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DXC Technology Company (DXC -3.14%)
Q2Â 2019 Earnings Conference Call
Nov. 06, 2018, 5:00 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day, and welcome to the DXC call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Jonathan Ford, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead sir.
Jonathan Ford -- Head-Investor Relations
Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. I'm pleased you're joining us for DXC Technology's Second Quarter Fiscal 2019 Earnings Call. Our speakers on today's call will be Mike Lawrie, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Paul Saleh, our Chief Financial Officer. The call is being webcast at dxc.com/investorrelations and we posted slides to our website, which will accompany the discussion today.
Slide 2 informs our participants that DXC Technology's presentation includes certain non-GAAP financial measures and certain further adjustments to these measures, which we believe provide useful information to our investors. In accordance with the SEC rules, we have provided a reconciliation of these measures to their respective and most directly comparable GAAP measures. These reconciliations can be found in the tables included in today's earnings release, as well as in our supplemental slides. Both documents are available on the Investor Relations section of our website.
On slide three, you'll see that certain comments we make on the call will be forward looking. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed on the call. A discussion of risks and uncertainties is included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and other SEC filings. I'd like to remind our listeners that DXC Technology assumes no obligation to update the information presented on the call, except as required by law.
And now I'd like to introduce DXC Technology's Chairman, President and CEO, Mike Lawrie.
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Okay. Thank you and good afternoon, everyone, thanks for taking the time with us. As usual, I have four, five key points, which I will develop a little bit and then turn it over to Paul. And then we'll open it up for any questions that you have.
First, non-GAAP EPS in the second quarter was $2.02, adjusted EBIT was $799 million and our adjusted EBIT margin was 15.9% and we generated 604 million of adjusted free cash flow in the second quarter. Revenue in the second quarter was $5.013 billion on a GAAP basis and constant currency revenue was down 6.2% year-over-year and roughly 200 million below our expectations for the quarter. The two primary causes were slower ramp-up on a few large digital contracts and the decline in our application and maintenance management business and I'll talk more about each of these in a moment. The book-to-bill was 0.9x for the quarter. The third point, in constant currency, our digital revenue grew 6.4% year-over-year and 2.5% sequentially, reflecting the slower ramp-up on a few large digital contracts.
Bookings in the quarter were up 50% year-over-year for a book to bill of 1.8x. Our industry IP and BPS revenue was down 2.1% year-over-year and up 1.7% sequentially and the industry IP and BPS book-to-bill was 1.1x. At the end of the second quarter, we completed the acquisition of Molina Medicaid Solutions, a Medicaid management Information Systems business and we will continue -- we'll continue to execute on our margin improvement plan and now expect to deliver $575 million savings this year versus our original target of $400 million and I'll talk more about our margin improvement plans in a moment. And finally, we now expect to have $300 million of currency headwinds for the full year and combined with the revenue shortfall this quarter and the delays on digital contracts, we are revising our revenue guidance for the full year to a range of $20.7 billion to $21.2 billion. And given the progress we're making on our cost takeout plans, we're raising our non-GAAP EPS target to a range of $7.95 to $8.20 and we continue to target adjusted free cash flow of 90% or more of adjusted net income.
Now, let me just briefly go into each of those five points. Our second quarter non-GAAP EPS, as I said, was $2.02 and the effective tax rate was 23.5%. Second quarter adjusted EBIT was $799 million, the adjusted EBIT margin was 15.9%, this was up 230 basis points year-over-year and 70 basis points sequentially. GBS segment profit margin was 18.9%, this was up 290 basis points year-over-year and 70 basis points sequentially. In GIS profit margin was 16.3% and this was up 200 basis points year-over-year and 90 basis points sequentially.
The margin improvement reflects continued execution of the savings lever that we've previously discussed including workforce optimization, supply chain efficiencies and facilities rationalization. And as I said, adjusted free cash flow for the quarter was $604 million or 105% of adjusted net income, and for the year to date adjusted free cash flow was $925 million or 81% of adjusted net income.
Now onto revenue. As I said, revenue in the second quarter was $5.013 billion on a GAAP basis and constant currency revenue was down 6.2% year-over-year and the book-to-bill was 0.9x. And as I mentioned, revenue was roughly $200 million below our expectations for the quarter. First, we saw delays in the ramp-up of a few large digital contracts and while we continue to see strong market demand for our digital solutions, it is taking us longer than expected to bring on resources to support the digital growth. Several clients are also behind in scaling their digital transformations. Together, these delays impacted revenue in the quarter by roughly $100 million. Now to accelerate our hiring, we're creating a dedicated digital hiring engine. Since DXC's launch, we've had a significant focus on synergy realization and cost takeout, and as a result, we had very limited bench. Now that we've instilled a more disciplined cost and labor management process, we're building bench in our fastest-growing capabilities to rapidly staff digital contracts and accelerate revenue. On the client side, we're leveraging Bionix to generate savings in other parts of the business that can be used to fund accelerated digital transformations.
The second reason for our $200 million revenue miss was the decline in our application, maintenance and management business. This business expectations by roughly $80 million, the miss was largely driven by a reduction in application maintenance spend in several large accounts, particularly in the Americas including HPE, as these clients remix their IP investments. Now, adjusting for this miss and the previously disclosed ramp down of integration projects for HPE and HPI, the Americas business was down about 3.5% year-over-year and was up 3% sequentially. And we're taking steps to improve performance in these businesses, we recently made leadership changes in both our Americas region and global application services business and we also added application sales specialists in the Americas to more effectively identify and pursue add-on projects. And we believe these actions will drive sequential growth in the second half of the year.
In the second quarter, GBS revenue was $2.1 billion, down 7% year-over-year in constant currency. The year-over-year decline was driven by the completion of transformation projects with HPE and the traditional application services business I just discussed. GBS book-to-bill in the quarter was 1x. GIS Revenue in the quarter was $2.9 billion. GIS revenue was down 5.7% year-over-year in constant currency, reflecting the expected decline in the traditional business, but less offset from cloud growth. Cloud had a very strong bookings in the quarter with a book-to-bill of 2.2x and was up 37% year-over-year and 99% sequentially. Giving this bookings, we expect GIS revenue to return to more normal levels moving forward. Overall, GIS book-to-bill in the quarter was 0.9x. Now, we move on to digital and our industry IT and BPS results. In constant currency, digital revenue was up 6.4% year-over-year, again reflecting the slower ramp-up on a few digital contracts that I mentioned earlier. Bookings in the quarter were very strong with a 1.8x book to bill driven by our cloud infrastructure and digital workplace offerings. Our digital pipeline is also up more than 80% year-over-year and 50% sequentially, which reflects the strong demand we're seeing for these capabilities. Our security business continues to gain traction with a 9.8 growth in constant currency year-over-year and a 1.4x book to bill. Bookings in the quarter include a risk automation solution for a large Australian bank, where we're working with the bank to identify risk in the digital domain and we're developing predictive risk modelsintegrated with the Bank's existing enterprise risk solutions.
We're also investing to more tightly integrate security and operations automation as part of platform DXC. This addresses strong client demand for security orchestration and automated response in solutions. In digital workplace, we grew 25% constant currency with a 4x book to bill. Bookings in the quarter included large deals with the UK Ministry of Defence and a European energy provider. Enterprise cloud apps and consulting grew 6.6% year-over-year and was impacted by the client delays that I previously discussed.
Bookings in the quarter were strong with a book to bill of 1.3x. Now, we continue to leverage our quick start offerings to rapidly diagnose client environments and develop large-scale transformation roadmaps. Key wins in the quarter include an Oracle deal with the New South Wales Ministry of Health, a ServiceNow deal with a major aerospace client and an SAP deal with a large European railway. In constant currency, cloud infrastructure grew 1.9% in the quarter. Lower year-over-year growth reflects a strong second quarter last year, including a large non-reoccurring deal.
Sequentially, we grew 5.6% and bookings in the quarter were up 37% for a book to bill of 2.2X including multiple deals, larger than $100 million in the US, Germany and UAE. In constant currency, cloud infrastructure as I said was up 1.9 in the quarter. Now moving to Industry IT and BPS. This revenue was down 2.1% year-over-year in constant currency driven primarily by delays in a few healthcare and insurance contracts including deals with health agencies in Queensland and Norway. Second half revenue will also benefit from revenue ramping on some of our BPS life insurance contracts including Bright House. We continue to invest in our digital portfolio, for example, in response to the rapidly growing need to accelerate the migration of data and analytics to the cloud, we established the industry's first analytics migration factory for Microsoft Azure in Bangalore. DXC's dedicated Azure factory and Azure certified teams help clients achieve faster, more efficient cloud migrations while rapidly implementing new applications with innovative tools and integrated prebuilt analytics and AI services.
We plan to establish two additional analytics migration factories in Warsaw and Manila by the end of December. Now my fourth point, last month, we completed the acquisition of Molina Medicaid solutions from Molina Healthcare. This expands our business supporting state agencies in the administration of Medicaid programs and adds to our healthcare IT portfolio. Combining the Molina business with DXC's existing platforms will provide opportunities for us to expand the margins in the business while enhancing the services we can provide to state agencies and Medicaid recipients. We also recently announced the acquisition of Argo design, a digital design consultancy based in Austin. Argo design will enhance DXC's capabilities in interface design and user experience, which are key elements in developing and delivering digital transformation solutions at scale.
DXC will build on Argo designs, world-class design talent as part of its services portfolio to accelerate and lead client digital transformations. And yesterday, we announced two acquisitions, BusinessNow and TESM, which will further expand our industry-leading ServiceNow practice. BusinessNow is a global end-to-end servicenow partner and TESM is the largest independent ServiceNow partner in the Nordics.These acquisitions will further enable our clients to leverage ServiceNow as a foundation for enterprisewide digital transformation. And working together, DXC and ServiceNow deliver a broad range of cloud-based as-a-service solutions that extend beyond IT service management to risk and compliance, as well as human capital management.
Now as I mentioned, we continue to execute on our margin improvement plan and now expect to deliver $575 million in savings for the year versus our original target of $400 million.
In addition, we believe we can drive 250 to 350 basis points of further margin expansion by fiscal '22 versus our current margin of 15.9%. Our automation program, Bionix, drives significant savings for DXC and our clients, while also improving service levels. Our automated digital workforce is now responsible for resolving more incidents than our largest physical delivery center, and where deployed we're exceeding 99% of our service level agreements and driven a 40% reduction in alpha or high-priority incidents. Our labor mix in pyramid, we expect to ship roughly 10% of our workforce to nearshore and low-cost centers and we plan to improve our labor pyramid by 10 points as well. We'll continue executing similar efficiency improvements in our third-party labor spend as well as actions to reduce non-labor expense. We're standardizing and optimizing specifications to reduce hardware costs and lower maintenance spend, and we also continue to consolidate vendors to increase scale and drive more favorable rates.
And in facilities, we will optimize our data center footprint and drive greater asset utilization, also continue to exit low-utilization and sub-scale facilities. And we're leveraging our Talent Cloud to further decrease our need for fiscal locations. Now we will provide more detail on each of these levers and our margin expansion plan at our Investor Day on Thursday. Now just to conclude, before I turn this over to Paul, we now, as I said earlier, expect to have $300 million of currency headwind for the full year. And combined with the revenue shortfall this quarter and the delays on some digital contracts, we are revising our revenue guidance for the full year to a range of $20.7 billion to $21.2 billion.
Our cost takeout actions are mitigating the impact of this revenue decline, Given the progress we're making on cost takeout, as I said, we are raising our non-GAAP EPS target to a range of $7.95 to $8.20 and we expect adjusted free cash flow to be 90% or more of adjusted net income. Now with that, I'll turn it over to Paul and then come back when we get to the question period. Paul?
Paul Saleh -- Chief Financial Officer
Yes. Thank you, Mike and greetings to everyone. I'll start by covering some items that are excluded from our non-GAAP results this quarter. In the current quarter, we had a restructuring cost of $157 million pre-tax, core $0.41 per diluted share. These costs represent severance related to workforce optimization programs, particularly in complex countries and expense associated with facilities and data center rationalization. Also in the quarter, we had $128 million pre-tax or $0.34 per diluted share of integration, separation and transaction-related cost, reflecting the cost of the IT systems separation from legacy HPE. Year-to-date restructuring, integration and transaction costs amounted to $540 million pre-tax or $1.43 per diluted share.
In the second quarter, amortization of acquired intangibles was $132 million pre-tax or $0.35 per diluted share. Excluding the impact of these special items, non-GAAP income before taxes from continuing operation was $749 million and non-GAAP EPS was $2.02. Now let me turn to our second quarter results in more detail. GAAP revenue in the second quarter was $5.013 billion. Adjusted EBIT in the quarter was $799 million, adjusted EBIT margin was 15.9% compared with 13.6% in the prior year. Now this year-over-year improvement reflects the progress we're making in executing on our cost takeout and synergy plans. During the second quarter, we continue to optimize our workforce. We further reduced total headcount by over 2000 people, driven by the ongoing deployment of Bionix overhead rationalization and elimination of the stranded cost associated with our USPS business.
In supply chain, we are driving additional procurement efficiencies, we're rationalizing our software portfolio and standardizing around a few Partner Solutions. We are also benefiting in the quarter from the consolidation of enterprise license agreements. And we are opportunistically and sourcing contract labor for strategic capabilities that align with our long-term demand. Now turning to real estate. We eliminated an additional 700,000 square feet of office space during the quarter and we remain on track to rationalize nine data centers during the fiscal year.
Now, in total. These actions contributed $100 million of incremental synergies during the second quarter. We're now on track to deliver $575 million of cost take-out for the year versus our original target of $400 million. The incremental savings will help us offset the impact of the revised revenue guidance. Now we remain on track to reinvest roughly $200 million to $250 million in the business this fiscal year. These investments include the continued deployment of Bionix, expansion of our digital transformation centers and the buildout of our integrated practice with Amazon Web Services.
In the quarter, our non-GAAP tax rate was 23.5%, reflecting our global mix of income and certain tax attributes and key foreign jurisdictions. For the full year, we still expect a tax rate of 24% to 28% as we continue to work through the impact of US tax reform. Now let's turn to our segment results. GBS revenue was $2.11 billion in the second quarter. GBS segment profit was $400 million and profit margin was 18.9% compared with 16% in the prior year. GBS margin improvement reflects cost takeout actions including productivity gains on our fixed-price contracts, consolidation of our vendor base and the in-sourcing of contract labor.
Year-to-date GBS revenue was $4.3 billion, segment profit was $803 million, margin was 18.6% and bookings were $4.2 billion for a book-to-bill of 1x. GIS revenue was $2.9 billion in the quarter. GIS segment profit in the second quarter was $473 million and profit margin was 16.3%, up 200 basis point year-over-year. This profitability improvement reflects the impact of actions we've taken to drive greater operating efficiencies from the rollout of our Bionix program as well as the benefit from consolidated suppliers and lower rates on enterprise licenses. Year-to-date, GIS revenue was $5.97 billion, segment profit was $947 million, margin was 15.9% and booking were $5.1 billion for a book-to-bill of 0.9 times.
Turning to other financial highlights for the quarter. Adjusted free cash flow in the quarter was $604 million or 105% of adjusted net income. Now this is despite an additional pay cycle in the quarter and the payout of annual bonuses. Adjusted free cash flow excludes the impact from receivables securitization programs. Year-to-date, adjusted free cash flow was $925 million or 81% of adjusted net income. Our CapEx was $308 million in the quarter or 6.1% of revenue, and on a year-to-date basis, CapEx was $676 million or 6.6% of revenue.
Cash at the end of the quarter was $2.8 billion, our total debt was $7 billion including capitalized leases for a net debt to total capitalization ratio of 22.5%. During the quarter, the company issued two bond offerings in Europe to further rebalance its debt portfolio. And in the quarter, Duff & Phelps and Moody's reaffirmed their debt rating for DXC and S&P upgraded its rating outlook to stable. During the quarter, we paid $54 million in dividends and repurchased $127 million of shares for a total of $181 million in capital returned to shareholders. Year-to-date, we've returned $552 million of capital to our shareholders in the form of $105 million in dividends and $447 million in share repurchases. In the second quarter -- in the second half -- forgive me, for the year, we expect to allocate more of our operating cash flow to shareholders through share repurchases. So in closing, we have revised our revenue target for the year to $20.7 billion to $21.2 billion, reflecting $300 million of currency headwinds, the $200 million revenue shortfall in the quarter Mike just discussed and an additional $300 million from revised phasing of contracts in our digital and applications business.
At the same time, we are raising our targeted EPS range to $7.95 to $8.20, reflecting the progress we're making on our cost takeout programs.
I'll now hand the call back to the operator for the Q&A session.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from James Friedman with Susquehanna.
James Friedman -- Susquehanna -- Analyst
Hi, thanks, good evening. It's Jamie at Susquehanna. I just want to do housekeeping check. Mike, you going kind of quick there, but I thought you had said and I apologize if I got this wrong, 250 basis points to 350 basis points of margin expansion. I missed the year, but if that's right, Paul, I'm just coming up with a $6 billion EBITDA numbers. Does that sound in the ballpark?
Paul Saleh -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. I said by 2022. So -- and we'll talk a little bit more about this Jamie at the Investor Day on Thursday. But the time frame was from today we announced 15.9 margin and I'm saying there is another 250 to 350 of expansion between now and fiscal 2022.
James Friedman -- Susquehanna -- Analyst
And for my follow-up if I could, you know the challenges on the staffing part of digital are now obviously unique to DXC. It's been a theme throughout the industry, but what I'm hearing is that you're eliminating some contract labor and at the same time increasing your internal headcount. Am I hearing that right, and is that sort of the direction that you'll be going at to address the digital opportunity over time?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, it's two-fold. One, yes, we are reducing some of our external labor spend and using internal resources, because it is less expensive to do that. That's point one. Point two, the digital resources or digital skills are certainly harder to come by on a global basis. So what we've put in place is a dedicated hiring machine, number one. Number two, we are beginning to hire ahead of future demand. So we have been running this very tightly for the last year and a half, as we have built an integrated workforce management system as we've taken a lot of cost out and we now recognize with the demand and you saw in the bookings and the sequential growth. There is substantial demand for digital skills. So we're going to begin to hire ahead. The other thing that we're now scaling is our Talent Cloud, which gives us the ability to source digital talent on a global basis and apply that to many of our digital contracts. So it's a combination of remixing some of our traditional skills from outside to inside and then it's a matter of putting a dedicated focus to hire ahead of the demand, so we can drive earlier recognition of revenue, particularly around our digital opportunities that are growing quite rapidly.
James Friedman -- Susquehanna -- Analyst
Got it, thanks. I'll jump back in the queue.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Brian Essex with Morgan Stanley.
Brian Essex -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Hi, good afternoon and thank you for taking the question. I was wondering if you touch on the application management side of the business, was there anything, Mike, if you could address that your customers, I guess you pointed to mix in the investment that your customers are seeing, is that in-sourcing or something else? And is it more short-term or long-term duration in nature?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
What we are seeing is in some instances, as clients begin to contemplate upgrades to some of their systems, they are scaling back on the maintenance of those existing systems and that did cause some of the shortfall, I think it was about $80 million particularly in the U.S., where we're seeing some substantial plans to upgrade some of the big application platforms that are large clients and I cited HPE as an example of that. So that was, to be honest, a little unplanned on our part. We didn't see that as clearly as we exited the first quarter as we saw throughout this quarter. So I don't see that -- as widespread, I don't see that is continuing in the future, but it did impact this quarter particularly in the United States.
Brian Essex -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Got it. Maybe just a quick housekeeping item, total revenue performance what was the constant currency performance in the quarter and FX impact?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
One sec, I'll give you that, 6.2% down on a constant currency basis and what did you ask for the full year? (multiple speakers) GAAP basis was 8.1%.
Brian Essex -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Okay, that's helpful.Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Joseph Foresi with Cantor Fitzgerald.
Joseph Foresi -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst
Hi, my first question here is, maybe you could just talk a little bit about when you're expecting the business to accelerate. I don't want to take anything away from the Analyst Day. But I think there is some concern that top-line growth is taking a long time to come through, and clearly this quarter's results would mean that maybe it takes a while for the crossover to happen. So maybe you could talk a little bit about that?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, we're going to talk in much greater detail about that on, Foresi, at the Investor Conference. I don't want to get into a lot of detail here, but I think there's a couple of things going on. One, what I'll call the mainstream business is basically declining at a faster rate that we had projected, some quarters it's less, some quarters it's a little more. But basically that's absolutely in line. What we are seeing is a slower ramp on our digital. We're seeing very strong demand in bookings and the numbers here support that. But we're also seeing an elongation from when contracts are signed to when we are recognizing the revenue and that can be as long as three months or four months. Some of that is clients initiated and some of it is us as a result of not being able to staff as quickly.
Now, as we -- and as I mentioned, we're putting a lot of focus on the hiring, so we can staff some of these contracts more quickly. But in general, I would say, the revenue from our digital bookings is coming in a little slower than what we had expected when we started this fiscal year out, and that's what showed up in the revenue performance this quarter.
Joseph Foresi -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst
Got it. And last one for me. The slowness in the revenues, do you believe that that's a structural issue and is that an internal structural issue or do you believe that you might be at a competitive disadvantage to kind of close the loop. I'm just looking for a little bit more color. Given the premium, the markets putting on your ability to grow. Thanks.
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I said I think that's a -- it's always a combination. I think there is some execution issues on our part, particularly in our application, maintenance and management business, for example the Americas moved to a little bit more of a general sales model, I concluded that that wasn't working and made some changes, so we've gone back to a more specialist orientation to sales and our applications business, that is really an execution issue that doesn't have anything to do with the market. No, I don't think we're disadvantaged at all. As a matter of fact, I think what we're seeing is an absolutely unique value proposition, where we're able to take many of these new digital solutions and we are very experienced and being able to integrate that into the existing IT state, both application as well as infrastructure. So I don't view that is a disadvantage at all, I view it as a compelling differentiator, I do think that enterprises are moving more slowly as they begin to scale some of these digital investments. So, yes, I think that is certainly a DXC issue, but it's an industry issue and that coupled with some of the execution issues, particularly application and maintenance business is from my vantage point explains the miss that we talked about today.
Joseph Foresi -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Jim Schneider with Goldman Sachs.
Jim Schneider -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Good afternoon, thanks for taking my question. I was wondering if you could talk, Mike, a little bit about relative to some of the revenue shortfalls you saw in the quarter, how much of those you view as transitory and for the one that you do view as transitory, how quickly you would expect those pieces of revenue to recover back to their prior state? Is that something that's going to be a one or two quarter thing, or is it going to take longer?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
I think -- I do think we were -- are projecting, and we think we'll see some improvement beginning in the third quarter. So I think we'll see some sequential growth as we go through the second half of this year. But in this business, when you missed by $80 million in our application and maintenance business in the second quarter, you don't make that up, you don't make that up. Now what you do is, you fix the execution, and as I mentioned, around the sales force and some other things, so that weakness doesn't persist in the out quarters. And then the ability to staff a little more quickly on some of these large digital project, then allows you to recognize the revenue a little more quickly. So I think the answer to this is, yes, we expect improvement in the second half of the year, but other than the currency headwinds, I mean it's hard to project exactly what that's going to be, our estimate right now is about $300 million, but that could vary a little bit. Did that answer your question, Jim?
Jim Schneider -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
It does. Thank you. And then maybe as my follow-up. I wanted to just ask, I know we're going to hear a lot more about the 250 basis point to 350 basis point potential increase in margins over the three years at the Analyst Day. But you maybe just kind of give us a sense of maybe single largest contributor to what's driving that, because obviously that's substantially higher than where we are today.
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, well, it's what I've been saying all. It really revolves around the workforce. It revolves around workforce optimization. And I'll tell you at Bionix, I keep saying this over and over again, but the results are beginning to come through. We are seeing operating leverage in this business. I don't know what -- you picked up on my script or not, but I mean our digital centers now where we're handling, because we're handling more digital calls than our largest [physical] center, and while we're not only handling higher volumes, we're seeing serious incidents decline, we are seeing productivity up by 40%. So the biggest contributor to the margin expansion over this time frame is workforce optimization and the continued work around automation and what we call BIonix.
Now in addition, there will be supply chain efficiencies, we still get 28 million square feet of real estate around the world, which we certainly don't need that much. So there'll be continued efficiencies in that arena as well. What you're hearing us today talk about contract workers and bringing some of that in-house and using the talent cloud to offset. All those are contributors to that margin expansion, but we're getting more and more confident in what those levers can drive in terms of margin expansion. And thank God we did this, thank God we invest in all the stuff, because it is mitigating the -- some of the execution issues I mentioned on revenue, but also just the slower ramp-up of some of these large digital projects. So we're able to absorb some of that revenue decline by this investment that we've made in automation and other workforce optimization programs.
Jim Schneider -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Rod Bourgeois with Deep Dive Equity Research.
Rod Bourgeois -- Deep Dive Equity Research -- Analyst
Hey, guys. Hey, just a couple of clarifications on the revenue growth picture. So, do you feel like your intense focus on cost takeout where you seem to be outperforming your expectations. Is that intense focus part of the cause of some of these revenue challenges and do you feel like if that's the case, there is a cost versus revenue trade off, are you starting to see an ability to turn the corner on that to sort of mitigate that trade-off?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, listen, we have run -- as I said, we've run our workforce and labor programs very tightly and we had -- going into this quarter had a had a very thin bench. And we are now getting more confident in our ability to drive this digital workload and digital growth. The other factor here, Rod, is many of these digital projects, the sales cycle on these is much shorter. So unlike the old IPO business, there could be six months or a year, a lot of these digital projects are measured in two, three months, that puts a whole heck of a lot more pressure on how you are managing your workforce and how you are bringing new people and skills into the business. So I think it's not so much a trade-off between the cost focus and the digital demand. It's more that we will need to expand our bench, so we can respond more quickly to the demand. There is no question there's demand. I mean we see the bookings and you see that sequential growth in bookings. This isn't an issue with demand, this is an issue of being able to satisfy that demand.
Rod Bourgeois -- Deep Dive Equity Research -- Analyst
Got it. And so it sounds like in terms of the route issues that you need to address on the revenue side, in digital, it's staffing, so you just clarified that. In application maintenance, it sounds like it's sales -- its the sales approach and it's the software upgrade had recently caused some disruption in client spending on maintenance work. Are those the two issues in the apps business?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, I think that's well said. We did not see the falloff in this maintenance business. I didn't see it maybe all that I did. Okay, so that took us by surprise, because -- and that's an individual client-by-client what they choose to do as they begin to remix some of their IT investments in preparation for some of these digital projects that they are undertaking in some cases upgrades to some of their major application. That we did not see, let me be perfectly candid about that. The second thing was, we went to a generalist sales model in the United States, and after watching that for two quarters, I concluded that wasn't the right approach. And the reason for that is we were missing some of the add-on work that we would get by having deployed a more specialized application sales force. So we have corrected that and we've gone back and we've put that dedicated application sales force in place, which will allow us to pick up on some of those incremental add-on projects that we didn't get, particularly in this quarter. So those are the two things.
Rod Bourgeois -- Deep Dive Equity Research -- Analyst
Got it. Final clarification. On the digital side, we talked about the staffing challenge there. Is this a case where you actually have an ability to win a deal and have strong digital growth, but the inability to ramp the staffing fast enough actually prevent you from being able to land the deal. In other words, the demand is there, if you could staff it, you'd have more revenues. Is that the case?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, I mean we are winning a lot of deals. That's clear. But what's happening to our book-to-bill and pipelines and everything. All those metrics are very positive, but yes, we have had some slowness, I don't want to blame it all on this, but it is a factor. Some of this is client driven as well. I mean many of these projects when they get to scale. I mean, for example, we just took live for a major automotive client, 150,000 users on our new digital workplace offering. That is a big deal when you move over a very short period of time, 150,000 users. So in some instances, the client is also going more slowly. That coupled with the more difficulty in bringing and onboarding the skills necessary to adequately staff some of the new sales that we have has contributed to that roughly $100 million shortfall that I talked about. So It's two things, just not just one thing.
Rod Bourgeois -- Deep Dive Equity Research -- Analyst
Got it. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Darrin Peller with Wolfe Research.
Darrin Peller -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Guys, how long do you think it'll take for your staffing for digital to actually be right sized. I know you're talking about different plans around it. But when you -- and then if you couple that with your -- when you're talking about all the partnerships you're announcing around cloud enablement whether it's Amazon last quarter or incremental deals you're doing to partner more with ServiceNow and others, just curious to hear are their revenues there that are yet to come on. Is that still new and should we expect that coimg forward and do you actually have the right talent for that or can you share talent resources with those new partners?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, part of our acquisition strategy is to help acquire the skills that we need. So when we source these new skills, this is a different staffing model than we've had in the business, for example we are hiring many more people out of universities worldwide and bringing them into our training program, that's new. That takes a little longer than just hiring a professional, hiring flopping them on a contract. So the whole staffing model, how we source, how we recruit is changing as we change the revenue mix of our business to more and more digital. The other thing here is that we're now really looking at the business in two dimensions as we think about scaling. One is digital and a lot of our new offerings and that has a different sourcing model and a different cycle time in our mainstream business, which we continue to drive reductions through productivity and other optimization programs.
We're also working with our partners. So lot of our partners are very helpful here in training and then certifying skills. AWS is an example of this, Microsoft Azure is example of this. So it's a combination of things that need to be done to build up the bench and build up the digital skills capability to source some of the contracts that we're winning.
Darrin Peller -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Okay, but when I think about where your bookings trends are for that -- those businesses, again with the partnerships and honestly just what's going to look like easier compares after this quarter and last quarter and the next couple. I mean I just wonder if you're going to be able to source from a talent standpoint fast enough to ensure that when we start getting into next fiscal year. You can't show some sort of light at the end of the tunnel on the revenue side.
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, listen, we think we can't, it forced us to change. As I said, we had to put a dedicated recruiting engine in place for these digital skills. We are now using our Talent Cloud, which has really just come on stream here and from a scaling standpoint in the last several months. So, yes, I do think we're going to be able to meet that demand from a sourcing standpoint.
Darrin Peller -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Okay, And just last one for me is, look, I mean you bought back more from a capital allocation standpoint, I guess we'll hear -- again we'll probably hear more at the Investor Day around this, but what are your latest thoughts Mike with regard to capital allocation now just given where the share prices and your cash flow opportunities?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, I mean at this point in time more capital should be allocated to share buybacks, that's pretty simple. It's a tremendous investment, and as Paul said, we're planning to do that we'll cover that in a little more detail on Thursday. But yes, you can expect as part of our capital allocation model to allocate much more to shareholder return and buybacks at this level.
Darrin Peller -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Okay, all right. Thanks guys.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Bryan Keane with Deutsche Bank.
Bryan Keane -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Yeah, hi, good afternoon, Mike, I was wondering with the senior management changes and the cost saving initiatives, just trying to figure out how the morale is going at DXC and maybe is that having an impact on the top line?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
I think where our accounts are growing and where we're involved in the future around digital, I think the morale is quite good. Removing the senior managers in most instances improved morale. Because whenever you delay an organization or you remove positions that aren't adding a lot of value, the workforce understands that and they see that. On the other hand, where you've got accounts that are declining and aren't moving forward as quickly on digital, I'd say the morale isn't as good and it also varies a lot by geography, I mean I just in last several weeks was in Asia and India and everywhere else and we're seeing tremendous opportunity as well as improvements in innovation and we've just launched another digital lab in Singapore, for example. So the people are very upbeat and buoyant about that. Where we have been slower to make the transition to digital and a lot of these new areas, yes, you would expect and where the focus is still primarily on cost and right-sizing the workforce. Yes, you would expect people not to be as happy and little more concerned about their future.
Bryan Keane -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Okay, that's fair. And then Paul, just on acquisition contribution, I was just trying to figure out for the quarter, how much revenue was from acquisitions and then you've made several here recently. Is there a contribution we can think about for total revenue for fiscal year ' 19 through some of these acquisitions and total acquisitions for the Company? Thanks.
Paul Saleh -- Chief Financial Officer
I think for the full year it will be less than 1%, right. I think in the past we said 1% to 2%, but I think we're beyond a little bit lower aside for this year and I will have to get back to you. I don't have the number to refer, and in terms of what's in the number this quarter on a year-over-year basis, not much -- not a lot, because Molina didn't close until the end of the quarter, the two acquisitions we announced yesterday obviously has no impact in the quarter and we had announced a couple of smaller acquisitions in Australia was a deminimis contribution in the second quarter.
Bryan Keane -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Okay. And then just a last one, Paul, the $300 million in FX, is that total contribution for the full year, or is that an incremental, because I had in my notes that after the first quarter, you were expecting $150 million of FX decline already for fiscal year '19.
Paul Saleh -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, it's for the total, I think if you remember, this is compared to -- with the range that we gave you at the beginning of the year. So compared with those rates of the beginning of the year, $300 million for the full year.
Bryan Keane -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Okay, thanks so much.
Operator
Thank you. And next question comes from Ashwin Shirvaikar with Citi.
Ashwin Shirvaikar -- Citi -- Analyst
Hey, Mike, hey, Bob. I wanted to kind of get a breakdown if possible. You've lowered your revenues here by roughly $800 million. The incremental FX is 150-ish, there's some other moving parts which are potentially offset by the acquisition. So is this you guys taking an other look at it, putting in an assumption or how much delay will hit. Can you break that down a bit?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, I'll break it down for you, Ashwin. So it's roughly $300 million income, OK. It's roughly the $200 million that we talked about in the second quarter. And then what we're doing is we are rephasing what we expect to happen around some of the digital contracts that have already been signed and what we expect to sign. So given our experience this quarter, we are rephasing how quickly we will be able to go from contract signing to revenue. That's another roughly $300 million, I will tell you that last part is the least precise just because of all the things we've talked about in this call, how quickly we can ramp up some of the skills and some of the other factors we talked about, but that's how it breaks down.
Ashwin Shirvaikar -- Citi -- Analyst
Got it. And the EPS number you put out in the margin implied there. I should -- we -- should we assume that our incremental costs also baked in for such things you mentioned like hiring ahead, hire training, hiring from colleges or potentially paying up?
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, all the projections that we've given you include the investments that we are planning to make, so that is some of the hiring investments that we need to make to build out a digital bench and we're doing this differently, we're doing this at our digital delivery centers, we're not embedding all this resource in our accounts, we're down the road, the projects aren't there. They have to be extricated. So we're doing this in a much more disciplined way, but to answer to your question, yes, those investments are factored in the projections that we gave you on margin expansion and on EPS. When you look at what we said already, we had $575 million of incremental synergy savings this year over the -- compared with the $400 when we started the year. So we're able to absorb some of those revisions that we've made on our outlook for revenue.
Ashwin Shirvaikar -- Citi -- Analyst
Got it, understood.
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
We always felt confident to put -- comfortable in increasing our EPS range to $7.95 to $8.20 (multiple speakers).
Ashwin Shirvaikar -- Citi -- Analyst
Thanks. See you in a couple days.
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
And operator, we'll conclude the call now. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's teleconference. You may now disconnect. We do thank you for joining, and hope you have a nice day.
Duration: 58 minutes
Call participants:
Jonathan Ford -- Head-Investor Relations
Mike Lawrie -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Paul Saleh -- Chief Financial Officer
James Friedman -- Susquehanna -- Analyst
Brian Essex -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Joseph Foresi -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst
Jim Schneider -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Rod Bourgeois -- Deep Dive Equity Research -- Analyst
Darrin Peller -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Bryan Keane -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Ashwin Shirvaikar -- Citi -- Analyst
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