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Workday Inc (WDAY -1.34%)
Q1 2020 Earnings Call
May 28, 2019, 4:30 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Welcome to Workday's First Quarter Fiscal Year 2020 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session toward the end of the call.
And with that, I will hand it over to Mike Magaro, Vice President of Investor Relations.
Michael Magaro -- Vice President, Investor Relations
Welcome to Workday's first quarter fiscal 2020 earnings conference call. On the call, we have Aneel Bhusri, our CEO; Robynne Sisco, our Co-President and CFO; Chano Fernandez, our Co-President, and Tom Bogan, our Executive Vice President of the Business Planning Unit.
Following Aneel and Robynne's prepared remarks, we will take questions. Our press release was issued after the close of market and is posted on our website, where this call is being simultaneously webcast.
Statements made on this call include forward-looking statements regarding our financial results, applications, customer demand, operations and other matters. These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Please refer to the press release and the risk factors and documents we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, for information on risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in such statements.
In addition, during today's call, we'll discuss non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe are useful as supplemental measures of Workday's performance. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to and not as a substitute for or in isolation from GAAP results. You can find additional disclosures regarding these non-GAAP measures, including reconciliations with comparable GAAP results, in our earnings press release and on the Investor Relations page of our website.
The webcast replay of this call will be available for the next 90 days on our Company website under the Investor Relations link. Also, the Customers page of our website includes a list of selected customers and is updated monthly.
Our second quarter quiet period begins on July 15, 2019. Unless otherwise stated, all financial comparisons in this call will be to our results for the comparable period of our fiscal 2019.
With that, let me hand it over to Aneel.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Michael. I'd first like to thank everyone for joining our Q1 2020 earnings call. I'm pleased to report that our first quarter fiscal year 2020 got us off to a great start for the year. We continue to attract new customers and many of our current customers are growing their investments with us. Our customer satisfaction rating remains among the highest in enterprise software and the success of our customers is a cornerstone of our long-term business strategy.
Let's start with some of the highlights from Q1 beginning with Workday HCM. Momentum for this application suite remains strong as organizations continue their transitions to the cloud. In Q1 we added Carl Zeiss AG, Cisco Systems, Daimler Trucks North America, Old Mutual Limited and Procter & Gamble, among the many new HCM customers in the quarter. Our proven ability to support our customers' large volumes of data and transactions continues to be a big differentiator in our success. Notable go-lives in Q1, included Enterprise Holdings and Tyson Shared Services.
Turning to Workday Financial Management, we saw continued momentum in Q1 with over 50% customer and net new ACV growth. New customers included Advocate Aurora Health Systems and E*Trade Financial Corporation. In addition, during the quarter many existing customers expanded their relationship with Workday. Like Mason for example, a leading investment management firm expanding their use of Workday Financial Management to include all of their affiliates.
Lastly, we also had a large Fortune 500 scale insurance company at financial management to become a full platform customer. As always getting customers live and on budget is core to our business. Amongst the many go-lives of Q1 for financials, I would like to highlight Sprouts Farmers Market and NASDAQ.
Q1 results for our third quarter with the Adaptive Insights business planning cloud and customer demand continues to reinforce our confidence in the long-term opportunity. We added approximately 150 stand-alone Adaptive deals, and once again saw success selling into the large enterprise market with approximately 50 deals representing both platform sales and planning add-ons.
New customers selecting Adaptive Insights' business planning cloud in Q1 included, Advocate Aurora Health Systems, Airbus, AstraZeneca, AutoZone Parts, H&R block and the Ohio State University.
We are pleased that our customer and product momentum continues to get recognised by leading industry analysts. This month, Gartner published its 2019 Magic Quadrant for cloud core financial management suites for midsize, large, and global enterprises, and Gartner named Workday as a leader for the third year in a row.
Also in Q1, I'm pleased to announce we moved all customers to Workday 32. With this update, we delivered more than 500 new features, including deeper investments in Workday Learning and Workday Recruiting, finance-focused machine learning capabilities to help resource managers align skills resources to projects, and deeper integration between Workday and Adaptive Insights. Indeed, we are well on our way for a goal of bringing Adaptive Insights fully into the power of one.
And last but not least for Q1, we're pleased to share that we're once again ranked number one on San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work in the Bay Area list. This is the seventh time Workday has been ranked number one on the list. Workday also ranked number one on the UK's best large workplaces list by Great Place to Work Institute. All-in-all this quarter was a strong start to our fiscal year.
I'll now turn over to our Co-President and CFO, Robynne Sisco. Over to you, Robynne.
Robynne D. Sisc -- Co-President & Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Aneel, and good afternoon, everyone. As Aneel mentioned we continue to execute well against our long-term market opportunity, differentiating ourselves through our technology and our uniquely purposed customer success model.
We are very pleased with our first quarter results, delivering total revenue of $825 million, reflecting year-over-year growth of 33%. Our subscription revenue was $701 million, up 34% and professional services revenue came in at $124 million, up 29%. We continue to see our long-term opportunity expanding outside of the U.S., with revenue up 42% to $197 million. Our non-U.S. revenue now represents a record 24% of total revenue.
Subscription revenue backlog was $6.8 billion, growth of 30% year-over-year, driven by strong performance across net new bookings, add-on business and renewals, with net retention once again over 100%. Subscription revenue backlog that will be recognized within the next 24 months was $4.56 billion, growth of 29%.
Our non-GAAP operating income for the first quarter was $108 million, resulting in a non-GAAP operating margin of 13.1%. Operating cash flow in Q1 was $209 million. Current unearned revenue was $1.73 billion in Q1, up 31% year-over-year, while total unearned revenue grew 29% to $1.83 billion. We continue to invest in our people, and in attracting top talent to Workday. During Q1, we successfully added and integrated approximately 400 net new employees, bringing our total workforce at the end of the quarter to almost 11,000.
Operationally, it was another strong quarter of execution in Q1. We're extremely pleased with our results and have gotten off to a great start for fiscal 2020.
I'll now turn to guidance. Our focus remains centered on driving strong, durable growth, and we will continue to invest in our products and other areas of the business, to support our long-term growth aspirations. Based on our over performance in Q1, but keeping in mind, we face a very difficult second half comps from last year, we are raising our fiscal 2020 outlook and providing Q2 guidance as follows.
For subscription revenue, raising our full year estimate to be in the range of $3.045 billion to $3.06 billion. We expect our Q2 subscription revenue to be $746 million to $748 million or 32% growth, with sequential improvement in Q3 and Q4 of approximately 4.7% and 5.7% respectively. Similar to last year, this pattern reflects our increasing seasonal trends toward larger Q4. We still expect professional services revenue to be $500 million in fiscal 2020, as we continue to prioritize driving the highest levels of customer success. For Q2, we expect services revenue of $124 million.
For non-cash operating margins, we estimate Q2 to be 10% and we still anticipate 12.3% margins for the full year as we remain committed to 200 basis points of margin expansion even as we continue to aggressively invest for continued growth. The sequential decline in the non-GAAP operating margin from Q1 reflects typical seasonality and is primarily a result of our annual employee compensation cycle which took effect at the beginning of Q2. The GAAP operating margin is expected to be lower than the non-GAAP margin by approximately 27 percentage points in each remaining quarter and for the full year.
We still expect subscription revenue backlog to follow the pattern we laid out in our Q4 call with high 20s growth in the first half and low 20s growth in the second half. We continue to see a healthy pace of cloud migrations across HR and Finance, but as we look at the full year, we're seeing more opportunities move into the back part of the year, specifically shifting into Q4. There is no change to our operating cash flow guidance in FY '20 of approximately $790 million or 30% growth.
As a reminder, Q2 traditionally generates limited operating cash flows. This is due to the combination of seasonally low collections and the seasonally high sequential increase in expenses resulting from our annual employee compensation cycle.
We are excited to have recently begun occupying our new Pleasanton development center which will house more than 2,200 employees and also be home to our new customer center. We continue to expect the FY '20 capital outlay for our owned real estate projects will be approximately $130 million, of which $94 million relates specifically to the development center. There is no change to our fiscal '20 plans of $280 million for other capital investments to support customer growth and continued business expansion.
And finally, I'll close by thinking our amazing customers, partners and employees for their continued support and hard work. We are still in the early stages of executing against our long-term vision as a company, but our progress wouldn't be possible without a shared goal. We're off to a great start for our FY '20 and look forward to updating you on our progress throughout the year.
Operator, let's begin the Q&A process.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from the line of Kash Rangan from Bank of America. Please ask your question.
Kash Rangan -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Hi, congratulations on a spectacular start to the fiscal year. One question for Robynne, if you look at the deferred revenues, I know that you don't try to deferred revenues in billings they're not exactly representative of the strength of the business. But nonetheless, I just wanted to understand if there were certain factors that might have driven better, much better than the typical seasonality we have seen in deferred revenues.
And one for you, Aneel, you mentioned 50 platform deals with Adaptive. Are these fairly large corporations? Or as the next few years unfold for the company, how do you see planning, playing out alongside financials, just one synergize the other. And just want to get your broader thoughts on the adoption of planning and financials. Thank you. Congratulations.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Well I'll take that. Thanks, Kash. I'll take the second part first. One of the attraction we saw with Adaptive in the suite market was in large companies, and I mentioned several of them that were either add-ons or part of platform deals AstraZeneca, Airbus and H&R Block, I mean these are big organizations that are embracing the Adaptive Business Planning Cloud. And if Tom, you want to add anything?
Tom Bogan -- Chief Executive Officer, Adaptive Insights
Yes, I think that's right, Aneel. And from our perspective we've seen a lot more traction with the larger companies working with the broader Workday sales team. And it's -- as we know those are longer sales cycles, but the early traction with those customers is very encouraging.
Robynne D. Sisc -- Co-President & Chief Financial Officer
Kash, on your deferred revenue question, nothing particular to call out in Q1 outside of just the strong performance that we had overall, and as you know just a reminder that unearned balance can vary with contract terms and renewal timing as well.
Kash Rangan -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
And if I could sneak one, Aneel, any broad comment on the replacement cycle you're seeing in core HCM, whether it's legacy SaaS or legacy on-prem, it looks like there is a bit of an acceleration, another inflection point in that journey, and maybe I'm wrong about it but just want to get your comment on that. Thank you.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Yes. I don't think we're seeing an inflection point reacceleration. I think the HR product line continues to do very well. And, you know, we're now on Main Street in terms of the types of customers that are looking to move to the cloud, and with the high level of customer satisfaction and the proven -- the proven points of customers being live, I think we just -- it just bodes well for Workday. I think if there's anything that I would say about this quarter is that, all the product lines are beginning to kick in and take some of the pressure off HCM, and I hope that continues.
Michael Magaro -- Vice President, Investor Relations
Operator, can we have the next question please.
Operator
And we have a question from the line of Brent Bracelin from Keybanc. Please ask your question.
Brent Bracelin -- Keybanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Thank you for taking the question here. One for Aneel and a follow up for Rob. And Aneel, my question is on the demand drivers for cloud financials in the Fortune 50. Given the increasing number of proof points of the last year within the Fortune 500, what are the remaining objections you're fielding from the larger enterprises and when would you expect to see some of the larger Fortune 50s begin to go down a path to embrace cloud financials?
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Well, I'd separate out. You said Fortune 500, Fortune 50s in there. Fortune 50s are really hard to predict. And -- we have a few of them, I will keep my comments to the broader Fortune 500. I believe we're seeing a very similar adoption pattern for Fortune 500 as we did in HR, five or six years ago. The more reference customers we have, the more that customers are facing painful upgrades of legacy systems, the more that the regulations change with things like 606, those are all catalysts.
And I do think that the cloud is now viewed as the preferred deployment option versus on-premise even for CFOs and whether that's through planning or through core accounting I think that is happening as well, and that's been the case in HR and CRM for a while. It's beginning to happen in finance now. So a lot of things, no one thing to point out.
Brent Bracelin -- Keybanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Certainly good to hear. And then as a follow up for Robynne, you talked about -- more opportunities shifting into kind of Q4. My question here is just -- is this tied to a handful of larger lands that are shifting because of complexity? Is it more geo-specific? What are the factors there that you should point us to as you think about some opportunities shifting in the quarters there in the second half?
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
Brent, this is Chano speaking. I don't think there is one single factor. I would just say that particularly large deals at that time in move quarter to quarter, and as we are becoming a larger companies those tend to navigate more and move more toward the back end part of the deal -- of the year, sorry. But overall the pipeline is healthy and the quality of the global opportunities remain strong.
Brent Bracelin -- Keybanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Okay. So it's not geo-specific then?
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
Nothing to highlight really specific then.
Brent Bracelin -- Keybanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great. Thank you.
Operator
And we have a question from the line of Mark Murphy from J.P. Morgan. Please ask your question.
Mark Murphy -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Yes. Thank you, and I'll add my congrats. Robynne, just following up on the prior question about more opportunities moving into Q4. At the same time, you're raising guidance, and I think you're reaffirming the subscription backlog guidance. So, I just wanted to clarify, are you highlighting the same trend that's been there, I think for many years of the business, just becoming a little more Q4 seasonal? Or were you intending to call out some type of, maybe more meaningful change in this fiscal year?
Robynne D. Sisc -- Co-President & Chief Financial Officer
No, nothing more meaningful, Mark. I mean as you know in the past there have been times when we've called out specific trends that we're seeing, just to help our analysts and investors understand the dynamics that impact some of the metrics that you track. For example, last year we talked about the difficult first half comps what we're seeing in terms of larger deals flowing into the second half of the year. We're actually seeing a similar dynamic this year, but they're just flowing into Q4 instead of more evenly spread across Q3 and Q4. So we thought it might be helpful for you to just highlight that. As you look at how to model our business, but it's nothing really unusual it's just the continuation of the trend that we've been seeing.
Mark Murphy -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Okay, great. And then as a quick follow up Aneel, when you secure a planning win with a large organization like an Airbus or an AstraZeneca, do you see that as a precursor to a core financials win in the future? Or do you have enough data to know whether that increases the odds that you'd be able to win core financials from that organization in the future?
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
I think it's still early. But if you look at -- if they have HR and planning, so they're more than just one work day product in the customer account, then I think it bodes well for finance. Then the account as it has a chance as to default to a Workday platform. If it's just stand-alone planning, I think it's probably harder to predict at this point. And Tom, if you want to add anything.
Tom Bogan -- Chief Executive Officer, Adaptive Insights
No, I agree. I think all those accounts are opportunities to engage with the customer and develop a more holistic relationship. But I think it's more likely to advance, if it's an HCM and planning deal.
Mark Murphy -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Thank you very much.
Operator
And we have a question from the line of Keith Weiss from Morgan Stanley. Please ask your questions.
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Hi. This is Sanjit Singh for Keith Weiss, and congrats on a swell and a strong start to the year. Robynne maybe kick off with the cash flow related question. We looked at the billings performance this quarter and the deferred revenue performance all very strong at 30% plus, and the -- it seems -- on the cash flow side though it seems to under pace the growth in billings, as well as in the overall cash flow. Can you give us a sense of why cash flow grew 14% year-over-year versus the 30% type of growth we saw in deferred revenue?
Robynne D. Sisc -- Co-President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So because Q4 is such a high volume collections quarter. It's not easy to predict how much we're going to get in Q4 versus Q1. And so we found over performance in cash collections in Q4, which took some cash out of Q1. So we still feel really good about our guide for the year, but Q1 was a little bit of a lower cash flow quarter for us than usual. But you should expect that to pick up later in the year.
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Great. That's very helpful. And maybe Aneel for you, as we think more broadly about the platform, it seems like each of the various HCM financial plannings seems to be performing well. If I look back to PeopleSoft all those years ago, you guys I think brought on supply chain at the later stages of the PeopleSoft story. Is that an area where the platform can move next in sort of serving more of the sort of manufacturing type vertical, any thoughts on that?
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
I'd say it's on the radar, but I wouldn't say that we're going to announce anything imminently. There's -- that's a big undertaking. We sort of have more work to do to really establish ourselves as leaders outside of HR. We want that same leadership position for financials for planning. I think we're planning with Adaptive, we're one in the two.
And then with Prism Analytics, we saw 70% or almost 70% growth this past quarter. So I don't feel the need for another growth engine at this point. Frankly, I think it would be a distraction. We have a lot of work to do on the product side especially as we take all the products into the world of machine learning. But, you know, I'd ask that question every year and somewhere you might get a different answer.
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Appreciate that, Aneel. Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Justin Furby from William Blair & Company. Please ask your question.
Justin Furby -- William Blair -- Analyst
Thanks, guys, and congrats. And Chano, I wanted to ask about just your efforts selling back to the base. I think there's been a bit more of a focus around that over the last several quarters. I'm wondering if you're seeing any sort of measurable impact whether retention rates or bookings mix or if it's more incremental? And then I've got a quick follow up for Aneel.
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
Thanks, Justin. That customer base efforts or add-ons is tracking well. We see increased adoption around many different product signs, recruiting, learning, clearly present planning expenses and some others. We are very happy as well with the retention rates. We have commented again over 100% on a net bases. So, those efforts we feel that they're paying off, they're still early days, but clearly as the opportunities increase, not only domestic here in the U.S., but also internationally with a larger customer base, we see a huge opportunity there, based on our great customer satisfaction and proven solution adoption. That's a great opportunity for us going forward.
Justin Furby -- William Blair -- Analyst
Okay, great. And then Aneel, I think you mentioned Legg Mason, which if I remember right was an Oracle win and it sounds like a win back for you guys. I'm just wondering if you could speak more broadly on whether you're seeing more of those types of opportunities in your pipeline from Oracle, SAP. And if so, what you think is driving that? Thanks.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
You know, I'd probably rather not comment on that one. Legg Mason for the full organization not going at all the competitive dynamics. They were happy with what they had rolled out initially and decided to broaden their use of Workday, and that's probably best to leave it there. There are failed cloud implementations. There are also cloud implementations of best-of-breed products tied back to legacy core H.R. and finance that are on premise. All those create opportunities for us. So, it all comes back to having happy customers and having projects that are successful and as we stay focused on that, and other people don't have successful outcomes, hopefully do look to Workday.
Justin Furby -- William Blair -- Analyst
Okay, great. Thanks, guys.
Operator
And we have Mark Moerdler from Bernstein Research. Please ask your question.
Mark Moerdler -- Bernstein Research -- Analyt
Thank you, and again as you've heard, congrats on the quarter. I got two questions. The first is can you give us a bit more color on Services specifically how have you seen the Workday delivered services shifting from HCM to financials. What I'm really trying to understand is how your -- how the process is moving in terms of getting the partners to deliver not just on the HCM side but on the full financial side themselves? Are you seeing the clients able to -- the partners be able to build and implement better and bigger implementations of financials. So, where are you on both of those journeys? And then a follow up question.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
I have to get back to you with some of the specific data, but finance is definitely now more than half of the ecosystem, well more than half of the ecosystem is the partner ecosystem that was the case of H.R. many years ago. And I'm going to guess it's better than 80/20 for H.R. I'm not quite sure where it is for finance. Probably tracking close to that, but the partners of all -- two large partner have all embraced financials and in some cases some of the firms that were late to embracing H.R. have made up by embracing finance early, and then we've got the boost from these partners embracing Adaptive. So feel very good about the partner engagement on financials, and our stated goal is that our services is there to support our customers, and therefore customer satisfaction, but we really count on our partners to take on the bulk of the implementation work.
Mark Moerdler -- Bernstein Research -- Analyt
That makes sense, and that's very helpful. And as a follow up, where are you on moving the existing planning customers over to Adaptive?
Tom Bogan -- Chief Executive Officer, Adaptive Insights
Yes, we've made -- this is Tom. We've made excellent progress, and I think at this point, we have had conversations with probably 75% of the customers. Some of the customers who had implemented the Workday planning product, it's operating successfully for them. So they'll be a little bit slower in their migration, but we have several successful customers. For example, Bucknell University is up, is live, running on Adaptive, and we have five or six other customers who have already converted and gone live.
Mark Moerdler -- Bernstein Research -- Analyt
Very helpful. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Operator
And we have a question from John DiFucci from Jefferies. Please ask your question.
Samad Samana -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Hi. This is Samad Samana on for John. Couple of questions. One, for Aneel, the 50% net new ACV growth for financials is really impressive. I was curious if we were to stratify that for mid-market customers versus large enterprise, how would that growth rate look? And then I have maybe a follow up question for Robynne.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chano, on that first one?
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
I wouldn't have know exactly, I will need to come back to you on day one. What I can tell you is that the momentum continues in terms of seeing financials moving more upmarket. And there is a good strength there. We had a great quarter in terms of large financials customers particularly in healthcare and financial services to mention sun.
We saw a good momentum continue in terms of financial first move that we highlighted in Q4. And as well some good progress in terms of our HCM customer base, coming out of -- again being very happy with the product kind of partnership, considering us full financials and the pipeline is around those opportunities since they're pretty healthy going forward.
Samad Samana -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Great. And then, Robynne, I guess from a bit of a CFO perspective, if you think about the adoption for financials, how do you think in terms of all of the changes we've seen here. If I think about even ASC 606, as some of that lessons. Do you think that adoption for financials should continue to increase as a result of that as well and CFOs, maybe I have less to deal with from a regulatory standpoint, maybe just help us understand from your perspective on financials adoptions as well. Thank you.
Robynne D. Sisc -- Co-President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes, that's a great question, Samad. I do think there has been some distraction around some of these big accounting changes including 606 and then more recently the lease accounting changes, which was I know a lot of work for public companies, finance organizations. It will be interesting to see as the companies get beyond that, if that frees them up to make system changes.
I do believe that one of the things that these accounting changes really highlight is how difficult it is to implement these changes if you're on a legacy on premise financial system, where customers who are in the cloud, and even more specifically on Workday Financials, we've built in all the functionality that they needed to adopt and account properly under the standard going forward, and we did that internally ourselves as well, we're using all of the lease accounting functionality to adopt that at the beginning of our Q1.
So I do think that it will highlight the need for a CFOs and businesses to move to the cloud. So I do expect some positive momentum coming out of that. But the timing of that is unclear as a lot of companies will move along their own timelines.
Samad Samana -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Great. Appreciate you taking our questions, and congrats on the quarter.
Operator
We have a question from the line of Alex Zukin from Piper Jaffray. Please ask your question.
Alex Zukin -- Piper Jaffray -- Analyst
Hey, guys, two quick ones from me. Robynne maybe just one more time on the linearity of the pipeline through the year. If you could talk to -- are you saying that this is a question of the comps being just more difficult in the 3Q period versus last year or is it something about the size of some very large and pace of some very large transactions that could make 4Q more or could make the year more back and loaded and which where would that show up is that -- should we look at two years ago from a billings linearity or deferred linearity to get a better sense than in the year ago period. And I've got a quick follow up.
Robynne D. Sisc -- Co-President & Chief Financial Officer
Yes, Alex. So really two different things. One, wanted to highlight the difficult comps from last year for the back half, right, just overall. But my comment specifically about Q4 and then I'll turn it over to Chano to add what he wants is when we look at our net new ACV for the year, a higher percentage of it is landing in Q4 than what we've seen in the last few years. Now this is just a continuation of a trend that we've been saying. But I did want it to call it out because it will impact your backlog, it will impact unearned, which will impact other metrics that you derive from those. So just wanted to make sure that you had the visibility that we were seeing with that dynamic. Chano anything you want to add?
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
Thank you, Robynne, not much. I would say Alex that as you know we come off of a very strong FY '19, particularly strong Q4, and some of the large transactions that will be severally larger cycles in terms of how long it take us to get there? Will also on -- and will happen more materially around the Q4 time frame again this year. So that potentially has an impact of what we're commenting here, on the yearly linearity. Nothing else to highlight, but I think that's a normal cycle and trend as we are becoming a larger company, I would say.
Alex Zukin -- Piper Jaffray -- Analyst
Got it. And then maybe just Aneel, a quick one for you. Now you're seeing the strong, really strong continued traction with Adaptive, in your first much larger acquisition. As you think about the broader aperture of your financial suite, and you think about organic versus inorganic innovation around that suite, how do you -- do you feel even better now about your ability to add functionality there through M&A to accelerate your vision? Or just maybe any comments about how you think about that for the future?
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
I think, my personal view is that large acquisitions are really difficult. And frankly, a lot of things fell in place with Adaptive. Number one, we knew the team really well. Tom and I are close friends going back 15 years. We had very similar corporate cultures, very similar focus on customers. And then the products and technology were very complementary. We knew the space, we were pretty far behind where Adaptive was. So, there was a lot of things that fell into place to make that work.
I just don't think there's a lot more targets out there like that. So, you could see us continue to do smaller M&A. But the big ones will have to be -- will have to pass through a very tight filter on cultural fit, on technology compatibility, on limited overlap in terms of both revenue and technology. So, I wouldn't see that as a precursor for us doing a whole bunch more large acquisitions.
Alex Zukin -- Piper Jaffray -- Analyst
Perfect. Thanks, Aneel.
Operator
And we have a question from Heather Bellini from Goldman Sachs. Please ask your question.
Heather Bellini -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Great, thank you. I just wanted to follow up on planning, it seems like you guys are having a lot of really good success there. And I know you've only owned the asset for a little less than a year. But, I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit about how the selling motion has changed since you've owned it. If it's a shorter sales cycle for you given how well you know these customers are ready when you're going into your installed base with it. And maybe any comment on you know your ability to sell this -- it like as an add on to what you know is a sweet sale versus stand-alone traction? Thank you.
Tom Bogan -- Chief Executive Officer, Adaptive Insights
Yes. Thanks, Heather. This is Tom. So there are two fundamental selling motions. The first is a stand where we're selling -- planning on a stand-alone basis, and that's analogous to the way we sold the product prior to the acquisition by Workday. We continue to have a lot of success with that selling motion a lot of interest from customers and the business there. We continue to be very pleased with the business there.
I think in the nine months since the acquisition, the biggest change has been in Adaptive's ability to penetrate larger customers and have meaningful conversations. These are often platform deals, and I'll let Chano comment on that as well, or their planning upsells to existing customers. And, I believe the credibility that we have being part of Workday has really accelerated our ability to have meaningful conversations with those customers.
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
Yes, completely agree, Tom. I think, yes, the decision planning cycles are shorter than a normal financial cycles. So you see a couple of motions there. One is those customers that will be going with Adaptive on a stand-alone basis, even some of our ACA or financial customer base is starting with. And you see those where basically they see Adaptive as critical solution for them to make a decision to move forward with us, either on a financial transformation or an HR transformation, and that is certainly an asset that we didn't have a significant strength before, and that was, I would say, a gap, and it is much more complementary now. So, clearly it's great, the power that it is giving us in terms of not just the Adaptive planning stand-alone business but obviously for customers making broader decisions with Workday.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Well, I would just add that the three we highlighted in the press release were all existing Workday customers, and they bought it as an add on, Airbus, AstraZeneca and H&R Block, all were already existing Workday customers so that was even part of a platform deal. So that's also a very exciting new development for us.
Heather Bellini -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Great. Thank you so much.
Operator
And we have Derrick Wood from Cowen & Co. Please ask your question.
Derrick Wood -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Great. Thanks, Aneel. You mentioned trying to get new machine learning capabilities woven into the platform, where are you guys in this journey and how should we think about the modernization, how you get modernization out of it? Does it give you pricing leverage? What the revenue capture is?
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Well, we are -- we have been for the last three years, basically sowing in the machine learning capabilities into the platform rather than making it a feature app by app, right. You could add machine learning to one specific app, but it's not leveraged by the rest of the application. So, we're taking the longer term approach of building it into the fabric, and today we've got several examples of where it's shown up. In the career planning world, the system can make recommendations for the next move you should take or the next course you should take on the learning side.
In the finance world, a lot of automation around the audit process. So it's coming to life really rapidly and we're going to unveil a whole more-whole wave of more capabilities at our next user conference. I don't see it as a pricing, we're not going to charge extra for it. It's hard to say -- it's hard to see charging one price for the products with machine learning and then charging less, if they don't have machine learning. I think it's going to be a core capability that is just required -- just to be competitive. And so maybe it gives us pricing leverage because we'll be ahead of our competition. I think it's very likely that we are already ahead and we'll just extend that GAAP, and we'll see if that gives us some pricing leverage.
Derrick Wood -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Okay. And I guess just staying on a product question, do you have any update on your platform efforts. I know it's a long build out cycle, but are there certain milestones we should be looking at as you roll this out to the market?
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Well, so we now are up to almost 100 customers that have signed on for being either a pilot customer or actually using the platform in production. Very simply the path to being in full GA, right now we're in limited GA is just opening up the full platform from an API perspective. Right now we're building out the APIs for very specific use cases making sure those first wave of customers are successful, and then adding a new set of APIs to open up additional use cases. And you'll just see over time that -- I think of it maybe won't take us long, but gmail was in beta forever even though it was a great product.
I think we're going to be in some form of limited GA for some time just as the breadth of APIs increases. But if the APIs that are there meet your needs, then it's full GA. So I think that's the -- maybe that's not a clear way to describe it, but we have work to do on the APIs, the rest of the platform looks very strong.
Derrick Wood -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Okay. That's good color. Thank you.
Operator
And we have a question from Brian Schwartz from Oppenheimer. Please ask your question.
Brian Schwartz -- Oppenheimer -- Analyst
Yes. Hi. Thanks for taking my question here this afternoon. Either for Chano or Aneel, I was wondering if you can share with us, it's an industry question, on what you're seeing on demand trends and the pipeline momentum in the federal government. And then as we think about financial management in the federal government, it's possible to either compare or contrast the adoption trends that you're seeing for that industry versus what you're seeing in the commercial area? Thanks.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Yes, this will be really simple and really short. We don't sell to the federal government. There's a whole set of unique accounting requirements and even HR requirements that almost make it a completely different product line. Now, if the federal government continues down the path to acting more like commercial organizations that would open up a brand new market for us and we do have some quasi federal agencies that are Workday customers because they actually tend to operate more like a commercial entity. But right now it's not a focal point for us.
Operator
And we have Scott Berg from Needham. Please ask your question.
Scott Berg -- Needham -- Analyst
Hi, everyone. Congrats on a good quarter. Just one question for me, and I don't know who wants to take it. But we heard in the quarter that I assume it was Workday ventures who made an investment in one of the large RPA robotic process automation vendors that's out there. That company subsequently bought both your financials and HR platform is using it to reduce the implementation times by 50% or better. I just wanted to know is this the technology you guys are looking to bring into your own implementation cycles? Because I know that it has been a large focus reduced implementation time frames in costs over the last two years. Thank you.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Yes. I would say that's in the TBD category. We make investment in a lot of interesting technologies. This new world of automation is definitely interesting to us, but we haven't made any decision yet to bring it into our own platform. And some of the estimates in terms of reduced time, we haven't been able to validate those ourselves. So, we continue to invest heavily in our technologies to reduce the cost of implementation, and if some of this RPA stuff can reduce the cost of implementation or reduce the time, we definitely would embrace it. But unclear at this point. It's an exciting new area, but unclear that this is something that we're going to bring in closer to Workday.
Operator
We have time for two more questions. Our next question comes from the line of Raimo Lenschow from Barclays. Please ask your question.
Raimo Lenschow -- Barclays -- Analyst
Hey, thanks for squeezing me in. Quick question for Aneel. If you look at the competitive landscape, one of your competitors -- large competitors is trying to force their client base over to kind of non-value add upgrade. Do you see anything of that showing up in your kind of conversations already? Or is that something that's still going to come? Thank you.
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Anytime a customer is facing an upgrade from the legacy platform, they tend to look around and all we want to do is just to be in the mix of conversations. They're definitely customers that probably don't come to market, but Increasingly customers are smart about their choices and so I do think that those kinds of tactics just drive customers into a decision making process, and they look at alternatives and hope we do well as part of those evaluations. Customers don't like that. They don't want to be forced to do it, to do anything. But I think if they're being pushed to move into the cloud, if I were them, I'd say, hey take a look at all the alternatives that are out there before you make a decision.
Raimo Lenschow -- Barclays -- Analyst
Yes, OK. Bye-bye. It makes sense. Thank you. Well done.
Operator
We will take our final question from Brad Reback from Stifel. Please ask your question.
Brad Reback -- Stifel -- Analyst
Great. Thanks very much. Can you give us a sense of how the renewal pipeline looks for the remainder of the year? And the opportunity that can afford you to sustain the strong upsell you saw in the current quarter? Thanks.
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
Yes. This is Chano, and the renewal pipeline is looking very strong for the remainder of the year. We at this point have no reason to fear other than confident with the same kind of renewal ratios, in terms of the net basis that we've been sharing with you.
Brad Reback -- Stifel -- Analyst
And Chano on that point, how is your confidence on the ability to upsell with this much broader products set than these customers saw when they first signed their deals?
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
As I commented before, having a broader customer base with a broader set of products, when you have the customer satisfaction ratios that we're enjoying is just a blessing, right. Because clearly allows us to have conversations with customers that are raising value in some of the products and investments they've done with Workday. And we have to trust to prove basically the opportunity for them to get value of the additional solutions that we bring to market.
So, we feel very confident, and we've been sharing with you some of the attached ratios on very high rates that we've been experiencing on the sale of your products. So around 70% or 70% plus on products like time tracking, recruiting, payroll, and others that have been longer in the market. We have no reason to believe that some of the other products that are just newer will not get to the same ratios over time.
Brad Reback -- Stifel -- Analyst
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
We now conclude the call. Thank you for joining Workday's Q1 earnings conference call. Have a good night.
Duration: 47 minutes
Call participants:
Michael Magaro -- Vice President, Investor Relations
Aneel Bhusri -- Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Robynne D. Sisc -- Co-President & Chief Financial Officer
Tom Bogan -- Chief Executive Officer, Adaptive Insights
Chano Fernandez -- Co-President
Kash Rangan -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Brent Bracelin -- Keybanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Mark Murphy -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Justin Furby -- William Blair -- Analyst
Mark Moerdler -- Bernstein Research -- Analyt
Samad Samana -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Alex Zukin -- Piper Jaffray -- Analyst
Heather Bellini -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Derrick Wood -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Brian Schwartz -- Oppenheimer -- Analyst
Scott Berg -- Needham -- Analyst
Raimo Lenschow -- Barclays -- Analyst
Brad Reback -- Stifel -- Analyst
