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Rapid7 Inc (RPD 0.36%)
Q1Â 2019 Earnings Call
May. 02, 2019, 4:30 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 1st Quarter 2019 Rapid7 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this call will be recorded.
I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Mr Neeraj Mahajan, Vice President of Investor Relations. You may begin.
Neeraj Mahajan -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today to discuss Rapid7's first quarter financial and operating results in addition to our financial outlook for the second quarter and full fiscal year 2019.
With me on call today are Corey Thomas, our CEO and Jeff Kalowski, our CFO. We've distributed our earnings press release over the Wire and it is now posted on our website at [email protected] along with the updated company presentation and financial metrics files. This call is being broadcast live via webcast. And following the call, an audio replay will be available at investors.rapid7.com until till May 09th, 2019.
As a reminder, our discussion today contains forward-looking statements about events and circumstances that have not yet occurred, including without limitation, statements regarding our objectives for future operations and future financial and business performance. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs and on information currently available to us. Actual outcomes and results may different materially from the expectations contained in these statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those contained in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The information provided on this conference call should be considered in light of such risks. Actual results and the timing of sudden events may differ materially from the results or timing predicted or implied by such forward-looking statements, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Rapid7 does not assume any obligation to update the information presented on this conference call except to the extent required by the applicable law. Our commentary today will primarily be non-GAAP terms and reconciliations between our GAAP and non-GAAP results and guidance can be found in today's earnings press release.
At times, in our prepared comments or in response to your questions, we may offer incremental metrics to provide greater insight into the dynamics of our business or our quarterly results. Please be advised that this additional detail maybe one-time in nature and we may or may not provide an update in the future on these metrics.
With that I'd like to turn the call over to Corey.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you, Neeraj, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for joining us today on our first quarter 2019 earnings call. We again exceeded the high-end of our guidance for revenue and operating profit. Year-over-year, our ARR grew by 51%. Revenue grew by 34% and we generated a small non-GAAP operating profit. The percentage of total revenue that is recurring continued to increase and accounted for 85% of our total revenue in the first quarter. We ended Q1 with more than 7,900 customers, a year-over-year increase of 12%. Our customer economics remained strong with ARR per customer increasing to almost $34,000, up 35% year-over-year.
Rapid7 today has been successfully transformed to a high growth multi-product cloud software company on a path to higher long-term profitability. Based on the strength of our business, we are raising our full year 2019 guidance for total revenue. We expect to generate leverage across our business, but also see plenty of opportunities to invest for further growth and we continue to expect non-GAAP operating income to be breakeven in 2019.
Our strong results were once again driven our consistent performance across our product lines.
We continue to take share in the vulnerability and management market, but more importantly, we are seeing outsized performance in our broader SecOps portfolio. With the strength of our product portfolio and our focus on strategic professional services, we have seen an expected decline in our overall professional services revenue as we continue to churn transactional services-only customers.
Over the last few months, I have met with a lot of customers discussing how we can help better manage their security challenges. One of the current themes (ph) I hear is the concern that IT and security teams are unable to keep up with the pace of innovation. Security professionals are therefore hyper-focused on tools that not only help them manage security risk, but also make them more productive. Rapid7 has built the Insight platform with this exact concern in mind and are focused on delivering improved outcomes for our customers is what truly differentiates our strategy.
In this context, we are pleased to announce the acquisition of NetFort, a leading technology for network traffic visibility and analytics across cloud, virtual and physical assets. NetFort accelerates our vision to integrate real-time network monitoring and intelligence capabilities into the Insight platform. Their technology will broaden our data collection capabilities, which will accelerate our expansion into the enterprise segment for InsightIDR. We will also expand our capabilities for InsightVM to gain visibility into assets that can be scanned with a traditional approach, such as emerging markets in IoT and OT devices, allowing us to provide a holistic approach that doesn't exist in the market today.
We have acquired a very experienced R&D team in the network intelligence space and I want to take this opportunity to welcome them again to the team Rapid7. NetFort adds to a very strong R&D team here at Rapid7. Our efforts were recognized when our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report was referenced in the economic report of the President of the United States of America to highlight cyber security vulnerabilities across industries. This report and our other research efforts including our contribution to the Metasploit Community enables the analytics on our platform and products as well as deliver strategic value to the security community at large. These efforts continue to increase our credibility in the global market.
The end markets where we operate remained very strong. And with our four engines of growth, we believe we will continue to define and lead the SecOps market. Underlying our growth remains a healthy VM market. And we continue to strengthen our differentiation with investments and remediation and automation capabilities. What we're really excited about are the expressionery (ph) parts of our SecOps portfolio, which are going extremely well and helping the increases in ARR per customer I noted earlier. We again saw triple-digit ARR growth in InsightIDR, our sim product, but we are clearly gaining market share and believe the acquisition of NetFort will only strengthen our position. InsightAppSec is also seeing strong adoption and we're just getting started with InsightConnect where we are really excited about the mid and long-term prospects.
Now, let's review the quarter in the context of our 2019 goals. Our first goal is to continue to focus on growth. As I mentioned before, we delivered strong growth in the first quarter with ARR growth of 51% and revenue growth of 34%. Our updated guidance for 2019 revenue growth reflects our confidence in the business and our strategic initiatives. Our second goal is continue to make it easier for our customers to adopt our platform and optimize our customer economics. With the strong product pillars, we have the opportunity to help our customers across their SecOps needs and further increase average ARR per customer. We are in the initial phase of making multi-year investment to drive higher ARR per customer by increasing customer satisfaction throughout our product portfolio.
One of our achievements last quarter is a testament to our efforts to make it easier for customers to buy multiple platform products are starting to bear fruit. This customer, a large non-profit healthcare institution was looking for a comprehensive VM solution, but also wanted to help streamlining and automating their security workflows. The ease of install and use combined with prioritization and reporting capabilities made InsightVM a very attractive alternative to their existing solution. But it wasn't really the native integration of InsightVM with InsightConnect, providing pre-built remediation workflows that drove home the power of our platform and helped us displace a competitor.
Our third goal is to continue to drive leverage in our business. In the first quarter, we generated a non-GAAP operating profit of $0.6 million. Jeff will talk about this in more detail, but while we feel confident in the path to profitability, we (inaudible) investing for growth and in the long-term durability of the business. Overall, the first quarter was a good start to 2019 and we look forward to executing during the remainder of the year.
With that, let me turn the call over to our CFO, Jeff Kalowski. Jeff?
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Corey, and good afternoon, everyone. We are very pleased with our strong performance in the first quarter with results that exceeded our guidance on all metrics. Total revenue for the first quarter was $73.2 million above the high-end of our guidance and an increase of 34% year-over-year. Our strong ARR growth of 51% drove 48% growth in recurring revenue. Recurring revenue now constitutes 85% of total revenue compared to 77% a year ago, highlighting our successful transition to a recurring revenue business model.
Our focus on recurring revenue drove a 60% increase in our product revenue, which was once again driven by strong growth across VM, IDR and application security. This was partially offset by a decline in maintenance and support revenue as Nexpose customers migrate to the Insight platform, resulting in reclassification of maintenance revenue to product revenue. Therefore, it makes sense to look at product and maintenance and support revenue together, which collectively grew at 43% year-over-year. As expected, and as we mentioned in our prior earnings call, with the favorable shift toward ARR bookings, we experienced a slowdown in our professional services revenue, which declined by 13% when compared to Q1 2018. We expect the services revenue to stabilize in the second half of 2019.
Looking at the business geographically, revenue from North America grew by 34% and comprised 85% of total revenue. Revenue for Rest of World grew by 37% year-over-year and comprised 15% of total revenue in the first quarter. Total ARR grew to $268.2 million at the end of the first quarter, a 51% increase year-over-year. ARR growth was driven by strong new customer growth, as well as expansion into our installed base.
For the first time IDR comprised over 30% of new ARR bookings. Our customer count increased by 12% year-over-year and we ended Q1 with more than 7,900 customers globally. The quality of our customer base continues to improve as higher growth in our product customers more than offset the decline in service-only customers. Our customer economics remained strong with average ARR per customer increasing to almost $34,000, up 35% year-over-year.
Calculated billings for the first quarter was $61.1 million, a 27% year-over-year growth. This was driven by both strong new ARR bookings and renewals performance, partially offset by a decline in average contract length and professional services bookings. Contract length for Q1 2019 was 15 months, down from 18 months in Q1 2018 and a decline from an average contract length of 16 months we reported in Q4 2018.
Our overall renewal rate was a 120% in Q1 2019, which again reflected the strong growth in ARR. With our transition to a predominantly SaaS and recurring revenue business model almost complete and combined with our expectation ARR growth of 30% plus in 2019 versus growth of 53% last year, we expect the overall renewal rate to decline slightly this year.
As we mentioned before, our primary focus this year is to drive higher customer satisfaction and higher ARR per customer through multi-product adoption. Hence, we believe expiring renewal rate or ERR is no longer a meaningful metric as we move forward. As a result, we will only be disclosing the overall renewal rate, which we believe is more relevant and our overall retention remained strong.
Turning to margins, total non-GAAP gross margin in Q1 2019 improved to 75%, up from 72% last year and 74% last quarter. We are benefiting from a shift toward a more favorable mix of higher margin product revenue. Product non-GAAP gross margin was 81%, up from 79% in Q1 2018 and slightly up from 80% last quarter. Professional services non-GAAP gross margins declined to 28% when compared to a margin of 30% in Q4 2018 due to lower revenue as part of our continued focus on ARR and more strategic professional services.
During the first quarter, sales and marketing expense decreased to 45% of revenue when compared to Q1 2018 expense of 50%. This improvement reflects the operating leverage inherent in our business model, but it's also driven by the timing of some hiring that was pushed out to future periods. R&D expenses were 20% of revenue in Q1 2019 as compared to 26% in Q1 2018 and 22% in Q4 2018. This lower percentage of revenue partially reflects an increase in capitalized software to account for increased investments in our Insight SaaS platform. G&A expenses in Q1 2019 were 10% of revenue compared to 12% in Q1 2018 and 11% in Q4 2018.
For Q1 2019, we generated non-GAAP operating income of approximately $600,000 well ahead of our guidance. Non-GAAP operating margin was 0.8% compared to a margin of negative 16% in Q1 2018 and negative 4% in Q4 2018. This improvement is primarily driven by the over performance in revenue combined with the timing of some expenses that were pushed to future quarters.
Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was $2.6 million and diluted non-GAAP net income per share was $0.02, also well ahead of our guidance. We ended Q1 with cash, cash equivalents and investments of $285.1 million. This compares to $303.7 million as of Q4 2018. During the quarter, operating cash flow was negative $13.6 million as compared to positive $7.3 million in the prior year. Approximately half of this decrease was due to the decline in contract length from the model shift to subscription and a decline in professional services billings. The balance was due to timing of collections which were strong in early Q2 and we're still projecting positive operating cash flow for the full year 2019. In April, we acquired NetFort for $15 million in cash, while NetFort is not expected to have a material impact on 2019 revenue, we will be absorbing their R&D expenses for the rest of the year.
I also want to point out that as of Q1 we adopted the new lease accounting standard ASC 842. This lease standard drives the net increase in assets and liabilities of $15.9 million on the balance sheet, which represents the present value of our lease payments. The adoption of the new lease standard has no impact on our income statement, operating cash flow or free cash flow.
Now moving on to the guidance. For Q2 2019, we anticipate total revenue to be in the range of $74.3 million to $75.9 million. As I mentioned before, some of the hiring and investments we intended to do in Q1 have been pushed out, resulting an expected higher expenses in Q2. Hence, we anticipate non-GAAP operating loss in Q2 2019 to be in the range of $4.7 million to $3.7 million. We anticipate non-GAAP net loss per share for Q2 to be in the range of $0.08 to $0.06, which is based on an anticipated 48.4 million weighted average shares outstanding.
For the full year 2019, we're raising our guidance and now anticipate total revenue to be in the range of $312 million to $318 million, which is a 29% growth over 2018 at the midpoint. While we're pleased to report non-GAAP operating income for the first quarter, we continue to see plenty of investment opportunities. We believe these investments will further help improve customer experience, drive growth and obtain long-term leverage in our cost structure.
As we stated in our fourth quarter call, we will invest any upside back into the business. And as a result, we are still guiding to breakeven non-GAAP operating income for 2019. This guidance includes the expenses related to the NetFort acquisition. We anticipate non-GAAP net income per share to be $0.05, which is based on an estimated 52.3 million diluted weighted average shares outstanding. The weighted average shares outstanding for the second quarter of 2019 represent basic shares outstanding given our projected non-GAAP net loss. The weighted average shares outstanding for the full year 2019 represents diluted shares outstanding given our projected non-GAAP net income.
Non-GAAP income for the full year 2019 largely represents interest income on projected cash and investments. On a GAAP basis, we expect the full year net loss for 2019.
As a reminder, we're moving our global headquarters and consolidating facilities this year, and hence our free cash flow will be negative as a result of significant capital improvements in 2019, but these expenditures will decline substantially in 2020.
In conclusion, Rapid7 had a great start to 2019 and we look forward to delivering strong ARR and revenue growth, while significantly improving non-GAAP operating margin.
With that, we appreciate your time and support and we'll open the call for any questions. Operator?
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) And our first question comes from Rob Owens with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Your line is open.
Rob Owens -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great, and thanks for taking my question. Corey, as you guys have developed a broader product strategy in the overall portfolio at this point, talk about the solutions that you're landing with and how that's changing? And you're showing really strong ARR per customer, but just what's happening in terms of deal sizes initially or on the follow-on when you're really seeing that uptick?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. It's a great question, Rob. So first and foremost, we find that we can actually land with almost all of our cloud-based products. It's definitely true that InsightIDR and InsightVM are the dominant lending (ph) solutions. And I would say that it's very pleasant that InsightIDR is very balanced with both cross-sell and also with actually lending net new customers. Even though they're earlier in their evolution and they're seeing attraction (inaudible) we also are lending net new customers with both InsightConnect and our application security products.
So we really feel at this point in time, we have the advantage of not having to force customers into a single track. Part of our ability to actually get leverage long-term is we kind of just start what the customers' problems are. What's most important to you and I've helped you with that security operations problem and we think that's a big long-term benefits, our ability to be able to serve and deliver our customers.
As to your question about the overall economics, as we've said before, we have a big push on really driving net new customer growth. I think the number I quoted this quarter was roughly 12%. And our focus on that is that we've proven our model to be able to expand in upsell and even do cross-sell over time, but we still think that we're at the stage of evolution where we want to continue to grow net customers and that's the managerial push that we have on our team.
I'm happy to say that we're seeing success in that effort. And the other thing that we're seeing is customers are coming in with larger commitments, but those larger commitments contain both larger assets that are under management and also we're seeing increases in the products that customers are starting to think about and look at as they come into the cycle.
Rob Owens -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
And relative to that new customer growth versus the land, are you seeing it across all four solutions, I know there's some that say that not a lot of new customer growth out there so they're trying to go deeper. But it seems like your customer growth has remained strong and in fact is getting even stronger. So maybe you could speak to that to some degree? Are there some areas where there's more greenfield opportunity, are you finding it across the board?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. I would say we're finding greenfield opportunity across the board. Although the results will come in uneven based on the level of investment that we have in the sales and go-to-market effort. So if you imagine that VM and the SIEM space are our highest sales and marketing investment areas and also our highest producers of new customers, that's not a shock there. We expect to continue to scale as we are increasing our investment based on the success in both application security. And then especially this year, we're really starting to scale the InsightConnect, our automation and orchestration business. But this is still the scale of year for that, we don't anticipate seeing the results of that investment next year.
Rob Owens -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Thank you very much.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you, Rob.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Gur Talpaz with Stifel. Your line is open.
Gur Talpaz -- Stifel -- Analyst
Great. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats again on nice quarter here. Corey, you laid out a really nice broad vision for NetFort and I was hoping you could maybe elaborate a bit here on the timetable, some of things you announced especially around things like the push into and OT and passive scanning, maybe just a little bit of elaboration there would be really helpful? Thank you.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. So the first focus on NetFort is to extend our network data collection capabilities really serving the enterprise segment of the SIEM market. We have great traction in the SIEM market with the IDR solution overall. We actually are gaining traction on VM (ph) in the enterprise segment of that market. So where we have momentum, we want to apply our focus there.
And so that's the first place we're actually applying the NetFort technology. Also it provides one of the I think important, but not only component that allows you to actually collect the data necessary for IoT, OT solution. We just have a different view that's in the broader market about IoT and OT. We think a holistic solution not just tells customers what the problems that they have are, but helps customers figure out how to manage some of those risks and challenges they have in the environment. And so we don't anticipate really this year being a focus area in the IoT, OT space. We see that as something that evolves over the next three years. And I actually think that that evolve in alignment with the market maturity.
Again, it's very early in the IoT, OT space today. And so we'll continue to provide solutions along the way, but we look at our highest impact solutions will they end over the next several years.
Gur Talpaz -- Stifel -- Analyst
That's really helpful. And then you noted some really strong metrics here on IDR triple-digit growth again in ARR bookings and then over 30% of new business ARR bookings here. Can you talk about where some of that strength is coming from? Is it primarily upsell to core VM customers kind of looking to extend the value prop? Or are you going out there and seeing SIEM replacement deals coming across your desk here?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. So I would categorize it slightly differently is one, we're actually seeing a healthy balance and probably, we have always seeing the healthy balance of cross-sell in IDR to the base and adding net new customers with their first time to Rapid7 on our IDR SIEM solutions. So that's the first thing that I would highlight. The second thing that I would actually emphasize is most of our traction is actually coming from customers that are deploying new capabilities for SIEM and for monitoring their overall environment. And you can think about really two core drivers there. One, the cost and complexity of previous solutions made it difficult for them to actually build a successful program. The second one that we see around displacement if people that have spent money, but not been able to build successful programs to their liking. We're seeing traction in both of those different areas. One, the dissatisfied displacement and the other one is people that are actually really focusing building out their security operations program.
Gur Talpaz -- Stifel -- Analyst
That's really helpful. Thanks Corey.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Jonathan Ho with William Blair. Your line is open.
Jonathan Ho -- William Blair & Company -- Analyst
Hi. Congratulations on the strong quarter. I just wanted to start out trying to understand a little bit about sort of the sustainability of the ARR growth. We've seen a few quarters here where it's been above 50% and it seems to be persisting at these levels. But how do you guys think about like that over a longer term basis and how should we be thinking about that as we put our models together?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. I mean the first thing I would say and Jeff can chime in. If you just look at the guidance that we gave, our guidance for ARR this year is over 30%. Our focus as a management team is actually for long-term durable growth is profitable. We actually think we have great, a great market, a great opportunity. We actually think we're well positioned in the market. But to be clear, we're not actually a (inaudible) investing or even focus on trying to actually have a temporary spikes of 50% and actually drive that. We're focused on durable growth over time. We think we're well set up for that. I would actually look to our guidance as sort of how we actually think about our overall investment strategy and philosophy.
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. So Jonathan, if you look at this year, we guided (inaudible). So obviously in the second half we have tougher comps so that growth rate will go down over the course of the year. But at this point we're not going to project growth beyond 2019 right now, we'll do that at a later date.
Jonathan Ho -- William Blair & Company -- Analyst
Got it. That makes sense. And then just in terms of the incremental upside that you guys talked about in sort of the investment opportunity, where do you see the most opportunity to put those investments to work?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yes, I would say the nice thing that we actually have probably, you could think about multiple categories. One, we're in a great demand environment. We are seeing demand across our portfolio, as evidenced by the strong performance overall. And so we are investing to take advantage of demand where it's right there and continuing to drive growth there. We're also investing in and actually taking our store and application security capabilities and continue to mature those because we see great long-term growth dynamics there.
So from a sustainable growth perspective, we actually have lots of stuff to invest in, and we're taking a very disciplined approach to actually investing in those areas to actually achieve the growth, not just this year, but also in the future. But we are very focused on making sure we have expense discipline which is why we are highly committed to the targets of breakeven that we laid out during the year. The second class of stuff is that now that we actually know that we actually have a multi-product cloud company for SecOps and we have solutions that are in demand. We are very, very focused on the customer operations reducing friction and making it easy to actually cross-sell, up-sell and retain customers over time. And that's the big area of, what I think about it operational investments that actually go into our systems and processes to actually make sure that we actually have a smooth glide path to become and fulfill our SecOps from potential.
Jonathan Ho -- William Blair & Company -- Analyst
Great, thank you.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Matt Hedberg with RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open.
Matt Hedberg -- RBC Capital Markets. -- Analyst
Hey guys, thanks for taking my questions. So recurring revenue, now, I believe it was 85% of total revenue, which is really, really obviously strong and that has had a nice trajectory. I'm curious, though, when you look at the percentage of customers that are still sort of like not on insight. Is there a way to think about what that base looks like? And are there things that it can be done obviously there's a technology advantage and a lot more products on insight, but how do you kind of think about the non-Insight base?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. So I think there's a couple of -- this is great question by the way, I think it is a couple of points of clarification. The first is that Jeff can talk about, we've been steadily growing the percentage of customers that are on our Insight platform. So we're quite happy with the progress that we made and we made that progress without actually forcing customers to actually go into the Insight platform. We have not actually done anything to really state customers have to other than saying that, hey, here's the capabilities and the features and benefits that you actually get, but we've not done anything to actually force the shift there. And so much of the transition has been willing. And Jeff may have some further color.
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So, Matt, what happens is when the customers renew, we tend to migrate them then. So we're happy with the migrate, the pace of the migration, every quarter we hit more and more customers and that's why you're seeing in my comments, the reclassification of the revenue going to product from for maintenance as a result of that migration. So we're pleased that every quarter we continue to add more on the platform.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah, and I would say that if you asked about the long tail of the customers, the biggest source is just going to be specific customers or regions of the world where they have prohibitions against cloud-based technologies and we'll continue to support those customers, but that's probably the longest sale that's actually there.
Matt Hedberg -- RBC Capital Markets. -- Analyst
Got it. And then maybe just as a follow up, obviously IDR and AppSec continued to do well, but when we look at Connect, I know it's still early, but when you guys think of like kind of that two to five-year view of that product, what makes you so excited? What's -- are there some things you're hearing from customers that sort of gets you guys excited about this? Not necessarily. this year, but sort of in that two to five-year view?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
No, absolutely, and you're right. We are extraordinarily excited about it. While we haven't quantified it, we actually think it has great potential to be a major leg of growth. The things that call to excitement are really a couple of things. The first and foremost is that the fundamental need is deep with our customers and that they need, they intellectually drive productivity. Many of our customers are overwhelmed, understaffed and talent is a big problem for them. And so therefore they're trying to find solution to drive productivity.
And so the reason that our people are optimistic about the overall store market is automation orchestration is deeply welcomed by customers of all stripes there because they actually need the productivity growth. The second thing that I would actually say from some of our early -- early explorations and early wins there is that of all of our solutions, the value proposition is the clearest in the sales cycle. When you get in there, you actually demonstrate the productivity gains, which more than any other security solution is really about a return on investment because it's actually a labor savings or higher impact the teams can have by automating workflows. And so the simplicity of that value proposition, combined with the need the customers have for productivity are two other things that have us as the most optimistic here.
Matt Hedberg -- RBC Capital Markets. -- Analyst
Super helpful. Thanks, guys, and congrats.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Michael Turits with Raymond James. Your line is open.
Michael Turits -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Everybody good evening.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Hi, Michael.
Michael Turits -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Obviously, really strong growth overall and great growth in InsightIDR. What's the growth like in VM, I think you talked about it at one point being long term expected it over 15%. So what does it look like both on an overall basis and then in an ARR basis?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. So, I would maintain that our long-term expectations will update them, but I would assume that our long-term expectations remain consistent with what we laid out in our previous analyst day. And we think that environment we will be a share gainer in the overall market. That expectation hasn't changed, again that's a long-term expectation. We have seen our total ARR growth continue for -- I want to go with massive separately, continue to be at levels higher than that, both last year and even in the first quarter of this year and that's great. It gives us confidence, it gives us belief and gives us a strong foundation, especially with the other dynamics that are happening in the business. So, but I would still say that our long-term expectations are aligned, but for the past year and for the past quarter, we've seen much higher total ARR growth in that.
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, so Mike, just to add to that VM is still over half of our ARR base. So without giving specific growth rates on the VM, but if we grew 51% then obviously VM will still very strong in the quarter.
Michael Turits -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. And then maybe just talk for a minute, I assume there have been a couple of questions on InsightIDR and -- or SIEM. Can you talk about that competitively who you're seeing competitively? And also I think that's been asked before, but thoughts on the rollouts of (inaudible) that pronounced RSA in that space, whether you think that you'll be going up against those guys?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah, it's a great question. So one, the SIEM market is extraordinarily competitive market, which is one of the things I'm proud of our team across whether it's our sales and marketing teams or engineering teams are our support and services teams is that think about other fact that we are actually winning and getting scale in a market that is extraordinarily competitive and actually it's very strong players in the market overall and many of the deals that we do are competitive deals and we're winning on the strength of our technology, our services and our experience that are there and so that's a backdrop.
The range of competitors really varies broadly. And so what I would say if you just look at any of the SIEM reports or any third party analysts put out, you will see us compete in it at some level at sometimes with all of different players there. We referenced out there -- the point I actually made earlier is our focus areas, people that are actually building out new security operations programs or displacing those folks that are actually dissatisfied with their current solutions. We do not have to nor the strategy of ours is actually to go out at this pace with happy customers that just doesn't make sense with a large market opportunity that we have in front of us.
As far as the recent introductions from both Google and Microsoft in the market, I'll talk about it's too like two different apples. One, overall, actually I think it's a good thing. If you think about us being one of the few primarily cloud players, anything that we can actually do to actually lend credence to the fact that basically cloud SIEMs to be dominant way that we actually think about the evolution of that market, actually strengthens and broadens our market scope and market opportunity. And so we think that, just like any market where you have competitive concentration and that drives large opportunity, that's a healthy thing.
As far as the competitive dynamics that we expect there, while it's early, I think Google and Microsoft are in two very different positions. Google has a very sophisticated threat unnamed solution that solves a part of what a SecOps professional would actually do, but it's not a full SIEM in and of itself. Microsoft has introduced a full SIEM that centered around Azure. Our belief is that from a positioning perspective, we are extraordinarily well positioned with our focus on ease-of-use, productivity and taking our expertise in building solutions that can do complex work and simplify that and actually serve a broader market because most people's environments are extraordinarily heterogeneous. And you have to actually be deep not just in Azure but across AWS, across on-prem solutions and across the broader overall market. Again, we take the Microsoft SIEM seriously, but we think overall we're well positioned and incredibly well -- market is actually going very fast.
Michael Turits -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Great. Thanks, Corey, thanks, Jeff, thanks Neeraj.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Gregg Moskowitz with Mizuho. Your line is open. Gregg, go ahead and ask your question.
Gregg Moskowitz -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Thank you. Hi guys. I'll add my congratulations both on the ARR strength as well as for reaching non-GAAP profitability this quarter. So, Corey, just maybe to follow-up on Michael's question and your response to that. So completely understand that the value proposition, especially in the multicloud world. But, I think with Azure Sentinel, the hope and kind of what they are talking about the ability to extend into on-prem environments as well. So I think it might be helpful if you just sort of talk to their ability or for potentially their limitations in being able to serve customers in hybrid cloud world?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. So, the -- so first of all most, I have a huge amount of respect for Microsoft and what they've built. I actually do believe that there will be more than just Azure, and they'll extend to on-prem world. More of what I am emphasizing is our, what I believe is our differentiated focus and differentiated advantage. We are -- we have one of the broadest data collection ecosystems in the world and we'll continue to expand that. And no matter where you sit, we are looking to collecting more data for more types of environments. And our goal is to do that better than anyone else in the world. The second thing that I'll actually emphasize is that we think about modern SecOps as how well can you collect the right type of data, how well can you analyse the data, and then how well do you operationalze that data is actually drive productivity.
And we think that we are building one of the best and most world class store offerings in the world that allows people to operationalize the data that they are collecting in the environment. We think that that combination of that pervasive data collection that we think is deeper than most organisations that are out there and we continue to add to that with our NetFort acquisition and we'll continue to add to that. Combined with our ability to simplify analytics has actually drive the operationalization with our automation orchestration, we think that that is a solution that customers are going to continue prefer.
And the nice advantage that we actually have is that by and large we found is customers are looking at what the right solutions that drive their productivity and that simplifies their mission to actually keep themselves secure. And so we think we're well positioned. Again, we think Microsoft will be successful. We think that this is a space right now is that if you characterize it is you have a SIEM market that has actually gone faster than the overall security market. You have right now, most of that market being a legacy on-prem. We think if you look five years from now, most of that will actually be in the cloud, and we think that we are positioned to actually be one of the leaders when people thinks about cloud SIEM. And by the way, that doesn't mean Microsoft can also be specific.
Gregg Moskowitz -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Right. That's extremely helpful, Corey, thanks very much for that. And then just a question for Jeff. On the call you guys talked about new logos being a priority and certainly this quarter was good. I realize that your professional services business actually a headwind on your customer count. Just curious in spite of that if you're expecting the total number of net new customers to be greater this year versus what you showed in 2018?
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, we would expect it to increase. If you look at the services-only customers, we're getting toward the end of that attrition by the end of the -- that's tailing off. So we would expect an increase. And if you looked at product-only customers, the growth there is more in the mid-teens.
Gregg Moskowitz -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Fantastic. Thanks very much guys.
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Saket Kalia with Barclays. Your line is open.
Saket Kalia -- Barclays -- Analyst
Thanks, guys, thanks for -- thanks for squeezing me in here.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Absolutely. Thank you.
Saket Kalia -- Barclays -- Analyst
Yeah, absolutely. So maybe just to start with you, Corey, and apologies if you already mentioned this. But I think you talked about on the call, sort of the idea of taking share in the VM market which seems clear but it also feels like a lot of the VM specialists as a whole, have also been doing well. And so the question is, are there any other larger entities that we don't typically think of as VM players that are also -- that are maybe building in this share. And I think you touched on this in one of your prior answer, but just to make sure that this way, do you still see sort of net new TAM as well in terms of white space in VM specifically?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah, so we still see white space in VM, it really come from two areas, one is uncapped, one you could already have some level of cap at some point in time in the future. The uncapped one is that we still see plenty of opportunity to expand in the mid-market internationally. And we actually, we have a long cycle of actually growth to it. That has not -- there's been a pillar of growth, but by no means the only one dominant pillar of growth that we see lots of long-term potential in that overall market, which is why we're very confident about those long-term growth rates that we actually laid out previously. We're probably are still above the overall security market. If you think about the growth rate that we laid out for example I'd say.
The second thing that I would actually say is as you've seen over the last several years and we see a continuing -- an expansion of the strategic value of vulnerability management. What that really means is us and all of the major players in the vulnerability management space are actually seeing growth in assets under management, and we've talked about this before is that we started out when there was a compliance only think of being less than 10%, that's continued to grow over time. We think that that still has legs to continue to grow over time. But of course you have be kept that at a 100% of the assets in the environment. But we're nowhere near 100% of the assets in the environment right now, but I think that's also providing lots of the growth that you're seeing across the broader market over there. Those are two different types of I would say growth opportunities that are there.
Saket Kalia -- Barclays -- Analyst
Got it. That's really helpful. Maybe you, Jeff. I think -- lot of the questions have been focused on the IDR part of the business. I think you said in the prepared remarks that it made up over 30% of ARR. Now that we have a little bit of -- little bit more time under our belt, the first question is how do the renewal rates look there? And the second question around that just qualitatively is how does the pipeline for IDR deal sort of looking to -- for the remainder of '19?
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
(Technical Difficulty) it continued to be strong. And based on the pipeline, we see that as the fastest growing segment in our market right now. InsightConnect is growing fast as well but that's still early days. So all the indications are that it's all good, it's all going well.
Saket Kalia -- Barclays -- Analyst
That's great. Thanks very much guys.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Alex Henderson with Needham & Company. Your line is open.
Daniel Park -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
Hi, guys. This is Dan Park on for Alex. Thanks for taking my questions. So -- could you just talk about the strong 30% international growth this quarter? I know this has remained the pretty steady at 15% of revenues, but which areas are you seeing strength and where do you see further opportunity for improvement?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yes. So I'll say this, we are seeing very healthy growth internationally. It has got 15% but a lot of that has to do with the strength of our North American business also going at a very healthy rate in and of itself. We think that our growth around the world have lots of layers and can sustain for a very long time. And we do think that that 15% will come up over time. If you think about the major dynamics that are there that we've actually done a shift to cloud, which while positive has more specific applications on different markets internationally. We were steadily rolling our cloud-based instances around the world.
We just introduced our full cloud-based instance in Japan. Last year, we introduced in Australia. We have Germany. We actually have the UK. But that is for a world that's become more and more concerned about controlling data within their borders. That is something that has to actually happen in conjunction would be growth in different markets. So what I would say is that our biggest growth potential is in places they either have very low cloud localization concerns about like the data has resulted in the country or places where we've actually put our cloud instances of which we continue to expand those around the world.
Daniel Park -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
Great, thanks for that. And are you -- this is just as a follow-up. Are you seeing the same, I guess the same interest internationally for the Insight subscriptions? How is your update then overseas?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
It's very healthy. I mean the dynamics are our growth and our growth of the platform is very healthy around the world. And so that has just been a universally healthy thing.
Daniel Park -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
Great. Thanks for taking my questions.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Melissa Franchi with Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.
Melissa Franchi -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Great. Good afternoon and thanks for taking my question. Corey and Jeff, you talked about doing a good job in converting the base into Insights at renewal. Can you maybe talk about the ASP uplift, do you get at that conversion either on a like-to-like basis or what you're seeing in terms of additional attach?
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. So, Melissa, remember that what we didn't do is we did not penalize the base. So when they migrate, we keep them at their same rate of maintenance and content, other than an inflationary uplift, but when they do upsell which they do, then they -- then we get the uplift of -- on SaaS tailwind because that on an annual basis that's at a higher rate. So I just wanted to clarify that.
Melissa Franchi -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Okay, got it. All right. That makes sense. And then I guess another one for you Jeff. In terms of the margin improvement this quarter was definitely notable. I know you said that there was some timing around investments in hiring. So, to what extent was the margin driven by some of the timing factors versus more sustainable areas of leverage in sales and marketing and R&D?
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So if you look at our guidance based on where we ended up. We guided to about $5 billion at the midpoint, about $3.5 million was revenue and gross margin. So we did better on the gross margin, a more favorable mix with less services but higher revenue with higher performance. And the balance, that was about $3.5 million and the -- the other piece was on the OpEx line about $1.5 million. But what we're doing is we're reinvesting that upside into the remainder of the year. As we said any upside that we had in the year, we're going to reinvest to drive further growth. So that's really what happened in the first quarter with respect to the overperformance.
Melissa Franchi -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Got it. Congrats. Thank you very much.
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Melissa.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Joshua Tilton with Berenberg. Your lines open.
Joshua Hilton -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Hi guys, thanks for taking my questions. Just the first one, has the application security space become more competitive especially with Synopsys's recent push with their Polaris platform?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah, I would -- it's a great question. I would describe the Application Security market is wide open. I mean so many things that are happening as people, one, you have more traditional companies with a retailer manufacturing becoming software company. So the pace of applications are just growing more born in the cloud applications. And so what you find is lots of the established players trying to reconfigure themselves to be successful in this world and some new entrants that are there.
I don't know if the net competition level has actually changed. I look at it from an opportunity standpoint is that there is no one that actually has a shoe went to be dominant and we see that as a pretty big opportunity for us that we have to work at it. We have to make investments at it. We think we're well positioned, but we see this as a massive opportunity to become a dominant player in this market.
Joshua Hilton -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Okay, thank you. That was helpful. And then really quick, how should we think about the benefit to gross margins as you turn off the rest of the service customers?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Can you repeat the question one more time?
Joshua Hilton -- Berenberg -- Analyst
How should we think about the benefit to gross margins as you churn off -- the rest of the service customers?
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Well, I think the way you want to look at it is, services this year will be about mid 20s in margin is what we're projecting for the year. It may fluctuate a little bit. But the way to look at is the mix difference. So right now it's about 10% and if you look at our overall margin on products is about 80%. So I would -- the way I would look at it is just take a waiting if that mix changes over time that 10% may go down a little bit and that would drive up the overall gross margin, but that's the best way to look at it. We think that the product margins are relatively stable right now, it may fluctuate a little bit, but overall we are forecasting mid 70s.
Joshua Hilton -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Hi. That is very helpful and maybe just one last quick one. The additional functionality that you guys are getting from the NetFort acquisition, is that just going to be integrated into the offering or is that going to be another upsell for existing customers?
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah, we haven't announced our pricing the packaging around the solution yet.
Joshua Hilton -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Okay, thanks.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thanks.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Sarah Hindlian with Macquarie. Your line is open.
Sarah Hindlian -- Macquarie -- Analyst
All right, thank you very much. I appreciate you guys taking my questions and congrats on the quarter. It looks like you saw really nice -- nice Q1 in terms of new customer adds even though usually we look at Q1 as primarily upsell. Well, I had a couple of questions for you guys on the back of that. The first, I'd love to get a better understanding of any initiatives or brand awareness programs or anything you guys are doing to continue to drive recognition of your logo in such a competitive market, if indeed there is anything like that in place.
And then secondly, in some of these look like slightly lower initial ARR for new customers. Just a little bit lower than we were expecting. So I was wondering if there's something there seasonally are worth calling out that we should be aware of. I think you guys that those would be very helpful.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah, I think, Jeff, and I will tag team it. So starting with the last question is, in general, we're actually seeing initial deals have larger ARRs coming in. That's absolutely true that your Q4, -- our Q4 has a larger concentration of larger customers. So there's definitely a seasonal effect that has actually happened on a fairly consistent basis. But by and large, we're actually seeing consistent growth in the ARR of customers as they actually come in and the overall ARR per customer.
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Yes, Sarah, I'm not quite sure I followed the lower number, but the average ARR per customer grew by 35%. So, I'm not -- wasn't quite sure what you...
Sarah Hindlian -- Macquarie -- Analyst
Specifically for new customers given the strength of your 12% customer count growth. It was a little bit lower just ARR for new customers. Just a little bit lower than what we were modeling, but it's likely, just some seasonality.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Yeah. And I think that's I would suspect that has to do with the seasonality, if anything. Again, we do get more larger deals in our Q4 and Q1 is typically smaller. But we were quite happy to see both. To answer your question, other question about the initiatives that we're driving. We do have a big managerial focus on adding new customers. It's quite easy to just focus on cross-sell and upsell and we're quite proud of our sales and go-to-market teams that they'd be fairly disciplined and focusing on adding new customers and not just milking the installed base with cross-sell and up-sell and we think that's been a very successful initial.
Sarah Hindlian -- Macquarie -- Analyst
Awesome. That's great. It's really nice to see. Congratulations.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. And that's all the questions we have for today. This concludes today's program. You may all disconnect. Everyone have a great day.
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Thank you all.
Duration: 56 minutes
Call participants:
Neeraj Mahajan -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Corey E. Thomas -- President, CEO & Director
Jeff Kalowski -- Chief Financial Officer
Rob Owens -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Gur Talpaz -- Stifel -- Analyst
Jonathan Ho -- William Blair & Company -- Analyst
Matt Hedberg -- RBC Capital Markets. -- Analyst
Michael Turits -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Gregg Moskowitz -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Saket Kalia -- Barclays -- Analyst
Daniel Park -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
Melissa Franchi -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Joshua Hilton -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Sarah Hindlian -- Macquarie -- Analyst
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