WalkMe Ltd. (WKME) Q3 2021 Earnings Call Transcript

WalkMe Ltd. (WKME -1.25%)
Q3 2021 Earnings Call
Nov 10, 2021, 5:00 p.m. ET

Contents:

• Prepared Remarks
• Questions and Answers
• Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:

Operator

Good day, everyone, and welcome to the WalkMe third quarter earnings call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. John Streppa, head of investor relations.

Please go ahead.

John Streppa -- Head of Investor Relations

Hello, everyone, and welcome to WalkMe's third quarter 2021 earnings conference call. On the call with me today are Dan Adika, CEO and co-founder of WalkMe; Rafi Sweary, president and co-founder of WalkMe; and Andrew Casey, the company's chief financial officer. Certain statements we make today may constitute forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Safe Harbor provisions of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that relate to our current expectations and views of future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, some of which are beyond our control.

In addition, these forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are not guarantees of future performance. Actual outcomes may differ materially from the information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those set forth in the section titled risk factors in our prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2021 and other documents filed with or furnished to the SEC. These statements reflect management's current expectations regarding future events and operating performance, and speak only as of the date of this press release. You should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that future results, levels of activity, performance and events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or will occur. Except as required by applicable law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise after the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of an unanticipated event. See our press release dated November 10, 2021, for additional information. In addition, certain metrics we will disclose today are non-GAAP metrics.

The presentation of this financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for or superior to the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. We use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision-making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. We believe that these measures provide useful information about operating results, enhance the overall understanding of past financial performance and future prospects, and allow for greater transparency with respect to the key metrics used by management in its financial and operational decision-making. For more information of the non-GAAP financial measures, please see the reconciliation tables provided in our press release dated November 10, 2021.

And with that, I'll pass it over to Dan.

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Thanks, John, and thanks, everyone, for joining us on our call today to discuss our third quarter results. We had a strong third quarter, which exceeded our guidance on all metrics as well as the signing of two strategic partnership agreements that are important for the company's future growth. We continue to execute well and accelerate our growth, and I can share a quick summary of all the achievements. Subscription revenue continued to accelerate to 37% year over year to $46.1 million, up from 31% growth in Q2.

Total revenue grew 31% year over year to $50.6 million. ARR at the end of the quarter totaled $201.7 million, up 31% year-over-year. We're seeing continued growth from our DAP customers with ARR growth of 120% year-over-year, representing 35% of total ARR, up from 21% in Q3 last year. Non-GAAP operating loss was $10.1 million, a margin of negative 20%.

I'm excited to announce another huge milestone in the continued growth of our go-to-market approach with the signing of two strategic alliances; one with Deloitte US where they have created a digital adoption services business in conjunction with WalkMe. We believe that this partnership is evidence of the growing market need of digital adoption and will support our accelerated growth for years to come. On the ISV front, SAP and WalkMe have entered into a strategic partnership to launch a Concur user interface for all global SAP Concur users. Once again, this shows the underlying power of our technology to drive success and business outcome for our partners and customers.

I'll share more details about the agreements and strategic importance of this partnership later in the call. As market leaders, we continue to heavily invest in our platform and technology with over 20 new features launched this quarter and new data capabilities aligned to our data expansion strategy. At a high level, we continue to execute well and are excited about the growth of our partner channel and innovation. But I want to take a step back and highlight why we believe in the long-term future of WalkMe.

We believe that our Digital Adoption Platform can help every organization achieve their digital transformation goals by connecting data and action to improve business processes and outcomes. When I talk to leading CIOs, the two problems they consistently face when driving digital adoption is the lack of visibility into their TACSAT and the poor user experience for their employees and customers. We solved both those problems. Understanding the business processes and software usage are fundamental to developing scale and agility to fulfil the promise of technology, but the technology in itself is nothing without adoption.

Organizations need to adapt to new industry macro trends of digital workforce and remote hybrid ecosystem as the imperative to success. With no clear view on the CIO or CDO part, and no clear enterprise user experience strategy deployed, the two clash. This clash is causing over 70% of organizations to fail at reaching their design transformation goal. WalkMe has the unique ability to take action on the data, unlock and deliver a global scalable digital experience on top of any device.

WalkMe platforms help solve the gap of digital adoption by offering deep data insights to decision-makers and improve business processes to end users through our no-code editor, which can be deployed on top of any enterprise software. Imagine every employee in the world start their enterprise software journey through a personalized user interface and can get things down leveraging automation and guidance at their fingertips, no frustration, no delays, while the organization's leadership has complete control and visibility over their technology asset and can scale change management set. This is DAP and this is why WalkMe is changing the way people interact with technology and how organizations work. With that, I'm excited to share some recent company developments.

I will start with our partner strategy. I'm humbled to have the privilege to share that we have signed a strategic alliance agreement with Deloitte US. Through this agreement, Deloitte is investing in a dedicated team in the US to advance technology adoption best practices. Clients of its newly created digital adoption service businesses can now leverage Deloitte's know-how and WalkMe technology to gain the rapid results the digital transformation strategies are expected to deliver.

The knowledge, expertise and investments of Deloitte will expose WalkMe's DAP to additional stream of customers and ensure your expansion and success. I'm thrilled to have them as a partner and look forward to signing more agreements with other global leaders soon. The demand for DAP continues to grow as more enterprises realize there cannot be digital transformation without digital adoption. Across its vast clientele, Deloitte has been observing this hand-ad-glove relationship between the two initiatives.

Through this alliance, WalkMe and Deloitte are making digital transformation successful reality for more enterprises, simply through making DAP a readily available complement to digital projects. We believe that this type of partnership with GSIs will help drive acceptance of DAP as a new way of doing business and help WalkMe diversify and accelerate our go-to-market strategy and drive meaningful growth over time. Next is an extraordinary partnership with SAP Concur. ISVs has always had adjusted interest in implementing WalkMe into their main offering to ensure the success and adoption of their customers and their end users.

With that, SAP Concur has been a working customer leveraging our platform to do exactly that. Today, I'm excited to share that due to massive customer demand for customization of business processes, we have signed an agreement to launch a joint offering for their customer base named Concur User Assistant. Available today, Concur User Assistant by WalkMe comes in a freemium version to all Concur users by our newly released user interface. This version provides a basic workflow assistance, new user profile setup, on-screen health directory and new UI introduction.

The premium version available through the SAP SOLEX program provide a full license of WalkMe from which clients can create and deploy custom guides for training and onboarding, getting insights regarding the user experience and business [ led] completion, support custom fields and workflows, and create organization specific messages. Unlocking customization and the full utilization of WalkMe for every SAP Concur customers is a breakthrough in our ISV strategy and will enable us to operate our land and expand motion to grow each account into a full DAP customer. Thinking about the bigger picture, strong ecosystem are important. The most valuable companies in the world have them.

Our ecosystem, we call it WalkMe Beyond, is about expanding beyond WalkMe's core platform by bringing together two key elements, talent and technology. Deloitte and SAP are important addition to the ecosystem and further validates both our vision and our ability to execute against our vision. We are also pleased to announce our new chief customer officer, Wayne McCulloch, who joined us during Q2. Wayne's expertise in attracting more value from the technology investments and user experiences of global enterprises while leading the industry's most customer-centric client success teams making the perfect executive for this role.

Wayne joined us from Google where we oversaw customer success for Google Cloud's entire SaaS portfolio of 7.1 million customers. Prior to Google, he held senior leadership roles within the customer success group of Looker and Salesforce.com. At WalkMe, he will lead all post-sales functions, including customer success, services, support and the digital adoption institute. Our success can be best measured by the success of our customers, and I want to take another moment to thank all of our customers for their true partnership with us.

For us, our customers are key to growing the market and potential of DAP. Driving high ROI, delivering on their digital transformation initiative is critical while expanding and deepening the relationship with our product throughout the organization. Let's look at some specific evidence of customer success. A number of our customers received awards this quarter for their successful digital adoption initiatives powered by WalkMe.

For example, Crystos Health and Red Hat each took home gold in Brandon Hall's Annual Human Capital Management Awards, winning the Best Advance in Business Automation and Best Approach to HCM Innovation, respectively. And Nestle, the world's largest food and beverage company, was namely winner in Consolation Research Annual Supernova Award in the category of Future of Work and Employee Experience that took place recently in October. WalkMe even appeared with a customer in a Magic Quadrant this quarter. I'm referring to a Fortune 50 enterprise customer with further implementation of WalkMe called out by Gartner as a contributor to one of their three primary strengths in their Magic Quadrant.

For ease of use, the report said that the company partnered with WalkMe to include our Digital Adoption Platform in its products. This integration helped IT administrators learn end user product in the context and flow of work rather than off-line. We don't expect it to be the last time you see WalkMe in this kind of report. Moving on to DAP category, as the creator and leader of this category, WalkMe has more than 45% market share according to Everest Peak, by far the highest among the 18 vendors that qualify to be in the Everest Peak metric.

As the market leader, WalkMe as more than 900 million unique users, 21 billion user interaction and 38 million automation triggered on the platform on a yearly basis. We have customers in over 42 countries. This number demonstrates not only the significant demand for Digital Adoption Platform but for the WalkMe formula statistically. In the Everest Peak report, WalkMe demonstrated the strongest year-to-year movement on both market impact and vision, and capability category.

This is yet another proof point of the progress we are making in both creating the DAP category and establishing ourselves as the leader in the market. This recognition is happening because of the positive changes we are driving in business outcomes for our customers. This strength in the DAP category further aside many other achievements include Gartner shortlist of WalkMe as a composable technology vendor among some of the world's largest leading technology companies. A key strategic thing for Gartner analysts and the top priority for CIOs worldwide.

Gaining more momentum with research analyst trend is a strong indicator the DAP category is growing and impacting many organization globally. Moving on to the product and innovation, we continue to invest a lot in our core technology and our platform. In Q3, we focused heavily on our biggest differentiator, our ability to start with data. We released over 20 features just in Q3, but I would like to focus on our new UI intelligence technology as well as our automated insight technology.

With WalkMe Discovery Capability, CIOs will have a full view in their tech. They can analyze adoption, business processes and utilization across applications, users and departments and can manage and track digital transformation initiative by defining KPIs aligned to their business goals. From there, organizations can analyze digital behavior, usage and experiences across workflows to see exactly where user dropped off in the process, which capabilities are not being adopted and general behavior across application and business process. Finally, walking UI intelligence, a machine learning algorithm which understand UI in the underlying application, takes over to provide actionable insight to be addressed with WalkMe content.

With this new innovation, organizations will, for the first time, have full visibility into their tech specs and the insight into where users are struggling so that they can ensure full adoption and usage of software. In other words, they will be able to ensure that their business stakeholders will be able to drive software users to achieve the business goals for which the software was intended to do in the first place. For example, with UII technology, our customers can see exactly where their employees or customers have errors, which errors they got and how much time it took to complete the process. All of it is being done completely automatically without any setup or configuration of the process from the customer side.

This is a complete game changer in UI process discovery. The challenge for digital transformation and digital adoption is similar to what has been seen in other disciplines like IT service management or governance, risk and compliance, where the first roadblock is just to figure out what you have in the environment. This is especially difficult in the middle of digital transformation when as a CIO or a CBO, you are trying to manage the situation where literally anyone who uses software and keyboard to do their job can bring new application into the environment. This can be done without the CIO or your team knowing about it or employees might just be building new apps using no-code platform, tools that were given to them by their very own CIO now grasping for control.

Either way, it's yours as the CIO to manage now. So just like ITSM and DRC where an efficient and accurate discovery mechanism was a requirement, the same is true with digital adoption. This is why we are excited to bring this innovation to our customers and are looking forward to telling the world more about [inaudible]. We have a strong plan to further advance the Digital Adoption Platform category as a whole and our leadership position in it.

We are still in the early stages of the opportunity and look forward to discussing our accelerating progress with you in future earnings calls. With that, I'll turn the call over to Andrew to walk through our financial results.

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Dan, and thanks to everyone for joining us. Before I get into the results from the quarter, I want to provide a quick overview of our business model and remind you of the key metrics that we look at to measure our business. We deliver our Digital Adoption Platform through a subscription SaaS offering in the cloud, which represents our subscription revenue. Our services revenue includes professional services and training.

In terms of key metrics, we focus on remaining performance obligations, or RPO, as well as annual recurring revenue, or ARR, which we believe provide a better view of our current business momentum relative to revenue growth. As a reminder, I'll be referring to some non-GAAP numbers in my remarks and the reconciliation to GAAP is available in our press release and the investor deck on our website. Moving on to the third quarter results, as Dan discussed, we had a strong third quarter that exceeded our guidance with continued customer momentum. The strength we are seeing is reflective of the strong value proposition of our platform, the horizontal application of our solutions and strong operational focus.

In the third quarter, total revenue was $50.6 million, an increase of 31% year over year. Subscription revenue grew 37% year over year to $46.1 million, a continued acceleration from growth in the second quarter. Remaining performance obligations, or RPO, ended the quarter at $272.2 million, representing a growth of 49% year over year. And current RPO, which is contracted subscription revenue expected to be recognized over the next 12 months, grew 32% year over year to $157 million.

Long-term RPO grew 79% year over year to $115 million, an acceleration of growth from 68% in the second quarter of 2021. ARR at the end of Q3 was $201.7 million, representing growth of 31% year over year, showing consistent growth from Q2. These strong topline metrics are reflective of the growing importance of digital adoption with the world's largest organization. We have seen continued momentum with large enterprises, which we measure as organizations with more than 500 employees.

Looking at ARR from customers with more than 500 employees, this grew 36% year over year in Q3 million to $173.5 million, representing 86% of total ARR, up from 83% in Q3 of 2020. In addition, we look at enterprisewide DAP customer additions as a sign of the growing strategic nature of our platform across our customer base. We added nine new DAP customers in the third quarter to reach 112, representing customer count growth of 93% year-over-year. ARR from these GAAP customers grew 120% year over year and represents 35% of total ARR, up from 21% in Q3 of last year.

Taking a look at dollar-based net retention, the natural land expansion motion of our platform translates into a strong net retention rate. If you look at dollar-based net retention with our enterprise customers who are notably stickier throughout the disruption that COVID caused than smaller businesses last year. Our enterprise dollar-based net retention, which we measure as customers with more than 500 employees, was 118% as of the end of Q3 on a trailing four-quarter basis and remained above 120% on a quarterly basis for the second straight quarter after bottoming out in the fourth quarter of 2020. Before turning to gross margin, expenses and profitability, I would like to note that I will be discussing non-GAAP results going forward.

Gross margin was 78%, up 470 basis points year-over-year. Gross profit was $39.5 million, up 39% year over year. The improvement in gross margin this quarter was largely driven by the acceleration of growth in our subscription revenue, which carries a higher gross margin profile. We expect our overall gross margin will increase over time as we continue to optimize our hosting operations and improve our services engagement model, primarily by leveraging partners where feasible.

Turning now to operating expenses, we remain focused on investing for growth to capture share as the category we created continues to grow and expand. Sales and marketing expenses for Q3 was $29.6 million compared to $21.3 million in Q3 last year. This represents 59% of total revenue compared to 55% in the third quarter last year. The year over year increase in sales and marketing expense is a direct result of the hiring increase we put into place at the onset of the whole pandemic last year, followed by an acceleration in hiring as the business activity returned to more normalized levels in the subsequent quarters.

We also continue to invest aggressively in our go-to-market teams to address increasing opportunities we see in the U.S. federal market, partner expansion and broader coverages across all geographies. R&D expense in Q3 was $10.7 million compared to $7.5 million in Q3 last year. This represents 21% of total revenue versus 19% in the same period last year.

We've been making investments in our platform and plan to continue to invest in R&D as we build out our products and invest in our ecosystem in the quarters ahead. G&A expense was $9.3 million for the third quarter compared to $5.9 million in the third quarter last year. G&A was 18% of revenue versus 15% of revenue last year. We continue to invest in the infrastructure of our business to drive long-term scale.

Going forward, the primary areas of investment for us will be in R&D and sales and marketing, as we look to capitalize on our large market opportunity. Operating loss in the quarter was $10.1 million compared to a loss of $6.3 million last year. Operating margin of negative 20% was down 370 basis points compared to the same period last year. We held back on spending and investing meaningful last year during the pandemic as we chose to preserve cash.

We will continue to hire aggressively in our go-to-market operations as appropriate to support our goal. Looking forward, we expect to see ongoing improvements in operating leverage as we scale and are structuring our investments in sales and marketing and R&D accordingly. Net loss per share in Q3 was $0.13 using 83.3 million weighted average shares outstanding. Free cash flow was negative $12.9 million in Q3 compared to a negative $0.2 million in Q3 last year.

Free cash flow margin was negative 25.5%, down from negative 0.5% for Q3 last year. In the near term, we expect to see fluctuations in cash flow. Longer term, we expect the increasing operating levels will result in positive free cash flow, though margins will fluctuate on a quarterly basis in the near term, and improvement will not be linear. Turning to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with $361.9 million in cash, cash equivalent and short term deposits.

Turning now to guidance for the fourth quarter of 2021, we expect revenue in the range of $51.5 to $52.5 million, representing growth of 32% to 35% year over year. Non-GAAP operating loss in the range of 19 million to $17 million. For the full year 2021, we expect revenue in the range of $191.5 to $192.5 million, representing growth of 29% to 30% year over year. Non-GAAP operating loss in the range of $50.3 million to $48.3 million.

With that, Dan, Rafi and I will take your questions.

Questions & Answers:

Operator

[Operator instructions] And we'll take our first caller from Scott Berg from Needham. Your line is open.

John Godin -- Needham and Company -- Analyst

Hi everyone. This is John Godin on for Stafford. Congrats on a great quarter, especially those partnerships. First question from me, just wondering if you could give us an update on how some of the direct sales parts over the past few quarters have been ramping.

Are you guys seeing any pressure in their environment for direct sales [inaudible]?

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

So I'll take it, Dan, and then jump in. So thanks for the question. Certainly, we're just like every other company right now in the US and frankly, across the world, that's dealing with a difficult hiring market. Having said that, we did make some really smart choices I think early on and hiring most of the sales reps we divested for 2021 at the beginning of the year.

And so, that put us in a really good position to have sales reps ramping throughout the year and really getting to that point of where they're getting fully ramped by the end of the year. Our ramping period is somewhere between nine and 12 months. So, it's always going to be a tough environment as we're starting to look for other enterprise reps that fit our mold and understand our market and can really go after those large enterprise clients. But I'd say we're executing on our plan and we're happy with the progress we've made.

John Godin -- Needham and Company -- Analyst

Awesome. And then just a quick follow-up. As far as the Concur partnership goes, are you guys thinking about reorienting -- positioning your go-to-market plan there as far as looking to drive more expansion from the free users? Thank you.

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

It's Dan, I will take it. Great question. So when we're looking at the Concur SAP partnership, we're seeing two major opportunities. One, Concur SAP was a WalkMe customer.

They implemented WalkMe on their product to help their customers to onboard and feature adoption. They got a lot of requests from their customers to customize those guidance and experiences because, as we said many times, it's not about the UI, it's about the business processes, and each company has their own business process. So now, we have a channel to actually go with SAP Concur through the SOLEX agreement and sell to every SAP Concur customer, WalkMe, so they can go and customize their business processes on top of Concur, so this is one. The second, which for us is the bigger opportunity, each customer that will buy it and create those experiences on top of SAP Concur is a potential expansion for us to go and expand on other systems, if it's your ATM, CRM and so on.

So two things and two drivers that now we're going to focus on. So obviously, we already have customers that are using WalkMe or SAP Concur, so we will work with them to expand it and put our expansion motion into place. So, we're very excited with this partnership.

Operator

And next, we'll go to Keith Bachman from Bank of Montreal. Your line is open.

Keith Bachman -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst

Yes. Thank you. I'd like to also ask about go-to-market activities. You mentioned you hired Wayne to help on go-to-market related things.

I was wondering if you could identify some of the key activities, whether he's already surfaced some opportunities. But what's most important, you think, next year as we look at 2022 for your go-to-market activities, if you could just give us some of the key ones. And in particular, could you also address where you think your direct capabilities will land toward -- I know you've done a bunch of hirings on your website, it looks like you are still trying to hire a number of internal sales positions as well. But how do you see that changing? In other words, where do you think you'll land in terms of direct capabilities at the end of '21? And what do you think that looks like at the end of '22? Is it up 30%? Is it up 40%? Is there any kind of dimensions you could give us on how you see the ongoing efforts associated with the direct touch models, we think not only where we are at the end of this year but as we look at next year? Thank you.

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Yes, so I will start and I will then hand over to Andrew. So Wayne is our chief customer officer, so his role is customer success services support. And so everything that is post-sell activity, a lot of efforts there because WalkMe has massive expansion with our existing customers. So, Wayne will focus on that.

And obviously, we are lending more customers and now we have more partnerships. So, making sure they're getting the value. They get the full potential of WalkMe and at the end becoming a DAP customer. And as we're just published, we saw 120% increase in ARR from DAP customers and 95% increase in the number of customers.

So, we are pushing forward the value, and that will be Wayne's main focus. Regarding where we land in Q4 and the hiring activities, so obviously we're now doing a massive hiring campaign and we are seeing it's exceeding, but I will hand it over to Andrew to talk about the numbers.

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

So Keith, this is Andrew. So the thing I would really point to is when you think about the expansion of the partner business within our overall revenue framework, I think I mentioned before that this is a very nascent part of our business to date and that most of our ARR is generated from our direct relationships. But the profile of how the partnership evolves over the next, call it, few years, is you start with these big partnership agreements where we structure a foundation through how we're going to go-to-market and how we plan with one another. The partners typically start using and developing on the technology that they're taking to market so that they become very strong experts and advocates for their customers.

And then you start seeing things like joint account planning with the vendors and you start to see things around joint announcements on customer success. And that's -- some of the milestones that we should look at as predictors toward our future revenue from partner stream. And in the past, I've said that, I believe that could be 40% to 45% of our total business over time. And certainly, the initial steps down that path with SAP and Deloitte should be looked at as our first forays into really expanding with many, many more partners.

Keith Bachman -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst

OK. And any comments on the direct side, Andrew, as we look at next year, like how much you think you could ramp your direct side? So we haven't really started talking about next year's guidance yet, Keith. It's something we will share with you, but I will tell you that there certainly is continued opportunity for us to go hire additional direct reps. That's the mainstay of our current revenue profile today, and we certainly intend to continue growth in the future.

So, it's logical that we'll continue to add toward our sales and marketing investments as we go forward.

OK. Great. Many thanks.

Operator

And next, we'll go to Michael Turrin from Wells Fargo Securities. Your line is open.

Michael Turrin -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst

Hi there. Thanks. Good afternoon. The subscription revenue growth number is certainly impressive at 37%.

The delta between ARR and that 37%, Andrew, anything you can add on what's driving that? Would you expect those growth rates to end up more tightly coupled as we kind of roll the model forward over time? And then last part of the question is just there's seasonality on the greater than 500 segment we should be mindful of heading into Q4.

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

So I would say that over time, yes, they should be more tightly coupled from a modeling perspective. I do think that there's nuances in that and how ARR is recorded versus the way revenue was actually recognized, and that has implications on how you do your segmentation and other issues. But generally, yes, I would agree that it gets closer and tighter over a period of time. I think the thing that I would increasingly focus investors on though is our remaining performance obligations and the growth we're seeing there.

It's not only a great indicator of future revenue, but it also showcases the movements that we're seeing and the more broader importance we have with customers in that we're not seeing just single-year engagement, smaller engage. We're seeing these larger, longer-term engagements and that profiles through our long-term RPO. And additionally, I'd point right back to our DAP customer growth rate, which is continuing to show great promise and growth, both from a customer perspective and on a year over year basis from ARR. And one last thing in that category, the average dollar size of those contracts is also increasing.

So, we're very happy with the progress we've made. These are strategies we've put in place well over a year ago now, and it's really great to see that they're starting to take shape and show up in the results.

Michael Turrin -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst

All very helpful. Since you did such a great job taking through some of the metrics, one more on the retention rate. It looks just from the chart, you'll have a benefit on the trailing 12 month basis, at least the rolling off of last Q4. Would you expect the trailing 12-month metric to trend higher? And is that 120% you're operating at on a quarterly basis, is that a good target level for the business from your view?

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

Certainly, I think that the largest customers for us are the ones that expand the most and they retain. We really don't see any major churn in our larger customers. And it's because they're getting value from us and we're continuing to deliver value to them. So you're right from a mathematical perspective that, that low point in Q4 '20 of 112% is going to drop off next year -- or next quarter as we do our trailing four.

And I would tell you that we're not just going to stop at 120, we're certainly shooting for much higher percentages. And expansion, as Dan was mentioning earlier, will drive a lot of that. So, you're right that our expectations are for an increased momentum there.

Michael Turrin -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst

Good to hear. Thank you.

Operator

And next, we'll go to Tyler Radke from Citi. Your line is open.

Tyler Radke -- Citi -- Analyst

Hi good afternoon Dan and Andrew. I wanted to ask you about ARR. I mean, it seemed like the net new was down a little bit from Q2 and total ARR might have been a little bit lower than where the Street was modeled. Just anything to call out, obviously subscription revenue was strong, but do you see any deals kind of pushed into Q4 just given you target the enterprise and we've heard that from another -- a number of companies just kind of more pronounced Q4 seasonality? Anything you could add there would be helpful.

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

Tyler, it's Andrew. Thanks for the question. I would tell you that our Q2 and Q3 looked pretty similar in profile. And absent any major changes in US Federal growth we see as we start to invest in that space, I would say that's kind of our expectations for the Q2, Q3 period.

It's all -- you're right to think about seasonality in the way our business profiles. Q4 is typically our largest quarter. And as we target enterprise, large enterprise clients, the timing associated with when those deals get done sometimes isn't always under our control. It's somewhat dependent upon customer availability of budget and a whole host of other factors.

But I think we feel very strong about the position we're in for Q4. We raised our guidance. That's reflective of the strong subscription business we see, the pipelines we're seeing, some of the large engagements we're working on. So, I wouldn't pay too much attention to it.

I think for us, the better future predictor of revenue is RPO and I'm pushing our internal teams to focus on that. And so far, they're executing well. So, that's where I put my focus. And we're certainly as an organization, I will tell, we're very focused on executing in the Q4 time frame.

Tyler Radke -- Citi -- Analyst

OK. And maybe just on total customers, I'm not sure if you gave an update on that number. And I know that you have some moving pieces between some of the smaller customers that some of those you're kind of intentionally moving away from servicing and the capacity that you did. But can you just help us understand where that total customer number is and then if there were any headwinds to call out on that small customer size, just given the focus on the large enterprise?

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

Well, I'd tell you that the SMB business, which is certainly one that we focused as we've given our metrics on companies that have greater than 500 employees, and we did that intentionally because there is certainly headwinds with the small and medium-sized clients. And by the way, the pandemic isn't over for them and a lot of them are still struggling. And it's still reflective on our business. But over time, I think it becomes less and less important for our total business.

It's one of the reasons we're disclosing the percentage of our ARR that comes from the greater than 500 employees is to point to the fact that as we get more and more relevant for those larger customers that the SMB business is going to become smaller and smaller and smaller. So I wouldn't say we're intentionally trying to move away. It's just that the SMB clients have had a lot of struggles over the last year. And where the big expansions exist is with enterprises who have lots of software applications and lots of employees that are dealing with the problems that we solve.

Tyler Radke -- Citi -- Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

And next, we'll go to Michael Turits from KeyBanc. Your line is open.

Michael Turits -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst

You got it right the first time, Turits. Anyway, thanks, so Andrew, just a couple more financial questions. Yes, the RPO growth is awesome and shows that expansion of multi-year deals. The CRPR growth decelerated a little bit, 36% out of 32%, and it was pretty much in line with subscription growth.

And we like to look at that, obviously, it's a forward-looking annualized indicator. So any thoughts on that, as well as on quarterly NRR having dropped a point, 121 to 120?

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

Like I said before, I don't think I'd point too much on that. I'd look at the overall trend, Michael. So I think we're confident enough in our Q4 that we're raising guidance. And I do think that the timing on engagements isn't always something we can control.

So the pipelines we've got, the focus we've got for the teams in Q4, that's what we're driving toward, and it's given us the right level of confidence to raise guidance. So, that's what I'd focus on. I wouldn't focus too much on a single point in time.

Michael Turits -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst

Great. And Dan, if I could ask you a big picture strategic question. The past [inaudible] says that you're not [inaudible], but more broadly [inaudible] product. And there are some overlaps with some other approaches to the product space and people in product, analytics, for example, overlap with what you're doing in external customer adoption as well.

So I was just on -- and then I was just wondering if you view others as moving into your space or perhaps you're broadly out into other areas that are within that broader scope of product focus?

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Yes, I will take it. So it's the latter. We're now focusing on data and we signed the release that we're doubling down on data. What we understood is that with digital transformation and digital adoption, you need to start with data.

And we have a unique capability to actually understand the user interaction so we basically have another dimension of data that no one has because if you're looking at your entire digital set, WalkMe is not just giving you basic data like who logged in, we can actually understand the business processes. So we have the data, but that data is coupled to the action. So when you take data and action together, this is what creates true adoption because when you see something is wrong, you can easily go back to the WalkMe guidance and WalkMe automation and drive that action. And this is very unique to WalkMe.

So yes, we're broadening the way we're looking at digital transformation and our capabilities by adding more data pieces. Now on top of it, what we released is what we call automated insight. I know we're not asked a lot about it, but this is a true game changer because we are able to actually understand the processes that they have and actually give them insights, and this is something that we're leaving and we're creating. And we're getting a lot of great feedback from our existing customers.

Rafi Sweary -- President and Co-Founder

This is Rafi, I would just like to add. This is Rafi. I would just like to add that one of the core and very hard things to do is that we're able to do it on post-market, so products and software we already bought and you don't have an integration to. Most analytics products do require to be installed and to have access and we're able to do it from the UI, so very hard to do.

Operator

And next, we'll go to Josh Baer from Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.

Josh Baer -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst

Great. Thanks for the question. Wanted to ask one on use cases, just any commentary on the difference in performance across internal and external use cases? And then, I guess, separately, what types of use cases are you typically landing with? Is it still a lot of onboarding? I'm just wondering how to think about the more strategic maybe digital transformation use cases?

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Yes. I would start, and Andrew, feel free to add. So we're lending based on the use cases and mainly at CRM and HCM today. And the use cases are very diversified.

It can be onboarding, but it can be data accuracy, it can be employee productivity and so on. But usually, we're starting with high-profile applications like a CRM or like an ERP. In addition, what we're starting to see, and this is why we're focusing on the data, is we're actually coming to the CIOs and we can give them visibility, so now we're actually starting to sell to IT and CIOs as well. We're always getting there eventually, but the land is usually on the business side and then we're actually expanding to more applications.

Now on the difference between external and internal, obviously internal is the strongest suit here as we're focusing on digital transformation mainly, but we are seeing very great cases of external use cases as well. And obviously, those are tied together, both internally and externally, with our customers. But I would say that within the new data capabilities, we will be able to have more personas that we're starting with because we're not going to go and immediately land on the onboarding, as you called it. We would be able to actually go and start with the data.

And with that, we needed something that is super easy to install, two clicks, and you actually get the value. And this is where automated insight coming into place. Imagine that you're coming into an organization, you put WalkMe and literally within five clicks, you're getting value. This is something that we didn't have before, and now we're super excited with it.

Josh Baer -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Operator

And next, we'll go to Vinod Srinivasaraghavan from Barclays. Your line is open.

Vinod Srinivasaraghavan -- Barclays -- Analyst

Thanks for taking my question. Congrats on the results. I just had a question on enterprise DAP customers. I just want to get a better idea, who is an enterprise DAP customer? Are they mostly Fortune 500 or D2K customers, or is there a significant kind of SMB presence in the mix? And then also, sorry if I missed this, but did you disclose the number of $1 million customers this quarter?

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

It's Andrew, I'll take that. And on the DAP customers in particular, it's customers who have four or more applications that are licensed on a departmental level or enterprisewide. In a lot of cases, that would obviate many of the SME customers being considered. So, I actually don't think there's any of them in our total list.

And it's because that the average size of those engagements is 631,000. So, it's a relatively large investment that a customer is making and one that they're typically using WalkMe and the full capability of the platform to really drive their transformation processes. So you see the ability for them to actually use it across multiple different applications throughout the enterprise. So that's the type of customer we consider a DAP customer.

And we haven't disclosed anything on the number of types, I mean, the names of the DAP customers. But I will tell you that we're very pleased that types of customers represent a lot of different industries. We had one customer that was brand new this quarter. It was a fast-growing fintech company and they're a showcase for how they're trying to be digital-first as they're bringing their services to market.

And they landed with us as our new customer, a new DAP customer, at a really, really great level. So meaning that are consistent with that average that we're seeing. So DAP customers are really customers that you'd say there's a lot of overlap with Fortune 500. There's a lot of overlap with enterprise, large enterprise clients because this is the ones that have those -- the broad array of problems that we can really address and are willing to pay us at that level of fee because the value they're getting.

Vinod Srinivasaraghavan -- Barclays -- Analyst

Got it. Thanks. And sorry, did you disclose the number of million dollar ARR customers this quarter?

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

We didn't.

Vinod Srinivasaraghavan -- Barclays -- Analyst

Got it. And then just last, I just wanted to talk about Deloitte. You're expanding your relationship with them, but it usually does take some time to kind of hire and train their team up, get them up to speed. When do you think they could start to meaningfully contribute to your pipeline...

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

Well, I think in some cases, you're right, those types of relationships you've got to think like design wins, and they take a while to foster and really get going. I would tell you that our partnership with Deloitte didn't begin when we signed the contract. We've actually been working with them for a while and on what I'd call on an opportunistic level. And we're very enthusiastic about some of the new opportunities they're bringing forward.

And I don't think we'll have to wait a long time for one, for them to start using us more broadly internally or for us to start working on joint account plans. So I'm not going to prognosticate for you what -- the level of revenue that's going to come from them. I'll let you talk to them about how much they're excited about this service tower for them. But at the end of the day, we're very excited about it and we think it can be very material to our overall results.

And the thing that is exciting about it is just how quickly and how readily they're jumping in and partnering with us on different engagements. So, we're excited about it.

Vinod Srinivasaraghavan -- Barclays -- Analyst

Great. Thanks. Good luck.

Operator

And our last question comes from Pat Walravens with JMP. Your line is open.

Pat Walravens -- JMP Securities -- Analyst

OK. Great. Thank you. Congratulations you guys.

So can we talk a little bit more about the SAP Concur partnership? And the reason is, I mean, I use that app all the time and I think most of the people on this call do. So Dan, while I was waiting to ask this question, I opened my Concur app, I used the expensive function to take a picture of my parking receipt, it asked me was the amount $31.05, I said correct, and then it figured out the rest from there. And then that all goes up into my save expenses, and a couple of weeks from now my poor associate has to spend a couple of hours turning it into a report. So I'm just wondering, where is the friction in that process that you guys are addressing?

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

So a few things, one, I'm not familiar with the exact same process, but I would tell you that in WalkMe, for example, it's not sometimes that easy to submit an expense or sometimes it's deviating from the process and this is where WalkMe comes up and show you what to do. What we did with SAP Concur, so SAP Concur was already a customer, so they used WalkMe for feature adoption, onboarding new users and so on and not necessarily on every process. And the reason is that every customer customize that process. That's what we're seeing across all the platforms.

It's not about the UI, it's about the process. So now, you can actually go and get WalkMe and build your own experiences there. So maybe just submitting an expense is simple but maybe booking a flight or doing an expense that's exceeding the policy, that's starting to be a little bit more complex, you need to get more approval and so on and so on. On top of it, obviously, there is a lot of data issues.

People are not categorizing it correctly. And this is obviously where WalkMe can come in. So, we will be happy that you will be a customer now with our joint effort with SAP Concur and you can customize your own experiences. So next call you can tell us all about it.

Pat Walravens -- JMP Securities -- Analyst

And then a quick follow-up -- I'm sorry, go ahead.

Rafi Sweary -- President and Co-Founder

So Pat, this is Rafi. Actually, it might be easy also because WalkMe is there. You just don't realize it. Somebody looked at your journey, so what people are struggling with, and build the experience so it's simple and intuitive, right.

You don't necessarily all the time know that WalkMe is there. It makes it intuitive in different ways.

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

Yes. The other thing I'd add too is a lot of customers actually have different types of processes. It's not just about learning how to use Concur. It's actually how about use the expense policies associated with their business.

Do they have an expense request process? Do they actually have limitations? Are there specific requirements that they have to do in order to process the expense in the right way. So, it's not always just about the app. Sometimes it's about the business processes and how difficult they are to navigate. One other point I wanted to make, I'm sorry I made a mistake there.

We did actually have a disclosure on our one million -- greater than million customers where we did have $27 million for the quarter. And that's in our investor presentation.

Operator

And at this time, I'll turn it back to Dan Adika for closing remarks.

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Thank you, everyone, for being on the call today. We're really looking forward to keep you posted on our progress in the quarter ahead. And thank you so much.

Operator

[Operator signoff]

Duration: 59 minutes

Call participants:

John Streppa -- Head of Investor Relations

Dan Adika -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Andrew Casey -- Chief Financial Officer

John Godin -- Needham and Company -- Analyst

Keith Bachman -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst

Michael Turrin -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst

Tyler Radke -- Citi -- Analyst

Michael Turits -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst

Rafi Sweary -- President and Co-Founder

Josh Baer -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst

Vinod Srinivasaraghavan -- Barclays -- Analyst

Pat Walravens -- JMP Securities -- Analyst

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