require us to provide greater levels of education regarding the use and benefits of our solutions. We believe that 
our customers view the purchase of our solutions as a significant and strategic decision. As a result, customers carefully evaluate our 
solutions, often over long periods with a variety of internal constituencies. In addition, the sales of our solutions may be subject to 
delays if the customer has lengthy internal budgeting, approval and evaluation processes, which are quite common in the context of 
introducing large enterprise-wide technology solutions. As a result it is difficult to predict the timing of our future sales.

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Our transition from an on premise to a cloud-based business model is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties.

Our business model has shifted away from sales of on premise software licenses to focus on sales of subscriptions for our cloud-
based  solutions,  which  provide our  customers  the  right  to  access  certain  of  our  software  in  a  hosted  environment  for  a  specified 
subscription period. This cloud-based strategy may give rise to a number of risks, including the following:

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if  customers are  uncomfortable  with  cloud-based  solutions  and desire  only  perpetual  licenses, we  may  experience  longer 
than anticipated sales cycles and sales of our cloud-based solutions may lag behind our expectations;

our  cloud-based  strategy  may  raise  concerns  among  our  customer  base,  including  concerns  regarding  changes  to  pricing 
over  time,  service  availability,  information  security  of  a  cloud-based  solution  and  access  to  files  while  offline  or  once  a 
subscription has expired;

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• we may select a target price that is not optimal and could negatively affect our sales or earnings; and
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Our cloud-based strategy also requires a considerable investment of technical, financial, legal and sales resources, and a scalable
organization.  Market  acceptance  of  such  offerings  is  affected  by  a  variety  of  factors,  including  but  not  limited  to:  security, 
reliability, scalability,  customization, performance,  current  license  terms,  customer  preference,  customer  concerns  with  entrusting  a 
third  party  to  store  and  manage  their  data,  public  concerns  regarding  privacy  and  the  enactment  of  restrictive  laws  or  regulations. 
Whether our business model transition will prove successful and will accomplish our business and financial objectives is subject to 
numerous  uncertainties,  including  but  not  limited  to:  customer  demand,  renewal  rates,  channel  acceptance, our  ability  to  further 
develop and scale infrastructure, our ability to include functionality and usability in such solutions that address customer requirements, 
tax and accounting implications, pricing and our costs. In addition, the metrics we use to gauge the status of our business may evolve 
over the course of the transition as significant trends emerge.

If  we  are  unable  to  successfully  establish our  cloud-based  strategy and  navigate  our  business  model  transition  in  light  of  the 

foregoing risks and uncertainties, our results of operations could be negatively impacted.

Our revenues are dependent on our ability to maintain and expand existing customer relationships and our ability to attract new
customers.

The  continued  growth  of  our  revenues  is  dependent  in  part  on  our  ability  to  expand  the  use  of  our  solutions  by  existing 
customers  and  attract  new  customers.  Likewise,  it  is  also  important  that  customers  using  our  on-premise  solutions  renew  their 
maintenance  agreements  and  that  customers  using  our  cloud-based  solutions  renew  their  subscription  agreements  with  us.  Our 
customers have no obligation to renew their agreements after the expiration of the initial term, and there can be no assurance that they 
will do so. We have had in the past and may in the future have disputes with customers regarding our solutions, which may impact 
such customers’ decisions to continue to use our solutions and pay for maintenance and support in the future.

If we are unable to expand our customers’ use of our solutions, sell additional solutions to our customers, maintain our renewal 
rates  for  maintenance  and  subscription  agreements  and  expand  our  customer  base,  our  revenues  may  decline  or  fail  to  increase  at
historical  growth  rates,  which  could  adversely  affect  our  business  and  operating  results.  In  addition,  if  we  experience  customer 
dissatisfaction with customers in the future, we may find it more difficult to increase use of our solutions within our existing customer 
base  and  it  may  be  more  difficult  to  attract  new  customers,  or  we  may  be  required  to  grant  credits  or  refunds,  any  of  which  could 
negatively impact our operating results and materially harm our business.

The loss of one or more of our key customers could slow our revenue growth or cause our revenues to decline.

A substantial portion of our total revenues in any given period may come from a relatively small number of customers. As of 
September 30, 2017, we had 162 customers. Although our largest customers typically change from period to period, for the fiscal year 
ended September 30, 2017, our 15 largest customers accounted for more than 53% of our total revenues, and one customer, Johnson & 
Johnson, accounted for approximately 11% of our total revenues in 2017. However, during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017, 
no customer represented more than 10% of our subscription revenues. We expect that we will continue to depend upon a relatively
small number of customers for a significant portion of our total revenues for the foreseeable future. The loss of any of our significant 
customers or groups of customers for any reason, or a change of relationship with any of our key customers may cause a significant 
decrease in our total revenues.

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Additionally, mergers or consolidations among our customers in the life sciences and semiconductor industries, both of which 
are currently undergoing significant consolidation, could reduce the number of our customers and could adversely affect our revenues
and sales. In particular, if our customers are acquired by entities that are not also our customers, that do not use our solutions or that 
have more favorable contract terms and choose to discontinue, reduce or change the terms of their use of our solutions, our business
and operating results could be materially and adversely affected.

If our solutions experience data security breaches, and there is unauthorized access to our customers’ data, we may lose current or 
future customers, our reputation and business may be harmed and we may incur significant liabilities.

Our solutions are used by our customers to manage and store personally identifiable information, proprietary information and 
sensitive or confidential data relating to their business. Although we maintain security features in our solutions, our security measures
may  not  detect  or  prevent  hacker  interceptions,  break-ins,  security  breaches,  the  introduction  of  viruses  or  malicious  code,  such  as 
“ransomware,” and other disruptions that may jeopardize the security of information stored in and transmitted by our solutions. Cyber-
attacks  and  other  malicious  Internet-based  activity  continue  to  increase  generally. A  party  that  is  able  to  circumvent  our  security 
measures  in  our  solutions  could  misappropriate  our  or  our  customers’  proprietary  or  confidential  information,  cause  interruption  in
their operations, damage or misuse their computer systems and misuse any information that they misappropriate. Because techniques
used  to  obtain  unauthorized  access  or  sabotage  systems  change  frequently  and  generally  are  not  identified  until  they  are  launched 
against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures.

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There can be no assurance that limitation of liability, indemnification or other protective provisions in our contracts would be 
applicable, enforceable or adequate in connection with a security breach, or would otherwise protect us from any such liabilities or 
damages  with  respect  to  any  particular  claim.  We  also  cannot  be  sure  that  our  existing  general  liability  insurance  coverage  and
coverage for errors or omissions will continue to be available on acceptable terms or will be available in sufficient amounts to cover 
one or more large claims, or that the insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim. One or more large claims may be asserted 
against us that exceed our available insurance coverage, or changes in our insurance policies may occur, including premium increases
or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements. If any compromise of the security of our solutions were to occur, 
we may be subject to litigation, indemnity obligations and other possible liabilities, and we may lose existing customers and the ability 
to attract future customers, any of which could harm our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations and result 
in significant liability.

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Changes in privacy laws, regulations and standards may cause our business to suffer.

Personal privacy and data security have become significant issues in the United States, Europe and in many other jurisdictions 
where we offer our solutions. The regulatory framework for privacy and security issues worldwide is rapidly evolving and is likely to
remain uncertain for the foreseeable future. For example, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in October 2015 that the 
US-EU  Safe  Harbor  framework  was  invalid,  and  the  framework’s successor,  the  US-EU  Privacy  Shield, while adopted, has  been
criticized and challenged by multiple privacy advocacy groups. Furthermore, federal, state or foreign government bodies or agencies 
have  in  the  past  adopted,  and  may  in  the  future  adopt,  laws  and  regulations  affecting  data  privacy.  Industry  organizations  also
regularly  adopt  and  advocate  for  new  standards  in  this  area.  In  the  United  States,  these  include  rules  and  regulations  promulgated 
under the authority of federal agencies and state attorneys general and legislatures and consumer protection agencies. Internationally, 
many jurisdictions in which we operate have established their own data security and privacy legal framework with which we or our 
customers must comply, including but not limited to, the Data Protection Directive (Directive) established in the European Union and 
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replaced starting in 2018 with  the recently  adopted European General  Data  Protection  Regulation, which will impose  additional 
obligations  and  risks upon  our  business.  In  many  jurisdictions,  enforcement  actions  and  consequences  for  noncompliance  are  also
rising.  In  addition  to  government  regulation,  privacy  advocates  and  industry  groups  may  propose  new  and  different  self-regulatory
standards that either legally or contractually applies to us.

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Any inability to adequately address privacy and security concerns, even if unfounded, or comply with applicable privacy and 
data security laws, regulations and policies, could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, inhibit sales and 
adversely affect our business. Furthermore, the costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, the laws, regulations, and 
policies that are applicable to the businesses of our customers may limit the use and adoption of, and reduce the overall demand for, 
our solutions. Privacy and data security concerns, whether valid or not valid, may inhibit market adoption of our solutions, particularly 
in foreign countries. If we are not able to adjust to changing laws, regulations and standards related to privacy or security, our business
may be harmed.

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Our acquisition of other companies could require significant management attention, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value 
and adversely affect our operating results.

As part of our business strategy, we have in the past and may in the future make investments in other companies, solutions or 
technologies to, among other reasons, expand or enhance our product offerings. In the future, any significant acquisition would require 
the consent of our lenders. Any failure to receive such consent could delay or prohibit us from acquiring companies that we believe 
could enhance our business.

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We  may  not  ultimately  strengthen  our  competitive  position  or  achieve  our  goals  from  any  future  acquisition,  and  any 
acquisitions  we  complete  could  be  viewed  negatively  by  users,  customers,  partners  or  investors.  In  addition,  if  we  fail  to  integrate 
successfully such acquisitions, or the technologies associated with such acquisitions, into our company, the revenues and operating 
results of the combined company could be adversely affected. In addition, we may not be able to successfully retain the customers and 
key personnel of such acquisitions over the longer term, which could also adversely affect our business. The integration of any future-
acquired business will require significant time and resources, and we may not be able to manage the process successfully. We may not 
successfully  evaluate  or  utilize  the  acquired  technology  and  accurately  forecast  the  financial  impact  of  the  acquisition,  including 
accounting charges.

It  is  also  possible  that  a  governmental  entity  could  initiate  an  antitrust  investigation  at  any  time.  Among  other  things,  an
investigation that is resolved unfavorably to us could delay or prevent the completion of a transaction, require us to divest or sell the
assets or businesses we acquired, limit the ability to realize the expected financial or strategic benefits of a transaction or have other 
adverse effects on our current business and operations.  

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We  may  have  to  pay  cash,  incur  debt  or  issue  equity  securities  to  pay  for  any  acquisition,  each  of  which  could  affect  our 
financial condition or the value of our capital stock. For example, in connection with the Revitas acquisition, we borrowed $50 million 
to fund the cash portion of the purchase price and issued two promissory notes with an aggregate value of $10 million. To fund any
future acquisition, we may issue equity, which would result in dilution to our stockholders, or incur more debt, which would result in 
increased fixed obligations and could subject us to additional covenants or other restrictions that would impede our ability to manage
our operations.

We depend on our management team and our key sales and development and services personnel, and the loss of one or more key 
employees or groups could harm our business and prevent us from implementing our business plan in a timely manner.

Our  success  depends  on  the  expertise,  efficacy and  continued  services  of  our  executive  officers,  who  are  geographically 
dispersed. We have in the past and may in the future continue to experience changes in our executive management team resulting from 
the departure of executives or subsequent hiring of new executives, which may be disruptive to our business. For example, in August 
2017, we hired a new Chief Product Officer, in May 2017, we hired a new Chief Financial Officer, in January 2017, we hired a new
Chief Revenue Officer, and in November 2016, Zack Rinat re-assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer. The impact of hiring new
executives may not be immediately realized. We are also substantially dependent on the continued service of our existing development 
and services personnel because of their familiarity with the inherent complexities of our solutions.

Our personnel do not have employment arrangements that require them to continue to work for us for any specified period and,
therefore, they could terminate their employment with us at any time. We do not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of 
our employees. The loss of one or more of our key employees or groups could seriously harm our business.

Because we recognize a majority of our SaaS and maintenance revenues from our customers over the term of their agreements,
downturns or upturns in sales of our cloud-based solutions may not be immediately reflected in our operating results.

SaaS and maintenance revenues primarily include subscription and related implementation fees from customers accessing our 
cloud-based  solutions  and  revenues  associated  with  maintenance  contracts  from  license  customers.  We  recognize  a  majority  of  our
SaaS and maintenance revenues over the terms of our customer agreements, which are typically one year or longer in some cases. As a
result,  most  of  our  quarterly  SaaS  and  maintenance  revenues  result  from  agreements  entered  into  during  previous  quarters.
Consequently, a shortfall in sales of our cloud-based solutions or renewal of maintenance and support agreements in any quarter may 
not  significantly  reduce  our  SaaS  and  maintenance  revenues  for  that  quarter  but  would  negatively  affect  SaaS  and  maintenance
revenues in future quarters. Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in sales of our cloud-based solutions or renewals of our 
maintenance and support agreements may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. We may be unable to
adjust our cost structure to compensate for this potential shortfall in SaaS and maintenance revenues. Our revenue recognition model 
for our cloud-based solutions and maintenance and support agreements also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenues
through additional sales in any period, as a significant amount of our revenues are recognized over the applicable agreement term. As
a result, changes in the volume of sales of our cloud-based solutions or the renewals of our maintenance and support agreements in a 
particular period would not be fully reflected in our revenues until future periods.

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Our indebtedness could adversely affect our business and limit our ability to expand our business or respond to changes, and we
may be unable to generate sufficient cash flow to satisfy our debt service obligations.

In January 2017, we incurred $50 million of indebtedness to fund the cash portion of our Revitas acquisition. These term loans 
are secured by substantially all of our assets and mature in January 2022. We also issued two promissory notes for an aggregate of $10 
million. The incurrence of significant indebtedness could have adverse consequences, including the following: 

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reducing the availability of our cash flow for our operations, capital expenditures, future business opportunities and other 
purposes;

limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the industries in which we operate; and

increasing our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions.

Lengthening our sales process as customers diligence our financial viability

We must repay 0.625% of the aggregate principal amount of the $50 million term loans on the last business day of each fiscal 
quarter,  beginning  with  the  fiscal  quarter  ending  March  31,  2019,  and  the  term  loans  must  be  repaid  in  full  in  January  2022.  Our 
promissory notes will mature in July 2018 and January 2020. Our ability to generate cash to repay our indebtedness is subject to the 
performance of our business, as well as general economic, financial, competitive and other factors that are beyond our control. If our 
business  does  not  generate  sufficient  cash  flow  from  operating  activities  or  if  future  borrowings  are  not  available  to  us  in  amounts
sufficient to enable us to fund our liquidity needs, our operating results, financial condition and ability to expand our business may be
adversely affected. 

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The  term  loans  bear  interest  at  a  variable  rate  of  either  a  base  rate  plus  9.25%  or  LIBOR  plus  8.25%,  which  exposes  us  to 
interest rate risk. Changes in economic conditions outside of our control could result in higher interest rates, thereby increasing our 
interest expense even though the amount borrowed remained the same.

Additionally,  the  financing  agreement  governing  our  term  loans  contains  various  restrictive  covenants,  including  achieving 
certain  levels  of  revenue  from  specified  sources,  as  outlined  in  the  agreement,  and  maintaining  cash  and  cash-equivalents  of  $20.0 
million net of accounts payable in excess of $0.5 million 90 days overdue, restricting our ability to dispose of assets, changing our 
organizational documents or amending our material agreements in a manner adverse to the lenders, changing a method of accounting, 
merging with or acquiring other entities, incurring other indebtedness, making investments. Our ability to comply with some of these 
restrictive covenants can be affected by events beyond our control, and we may be unable to do so. Upon the occurrence of an event of 
default, our lenders could elect to declare all amounts outstanding under our financing agreement to be immediately due and payable. 
If  we  are  unable  to  repay  that  amount,  our  lenders  could  seize  our  assets  securing  the  loans  and  our  financial  condition  could  be 
adversely affected. 

We may face risks related to securities litigation that could result in significant legal expenses and settlement or damage awards.

We have been in the past and may in the future become subject to claims and litigation alleging violations of the securities lawsaa
or  other  related  claims,  which  could  harm  our  business  and  require  us  to  incur  significant  costs.  Significant  litigation  costs  could 
impact our ability to comply with certain financial covenants under our financing agreement. We are generally obliged, to the extent 
permitted by law, to indemnify our current and former directors and officers who are named as defendants in these types of lawsuits.
Regardless  of  the  outcome,  litigation  may  require  significant  attention  from  management  and  could  result  in  significant  legal 
expenses, settlement costs or damage awards that could have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations and cash
flows.

Our  implementation  cycle  is  lengthy  and  variable,  depends  upon  factors  outside  our  control  and  could  cause  us  to  expend 
significant time and resources prior to earning associated revenues.

The  implementation  and  testing  of  our  solutions  typically  range  from  a  few  months  to  up  to  twelve  months,  and  unexpected 
implementation delays and difficulties can occur. Implementing our solutions typically involves integration with our customers’ systems,
as well as adding their data to our system. This can be complex, time-consuming and expensive for our customers and can result in delays
in the implementation and deployment of our solutions. The lengthy and variable implementation cycle may also have a negative impact 
on the timing of our revenues, causing our revenues and results of operations to vary significantly from period to period.

A substantial majority of our total revenues have come from sales of our enterprise application suite, and decreases in demand for 
our enterprise application suite could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.

Historically,  a  substantial  majority  of  our  total  revenues  has  been  associated  with  our  enterprise  application  suite,  whether 
deployed as individual solutions or as a complete suite. We expect our enterprise application suite to continue to generate a substantial
majority of our total revenues for the foreseeable future. Declines and variability in demand for our enterprise application suite could 
occur  for  a  number  of  reasons,  including  improved  products  or  product  versions  being  offered  by  competitors,  competitive  pricing
pressures, failure to release new or enhanced versions on a timely basis, technological changes that we are unable to address or that 
change  the  way  our  customers  utilize  our  solutions,  reductions  in  technology  spending,  export  restrictions  or  other  regulatory  or 
legislative  actions  that  could  limit  our  ability  to  sell  those  products  to  key  customer  or  market  segments.  Our  business,  results  of 
operations, financial condition and cash flows would be adversely affected by a decline in demand for our enterprise application suite.

Our customers often require significant configuration efforts to match their complex business processes. The failure to meet their 
requirements could result in customer disputes, loss of anticipated revenues and additional costs, which could harm our business.

Our  customers  often  require  significant  configuration  services  to  address  their  unique  business  processes.  Supporting  such  a
diversity of configured settings and implementations could become difficult as the number of customers we serve grows. In addition, 
supporting our customers could require us to devote significant development services and support personnel and strain our personnel 
resources and infrastructure. We have had in the past and may in the future have disputes with customers regarding the performance 
and implementation of our solutions. If we are unable to address the needs of our customers in a timely fashion, our customers may
decide to seek to terminate their relationship, renew on less favorable terms, not renew their maintenance agreements or subscriptions,
fail to purchase additional solutions or services, assert legal claims against us or cease to be a reference. If any of these were to occur, 
our revenues may decline or we may be required to refund amounts to customers and our operating results may be harmed.

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Our future growth is, in large part, dependent upon the increasing adoption of revenue management solutions.

Revenue management is at an early stage of market development and adoption, and the extent to which revenue management 
solutions  will  become  widely  adopted  remains  uncertain.  It  is  difficult  to  predict  customer  adoption  rates,  customer  demand  for
revenue management solutions, including our solutions in particular, the future growth rate and size of this market and the timing of 
the  introduction  of  additional  competitive  solutions.  Any  expansion  of  the  revenue  management  market  depends  on  a  number  of 
factors,  including  the  cost,  performance  and  perceived  value  associated  with  revenue  management  solutions.  For  example,  many 
companies have invested substantial personnel, infrastructure and financial resources in other revenue management infrastructure and 
therefore  may  be  reluctant  to  implement  solutions  such  as  ours.  Additionally,  organizations  that  use  legacy  revenue  management 
products  may  believe  that  these  products  sufficiently  address  their  revenue  management  needs.  Because  this  market  is  relatively
undeveloped,  we  must  spend  considerable  time  educating  customers  as  to  the  benefits  of  our  solutions.  If  revenue  management 
solutions do not achieve widespread adoption, or if there is a reduction in demand for revenue management solutions caused by a lack 
of customer acceptance, technological challenges, competing technologies and products, decreases in corporate spending or otherwise,
it could result in lower sales, reduced renewal and upsell rates and decreased revenues and our business could be adversely affected.

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If we are unable to enhance existing solutions and develop new solutions that achieve market acceptance or that keep pace with 
technological developments, our business could be harmed.

Our  ability  to  increase  revenues  from  existing  customers  and  attract  new  customers  depends  in  large  part  on  our  ability  to 
enhance  and  improve  our  existing  solutions  and  to  develop  and  introduce  new  solutions.  The  success  of  any  enhancement  or  new
application  depends  on  several  factors,  including  timely  completion,  adequate  quality  testing,  introduction  and  market  acceptance.
Any enhancement or new application that we develop (such as our Revenue Cloud and Revenue Management as a Service) or acquire 
may  not  be  introduced  in  a  timely  or  cost-effective  manner,  may  contain  defects  or  may  not  achieve  the  broad  market  acceptance
necessary to generate significant revenues. If we are unable to successfully enhance our existing solutions and develop new solutions 
to meet customer requirements, our business and operating results will be adversely affected.

Because  we  designed  our  solutions  to  operate  on  a  variety  of  network,  hardware  and  software  platforms,  we  will  need  to 
continuously  modify  and  enhance  our  solutions  to  keep  pace  with  changes  in  networking,  internet-related  hardware,  and  software,
communication,  browser  and  database  technologies.  If  we  are  unable  to  respond  in  a  timely  manner  to  these  rapid  technological 
developments  in  a  cost-effective  manner,  our  solutions  may  become  less  marketable  and  less  competitive  or  obsolete  and  our 
operating results may be negatively impacted.

We are highly dependent upon the life sciences industry, and factors that adversely affect this industry could also adversely affect 
us.

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Our  future  growth  depends,  in  large  part,  upon  continued  sales  to  companies  in  the  life  sciences  industry,  and  our  recent 
acquisition of Revitas, which was also highly dependent upon the life sciences industry, increases our dependency. Demand for our 
solutions  could  be  affected  by  factors  that  adversely  affect  demand  for  the  underlying  life  sciences  products  and  services  that are 
purchased  and  sold  pursuant  to  contracts  managed  through  our  solutions.  The  life  sciences  industry  is  affected  by  certain  factors, 
including  the  emergence  of  large  group  purchasing  and  managed  care  organizations  and  integrated  healthcare  delivery  networks,
increased  customer  and  channel  incentives  and  rebates,  the  shift  of  purchasing  influence  from  physicians  to  economic  buyers, 
increased  spending  on  healthcare  by  governments  instead  of  commercial  entities  and  increased  scope  of  government  mandates,
frequency of regulatory reporting and audits, and fines. Accordingly, our future operating results could be materially and adversely 
affected as a result of factors that affect the life sciences industry generally.

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Our efforts to expand the adoption of our solutions in the technology industry will be affected by our ability to provide solutions
that adequately address trends in that industry.

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We are attempting to expand the use of our solutions by companies in the technology industry, and our future growth depends in
part on our ability to increase sales of solutions to customers in this industry and potentially other industries. The technology industry
is affected by many factors, including shortening of product lifecycles, core technology products being sold into different end markets 
with distinct pricing, increasing complexity of multi-tiered global distribution channels, changing financial reporting requirements due
to  channel  complexity  and  increasing  use  of  off-invoice  discounting.  If  our  solutions  are  not  perceived  by  existing  or  potential 
customers in the technology industry as capable of providing revenue management tools that will assist them in adequately addressing
these trends, then our efforts to expand the adoption of our solutions in this industry may not be successful, which would adversely 
impact our business and operating results.

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Most of our implementation contracts are on a time and materials basis and may be terminated by the customer.

The contracts under which we perform most of our implementation services may have a term typically ranging between a few
months  to  up  to  twelve  months  and  are  on  a  time  and  materials  basis  and  may  be  terminated  by  the  customer  at  any  time.  If  an 
implementation  project  is  terminated  sooner  than  we  anticipated  or  a  portion  of  the  implementation  is  delayed,  we  would  lose  the 
anticipated revenues that we might not be able to replace or it may take significant time to replace the lost revenues with other work or 
we  may  be  unable  to  eliminate  the  associated  costs.  Consequently,  we  may  recognize  fewer  revenues  than  we  anticipated  or  incur 
unnecessary costs, and our results of operations in subsequent periods could be materially lower than expected.

Our efforts to expand our solutions into other verticals within the life sciences and technology industries or other industries may
not succeed and may reduce our revenue growth rate. Even if we are successful in doing so, such efforts may be costly and may
impact our ability to achieve profitability.

Our solutions are currently designed primarily for customers in certain verticals of the life sciences and technology industries
and potentially into other industries outside of the life sciences and technology industries. Our ability to attract new customers and 
increase  our  revenues  depends  in  part  on  our  ability  to  enter  into  new  industries  and  verticals.  Developing  and  marketing  new 
solutions to serve other industries and verticals will require us to devote substantial additional resources in advance of consummating 
new sales or realizing additional revenues. Our ability to leverage the expertise we have developed in the life sciences and technology
industries into new industries is unproven and it is likely that we will be required to hire additional personnel, partner with additional 
third  parties  and  incur  considerable  research  and  development  expense  in  order  to  gain  and  develop  additional  expertise  for  new
industries where we lack experience and expertise.

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Our  efforts  to  expand  our  solutions  beyond  the  verticals  within  the  life  sciences  and  technology  industries  in  which  we  have 
already developed expertise may not be successful and may reduce our revenue growth rate. Any early stage interest in our solutions
in  areas  beyond  the  industries  we  already  address  may  not  result  in  long  term  success  or  significant  revenues  for  us.  Even  if  we
achieve long-term success in expanding our solutions into other industries and verticals, the costs associated with such expansion may 
be high, which may impact our ability to achieve profitability.

The market for cloud-based solutions is at an early stage of acceptance relative to on-premise solutions, and if it does not develop 
or develops more slowly than we expect, our business could be harmed.

Although gaining wider acceptance, the market for cloud-based solutions is at an early stage relative to on-premise solutions, 
and these types of deployments may not achieve and sustain high levels of demand and market acceptance. We plan to accelerate thet
shift in our business model to recurring revenues, including revenues derived from our cloud-based solutions, by continuing to expand 
the  implementation  of  our  cloud-based  solutions  both  within  our  current  installed  base  of  customers  as  well  as  new  customers  and 
additional markets in the future. Many companies have invested substantial personnel and financial resources to integrate traditional 
enterprise  software  into  their  businesses,  and  therefore  may  be  reluctant  or  unwilling  to  migrate  to  a  cloud-based  solution.  Other 
factors that may affect the market acceptance of cloud-based solutions include:

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perceived security capabilities and reliability;

perceived concerns about ability to scale operations for large enterprise customers;

concerns with entrusting a third party to store and manage critical data;

the level of configurability or customizability of the solutions; and

ability to perform at or near the capabilities of our on-premise solutions.

If organizations do not perceive the benefits of our cloud-based solutions, or if our competitors or new market entrants are able
to  develop  cloud-based  solutions  that  are  or  are  perceived  to  be  more  effective  than  ours,  our  plan  to  accelerate  the  shift  in our 
business model to recurring revenues may not succeed or may develop more slowly than we expect, if at all, or may result in short-
term declines in recognized revenue, any of which would adversely affect our business.

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We rely on a small number of third-party service providers to host and deliver our cloud-based solutions, and any interruptions or 
delays in services from these third parties could impair the delivery of our cloud-based solutions and harm our business.

We currently operate our cloud-based solutions primarily through third party data centers. We do not control the operation of 
these facilities. These facilities are vulnerable to damage or interruption from natural disasters, fires, power loss, telecommunications
failures  and  similar  events.  They  are  also  subject  to  break-ins,  computer  viruses,  sabotage,  intentional  acts  of  vandalism  and other 
misconduct. The occurrence of a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, a decision to close the facilities without adequate notice or 
other  unanticipated  problems  could  result  in  lengthy  interruptions,  which  would  have  a  serious  adverse  impact  on  our  business.
Additionally,  our  data  center  agreements  are  of  limited  duration, subject  to  early  termination  rights  in  certain  circumstances, may 
include  inadequate  indemnification  and  liability  provisions, and  the  providers  of  our  data  centers  have  no  obligation  to  renew their 
agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.

If we continue to add data centers and add capacity in our existing data centers, we may transfer data to other locations. Despite 
precautions  taken  during  this  process,  any  unsuccessful  data  transfers  may  impair  the  delivery  of  our  service.  Interruptions  in  our 
service,  data  loss  or  corruption  may  subject  us  to  liability  to  our  customers,  cause  customers  to  terminate  their  agreements  and 
adversely affect our renewal rates and our ability to attract new customers. Data transfers may also subject us to regional privacy and 
data protection laws that apply to the transmission of customer data across international borders.

We also depend on access to the Internet through third-party bandwidth providers to operate our cloud-based solution. If we lose the
services  of  one  or  more  of  our  bandwidth  providers,  or  if  these  providers  experience  outages,  for  any  reason,  we  could  experience 
disruption in delivering our cloud-based solutions or we could be required to retain the services of a replacement bandwidth provider. 
Any Internet outages or delays could adversely affect our ability to provide our solutions to our customers.  Our data center operations
also rely heavily on the availability of electricity, which also comes from third-party providers. If we or the third-party data center 
facilities  that  we  use  to  deliver  our  services  were  to  experience  a  major  power  outage  or  if  the  cost  of  electricity  were  to  increase
significantly, our operations and financial results could be harmed. If we or our third-party data centers were to experience a major 
power outage, we or they would have to rely on back-up generators, which might not work properly or might not provide an adequate 
supply  during  a  major  power  outage.  Such  a  power  outage  could  result  in  a  significant  disruption  of  our  business.We  license
technology from third parties, and our inability to maintain those licenses could harm our business. Certain third-party technology 
that we use may be difficult to replace or could cause errors or failures of our service.

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We incorporate technology that we purchase or license from third parties, including hardware and software, into our solutions. 
We  cannot  be  certain  that  this  technology  will  continue  to  be  available  on  commercially  reasonable  terms,  or  at  all.  We  cannot be 
certain that our licensors are not infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties or that our licensors have sufficient rights to
the licensed intellectual property in all jurisdictions in which we may sell our solutions. Some of our agreements with our licensors
may  be  terminated  for  convenience  by  them.  If  we  are  unable  to  continue  to  license  any  of  this  technology  because  of  intellectual
property infringement claims brought by third parties against our licensors or against us, or if we are unable to continue our license
agreements  or  enter  into  new  licenses  on  commercially  reasonable  terms,  our  ability  to  develop  and  sell  solutions  containing  that 
technology  would  be  severely  limited  and  our  business  could  be  harmed.  Additionally,  if  we  are  unable  to  license  or  obtain  the 
necessary  technology  from  third  parties,  we  may  be  forced  to  acquire  or  develop  alternative  technology  of  lower  quality  or 
performance  standards.  This  would  limit  and  delay  our  ability  to  offer  new  or  competitive  solutions  and  increase  our  costs  of 
production. In addition, errors or defects in third-party hardware or software used in our cloud-based solutions could result in errors or 
a failure of our cloud-based solutions, which could harm our business.

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If  our  solutions  fail  to  perform  properly,  our  reputation  and  customer  relationships  could  be  harmed,  our  market  share  could 
decline and we could be subject to liability claims.

Our solutions are inherently complex and may contain material defects or errors. Any defects in solution functionality or that 

cause interruptions in availability could result in:

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reductions in current-period total revenues;

breach of warranty or other contract breach or misrepresentation claims;

sales credits or refunds to our customers;

loss of customers;

diversion of development and customer service resources; and

injury to our reputation.

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The  costs  incurred  in  correcting  any  material  defects  or  errors  might  be  substantial  and  could  adversely  affect  our  operating
results. Because our customers often use our solutions as a system of record and many of our customers are subject to regulation of 
pricing of their products or otherwise have complex pricing commitments and revenue recognition policies, errors could result in an 
inability  to  process  sales  or  lead  to  a  violation  of  pricing  requirements  or  misreporting  of  revenues  by  our  customers  that  could 
potentially expose them to fines or other substantial claims or penalties. Accordingly, we could face increased exposure to product 
liability and warranty claims, litigation and other disputes and claims, resulting in potentially material losses and costs. Our limitation 
of liability provisions in our customer agreements may not be sufficient to protect us against any such claims.

Given the large amount of data that our solutions collect and manage, it is possible that failures or errors in our software could 
result in data loss or corruption, or cause the information that we collect to be incomplete or contain inaccuracies that our customers
regard  as  significant.  We  may  be  required  to  issue  credits  or  refunds  or  indemnify  or  otherwise  be  liable  to  our  customers  or  third 
parties for damages they may incur resulting from certain of these events.

Our insurance may be inadequate or may not be available in the future on acceptable terms, or at all. In addition, our policy may 
not  cover  any  claim  against  us  for  claims  related  to  any  product  defects  or  errors  or  other  indirect  or  consequential  damages  and 
defending a suit, regardless of its merit, could be costly and divert management’s attention.

The  market  in  which  we  participate  is  highly  competitive,  and  if  we  do  not  compete  effectively,  our  operating  results  could  be
harmed.

The  market  for  revenue  management  solutions  is  highly  competitive,  fragmented  and  subject  to  rapid  changes  in  technology.
We  face  competition  from  spreadsheet-assisted  manual  processes,  internally  developed  solutions,  large  integrated  systems  vendors,
providers of business process outsourcing services and smaller companies that offer point solutions.

Companies  lacking  IT  resources  often  resort  to  spreadsheet-assisted  manual  processes  or  personal  database  applications.  In
addition, some potential customers, particularly large enterprises, may elect to develop their own internal solutions, including custom-
built solutions that are designed to support the needs of a single organization. Companies with large investments in packaged ERP or 
CRM applications, which do not typically provide revenue management capabilities, may extend these horizontal applications with
configurations or point solution applications in order to address one or a small set of revenue management sub processes or drivers. 
Common  horizontal  applications  that  customers  attempt  to  configure  for  this  purpose  in  the  life  sciences  and  technology  industries
include  large  integrated  systems  vendors  like  SAP  AG  and  Oracle  Corporation.  We  also  encounter  competition  from  small 
independent companies, which compete on the basis of price, unique product features or functions and custom developments.

Many of our competitors have greater name recognition, larger sales and marketing budgets and greater resources than we do 
and may have pre-existing relationships with our potential customers, including relationships with, and access to, key decision makers
within  these  organizations,  and  major  distribution  agreements  with  consultants  and  system  integrators.  Moreover,  many  software
vendors could bundle solutions or offer them at a low price as part of a larger product sale.

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With the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect competition to intensify in the future. We also expect
enterprise software vendors that focus on enterprise resource planning or back-office applications to enter our market with competing
products. In addition, we expect sales force automation vendors to acquire or develop additional solutions that may compete with our 
solutions.  If  we  fail  to  compete  effectively,  our  business  will  be  harmed.  In  addition,  pricing  pressures  and  increased  competition
generally could result in reduced sales, reduced margins, losses or the failure of our solutions to achieve or maintain more widespread 
market acceptance, any of which could harm our business.

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If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, our business and operating results may be adversely affected.

We believe that maintaining and enhancing the “Model N” brand identity is critical to our relationships with our customers and 
partners and to our ability to attract new customers and partners. The successful promotion of our brand will depend largely upon our 
marketing efforts, our ability to continue to offer high-quality solutions and our ability to successfully differentiate our solutions from 
those of our competitors. Our brand promotion activities may not be successful or yield increased revenues. In addition, independent 
industry  analysts  often  provide  reviews  of  our  solution,  as  well  as  those  of  our  competitors,  and  perception  of  our  solution  in  the
marketplace may be significantly influenced by these reviews. If these reviews are negative, or less positive as compared to those of 
our competitors’ products and services, our brand may be adversely affected.

The promotion of our brand requires us to make substantial expenditures, and we anticipate that the expenditures will increase 
as our market becomes more competitive and as we expand into new verticals within the life sciences and technology industries. To 
the extent that these activities yield increased revenues, these revenues may not offset the increased expenses we incur. If we do not 
successfully maintain and enhance our brand, our business may not grow, we may have reduced pricing power relative to competitors
with  stronger  brands  and  we  could  lose  customers  and  partners,  all  of  which  would  adversely  affect  our  business  operations  and 
financial results.

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Our organization continues to grow and experience rapid changes. If we fail to manage our growth, we may be unable to execute 
our business plan, maintain high levels of service or adequately address competitive challenges, and our business and operating
results could be adversely affected.

We  have  experienced  and  may  continue  to  experience  growth  in  our  headcount  and  operations,  which  has  placed  and  will 
continue to place significant demands on our management and our operational and financial infrastructure. For example, in connection 
with the Revitas acquisition, we hired 145 employees from Revitas. As we grow, we must effectively integrate, develop and motivate 
a significant number of new employees, while maintaining the effectiveness of our business execution and the beneficial aspects of 
our corporate culture. In particular, we intend to continue to make directed and substantial investments to expand our research and 
development,  sales  and  marketing,  and  general  and  administrative  organizations,  as  well  as  our  international  operations.  Failure  to 
effectively  manage  organizational  changes  as  well  as  integrating  and  training  new  sales  and  marketing  personnel,  could  result 
in attrition  of  existing  employees  and difficulties  in  executing  on  our  business  plan,  implementing  customer  requests,  declines  in
quality or customer satisfaction, increases in costs and difficulties in introducing new features or other operational difficulties, and any
of these difficulties could adversely impact our business performance and results of operations.

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Additionally, our growth could require significant capital expenditures and may divert financial resources from other projects,
such as the development of new solutions or enhancements to existing solutions. For example, since it may take as long as six months
to  hire  and  train  a  new  member  of  our  implementation  services  staff,  we  make  decisions  regarding  the  size  of  our  implementation
services staff based upon our expectations with respect to customer demand for our solutions. If these expectations are incorrect, and 
we increase the size of our implementation services organization without experiencing an increase in sales of our solutions, we will 
experience reductions in our gross and operating margins and net income.

To  effectively  manage  growth,  we  must  continue  to  improve  our  operational,  financial  and  management  controls,  and  our 

reporting systems and procedures by, among other things:

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improving our key business applications, processes and IT infrastructure to support our business needs;

enhancing  information  and  communication  systems  to  ensure  that  our  employees  and  offices  around  the  world  are  well-
coordinated and can effectively communicate with each other and our growing base of customers;

enhancing our internal controls to ensure timely and accurate reporting of all of our operations and financial results; and

appropriately documenting our IT systems and our business processes.

If we are unable to maintain successful relationships with system integrators, our business operations, financial results and growth
prospects could be adversely affected.

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Our relationships with system integrators are generally non-exclusive, which means they may recommend to their customers the 
solutions of several different companies, including solutions that compete with ours, and they may also assist in the implementation of 
software  or  systems  that  compete  with  ours.  If  our  system  integrators  do  not  choose  to  continue  to  refer  our  solutions,  assist  in 
implementing our solutions, choose to use greater efforts to market and sell their own solutions or those of our competitors, or fail to 
meet  the  needs  of  our  customers,  our  ability  to  grow  our  business  and  sell  our  solutions  may  be  adversely  affected.  The  loss  of a 
substantial  number  of  our  system  integrators,  our  possible  inability  to  replace  them  or  the  failure  to  recruit  additional  system 
integrators could harm our business.

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Our ability to achieve revenue growth in the future will depend in part on our success in maintaining successful relationships 
with our system integrators and in helping our system integrators enhance their ability to independently market and implement our 
solutions. Our growth in revenues, particularly in international markets, will be influenced by the development and maintenance of 
relationships  with  these  companies.  Although  we  have  established  relationships  with  some  of  the  leading  system  integrators,  our
solutions compete directly against the solutions of other leading system integrators. We are unable to control the resources that our 
system  integrators  commit  to  implementing  our  solutions  or  the  quality  of  such  implementation.  If  they  do  not  commit  sufficient
resources to these activities, or if we are unable to maintain our relationships with these system integrators or otherwise develop and 
expand  our  indirect  distribution  channel,  our  business,  results  of  operations,  financial  condition  or  cash  flows  could  be  adversely
affected.

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Any failure to offer high-quality customer support services may adversely affect our relationships with our customers and harm
our financial results.

Once  our  solutions  are  implemented,  our  customers  use  our  support  organization  to  resolve  technical  issues  relating  to  our 
solutions. In addition, we also believe that our success in selling our solutions is highly dependent on our business reputation and on 
favorable  recommendations  from  our  existing  customers.  Any  failure  to  maintain  high-quality  customer  support,  or  a  market 
perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could harm our reputation, adversely affect our ability to maintain existing
customers or sell our solutions to existing and prospective customers, and harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for support services. 
Increased  customer  demand  for  these  services,  without  corresponding  revenues,  could  also  increase  costs  and  adversely  affect  our 
operating results.

If  our  solutions  do  not  interoperate  with  our  customers’  IT  infrastructure,  sales  of  our  solutions  could  be  negatively  affected,dd
which would harm our business.

Our  solutions  must 

interoperate  with  our  customers’  existing 

infrastructure,  which  often  have  different 
specifications, complex configuration, utilize multiple protocol standards, deploy products from multiple vendors and contain multiple 
generations of products that have been added over time. As a result, when problems occur in a network, it may be difficult to identify 
the  sources  of  these  problems.  If  we  find  errors  in  the  existing  products  or  defects  in  the  hardware  used  in  our  customers’  IT
infrastructure or problematic network configurations or settings, we may have to modify our solutions or platform so that our solutions
will interoperate with our customers’ IT infrastructure. Any delays in identifying the sources of problems or in providing necessary
modifications to our solutions could have a negative impact on our reputation and our customers’ satisfaction with our solutions, and 
our ability to sell solutions could be adversely affected.

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Incorrect  or  improper  implementation  or  use  of  our  solutions  could  result  in  customer  dissatisfaction  and  negatively  affect  our
business, operations, financial results and growth prospects.

Our customers and third-party partners may need training in the proper use of and the variety of benefits that can be derived 
from  our  solutions  to  maximize  their  potential.  If  our  solutions  are  not  implemented  or  used  correctly  or  as  intended,  inadequate
performance may result. Since our customers rely on our solutions and customer support to manage key areas of their businesses, the 
incorrect or improper implementation or use of our solutions, our failure to train customers on how to efficiently and effectively use 
our solutions or our failure to provide services to our customers, may result in negative publicity, failure of customers to renew their 
SaaS or maintenance agreements or potentially make legal claims against us. Also, as we continue to expand our customer base, any 
failure by us to properly provide these services will likely result in lost opportunities for follow-on sales of our solutions.

Competition  for  our  target  employees  is  intense,  and  we  may  not  be  able  to  attract  and  retain  the  quality  employees  we  need  to 
support our planned growth.

Our future success depends, in part, upon our ability to recruit and retain key management, technical, sales, marketing, finance, 
and  other  critical  personnel.  Competition  for  qualified  management,  technical  and  other  personnel  is  intense,  and  we  may  not  be
successful in attracting and retaining such personnel. If we fail to attract and retain qualified employees, including internationally, our 
ability to grow our business could be harmed. Competition for people with the specific skills that we require is significant. In order to 
attract  and  retain  personnel  in  a  competitive  marketplace,  we  believe  that  we  must  provide  a  competitive  compensation  package, 
including  cash  and  equity-based  compensation.  Volatility  in  our  stock  price  may  from  time  to  time  adversely  affect  our  ability  to 
recruit  or  retain  employees.  If  we  are  unable  to  hire  and  retain  qualified  employees,  or  conversely,  if  we  fail  to  manage  employee 
performance  or  reduce  staffing  levels  when  required  by  market  conditions,  our  business  and  operating  results  could  be  adversely
affected. 

Our significant international operations subject us to additional risks that can adversely affect our business, results of operations
and financial condition.

We have significant international operations, including in emerging markets such as India, and we are continuing to expand our 
international  operations  as  part  of  our  growth  strategy.  As  of  September 30,  2017,  approximately 45%  our total employees  were
located in India, where we conduct a portion of our research and development activities, implementation services and support services. 
Our current international operations and our plans to expand our international operations have placed, and will continue to place, a 
strain on our employees, management systems and other resources.

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Operating  in  international  markets  requires  significant  resources  and  management  attention  and  will  subject  us  to  regulatory, 
economic and political risks and competition that are different from those in the United States. Because of our limited experience with
international  operations,  we  cannot  assure  that  our  international  expansion  efforts  will  be  successful  or  that  returns  on  such 
investments will be achieved in the future. In addition, our international operations may fail to succeed due to other risks inherent in 
operating businesses internationally, including:

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our lack of familiarity with commercial and social norms and customs in international countries which may adversely affect 
our ability to recruit, retain and manage employees in these countries;

difficulties and costs associated with staffing and managing foreign operations;

the potential diversion of management’s attention to oversee and direct operations that are geographically distant from our 
U.S. headquarters;

compliance with multiple, conflicting and changing governmental laws and regulations, including employment, tax, privacy 
and data protection laws and regulations;

legal  systems  in  which  our  ability  to  enforce  and  protect  our  rights  may  be  different  or  less  effective  than  in  the  United 
States and in which the ultimate result of dispute resolution is more difficult to predict;

greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable and longer payment cycles;

higher employee costs and difficulty in terminating non-performing employees;

differences in workplace cultures;

unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;

the need to adapt our solutions for specific countries;

our ability to comply with differing technical and certification requirements outside the United States;

tariffs, export controls and other non-tariff barriers such as quotas and local content rules;

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adverse tax consequences, including as a result of transfer pricing adjustments involving our foreign operations;

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fluctuations in currency exchange rates;

anti-bribery compliance by us or our partners;

restrictions on the transfer of funds; and

new and different sources of competition.

Our failure to manage any of these risks successfully could harm our existing and future international operations and seriously

impair our overall business.

We are exposed to fluctuations in currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our financial condition and operating 
results.

Our sales contracts are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars, and therefore, substantially all of our revenues are not subject tot
foreign  currency  risk.  However,  a  strengthening  of  the  U.S.  dollar  could  increase  the  real  cost  of  our  solutions  to  our  customers
outside  of  the  United  States,  which  could  adversely  affect  our  financial  condition  and  operating  results.  In  addition,  an  increasing
portion  of  our  operating  expenses  are  incurred  in  India,  are  denominated  in  Indian  Rupees  and  are  subject  to  fluctuations  due  to
changes in foreign currency exchange rates.

We  may  be  sued  by  third  parties  for  alleged  infringement  of  their  proprietary  rights  which  could  result  in  significant  costs  and 
harm our business.

There is considerable patent and other intellectual property development activity in our industry. Our success depends upon us 
not infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others. Companies in the software and technology industries, including some of 
our current and potential competitors, own large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and frequently enter into 
litigation based on allegations of infringement, misappropriation or other violations of intellectual property rights. In addition, many of 
these  companies  have  the  capability  to  dedicate  substantially  greater  resources  to  enforce  their  intellectual  property  rights  and  to 

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defend claims that may be brought against them. The litigation may involve patent holding companies or other adverse patent owners
who have no relevant product revenue and against whom our potential patents may provide little or no deterrence. We have received, 
and may in the future receive, notices that claim we have infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated other parties’ intellectual 
property rights. To the extent we gain greater visibility, we face a higher risk of being the subject of intellectual property infringement 
claims,  which  is  not  uncommon  with  respect  to  software  technologies  in  general  and  information  security  technology  in  particular.
There  may  be  third-party  intellectual  property  rights,  including  issued  or  pending  patents  that  cover  significant  aspects  of  our 
technologies or business methods. Any intellectual property claims, with or without merit, could be very time consuming, could be
expensive to settle or litigate and could divert our management’s attention and other resources. These claims could also subject us to
significant liability for damages, potentially including treble damages if we are found to have willfully infringed patents or copyrights.
These claims could also result in our having to stop using technology found to be in violation of a third party’s rights. We might be 
required to seek a license for the intellectual property, which may not be available on reasonable terms or at all. Even if a license were
available,  we  could  be  required  to  pay  significant  royalties,  which  would  increase  our  operating  expenses.  As  a  result,  we  may be 
required to develop alternative non-infringing technology, which could require significant effort and expense. If we cannot license or 
develop technology for any infringing aspect of our business, we would be forced to limit or stop sales of one or more of our solutions
or features of our solutions and may be unable to compete effectively. Any of these results would harm our business, operating results
and financial condition.

In addition, our agreements with customers and partners include indemnification provisions under which we agree to indemnify
them for losses suffered or incurred as a result of claims of intellectual property infringement and, in some cases, for damages caused 
by us to property or persons. Large indemnity payments could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our use of open source and third-party technology could impose limitations on our ability to commercialize our solutions.

We  use  open  source  software  in  our  solutions  and  in  our  services  engagements  on  behalf  of  customers.  As  we  increasingly
handle  configured  implementation  of  our  solutions  on  behalf  of  customers,  we  use  additional  open  source  software  that  we  obtain
from all over the world. Although we try to monitor our use of open source software, the terms of many open source licenses have not 
been  interpreted  by  U.S.  courts,  and  there  is  a  risk  that  such  licenses  could  be  construed  in  a  manner  that  imposes  unanticipated 
conditions or restrictions on our ability to market our solutions. In such event, we could be required to seek licenses from third parties 
in  order  to  continue  offering  our  solutions,  to  re-engineer  our  technology  or  to  discontinue  offering  our  solutions  in  the  event  re-
engineering cannot be accomplished on a timely basis, any of which could cause us to breach contracts, harm our reputation, result in 
customer losses or claims, increase our costs or otherwise adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

Some open source licenses contain requirements that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we 
create based upon the type of open source software we use. If we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a 
certain manner, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software to the 
public.  This  would  allow  our  competitors  to  create  similar  solutions  with  lower  development  effort  and  time  and  ultimately  could 
result in a loss of product sales for us.

Any failure to protect our intellectual property rights could impair our ability to protect our proprietary technology and our brand,
which would substantially harm our business and operating results.

The success of our business and the ability to compete depend in part upon our ability to protect and enforce our patents, trade 
secrets,  trademarks,  copyrights  and  other  intellectual  property  rights.  We  primarily  rely  on  patent,  copyright,  trade  secret  and 
trademark laws, trade secret protection and confidentiality or license agreements with our employees, customers, partners and others 
to protect our intellectual property rights. However, the steps we take to protect our intellectual property rights may be inadequate or 
we  may  be  unable  to  secure  intellectual  property  protection  for  all  of  our  solutions.  Any  of  our  copyrights,  trademarks  or  other 
intellectual property rights may be challenged by others or invalidated through administrative process or litigation. Competitors may
independently develop technologies or solutions that are substantially equivalent or superior to our solutions or that inappropriately 
incorporate our proprietary technology into their solutions. Competitors may hire our former employees who may misappropriate our 
proprietary  technology  or  misuse  our  confidential  information.  Although  we  rely  in  part  upon  confidentiality  agreements  with  our u
employees, consultants and other third parties to protect our trade secrets and other confidential information, those agreements may
not effectively prevent disclosure of trade secrets and other confidential information and may not provide an adequate remedy in the
event  of  misappropriation  of  trade  secrets  or  unauthorized  disclosure  of  confidential  information.  In  addition,  others  may
independently discover our trade secrets and confidential information, and in such cases we could not assert any trade secret rights
against such parties.

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In order to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect these
rights. Litigation to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming and distracting to management 
and  could  result  in  the  impairment  or  loss  of  portions  of  our  intellectual  property.  Furthermore,  our  efforts  to  enforce  our  intellectual 
property  rights  may  be  met  with  defenses,  counterclaims  and  countersuits  attacking  the  validity  and  enforceability  of  our  intellectual 
property rights. Any litigation, whether or not it is resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of 
our  technical  and  management  personnel,  which  may  adversely  affect  our  business,  operating  results  and  financial  condition.  Certain 
jurisdictions  may  not  provide  adequate  legal  infrastructure  for  effective  protection  of  our  intellectual  property  rights.  Changing  legal 
interpretations of liability for unauthorized use of our solutions or lessened sensitivity by corporate, government or institutional users to
refraining from intellectual property piracy or other infringements of intellectual property could also harm our business.

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It is possible that innovations for which we seek patent protection may not be protectable. Additionally, the process of obtaining
patent protection is expensive and time consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications
at  a  reasonable  cost  or  in  a  timely  manner.  Given  the  cost,  effort,  risks  and  downside  of  obtaining  patent  protection,  including  the 
requirement to ultimately disclose the invention to the public, we may not choose to seek patent protection for certain innovations.
However, such patent protection could later prove to be important to our business. Even if issued, there can be no assurance that any 
patents will have the coverage originally sought or adequately protect our intellectual property, as the legal standards relating to the
validity,  enforceability  and  scope  of  protection  of  patent  and  other  intellectual  property  rights  are  uncertain.  Any  patents  that  are 
issued  may  be  invalidated  or  otherwise  limited,  or  may  lapse  or  may  be  abandoned,  enabling  other  companies  to  better  develop
products  that  compete  with  our  solutions,  which  could  adversely  affect  our  competitive  business  position,  business  prospects  and 
financial condition.

We cannot assure you that the measures we have taken to protect our intellectual property will adequately protect us, and any 

failure to protect our intellectual property could harm our business.

We  may  not  be  able  to  enforce  our  intellectual  property  rights  throughout  the  world,  which  could  adversely  impact  our 
international operations and business.

The laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as federal and state laws in the 
United  States.  Many  companies  have  encountered  significant  problems  in  protecting  and  enforcing  intellectual  property  rights  in
certain  foreign  jurisdictions.  The  legal  systems  of  certain  countries,  particularly  certain  developing  countries,  do  not  favor  the
enforcement  of  patents  and  other  intellectual  property  protection.  This  could  make  it  difficult  for  us  to  stop  the  infringement or 
misappropriation of our intellectual property rights. Proceedings to enforce our proprietary rights in foreign jurisdictions could result 
in  substantial  costs  and  divert  our  efforts  and  attention  from  other  aspects  of  our  business.  Accordingly,  our  efforts  to  enforce  our 
intellectual  property  rights  in  such  countries  may  be  inadequate  to  obtain  a  significant  commercial  advantage  from  the  intellectual 
property that we develop, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

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Changes to government regulations may reduce the size of market for our solutions, harm demand for our solutions, force us to
update our solutions or implement changes in our services and increase our costs of doing business.

Any changes in government regulations that impact our customers or their end customers could have a harmful effect on our 
business by reducing the size of our addressable market, forcing us to update the solutions we offer or otherwise increasing our costs.
For  example,  with  respect  to  our  life  sciences  customers,  regulatory  developments  related  to  government-sponsored  entitlement 
programs or U.S. Food and Drug Administration or foreign equivalent regulation of, or denial, withholding or withdrawal of approval 
of, our customers’ products could lead to a lack of demand for our solutions. Other changes in government regulations, in areas such
as privacy, export compliance or anti-bribery statutes, such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, could require us to implement 
changes in our solutions, services or operations that increase our cost of doing business and thereby adversely affecting our financial 
performance.

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Failure  to  comply  with  certain  certifications  and  standards  pertaining  to  our  solutions,  as  may  be  required  by  governmental 
authorities or other standards-setting bodies could harm our business. Additionally, failure to comply with governmental laws and 
regulations could harm our business.

Customers  may  require  our  solutions  to  comply  with  certain  security  or  other  certifications  and  standards,  which  are 
promulgated  by  governmental  authorities  or  other  standards-setting  bodies.  The  requirements  necessary  to  comply  with  these 
certifications  and  standards  are  complex  and  often  change  significantly.  If  our  solutions  are  late  in  achieving  or  fail  to  achieve
compliance  with  these  certifications  and  standards,  including  when  they  revised  or  otherwise  change,  or  our  competitors  achieve
compliance  with  these  certifications  and  standards,  we  may  be  disqualified  from  selling  our  solutions  to  such  customers,  or  at  a 
competitive disadvantage, which would harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

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We  are  subject  to  governmental  export  and  import  controls  that  could  subject  us  to  liability  or  impair  our  ability  to  compete  in ii
international markets.

Certain of our solutions are subject to U.S. export controls and may be exported outside the United States only with the required 
export license or through an export license exception. Additionally, we incorporate encryption technology into our solutions, which 
may  require  additional  filings  prior  to  export.  If  we  were  to  fail  to  comply  with  U.S.  export  licensing  requirements,  U.S.  customs
regulations,  U.S.  economic  sanctions  or  other  laws,  we  could  be  subject  to  substantial  civil  and  criminal  penalties,  including fines,
incarceration for responsible employees and managers, and the possible loss of export or import privileges. Obtaining the necessary 
export  license  for  a  particular  sale  may  be  time-consuming  and  may  result  in  the  delay  or  loss  of  sales  opportunities.  Furthermore,
U.S. export control laws and economic sanctions prohibit the shipment of certain products to U.S. embargoed or sanctioned countries,
governments and persons. Even though we take precautions to ensure that our channel partners comply with all relevant regulations, 
any failure by our channel partners to comply with such regulations could have negative consequences, including reputational harm, 
government investigations and penalties.

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In addition, various countries regulate the import of certain encryption technology, including through import permit and license
requirements,  and  have  enacted  laws  that  could  limit  our  ability  to  distribute  our  solutions  or  could  limit  our  customers’  ability  to 
implement our solutions in those countries. Changes in our solutions or changes in export and import regulations may create delays in
the introduction of our solutions into international markets, prevent our customers with international operations from deploying our 
solutions  globally  or,  in  some  cases,  prevent  the  export  or  import  of  our  solutions  to  certain  countries,  governments  or  person’s 
altogether. Any change in export or import regulations, economic sanctions or related legislation, shift in the enforcement or scope of 
existing  regulations,  or  change  in  the  countries,  governments,  persons  or  technologies  targeted  by  such  regulations,  could  result  in 
decreased use of our solutions by, or in our decreased ability to export or sell our solutions to, existing or potential customers with 
international operations. Any decreased use of our solutions or limitation on our ability to export or sell our solutions would likely 
adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.

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If we are required to collect sales and use taxes on the solutions we sell, we may be subject to liability for past sales and our future
sales may decrease.

State  and  local  taxing  jurisdictions  have  differing  rules  and  regulations  governing  sales  and  use  taxes,  and  these  rules  and 
regulations  are  subject  to  varying  interpretations  that  may  change  over  time.  In  particular,  the  applicability  of  sales  taxes  to  our 
subscription  services  in  various  jurisdictions  is  unclear.  Although  we  have  historically  collected  and  remitted  sales  tax  in  certain 
circumstances, it is possible that we could face sales tax audits and that our liability for these taxes could exceed our estimates as state
tax authorities could still assert that we are obligated to collect additional amounts as taxes from our customers and remit those taxes
to  those  authorities.  We  could  also  be  subject  to  audits  with  respect  to  state  and  international  jurisdictions  for  which  we  have  not 
accrued  tax  liabilities.  A  successful  assertion  that  we  should  be  collecting  additional  sales  or  other  taxes  on  our  services  in
jurisdictions where we have not historically done so and do not accrue for sales taxes could result in substantial tax liabilities for past 
sales, discourage customers from purchasing our solutions or otherwise harm our business and operating results.

Uncertainty in global economic conditions may adversely affect our business, operating results or financial condition.

Our operations and performance depend on global economic conditions. Challenging or uncertain economic conditions make it 
difficult  for  our  customers  and  potential  customers  to  accurately  forecast  and  plan  future  business  activities,  and  may  cause  our 
customers  and  potential  customers  to  slow  or  reduce  spending,  or  vary  order  frequency,  on  our  solutions.  Furthermore,  during 
challenging or uncertain economic times, our customers may face difficulties gaining timely access to sufficient credit and experience 
decreasing cash flow, which could impact their willingness to make purchases and their ability to make timely payments to us. Global 
economic  conditions  have  in  the  past  and  could  continue  to  have  an  adverse  effect  on  demand  for  our  solutions,  including  new 
bookings and renewal and upsell rates, on our ability to predict future operating results and on our financial condition and operating 
results.  If  global  economic  conditions  remain  uncertain  or  deteriorate,  it  may  materially  impact  our  business,  operating  results  and 
financial condition.

Our business is subject to the risks of earthquakes, fire, power outages, floods and other catastrophic events, and to interruption by 
manmade problems such as terrorism.

Our  corporate  headquarters  and  facilities  are  located  near  known  earthquake  fault  zones  and  are  vulnerable  to  significant 
damage from earthquakes. The corporate headquarters and facilities are also vulnerable to damage or interruption from human error,
intentional  bad  acts,  earthquakes,  hurricanes,  floods,  fires,  war,  terrorist  attacks,  power  losses,  hardware  failures,  systems failures, 
telecommunications  failures  and  similar  events.  The  occurrence  of  a  natural  disaster  or  an  act  of  terrorism  or  vandalism  or  other 
misconduct or other unanticipated problems with our facilities could result in lengthy interruptions to our services. If any disaster were
to occur, our ability to operate our business at our facilities could be seriously or completely impaired or destroyed. The insurance we 
maintain may not be adequate to cover our losses resulting from disasters or other business interruptions.

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Our financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

Generally  accepted  accounting  principles  in  the  United  States  (U.S.  GAAP)  is  subject  to  interpretation  by  the  Financial 
Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the SEC and various bodies formed to
promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. For example, in May 2014, the FASB issued accounting standards update 
No. 2014-09 (Topic 606), Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which supersedes nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance 
under  U.S.  GAAP.  We  will  be  required  to  implement  this  guidance  in  the  first  quarter  of  our  fiscal  year  2019.  We  have  not  yet 
determined the effect of the standard on our ongoing financial reporting. Any difficulties in implementing this guidance could cause us
to fail to meet our financial reporting obligations, which could result in regulatory discipline and harm investors’ confidence in us.
Additionally, the implementation of this guidance or a change in other principles or interpretations could have a significant effect on 
our financial results, and could affect the reporting of transactions completed before the announcement of a change.

If  our  estimates  or  judgments  relating  to  our  critical  accounting  policies  are  based  on  assumptions  that  change  or  prove  to  be
incorrect, our operating results could fall below expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in our stock 
price.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions 
that  affect  the  amounts  reported  in  the  Consolidated  Financial  Statements  and  accompanying  notes.  For  example,  our  revenue 
recognition  policy  is  complex  and  we  often  must  make  estimates  and  assumptions  that  could  prove  to  be  inaccurate.  We  base  our 
estimates  on  historical  experience  and  on  various  other  assumptions  that  we  believe  to  be  reasonable  under  the  circumstances,  thet
results of which form the basis for making judgments about revenue recognition, capitalized software, the carrying values of assets,
taxes,  liabilities,  equity,  revenues  and  expenses  that  are  not  readily  apparent  from  other  sources.  Our  operating  results  may  be
adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our 
operating results to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in our stock price. Significant 
assumptions  and  estimates  used  in  preparing  our  Consolidated  Financial  Statements  include  those  related  to  revenue  recognition,
share-based compensation and income taxes.

We  incur  significant  costs  and  devote  substantial  management  time  as  a  result  of  operating  as  a  public  company,  which  may 
increase when we are no longer an “emerging growth company.”

As a public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses. For example, we are required to comply with 
the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 
Protection Act, as well as rules and regulations subsequently implemented by the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange, including
the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  effective  disclosure  and  financial  controls  and  changes  in  corporate  governance  practices.
Despite reform made possible by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), which allows us to take advantage of certain 
exemptions  from  various  reporting  requirements  as  long  as  we  remain  an  “emerging  growth  company,”  compliance  with  these 
requirements  results in legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time consuming.

Additionally,  as  of  September  30,  2018,  we  will  no  longer  be  an  emerging  growth  company  and  will  need  to  comply  with 
additional  disclosure  and  reporting  requirements,  including  an  attestation  report  on  internal  control  over  financial  reporting as  of 
September  30,  2018  issued  by  our  independent  registered  public  accounting  firm.  We  will  also  be  required  to  include  additional 
information  regarding  executive  compensation  in  our  2019  proxy  statement  and  hold  a  nonbinding  advisory  vote  on  executive 
compensation  at  our  2019  annual  meeting  of  stockholders.  These  additional  reporting  requirements  may  increase  our  legal  and 
financial compliance costs and cause management and other personnel to divert attention from operational and other business matters 
to devote substantial time to these public company requirements.

If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or 
comply with applicable regulations could be impaired.

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As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the rules 
and  regulations  of  the  applicable  listing  exchange.  We  expect  that  the  requirements  of  these  rules  and  regulations  will  continue  to 
increase our legal, accounting and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time consuming and costly, and 
place significant strain on our personnel, systems and resources.

The  Sarbanes-Oxley  Act  requires,  among  other  things,  that  we  maintain  effective  disclosure  controls  and  procedures  and 
internal control over financial reporting. We are continuing to develop and refine our disclosure controls and other procedures that are 
designed  to  ensure  that  information  required  to  be  disclosed  by  us  in  the  reports  that  we  file  with  the  SEC  is  recorded,  processed,
summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and that information required to be disclosed in 
reports under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our principal executive and financial officers.

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Our  current  controls  and  any  new  controls  that  we  develop  may  become  inadequate  because  of  changes  in  conditions  in  our 
business.  For  example,  our  recent  acquisition  of  Revitas  may  present  additional  challenges  as  we  integrate  their  business.  Further, 
weaknesses  in  our  internal  controls  may  be  discovered  in  the  future.  Any  failure  to  develop  or  maintain  effective  controls,  or  any
difficulties  encountered  in  their  implementation  or  improvement,  could  harm  our  operating  results  or  cause  us  to  fail  to  meet  our 
reporting  obligations  and  may  result  in  a  restatement  of  our  financial  statements  for  prior  periods.  Any  failure  to  implement  and 
maintain  effective  internal  controls  also  could  adversely  affect  the  results  of  periodic  management  evaluations  and,  if  applicable,
annual  independent  registered  public  accounting  firm  attestation  reports  regarding  the  effectiveness  of  our  internal  control  over 
financial  reporting  that  we  are  required  to  include  in  our  periodic  reports  we  file  with  the  SEC  under  Section 404  of  the  Sarbanes-
Oxley Act. Ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could also cause investors to 
lose confidence in our reported financial and other information, which would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of our 
common stock.

a

In order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial 
reporting, we have expended, and anticipate that we will continue to expend, significant resources, including accounting-related costs,
and provide significant management oversight. Any failure to maintain the adequacy of our internal controls, or consequent inability 
to produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis, could increase our operating costs and could materially impair our ability to
operate  our  business.  In  the  event  that  our  internal  controls  are  perceived  as  inadequate  or  that  we  are  unable  to  produce  timely  or 
accurate financial statements, investors may lose confidence in our operating results and our stock price could decline. In addition, if 
we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Our independent registered public accounting firm is not required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control 
over financial reporting until after we are no longer an emerging growth company. At such time, our independent registered public 
accounting firm may issue a report that is adverse in the event it is not satisfied with the level at which our controls are documented,
designed or operating. Our remediation efforts may not enable us to avoid a material weakness in the future.

We may need additional capital, and we cannot be certain that additional financing will be available.

We may require additional financing in the future to operate or expand our business, acquire assets or repay or refinance our 
existing debt. Our ability to obtain financing will depend, among other things, on our development efforts, business plans, operating 
performance and condition of the capital markets at the time we seek financing. We cannot assure you that additional financing will be 
available  to  us  on  favorable  terms  when  required,  or  at  all.  Additionally,  under  our  financing  agreement,  we  are  restricted  from 
incurring additional debt, subject to certain exceptions. If we raise additional funds through the issuance of equity, equity-linked or 
debt securities, those securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to the rights of our common stock or preferred stock, 
and our stockholders may experience dilution.

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If we need additional capital and cannot raise it on acceptable terms, we may not be able to, among other things:

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develop or enhance our solutions;

continue to expand our sales and marketing and research and development organizations;

repay or refinance our existing debt;

acquire complementary technologies, solutions or businesses;

expand operations, in the United States or internationally;

hire, train and retain employees; or

respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated working capital requirements.

Our failure to do any of these things could seriously harm our business, financial condition, and operating results.

Our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations.

In general, under Section 382 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (Code), and similar state law provisions, a
corporation that undergoes an “ownership change” is subject to limitations on its ability to utilize its pre-change net operating losses
(NOLs) to offset future taxable income. If our existing NOLs are subject to limitations arising from ownership changes, our ability to 
utilize NOLs could be limited by Section 382 of the Code. Future changes in our stock ownership, some of which are outside of our 
control, also could result in an ownership change under Section 382 of the Code. There is also a risk that our NOLs could expire, or 
otherwise  be  unavailable  to  offset  future  income  tax  liabilities  due  to  changes  in  the  law,  including  regulatory  changes,  such as
suspensions on the use of NOLs or other unforeseen reasons. For these reasons, we may not be able to utilize a material portion of the 
NOLs, even if we attain profitability. For example, certain NOLs have begun to expire in 2016.

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Risks Related to the Ownership of Our Common Stock

Our stock price may be volatile, and you may be unable to sell your shares at or above your purchase price.

The  market  price  of  our  common  stock  could  be  subject  to  wide  fluctuations  in  response  to,  among  other  things,  the  factors 
described in this “Risk Factors” section or otherwise and other factors beyond our control, such as fluctuations in the valuations of 
companies perceived by investors to be comparable to us.

Furthermore,  the  stock  markets  have  experienced  price  and  volume  fluctuations  that  have  affected  and  continue  to  affect  the
market  prices  of  equity  securities  of  many  companies.  These  fluctuations  often  have  been  unrelated  or  disproportionate  to  the 
operating  performance  of  those  companies.  These  broad  market  fluctuations,  as  well  as  general  economic,  systemic,  political  and
market  conditions,  such  as  recessions,  interest  rate  changes  or  international  currency  fluctuations,  may  negatively  affect  the market 
price of our common stock.

In the past, many companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their stock have become subject to securities
class  action  litigation.  We  may  be  the  target  of  this  type  of  litigation  in  the  future.  Securities  litigation  against  us  could  result  in 
substantial costs and divert our management’s attention, which could harm our business.

If securities analysts do not publish research or reports or if they publish unfavorable or inaccurate research about our business
and our stock, the price of our stock and the trading volume could decline.

We  expect  that  the  trading  market  for  our  common  stock  will  be  affected  by  research  or  reports  that  industry  or  financial
analysts publish about us or our business. There are many large, well-established companies active in our industry and portions of the 
markets in which we compete, which may mean that we receive less widespread analyst coverage than our competitors. If one or more 
of the analysts who covers us downgrades their evaluations of our company or our stock, the price of our stock could decline. If one or 
more of these analysts cease coverage of our company, our stock may lose visibility in the market, which in turn could cause our stock 
price to decline.

Our restated certificate of incorporation and restated bylaws and Delaware law could prevent a takeover that stockholders consider 
favorable and could also reduce the market price of our stock.

Our restated certificate of incorporation and restated bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control 
of us. These provisions could also make it more difficult for stockholders to elect directors and take other corporate actions. These 
provisions include:

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providing for a classified board of directors with staggered, three year terms;

authorizing the board of directors to issue, without stockholder approval, preferred stock with rights senior to those of our 
common stock;

providing that vacancies on our board of directors be filled by appointment by the board of directors;

prohibiting stockholder action by written consent;

requiring that certain litigation must be brought in Delaware;

limiting the persons who may call special meetings of stockholders; and

requiring advance notification of stockholder nominations and proposals.

In addition, we are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law which may prohibit large stockholders, in
particular  those  owning  fifteen  percent  or  more  of  our  outstanding  voting  stock,  from  merging  or  combining  with  us  for  a  certain
period of time without the consent of our board of directors.

These and other provision in our restated certificate of incorporation and our restated bylaws and under the Delaware General
Corporation Law could discourage potential takeover attempts, reduce the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for 
shares of our common stock and result in the market price of our common stock being lower than it would be without these provisions.

We do not anticipate paying any dividends on our common stock.

We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. If we do not pay cash dividends,
you would receive a return on your investment in our common stock only if the market price of our common stock is greater at the 
time you sell your shares than the market price at the time you bought your shares.

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ITEM 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 

None. 

ITEM 2.

Properties

Our corporate headquarters are located in San Mateo, California, and consist of approximately 35,000 square feet of space under

a lease that expires on November 30, 2020. 

We  have  additional  U.S.  offices  in  California,  Colorado,  Illinois,  Maine,  Massachusetts  and  New  Jersey.  We  also  have
international office locations in India, Switzerland. We believe our facilities are adequate for our current needs and for the foreseeable
future;  however,  we  will  continue  to  seek  additional  space  as  needed  to  accommodate  our  growth.  See  Note  8  to  the  Consolidated 
Financial  Statements  and  “Management’s  Discussion  and  Analysis  of  Financial  Condition  and  Results  of  Operations—Contractual 
Payment Obligations” for information regarding our lease obligations. 

ITEM 3.

Legal Proceedings

We are not currently a party to any pending material legal proceedings. From time to time, we may become involved in legal 
proceedings arising in the ordinary course of our business. Regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us due to 
defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, negative publicity and reputational harm and other factors.

ITEM 4. Mine Safety Disclosure

Not applicable

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PART II

ITEM 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities 

Market Information for Common Stock

Model N common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MODN”. The high and low sales prices

per share of common stock for each of the quarters in the last two fiscal years were as follows:

First Quarter.............................................................................  $
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Third Quarter ...........................................................................  $
Fourth Quarter .........................................................................  $

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11.84    $
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High

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Fiscal Year 2016

High

Low

Dividend Policy 

We have never declared or paid, and do not anticipate declaring or paying in the foreseeable future, any cash dividends on our 
capital stock. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our board of 
directors, subject to applicable laws and will depend on then existing conditions, including our financial condition, operating results,
contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects, and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant.

Stockholders 

As  of  November  3,  2017,  there  were  77  holders  of  record  of  our  common  stock,  including  The  Depository  Trust  Company,

which holds shares of our common stock on behalf of an indeterminate number of beneficial owners. 

Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans 

The  information  called  for  by  this  item  is  incorporated  by  reference  to  our  Proxy  Statement  for  the  Annual  Meeting  of 
Stockholders  to  be  held  in  2018  (Proxy  Statement).  See  Part  III,  Item  12  “Security  Ownership  of  Certain  Beneficial  Owners  and 
Management” and “Equity Compensation Plan Information.” 

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Stock Performance Graph 

The following shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or incorporated by reference into any
of our other filings under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except to the extent we specifically incorporate 
it by reference into such filing. 

This  chart  compares  the  cumulative  total  return  on  our  common  stock  with  that  of  the  NASDAQ  Composite  Index  and  the 
NASDAQ Computer Index. The chart assumes $100 was invested at the close of market on March 20, 2013 (the first day our common 
stock  began  trading  publicly  on  the  NYSE),  in  our  common  stock,  the  NASDAQ  Composite  Index  and  the  NASDAQ  Computer 
Index, and assumes the reinvestment of any dividends.

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Model N

NASDAQ Composite Index

NASDAQ Computer Index

3/20/2013 

3/31/2013 

6/30/2013 

Model N ...........................................................................................................   $
NASDAQ Composite Index ............................................................................   $
NASDAQ Computer Index..............................................................................   $

100.00    $
100.00    $
100.00    $

127.87    $
100.41    $
99.28    $

Model N ...........................................................................................................   $
NASDAQ Composite Index ............................................................................   $
NASDAQ Computer Index..............................................................................   $

76.06    $
128.34    $
128.13    $

65.23    $
129.03    $
130.12    $

12/31/2014 

3/31/2015 

Model N ...........................................................................................................   $
NASDAQ Composite Index ............................................................................   $
NASDAQ Computer Index..............................................................................   $

68.52    $
145.54    $
153.60    $

77.16    $
150.60    $
155.57    $

12/31/2013 

3/31/2014 

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NASDAQ Composite Index ............................................................................   $
NASDAQ Computer Index..............................................................................   $

72.00    $
153.88    $
163.19    $

69.48    $
149.65    $
164.59    $

12/31/2016 

3/31/2017 

Model N ...........................................................................................................   $
NASDAQ Composite Index ............................................................................   $
NASDAQ Computer Index..............................................................................   $

57.10    $
165.42    $
183.21    $

67.42    $
181.67    $
206.82    $

12/31/2015 

3/31/2016 

150.71    $
104.58    $
101.16    $

6/30/2014 

71.29    $
135.46    $
140.68 
$
6/30/2015 

76.84    $
153.24    $
155.89 
$
6/30/2016 

86.13    $
148.81    $
$
158.09 
6/30/2017 

85.81    $
188.69    $
215.47 
$

9/30/2013
63.87
115.90 
112.32 
9/30/2014
63.61
138.08 
147.67
9/30/2015
64.58
141.98 
148.06
9/30/2016
71.68
163.24 
181.12
9/30/2017
96.45
199.62 
234.31

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ITEM 6.

Selected Consolidated Financial Data 

The consolidated statement of operations data for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015 and the selected 
consolidated  balance  sheet  data  as  of  September 30,  2017  and  2016  are  derived  from  our  audited  consolidated  financial  statements
included in this Form 10-K. The consolidated statement of operations data for fiscal years ended September 30, 2014 and 2013, and 
the selected consolidated balance sheet data as of September 30, 2015, 2014 and 2013 are derived from audited consolidated financial 
statements that are not included in the Form 10-K. The information set forth below is not necessarily indicative of results of future 
operations,  and  should  be  read  in  conjunction  with  Item 7,  “Management's  Discussion  and  Analysis  of  Financial  Condition  and 
Results of Operations” and the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in Part II, Item 8, "Consolidated Financial 
Statements and Supplementary Data" in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2017 (1)

2016

2015
(in thousands, except per share data)

2014

2013

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:    
Revenues:

License and implementation............................  $
SaaS and maintenance .....................................   
Total revenues ............................................   

23,114    $
108,055     
131,169     

20,579    $
86,392     
106,971     

Cost of Revenues:

License and implementation............................   
SaaS and maintenance .....................................   
Total cost of revenues ................................   
Gross profit ...........................................................   
Operating Expenses:

Research and development ..............................   
Sales and marketing.........................................   
General and administrative ..............................   
Restructuring ...................................................   
Total operating expenses............................   
(Loss) income from operations .............................   
Interest (income) expense, net ..............................   
Other (income) expenses, net................................   
Loss before income taxes ......................................   
(Benefit) provision for income taxes ....................   
Net loss..................................................................  $
Net loss per share attributable to common
   stockholders (2):

14,224     
46,872     
61,096     
70,073     

31,064     
41,339     
36,281     
—     
108,684     
(38,611)    
4,159     
62     
(42,832)    
(3,285)    
(39,547)   $

12,976     
40,717     
53,693     
53,278     

23,706     
32,261     
30,051     
—     
86,018     
(32,740)    
(50)    
86     
(32,776)    
335     
(33,111)   $

36,172    $
57,596     
93,768     

15,555     
26,014     
41,569     
52,199     

17,906     
30,300     
23,132     
—     
71,338     
(19,139)    
(6)    
(22)    
(19,111)    
528     
(19,639)   $

35,333    $
46,423     
81,756     

59,134 
42,770 
101,904 

16,652     
21,092     
37,744     
44,012     

18,710     
25,998     
19,671     
26     
64,405     
(20,393)    
(12)    
116     
(20,497)    
384     
(20,881)   $

26,832 
19,350 
46,182 
55,722 

16,772
21,144 
16,063 
1,215 
55,194 
528
357
658 
(487)
439 
(926)

Basic and diluted ........................................  $

(1.38)   $

(1.21)   $

(0.76)   $

(0.86)   $

(0.06)

Weighted average number of shares used in
   computing net loss per share attributable to
   common stockholders (2):

Basic and diluted .............................................   

28,649     

27,379     

26,015     

24,399     

15,979

Other Financial Data:
Adjusted EBITDA (3).............................................  $

(8,269)   $

(12,571)   $

(3,332)  

N/A   

N/A

(1)

(2)

(3)

On  January  5,  2017,  we  completed  the  Revitas  acquisition.  See  Note  3  to  our  consolidated  financial  statements  for  more
information.
See Note 11 to our consolidated financial statements for a description of the method used to compute basic and diluted net loss
per share attributable to common stockholders. 

See  “Management’s  Discussion  and  Analysis  of  Financial  Condition  and  Results  of  Operations—Non-GAAP  Financial 
Measure”  in  Item 7  for  more  information  and  a  reconciliation  of  adjusted  EBITDA  to  net  loss,  the  most  directly  comparable 
financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. 

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2017 (1)

2016

As of September 30,

2015
(in thousands)

2014

2013

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data
Cash and cash equivalents.....................................  $
Working capital.....................................................   
Total assets ............................................................   
Loan obligations, current and long-term...............   
Total liabilities ......................................................   
Total stockholders' equity .....................................   

57,558    $
10,172     
171,936     
57,205     
130,675     
41,261     

66,149    $
48,588     
112,967     
—     
46,765     
66,202     

91,019    $
74,814     
121,970     
—     
38,908     
83,062     

101,006    $
82,370     
129,131     
—     
40,167     
88,964     

103,350
86,842 
134,472
— 
40,854 
93,618

(1)

On  January  5,  2017,  we  completed  the  Revitas  acquisition.  See  Note  3  to  our  consolidated  financial  statements  for  more
information.

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ITEM 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

You  should  read  the  following  discussion  and  analysis  of  our  financial  condition  and  results  of  operations  together  with  the 
consolidated  financial  statements  and  related  notes  that  are  included  elsewhere  in  this  report.  This  discussion  contains  forward-
looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from
those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth under “Risk Factors” or 
in other parts of this report.

Overview 

We are a leader in Revenue Management solutions for life sciences and technology companies. Our solutions enable customers
to  transform  the  revenue  lifecycle  from  a  series  of  disjointed  operations  into  a  strategic  end-to-end  process.   With  deep  industry 
expertise, we support the complex business needs of the world’s leading brands in life sciences and high technology across tens of 
thousands of users in more than 100 countries.

Our industry specific clouds – Revenue Cloud for Pharma, Revenue Cloud for Med Tech and Revenue Cloud for High Tech – 
offer a range of solutions from individual products to complete suites and deployments may vary from specific divisions or territories 
to enterprise-wide implementations. In addition to industry specific clouds, Revenue Cloud provides a broad set of multi-tenant cloud 
applications for a variety of industries. 

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We derive revenues primarily from the sale of subscriptions to our Revenue Cloud solutions and  professional services, as well
as maintenance and support and managed support services. We price our solutions based on a number of factors, including revenues
under management and number of users. We also derive revenues from selling professional services related to past sales of perpetual 
licenses. Maintenance and support revenues are recognized ratably over the support period, which is typically one year. SaaS revenues
for  cloud-based  solutions  are  derived  from  subscription  fees  from  customers  accessing  our  cloud-based  solutions,  as  well  as  from 
associated  professional  services.  The  actual  timing  of  revenue  recognition  may  vary  based  on  our  customers’  implementation 
requirements and availability of our services personnel. 

We  market  and  sell  our  solutions  to  customers  in  the  life  sciences  and  technology  industries.  While  we  have  historically
generated  the  substantial  majority  of  our  revenues  from  companies  in  the  life  sciences  industry,  we  have  also  grown  our  base  of
technology customers and intend to continue to focus on increasing the revenues from customers in the technology industry. Our most 
significant customers in any given period generally vary from period to period due to the timing in the delivery of our professional 
services  and  related  revenue  recognition.  During  the  fiscal  years  ended  September 30,  2017  and  2015,  one  customer,  Johnson  & 
Johnson,  accounted  for  approximately  11%  of  our  total  revenues.  However,  during  the  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2017,  no
customer represented more than 10% of our subscription revenues. No customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenues during 
the  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2016.  For  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2017,  approximately  11%  of  our  total  revenues
were derived from customers located outside the United States. 

For  the  fiscal  years  ended  September  30,  2017,  2016  and  2015,  our  total  revenues  were  $131.2  million,  $107.0  million  and 
$93.8  million,  respectively,  representing  a  year-over-year  increase  of  approximately  23%  from  2016  to  2017  and  year-over-over 
increase of approximately 14% from 2015 to 2016. Revenues increased in the 2017 fiscal year primarily due to improvement in sales
execution and the acquisition of Revitas.

Significant Transactions

On January 5, 2017, we acquired Revitas, for cash consideration of $52.8 million. In addition, $10 million was paid in the form
of  two  promissory  notes,  one  which  matures  18  months  after  the  closing  and  the  other  which  matures  36  months  after  the  closing.
These notes bear interest at the rate of 3% per annum, and are subject to a right of set-off as partial security for the indemnification 
obligations of Revitas’ stockholders under the merger agreement.  

On January 5, 2017, we borrowed $50.0 million under a financing agreement that we entered into with various lenders to fund 
the  cash  portion  of  the  acquisition  of  Revitas,  Inc.  The  rate  on  the  term  loans  is  based  on  (i)  the  Base  Rate  plus  9.25%  or  (ii)  the 
LIBOR  Rate  plus  8.25%,  as  selected  by  us.  The  term  loan  matures  on  January  5,  2022.  We  must  repay  0.625%  of  the  aggregate
principal amount of the term loans on the last business day of each fiscal quarter, beginning with the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 
2019.  We  may  voluntarily  prepay  the  terms  loans,  subject  to  a  3%  premium  during  the  first  24  months  and  1%  premium  after  24 
months  and  prior  to  36  months.  The  loan  contains  various  covenants  with  which  we  must  remain  in  compliance.  See  Note  6  to
Consolidated Financial Statements for further information. 

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Key Business Metrics

In  addition  to  the  measures  of  financial  performance  presented  in  our  Consolidated  Financial  Statements,  we  use  adjusted 
EBITDA to evaluate and manage our business We use adjusted EBITDA internally to manage the business, and we believe it is useful 
for investors to compare key financial data from various periods. See “—Non-GAAP Financial Measure” below.

Key Components of Results of Operations 

Revenues 

Revenues are comprised of license and implementation revenues and SaaS and maintenance revenues.

License and Implementation 

License and implementation revenues are generated from the sale of software licenses for our on-premise solutions and related
d 
implementation and professional services. We expect our license and implementation revenues for the fiscal year 2018 to be lowerr 
bboth in absolute dollars and as a percentage of total revenue from those recorded in the fiscal year ended on September 30, 2017, as
we no longer sell perpetual licenses.

SaaS and Maintenance 

SaaS and maintenance revenues primarily include subscription and related implementation fees from customers accessing our 
cloud-based solutions. Also included in SaaS and maintenance revenues are revenues related to maintenance and support, managed 
support  services,  training  and  customer-reimbursed  expenses.  The  SaaS  model  is  the  primary  way  we  sell  to  our  customers  in  our 
vertical markets. Accordingly, we expect that SaaS and maintenance revenues for the fiscal year 2018 will be higher both in absolute 
dollars and as a percentage of total revenues than fiscal year 2017 as we continue to acquire new SaaS customers and expand our SaaS 
offerings within our existing customers. 

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Deferred  revenue  on  our  consolidated  balance  sheet  does  not  represent  the  total  contract  value  of  annual  or  multi-year,
noncancelable  subscription  agreements.  Backlog  represents  expected  future  billings  which  are  contractually  committed  under  our 
existing  subscription  agreements  that  have  not  been  invoiced.  Backlog  was  approximately  $37.4  million  and  $16.0  million  as  of 
September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. Out of backlog as of September 30, 2017 and 2016, approximately $20.2 million and $6.3 
million was long-term backlog and $17.2 million and $9.7 million was short-term backlog, respectively. We expect that the amount of 
backlog may change from year-to-year for several reasons, including billing cycles, timing of customer renewals, remaining duration
of  arrangement,  and  the  timing  of  when  unbilled  deferred  revenue  is  to  be  recognized  as  revenues.  For  multi-year  subscription 
agreements, the associated backlog is typically high at the beginning of the contract period, zero immediately prior to expiration and 
increases if the agreement is renewed. Low backlog attributable to a particular subscription agreement is typically associated with an 
impending renewal and is not an indicator of the likelihood of renewal or future revenue of that customer. Accordingly, we expect that 
the  amount  of  backlog  may  change  from  year  to  year  depending  in  part  upon  the  number  of  subscription  agreements  in  particular 
stages in their renewal cycle. Such fluctuations are not reliable indicators of future revenues. 

Cost of Revenues

Our total cost of revenues is comprised of the following: 

License and Implementation 

Cost of license and implementation revenues includes costs related to the implementation of our on-premise solutions. Cost of 
license and implementation revenues primarily consists of personnel-related costs including salary, bonus, stock-based compensation,
third-party  contractor  costs  and  royalty  fees  paid  to  third  parties  for  rights  to  their  intellectual  property.  Cost  of  license and 
implementation revenues may vary from period to period depending on a number of factors, including the amount of implementation
services required to deploy our solutions and the level of involvement of third-party contractors providing implementation services.
We expect our cost of license and implementation revenues for fiscal year 2018 to be lower in absolute dollars from those recor
ded in 
fiscal 2017.

in absolute dollars

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SaaS and Maintenance 

Cost of SaaS and maintenance revenues includes costs related to the implementation of our cloud-based solutions, maintenance
and  support  and  managed  support  services  for  our  on  premise  solutions,  revenue  management  as  a  service,  training  and  customer-
reimbursed expenses. Cost of SaaS and maintenance revenues primarily consists of personnel-related costs including salary, bonus,
stock-based compensation, royalty, facility expense, amortization of intangible assets and depreciation related to server equipment and 
capitalized software, reimbursable expenses, third-party contractors and data center-related expenses. We believe that cost of SaaS and 
maintenance revenues will continue to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to sell more products.

Operating Expenses

Our operating expenses consist of research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses.

Research and Development 

Our  research  and  development  expenses  consist  primarily  of  personnel-related  costs  including  salary,  bonus,  stock-based 
compensation and third-party contractors and travel-related expenses. Our software development costs for new software solutions and 
enhancements  to  existing  software  solutions  are  generally  expensed  as  incurred.  In  the  past,  we  capitalized  development  costs  in 
connection with the development of new cloud-based services. As of September 30, 2017, the net book value of capitalized software 
development costs was $1.9 million. We expect our research and development expenses to decrease in fiscal year 2018 from those
recorded in fiscal year 2017. 

Sales and Marketing 

Our  sales  and  marketing  expenses  consist  primarily  of  personnel-related  costs  including  salary,  bonus,  commissions,  stock-
based  compensation,  amortization  of  intangible  assets,  travel-related  expenses  and  marketing  programs.  We  recognize  sales
commission expense upon the booking of a contract, while we recognize revenue over the period services were provided. We expect
our sales and marketing expenses to be flat to marginally higher in fiscal year 2018 from those recorded in fiscal 2017. 

General and Administrative

Our  general  and  administrative  expenses  consist  primarily  of  personnel-related  costs  including  salary,  bonus,  stock-based 
compensation, audit and legal fees as well as third-party contractors, facilities and travel-related expenses. We expect our general and 
administrative expense to decrease in fiscal year 2018 from those recorded in fiscal year 2017.

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Results of Operations 

The following tables set forth our consolidated results of operations for the periods presented and as a percentage of our total 
revenues for those periods. The period-to-period comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of financial results to be
achieved in future periods. 

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:
Revenues:

License and implementation ............................................  $
SaaS and maintenance...................................................... 
Total revenues............................................................. 

23,114    $

108,055   
131,169   

20,579    $
86,392   
106,971   

Cost of Revenues:

License and implementation ............................................ 
SaaS and maintenance...................................................... 
Total cost of revenues................................................. 
Gross profit............................................................................ 
Operating Expenses:

Research and development............................................... 
Sales and marketing ......................................................... 
General and administrative .............................................. 
Total operating expenses ............................................ 
Loss from operations ............................................................. 
Interest (expense) income, net ............................................... 
Other (income) expenses, net ................................................ 
Loss before income taxes ...................................................... 
(Benefit) provision for income taxes..................................... 
Net loss ..................................................................................  $

14,224   
46,872   
61,096   
70,073   

31,064   
41,339   
36,281   
108,684   
(38,611)  
4,159   
62   
(42,832)  
(3,285)  
(39,547)   $

12,976   
40,717   
53,693   
53,278   

23,706   
32,261   
30,051   
86,018   
(32,740)  
(50)  
86   
(32,776)  
335   
(33,111)   $

36,172 
57,596 
93,768 

15,555 
26,014 
41,569 
52,199 

17,906
30,300 
23,132 
71,338
(19,139)
(6)
(22)
(19,111)
528 
(19,639)

Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 

Revenues

Revenues:

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2017

% of
Total

2016

% of
Total

Change

Amount

  Revenues

Amount

  Revenues

($)

(%)

(in thousands, except percentages)

License and implementation.......   $
SaaS and maintenance ................    
Total revenues..................................   $

23,114     
108,055     
131,169     

18  %  $
82   

100  %  $

20,579     
86,392     
106,971     

19  %  $
81   

100  %  $

2,535     
21,663     
24,198     

12  %
25 
23  %

License and Implementation 

License and implementation revenues increased $2.5 million, or 12%, to $23.1 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 
2017 from $20.6 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016. As a percentage to total revenues, license and implementation 
revenue decreased from 19% to 18%. The decrease in these revenues as a percentage of total revenue was primarily due to fewer sales
of perpetual licenses and related implementation services as we shifted our business model towards cloud-based solutions and stopped 
selling  perpetual  licenses.  The  increase  in  revenue  in  absolute  dollars  was  primarily  due  to  the  revenue  attributable  from  the 
acquisition  of  Revitas,  which  historically  prior  to  our  acquisition  derived  a  greater  portion  of  their  business  from  perpetual license
related contracts.

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SaaS and maintenance revenues increased $21.7 million, or 25%, to $108.1 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 
from  $86.4  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2016.  The  increase  in  these  revenues  was  primarily  due  to  the  revenue
attributable from the acquisition of Revitas on January 5, 2017 as well as continued growth in our SaaS business. The increase in our 
SaaS and maintenance revenues included a $12.5 million increase in our SaaS subscription revenues, a $8.8 million increase in our 
maintenance and support and managed support services revenues, and $0.4 million in our training and customer reimbursable expense.
We intend to focus on growing our recurring revenue from SaaS and maintenance in future periods and also as a percentage of total 
revenues.

Cost of Revenues

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2017

% of

2016

% of

Change

Amount

  Revenues

Amount

  Revenues

($)

(%)

(in thousands, except percentages)

Cost of revenues

License and implementation.......   $
SaaS and maintenance ................    
Total cost of revenues ......................   $

14,224     
46,872     
61,096     

62  %  $
43   
47  %  $

12,976     
40,717     
53,693     

63  %  $
47   
50  %  $

1,248     
6,155     
7,403     

Gross profit

License and implementation.......   $
SaaS and maintenance ................    
Total gross profit..............................   $

8,890     
61,183     
70,073     

38  %  $
57   
53  %  $

7,603     
45,675     
53,278     

37  %  $
53   
50  %  $

1,287     
15,508     
16,795     

10  %
15 
14  %

17  %
34   
32  %

License and Implementation 

Cost  of  license  and  implementation  revenues  increased  $1.2  million,  or  10%,  to  $14.2  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
September 30,  2017  from  $13.0  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2016  due  to  the  increase  in  related  revenue.  As  a
percentage  of  revenue,  cost  of  license  and  implementation  revenues  decreased  to  62%  in  fiscal  year  2017  from  63%  in  fiscal  year
2016.  The  decrease  in  these  costs  as  a  percentage  of  total  revenues  was  primarily  due  to  a  more  favorable  mix  of  services 
engagements, partially offset by an increase in the accelerated amortization of a prepaid royalty agreement resulting from a shift to 
cloud-based solutions.

SaaS and Maintenance 

Cost  of  SaaS  and  maintenance  revenues  increased  $6.2  million,  or  15%,  to  $46.9  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
As  a  percentage  of  SaaS  and  maintenance
September 30,  2017  from  $40.7  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2016.  As  a  percentage  of  SaaS  and  maintenance
revenues,  cost  of  SaaS  and  maintenance  revenues  decreased  from  47%  to 
43%  in  fiscal  year  2017. The  decreases  in  costs  as  a 
percentage  of  revenue  were  driven  by  our  increased  ability  to  drive  efficiencies  and  synergies  associated  with  the  acquisition  of 
 and the increase in efficiencies as we continuously modernize our cloud platform.
Revitas and the increase in efficiencies as we continuously modernize our cloud platform. 

  in  fiscal  year  2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2017
Amount

2016
Amount

Change

($)

(%)

(in thousands, except percentages)

Operating expenses:

Research and development .....................  $
Sales and marketing ................................   
General and administrative .....................   
Total operating expenses ..............................  $

31,064    $
41,339     
36,281     
108,684    $

23,706    $
32,261     
30,051     
86,018    $

7,358     
9,078     
6,230     
22,666     

31  %
28   
21   
26  %

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Research  and  development  expenses  increased  by  $7.4  million,  or  31%,  to  $31.1  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
September 30,  2017  from  $23.7  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2016.  Employee  related  expenses  increased  $4.1
million due to severance, salaries, bonus and stock-based compensation. We also had a $0.9 million increase in consulting costs, $0.8 
million  increases  software-related  costs,  an  $1.3  million  increase  in  costs  that  had  been  previously  capitalized,  and  a  $0.3  million 
increase in travel and entertainment expense and other costs.

Sales and Marketing 

Sales and marketing expenses increased by $9.1 million, or 28%, to $41.3 million during the fiscal year ended September 30, 
2017  from  $32.3  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2016.  Employee-related  expenses  increased  $6.4  million  due  to 
severance and commissions, bonus and salaries as a result of increased headcount. We also had a $2.5 million increase of amortization
expense  related  to  intangible  assets  and  an  $0.7  million  increase  in  marketing  program,  facility  and  equipment  related  expense,
partially offset by decrease in $0.5 million consulting cost, travel and entertainment expense and other costs. 

General and Administrative

General  and  administrative  expenses  increased  by  $6.2  million,  or  21%,  to  $36.3  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
September 30, 2017 from $30.1 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016. Employee-related costs increased $3.2 million
dues to severance and increased headcount, inclusive of transitional employees, related to our acquisition of Revitas. We also had an
$1.0 million increased in facility costs, $0.6 million increased in consulting costs and a $1.4 million increase in depreciation and other 
expenses.     

Interest and Other (Income) Expense, Net 

Interest (income) expense, net......................  $
Other (income) expense, net.........................  $

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2017
Amount

2016
Amount

Change

($)

(%)

4,159    $
62    $

(in thousands, except percentages)
(50)   $
86    $

4,209     
(24)    

(8,418) %
(28) %

Interest expense increased $4.4 million during fiscal year 2017 primarily due to borrowings in January 2017 in connection with 
the acquisition of Revitas as described in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statement, partially offset by $0.2 million interest 
income. 

Change in other (income) expenses, net was immaterial and primarily related to currency fluctuation.

Provision (Benefit) for Income Taxes 

Provision (benefit) for income taxes ............  $

(3,285)   $

(in thousands, except percentages)
335    $

(3,620)    

(1,081) %

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2017
Amount

2016
Amount

Change

($)

(%)

The change in income tax provision is primarily due to a discrete tax benefit of $4.2 million recorded in the second quarter of

fiscal 2017. The discrete item is a result of releasing a portion of our valuation allowance resulting from the acquisition of Revitas.

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Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended September 30, 2016 and 2015

Revenues 

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2016

2015

% of
Total

% of
Total

Change

Amount

  Revenues

Amount

  Revenues

($)

(%)

(in thousands, except percentages)

Revenues:

License and implementation.......   $
SaaS and maintenance ................    
Total revenues..................................   $

20,579     
86,392     
106,971     

19  %  $
81   

100  %  $

36,172     
57,596     
93,768     

39  %  $
61   

100  %  $

(15,593)    
28,796     
13,203     

(43) %
50 
14  %

License and Implementation 

License and implementation revenues decreased $15.6 million, or 43%, to $20.6 million for the fiscal year ended September 30,
2016 from $36.2 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2015. As a percentage to total revenues, license and implementation 
revenue decreased from 39% to 19%. The decrease in these revenues as a percentage of revenues and in absolute dollars was primarily 
due to fewer sales of software licenses for our on-premise solutions and related implementation services in fiscal year 2016, as our 
business model continued to focus on sales of our cloud-based solutions in fiscal year 2016.

aa

SaaS and Maintenance 

SaaS and maintenance revenues increased $28.8 million, or 50%, to $86.4 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016
from  $57.6  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2015.   The  increase  in  SaaS  and  maintenance  revenues  was  primarily
 The  increase  in  SaaS  and  maintenance  revenues  was  primarily
driven by an increase in the number of subscription contracts and included a $18.9 million increase in our SaaS and Revenue Clo dud 
subscription  revenue,  a  $6.9  million  increase  in  revenue  from 
channel  data  management,  a  $1.2  million  increase  in  revenues  from
RMaaS,  and  a  $1.8  million  increase  in  our  maintenance  and  support,  managed  support  services  revenues,  training  and  customer 
maintenance  and  support,  managed  support  services  revenues,  training  and  customer
reimbursable expense. We intend to focus on growing our recurring revenue from SaaS and maintenance in future periods and also as
a percentage of total revenues.

a

Cost of Revenues

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2016

% of

2015

% of

Change

Amount

  Revenues

Amount

  Revenues

($)

(%)

(in thousands, except percentages)

Cost of revenues

License and implementation.......   $
SaaS and maintenance ................    
Total cost of revenues ......................   $

12,976     
40,717     
53,693     

63  %  $
47   
50  %  $

15,555     
26,014     
41,569     

43  %  $
45   
44  %  $

(2,579)    
14,703     
12,124     

Gross profit

License and implementation.......   $
SaaS and maintenance ................    
Total gross profit..............................   $

7,603     
45,675     
53,278     

37  %  $
53   
50  %  $

20,617     
31,582     
52,199     

57  %  $
55   
56  %  $

(13,014)    
14,093     
1,079     

(17) %
57 
29  %

(63) %
45   
2  %

License and Implementation 

Cost  of  license  and  implementation  revenues  decreased  $2.6  million,  or  17%,  to  $13.0  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
September 30, 2016 from $15.6 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2015. As a percentage of revenue, cost of license and 
implementation  revenues  increased  to  63%  in  fiscal  year  2016  from  43%  in  fiscal  year  2015.  The  increase  in  cost  of  revenue  as  a
percentage  of  revenue  was  primarily  due  to  the  sale  of  fewer  software  licenses for  our  on-premise  solutions.  The  cost  of  revenues
recognized in fiscal year 2016 was primarily from the sale of standalone professional services which has a lower margin than sales of 
licenses. 

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SaaS and Maintenance 

Cost  of  SaaS  and  maintenance  revenues  increased  $14.7  million,  or  57%,  to  $40.7  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
September 30,  2016  from  $26.0  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2015.  As  a  percentage  of  SaaS  and  maintenance
As  a  percentage  of  SaaS  and  maintenance
revenues, cost of SaaS and maintenance revenues increased slightly from 45% to 47% in fiscal year 2016 The increase in SaaS andd 
maintenance cost during the period was primarily due to an increase in our SaaS and maintenance revenues. This increase in these
revenues resulted in an increase in personnel and other related costs.

. 

Operating Expenses

Operating expenses:

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2016
Amount

2015
Amount

Change

($)

(%)

(in thousands, except percentages)

Research and development .....................  $
Sales and marketing ................................   
General and administrative .....................   
Total operating expenses ..............................  $

23,706    $
32,261     
30,051     
86,018    $

17,906    $
30,300     
23,132     
71,338    $

5,800     
1,961     
6,919     
14,680     

32  %
6   
30   
21  %

Research and Development 

Research  and  development  expenses  increased  by  $5.8  million,  or  32%,  to  $23.7  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
September 30, 2016 from $17.9 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2015. The increase was primarily due to a $2.1 million 
increase  in  employee  related  costs  due  to  an  increase  in  headcount,  a  $1.0  million  increase  in  consulting  costs  paid  to  third  party 
consultants, a $1.0 million increase in software and equipment related costs, a $0.3 million increase in travel costs and a $1.4 million 
increase in the costs that were capitalized in connection with the development of internally-developed software which was previously
capitalized in fiscal year 2015. 

Sales and Marketing 

d

Sales  and  marketing  expenses  increased  by  $2.0  million,  or  6%,  to  $32.3  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30, 
2016 from $30.3 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2015. This increase was primarily due to a $1.3 million increase in
employee  related  costs  resulting  from  increased  headcount,  a  $0.2  million  increase  in  marketing  related  activities,  a  $0.4  million
increase in travel and other costs, and a $0.4 million increase in amortization expense, partially offset by a $0.3 million decrease in 
consulting costs. 

General and Administrative

d

General  and  administrative  expenses  increased  by  $7.0  million,  or  30%,  to  $30.1  million  during  the  fiscal  year  ended 
 The  increase was  due primarily  to  higher
September 30,  2016  from  $23.1  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September 30,  2015.   The  increase was  due primarily  to  higher 
employee  related  costs  of  $3.8 million  resulting  from  increased  headcount,  third  party  contractor  costs  of  $2.3  million,  equipm t ent
related costs of $0.2 million and facility costs and other costs of $0.5 million mainly due to higher rent for office lease and travel costs
of  $0.2  million.  These  increases  are  in  part  driven  by  our  Channel  Data  Management  business,  which  we  acquired  on  October  30,
2015, and the additions to our executive team. 

d

Interest and Other Expense, Net 

Interest income .............................................  $
Other (income) expense, net.........................  $

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2016
Amount

2015
Amount

Change

($)

(%)

(50)   $
86    $

(in thousands, except percentages)
(6)   $
(22)   $

(44)    
108     

733  %
(491) %

Interest income primarily related to interest income earned from our invested cash, net of bank service charges.

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Other (income) expenses, net primarily related to currency fluctuation recorded for our foreign operations. 

Provision for Income Taxes

Provision for income taxes ...........................  $

335    $

(in thousands, except percentages)
528    $

(193)    

(37) %

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,

2016
Amount

2015
Amount

Change

($)

(%)

Provision for income taxes is primarily related to the state minimum tax and foreign tax on our profitable foreign operations.

The change in income tax provision is primarily due to the change in income related to our foreign operations.

Quarterly Results of Operations (Unaudited) 

The  following  table  sets  forth  our  unaudited  quarterly  statements  of  operations  data  for  the  last  eight  fiscal  quarters.  The 
information  for  each  of  these  quarters  has  been  prepared  on  the  same  basis  as  the  audited  annual  financial  statements  included 
elsewhere  in  this  annual  report  and,  in  the  opinion  of  management,  includes  all  adjustments,  which  includes  only  normal  recurring
adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of the results of operations for these periods. This data should be read in conjunction 
with  our  audited  consolidated  financial  statements  and  related  notes  included  elsewhere  in  this  annual  report.  These  quarterly 
  and  related  notes  included  elsewhere  in  this  annual  report.  These  quarterly
operating results are not necessarily indicative of our operating results for any future period.

  Sep 30,

  Jun 30,

2017

2017

  Mar 31,
2017

Three Months Ended
  Sep 30,

  Dec 31,

2016

2016

  Jun 30,

2016

  Mar 31,
2016

  Dec 31,

2015

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

Revenues:

License and implementation................  $ 5,977   $ 5,714   $ 6,000   $ 5,423    $ 6,075    $ 5,119    $ 4,823    $ 4,562 
SaaS and maintenance .........................    29,628     28,530     27,257     22,640      22,433      22,798      21,236      19,925 
Total revenues ................................    35,605     34,244     33,257     28,063      28,508      27,917      26,059      24,487 

Cost of Revenues:

3,601     
License and implementation................   
SaaS and maintenance .........................    12,345     12,439     11,880     10,208      11,137      10,330      10,238     

3,417 
9,012 
Total cost of revenues ....................    15,463     15,772     16,039     13,822      13,574      13,851      13,839      12,429 
Gross profit ...............................................    20,142     18,472     17,218     14,241      14,934      14,066      12,220      12,058 
Operating Expenses:

3,521     

2,437     

4,159    

3,614     

3,118    

3,333    

9,332    

7,762    

8,393    

Research and development ..................   
8,934    
Sales and marketing.............................    10,258     10,739     11,608    
8,096     11,668    
General and administrative ..................   

5,284 
7,707 
6,720 
Total operating expenses................    27,352     27,228     32,210     21,894      22,600      22,581      21,126      19,711 
(7,653)
(1)
57
(7,709)
90 
(7,799)

(8,756)    (14,992)   
1,380    
1,442    
228    
3    
(8,565)    (10,201)    (16,600)   
(4,110)   
(9,022)    (10,435)    (12,490)   

Loss from operations.................................   
Interest (income) expense, net ..................   
Other (income) expenses, net....................   
Loss before income taxes ..........................   
Provision (benefit) for income taxes .........   
Net loss......................................................   

(8,906)    
(13)    
(12)    
(8,881)    
29     
(8,910)    

(8,515)    
(14)    
(22)    
(8,479)    
167     
(8,646)    

(7,666)    
(22)    
63     
(7,707)    
49     
(7,756)    

(7,653)    
(33)    
(154)    
(7,466)    
134     
(7,600)    

(7,210)   
1,370    
(15)   

6,175     
8,307     
6,644     

6,190     
7,982     
8,409     

6,057     
8,265     
8,278     

5,975     
8,734     
7,185     

234    

457    

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our  principal  sources  of  liquidity  are  our  cash  and  cash  equivalents.  As  of  September 30,  2017,  we  had  cash  and  cash

equivalents of $57.6 million. 

We expect that our operating losses will continue through at least the foreseeable future. Based on our future expectations and
historical usage, we believe our current cash and cash equivalents are sufficient to meet our operating needs for at least the next 12 
months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including our rate of revenue growth, the expansion of our sales
and  marketing  activities,  and  the  timing  and  extent  of  spending  to  support  research  and  development  efforts  and  expansion  of  our 
business  and  capital  expenditures  for  the  purchase  of  computer  hardware  and  software.  To  the  extent  that  existing  cash  and  cash
equivalents and cash from operations are insufficient to fund our future activities, we may elect to raise additional capital through the 
sale  of  additional  equity  or  debt  securities,  obtain  a  credit  facility  or  sell  certain  assets.  If  additional  funds  are  raised  through  the 
issuance of debt securities, these securities could have rights, preferences and privileges senior to holders of common stock, and terms 
of  any  debt  could  impose  restrictions  on  our  operations.  The  sale  of  additional  equity  or  convertible  debt  securities  could  result  in 
additional dilution to our stockholders and additional financing may not be available in amounts or on terms acceptable to us. We may 
also  seek  to  invest  in  or  acquire  complementary  businesses  or  technologies,  any  of  which  could  also  require  us  to  seek  additional 
equity or debt financing. Additional funds may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all. 

t
t

r

Term Loan

In January 2017, we entered into a financing agreement pursuant to which we borrowed an aggregate principal amount of $50

million, which was used to fund part of the cash portion of the Revitas acquisition.

The term loan will bear interest at a rate of either (i) the Base Rate (as defined in the Financing Agreement) plus 9.25% or (ii) 
the  LIBOR  Rate  (as  defined  in  the  Financing  Agreement)  plus  8.25%,  as  selected  by  us.  As  of  September  30,  2017,  the  Company 
selected  LIBOR  Rate  plus  8.25%.  The  term  loans  mature  on  January  5,  2022.  We  must  repay  0.625%  of  the  aggregate  principal 
amount, or $312,500, of the term loans on the last business day of each fiscal quarter, beginning with the fiscal quarter ending March 
31, 2019. We may voluntarily prepay the terms loans, subject to a 3% premium for 24 months and 1% premium after 24 months and 
prior  to  36  months.  Certain  mandatory  prepayments  are  required  upon  the  sale  of  certain  assets,  the  receipt  of  certain  insurance  or 
condemnation proceeds or extraordinary receipts, the issuance of certain securities or debt, the occurrence of excess cash flows and 
the occurrence of certain restrictions on the business of the combined company or certain divestitures.

The Financing Agreement requires us to maintain certain financial covenants, including achieving certain levels of revenue from
specified sources, as outlined in the agreement, and maintaining cash and cash-equivalents of $20.0 million net of accounts payable in 
excess of $0.5 million 90 days overdue. The financing agreement also contains certain non-financial covenants, including restricting 
our ability to dispose of assets, changing our organizational documents or amending our material agreements in a manner adverse to 
the  lender,  changing  a  method  of  accounting,  merging  with  or  acquiring  other  entities,  incurring  other  indebtedness  and  making 
certain  investments.  We  were  in  compliance  with  all  of  the  covenants  described  in  the  Financing  Agreement  as  of  September  30, 
2017.

Our  subsidiary  guarantors  have  jointly  and  severally  guaranteed  the  payment  in  full  of  all  obligations  under  the  Financing
Agreement. Our and our subsidiary guarantor obligations under the financing agreement are secured by substantially all of our and 
their assets and a pledge of certain of our and their subsidiaries’ stock.

Cash Flows

Cash flows used in operating activities..................   $
Cash flows used in investing activities ..................    
Cash flows provided by financing activities..........    

(11,965)  $
(48,501)   
51,866     

(12,324)  $
(15,789)   
3,279     

(8,772)
(4,606)
3,450

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

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Cash Flows from Operating Activities

Net cash used in operating activities during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 was primarily the result of our net loss of 
$39.5 million and an $11.9 million change in operating assets and liabilities, partially offset by $15.7 million of non-cash adjustments
of  deferred  income  taxes  benefits,  stock-based  compensation  and  depreciation  and  amortization.  The  $11.9  million  net  change  in 
operating assets and liabilities consisted of a $1.4 million decrease in accounts receivable, primarily reflective of collections in excess
of invoicing during the period, a $2.1 million decrease in prepaid expense and other assets , a $1.5 million decrease in deferred cost of 
implementation  services,  an  $5.8  million  increase  in  deferred  revenue  primarily  due  to  timing  of  amount  invoiced  and  revenue 
recognized,  a  $2.6  million  increase  in  accrued  employee  compensation  primarily  due  to  accrual  of  bonuses  and  other  employee 
benefits,  and a $1.6 million decrease in accounts payable.

d

Net  cash  used  in  operating  activities  was  $12.3  million  during  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2016,  and  was  primarily  the 
result of our net loss of $33.1 million and $1.6 million change in operating assets and liabilities, partially offset by $19.1 million of 
non-cash adjustments comprised of $13.1 million in stock-based compensation, $6.0 million in depreciation and amortization and $0.2 
million in other non-cash charges. The net change in operating assets and liabilities consisted of a $2.9 million increase in accounts
receivable  primarily  reflective  of  invoicing  in  excess  of  collection  during  the  year, a  $1.0  million  increase  in  deferred  cost 
fof 
due  to  timing  of  amount  invoiced  and  revenue
implementation  services, 
a  $5.9  million  increase  in  deferred  revenue  primarily due  to  timing  of  amount  invoiced  and  revenue
recognized, a $1.5 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets, a $1.5 million increase in accounts payable, a $0.7 m
illion
decrease  in  accrued  employee  compensation  primarily  due  to  payment  of  bonuses  and  other  employee  benefits  and  a  $0.3  million
n 
increase in other accrued and long term liabilities.

Net cash used in operating activities was $8.8 million during fiscal year ended September 30, 2015, and was primarily the result 
of our net loss of $19.6 million and a $3.8 million change in operating assets and liabilities, partially offset by a $14.7 million of non-
cash adjustments comprised of $10.4 million in stock-based compensation and $4.1 million in depreciation and amortization. The net 
change  in  operating  assets  and  liabilities  consisted  of  a  $2.6  million  decrease  in  deferred  revenue  associated  with  arrangements  for 
which revenues were deferred at the outset of the arrangements, a $0.9 million increase in accounts receivables, primarily reflective of 
higher invoicing in fourth quarter of 2015, a $0.5 million increase in deferred cost of implementation services and an increase of $1.2 
million in prepaid expenses and other assets. These were partially offset by increase of $1.0 million in other accrued and long term 
liabilities and $0.5 million increase in accounts payable which primarily due to the timing of accruals and payments made.

Cash Flows from Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities for fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 was primarily due to $47.8 million net cash paid
Net cash used in investing activities for fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 was primarily due to $47.8 million net cash paid
erty and
d 

for the acquisition of Revitas, $0.4 million associated with capitalization of software development costs and purchases of prop
equipment of $0.4 million.

Net  cash  used  in  investing  activities  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2016  was  primarily  due  to cash  paid  for  the 
Net  cash  used  in  investing  activities  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2016  was  primarily  due  to cash  paid  for  the
ases of 
f

acquisition of a business of $12.6 million, $1.1 million associated with capitalization of software development costs and purch
pproperty and equipment of $2.1 million.

Net cash used in investing activities for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2015 was primarily due to purchases of property 

and equipment of $2.1 million and $2.5 million associated with capitalization of software development costs.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

Net  cash  provided  by  financing  activities  for  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2017  was  primarily  related  to  our  borrowing
Net  cash  provided  by  financing  activities  for  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2017  was  primarily  related  to  our  borrowing
activities related to the Revitas transaction, for which we received net cash proceeds of $47.9 million during fiscal 2017, as well as
$4.0 million from the exercises of stock options and purchase made under our employee stock purchase plan.

NNet cash provided by financing activities for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016 was from the exercises of stock options

and purchases made under our employee stock purchase plan.

Net cash provided by financing activities for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2015 primarily consisted of $3.5 million from

exercises of stock options and purchases made under ESPP.

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Contractual Obligations 

The following summarizes our contractual obligations as of September 30, 2017: 

Operating lease obligations(1) ......................  $

4,300    $

1,600    $

1,700    $

1,000    $

—

Total

Contractual Payment Obligations Due by Period
3 to 5
1 to 3
Years
Years

Less than
1 Year

More than 5
Years

(1)

Operating lease obligations represent our obligations to make payments under the lease agreements for our facilities leases.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements 

As  of  September 30,  2017,  we  did  not  have  any  relationships  with  unconsolidated  entities  or  financial  partnerships,  such  as
entities  often  referred  to  as  structured  finance  or  special  purpose  entities,  which  would  have  been  established  for  the  purpose  of 
facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates 

Our  consolidated  financial  statements  have  been  prepared  in  conformity  with  generally  accepted  accounting  principles  in  the 
United States (“U.S. GAAP”). The preparation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP
requires  our  management  to  make  certain  estimates  and  assumptions  that  affect  the  amounts  of  assets  and  liabilities  reported 
disclosures  about  contingent  assets  and  liabilities  and  reported  amounts  of  revenues  and  expenses  during  the  reporting  periods.
Significant items subject to such estimates include revenue recognition, legal contingencies, income taxes, stock-based compensation, 
and  valuation  of  goodwill  and  intangibles.  These  estimates  and  assumptions  are  based  on  our  management’s  best  estimates  and 
judgment.  Our  management  regularly  evaluates  these  estimates  and  assumptions  using  historical  experience  and  other  factors;
however, actual results could differ significantly from these estimates. 

We  believe  that  the  assumptions  and  estimates  associated  with  revenue  recognition,  share-based  compensation,  business 
combinations  and  income  taxes  have  the  greatest  potential  impact  on  our  consolidated  financial  statements.  Therefore,  we  consider 
these to be our critical accounting policies and estimates. Accordingly, we believe these are the most critical to fully understand and 
evaluate our financial condition and results of operations. 

Revenue recognition

We generate revenue from two sources: License and implementation and SaaS and maintenance. 

License  and  implementation  revenues  include  revenues  from  the  sale  of  perpetual  software  licenses  for  our  solutions  and  the
related implementation services. 
es
from customers accessing our cloud-based solutions and revenues associated with maintenance and support contracts from customers
using on-premise solutions. Also included in SaaS and maintenance revenues are other revenues, such as managed support services, 
training and customer-reimbursed expenses. We commence revenue recognition when all of the following conditions are satisfied: 

SaaS and maintenance revenues primarily include subscription and the related implementation fe

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there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists,

delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, 

the price is fixed or determinable and 

the collection of the fees is probable or reasonably estimable. 

However, determining whether and when some of these criteria have been satisfied often involves assumptions and judgments 

that can have a significant impact on the timing and amount of revenues we report.

License  and  implementation  revenue  is  recognized  based  on  the  nature  and  scope  of  the  implementation  services,  we  have
concluded that generally the implementation services are essential to our customers’ use of the on-premise solutions, and therefore, we 
recognize  revenues  from  the  sale  of  software  licenses  for  our  on-premise  solutions  and  the  related  implementation  services  on  a
a
percentage-of-completion  basis  over  the  expected  implementation  period  which  is  estimated  at  a  few  months  to  three  years.  The 
percentage-of-completion  basis  over  the  expected  implementation  period  which  is  estimated  at  a  few  months  to  three  years.  The
percentage-of-completion  computation  is  measured  as  the  hours  expended  on  the  implementation  during  the  reporting  period  as  a 
percentage-of-completion  computation  is  measured  as  the  hours  expended  on  the  implementation  during  the  reporting  period  as  a
ppercentage of the total estimated hours needed to complete the implementation.

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For SaaS arrangements related to Revenue Cloud for Life Science and High Tech companies we historically concluded that the 
SaaS  deliverable  did  not  have  standalone  value  without  the  implementation  services  primarily  because  other  vendors  could  not 
perform  the  services,  and  in  some  cases  the  complexity  of  the  customer  environment  in  which  the  SaaS  deliverable  was  deployed. 
During  fiscal  year  2016,  we  concluded  that  a  sufficient  number  of  implementation  projects  had  been  completed  with  several  third-
party consulting companies participating in either a primary or sub-contractor role, such that the third-party vendors have the requisite
know-how to complete, and, have completed the implementation services independently. Therefore, the Company concluded that the 
SaaS deliverable has standalone value to the customer without the implementation services.  The total arrangement fee for a multiple-
element  arrangement  is  allocated  based  on  the  relative  selling  price  method.  The  consideration  allocated  to  subscription  fees  is 
recognized  as  revenue  ratably  over  the  contract  period.  The  consideration  allocated  to  implementation  services  is  recognized  as
revenue as services are performed, in accordance with the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting 
Standards  Update  (ASU)  No.  2009-13,  Revenue  Recognition  (Accounting  Standards  Codification  (ASC)  Topic  605)—Multiple-
Deliverable Revenue Arrangements.”

Prior to fiscal year 2016, for SaaS arrangements related to Revenue Cloud for Life Science and High Tech companies we treated 
the  entire  arrangement  consideration,  including  subscription  fees  and  related  implementation  services  fees,  as  a  single  unit  of
accounting  and  recognized  the  revenues  ratably  beginning  the  day  the  customer  was  provided  access  to  the  subscription  service
through the end of contractual period. 

For the remaining SaaS arrangements subscription fees and implementation services continue to have standalone value and we 
allocate revenue to each element in the arrangement based on a selling price hierarchy. The selling price for a deliverable is based on
its vendor-specific objective evidence (VSOE), if available, third-party evidence (TPE), if VSOE is not available, or best estimated 
selling price (BESP), if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. For SaaS arrangements, where we utilize BESP, we established the BESP 
for  each  element  by  considering  specific  factors  such  as  existing  pricing  and  discounting.  The  total  arrangement  fee  for  a  multiple
element  arrangement  is  allocated  based  on  the  relative  BESP  of  each  element.  The  consideration  allocated  to  subscription  fees  is
recognized as revenue ratably over the contract period. The consideration allocated to services is recognized as revenue as services are 
performed.

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For SaaS arrangements, where we utilize BESP, we established the BESP for each element by considering specific factors such 
as existing pricing and discounting. The total arrangement fee for a multiple element arrangement is allocated based on the relative
BESP of each element. The consideration allocated to subscription fees is recognized as revenue ratably over the contract period. The 
consideration allocated to services is recognized as revenue as services are performed.

Revenue related to up-front fees are deferred and recognized ratably over the estimated period that the customer benefits from

the related service. 

Maintenance  and  support  revenue  include  post-contract  customer  support  and  the  right  to  unspecified  software  updates  and 
enhancements on a when and if available basis. Managed support services revenue includes supporting, managing and administering
our  software  solutions,  and  providing  additional  end  user  support.  Maintenance  and  support  revenue  and  managed  support  services
revenue  are  recognized  ratably  over  the  period  in  which  the  services  are  provided.  The  revenue  from  training  and  customer-
reimbursed expenses is recognized as we deliver services.

Arrangements  that  include  term-based  licenses  for  current  products  with  the  right  to  use  unspecified  future  versions  of  the 
software  during  the  coverage  period,  are  also  accounted  for  as  subscriptions,  with  revenue  recognized  ratably  over  the  coverage
period.

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Stock-based compensation

We  recognize  compensation  expense  for  stock  option,  restricted  stock  units,  employee  stock  purchase  plan  (“ESPP”)  and 
performance based restricted stock units. We use the Black-Scholes-Merton valuation model to estimate the fair value of stock option 
awards and ESPP shares. However, we have not granted stock options since fiscal year 2013. The fair value of restricted stock units is
determined based on the intrinsic value of the award on the grant date. Our performance share unit grants included market condition
performance criteria so we used a Monte Carlo simulation model to determine their fair value on the grant date. The fair value of these 
grants with a market condition is recognized using the graded-vesting attribution method over the requisite service period. The Monte-
Carlo  simulation  model  takes  into  account  the  same  input  assumptions  as  the  Black-Scholes  model;  however,  it  also  further 
incorporates into the fair value determination the possibility that the performance criteria may not be satisfied. The weighted-average 
assumptions used to estimate the fair values of these awards were determined using the following assumptions:

Risk-free interest rate .................................................................. 
Dividend yield .............................................................................  
Volatility...................................................................................... 

Fiscal Year Ended
September 30, 2017 
0.63 - 1.45% 
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32 - 45%

Changes  in  the  estimates  used  to  determine  the  fair  value  of  share-based  equity  compensation  instruments  could  result  in

changes to our compensation charges.

Business Combinations

We use all available information to estimate fair values. We typically engage outside appraisal firms to assist in the fair value 
determination  of  identifiable  assets  such  as  customer  contracts  and  any  other  significant  assets  or  liabilities  and  contingent 
consideration. We adjust the preliminary purchase price allocation, as necessary, up to one year after the acquisition closing date if we 
obtain more information regarding asset valuation and liabilities assumed.

Our purchase price allocation methodology contains uncertainties because it requires assumptions and management’s judgment 
to  estimate  the  fair  value  of  assets  acquired  and  liabilities  assumed  at  the  acquisition  date.  Management  estimates  the  fair  value  of 
assets  and  liabilities  based  upon  quoted  market  prices,  the  carrying  value  of  the  acquired  assets  and  widely  accepted  valuation
techniques,  including  discounted  cash  flows  and  market  multiple  analyses.  Our  estimates  are  inherently  uncertain  and  subject  to
refinement. Unanticipated events or circumstances may occur which could affect the accuracy of our fair value estimates, including
assumptions regarding industry economic factors and business strategies.

During the last three years, we have completed two business combinations, including the Revitas acquisition in January 2017
and the Channelinsight acquisition in October 2015. We do not believe there is a reasonable likelihood that there will be a material 
change in the estimates or assumptions we used for the purchase price allocations and the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities
assumed. However, if actual results are not consistent with our estimates or assumptions, we may be exposed to losses that could be 
material.

a

Income Taxes

We account for income taxes in accordance with the FASB ASC No. 740—Accounting for Income Taxes 

(ASC 740). We make 
certain estimates and judgments in determining income tax expense for financial statement purposes. These estimates and judgments
occur in the calculation of tax credits, tax benefits and deductions and in the calculation of certain tax assets and liabilities, which arise
from differences in the timing of recognition of revenue and expense for tax and financial statement purposes. Significant changes to
these estimates may result in an increase or decrease to our tax provision in the subsequent period when such a change in estimate 
occurs.   

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We regularly assess the likelihood that our deferred income tax assets will be realized from future taxable income based on the
realization criteria set forth in ASC 740. To the extent that we believe any amounts are not more likely than not to be realized, we 
record a valuation allowance to reduce the deferred income tax assets. In assessing the need for a valuation allowance, we consider all 
available evidence, including past operating results, estimates of future taxable income and the feasibility of tax planning strategies. In 
the event we determine that all or part of the net deferred tax assets are not realizable in the future, an adjustment to the valuation 
allowance  would  be  charged  to  earnings  in  the  period  such  determination  is  made.  Similarly,  if  we  subsequently  realize  deferred
income tax assets that were previously determined to be unrealizable, the respective valuation allowance would be reversed, resulting
in an adjustment to earnings in the period such determination is made.

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As of September 30, 2017, we had gross deferred income tax assets, related primarily to net operating loss (NOL) carry forward,
deferred  revenues,  stock  compensation,  accruals  and  reserves  that  are  not  currently  deductible,  depreciation  and  amortization  and 
research and development tax credits of $92.5 million, which have been fully offset by deferred tax liabilities and valuation allowance.
Utilization  of  these  net  loss  carry  forwards  is  subject  to  the  limitations  of  IRC  Section  382.  During  the  year  ended  September  30, 
2013,  we  undertook  a  study  of  NOL  carry  forwards  and  determined  that  most  of  the  NOLs  carry  forwards  are  not  subject  to  the
limitations of IRC Section 382. However, in the future, some portion or all of these carry forwards may not be available to offset any 
future taxable income. The federal and California net operating losses will begin expiring in 2021 and 2018, respectively.

ff

In the second quarter, as a result of acquiring Revitas, we recorded an income tax benefit of $4.2 million due to a partial release

of valuation allowance.  

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In  May  2017, 

  issued  ASU  2017-09,  Compensation-Stock  Compensation
the  Financial  Accounting  Standard  Board  (“FASB”)  issued  ASU  2017-09,  Compensation-Stock  Compensation
(Topic 718): providing clarification on when modification accounting should be used for changes to the terms or conditions of a share-
bbased payment award. This ASU does not change the accounting for modifications but clarifies that modification accounting guidance
should only be applied if there is a change to the value, vesting conditions or award classification and would not be required 
if the
changes are considered non-substantive. The amendments of this ASU are effective for reporting periods beginning after December
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15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard, but does not believe this
will have material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

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In  January  2017,  the  FASB  issued  ASU  2017-04, Intangibles—Goodwill  and  Other  (Topic  350):   Simplifying  the  Test  for 
Goodwill  Impairment.  This  new  accounting  standard  update simplifies  the  measurement  of  goodwill  by  eliminating  the  Step  two 
impairment  test.  Step  two  measures  a  goodwill  impairment  loss  by  comparing  the  implied  fair  value  of  goodwill  with  the  carrying
amount of that goodwill.  The new guidance requires a comparison of our fair value of with carrying amount and we are required to 
recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value. Additionally, we should consider 
income  tax  effects  from  any  tax  deductible  goodwill  on  the  carrying  amount  when  measuring  the  goodwill  impairment  loss,  if 
applicable.  The  new  guidance  becomes  effective  for goodwill  impairment  tests  in  fiscal  years  beginning  after December  15,  2019, 
though  early  adoption  is  permitted. The  Company  is  currently  evaluating  the  impact  this  standard  will  have  on  its  consolidated 
evaluating  the  impact  this  standard  will  have  on  its  consolidated
financial statements.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, Business Combination (Topic 805):

clarifying the definition of a business. The
amendments in this guidance change the definition of a business to assist with evaluating when a set of transferred assets and 
activities
is a business. The guidance becomes effective for the Company at the beginning of its first quarter of fiscal 2019. Early adoption is
ppermitted. We are currently evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, Restricted Cash (Topic 230), clarifying the classification and presentation 
of restricted cash in the statement of cash flows. The standard requires that restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents are included 
in the cash and cash equivalent balance in the statement of cash flows. Further, reconciliation between the balance sheet and statement 
of  cash  flows  is  required  when  the  balance  sheet  includes  more  than  one  line  item  for  cash,  cash  equivalents,  restricted  cash,  and 
restricted  cash  equivalents.  Therefore,  transfers  between  these  balances  should  no  longer  be  presented  as  a  cash  flow  activity.  The 
guidance becomes effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017, with
early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, statement of cash flow (topic 230), amended the existing accounting standards 
for the statement of cash flows. The amendments provide guidance on how companies present and classify certain cash receipts and 
cash payments in the statement of cash flows. The guidance becomes effective for the Company at the beginning of its first quarter of 
fiscal 2019. Early adoption is permitted, including adoption in an interim period. We are currently evaluating the impact this standard 
will have on its consolidated financial statements.

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In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, guidance related to stock-based compensation, which includes the income tax
consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash. The guidance becomes
e currently 
effective for the Company at the beginning of its first quarter of fiscal 2018 but permits adoption in an earlier period. We ar
evaluating the impact this standard, but does not believe this will have material impact on its  consolidated financial statements.

the Company

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In  February  2016,  the  FASB  issued  ASU  2016-02,  guidance  on  the  recognition  and  measurement  of  leases.  Under  the  new 
guidance, lessees are required to recognize a lease liability, which represents the discounted obligation to make future minimum lease
payments, and a corresponding right-of-use asset on the balance sheet for most leases. The guidance retains the current accounting for 
lessors  and  does  not  make  significant  changes  to  the  recognition,  measurement,  and  presentation  of  expenses  and  cash  flows  by  a
lessee.  Enhanced  disclosures  will  also  be  required  to  give  financial  statement  users  the  ability  to  assess  the  amount,  timing  and 
uncertainty  of  cash  flows  arising  from  leases.  The  guidance  will  require  modified  retrospective  application  at  the  beginning  of the 
f
urrently 
Company’s
evaluating the impact this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.

 first quarter of fiscal 2020, with optional practical expedients, but permits adoption in an earlier period. We are c

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-15, “Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a
a
Going Concern” that requires management to evaluate whether there are conditions and events that raise substantial doubt about the 
Company’s  ability  to  continue  as  a  going  concern  within  one  year  after  the  financial  statements  are  issued  on  both  an  interim  a dnd 
annual basis. Management is required to provide certain footnote disclosures if it concludes that substantial doubt exists or when its
pplans alleviate substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The standard became effective to us in
the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017. The adoption of the standard had no material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In May 2014, the FASB issued a new standard, Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with 
Customers,  as  amended,  which  will  supersede  nearly  all  existing  revenue  recognition  guidance.  Under  ASU  2014-09,  an  entity  is
required  to  recognize  revenue  upon  transfer  of  promised  goods  or  services  to  customers  in  an  amount  that  reflects  the  expected 
consideration received in exchange for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09 defines a five-step process in order to achieve this core
principle, which may require the use of judgment and estimates, and also requires expanded qualitative and quantitative disclosures
relating  to  the  nature,  amount,  timing  and  uncertainty  of  revenue  and  cash  flows  arising  from  contracts  with  customers,  including 
significant judgments and estimates used.

The FASB has issued several amendments to the new standard, including clarification on accounting for licenses of intellectual
property and identifying performance obligations. The amendments include ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers 
(Topic 606)—Principal versus Agent Considerations, which was issued in March 2016, and clarifies the implementation guidance for 
principal  versus  agent  considerations  in  ASU  2014-09,  and  ASU  2016-10,  Revenue  from  Contracts  with  Customers  (Topic  606)—
Identifying  Performance  Obligations  and  Licensing,  which  was  issued  in  April  2016,  and  amends  the  guidance  in  ASU  2014-09 
related to identifying performance obligations and accounting for licenses of intellectual property. 

The  new  standard  permits  adoption  either  by  using  (i)  a  full  retrospective  approach  for  all  periods  presented  in  the  period  of 
adoption or (ii) a modified retrospective approach with the cumulative effect of initially applying the new standard recognized at the 
date  of  initial  application  and  providing  certain  additional  disclosures.  The  new  standard  is  effective  for  annual  reporting  periods
beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016.
We do not plan to early adopt, and accordingly, we will adopt the new standard effective October 1, 2018. We currently anticipate
adopting the standard using the modified retrospective method.

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We have identified, and are in the process of implementing, appropriate changes to our business processes, systems and controls
to support recognition and disclosure under the new standard. Based on our ongoing evaluation, we believe the impacts of this ASU 
will  be  related  to  the  capitalization  and  amortization  of  sales  commissions,  the  timing  of  revenue  recognition  for  certain  sales
contracts, and their respective disclosures.   There will be changes to the capitalization of the sales commission and the period over 
which sales commissions will be amortized to align to an expected period of benefit, which sales commission is currently expensed as
incurred.  In addition, there will be a change in relation to the timing of revenue recognition for certain sales contracts, due primarily 
to the removal of the current limitation on contingent revenue. These changes are being evaluated to determine the potential impact to 
our financial statements and disclosures. While we continue to assess the potential impacts of the new standard, including the areas 
described above, our preliminary conclusions may change.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measure 

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA is a financial measure that is not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in 
U.S.  GAAP.  We  define  adjusted  EBITDA  as  net  loss  before  items  discussed  below,  including:  stock-based  compensation  expense, 
depreciation and amortization, acquisition and integration related expense, deferred revenue adjustment related to the acquisition of 
Revitas, interest (income) expenses, net, other (income) expenses, net, certain legal expenses and provision (benefit) for income taxes.
We  believe  adjusted  EBITDA  provides  investors  with  consistency  and  comparability  with  our  past  financial  performance  and 
facilitates  period-to-period  comparisons  of  our  operating  results  and  our  competitors’  operating  results.  We  also  use  this  measure 
internally to establish budgets and operational goals to manage our business and evaluate our performance.

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We understand that, although adjusted EBITDA is frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluations of 
companies, adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and it should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for 
analysis of our results of operations as reported under U.S. GAAP. These limitations include: 

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adjusted  EBITDA  does  not  include  deferred  revenue  adjustment,  integration,  and  expense  related  LeapFrogRx, 
Channelinsight and Revitas acquisition;

adjusted EBITDA does not reflect stock-based compensation expense;

depreciation  and  amortization  are  non-cash  charges,  and  the  assets  being  depreciated  or  amortized  will  often  have  to  be 
replaced in the future; adjusted EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for these replacements; 

adjusted EBITDA does not reflect legal expense related to class action lawsuits;

adjusted  EBITDA  does  not  reflect  cash  requirements  for  income  taxes  and  the  cash  impact  of  interest  income  and  other 
income or expense; and 

other  companies  in  our  industry  may  calculate  adjusted  EBITDA  differently  than  we  do,  limiting  its  usefulness  as  a 
comparative measure. 

Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA:
Net loss..............................................................  $
Adjustments:

Stock-based compensation expense............. 
Depreciation and amortization..................... 
Deferred revenue adjustments ..................... 
Acquisition and integration related
   expense ..................................................... 
Interest (income) expense, net ..................... 
Other (income) expenses, net ...................... 
Legal expenses............................................. 
Provision for income taxes .......................... 
Adjusted EBITDA.............................................  $

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

(39,547)  $

(33,111) 

(19,639)

10,560   
8,185   
5,151   

6,446   
4,159   
62   
—   
(3,285) 
(8,269)  $

13,068   
5,929   
—   

867   
(50) 
86   
305   
335   
(12,571)  $

10,355
4,076 
— 

91
(6)
(22)
1,285
528 
(3,332)

Adjusted EBITDA was $(8.3) million, $(12.6) million and $(3.3) million for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016
and 2015, respectively. The decrease in our adjusted EBITDA loss for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 as compared to fiscal 
year ended September 30, 2016, primarily due to an increase in our revenues for our SaaS and maintenance business as we acquired 
new customers, Revitas acquisition and synergies associated with the acquisition. .

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Item 7A.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk 

We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact 
our financial position due to adverse changes in financial market prices and rates. Our market risk exposure is primarily a result of 
fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates. We do not hold or issue financial instruments for trading purposes.

Interest Rate Sensitivity

Our exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to our cash and cash equivalents, which bear interest at 
a fixed interest rate. Our primary exposure to market risk is interest income and expense sensitivity, which is affected by changes in
the general level of the interest rates in the United States. However, because of the short-term nature of our interest-bearing securities,
a  10%  change  in  market  interest  rates  would  not  be  expected  to  have  a  material  impact  on  our  consolidated  financial  condition  or 
results of operations. In addition, as of September 30, 2017, we had approximately $57.2 million, respectively, in short-term and long-
term debt with variable interest components. With respect to our interest expense for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017, a 10% 
hypothetical change in interest rates would have resulted in an increase of $0.5 million, respectively, in our interest expense for such 
period.

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk 

Our  customers  typically  pay  us  in  U.S.  dollars;  however,  in  foreign  jurisdictions,  our  expenses  are  typically  denominated  in 
local currency. Our expenses and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly 
changes in the Indian Rupee. The volatility of exchange rates depends on many factors that we cannot forecast with reliable accuracy. 
To  date,  we  have  not  entered  into  foreign  currency  hedging  contracts,  but  may  consider  entering  into  such  contracts  in  the  future. 
During fiscal 2017, the effect of a hypothetical 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates applicable to our business would have
had an impact of approximately $1.7 million on our Consolidated Financial Statements. As our international operations grow, we will 
continue to reassess our approach to manage our risk relating to fluctuations in currency rates. 

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Item 8.

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

MODEL N, INC.

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm .............................................................................................................

Consolidated Balance Sheets ............................................................................................................................................................

Consolidated Statements of Operations ............................................................................................................................................

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss ............................................................................................................................

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity ...........................................................................................................................

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows ...........................................................................................................................................

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.....................................................................................................................................

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The supplementary financial information required by this Item 8 is included in Item 7 under the caption “Quarterly Results of 
Operations (Unaudited)”.

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM 

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Model N, Inc.: 

In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive 
loss,  stockholders’  equity  and  cash  flows  present  fairly,  in  all  material  respects,  the  financial  position  of  Model  N,  Inc.  and itsd
subsidiaries as of September 30, 2017 and 2016, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in
the period ended September 30, 2017 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In 
addition, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule listed in the index appearing under Item 15 presents fairly, in all material 
respects, the information set forth therein when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements. These financial 
statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial 
statements  in  accordance  with  the  standards  of  the  Public  Company  Accounting  Oversight  Board  (United States).  Those  standards
require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material 
misstatement.  An  audit  includes  examining,  on  a  test  basis,  evidence  supporting  the  amounts  and  disclosures  in  the  financial 
statements,  assessing  the  accounting  principles  used  and  significant  estimates  made  by  management,  and  evaluating  the  overall 
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. 

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

San Jose, California
November 15, 2017 

53

MODEL N, INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except per share data)

Assets
Current assets:

Cash and cash equivalents ................................................................................................  $
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $85 and $0 at
   September 30, 2017 and 2016........................................................................................ 
Deferred cost of implementation services, current portion............................................... 
Prepaid expenses............................................................................................................... 
Other current assets........................................................................................................... 
Total current assets...................................................................................................... 
Property and equipment, net................................................................................................... 
Goodwill................................................................................................................................. 
Intangible assets, net .............................................................................................................. 
Other assets ............................................................................................................................ 
Total assets .............................................................................................................................  $
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
Current liabilities:

Accounts payable.............................................................................................................. $
Accrued employee compensation ..................................................................................... 
Accrued liabilities ............................................................................................................. 
Deferred revenue, current portion..................................................................................... 
Short-term debt ................................................................................................................. 
Total current liabilities ................................................................................................ 
Deferred revenue, net of current portion ................................................................................ 
Long-term debt ....................................................................................................................... 
Other long-term liabilities ...................................................................................................... 
Total liabilities............................................................................................................. 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)
Convertible preferred stock:

Convertible preferred stock, $0.0005 par value; no shares authorized, issued and
   outstanding at September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively........................................... 

Stockholders' equity:

Common Stock, $0.00015 par value; 200,000 shares authorized; 29,323 and 27,891
   shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016,
   respectively .................................................................................................................... 
Preferred Stock, $0.00015 par value; 5,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and
   outstanding..................................................................................................................... 
Additional paid-in capital ................................................................................................. 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss ........................................................................... 
Accumulated deficit.......................................................................................................... 
Total stockholders' equity............................................................................................ 

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity................................................................................  $

As of September 30,

2017

2016

57,558    $

66,149 

24,784   
493   
3,733   
520   
87,088   
4,611   
39,283   
40,156   
798   
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4,979   
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4,753   
76,916   
227 
52,452   
1,080   
130,675   

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1,924 
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(562)
(135,746)
66,202 
112,967

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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MODEL N, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except per share data)

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016

2015

Revenues:

License and implementation.................................................................  $
SaaS and maintenance .......................................................................... 
Total revenues ................................................................................. 

23,114    $

108,055   
131,169   

20,579    $
86,392   
106,971   

Cost of revenues:

License and implementation................................................................. 
SaaS and maintenance .......................................................................... 
Total cost of revenues ..................................................................... 
Gross profit ................................................................................................ 
Operating expenses:

Research and development ................................................................... 
Sales and marketing.............................................................................. 
General and administrative................................................................... 
Total operating expenses................................................................. 
Loss from operations.................................................................................. 
Interest expense (income), net ................................................................... 
Other expenses (income), net..................................................................... 
Loss before income taxes........................................................................... 
(Benefit) provision for income taxes ......................................................... 
Net loss.......................................................................................................  $
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders:

14,224   
46,872   
61,096   
70,073   

31,064   
41,339   
36,281   
108,684   
(38,611)  
4,159   
62   
(42,832)  
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(39,547)   $

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40,717   
53,693   
53,278   

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32,261   
30,051   
86,018   
(32,740)  
(50)  
86   
(32,776)  
335   
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57,596 
93,768 

15,555 
26,014 
41,569 
52,199 

17,906
30,300 
23,132 
71,338 
(19,139)
(6)
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(19,639)

Basic and diluted.............................................................................  $

(1.38)   $

(1.21)   $

(0.76)

Weighted average number of shares used in computing net loss per
   share attributable to common stockholders:

Basic and diluted............................................................................. 

28,649   

27,379   

26,015

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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MODEL N, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
(in thousands)

Net loss...............................................................................................................  $
Other comprehensive income (loss), net:

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016

2015

2017

(39,547)   $

(33,111)   $

(19,639)

Change in foreign currency translation adjustment......................................   
Total comprehensive loss........................................................................  $

60     
(39,487)   $

(96)    
(33,207)   $

(177)
(19,816)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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MODEL N, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)

Cash flows from operating activities:

Net loss.....................................................................................................................   $
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities

Depreciation and amortization............................................................................    
Stock-based compensation .................................................................................    
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs..............................................    
Deferred income taxes ........................................................................................    
Other non-cash charges ......................................................................................    
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of acquisition:

Accounts receivable ......................................................................................    
Prepaid expenses and other assets.................................................................    
Deferred cost of implementation services.....................................................    
Accounts payable ..........................................................................................    
Accrued employee compensation .................................................................    
Other accrued and long-term liabilities.........................................................    
Deferred revenue...........................................................................................    
Net cash used in operating activities .......................................................    

Cash flows from investing activities:

Purchases of property and equipment ......................................................................    
Acquisition of business, net of cash acquired ..........................................................    
Capitalization of software development costs .........................................................    
Net cash used in investing activities........................................................    

Cash flows from financing activities:

Proceeds from exercise of stock options and issuance of employee stock
   purchase plan.........................................................................................................    
Proceeds from term loan ..........................................................................................    
Debt issuance costs ..................................................................................................    
Net cash provided by financing activities................................................    
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents.....................................    
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents ....................................................................    
Cash and cash equivalents

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016

2015

2017

(39,547)   $

(33,111)   $

(19,639)

8,185   
10,560   
683   
(3,952)  
216   

1,420   
2,117   
1,502   
(1,558)  
2,626   
13   
5,770   
(11,965)    

(359)  
(47,773)  
(369)  
(48,501)    

3,986   
48,686   
(806)  

51,866 

9   
(8,591)  

5,929   
13,068   
—   
172   
(94)  

(2,850)  
(1,458)  
(996)  
1,494   
(677)  
253   
5,946   
(12,324)    

(2,102)  
(12,615)  
(1,072)  
(15,789)    

3,279   
—   
—   

3,279 

(36)  
(24,870)  

4,076 
10,355 
—
33 
194 

(925)
(1,218)
(518)
457 
(16)
976 
(2,547)
(8,772)

(2,075)
— 
(2,531)
(4,606)

3,450 
— 
— 
3,450
(59)
(9,987)

Beginning of period .................................................................................................    
End of period............................................................................................................   $

66,149   
57,558 

  $

91,019   
66,149 

  $

101,006 
91,019 

Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Data:

Cash paid for income taxes ......................................................................................   $
Cash paid for interest ...............................................................................................    

  $

677 
3,462   

  $

233 
—   

Noncash Investing and Financing Activities:

Promissory notes issued for acquisition...................................................................   $
Capitalized stock options in software development costs........................................    

8,643 

—   

— 
—   

364 
— 

—
109

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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MODEL N, INC.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

1. The Company

Model  N,  Inc.  (Company)  was  incorporated  in  Delaware  on  December  14,  1999.  The  Company  is  a  provider  of  revenue 
management  solutions  for  the  life  sciences  and  technology  industries.  The  Company’s  solutions  enable  its  customers  to  maximize
revenues and reduce revenue compliance risk by transforming their revenue life cycle from a series of tactical, disjointed operations
into a strategic end-to-end process, which enables them to manage the strategy and execution of pricing, contracting, incentives and 
rebates.  The  Company’s  corporate  headquarters  are  located  in  San  Mateo,  California,  with  additional  offices  in  the  United  States,
India and Switzerland. 

Fiscal Year 

The Company’s fiscal year ends on September 30. References to fiscal year 2017, for example, refer to the fiscal year ended 

September 30, 2017. 

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Estimates

Basis for Presentation

The  Company’s  consolidated  financial  statements  and  accompanying  notes  are  prepared  in  accordance  with  accounting 
principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and include the accounts of the Company and its wholly 
owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated upon consolidation. The Company
has evaluated subsequent events through the date that the financial statements were issued.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to
make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts of assets and liabilities reported, disclosures about contingent assets
and liabilities, and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant items subject to such estimates
include revenue recognition, legal contingencies, income taxes, stock-based compensation and valuation of goodwill and intangibles.
These  estimates  and  assumptions  are  based  on  management’s  best  estimates  and  judgment.  Management  regularly  evaluates  its 
estimates and assumptions using historical experience and other factors; however, actual results could differ significantly from these 
estimates.

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Revenue Recognition

Revenues are comprised of license and implementation revenues and Software as a Service (“SaaS”) and maintenance revenues.

License and Implementation

License and implementation revenues include revenues from the sale of perpetual software licenses for the Company’s solutions
and the related implementation services. Based on the nature and scope of the implementation services, the Company has concludedd 
that generally the implementation services are essential to its customers’ use of the on-premise solutions, and therefore, the Company 
recognizes  revenues  from  the  sale  of  software  licenses  for  its  on-premise  solutions  and  the  related  implementation  services  on  a
ppercentage-of-completion basis over the expected implementation period. The Company estimates the length of this period based on a
number  of  factors,  including  the  number  of  licensed  applications  and  the  scope  and  complexity  of  the  customer’s  deployment
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requirements.  The  percentage-of-completion  computation  is  measured  as  the  hours  expended  on  the  implementation  during  the
reporting period as a percentage of the total estimated hours needed to complete the implementation.

SaaS and Maintenance

SaaS and maintenance revenues primarily include subscription and the related implementation fees from customers accessing 
the  Company’s  cloud-based  solutions  and  revenues  associated  with  maintenance  and  support  contracts  from  customers  using  on-
premise solutions. Also included in SaaS and maintenance revenues are other revenues, including revenues related to managed support 
services, training and customer-reimbursed expenses.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

The  Company  has  determined  that  its  subscriptions  have  standalone  value  without  the  implementation  services  and  allocates 
revenue to each deliverable in the arrangement based on a selling price hierarchy. The selling price for a deliverable is based on its
vendor-specific  objective  evidence  (VSOE),  if  available,  third-party  evidence  (TPE),  if  VSOE  is  not  available,  or  best  estimated 
selling  price  (BESP),  if  neither  VSOE  nor  TPE  are  available.  As  the  Company  has  been  unable  to  establish  VSOE  or  TPE  for  the
elements of its SaaS arrangements, the Company established the BESP for each element by considering company-specific factors such 
as existing pricing and discounting. The total arrangement fee for a multiple element arrangement is allocated based on the relative
selling  price  method,  taking  into  consideration  contingent  revenue  restraints.  The  consideration  allocated  to  subscription  fees  is
recognized  as  revenue  ratably  over  the  contract  period.  The  consideration  allocated  to  implementation  services  is  recognized  as
revenue as services are performed.

d

Prior  to  fiscal  year  2016,  for  SaaS  arrangements  related  to  Revenue  Cloud  for  Life  Science  and  High  Tech  companies  the
Company  treated  the  entire  arrangement  consideration,  including  subscription  fees  and  related  implementation  services  fees,  as  a
single unit of accounting and recognized the revenues ratably beginning the day the customer was provided access to the subscription 
service  through  the  end  of  contractual  period.  During  fiscal  year  2016,  the  Company  concluded  that  the  SaaS  deliverable  has 
standalone  value  to  the  customer  without  the  implementation  services,  primarily  due  to  the  number  of  third-party  consulting 
companies that have the know-how to be able to independently perform the implementation services.  

Revenue related to up-front fees are deferred and recognized ratably over the estimated period that the customer benefits from

the related service.

Maintenance  and  support  revenue  include  post-contract  customer  support  and  the  right  to  unspecified  software  updates  and 
enhancements on a when and if available basis. Managed support services revenue includes supporting, managing and administering
our  software  solutions,  and  providing  additional  end  user  support.  Maintenance  and  support  revenue  and  managed  support  services
revenue  are  recognized  ratably  over  the  period  in  which  the  services  are  provided.  The  revenue  from  training  and  customer-
reimbursed expenses is recognized as the Company delivers these services.

Arrangements  that  include  term-based  licenses  for  current  products  with  the  right  to  use  unspecified  future  versions  of  the 
software and maintenance and support during the coverage period, are also accounted for as subscriptions, with revenue recognized 
ratably over the coverage period.

Revenue Recognition

The  Company  commences  revenue  recognition  when  all  of  the  following  conditions  are  satisfied:  persuasive  evidence  of  an 
arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, the price is fixed or determinable and collection is probable 
or  reasonable  estimable.  However,  determining  whether  and  when  some  of  these  criteria  have  been  satisfied  often  involves 
assumptions and judgments that can have a significant impact on the timing and amount of revenues the Company reports.

For  multiple  software  element  arrangements,  the  Company  allocates  the  sales  price  among  each  of  the  deliverables  using  the 
residual  method,  under  which  revenue  is  allocated  to  undelivered  elements  based  on  their  VSOE  of  fair  value.  VSOE  is  the  price 
charged when an element is sold separately or a price set by management with the relevant authority. The Company has established 
VSOE for maintenance and support and training.

The Company does not offer any contractual rights of return or concessions. The Company’s implementation projects generally 
have  a  term  ranging  from  a  few  months  to  twelve  months   and  may  be  terminated  by  the  customer  at  any  time.  Should  a  loss  be 
anticipated on a contract, the full amount of the loss is recorded when the loss is determinable. The Company updates its estimates
regarding the completion of implementations based on changes to the expected contract value and revisions to its estimates of time 
required to complete each implementation project. Amounts that may be payable to customers to settle customer disputes are recorded 
as  a  reduction  in  revenues  or  reclassified  from  deferred  revenue  to  customer  payables  in  accrued  liabilities  and  other  long-termr
liabilities.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

Costs of Revenues

Cost of license and implementation revenues consists primarily of personnel-related costs including salary, bonus, stock-based 
compensation, third-party contractor costs and royalty fees paid to third parties for the right to intellectual property. Cost of SaaS and 
maintenance  revenues  consists  primarily  of  personnel-related  costs  including  salary,  customer  reimbursable  expense,  bonus,  stock-
based compensation, third party contractors, facility expense, amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense related to server 
equipment including capitalized software and data center-related expenses.

Deferred cost of implementation services consists of costs related to implementation services that were provided to the customer 
but the revenues for the services have not yet been recognized, provided however that the customer is contractually required to pay for 
the services. These costs primarily consist of personnel costs. As of September 30, 2017 and 2016, the deferred cost of implementation
services totaled $0.6 million and $2.1 million, respectively.

Warranty

The Company provides limited warranties on all sales and provides for the estimated cost of warranties at the date of sale. The

estimated cost of warranties has not been material to date.

Foreign Currency Translation

The  functional  currency  of  the  Company’s  foreign  subsidiaries  is  their  respective  local  currency.  The  Company  translates  all 
assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries to U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate as of the applicable consolidated balance sheet 
date. Revenues and expenses are translated at the average exchange rate prevailing during the period. The effects of foreign currency 
translations  are  recorded  in  accumulated  other  comprehensive  loss  as  a  separate  component  of  stockholders’  equity  in  the 
accompanying  consolidated  statements  of  stockholders’  equity.  Realized  gains  and  losses  from  foreign  currency  transactions  are
included in other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations and have not been material for all periods presented.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original or remaining maturity of three months at date of purchase 
to  be  cash  equivalents.  The  Company’s  cash  equivalents  are  comprised  of  money  market  funds,  and  are  maintained  with  financial
institutions with high credit ratings.

Concentration of Credit Risk and Significant Customers

The Company maintains cash and cash equivalents with major financial institutions. The Company’s cash and cash equivalents
consist of bank deposits held with banks, money market funds that, at times, exceed federally insured limits. The Company limits its
credit risk by dealing with counterparties that are considered to be of high credit quality and by performing periodic evaluations of its 
investments and of the relative credit standing of these financial institutions.

Credit risk is the risk of loss from amounts owed by financial counterparties. Credit risk can occur at multiple levels; as a result 
of  broad  economic  conditions,  challenges  within  specific  sectors  of  the  economy,  or  from  issues  affecting  individual  companies.
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to credit risk consist of cash equivalents and accounts receivable.

In the normal course of business, the Company is exposed to credit risk from its customers. To reduce credit risk, the Company

performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

The following customers comprised 10% or more of the Company’s accounts receivable at September 30, 2017 and 2016 and of 

the Company’s total revenues for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively: 

Accounts Receivable
Company A .................................................................................

As of September 30,
2017
N/A

2016
12%

Revenue
Company B ...............................................................................

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
N/A

2017
11%

2015
11%

Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount, net of allowances for doubtful accounts. The allowance for doubtful
accounts is based on management’s assessment of the collectability of accounts. The Company regularly reviews the adequacy of thist
allowance for doubtful accounts by considering historical experience, the age of the accounts receivable balances, the credit quality of 
the customers, current economic conditions, and other factors that may affect customers’ ability to pay to determine whether a specific 
allowance  is  appropriate.  Accounts  receivable  deemed  uncollectable  are  charged  against  the  allowance  for  doubtful  accounts  when
identified. 

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Revenue that has been recognized, but for which the Company has not invoiced the customer, amounting to $4.6 million and 
$2.8  million  is  recorded  as  unbilled  receivables  and  is  included  in  accounts  receivables  in  the  consolidated  balance  sheets  as  of 
September 30,  2017  and  2016,  respectively.  Invoices  that  have  been  issued  before  revenue  has  been  recognized  are  recorded  as 
deferred revenue in the consolidated balance sheets.

Property and Equipment, Net

Property  and  equipment  are  recorded  at  cost  less  accumulated  depreciation.  Depreciation  of  property  and  equipment  is 
calculated  using  on  a  straight-line  basis  over  the  estimated  useful  lives  of  the  assets.  Leasehold  improvements  are  amortized  on  a 
straight-line basis over the shorter of lease term or estimated useful lives of the assets.

The estimated useful lives of property and equipment are as follows:

Computer software and equipment...................................................  2-5 years
Furniture and fixtures .......................................................................  2-5 years
Leasehold improvements ..................................................................  Shorter of the lease term or estimated useful life
Software development costs .............................................................  3 years

d

Costs  of  maintenance  and  repairs  that  do  not  improve  or  extend  the  lives  of  the  respective  assets  are  charged  to  expense  as
incurred.  Upon  retirement  or  sale  of  property  and  equipment,  the  cost  and  related  accumulated  depreciation  are  removed  from  the
balance sheet and the resulting gain or loss is reflected in statement of operations.

Long-lived Assets

The Company continually monitors events and changes in circumstances that could indicate that carrying amounts of its long-
lived  assets,  including  property  and  equipment  and  intangible  assets  may  not  be  recoverable.  When  such  events  or  changes  in
circumstances occur, the Company assesses the recoverability of long-lived assets by determining whether the carrying value of such 
assets will be recovered through their undiscounted expected future cash flows. If the future undiscounted cash flows are less than the 
carrying amount of these assets, the Company recognizes an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying amount over the fair 
value of the assets. The Company did not recognize any impairment charges on its long-lived assets during any periods presented.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

Goodwill and Intangible Assets

The Company records goodwill when consideration paid in an acquisition exceeds the fair value of the net tangible assets and 
the identified intangible assets acquired. Goodwill is not amortized, but rather is tested for impairment annually or more frequently if 
events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. We conducted our annual impairment test 
of goodwill as of September 30, 2017 and 2016. We have elected to first assess the qualitative factors to determine whether it is more 
likely than not that the fair value of our single reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is 
necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment under Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2011-08, Goodwill and Other 
(Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment, issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). If we determine that it is
more likely than not that its fair value is less than its carrying amount, then the two-step goodwill impairment test is performed. The 
first step, identifying a potential impairment, compares the fair value of the reporting unit with its carrying amount. If the carrying 
amount exceeds its fair value, the second step would need to be performed; otherwise, no further step is required. The second step, 
measuring the impairment loss, compares the implied fair value of the goodwill with the carrying amount of the goodwill. Any excess
of the goodwill carrying amount over the applied fair value is recognized as an impairment loss, and the carrying value of goodwill is 
written down to fair value. 

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Intangible  assets,  consisting  of  developed  technology,  backlog,  non-competition  agreements  customer  relationships  and  trade
name, are stated at fair value less accumulated amortization. All intangible assets have been determined to have finite lives and are 
amortized  on  a  straight-line  basis  over  their  estimated  remaining  economic  lives,  ranging  from  three  to  ten  years.  Amortization
expense related to developed technology is included in cost of SaaS and maintenance revenue while amortization expense related to 
backlog, non-competition agreements, trade name and customer relationships is included in sales and marketing expense. No goodw  
ill
or intangible assets impairment has been identified in any of the years presented.

Research and Development and Capitalization of Software Development Costs

The  Company  generally  expenses  costs  related  to  research  and  development,  including  those  activities  related  to  software 
solutions  to  be  sold,  leased  or  otherwise  marketed.  As  such  development  work  is  essentially  completed  concurrently  with  the
establishment of technological feasibility, and accordingly, the Company has not capitalized any such development costs.

The Company capitalizes certain software development costs incurred in connection with its cloud-based software platform for 
internal  use.  The  Company  capitalizes  software  development  costs  when  application  development  begins,  it  is  probable  that  the
project will be completed, and the software will be used as intended. When development becomes substantially complete and ready
for  its  intended  use,  such  capitalized  costs  are  amortized  on  a  straight-line  basis  over  the  estimated  useful  life  of  the  related  asset,
which  is  generally  three  years.  Costs  associated  with  preliminary  project  stage  activities,  training,  maintenance  and  all  post 
implementation stage activities are expensed as incurred. The Company capitalized software development costs of $0.4 million, $1.1 
million and $2.5 million during the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The financial instruments of the Company consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable
and  certain  accrued  liabilities.  The  Company  regularly  reviews  its  financial  instruments  portfolio  to  identify  and  evaluate  such 
instruments that have indications of possible impairment. When there is no readily available market data, fair value estimates are made 
by the Company, which involves some level of management estimation and judgment and may not necessarily represent the amounts
that could be realized in a current or future sale of these assets.

Based on borrowing rates currently available to the Company for financing obligations with similar terms and considering the 

Company’s credit risks, the carrying value of the financing obligation approximates fair value.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or an exit price paid to transfer a liability in the 
principal  or  most  advantageous  market  for  the  asset  or  liability  in  an  orderly  transaction  between  market  participants  on  the 
measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value must maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use
of  unobservable  inputs.  The  current  accounting  guidance  for  fair  value  instruments  defines  a  three-level  valuation  hierarchy  for 
disclosures as follows:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

Level 2—Input other than quoted prices included in Level I that are observable, unadjusted quoted prices in markets that are not 

active, or other inputs for similar assets and liabilities that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data; and

Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity, which requires the Company to develop its own 

models and involves some level of management estimation and judgment.

The  Company’s  Level  1  assets  consist  of  cash  equivalent.  These  instruments  are  classified  within  Level  1  of  the  fair  value

hierarchy because they are valued based on quoted market prices in active markets.

Sales Commissions

Sales  commissions  are  recognized  as  an  expense  upon  booking  the  contract.  Substantially  all  of  the  compensation  due  to  the
sales  force  is  earned  at  the  time  of  the  contract  signing,  with  limited  ability  to  recover  any  commissions  paid  if  a  contract  is
terminated.

Advertising and Promotion Costs

Advertising and promotion costs are expensed as incurred. The Company incurred $0.3 million in advertising and promotions 

costs during the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016, and 2015, respectively.   

Employee Benefit Plan

The Company has a savings plan that qualifies under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). Under these 401(k) 
Plans,  matching  contributions  are  based  upon  the  amount  of  the  employees’  contributions  subject  to  certain  limitations.  We
contributed approximately $0.7 million, $0.6 million and $0.4 million for the years ended September 30, 2017,  2016 and 2015.  

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation expense for all share-based payment awards granted to our employees and directors including stock 
options and restricted stock units (“RSUs”) is measured and recognized based on the fair value of the awards on the grant date. The 
fair value is recognized as expense, net of estimated forfeitures on a ratable basis, over the requisite service period, which is generally 
the  vesting  period  of  the  respective  award.  The  Company  uses  a  Monte  Carlo  simulation  model  to  determine  the  fair  value  of  its 
performance-based  restricted  stock  units  (“PB-RSUs”)  on  the  grant  date.  The  fair  value  of  these  grants  with  a  market  condition  is
recognized  using  the  graded-vesting  attribution  method  over  the  requisite  service  period.  As  the  PB-RSUs  are  only  granted  to 
executives and leadership team, the Company has determined no forfeiture rate would be applied to the PB-RSUs. The Company uses
the  Black-Scholes-Merton  valuation  model  to  estimate  the  fair  value  of  stock  option  awards  and  employee  stock  purchase  plan 
(“ESPP”). The Black-Scholes-Merton valuation model requires the use of subjective assumptions to determine the fair value of stock 
option  awards,  including  the  expected  stock  price  volatility  over  the  expected  term  of  the  options,  stock  option  exercise  and 
cancellation  behaviors,  risk-free  interest  rates  and  expected  dividends.  The  Company  periodically  estimates  the  portion  of  awards
which will ultimately vest based on its historical forfeiture experience. These estimates are adjusted over the requisite service period to 
the extent that actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from the prior estimates.

Income Taxes

The  Company  accounts  for  income  taxes  in  accordance  with  the  FASB  ASC  No. 740—Accounting  for  Income 
Taxes (ASC 740).  The  Company  makes  certain  estimates  and  judgments  in  determining  income  tax  expense  for  financial  statement 
purposes. These estimates and judgments occur in the calculation of tax credits, tax benefits and deductions and in the calculation of 
certain tax assets and liabilities, which arise from differences in the timing of recognition of revenue and expense for tax and financial 
statement purposes. Significant changes to these estimates may result in an increase or decrease to our tax provision in the subsequent 
period when such a change in estimate occurs.

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The Company regularly assesses the likelihood that its deferred income tax assets will be realized from future taxable income 
based on the realization criteria set forth in ASC 740. To the extent that the Company believes any amounts are not more likely than
not to be realized, the Company records a valuation allowance to reduce the deferred income tax assets. In assessing the need for a 
valuation  allowance,  the  Company  considers  all  available  evidence,  including  past  operating  results,  estimates  of  future  taxable
income and the feasibility of tax planning strategies. In the event the Company determines that all or part of the net deferred tax assets
are  not  realizable  in  the  future,  an  adjustment  to  the  valuation  allowance  would  be  charged  to  earnings  in  the  period  such 
determination is made. Similarly, if the Company subsequently realizes deferred income tax assets that were previously determined to
be  unrealizable,  the  respective  valuation  allowance  would  be  reversed,  resulting  in  an  adjustment  to  earnings  in  the  period  such 
determination is made.

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ff

As of September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company had gross deferred income tax assets, related primarily to net operating loss 
(NOL)  carry  forwards,  deferred  revenues,  accruals  and  reserves  that  are  not  currently  deductible  and  depreciable  and  amortizable 
items of $92.5 million and $56.1 million, respectively, which have been fully offset by a valuation allowance. Utilization of these net 
loss carry forwards is subject to the limitations of IRC Section 382 (“the “Section 382 Limitations”). During the year ended September 
30, 2013, the Company undertook a study of NOL carry forwards and determined that its NOL carry forwards that are subject to the
limitations  of  IRC  Section 382  are  not  material.  However,  in  the  future,  some  portion  or  all  of  these  carry  forwards  may  not  be
available to offset any future taxable income.

Segment

The Company has one operating segment with one business activity, developing and monetizing revenue management solutions.
The Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM) is its Chief Executive Officer, who manages operations on a consolidated 
basis  for  purposes  of  allocating  resources.  When  evaluating  performance  and  allocating  resources,  the  CODM  reviews  financial 
information as presented on a consolidated basis.

Comprehensive Loss

Comprehensive loss is comprised of net loss and other comprehensive (loss) income. Other comprehensive loss includes foreign

currency translation adjustments. 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718): providing clarification on when 
modification accounting should be used for changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award. This ASU does not
t
a change
change the accounting for modifications but clarifies that modification accounting guidance should only be applied if there is 
to the value, vesting conditions or award classification and would not be required if the changes are considered non-substantiv
e. The
amendments of this ASU are effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The 
Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard, but does not believe this will have material impact on its consoli
dated
d 
financial statements.

In  January  2017,  the  FASB  issued  ASU  2017-04, Intangibles—Goodwill  and  Other  (Topic  350):   Simplifying  the  Test  for 
Goodwill  Impairment.  This  new  accounting  standard  update simplifies  the  measurement  of  goodwill  by  eliminating  the  Step  two 
impairment  test.  Step  two  measures  a  goodwill  impairment  loss  by  comparing  the  implied  fair  value  of  goodwill  with  the  carrying
amount  of  that  goodwill.  The  new  guidance  requires  a  comparison  of  the  Company’s  fair  value  of  with  carrying  amount  and  the
Company  is  required  to  recognize  an  impairment  charge  for  the  amount  by  which  the  carrying  amount  exceeds  the  fair  value. 
Additionally, we should consider income tax effects from any tax deductible goodwill on the carrying amount when measuring the 
goodwill impairment loss, if applicable.  The new guidance becomes effective for goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning 
after December 15, 2019, though early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this standard will have 
on its consolidated financial statements.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, Business Combination (Topic 805):

clarifying the definition of a business. The
activities
amendments in this guidance change the definition of a business to assist with evaluating when a set of transferred assets and 
is a business. The guidance becomes effective for the Company at the beginning of its first quarter of fiscal 2019. Early adoption is
permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.
permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, Restricted Cash (Topic 230), clarifying the classification and presentation 
of restricted cash in the statement of cash flows. The standard requires that restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents are included 
in the cash and cash equivalent balance in the statement of cash flows. Further, reconciliation between the balance sheet and statement 
of  cash  flows  is  required  when  the  balance  sheet  includes  more  than  one  line  item  for  cash,  cash  equivalents,  restricted  cash,  and 
restricted  cash  equivalents.  Therefore,  transfers  between  these  balances  should  no  longer  be  presented  as  a  cash  flow  activity.  The 
guidance becomes effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017, with
early  adoption  permitted.  The  Company  is  currently  evaluating  the  impact  this  standard  will  have  on  its  consolidated  financial 
statements.

In  August  2016,  the  Financial  Accounting  Standard  Board  (“FASB”)  issued  ASU  2016-15,  Statement  of  Cash  Flow  (Topic 
230),  amended  the  existing  accounting  standards  for  the  statement  of  cash  flows.  The  amendments  provide  guidance  on  how 
companies  present  and  classify  certain  cash  receipts  and  cash  payments  in  the  statement  of  cash  flows.  The  guidance  becomes 
effective  for  the  Company  at  the  beginning  of  its  first  quarter  of  fiscal  2019.  Early  adoption  is  permitted,  including  adoption in  an 
interim period. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements, but 
does not believe this will have material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

n

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, guidance related to stock-based compensation, which includes the income tax
consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. The guidance 
becomes  effective  for the  Company at  the  beginning  of  its  first  quarter  of  fiscal  2018  but  permits  adoption  in  an  earlier  perio
d. 
The Company is currently evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements, but does not b
elieve 
this will have material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

the  Company

Company is

In  February  2016,  the  FASB  issued  ASU  2016-02,  guidance  on  the  recognition  and  measurement  of  leases.  Under  the  new 
guidance, lessees are required to recognize a lease liability, which represents the discounted obligation to make future minimum lease
payments, and a corresponding right-of-use asset on the balance sheet for most leases. The guidance retains the current accounting for 
lessors  and  does  not  make  significant  changes  to  the  recognition,  measurement,  and  presentation  of  expenses  and  cash  flows  by  a
lessee.  Enhanced  disclosures  will  also  be  required  to  give  financial  statement  users  the  ability  to  assess  the  amount,  timing  and 
uncertainty  of  cash  flows  arising  from  leases.  The  guidance  will  require  modified  retrospective  application  at  the  beginning  of the 
f
Company’s
Company
 first  quarter  of  fiscal  2020,  with  optional  practical  expedients,  but  permits  adoption  in  an  earlier  period.  The 
is

 currently evaluating the impact this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-15, “Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a
a
Going Concern” that requires management to evaluate whether there are conditions and events that raise substantial doubt about the 
Company’s  ability  to  continue  as  a  going  concern  within  one  year  after  the  financial  statements  are  issued  on  both  an  interim  a dnd 
annual basis. Management is required to provide certain footnote disclosures if it concludes that substantial doubt exists or when its
pplans alleviate substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The standard became effectives to the 
Company  in  the  fourth  quarter  of  fiscal  year  2017.  The  adoption  of  the  standard  had  no  material  impact  on  the  Company’s
consolidated financial statements.

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new standard, Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 
2014-09,  Revenue  from  Contracts  with  Customers,  as  amended,  which  will  supersede  nearly  all  existing  revenue  recognition 
guidance. Under ASU 2014-09, an entity is required to recognize revenue upon transfer of promised goods or services to customers in 
an amount that reflects the expected consideration received in exchange for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09 defines a five-step 
process  in  order  to  achieve  this  core  principle,  which  may  require  the  use  of  judgment  and  estimates,  and  also  requires  expanded 
qualitative and quantitative disclosures relating to the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from 
contracts with customers, including significant judgments and estimates used.

The FASB has issued several amendments to the new standard, including clarification on accounting for licenses of intellectual
property and identifying performance obligations. The amendments include ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers 
(Topic 606)—Principal versus Agent Considerations, which was issued in March 2016, and clarifies the implementation guidance for 
principal  versus  agent  considerations  in  ASU  2014-09,  and  ASU  2016-10,  Revenue  from  Contracts  with  Customers  (Topic  606)—
Identifying  Performance  Obligations  and  Licensing,  which  was  issued  in  April  2016,  and  amends  the  guidance  in  ASU  2014-09 
related to identifying performance obligations and accounting for licenses of intellectual property. 

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The  new  standard  permits  adoption  either  by  using  (i)  a  full  retrospective  approach  for  all  periods  presented  in  the  period  of 
adoption or (ii) a modified retrospective approach with the cumulative effect of initially applying the new standard recognized at the 
date  of  initial  application  and  providing  certain  additional  disclosures.  The  new  standard  is  effective  for  annual  reporting  periods
beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016.
The Company does not plan to early adopt, and accordingly, the Company will adopt the new standard effective October 1, 2018. The 
Company currently anticipate adopting the standard using the modified retrospective method. 

d

The Company

 has identified, and are in the process of implementing, appropriate changes to the Company’s business processes,
systems and controls to support recognition and disclosure under the new standard. Based on the Company’s ongoing evaluation, the 
Company believes the impacts of this ASU will be related to the capitalization and amortization of sales commissions, the timing of 
revenue recognition for certain sales contracts, and their respective disclosures. There will be changes to the capitalization of the sales
commission  and  the  period  over  which  sales  commissions  will  be  amortized  to  align  to an  expected  period  of  benefit,  which  sales
commission is currently expensed as incurred.  In addition, there will be a change in relation to the timing of revenue recognition for 
certain  sales  contracts,  due  primarily  to  the  removal  of  the  current  limitation  on contingent  revenue.  These  changes  are  being
evaluated to determine the potential impact to our financial statements and disclosures. While the Company continues to assess the 
potential impacts of the new standard, including the areas described above, our preliminary conclusions may change.

3. Business Combinations

Revitas Acquisition

On January 5, 2017, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of the equity interests of Sapphire Stripe Holdings, Inc., 
the parent company of Revitas, Inc. (“Revitas”).  Pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (“Merger Agreement”), the Company 
paid  approximately  $52.8  million  in  cash  and  issued  to  the  sellers  two  $5.0  million  promissory  notes,  one  which  will  mature  18
months after the closing and the other which will mature 36 months after the closing. The Company acquired Revitas to, among other 
things, expand the Company’s revenue management solutions for customers.

t

In connection with Revitas acquisition, the Company funded the cash portion of the purchase price, in part with a five year term 

rr

loan in the aggregate amount of $50.0 million. See Note 6, “Debt”, for additional information. 

The  Company  included  Revitas’  results  of  operations  from  the  date  of  acquisition  and  the  estimated  fair  value  of  assets  and 
liabilities in its consolidated balance sheets. The Company incurred acquisition and transactional costs associated with the acquisition 
of  Revitas  of  approximately  $2.2  million  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  September  30,  2017,  which  were  recorded  as  general  and 
administrative expenses.

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Purchase Price Allocation

The  total  preliminary  purchase  price  for  Revitas  was  approximately  $61.5  million,  which  was  comprised  of  $52.8  million  in 
cash and the fair value of the promissory note of $8.6 million, see Note 6, “Debt”, for additional details. The preliminary allocation of 
the purchase price is based on valuations derived from estimated fair value assessments and assumptions used by the Company. While 
the Company believes that its estimates and assumptions underlying the valuations are reasonable, different estimates and assumptions 
could  result  in  different  valuations  assigned  to  the  individual  assets  acquired  and  liabilities  assumed,  and  the  resulting  amount  of 
goodwill. The fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed is subject to change within the measurement period (up to one 
year from the acquisition date). As of the acquisition date, the preliminary allocation of the purchase price is as follows:

m

Cash and cash equivalents......................................................   $
Accounts receivable ...............................................................    
Prepaid expenses ....................................................................    
Other current assets ................................................................  
Property, plant and equipment ...............................................    
Intangible assets .....................................................................    
Goodwill.................................................................................    
Other assets ............................................................................  
Total assets acquired ..............................................................    

Estimated Fair
  Value (in thousands)
5,067
6,184 
1,067
47 
1,506 
39,100
32,344 
25
85,340

Accounts payable ...................................................................    
Accrued employee compensation...........................................    
Accrued liabilities ..................................................................    
Deferred revenue liability.......................................................    
Other liabilities .......................................................................    
Total liabilities assumed.........................................................    
Net acquired assets .................................................................   $

(1,352)
(3,983)
(1,410)
(12,856)
(4,256)
(23,857)
61,483

The following table presents certain information on the acquired identifiable assets:

Intangible assets

Fair value

(in thousands)    

Estimated 
useful
lives (years)

Weighted-
average
estimated 
useful
lives (years)

Developed technology...............................................................   $
Customer relationship ...............................................................   $
Trade name................................................................................   $

6,770     
32,180     
150     

6 
10 
1 

6 
10
1

The purchase accounting allocation resulted in an ascribed value to the acquired intangible assets of $39.1 million and goodwill 
of $32.3 million. The key factors attributable to the creation of goodwill by the transaction are synergies in skill-sets, return on future 
technology and customer development.

We do not expect the goodwill recognized as a part of the acquisition to be deductible for income tax purposes. See Note 5, 

“Goodwill” for additional information.

Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Consolidated Financial Information

The  results  of  operations  for  Revitas  and  the  estimated  fair  values  of  the  assets  acquired  and  liabilities  assumed  have  been 
included  in  the  Company’s  consolidated  financial  statements  since  the  respective  dates  of  acquisition.  Since  the  close  of  the
acquisition, Revitas contributed approximately $20.7 million to the Company’s revenue and increased net losses by $6.3 million. 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

The  unaudited  pro  forma  combined  consolidated  financial  information  is  presented  for  illustrative  purpose  only  and  is  not 
necessarily indicative of the result of operations that would have actually been reported had the acquisitions occurred on the above 
dates, nor is it necessarily indicative of the future results of operations of the combined company. The unaudited pro forma combined 
consolidated  financial  information  reflects  certain  adjustments,  such  as  amortization,  interest  expense,  deferred  tax  valuation
allowance and transaction related costs. 

The following unaudited pro forma combined consolidated financial information has been prepared by the Company using the
acquisition method of accounting to give effect to the Revitas acquisition as if it had occurred on October 1, 2015. The following table 
sets forth the unaudited pro forma consolidated combined results of operations:

Fiscal Year Ended September 30,

2017

2016

Revenue .................................................................................   $
Net loss ..................................................................................    
Net loss per shares-basic and diluted ....................................   $

  (in thousands, except per share data)  
149,632
(38,656)
(1.41)

140,227    $
(45,346)   
(1.58)  $

Channelinsight Inc. (CI) Acquisition

On October 30, 2015, the Company acquired certain assets and liabilities of Channelinsight Inc. (CI), a privately held cloud-
based  channel  data  management  solution  provider.  The  Company  paid  a  total  purchase  price  of  $12.6  million  in  cash.  Pro  forma 
results have not been presented as the Company does not consider the acquisition to be significant.

The  purchase  consideration  was  allocated  to  tangible,  identifiable  intangible  assets  acquired  and  liabilities  assumed  based  on
their respective fair values as of the acquisition date. This allocation resulted in fair value allocated to intangible assets of $6.8 million 
and goodwill of $5.4 million. The goodwill is deductible for tax purposes. Intangible assets acquired included developed technology, 
backlog, patents, trade names and customer relationships, and are being amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful 
lives of 1 to 10 years. The key factors attributable to the creation of goodwill by the transaction are synergies in skill-sets, operations,
customer base and organizational cultures. The results of operations and the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed 
have been included in the accompanying financial statements since the acquisition date.

d

4. Consolidated Balance Sheet Components

Components of property and equipment, and intangible assets consisted of the following:

Property and Equipment

As of September 30,

2017

2016

(in thousands)

Computer software and equipment .............................................  $
Furniture and fixtures..................................................................   
Leasehold improvements ............................................................   
Software development costs .......................................................   
Total property and equipment ...............................................   
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization.....................   
Property and equipment, net .......................................................   
Add: Capital projects in progress................................................   
Total property and equipment, net ........................................  $

10,274    $
1,284     
1,466     
9,416     
22,440     
(17,829)   
4,611 

—     
 $

4,611 

9,319 
1,117 
1,240 
8,254
19,930 
(14,582)
5,348 
793
6,141

Depreciation expense including depreciation of assets under capital leases totaled $3.5 million, $4.5 million and 3.8 million for 

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Intangible Assets:

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

As of September 30, 2017

Estimated 
Useful
Life (in years)  

Gross
Carrying
Amount

Accumulated
Amortization

Net Carrying
Amount

(in thousands)

Developed technology.......................................................  
Backlog .............................................................................  
Non-competition agreement..............................................  
Customer relationships......................................................  
Trade name........................................................................  
Total ..................................................................................  

5-6
5
3
3-10
1

  $

  $

12,083    $
280     
100     
36,599     
260     
49,322    $

(4,545)   $
(215)    
(100)    
(4,084)    
(222)    
(9,166)   $

7,538 
65 
— 
32,515 
38 
40,156

As of September 30, 2016

Estimated 
Useful
Life (in years)  

Gross
Carrying
Amount

Accumulated
Amortization  

Net Carrying
Amount

(in thousands)

Intangible Assets:

Developed technology........................................................ 
Backlog............................................................................... 
Non-competition agreement ............................................... 
Customer relationships ....................................................... 
Trade name ......................................................................... 
Total ................................................................................... 

5
5
3
3-10
1

  $

  $

5,313    $
280     
100     
4,419     
110     
10,222    $

(2,857)   $
(149)    
(100)    
(1,331)    
(101)    
(4,538)   $

2,456 
131 
— 
3,088 
9 
5,684

The  Company  recorded  amortization  expense  related  to  the  acquired  intangible  assets  of  $4.6  million,  $1.4  million  and  $0.3 

million during the fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. 

Estimated future amortization expense for the intangible assets as of September 30, 2017 is as follows:

Fiscal Years Ending
September 30,
(in thousands)

2018...........................................................................................   
2019...........................................................................................   
2020...........................................................................................   
2021...........................................................................................   
2022 and thereafter....................................................................   
Total future amortization .....................................................  $

5,559 
5,466 
4,751 
4,687 
19,693 
40,156

5. Goodwill

The following table presents goodwill activity for the years ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 (in thousands):

Balance as at September 30, 2015 .............................................. $
Add: Goodwill from acquisition of business ...........................   
Balance as at September 30, 2016 .............................................. $
Add: Goodwill from acquisition of business ...........................   
Balance as at September 30, 2017 .............................................. $

1,509 
5,430
6,939 
32,344
39,283

As  a  result  of  the  acquisition  of  Revitas  in  fiscal  2017,  the  Company  recognized  preliminary  goodwill  of  $32.3  million.  See 

Note 3, “Business Combination”, for additional details.

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6. Debt

Term Loan

In connection with the Revitas acquisition, on January 5, 2017, the Company entered into a Financing Agreement (“Financing 
Agreement)”  by  and  among  the  Company,  the  Subsidiaries,  as  guarantors,  Crystal  Financial  SPV,  LLC  and  TC  Lending,  LLC 
(collectively, the “Lenders”), as administrative agent for the lenders, sole lead arranger, and collateral agent for the Lenders, pursuant 
to which the Lenders have extended term loan to the Company in an aggregate principle amount of $50.0 million. 

The term loan made pursuant to the Financing Agreement will bear interest at a rate of either (i) the Base Rate (as defined in the 
Financing  Agreement)  plus  9.25%  or  (ii)  the  LIBOR  Rate  (as  defined  in  the  Financing  Agreement)  plus  8.25%,  as  selected  by  the 
Company. The term loans mature on January 5, 2022. As of September 30, 2017, the Company selected LIBOR Rate plus 8.25%. The 
Company  must  repay  0.625%  of  the  aggregate  principal  amount  of  the  term  loans  on  the  last  business  day  of  each  fiscal  quarter, 
beginning  with  the  fiscal  quarter  ending  March  31,  2019.  The  Company  may  voluntarily  prepay  the  terms  loans,  subject  to  a  3% 
premium during the first 24 months and 1% premium after 24 months and prior to 36 months. Certain mandatory prepayments are
required  upon  the  sale  of  certain  assets,  the  receipt  of  certain  insurance  or  condemnation  proceeds  or  extraordinary  receipts, the 
issuance of certain securities or debt, the occurrence of excess cash flows and the occurrence of certain restrictions on the business of 
the combined company or certain divestitures.

The  Financing  Agreement  requires  the  Company  and  the  subsidiaries  to  maintain  certain  financial  covenants,  including 
achieving certain levels of revenue from specified sources, as outlined in the agreement, and maintaining cash and cash-equivalents of 
$20.0 million net of accounts payable in excess of $0.5 million 90 days overdue.  The Financing Agreement also contains certain non-
financial  covenants,  including  restricting  our  ability  to  dispose  of  assets,  changing  our  organizational  documents  or  amending  our 
material  agreements  in  a  manner  adverse  to  the  lender,  changing  a  method  of  accounting,  merging  with  or  acquiring  other  entities,
incurring other indebtedness and making certain investments. 

The Company in compliance with all of the covenants described in the Financing Agreements as of September 30, 2017.

The  subsidiary  guarantors  have  jointly  and  severally  guaranteed  the  payment  in  full  of  all  obligations  under  the  Financing 
Agreement. The Company and the subsidiary guarantors’ obligations under the Financing Agreement are secured by substantially all 
of their assets and a pledge of certain of the Company and the subsidiaries’ stock.

Promissory Notes

Also,  in  connection  with  the  Revitas  acquisition,  the  Company  incurred  $10.0  million  in  debt  in  the  form  of  two  promissory
notes with the sellers, one which will mature on July 5, 2018 and the other which will mature on January 5, 2020. These promissory
notes  bear  interest  at  the  rate  of  3%  per  annum,  and  are  subject  to  a  right  of  set-off  as  partial  security  for  the  indemnification 
obligations  of  target’s  stockholders  under  the  Merger  Agreement.  These  promissory  notes  are  subordinate  to  the  term  loan.  The 
preliminary fair value of the promissory notes of $8.6 million was determined based on a discounted future cash flow at 9.96% interest 
rate, which represents an arm’s length interest rate.

As of September 30, 2017, the term loan and promissory notes consisted of the following:

Principal ...................................................................... $
Unamortized debt discount and issuance costs ...........  
Net carrying amount.................................................... $

Amount
(in thousands)

60,000 
(2,795)
57,205

The  Company  incurred  approximately  $0.8  million  in  transaction  costs  in  connection  with  the  term  loan.  These  costs  are 
included as part of the Company’s debt. The effective interest rate for the term loan is 10.5%, the 18 month promissory note is 9.74% 
and the 36 month promissory note is 9.89%.

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The future scheduled principal payments for the term loan and promissory notes as of September 30, 2017 were as follows (in 

thousands):

Fiscal Year:
2018 ............................................................................. $
2019 .............................................................................  
2020 .............................................................................  
2021 .............................................................................  
2022 .............................................................................  
Total............................................................................. $

5,000 
937 
6,250 
1,250 
46,563 
60,000

7. Financial Instruments

The table below sets forth the Company’s cash equivalents as of September 30, 2017 and 2016, which are measured at fair value
on  a  recurring  basis  by  level  within  the  fair  value  hierarchy.  The  assets  are  classified  based  on  the  lowest  level  of  input  that  is
significant to the fair value measurement. The Company had no liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Total

(in thousands)

As of September 30, 2017:
Assets:
Cash equivalents......................................................................  $
Total ...................................................................................  $

As of September 30, 2016:
Assets:
Cash equivalents......................................................................  $
Total ...................................................................................  $

47,754    $
47,754    $

64,658    $
64,658    $

—    $
—    $

—    $
—    $

—    $
—    $

47,754
47,754 

—    $
—    $

64,658
64,658

The Company’s cash equivalents as of September 30, 2017 and 2016 consisted of money market funds with original maturity
dates of less than three months from the date of their respective purchase. Cash equivalents are classified as Level 1. The fai
r value of 
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the Company’s money market funds approximated amortized cost and, as such, there were no unrealized gains or losses on money
market funds as of September 30, 2017 and 2016. The Company’s financial instruments not measured at fair value on a recurring basis
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include  cash,  accounts  receivable,  accounts  payable  and  accrued  liabilities,  and  are  reflected  in  the  financial  statements  at  c
approximates their fair value due to their short-term nature. The term loan carrying value is approximately fair value since the term 
loan  bears  interest  at  rates  that  fluctuate  with  the  changes  in  the  Base  Rate  or  the  Libor  Rate  as  selected  by  the  Company.  The
ppromissory notes carrying values approximate their fair value as of September 30, 2017. As of September 30, 2017 and 2016, amounts
of 

 million and $1.5 million, respectively, were held in bank deposits.

$9.8

8. Commitments and Contingencies

Leases

The  Company  leases  facilities  under  noncancelable  operating  leases.  As  of  September 30,  2017,  future  minimum  payments

under operating leases were as follows:

Operating lease obligations(1) .................  $

4,300    $

1,600    $

1,700    $

1,000    $

—

Total

Contractual Payment Obligations Due by Period
3 to 5
1 to 3
Years
Years

Less than
1 Year

More than 5
Years

(1)

Operating lease obligations represent our obligations to make payments under the lease agreements for our facilities leases.

Rent  expense  under  noncancelable  operating  leases  for  the  fiscal  years  ended  September  30,  2017,  2016  and  2015  was  $3.2 

million, $2.7 million and $2.3 million, respectively.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

Indemnification Obligations

Each  of  the  Company’s  software  licenses  contains  the  terms  of  the  contractual  arrangement  with  the  customer  and  generally 
includes  certain  provisions  for  defending  the  customer  against  any  claims  that  the  Company’s  software  infringes  upon  a  patent, 
copyright,  trademark,  or  other  proprietary  right  of  a  third  party.  The  software  license  also  provides  for  indemnification  by  the 
Company of the customer against losses, expenses, and liabilities from damages that may be assessed against the customer in the event 
the Company’s software is found to infringe upon such third party rights.

The Company has not had to reimburse any of its customers for losses related to indemnification provisions, and there were no 
material claims against the Company outstanding as of September 30, 2017 and 2016. For several reasons, including the lack of prior 
indemnification  claims  and  the  lack  of  a  monetary  liability  limit  for  certain  infringement  cases  under  the  software  license,  the 
Company cannot estimate the amount of potential future payments, if any, related to indemnification provisions.

As  permitted  under  Delaware  law,  the  Company  has  indemnification  arrangements  with  respect  to  its  officers  and  directors, 

indemnifying them for certain events or occurrences while they serve as officers or directors of the Company.

Legal Proceedings

We are not currently a party to any pending material legal proceedings. From time to time, we may become involved in legal 
proceedings arising in the ordinary course of our business. Regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us due to 
defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, negative publicity and reputational harm and other factors.

9. Stock-Based Compensation

2000 Stock Plan

The 2000 Stock Plan (the “2000 Plan”) authorized the board of directors to grant incentive share options and non-statutory share 
options to employees, directors and other eligible participants. Stock purchase rights may also be granted under the 2000 Plan. The 
exercise price of the stock options shall not be less than the estimated fair value of the underlying shares of the common stock on the 
grant date. Options generally vest over four years and expire ten years from the date of grant. In connection with the adoption of the 
2010 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2010 Plan”) in June 2010, the 2000 Plan was terminated and all shares of common stock previously 
reserved but unissued were transferred to 2010 Plan.

2010 Equity Incentive Plan

On June 15, 2010, the Company’s Board adopted the 2010 Equity Incentive Plan under which employees, directors, and other 
eligible  participants  of  the  Company  or  any  subsidiary  of  the  Company  may  be  granted  incentive  stock  options,  nonstatutory  stock 
options and all other types of awards to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock. The total number of shares reserved and
available for grant and issuance pursuant to this 2010 Plan consists of (a) any authorized shares not issued or subject to outstanding 
grants under the 2000 Plan on the adoption date, (b) shares that are subject to issuance upon exercise of options granted under the Plan 
but  cease  to  exist  for  any  reason  other  than  exercise  of  such  options;  and  (c) shares  that  were  issued  under  the  Plan  which  are
repurchased by the Company at the original issue price or forfeited. In connection with the adoption of the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan
in February 2013, the 2010 Plan was terminated and all shares of common stock previously reserved but unissued were transferred to 
2013 Plan.

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2013 Equity Incentive Plan

The  Company’s  board  of  directors  (Board)  adopted  the  2013  Equity  Incentive  Plan  (2013  Plan)  in  February  2013,  and  the
stockholders  approved  the  2013  Plan  in  March  2013.  The  2013  Plan  became  effective  on  March  18,  2013  and  will  terminate  in 
February 2023. The 2013 Plan serves as the successor equity compensation plan to the 2010 Equity Incentive Plan (2010 Plan). The 
2013 Plan was approved with a reserve of 8.0 million shares, which consists of 2.5 million shares of the Company’s common stock
reserved for future issuance under the 2013 Plan and shares of common stock previously reserved but unissued under the 2010 Plan. 

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Additionally, the 2013 Plan provides for automatic increases in the number of shares available for issuance under it on October
1 of each of the first four calendar years during the term of the 2013 Plan by the lesser of 5% of the number of shares of common 
stock issued and outstanding on each September 30 immediately prior to the date of increase or the number determined by our board 
of directors. No further grants will be made under the 2010 Plan, and the balances under the 2010 Plan have been transferred to the
2013 Plan. The 2013 Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, restricted stock awards, stock 
appreciation  rights,  performance  stock  awards,  restricted  stock  units  and  stock  bonuses.  Awards  generally  vest  over  four  years  and 
expire ten years from the date of grant. As of September 30, 2017, 4.4 million shares were available for future stock awards under the 
plans and any additional releases resulting from an over-achievement relating to performance-based restricted stock units. 

Stock Options

There were no stock options granted in fiscal years 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. The expected terms of options granted 
were  calculated  using  the  simplified  method,  determined  as  the  average  of  the  contractual  term  and  the  vesting  period.  Estimated 
volatility is derived from the historical closing prices of common shares of similar entities whose share prices are publicly available 
for the expected term of the option. The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. treasury constant maturities in effect at the time of 
grant for the expected term of the option. We use historical data to estimate the number of future stock option forfeitures.

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The following table summarized the stock option activity and related information under all stock option plans:

Number of
Shares
(in thousands)

Weighted
Average
Exercised
Price

Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contract
Term (in years)

Balance at September 30, 2014.............................   
Exercised .................................................................   
Forfeited ..................................................................   
Expired ....................................................................   
Balance at September 30, 2015.............................   
Exercised .................................................................   
Forfeited ..................................................................   
Expired ....................................................................   
Balance at September 30, 2016.............................   
Exercised .................................................................   
Forfeited ..................................................................   
Expired ....................................................................   
Balance at September 30, 2017.............................   

1,881     
(354)    
(177)    
(231)    
1,119     
(233)    
(12)    
(68)    
806    $
(329)    
—     
(24)    
453    $

7.07     
3.71     
12.01     
12.18     
6.29     
3.96     
13.70     
12.72     
6.31     
4.06     
—     
11.69     
7.71     

5.98    $
—     
—     
—     
4.68    $
—     
—     
—     
3.56    $
—     
—     
—     
3.53    $

Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(in thousands)

7,055 

4,904 

4,103 

3,281 

Options exercisable as of September 30, 2017........   

453    $

7.71     

3.53    $

3,281 

Options vested and expected to vest as of
   September 30, 2017 ..............................................   

453    $

7.71     

3.53    $

3,281

The  intrinsic  value  of  options  exercised  during  2017,  2016  and  2015  was  $2.5  million,  $1.7  million  and  $2.6  million,
respectively. The total estimated fair value of options vested during 2017, 2016 and 2015 was $22 thousand, $0.4 million and $1.6 
million respectively.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) became effective on March 19, 2013. The ESPP allows eligible employees to
purchase  shares  of  the  Company’s  common  stock  at  a  discount  through  payroll  deductions  of  up  to  15%  of  their  eligible 
compensation, at not less than 85% of the fair market value, as defined in the ESPP, subject to any plan limitations. Except for the 
initial offering period, the ESPP provides for six-month offering periods, starting on February 20 and August 20 of each year.  

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The  following  table  summarizes  the  weighted-average  assumptions  used  to  estimate  the  fair  value  of  rights  to  acquire  stock 

granted under the Company’s ESPP plan during the periods presented:

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016

2015

2017

Risk-free interest rate................................................................   
Dividend yield ..........................................................................   
Volatility ...................................................................................   
Expected term (in years)...........................................................   

0.75%   
— 
29%   

0.50 

0.38%   
— 
34%   

0.50 

0.12%
—
33%

0.50

Restricted Stock Units and Performance-based Restricted Stock Units 

During the years ending September 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015, the Compensation Committee of the Board approved grants of 
performance-based restricted stock units to the Company’s certain senior officers, including the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief 
Financial Officer. Under the terms of these grants, the actual number of shares that will vest and be released will range from 0% to 
250%  of  the  grant  based  on  the  performance  of  the  Company’s  TSR  relative  to  the  TSR  of  the  Index  over  a  three-year  period. No 
shares will vest and be released in the first year. In any of the two remaining years, no shares will vest and be released if the TSR of 
the Company’s common stock is below the 30th percentile relative to the Index; 100% of the grant will vest and be released if the 
Company’s TSR is at the 50th percentile relative to the Index; and 250% of the grant will vest and be released if the Company’s TSR 
is over the 90th percentile relative to the Index. These grants vest over a three-year period with 50% vesting on each of the second and 
the third annual anniversary of the vesting commencing date.   In addition, these grants have a “catch-up” provision such that if the 
Company’s TSR relative to the Index for the three-year period exceeds that of the two-year period, additional shares for the two-year 
period will vest and be released based on the three-year achievement level. These grants have a ten-year term, subject to their earlier 
termination  upon  certain  events  including  the  awardee’s  termination  of  employment.  As  of  September  30,  2017,  1.3  million  shares
were reserved for any additional release resulting from over-achievement relating to performance-based restricted stock units.

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The  fair  value  of  these  grants  with  a  market  condition  is  recognized  using  the  graded-vesting  attribution  method  over  the
requisite service period. 
grant 
date. The Monte-Carlo simulation model takes into account the same input assumptions as the Black-Scholes model; however, it also
further incorporates into the fair value determination the possibility that the performance criteria may not be satisfied.

The Company used the Monte-Carlo simulation model to calculate the fair value of these awards on the 

The grant date fair values of these awards were determined using the following assumptions:

2017
1.32%-
1.45% 

Fiscal Year Ended September 30,
2016
0.86%-
1.15%     
—     
45%     

—     

38%-40%   

2015

1.10%
—
32%

Risk-free interest rate ................................................................

Dividend yield...........................................................................   
Volatility ................................................................................... 

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The  following  table  summarizes  the  Company’s  restricted  stock  unit  activity  (including  performance  based  restricted  stock 

awards) under all equity award plans:

  Restricted Stock  
  Units Outstanding  
(in thousands)

Weighted
Average
Grant Date
Fair Value

Balance at September 30, 2014 ....................................    
Granted............................................................................    
Released ..........................................................................    
Forfeited ..........................................................................    
Balance at September 30, 2015 ....................................    
Granted............................................................................    
Released ..........................................................................    
Forfeited ..........................................................................    
Balance at September 30, 2016 ....................................    
Granted............................................................................    
Released ..........................................................................    
Forfeited ..........................................................................    
Balance at September 30, 2017 ....................................    

2,265    $
1,505     
(963)   
(505)   
2,302    $
2,064     
(720)   
(529)   
3,117    $
1,817     
(813)   
(1,204)   
2,917    $

12.46
11.17 
11.20 
11.66 
12.32
10.61 
10.50 
11.24 
11.81
11.67 
10.58 
10.65 
12.55

The  total  fair  value  of  restricted  stock  and  restricted  stock  awards  vested  for  the  years  ended September  30,  2017, 2016 

and 2015 was $8.6 million, $7.6 million and $10.7 million, respectively.

The following table summarizes certain information of the unvested awards as of September 30, 2017:

Total compensation cost for unvested (in millions)........  $
Weighted-average period to recognize (in years) ...........   

 $

20.6 
2.3 

0.3 
0.4

Restricted Stock
Units (1)

ESPP

(1):

Includes restricted stock units and performance-based restricted stock awards.

Stock-based Compensation

Stock-based compensation recorded in the statements of operations is as follows:

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

Cost of revenues:

License and implementation................................................  $
SaaS and maintenance .........................................................   

1,015    $
1,007     

918    $
1,032     

699 
799

Total stock-based compensation in cost
   of revenues ..................................................................

2,022     

1,950     

1,498 

Operating expenses:

Research and development ..................................................   
Sales and marketing.............................................................   
General and administrative ..................................................   

1,744     
2,651     
4,143     

1,393     
3,307     
6,418     

Total stock-based compensation in operating
   expenses ......................................................................

Stock-based compensation in operating loss ............................   
Stock-based compensation capitalized as software
   development cost....................................................................
Total stock-based compensation ...............................................  $

8,538     
10,560     

11,118     
13,068     

—     
10,560    $

—     
13,068    $

1,353
3,202 
4,302 

8,857 
10,355

109 
10,464

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10. Income Taxes

The components of loss before income taxes are as follows:

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

Domestic ...................................................................................  $
Foreign ......................................................................................   
Loss before taxes .................................................................  $

(43,753)  $
921     
(42,832)  $

(34,527)  $
1,751     
(32,776)  $

(20,292)
1,181 
(19,111)

The Company has made no provision for U.S. income taxes on approximately $4.4 million of cumulative undistributed earnings 
of certain foreign subsidiaries at September 30, 2017 because it is the Company's intention to reinvest such earnings permanently.  The 
determination of the amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability related to these earnings is not practicable.

The components of the provision (benefit) for income taxes are as follows:

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

Current

State ..................................................................................... $
Foreign.................................................................................

Deferred

Federal .................................................................................
State .....................................................................................

Total provision (benefit) for income taxes..................... $

$

37
647
684

(3,436)  
(533)  
(3,969)  
(3,285) $

23  $
140 
163 

150 
22 
172 
335  $

13
482
495

27
6
33
528

Reconciliation of the statutory federal income tax to the Company’s effective tax:

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

Tax at statutory federal rate....................................................... $
State tax, net of federal benefit .................................................
Permanent differences...............................................................
Foreign tax rate differential.......................................................
Change in valuation allowance .................................................
Research and development tax credits ......................................
Foreign tax credits.....................................................................
Change in deferred tax liabilities ..............................................
Other..........................................................................................

Total provision (benefit) for income taxes..................... $

(14,563) $
37 
96 
334 
15,279 

(656)  
— 
(3,390)  
(422)  
(3,285) $

(11,147) $
23
571
(453)  

12,008

(834)  
—  

173

(6)  
$

335

(6,498)
13 
729 
81 
6,648 
(450)
(7)
33 
(21)
528

The Company is subject to income taxes in U.S. federal and various state, local and foreign jurisdictions.  The tax years ended
from  September  2000  to  September  2017  remain  open  to  examination  due  to  the  carryover  of  unused  net  operating  losses  or  tax
credits.

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Deferred tax assets and liabilities consisted of the following:

Deferred tax assets:

Depreciation and amortization ..........................  $
Accruals and other............................................. 
Deferred revenue ............................................... 
NOL carry-forward ........................................... 
Stock compensation .......................................... 
Research and development tax credits .............. 
Total deferred tax assets .............................. 
Valuation allowance ............................................... 

Net deferred tax assets .................................  $

Deferred tax liabilities:

Intangibles.................................................... 

Net deferred tax liabilities ......................................  $

As of September 30,

2017

2016

(in thousands)

842    $

5,541   
3,288   
68,190   
4,840   
9,792   
92,493   
(78,003) 
14,490    $

(14,983) 

(493)  $

436 
2,616 
4,295 
35,885
4,389
8,492
56,113 
(56,113)
— 

(295)
(295)

A valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company 
had established a valuation allowance to offset net deferred tax assets at September 30, 2017, 2016, and 2015 due to the uncertainty of 
realizing  future  tax  benefits  from  its  net  operating  loss  carry-forwards  and  other  deferred  tax  assets.  In  the  second  quarter  of  fiscal 
2017,  as  a  result  of  acquiring  Revitas,  we  recorded  an  income  tax  benefit  of  $4.2  million  due  to  a  partial  release  of  valuation
allowance. The net change in the total valuation allowance for the year ended September 30, 2017 was an increase of approximately 
$21.9 million.

At  September  30,  2017,  the  Company  has  federal  and  California  net  operating  loss  carry-forwards  of  approximately  $191.3
million  and  $45.2  million,  respectively.  The  federal  and  California  net  operating  losses  will  begin  expiring  in  2021  and  2018, 
respectively.  At  September  30,  2017,  the  Company  also  had  other  state  net  operating  loss  carry-forwards  of  approximately  $5.2 
million which will begin expiring in 2018. At September 30, 2017, the Company had federal and state research credit carry forwards 
of approximately $5.3 million and $6.5 million, respectively. The federal research and development credit carry-forwards will begin 
expiring in 2020. The California tax credit can be carried forward indefinitely.

The  Company  is  tracking  its  deferred  tax  assets  attributable  to  stock  option  benefits  in  a  separate  memo  account  pursuant  to 
ASC 718.   Therefore, these amounts are not included in the Company's gross or net deferred tax assets. As of September 30, 2017, 
2016  and  2015,  the  Company  had  stock  option  benefits  of  approximately  $4.7  million,  $3.9  million  and  $3.7  million,  respectively. 
Pursuant to ASC 718-740-25-10, the stock option benefits will be recorded to equity when they reduce cash taxes payable.

As  of  September  30,  2017,  the  Company  had  unrecognized  tax  benefits  of  approximately  $3.1  million.  It  is  unlikely  that  the 
amount of liability for unrecognized tax benefits will significantly change over the next twelve months. The Company's policy is to
recognize interest and penalties accrued on any unrecognized tax benefits as a component of income tax expense. As of September 30,
2017, there was a liability of $0.2 million related to uncertain tax positions recorded on the financial statements.

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Internal Revenue Code section 382 places a limitation (the "Section 382 Limitation") on the amount of taxable income can be 
offset by net operating ("NOL") carry-forwards after a change in control (generally greater than 50% change in ownership) of a loss
corporation.  California  has  similar  rules.  The  Company's  capitalization  described  herein  may  have  resulted  in  such  a  change. 
Generally, after a control change, a loss corporation cannot deduct NOL carry-forwards in excess of the Section 382 limitation. An
IRC Section 382 analysis has been performed as of September 30, 2017 and determined there would be no effect on the NOL Deferred 
Tax Asset if ownership changes occurred.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows: 

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands)

2015

Unrecognized tax benefits at the beginning of the period ...........   $
Gross decrease based on tax positions during the prior period ...    
Gross increase based on tax positions during the prior period ....    
Gross increase based on tax positions during the
   current period............................................................................    
Unrecognized tax benefits at the end of the period .....................   $

3,310    $
(584)    
— 

3,119    $
(147)   
—    $

417     
3,143    $

338 
3,310    $

2,513 
— 
58

548 
3,119

11. Net Loss Per Share

The Company’s basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is calculated by dividing the net loss attributable to 
common  stockholders  by  the  weighted  average  number  of  shares  of  common  stock  outstanding  for  the  period,  which  excludes 
unvested restricted stock awards. The diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is computed by giving effect to 
all  potentially  dilutive  common  stock  equivalents  outstanding  for  the  period.  For  purposes  of  this  calculation,  options  to  purchase
common stock, unvested restricted stock awards and unvested restricted stock units are considered to be common stock equivalents.

2017

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016
(in thousands, except per share data)

2015

Numerator:

Basic and diluted:

Net loss attributable to common stockholders ...............  $

(39,547)  $

(33,111)  $

(19,639)

Denominator:

Basic and diluted:

Weighted Average Shares Used in Computing Net
   Loss per Share Attributable to Common
   Stockholders...........................................................................   
Net Loss per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders:
Basic and diluted .......................................................................  $

28,649     

27,379     

26,015 

(1.38)  $

(1.21)  $

(0.76)

The following weighted average shares of common stock equivalents were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss 

per share attributable to common stockholders for the periods presented because including them would have been antidilutive:

Fiscal Years Ended September 30,
2016

2015

2017

Stock options.............................................................................   
Performance-based restricted stock units and restricted
   stock units ..............................................................................   
ESPP..........................................................................................   

(in thousands)
650 

414     

1,074     
—     

736 
— 

1,228

724
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12. Geographic Information

The  Company  has  one  operating  segment  with  one  business  activity  -  developing  and  monetizing  revenue  management 

solutions.

Revenues from External Customers

Revenues  from  customers  outside  the  United  States  were  11%,  10%  and  6%  of  total  revenues  for  the  fiscal  years  ended 

September 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. No location outside of the United States has revenues in excess of 10%.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

Long-Lived Assets

The following table sets forth the Company’s property and equipment, net by geographic region:

United States...................................................................   $
India ................................................................................    
Total property and equipment, net ............................   $

As of September 30,

2017

2016

(in thousands)
3,867   $
744    
4,611   $

4,817
1,324 
6,141

13. Subsequent Event

On October 05, 2017, The Company entered into a lease agreement. The thirty-seven month lease began on October 30, 2017, 
provides the Company with approximately 35,000 square feet of office space in San Mateo, California. Base annual rent is initially set 
at approximately $140,000 per month. Total base rent payable over the lease period is $4.9 million. The Company may renew this 
lease for two additional periods of five years each.

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ITEM 9.

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None. 

ITEM 9A. Controls and Procedures 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our  management,  with  the  participation  of  our  Chief  Executive  Officer  and  our  Chief  Financial  Officer,  evaluated  the
effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2017. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as 
defined  in  Rules  13a-15(e)  and  15d-15(e)  under  the  Exchange  Act,  means  controls  and  other  procedures  of  a  company  that  are
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange 
Act  is  recorded,  processed,  summarized  and  reported,  within  the  time  periods  specified  in  the  SEC’s  rules  and  forms.  Disclosure
controls  and  procedures  include,  without  limitation,  controls  and  procedures  designed  to  ensure  that  information  required  to  be
disclosed  by  a  company  in  the  reports  that  it  files  or  submits  under  the  Exchange  Act  is  accumulated  and  communicated  to  the
company’s  management,  including  its  principal  executive  and  principal  financial  officers,  as  appropriate  to  allow  timely  decisions 
regarding required disclosure. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2017, our Chief 
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at 
the reasonable assurance level.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting 

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in
Rule  13a-15(f)  under  the  Exchange  Act.  Under  the  supervision  and  with  the  participation  of  our  management,  including  our  Chief 
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial
reporting as of September 30, 2017 using the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013 framework) issued 
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

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Based on our evaluation under the COSO framework, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial
reporting is effective as of September 30, 2017 to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the 
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

This Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm on our internal

control over financial reporting due to an exemption established by the JOBS Act for “emerging growth companies.”

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting 

There  was  no  change  in  our  internal  control  over  financial  reporting  identified  in  connection  with  the  evaluation  required  by
Rule  13a-15(d)  and  15d-15(d)  of  the  Exchange  Act  that  occurred  during  the  quarter  ended  September 30,  2017  that  has  materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls

Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, believes that our disclosure controls and 
procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and 
are effective at the reasonable assurance level. However, our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures 
or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived 
and  operated,  can  provide  only  reasonable,  not  absolute,  assurance  that  the  objectives  of  the  control  system  are  met.  Further,  the 
design  of  a  control  system  must  reflect  the  fact  that  there  are  resource  constraints,  and  the  benefits  of  controls  must  be  considered 
relative  to  their  costs.  Because  of  the  inherent  limitations  in  all  control  systems,  no  evaluation  of  controls  can  provide  absolute 
assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that 
judgments  in  decision  making  can  be  faulty,  and  that  breakdowns  can  occur  because  of  a  simple  error  or  mistake.  Additionally, 
controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override 
of  the  controls.  The  design  of  any  system  of  controls  also  is  based  in  part  upon  certain  assumptions  about  the  likelihood  of  future 
events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions;
over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures 
may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur 
and not be detected. 

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ITEM 9B. Other Information

None.

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PART III

ITEM 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

Information about our Executive Officers and our Directors is incorporated by reference to information contained in the Proxy 

Statement for the 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of September 30, 2017. 

We have adopted a code of business conduct for directors and a code of business conduct for all of our employees, including our
executive  officers,  and  those  employees  responsible  for  financial  reporting.  Both  codes  of  business  conduct  are  available  on  the
investor relations portion of our website at investor.modeln.com. A copy may also be obtained without charge by contacting Investor 
Relations, Model N, Inc., 777 Mariners Island Boulevard, Suite 300, San Mateo, CA 94404 or by calling (650) 610-4998. 

We  plan  to  post  on  our  website  at  the  address  described  above  any  future  amendments  or  waivers  of  our  codes  of  business

conduct. 

ITEM 11.

Executive Compensation

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to information contained in the Proxy Statement for the 2018

Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of September 30, 2017.

ITEM 12.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters 

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to information contained in the Proxy Statement for the 2018

Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of September 30, 2017.

ITEM 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to information contained in the Proxy Statement for the 2018

Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of September 30, 2017.

ITEM 14.

Principal Accountant Fees and Services

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to information contained in the Proxy Statement for the 2018

Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of September 30, 2017.

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ITEM 15.

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 

(1)

Financial Statements 

PART IV

The financial statements are set forth in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

(2)

Financial Statement Schedule

Schedule II - Valuation and qualifying accounts

The  table  below  presents  the  changes  in  the  allowance  for  doubtful  accounts  for  the  fiscal  years  ended  September 30,  2017, 

2016, and 2015, respectively.

Description

Balance at
Beginning of
Period

Additions
Charges to
Costs and
Expenses

Write-offs
and
Deductions

Balance at
End of
Period

Allowance for doubtful receivables
For the Year Ended September 30, 2017 .................   $
For the Year Ended September 30, 2016 .................   $
For the Year Ended September 30, 2015 .................   $

—     
—     
—     

85     
—     
—     

Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets
For the Year Ended September 30, 2017 .................   $
For the Year Ended September 30, 2016 .................   $
For the Year Ended September 30, 2015 .................   $

56,113     
42,128     
34,685     

21,890     
13,985     
7,443     

—    $
—    $
—    $

—    $
—    $
—    $

85 
— 
— 

78,003 
56,113 
42,128

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(3)

Exhibits

The following exhibits are included herein or incorporated herein by reference:

Exhibit Number

Exhibit Description

Form

File No.

Exhibit

Filing Date

Filed
Herewith

Incorporated by Reference

3.1

3.2

4.1

4.2

10.1

10.2†

10.3†

10.4†

10.5†

10.6†

10.7†

10.8†

10.9†

10.10

21.1

23.1

24.1

31.1

31.2

32.1*

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the 
Registrant

10-Q 001-35840 3.1

5/10/2013

Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant

10-Q 001-35840 3.2

5/10/2013

Form of Registrant’s Common Stock certificate

S-1

333-186668 4.01

3/7/2013

Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement dated 
December 12, 2003 by and among Registrant and certain of its 
stockholders

Form of Indemnity Agreement to be entered into between 
Registrant and each of its officers and directors

2000 Stock Plan and forms of stock option agreement and 
stock option exercise agreement

2010 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of stock option 
agreement and stock option exercise agreement

2013 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of stock option 
agreement and stock option exercise agreement

2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Employment offer letter dated February 4, 2016 by and 
between Registrant and Edward Sander.

Employment offer letter dated May 7, 2017 and Amendment 1 
dated May 8, 2017 by and between Registrant and David 
Barter.

Employment offer letter dated December 9, 2016 by and 
between Registrant and Russell Mellott.

S-1

333-186668 4.02

2/13/2013

S-1

333-186668 10.01

3/12/2013

S-1

333-186668 10.02

2/13/2013

S-1

333-186668 10.03

2/13/2013

S-1

S-8

333-186668 10.04

3/7/2013

333-187388 99.4

3/20/2013

10-Q 001-35840 10.1

2/9/2016

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement

10-K 001-35840 10.12

12/6/2013

Sublease by and between Dynatrace LLC and Registrant dated 
August 8, 2017

List of Subsidiaries of Registrant

Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent 
registered public accounting firm

Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this 
report)

Certification of Periodic Report by Principal Executive Officer 
under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Certification of Periodic Report by Principal Financial Officer 
under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 
Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the 
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X 

X

Exhibit Number

Exhibit Description

Form

File No.

Exhibit

Filing Date

Incorporated by Reference

32.2*

Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 
Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the 
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

101.INS

XBRL Instance Document

101.SCH XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document

101.CAL XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

101.DEF XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

101.LAB XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

101.PRE XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan. 

†

*

Filed
Herewith

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

These exhibits are furnished with this Annual Report on Form 10-K and are not deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission  and  are  not  incorporated  by  reference  in  any  filing  of  the  Registrant  under  the  Securities  Act  of  1933  or  the 
Exchange Act of 1934, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in 
such filings. 

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Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this
Annual  Report  on  Form  10-K  to  be  signed  on  its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly  authorized,  in  San  Mateo,  State  of 
California, on this 15th day of November 2017. 

SIGNATURES

MODEL N, INC.

By: 

  /S/    DAVID BARTER
  David Barter
  Chief Financial Officer

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints
Zack Rinat or David Barter, or any of them, his attorneys-in-fact, for such person in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to
this report and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that either of said attorneys-in-fact, or substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof. 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons

on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name

/S/     ZACK RK INAT
Zack Rinat

/S/    DAVID BARTER
David Barter

Additional Directors:

/S/    MELISSA FISHER
Melissa Fisher

/S/    DAVID BONNETTE
David Bonnette

/S/    CHARLES J. ROBEL
Charles J. Robel

/S/    TIM ADAMS
Tim Adams

/S/    ALAN HENRICKS
Alan Henricks

/S/    BALJIT DAIL
Baljit Dail

Title

Founder, Chairman and 
Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)

Date

November 15, 2017

Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and Accounting Officer)

November 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

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