Item 1A. Risk Factors
You should consider the following and other risk factors in evaluating our business or an investment in our common stock. The occurrence of adverse events described in the following risk factors or other adverse events not described in the following risk factors could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flow and financial condition, and could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline.
Risks Related to Our Business
Our future revenue is dependent on continuing sales from cloud subscriptions, which in turn drive sales of professional services. We are dependent on our new customers as well as our large installed customer base to purchase additional cloud subscriptions and professional services from us. In future periods customers may discontinue the cloud subscriptions and in turn may not purchase additional professional services from us. If our customers decide to discontinue the cloud subscription, or if they reduce the scope of their professional services agreements, our revenue could decrease significantly, and that could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flow and financial condition.
We depend on third-party data centers to provide our cloud-based solutions. If these providers encounter defects, delays or interruptions in service, our business and operating results could be harmed. Furthermore, if we are unable to manage the costs of these services, our results may be negatively affected. We utilize data center hosting facilities, which are managed by third parties, to provide cloud solutions and hosting services to our customers. If the third-party data center facilities fail or encounter any damage, it could result in interruptions in services to our customers. This could result in unanticipated downtime for our customers, and in turn, our reputation and business could be adversely affected. In addition, if our customers use our cloud arrangements in unanticipated ways, this could cause an interruption in service for other customers attempting to access their data.
Our data center providers may experience events such as natural disasters, weather events, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures, or similar events. The systems, infrastructure, and services of our data center providers may also be subject to human or software errors, viruses, cyber threats, fraud, spikes in customer usage, break-ins, sabotage, acts of vandalism, acts of terrorism, and other misconduct. In addition, they may experience other unanticipated problems, including but not limited to financial difficulties and bankruptcy. Further, we may experience in the future periodic interruptions, delays, and outages in service and availability with our data center providers due to a variety of factors, including Internet connectivity failures, infrastructure changes, human or software errors, website hosting disruptions, and capacity constraints.
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Remediation of any service interruptions may take significant time. If any defects, delays or interruption in our cloud solutions occur, customers could elect to cancel their service, delay or withhold payment to us, not purchase from us in the future or make claims against us, which could adversely affect our business reputation, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Furthermore, our data center providers have no obligation to renew their agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we are unable to renew agreements with them on commercially reasonable terms, if our agreements with our providers are prematurely terminated for any reason, or if our providers are acquired or cease business, we may be required to transfer our infrastructure to new public cloud facilities, and we may incur significant costs and possible service interruptions in connection with doing so. Renewals at higher prices or costs incurred in switching providers may negatively affect our profitability and results. In addition, consolidation in the data center industry may result in overall higher costs for such services, which could also negatively affect our profitability and results.
Delays in implementing our products could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Due to the size and complexity of most of our software implementations, our implementation cycle can be lengthy and may result in delays. Our products may require modification or customization and must integrate with many existing computer systems and software programs of our customers. This can be time-consuming and expensive for customers and can result in implementation and deployment delays of our products. Additional delays could result if we fail to attract, train, and retain services personnel, or if our alliance companies fail to commit sufficient resources towards implementing our software. These delays and resulting customer dissatisfaction could limit our future sales opportunities, harm our reputation, and adversely impact results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Our liability to clients may be substantial if our systems fail, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Our products are often critical to the operations of our customers’ businesses and provide benefits that may be difficult to quantify. If our products fail to function as required—which, as described in more detail in other risk factors, could be due to software bugs, cloud hosting service failures, security breaches, faulty implementations or other reasons—we may be subject to claims for substantial damages. Courts may not enforce provisions in our contracts that would limit our liability or otherwise protect us from liability for damages. Defending a lawsuit, regardless of its merit, could be costly and divert management’s time and attention. Although we maintain general liability insurance and error and omissions coverage, these coverages may not continue to be available on reasonable terms or in sufficient amounts to cover claims against us. In addition, our insurer may disclaim coverage as to any future claim. If claims exceeding the available insurance coverage are successfully asserted against us, or our insurer imposes premium increases or large deductibles or co-insurance requirements on us, then our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Our ability to sell our cloud solutions is highly dependent on the quality of our services offerings, and our failure to offer high quality services could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Most of our customers rely to some extent on our professional services to aid in the implementation of our software solutions. Once our software has been installed and deployed, our customers may depend on us to provide them with ongoing support and resolution of issues relating to our software. Therefore, a high level of service is critical for the continued marketing and sale of our solutions. If we or our partners do not efficiently and effectively install and deploy our software products, or succeed in helping our customers quickly resolve post-deployment issues, our ability to sell software products to these customers would be adversely affected and our reputation in the marketplace with potential customers could suffer.
Our use of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools may expose us to operational, compliance or other risks, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow and financial condition, and subject us to legal liability. We use generative AI tools in our business for external purposes (e.g., as additional features to our software products) and for internal purposes (e.g., to support our operations and improve the day-to-day performance of our employees), and these tools are mostly developed and marketed by third-party vendors.
We seek to ensure that our use of AI tools in support of our operations and business is carried out in a secure, ethical and lawful manner. We have a global “AI Tools Policy” in place that applies to the use of AI tools by all of our employees and contractors and that provides guidelines for a responsible use of AI within the Company. We also have a cross-functional governance organization (which includes members of our IT security and legal teams) with a mission to oversee the use of AI within the Company and assess and mitigate the risks that may be related to this use.
However, because the use of generative AI tools in business environments is a relatively novel development, the extent of benefits, risks, and liabilities attached to it are still unknown. We have identified the following main risks related to our use of AI tools:
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Protection of our proprietary rights. Our developers may use, in limited instances, generative AI tools to support their computer code writing activities for our proprietary software products. According to recent decisions of governmental entities and courts (such as the U.S. Copyright Office and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit), U.S. copyright is limited to protecting works created by human authors. Many other jurisdictions around the world follow the same approach.
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We may therefore face challenges in obtaining U.S. copyright or other intellectual property rights worldwide on certain parts of our products that were developed using generative AI tools (for further information regarding this risk, see the risk factor entitled “Our failure to adequately protect our proprietary rights could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition”).
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AI adoption-related risk. As we include generative AI features in our software products, some of our customers, especially those in highly regulated industries, may be reluctant or unwilling to use generative AI products. Accordingly, their reluctance to do so could reduce or delay customer adoption, and this may adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
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Operational risks. Our use of third-party generative AI tools exposes us to greater risks related to the quality of our products (for further information regarding this risk, see the risk factor entitled “Our ability to sell our cloud solutions is highly dependent on the quality of our services offerings, and our failure to offer high quality services could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition”). For example:
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Generative AI features embedded in our software products may create incomplete or inaccurate outputs and this could result in customer dissatisfaction or potential claims related to product performance (for further information regarding this risk, see the risk factor entitled “Our software may contain undetected errors or “bugs” causing harm to our reputation, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition”);
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Our use of third-party generative AI tools to power features of our software products may impair our ability to correct defects or cure unavailability in a timely manner because we have no control over our third-party vendors’ operations and infrastructure (for further information regarding this risk, see the risk factor entitled “We incorporate third-party software in our solutions, the failure or unavailability of which could adversely affect our ability to sell, support, and service our products”).
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Cybersecurity and Third-Party Rights. Generally, because we mainly use generative AI tools that are developed by third-party vendors, we have lesser control over the further use or distribution of any content we may share or create via these third-party tools. In addition, the vendors of these tools may fail to comply with their contractual obligations to us, or not provide warranties, indemnities or other remedies, regarding the confidentiality or security of this content. Further, our use of generative AI tools to generate computer code may present additional security risks because the generated source code may contain security vulnerabilities. As a result, our sensitive information or that of our employees or customers could be leaked or disclosed, or other IT security incidents may arise (for further information regarding this risk, see the risk factor entitled “If our data protection or other security measures are compromised and, as a result, our data, our customers’ data or our IT systems are accessed improperly, made unavailable, or improperly modified, our products and services may be perceived as vulnerable...”). In addition, we have little insight into, and no control over, the content used or provided by third-party vendors to train their generative AI tools. For example, there is ongoing litigation over whether the use of copyrighted materials to train AI models is lawful, however the impact of its outcome on our ability to use certain generative AI tools is unknown.
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Regulatory risks. Several jurisdictions around the globe, including in Europe and the U.S. (at state and federal level), have proposed or already enacted legislative frameworks governing the development, use and marketing of AI tools, including the European Union’s AI Act and the Colorado AI Act. We expect other jurisdictions will adopt similar regulations. Additionally, certain privacy laws may apply to our use of generative AI tools (such as a data subject’s right to have a precise view of how their personal data are processed). These legal requirements may make it harder for us to conduct our business using AI (especially third-party AI tools), lead to regulatory fines or penalties, require us to change our business practices, or prevent or limit our use of AI tools, which in turn, may lead our business to be less efficient, or us to be at a competitive disadvantage (for further information regarding this risk, see the risk factor entitled “Our technology must be advanced if we are to remain competitive”).
Any of these risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage, and, if not addressed, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
Our pricing models may need to be modified due to price competition. The competitive markets in which we operate may oblige us to reduce our prices in order to contend with the pricing models of our competitors. If our competitors discount certain products or services, we may have to lower prices on certain products or services in order to attract or retain customers. Any such price modifications would likely reduce margins and could adversely affect our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
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We may encounter long sales cycles, particularly with our larger customers, which could have an adverse effect on the amount, timing, and predictability of our revenue, adversely affecting our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Our products have lengthy sales cycles, which typically extend from nine to twelve months and may take up to several years. Potential and existing customers, particularly larger enterprise customers, often commit significant resources to an evaluation of available solutions and services and require us to expend substantial time and resources in connection with our sales efforts. The length of our sales cycles also varies depending on the type of customer to which we are selling, the product being sold, and customer requirements. We may incur substantial sales and marketing expenses and expend significant management effort during this time, regardless of whether we make a sale. Many of the key risks relating to sales processes are beyond our control, including: our customers’ budgetary and scheduling constraints; the timing of our customers’ budget cycles and approval processes; our customers’ willingness to replace their currently deployed software solutions; and general economic conditions.
As a result of these lengthy and uncertain sales cycles of our products and services, it is difficult for us to predict when customers may purchase products or services from us, thereby affecting when we can recognize the associated revenue, and our operating results may vary significantly and may be adversely affected. The length of our sales cycle makes us susceptible to having pending transactions delayed or terminated by our customers if they decide to delay or withdraw funding for IT projects. Our customers may decide to delay or withdraw funding for IT projects for various reasons, including, but not limited to, global economic cycles and capital market fluctuations.
Our technology must be advanced if we are to remain competitive. The market for our products is characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product introductions and enhancements, changes in customer demands, and evolving industry standards. Our existing products could be rendered obsolete if we fail to continue to advance our technology. We have also found that the technological life cycles of our products are difficult to estimate, partially because of changing demands of other participants in the supply chain. We believe that our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to continue to enhance our current product line while we concurrently develop and introduce new products that keep pace with competitive and technological developments. These developments require us to continue to make substantial product development investments. Although we are presently developing a number of product enhancements to our product sets, we cannot assure you that these enhancements will be completed on a timely basis or gain customer acceptance.
Our ability to maintain and develop our brand is critical for our continued success. The brand identity we have developed has significantly contributed to the continued success of our business. Our ability to maintain and develop our brand is critical in expanding our base of customers, partners and employees. Our brand will depend largely on our ability to remain a technology leader and continue to provide high-quality innovative products, services, and features. Significant investments may be required in order to maintain and develop our brand. However, the investments may later be proven to be unsuccessful. If we fail to maintain and develop our brand, or if we incur excessive expenses in our efforts to do so, our business, operating results and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected.
Disruption in our vertical markets could materially affect our revenues and results of operations. Our largest market, retail, is experiencing significant business disruption and transformation, primarily driven by digital commerce. We believe that disruption is causing many traditional retailers to assess the challenges of the transformation and evaluate their store networks and costs, as they face increasing competitive pressures from e-commerce retailers. Since our solutions often require our customers to make significant capital investments, traditional retailers could delay purchase decisions on our products. While this disruption may present significant opportunity for our company, we believe extended sales cycles for large cloud subscriptions could have a material adverse effect on our revenues and results of operations.
Inability to attract, integrate, and retain management and other personnel could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Our success greatly depends on the continued service of our executives, as well as our other key senior management, technical personnel, and sales personnel. Our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to attract, retain, and motivate highly skilled executives and employees. We face significant competition for individuals with the skills required to perform the services we offer, and thus we may encounter increased compensation costs that are not offset by increased revenue. In the broader technology industry in which we compete for talented hires, there is substantial and continuous competition for engineers with high levels of experience in designing, developing and managing software, as well as competition for sales executives and operations personnel. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to attract and retain sufficient numbers of these highly skilled employees or motivate them. Because of the complexity of the supply chain market, we may experience a significant time lag between the date on which technical and sales personnel are hired and the time at which these persons become fully productive.
We may not be able to continue to successfully compete with other companies. We compete in markets that are intensely competitive and are expected to become more competitive as current competitors expand their product offerings. Our current
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competitors come from many segments of the software industry and offer a variety of solutions directed at various aspects of the extended supply chain, as well as the enterprise as a whole. We face competition for product sales from:
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Corporate information technology departments of current or potential customers capable of internally developing solutions;
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ERP vendors, including: Oracle, SAP, and Infor, among others;
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Supply chain execution and planning vendors, including Blue Yonder/Panasonic (formerly JDA), Korber (formerly HighJump), SAS Institute, the Sterling Commerce division of IBM, Relex, and others;
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POS vendors, including Aptos, Oracle, and others; and
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Smaller independent companies that have developed or are attempting to develop supply chain execution solutions or planning solutions that apply either globally or in specific countries.
Some of these potential competitors have longer operating histories, significantly more financial, technical, marketing, and other resources, greater name recognition, broader solutions, and larger installed bases of customers than we do. We believe the domain expertise required to continuously innovate supply chain technology in our target markets, effectively and efficiently implement solutions, identify and attract sales opportunities, and compete successfully in the sales cycle provides us with a competitive advantage and is a significant barrier to market entry. However, in order to be successful in the future, we must continue to respond promptly and effectively to technological change and competitors’ innovations, and consequently we cannot assure you that we will not be required to make substantial additional investments in connection with our research, development, marketing, sales, and customer service efforts in order to meet any competitive threat, or that we will be able to compete successfully in the future. Some of our competitors have significant resources at their disposal, and the degree to which we will compete with their new innovative products in the marketplace is undetermined. Increased competition could result in price reductions, fewer customer orders, reduced earnings and margins, and loss of market share. In turn, this could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Our operating results are substantially dependent on one line of business. We continue to derive our revenues from sales of our supply chain cloud solutions and related professional services. Accordingly, any factor adversely affecting the markets for supply chain cloud solutions could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Because we recognize revenue from our cloud subscriptions over the term of the subscription, downturns or upturns in new business may not be immediately reflected in our results of operations. We recognize revenue from cloud customers over the terms of their subscription agreements. As a result, most of the cloud revenue we report in each quarter is attributable to agreements entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed subscriptions in any one quarter may have a minimal impact on our revenue for that quarter but will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. Accordingly, if we experience significant downturns in sales and market acceptance of our offerings, it may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods.
Our research and development activities may not generate significant returns. We anticipate continuing to make significant investments in software research and development (R&D) and related product opportunities because we believe that we must continue to allocate significant resources to our research and development activities to compete successfully. There is no assurance that our research and development will successfully anticipate market needs and result in significant new marketable solutions or enhancements to our solutions. Accordingly, we cannot estimate with any certainty when we will, if ever, receive significant revenues from these investments. In addition, if, we fail to compete effectively with our competitors’ R&D programs, because we fail to maintain adequate R&D resources or otherwise, our competitors may gain an advantage, and our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Our growth is dependent upon the successful development of our direct and indirect sales channel mix. We believe that our future growth also will depend on further developing and maintaining a successful direct sales force and strategic relationships with systems integrators and other technology companies. We invest significant resources to maintain and develop our sales channels. Our investment could adversely affect our operating results if these efforts do not generate cloud and services revenue necessary to offset the investment.
Mergers or other strategic transactions involving our competitors could weaken our competitive position or reduce our revenue. Our competitors have been consolidating, which may make them more formidable. Competing with stronger companies may cause us to experience pricing pressure and loss of market share, either of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition may be adversely affected if we cannot integrate acquired companies or manage joint ventures. We may from time to time acquire companies with complementary products and
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services. These acquisitions will expose us to increased risks and costs, including those arising from the following: assimilating new operations and personnel; diverting financial and management resources from existing operations; and integrating acquired technologies. We may not be able to generate sufficient revenue from any of these acquisitions to offset the associated acquisition costs. We may also evaluate joint venture relationships with complementary businesses. Any joint venture we enter into would involve many of the same risks posed by acquisitions, particularly the following: risks associated with the diversion of resources; the inability to generate sufficient revenue; the management of relationships with third parties; and potential additional expenses.
Our business may require additional capital. We may require additional capital to finance our growth or to fund acquisitions or investments in complementary businesses, technologies or product lines. Our capital requirements may be impacted by many factors, including: demand for our products; the timing of and extent to which we invest in new technology; the timing of and extent to which we acquire other companies; the level and timing of revenue; the expenses of sales and marketing and new product development; the success and related expense of increasing our brand awareness; the cost of facilities to accommodate a growing workforce; the extent to which competitors are successful in developing new products and increasing their market share; and the costs involved in maintaining and enforcing intellectual property rights.
Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity
Our software may contain undetected errors or “bugs” causing harm to our reputation, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Software products as complex as those we offer might contain undetected errors or failures when we first introduce them or when we release new versions. Despite testing, we cannot ensure errors will not be found in new products or product enhancements after commercial release. Any errors could cause substantial harm to our reputation, result in additional unplanned expenses to remedy any defects, delay the introduction of new products, result in the loss of existing or potential customers, or cause a loss in revenue. Further, such errors could subject us to customer claims for significant damages, and we cannot guarantee courts would enforce the provisions in our customer agreements limiting our damage liability. In turn, this could materially affect our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
If our data protection or other security measures are compromised and, as a result, our data, our customers’ data or our IT systems are accessed improperly, made unavailable, or improperly modified, our products and services may be perceived as vulnerable, possibly damaging our brand and reputation, disrupting the IT services we provide to our customers, and causing our customers to stop using our products and services, all of which could reduce our revenue and earnings, increase our expenses and expose us to legal claims and regulatory actions. Our products and services can store, retrieve, manipulate and manage our customers’ information and data as well as our own. We have a reputation for secure and reliable software products and services and invest time and resources into protecting the integrity and security of our products, services and internal and external data that we manage.
Nevertheless, we encounter attempts by third parties to penetrate or bypass our data protection and other security measures and gain unauthorized access to our networks, systems and data or compromise our customers’ confidential information or data. Unauthorized third parties also could improperly access or modify data as a result of employee or supplier error or malfeasance and third parties may attempt to fraudulently induce employees or customers into disclosing sensitive information such as user names, passwords or other information.
These risks are persistent and likely will increase as we continue to grow our cloud offerings and services and store and process increasingly large amounts of our customers’ confidential information and data. We also may acquire companies, products, services and technologies and inherit such risks when we integrate these acquisitions within Manhattan.
If a cyber-attack or other security incident were to occur, we could suffer damage to our brand and reputation, which could reduce our revenue, earnings, and operating cash flow resulting from increased expenses, including potential legal claims and regulatory actions to address and fix the incidents.
We are subject to stringent and evolving U.S. and foreign laws, regulations, rules, contractual obligations, policies, and other requirements relating to privacy and data security. Further, as regulatory focus on privacy issues continues to increase and become more complex, these potential risks to our business will intensify. Changes in laws or regulations associated with the enhanced protection of certain types of sensitive data could significantly increase our cost of providing our products and services.
If we are unable to develop software applications that interoperate with computing platforms developed by others, our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition may be adversely affected. We develop software applications that interoperate with operating systems, database platforms, and hardware devices developed by others, which we refer to collectively as computing platforms. If the developers of these computing platforms do not cooperate with us or we are unable to devote the necessary resources so that our applications interoperate with those computing platforms, our software development efforts may be
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delayed and our business and results of operations may be adversely affected. When new or updated versions of these computing platforms are introduced, it is often necessary for us to develop updated versions of our software applications so that they interoperate properly with these computing platforms. We may not accomplish these development efforts quickly or cost-effectively, and it is difficult to predict what the relative growth rates of adoption of these computing platforms will be. These development efforts require substantial investment, the devotion of substantial employee resources, and the cooperation of the developers of the computing platforms. For some computing platforms, we must obtain some proprietary application program interfaces from the owner in order to develop software applications that interoperate with the computing platforms. Computing platform providers have no obligation to assist in these development efforts. If they do not provide us with assistance or the necessary proprietary application program interfaces on a timely basis, we may experience delays or be unable to expand our software applications into other areas.
The computing platforms we use may not continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable terms. Any loss of the right to use any of these systems could result in delays in the provision of our products and services, and our results of operations may be adversely affected. Defects in computing platforms could result in errors or failure of our products, which could harm our business.
We incorporate third-party software in our solutions, the failure or unavailability of which could adversely affect our ability to sell, support, and service our products. We incorporate and include third-party software into and with certain of our products and solutions and expect to continue to do so. The operation of our products could be impaired if there are defects in that third-party software. It may be difficult for us to correct any defects in third-party software because the development and maintenance of the software is not within our control. Such defects could adversely affect our business.
In addition, there can be no assurance that these third parties will continue to make their software available to us on acceptable terms, or at all; not make their products available to our competitors on more favorable terms; invest the appropriate levels of resources in their products and services to maintain and enhance the capabilities of their software; or remain in business. Any impairment in our relationship with these third parties or our ability to license or otherwise use their software could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Liability for intellectual property claims can be costly and result in the loss of significant rights, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. It is possible that third parties will claim that we have infringed their current or future products, inventions, or other intellectual property. We expect that supply chain software developers like us will increasingly be subject to infringement claims as the number of products grows. Any claims, with or without merit, could be time-consuming, result in costly litigation, cause product shipment delays, or require us to pay monetary damages or to enter into royalty or licensing agreements, any of which could negatively impact our operating results. There are no assurances that these royalty or licensing agreements, if required, would be available on terms acceptable to us, if at all. We also may be required to indemnify our customers for damages they suffer as a result of such infringement. There are no assurances that legal action claiming patent infringement will not be commenced against us, or that we would prevail in litigation given the complex technical issues and inherent uncertainties in patent litigation. If a patent claim against us were successful and we could not obtain a license on acceptable terms or license a substitute technology or redesign the product or feature to avoid infringement, we may be prevented from distributing our software or required to incur significant expense and delay in developing non-infringing software. Any of these events could seriously harm our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Our failure to adequately protect our proprietary rights could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Our success and ability to compete is dependent in part upon our proprietary technology. There are no assurances that we will be able to protect our proprietary rights against unauthorized disclosure or third-party copying or use. We rely on a combination of copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality agreements, licensing arrangements, and contractual commitments to establish and protect our proprietary rights. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, existing copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret laws afford only limited protection. In addition, the laws of certain foreign countries do not protect our rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. Attempts may be made to copy or reverse engineer aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. Any infringement of our proprietary rights could negatively impact our future operating results. Furthermore, policing the unauthorized use of our products is difficult, and litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, or to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources. In turn, our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.
The use of open source software in our products may expose us to additional risks and harm our intellectual property, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Some of our products use or incorporate software that is subject to one or more open source licenses. Open source software is typically freely accessible, usable and modifiable. Certain open source software licenses require a user who intends to distribute the open source software as a component of the user’s software to disclose publicly part or all of the source code to the user’s software. In addition, certain open
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source software licenses require the user of such software to make any derivative works of the open source code available to others on unfavorable terms or at no cost. This can subject previously proprietary software to open source license terms.
While we monitor the use of all open source software in our products, processes, and technology and try to ensure that no open source software is used in such a way as to require us to disclose the source code to the related product or solution, such use could inadvertently occur. Additionally, if a third-party software provider has incorporated open source software into software we license from them for use in our products and solutions, we could, under certain circumstances, be required to disclose the source code to our products and solutions. This could harm our intellectual property position and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Risks Related to Laws and Regulations
We may have exposure to additional tax liabilities.As a multinational corporation, we are subject to income taxes in the U.S. and various foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our global provision for income taxes and other tax liabilities. In the ordinary course of a global business, there are many intercompany transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Our income tax returns are routinely subject to audits by tax authorities. Although we regularly assess the likelihood of adverse outcomes resulting from these examinations to determine our tax estimates, a final determination of tax audits or tax disputes could have an adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Also, the earnings of our foreign subsidiaries are considered to be indefinitely reinvested. If our plans change in the future or if we elect to repatriate the unremitted earnings of our foreign subsidiaries in the form of dividends or otherwise, we could be subject to additional local withholding taxes which may result in a higher effective tax rate.
In addition, the United States and other governments adopt tax reform measures from time to time that impact future effective tax rates favorably or unfavorably. These tax reforms may be in the form of changes in tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets or liabilities, or changes in tax laws or their interpretation. Such changes can have a material adverse impact on our financial results. In 2022, the United States enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes a 1% excise tax on corporate stock repurchases. While we do not anticipate that changes in the tax laws or rates in that Act will have a material, direct impact on the Company, imposition of new excise taxes and minimum corporate tax rates such as these can have a material adverse impact on the Company in the future.
We are also subject to non-income taxes, such as payroll, sales, use, value-added, net worth, property and goods and services taxes in the U.S. and various foreign jurisdictions. We are regularly under audit by tax authorities with respect to these non-income taxes and may have exposure to additional non-income tax liabilities, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
We can be subject to criminal or civil liability if we fail to comply with anti-corruption and anti-boycott regulations, and that can adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We are subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), U.S. domestic bribery laws, and foreign anti-corruption regulation as well as domestic and foreign anti-boycott regulation, which many governments have interpreted more broadly and enforced aggressively in recent years. Under certain circumstances, we can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of our employees, representatives, contractors, partners, and agents, even if our Company does not explicitly authorize those activities.
While we have policies and procedures and conduct training that addresses compliance with anti-corruption and anti-boycott regulation, our employees and representatives may violate those regulations, we may be held responsible. Detecting, investigating, and resolving actual or alleged violations of those regulations can divert our management team’s time, resources, and attention. In addition, noncompliance with anti-corruption or anti-boycott regulation could subject us to whistleblower complaints, investigations, sanctions, settlements, prosecution, enforcement actions, fines, damages, other civil or criminal penalties or injunctions, suspension or debarment from contracting with certain persons, reputational harm, adverse media coverage, and other collateral consequences.
Other laws and regulations. We face risks related to other laws and regulations in areas discussed elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, including data protection, export controls and immigration.
Risks Related to International Operations
Our international operations have many associated risks. We continue to strategically manage our presence in international markets, and these efforts require significant management attention and financial resources. We may not be able to successfully penetrate international markets, or, if we do, there can be no assurance that we will grow our business in these markets at the same rate as in North America. International sales are subject to many risks and difficulties, including those arising from complying with a variety of foreign laws, import and export restrictions and tariffs, reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries,
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potential adverse tax treatment, less stringent adherence to ethical and legal standards by prospective customers in some countries, language and cultural barriers and political and economic instability. Because of these inherent complexities and challenges, lack of success in international markets could adversely affect our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition.
Our operating results may include foreign currency gains and losses. We conduct a portion of our business in currencies other than the United States dollar. Our revenues, expenses, operating profit and net income are affected when the dollar weakens or strengthens in relation to other currencies. In addition, we have a large development center in Bangalore, India, that does not have a natural in-market revenue hedge to mitigate currency risk to our operating expense in India. Fluctuations in the value of other currencies could materially impact our revenues, expenses, operating profit and net income.
Our employee retention and hiring may be hindered by immigration restrictions, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations, cash flow, and financial condition. Foreign nationals who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents constitute a significant part of our professional U.S. workforce. Our ability to hire and retain these workers, and their ability to remain and work in the U.S. are impacted by laws and regulations as well as by processing procedures of various government agencies. Changes in laws, regulations, or procedures may adversely affect our ability to hire or retain such workers and may affect our costs of doing business and/or our ability to deliver services.
Risks Related to Our Common Stock
Our stock price has been highly volatile. The trading price of our common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors, including: global macro-economic contraction impacting demand for supply chain solutions; quarterly variations in operating results; announcements of technological innovations or new products by us or our competitors; developments with respect to patents or proprietary rights; changes in financial estimates by securities analysts; and mergers, acquisitions, and combinations involving our competitors or us.
Our operating results are difficult to predict and could cause our stock price to fall. Our quarterly revenue and operating results are difficult to predict and can fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter. If our quarterly revenue or operating results fall below the expectations of investors or public market analysts, the price of our common stock could fall substantially. Our quarterly revenue is difficult to forecast for several reasons, including the following: global macro-economic disruptions; credit and equity market disruptions, which can significantly impact capital availability and spend timing of customers or potential customers; the varying sales cycle for our products and services from customer to customer, including multiple levels of authorization required by some customers; the varying demand for our products; customers’ budgeting and purchasing cycles; delays in our implementations at customer sites; timing of hiring new services employees and the rate at which these employees become productive; timing of introduction of new products; development and performance of our distribution channels; and timing of any acquisitions and related costs.
Most of our expenses, including employee compensation and rent, are relatively fixed. In addition, our expense levels are based, in part, on our expectations regarding future revenue increases. As a result, any shortfall in revenue in relation to our expectations could cause significant changes in our operating results from quarter to quarter and could result in quarterly losses. As a result of these factors, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our revenue levels and operating results are not necessarily meaningful. Historical growth rates and historical quarterly revenue and operating results may not be a good indicator of future operating results and reliance on historical results should not be used to predict our future performance.
Our articles of incorporation and bylaws and Georgia law may inhibit a takeover of our company. Our corporate organizational documents and Georgia law contain provisions that might enable our management to resist a takeover of our company. These provisions might discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company or a change in our management. These provisions could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for shareholders to elect their own director nominees and compel other corporate actions. The existence of these provisions could also limit the price that investors might be willing to pay for shares of our common stock.
Other Risk Factors
Economic, political and market conditions can adversely affect our business, results of operations, cash flow and financial condition, including our revenue growth and profitability, which in turn could adversely affect our stock price. Our business is influenced by a range of factors that are beyond our control and that we have no comparative advantage in forecasting. These include:
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general economic and business conditions;
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interest and inflation rates, trends and fluctuations of each, and efforts to control them;
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financial and credit market fluctuations and bank failures;
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overall demand for enterprise software and services;
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governmental policy, budgetary constraints, potential U.S. federal government shutdowns or shifts in government spending priorities;
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general geo-political developments, including political instability, economic sanctions, terrorist activities or international conflicts, such as the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East; and
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currency exchange rate fluctuations.
Macroeconomic developments in the United States and Europe and in parts of Asia and South America could negatively affect our business, operating results, financial condition, and outlook, which, in turn, could adversely affect our stock price. Any general weakening of, and related declining corporate confidence in, the global economy or the curtailment in government or corporate spending could cause current or potential customers to reduce or eliminate their information technology budgets and spending, which could cause customers to delay, decrease or cancel purchases of our products and services; or cause customers not to pay us; or to delay paying us for previously purchased products and services.
In addition, political unrest and the related potential impact on global stability, acts of war or terrorism and the potential for other hostilities in various parts of the world, as well as potential public health crises and natural disasters continue to contribute to a climate of economic and political uncertainty that could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition, including our revenue growth and profitability.
Changes in, or interpretation of, accounting principles could result in unfavorable accounting changes. Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and accompanying accounting pronouncements, implementation guidelines, and interpretations. These rules are subject to interpretation by the SEC and various bodies formed to interpret and create appropriate accounting principles. Changes in these rules or their interpretation could significantly change our reported results and may even retroactively affect previously reported transactions. Changes resulting from these new accounting standards or the adoption of other new or revised accounting principles may result in materially different financial results and may require that we make changes to our systems, processes, and controls. In addition, as we work to align with the guidelines of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (“SASB”) environmental metrics, we may continue to expand our disclosure in these areas. Our failure to report accurately or achieve progress on our metrics timely could adversely affect our reputation, financial performance and business growth.
Adverse litigation results could affect our business. From time to time, we may be involved in litigation relating to claims arising in the ordinary course of business, and occasionally legal proceeding not in the ordinary course. Litigation can be lengthy, expensive and disruptive to our operations, and can divert our management’s attention away from running our core business. The results of any litigation also cannot be predicted with certainty. An adverse decision could result in monetary damages or injunctive relief that could affect our business, operating results or financial condition. Additional information regarding legal matters in which we are involved, if any, can be found in Note 5 to our Consolidated Financial Statements.
The effects of a pandemic, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, or other major public health crisis could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The disease spread throughout the world, prompting governmental and private authorities to implement measures to contain the pandemic, including travel bans and restrictions, quarantines, shelter-in-place orders, and business limitations and shutdowns. A future pandemic or other public health crisis, and related remedial measures, could adversely impact our results from operations, financial condition, liquidity and cash flows in numerous ways, including but not limited to:
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any such crisis could reduce the availability or productivity of our workforce impacting our day-to-day operations and ability to meet our customer obligations;
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customer demand for our products could decline or they may request extended payment terms for products purchased due to their need to reduce their information technology expense or preserve cash, or as a result of reductions in their sales and profits;
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customers could file for bankruptcy;
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forced store closures could accelerate pre-existing disruption in the retail sector; and
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the spending habits of our customers’ customers could change, reducing our customers’ own revenues and profitability, which in turn could affect our revenues and profitability.
A decrease in revenues could also negatively affect our liquidity, as we primarily rely on cash generated from operating activities for our liquidity needs. Compounding this issue, a pandemic or other public health crisis may make outside capital less available or more expensive.
Fires or other catastrophic events at our principal facilities could disrupt our business. Fires, natural disasters, weather events, political unrest, disruptions in critical infrastructure or other catastrophic events, particularly those affecting our Atlanta headquarters or India research and development center, may cause damage or disruption to our operations, and thus could have a strong negative effect on us. Our business operations are subject to interruption by natural disasters, weather events, political unrest, fire, power shortages and other disruptions of critical infrastructure, health crises or pandemics and other events beyond our control. Although we maintain crisis management and disaster response plans, such events could make it difficult or impossible for us to deliver our services to our customers.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 1C. Cybersecurity
We believe Manhattan has appropriate processes for assessing, identifying, and managing material risks from cybersecurity threats. Those processes are embodied in our enterprise-wide Cyber Risk Management Program (the “Cyber Program”), which includes our cybersecurity governance structure and our cybersecurity strategy and processes.
Governance Structure
Board Oversight. Our Board of Directors has delegated oversight of our Cyber Program to the Board Audit Committee. Despite that delegation, the full Board also remains informed, through quarterly presentations to the full Board by our Chief Financial Officer or their designee (or more frequently as necessary), followed by the opportunity for Q&A and discussion, on the status of the Cyber Program. The presentations cover, among other things, our cyber incident experience, ongoing cyber threats, material risks, deployment of cybersecurity controls and risk mitigants, engagement of third parties (e.g., consultants and auditors) and third-party tools, our cyber insurance coverages, and our employee-training programs. If further Board engagement on cybersecurity matters is required, management, through the CEO, CFO or CLO, communicate directly with the Audit Committee chair, who engages the Audit Committee as they deem appropriate.
Management’s Assessment and Management of Cybersecurity Threats. Members of Manhattan’s executive management team, along with others from Company senior management, and others with varying areas of expertise, are engaged as part of our Cyber Program:
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Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer – Direct management of our Cyber Program falls within our Information Technology department, which reports up through our CIO, who reports to our CFO. Both our CIO and CFO have familiarity and oversight experience, appropriate for their positions, regarding general cybersecurity matters and threats affecting business-to-business software and cloud services vendors such as Manhattan.The CFO is a member of our Disclosure Committee, which is responsible for determining whether a cybersecurity incident is “material” for purposes of publicly reporting cybersecurity incidents, and is a member of our “Core Response Team” under the Company’s Crisis Response Program. Our CFO also chairs our management Cybersecurity Committee.
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Chief Legal Officer – Our CLO has experience providing legal advice regarding cybersecurity-related programs as well as engaging with outside advisors and insurance brokers and underwriters on cybersecurity coverage, claims, and loss mitigation. Our CLO also is member of the Disclosure Committee and the Core Response Team.
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Senior Director, Global Security – Our Senior Director, Global Security, has managed our Cyber Program for eight years. He manages its day-to-day operations, oversees our security analysts and engineers, and leads our Cybersecurity Committee meetings. He is trained in cybersecurity strategy, planning, and execution and holds industry recognized security certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).
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Cybersecurity Committee – Members include, in addition to the CFO and SD, Global Security, business representatives of Manhattan’s material business lines and administrative departments, cyber-risk operational heads from our material business lines, and our VP, Contracts and Administration (or their designee). The Cybersecurity Committee’s purpose is
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to review cybersecurity risks, discuss emerging threats, prioritize cybersecurity efforts, and make recommendations to leadership.
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Crisis Response Team – Pursuant to our Crisis Response Program, our Crisis Response Team, which comprises the CLO, CFO, Chief People Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, and an expanded team from our material business lines and administrative departments, as well as outside advisors/experts (cyber forensics, external legal counsel, law enforcement, public relations), is charged with managing the Company through a cybersecurity incident (or other event or series of events) that rise to the level of a Company “crisis.” The Program includes protocols by which the CLO, on behalf of the Team, will report to or engage the CEO and the Chairman of the Board if and when an incident becomes a crisis or potential crisis.
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Other Roles – The Cyber Program includes engagement of other Company management employees and outside service providers to oversee or perform specific roles in connection with cybersecurity risk assessment and management, and incident management. That includes risk and security heads from our material business lines who implement and administer policies specific to those business lines and independent auditors to certify compliance with the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Systems and Organization Controls (SOC 2) security framework, and the Federal Government’s Federal Risk and Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP) criteria for federal use of cloud services. We also conduct reviews for compliance with data protection regulation such as Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and regulation of various U.S. states such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Risk Management and Strategy
Overview of Processes for Assessing, Identifying, and Managing Material Cyber Risks.
The principal objectives of our Cyber Program are to minimize the risks associated with cybersecurity threats to our business operations, financial performance and financial condition, and protect the confidential information, intellectual property, and other assets of Manhattan, and those of our customers, vendors, partners, employees, and consumers that can be at risk due to cybersecurity threats to Manhattan.
Manhattan has incorporated industry recognized cybersecurity frameworks and standards into its Cyber Program, including frameworks from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and security control auditing protocols from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and the International Organizations for Standardization (ISO). Recognizing that the nature of cybersecurity threats and the particular threat vectors we face continually change, we continue to invest in updating and enhancing our Cyber Program. Annually, as part of Manhattan’s budgeting process, our Senior Director, Global Security, submits to our CIO their recommendations for Cyber Program enhancements, including the associated capital requests, for inclusion in the CIO’s proposed IT budget. Those recommendations are then evaluated at the executive level, taking into account the projected return on investment and the anticipated enhancement of our cybersecurity risk profile.
Under our Cyber Program, our Senior Director, Global Security, and the staff, along with our management-led Cybersecurity Committee, with input where appropriate from our third-party advisors, work to identify our cybersecurity threats, assess the risks, and deploy appropriate technologies and processes to mitigate the risks. When cybersecurity incidents occur, these resources work to manage through the incident utilizing advanced security tools and playbooks, and in accordance with processes set out in various Company policies and practice documents, which include internal communications protocols to keep the executive team and, where appropriate, the Audit Committee and Board, informed. Pertinent policy and practice documents include, among others, Manhattan’s Incident Response Policy, our Incident Escalation Matrix, our Materiality Determination Process for Cybersecurity Incidents (governing the Company’s materiality determination for reporting purposes) and our Crisis Response Plan.
As an important cybersecurity risk mitigant, Manhattan provides mandatory training to its new hires and quarterly training of its employees, including phishing simulation tests and follow-up tests as needed, along with monthly cybersecurity newsletters and other cyber risk-related communications.
Integration into Overall Risk Management System or Processes. Our risk management systems and processes comprise numerous components, including published policies and procedures, risk detection systems, tools, and protocols (automated and human), internal and external independent auditing, management committee review, defined lines of communications, employee training, engagement of outside advisors and experts, assessment and utilization of both commercial and self-insurance opportunities, customer contract standardization where possible, legal review of vendor engagements and new products for regulatory compliance, regular operations reviews with the CEO, and Board (and Board Committee) oversight. Manhattan utilizes the foregoing systems and processes to best ensure effective management of our risks and associated cybersecurity threats. The CFO or their designee reports to the full Board at least quarterly on the status of our Cyber Program.
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Engagement of Third Parties. As part of its Cyber Program, Manhattan engages outside independent auditors, consultants, and professional advisors. We also engage industry-leading cybersecurity service and systems providers to assist with protection from and detection of cybersecurity threats and incidents and our responses to them.
Risks from Third Party Service Providers and Others. Manhattan’s cybersecurity team, under the oversight of the Senior Director, Global Security, performs risk assessments on third party service providers and other third parties (such as partner companies), as well as third party software and hardware utilized in its operations, that may have the potential to create cybersecurity threats to our data and operations.
Risks from Cybersecurity Threats—Likely Material Impact. See Item 1A, "Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity." We do not believe any risks from previous cybersecurity threats have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect Manhattan.
Item 2. Properties
Our principal administrative, sales, marketing, support, and research and development facility is located in approximately 221,000 square feet of modern office space in Atlanta, Georgia. During 2024, we entered into the eighth amendment to our lease agreement, which extended our lease termination date from September 30, 2025, to September 30, 2036, with respect to substantially all of the Company's leased premises in Atlanta, Georgia. Pursuant to the amended lease, effective as of October 1, 2025, we will decrease our leased square footage at our Atlanta headquarters from approximately 221,000 to approximately 209,000. We have an additional office in the United States under a short-term agreement in New Jersey.
We also occupy facilities outside of the United States under multi-year lease agreements in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, China, Japan, Spain, Italy, Singapore, India, Australia, and Germany. We also occupy an office under a short-term lease agreement in Chile. We believe our office space is adequate to meet our immediate needs; however, we may expand into additional facilities in the future.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may be a party to legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business or outside of the ordinary course. We are not currently a party to any legal proceeding the result of which we believe could have a material adverse impact upon our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Many of our customer engagements involve services or products that are critical to the operations of our clients’ businesses. Any downtime or failure of our services or products could result in a claim for substantial damages against us, regardless of our responsibility for that failure. Although we attempt to contractually limit our liability for damages arising from services or product downtime or failures or negligent acts or omissions, there can be no assurance that the limitations of liability in our contracts will be enforceable.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
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PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Shareholder Matters, and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market for Common Stock
Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “MANH”. The number of registered shareholders of record of our common stock as of February 3, 2025 was 13. The number of record holders does not include persons who held our common stock in nominee or “street name” accounts through brokers.
We do not intend to declare or pay cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Our management anticipates that all earnings and other cash resources, if any, will be retained for investment in our business, including share repurchases.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
In the following table, we provide information regarding our current equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2024:
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders - - -
(1) The weighted average exercise price does not take into account outstanding restricted stock unit awards, which have no exercise price.
You may find additional information regarding our equity compensation plans in Note 2 of the Notes to our Consolidated Financial Statements.
Purchase of Equity Securities
In the following table, we provide information regarding our common stock repurchases under our publicly-announced share repurchase program for the quarter ended December 31, 2024.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, we repurchased a total of 986,555 shares at an average price per share of $244.93 under our publicly-announced share repurchase program. In January 2025, our Board of Directors raised the Company’s share repurchase authority to an aggregate of $100.0 million of our common stock.
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
All statements, trend analyses, and other information contained in the following discussion relative to markets for our products and trends in revenue, gross margins, and anticipated expense levels, as well as other statements including words such as “may,” “expect,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “could,” “seek,” “project,” “estimate,” and other similar expressions constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to business and economic risks and uncertainties, including those discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of this Form 10-K, and our actual results of operations may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements.
Business Overview
We develop, sell, deploy, service and maintain software solutions designed to manage supply chains, inventory and omnichannel operations for retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, logistics providers and other organizations. Our customers include many of the world’s premier and most profitable brands.
Our business model is singularly focused on the development and implementation of complex commerce enablement software solutions that are designed to optimize supply chains, and retail store operations including POS effectiveness and efficiency for our customers.
We have five principal sources of revenue:
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cloud subscriptions, including software as a service (SaaS) and hosting of software;
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licenses of our software;
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customer support services and software enhancements (collectively, “maintenance”) related to software licenses;
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professional services, including solutions planning and implementation, related consulting, customer training, and reimbursements from customers for out-of-pocket expenses (collectively, “services”); and
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hardware sales.
In 2024, we generated $1,042.4 million in total revenue, with a revenue mix of: cloud subscriptions 32%; software license 1%; maintenance 13%; services revenue 51%; and hardware 3%.
We have three geographic reportable segments: the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Geographic revenue is based on the location of the sale. Our international revenue was approximately $346.2 million, $301.4 million, and $238.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, which represents approximately 33%, 32%, and 31% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. International revenue includes all revenue derived from sales to customers outside the United States. At December 31, 2024, we employed approximately 4,690 employees worldwide. We have offices in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as representatives in Mexico and reseller partnerships in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and Asia.
Future Expectations
While we remain cautious about the global economy, our results for the full year ended 2024 exceeded our expectations due to solid demand for our cloud solutions. Our solutions are mission critical, supporting complex global supply chains. We believe that favorable secular tailwinds, such as the digital transformation of businesses in manufacturing, wholesale and retail, coupled with our commitment to investing in organic innovation to deliver leading cloud supply chain, inventory and omnichannel commerce solutions is in synergistic alignment with current market demand. We believe this alignment is contributing to our strong financial results, higher demand and strong win rates for our solutions for the period. We remain committed to investing in our business to drive customer success and expand our total addressable market, which we believe will position us well to achieve long-term sustainable growth and earnings.
Going forward, we are investing in our cloud business, including enterprise investments in innovation, and strategic operating expenses to support growth objectives.
For 2025, our five strategic goals continue to be:
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Focus on customer success and drive sustainable long-term growth;
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Invest in innovation to expand our products and total addressable market;
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Cloud Subscription
Under our Manhattan Active® Solutions cloud subscription offering, customers pay a periodic fee for the right to use our software within a cloud environment that we provide and manage over a specified period of time. Adoption of our Manhattan Active® cloud solutions continues to increase nicely, with cloud revenue up 32% over 2023. Cloud revenue now represents about 96% of our total software revenue.
Customers on our legacy perpetual license program can convert their maintenance contracts to cloud subscription contracts.
Global Economic Trends and Industry Factors
Global macro-economic trends, technology spending, and supply chain management market growth are important barometers for our business. In 2024, we generated approximately 67% of our total revenue in the United States, 18% in EMEA, and the remaining balance in APAC, Canada, and Latin America. In addition, Gartner Inc.(“Gartner”), an information technology research and advisory company, estimates that over 75% of every supply chain software solutions dollar invested is spent in North America and Europe; consequently, the health of the U.S. and European economies have a meaningful impact on our financial results.
We sell technology-based solutions with total pricing, including software and services, in many cases exceeding $1.0 million. Our software is often a part of our customers’ and prospects’ much larger capital commitment associated with facilities expansion and business improvement. We believe that, given the mission critical nature of our software, combined with a challenging global macro environment, our current sales cycles for large cloud subscriptions in our target markets could be extended. While demand for our solutions is solid, the current business climate within the United States and geographic regions in which we operate may affect customers’ and prospects’ decisions regarding timing of strategic capital expenditures.
In January 2025, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provided a World Economic Outlook (WEO) update. The WEO update noted, “Global growth is projected at 3.3 percent both in 2025 and 2026, below the historical (2000–19) average of 3.7 percent. Global headline inflation is expected to decline to 4.2 percent in 2025 and to 3.5 percent in 2026, converging back to target earlier in advanced economies than in emerging market and developing economies.”
The WEO update projected advanced economies, which represent our primary revenue markets, would grow at about 1.9 and 1.8 percent in 2025 and 2026, while the emerging and developing economies would grow at about 4.2 percent in 2025 and 4.3 percent in 2026.
While we are encouraged by our results, we remain cautious regarding the pace of global economic growth. We believe global geopolitical and economic volatility likely will continue to shape customers’ and prospects’ enterprise software buying decisions.
Key Performance Metrics
We regularly review metrics to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions. We believe cloud subscriptions revenue growth and remaining performance obligation (RPO) growth are the leading indicators of our business performance, primarily derived from cloud subscription fees that customers pay for our Unified Omnichannel Commerce and Digital Supply Chain solutions.
Cloud Subscriptions Revenue Growth
Our cloud revenue growth provides insight into our ability to maintain and grow our cloud customer base. Total cloud revenue increased from $254.6 million in 2023 to $337.2 million in 2024, representing a 32% year-over-year increase. Total cloud revenue increased from $176.5 million in 2022 to $254.6 million in 2023, representing a 44% year-over-year increase. Cloud revenue growth is being driven by strong demand for our cloud offerings.
Remaining Performance Obligations
Transaction price allocated to RPO represents contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized, which includes deferred revenue and non-cancelable amounts that we expect to invoice and recognize as revenue in future periods. Over 98% of our RPO represent cloud native subscriptions with a non-cancelable term greater than one year. Maintenance contracts typically are for one year and not included in RPO. RPO provides insight into our contracted backlog of future business. As of December 31, 2024, our RPO was approximately $1.8 billion, an increase of 25% over December 31, 2023 on strong demand.
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Revenue
Cloud Subscriptions and Software License revenue: In the full year ended 2024, cloud subscriptions revenue was 96% of total cloud and software license revenue. In 2024, cloud subscriptions revenue totaled $337.2 million, or 32% of total revenue. The Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments recognized $264.3 million, $62.8 million and $10.1 million in cloud subscriptions revenue, respectively, in 2024. Cloud subscriptions revenue is recognized over the term of the agreement, typically five years or more. Cloud subscription revenue growth is influenced by the strength of general economic and business conditions and the competitive position of our software products. These revenues generally have long sales cycles. Approximately 22% of the total value of new non-cancelable cloud subscriptions (excluding renewals) signed during 2024 was with new customers and 78% was with existing customers. We define new customers as entities from which we either have never earned revenue or have not recognized revenue in the last five years.
In 2024, license revenue totaled $15.1 million, or 1% of total revenue. The Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments totaled $12.3 million, $1.4 million, and $1.4 million in license revenue, respectively, in 2024.
Our Unified Omnichannel Commerce and Digital Supply Chain solutionsare focused on core omnichannel operation (e-commerce, retail store operations and POS), supply chain commerce operations (Warehouse Management, Transportation Management and Labor Management), and inventory optimization, which are intensely competitive markets characterized by rapid technological change. We are a market leader in the supply chain management and omnichannel software solutions market as defined by industry analysts such as ARC Advisory Group and Gartner. Our goal is to extend our position as a leading global supply chain solutions provider by growing our cloud subscriptions revenues faster than our competitors through investment in innovation.
Maintenance Revenue: Our maintenance revenue totaled $138.3 million, or 13% of total revenue. The Americas, EMEA and APAC segments recognized $110.8 million, $18.3 million, and $9.2 million, respectively, in maintenance revenue in 2024. For maintenance, we offer a comprehensive 24 hours per day, 365 days per year program that provides our customers with software upgrades, when and if available, which include additional or improved functionality and technological advances incorporating emerging supply chain and industry initiatives.
Maintenance relates to our legacy perpetual license sales. We expect maintenance revenues to decline as we continue to develop our cloud offerings, and be offset by additional cloud revenue, including from customers converting their maintenance contracts to cloud subscriptions. The growth of maintenance revenues is influenced by: (1) new software license contracts; (2) annual renewal of support contracts; and (3) fluctuations in currency rates. Substantially all of our customers renew their annual support contracts or convert their maintenance contracts to cloud subscriptions. Maintenance revenue is generally paid in advance and recognized over the term of the agreement, typically twelve months. Maintenance renewal revenue is recognized over the renewal period once we have a contract upon payment from the customer.
Services Revenue: In 2024, our services revenue totaled $525.5 million, or 51% of total revenue. The Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments recognized $389.5 million, $107.4 million, and $28.6 million, respectively.
Our professional services organization provides our customers with expertise and assistance in planning and implementing our solutions. To ensure a successful product implementation, consultants assist customers with the initial implementation of a system or service, the conversion and transfer of the customer’s historical data to the new system or service, and ongoing training, education, and system/service upgrades. We believe our professional services enable customers to implement our software rapidly, ensure the customer’s success with our solutions, strengthen our customer relationships, and add to our industry-specific knowledge base for use in future implementations and product innovations.
Although our professional services are optional, the majority of our customers use at least some portion of these services for their planning, implementation, ongoing support, training, system upgrades or related needs. Professional services are typically rendered under time and materials-based contracts with services typically billed on an hourly basis. Professional services are sometimes rendered under fixed-fee based contracts with payments due on specific dates or milestones.
Services revenue growth is contingent upon cloud sales and customer upgrade cycles, which are influenced by the strength of general economic and business conditions and the competitive position of our software products. In addition, our professional services business has competitive exposure to offshore providers and other consulting companies.
Hardware Revenue: Our hardware revenue, which we recognize net of related costs, totaled $26.3 million in 2024 representing 3% of total revenue. As a convenience for our cloud and perpetual license customers, we resell a variety of hardware products developed and manufactured by third parties. These products include computer hardware, radio frequency terminal networks, RFID chip readers, bar code printers and scanners, and other peripherals. We resell all third-party hardware products and related maintenance pursuant to agreements with manufacturers or through distributor-authorized reseller agreements pursuant to which we are entitled to purchase
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hardware products and services at discount prices. We generally purchase hardware from our vendors only after receiving an order from a customer. As a result, we do not maintain hardware inventory.
Product Development
We continue to invest significantly in research and development (R&D) to provide leading Unified Omnichannel Commerce and Digital Supply Chain solutions to enable global retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and logistics providers to successfully manage accelerating and fluctuating demands as well as the increasing complexity and volatility of their local and global supply chains, retail store operations and POS. Our R&D expenses for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 were $137.7 million, $126.8 million, and $111.9 million, respectively.
We expect to continue to focus our R&D resources on the development and enhancement of our core supply chain, inventory optimization, omnichannel and POS software solutions. We offer what we believe to be the broadest solutions portfolio in the supply chain solutions marketplace, to address all aspects of inventory optimization, transportation management, distribution management, planning, and omnichannel operations including order management, store inventory & fulfillment, call center and POS.
We also plan to continue to enhance our existing solutions and to introduce new solutions to address evolving industry standards and market needs. We identify opportunities to further enhance our solutions and to develop and provide new solutions through our customer support organization, as well as through ongoing customer consulting engagements and implementations, interactions with our user groups, association with leading industry analysts and market research firms, and participation in industry standards and research committees. Our solutions address the needs of customers in various vertical markets, including retail, consumer goods, food and grocery logistics service providers, industrial and wholesale, high technology and electronics, life sciences, and government.
Cash Flow and Financial Condition
For 2024, we generated cash flow from operating activities of $295.0 million and have generated a cumulative total of $720.9 million for the three years ended December 31, 2024. Our cash at December 31, 2024 totaled $266.2 million, with no debt. We currently have no credit facilities. During the past three years, our primary uses of cash have been for funding investments in R&D in our Unified Omnichannel Commerce and Digital Supply Chain solutions to drive revenue and earnings growth. In addition, we repurchased $241.6 million of Manhattan Associates’ outstanding common stock under the share repurchase program approved by our Board of Directors. In January 2025, our Board of Directors raised the Company’s share repurchase authority to an aggregate of $100.0 million of our common stock.
In 2025, we expect that our priorities for use of cash will continue to be investments in our Unified Omnichannel Commerce and Digital Supply Chain solutions. We also anticipate prioritizing capital allocation in our global teams to fund growth, and accretive share repurchases. We do not anticipate any borrowing requirements in 2025 for general corporate purposes.
Full Year 2024 Financial Summary
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Diluted earnings per share: $3.51 for 2024 compared to $2.82 for 2023;
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Consolidated revenue: $1,042.4 million for 2024 compared to $928.7 million for 2023;
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Cloud subscription revenue: $337.2 million for 2024 compared to $254.6 million for 2023;
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License revenue: $15.1 million for 2024 compared to $18.2 million for 2023;
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Operating income: $261.6 million for 2024 compared to $209.9 million for 2023;
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Operating margins: 25.1% for 2024 compared to operating margins of 22.6% for 2023;
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Cash flow from operations: $295.0 million for 2024 compared to $246.2 million for 2023;
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Cash paid for income taxes: $83.4 million for 2024 compared to $67.4 million for 2023;
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Cash and investments: $266.2 million at December 31, 2024 compared to $270.7 million at December 31, 2023; and
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Share repurchases: In 2024, we repurchased 986,555 shares of Manhattan Associates’ outstanding common stock for $241.6 million under the share repurchase program approved by our Board of Directors. In January 2025, our Board of Directors raised the Company’s share repurchase authority to an aggregate of $100.0 million of our common stock.
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Results of Operations
In the following table, we present a selection of certain Statement of Income data for 2024, 2023 and 2022.
Year Ended December 31,
% Change vs. Prior Year
(in thousands)
Revenue:
Costs and expenses:
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We have three reportable segments: the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Revenue information is based on the location of sale. The revenues represented below are from external customers only. The geography-based expenses include costs of personnel, direct sales, marketing expenses, and general and administrative costs to support the business. There are certain corporate expenses included in the Americas segment that we do not charge to the other segments including research and development, certain marketing and general and administrative costs that support the global organization, and the amortization of acquired developed technology. Included in the Americas costs are all research and development costs, including the costs associated with our operations in India. During 2024, 2023, or 2022, we derived the majority of our revenues from sales to customers within our Americas segment. In the following table, we present a summary of revenue and operating profit by segment:
Year Ended December 31,
% Change vs. Prior Year
Revenue: (in thousands)
Cloud subscriptions
Software license
Maintenance
Services
Hardware
Total Revenue
Operating income:
The consolidated results of our operations for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 are discussed below.
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Revenue
Our revenue consists of fees generated from cloud subscriptions, software licensing, maintenance, professional services, and hardware sales.
Year Ended December 31,
% Change vs. Prior Year % of Total Revenue
(in thousands)
Cloud Subscriptions Revenue
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
Cloud subscriptions revenue increased $82.6 million to $337.2 million in 2024 compared to 2023. Our customers have demonstrated a clear preference for cloud-based solutions, including existing customers that are migrating from on-premise to cloud-based offerings. Cloud subscriptions revenue increased $58.7 million, $20.6 million and $3.3 million for the Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments, respectively. Cloud subscriptions revenue recognized from first time cloud customers (defined as customers with no prior cloud subscriptions) during the year in which their initial cloud subscription began was approximately 2% and 3% of total cloud revenue in 2024 and 2023, respectively. Our customers contract for multi-year subscriptions which typically increase in scope and price over the term, and thus revenue recognized during the year when the contract is signed tends to be small relative to the total contract value. Revenue recognized in the initial year excludes revenue from additional solutions sold to the customer in future years and could be impacted by the timing of the start date of the subscription during the year.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
Cloud subscriptions revenue increased $78.2 million to $254.6 million in 2023 compared to 2022. Cloud subscriptions revenue for the Americas, EMEA and APAC segments increased $56.7 million, $19.2 million and $2.3 million, respectively. Revenue recognized from first time cloud customers (defined as customers with no prior cloud subscriptions) during the year in which their initial cloud subscription began was 3% and 7% of total cloud revenue in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Software License Revenue
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
Software license revenue decreased $3.1 million to $15.1 million in 2024 compared to 2023 on strong market preference for our cloud-native solutions.License revenue for the Americas segment increased $0.2 million, while license revenue for the EMEA and APAC segments decreased $1.5 million and $1.8 million, respectively, in 2024 over 2023. The majority of our software license revenue relates to our warehouse management product group (approximately 85%) for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
Software license revenue decreased $6.6 million to $18.2 million in 2023 compared to 2022. License revenue for the Americas and EMEA segments decreased $4.3 million and $3.5 million, respectively, while license revenue from the APAC segment increased $1.1 million in 2023 over 2022. The majority of our software license revenue relates to our warehouse management product group (approximately 85%) for the year ended December 31, 2023.
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Maintenance Revenue
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
Maintenance revenue decreased by $5.6 million in 2024 compared to 2023. The Americas and EMEA segments decreased $4.2 million and $1.4 million, respectively, compared to 2023, while the APAC segment remained relatively flat. Maintenance relates to our perpetual software licenses.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
Maintenance revenue increased $1.7 million in 2023 compared to 2022. Maintenance revenue for the Americas segment increased $1.7 million, while EMEA and APAC segments remained relatively flat in 2023 compared to 2022.
Services Revenue
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
Services revenue increased $37.6 million in 2024 compared to 2023. Service revenue for the Americas, EMEA and APAC segments increased 26.6 million, $6.1 million, and $4.9 million, respectively, compared to 2023. Services revenue was driven by adoption and implementation of our cloud solutions. The percentage of professional services revenue that relates to cloud subscriptions in 2024 and 2023 was approximately 75% and 70%, respectively. Our customers experienced budgetary constraints during the second half of 2024 which negatively impacted our professional services revenue related to cloud subscriptions. The remainder of our professional services revenue relates to implementations, ongoing support, and upgrades of licensed software. Professional services revenue recognized from first time cloud customers (defined as customers with no prior cloud subscriptions) during the year in which their initial cloud subscription began was approximately 7% and 8% of total services revenue in 2024 and 2023, respectively. As with our cloud subscriptions, customers often continue to purchase our professional services beyond their initial implementation to roll out additional locations, implement additional features and functionality, and implement additional products, as well as for general support. Professional services revenue recognized from first time cloud customers excludes those services we provided after the year in which the initial cloud subscription began. Further, the professional services revenue attributable to first time cloud customers could be affected by the timing of the start date of the subscription during the year.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
Services revenue increased $93.8 million in 2023 compared to 2022. The Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments increased $67.0 million, $21.7 million and $5.1 million, respectively, compared to 2022. Services revenue was driven by adoption and implementation of our cloud solutions. The percentage of professional services revenue that relates to cloud subscriptions in 2023 and 2022 was approximately 70% and 55%, respectively. Professional services revenue recognized from first time cloud customers (defined as customers with no prior cloud subscriptions) during the year in which their initial cloud subscription began was approximately 8% and 12% of total services revenue in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Hardware Revenue
Hardware revenue, net increased $2.1 million in 2024 compared to 2023.Hardware revenue, net decreased $5.4 million in 2023 compared to 2022. The majority of hardware sales are derived from our Americas segment. Sales of hardware are largely dependent upon customer-specific desires, which fluctuate.
Cost of Revenue
Year Ended December 31,
% Change vs. Prior Year
(in thousands)
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Cost of Cloud Subscriptions, Maintenance and Services
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
Cost of cloud subscriptions, maintenance and services consists primarily of salaries and other personnel-related expenses of employees dedicated to cloud subscriptions; maintenance services related to perpetual software licenses; and professional and technical services as well as hosting fees. The $40.4 million increase in 2024 compared to 2023 was principally due to a $40.3 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expenses, a $5.0 million increase in computer infrastructure cost, and a $1.2 million increase in facilities expense, partially offset by a $6.3 million decrease in performance-based compensation expense.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
The $73.2 million increase in 2023 compared to 2022 was principally due to a $52.0 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expenses, a $6.3 million increase in travel expense, a $8.3 million increase in performance-based compensation expense, a $4.4 million increase in computer infrastructure cost and a $1.1 million increase in facilities expense.
Cost of Software License
Cost of software license consists of the costs associated with software reproduction; media, packaging and delivery; documentation, and other related costs; and royalties on third-party software sold with or as part of our products. In 2024, cost of license remained relatively flat, compared to 2023. In 2023, cost of software license decreased by $0.7 million compared to 2022.
Operating Expenses
Year Ended December 31,
% Change vs. Prior Year
(in thousands)
Research and Development
Our principal research and development (R&D) activities during 2024, 2023 and 2022 focused on the expansion and integration of new products and releases, including cloud solutions, while expanding the product footprint of our Unified Omnichannel Commerce and Digital Supply Chain solutions, including Inventory Optimization and point-of-sale.
For 2024, 2023 and 2022, we did not capitalize any R&D costs as the period between determining technological feasibility was established or that it is probable the software product would be used to perform the function intended were insignificant.
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
R&D expenses primarily consist of salaries and other personnel-related costs for personnel involved in our research and development activities. Research and development expenses in 2024 increased by $10.9 million compared to 2023. This increase is principally due to a $13.3 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expenses, partially offset by a $2.2 million decrease in performance-based compensation expense.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
Research and development expenses in 2023 increased by $14.9 million compared to 2022. This increase is principally due to a $10.9 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expenses, a $3.1 million increase in performance-based compensation expense, and a $0.6 million increase in computer infrastructure costs.
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Sales and Marketing
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
Sales and marketing expenses include salaries, commissions, travel and other personnel-related costs and the costs of our marketing and alliance programs and related activities. Sales and marketing expenses increased by $1.5 million in 2024 compared to 2023, primarily due to a $2.7 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expense, and a $0.6 million increase in marketing and campaign expenses, partially offset by a $2.1 million decrease in performance-based compensation expense.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
Sales and marketing expenses increased $10.0 million in 2023 compared to 2022, primarily due to a $4.3 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expenses, a $3.7 million increase in marketing and campaign programs, a $1.0 million increase in performance-based compensation expense, and a $0.8 million increase in travel expense.
General and Administrative
Year 2024 compared with year 2023
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and other personnel-related costs of executive, financial, human resources, information technology, and administrative personnel, as well as facilities, legal, insurance, accounting, and other administrative expenses. General and administrative expenses increased $8.6 million in 2024 primarily due to $7.0 million of expense related to an unusual health insurance claim and a $4.3 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expenses, partially offset by a $0.9 million decrease in performance-based compensation expense, a $1.2 million decrease in other taxes, and a $0.6 million decrease in computer infrastructure costs.
Year 2023 compared with year 2022
General and administrative expenses increased $8.1 million in 2023 primarily due to a $5.3 million increase in compensation and other personnel-related expenses, a $1.3 million increase in performance-based compensation expense, a $0.6 million increase in professional expenses, and a $0.6 million increase in computer infrastructure costs.
Depreciation and Amortization
Depreciation and amortization of intangibles and software expense amounted to $6.3 million, $5.8 million, and $6.7 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Amortization of intangibles was immaterial in 2024, 2023 and 2022. We have recorded acquisition-related intangible assets as part of the purchase accounting associated with various acquisitions.
Operating Income
Operating income in 2024 increased $51.7 million to $261.6 million, compared to $209.9 million for 2023. Operating margins were 25.1% for 2024 versus 22.6% for 2023. Operating income and margin increased primarily due to increased cloud subscriptions and services revenues. In 2024, operating income increased by $32.2 million, $15.8 million, and $3.7 million in the Americas, EMEA and APAC segment, respectively.
Operating income in 2023increased $57.2 million to $209.9 million, compared to $152.7 million for 2022. Operating margins were 22.6% for 2023 versus 19.9% for 2022. Operating income increased primarily due to increased cloud subscriptions and services revenues. In 2023, operating income increased by $35.9 million, $16.7 million, and $4.6 million in the Americas, EMEA and APAC segments.
Other Income and Income Taxes
Year Ended December 31,
% Change vs. Prior Year
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Other (Loss) Income, net
Other (loss) income, net primarily includes interest income, foreign currency gains and losses, and other non-operating expenses. Interest income was $6.0 million, $5.3 million and $0.6 million for 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The weighted-average interest rate earned on cash and investments was approximately 2% in 2024, approximately 2% in 2023, and immaterial in 2022. We recorded net foreign currency losses of $1.0 million in 2024, losses of $1.5 million in 2023, and gains of $4.7 million in 2022. The foreign currency gains and losses mainly resulted from gains or losses on intercompany transactions denominated in foreign currencies with subsidiaries due to the fluctuation of the U.S. dollar relative to other foreign currencies, primarily the British Pound Sterling, Euro, and Indian Rupee.
Income Tax Provision
Our effective income tax rates were 18.2%, 17.4%, and 18.4% in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Our effective income tax rate takes into account the source of taxable income, domestically by state and internationally by country, and available income tax credits.
The effective tax rate in 2024 increased from 2023 mainly due to a decrease of benefit from a 2023 favorable tax law change allowing creditability of foreign tax, partially offset by an increase of net excess tax benefits on restricted stock vesting in 2024.
The effective income tax rate in 2023 increased from 2022 mainly due to a decrease of expense from a favorable tax law change allowing creditability of foreign tax offset by a decrease of net excess tax benefits on restricted stock vesting and adjustments for tax contingencies.
The income tax provision for 2024, 2023 and 2022 included excess tax benefits of $13.1 million, $6.8 million, and $7.6 million on vesting of restricted stock.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
During 2024, 2023 and 2022, we funded our business through cash generated from operations. Our cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2024 included $194.8 million held in the U.S. and $71.4 million held by our foreign subsidiaries. We believe that our cash balances in the U.S. are sufficient to fund our U.S. operations. In the future, if we elect to repatriate the unremitted earnings of our foreign subsidiaries, we would no longer be subject to additional U.S. income taxes on such earnings due to the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December 2017, but we could be subject to additional local withholding taxes.
Cash flow from operating activities totaled $295.0 million, $246.2 million, and $179.6 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Typical factors affecting our cash provided by operating activities include our level of revenue and earnings for the period, the timing and amount of employee bonus and income tax payments, and the timing of cash collections from our customers which is our primary source of operating cash flow. Cash flow from operating activities for 2024 increased $48.8 million compared to 2023 on higher earnings. Cash flow from operating activities for 2023 increased $66.6 million compared to 2022 on higher earnings. Days sales outstanding was 74, 70, and 77 for quarter ending December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, reflecting solid cash collections.
Investing activities used cash of $8.7 million, $4.7 million, and $6.6 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Our investing activities for 2024, 2023 and 2022 consisted of capital spending to support company growth and short-term investing. For 2024, 2023 and 2022, capital expenditure was $8.7 million, $4.7 million, and $6.6 million, respectively.
Financing activities used cash of $286.4 million, $196.0 million, and $204.5 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The principal use of cash for financing activities in 2024, 2023 and 2022 was to purchase our common stock, including shares withheld for taxes due upon vesting of restricted stock and excise tax payments. Repurchases of our common stock for 2024, 2023 and 2022 totaled $286.4 million, $196.0 million, and $204.5 million, respectively, including shares withheld for taxes of $43.6 million, $30.0 million, and $29.1 million, respectively. Excise tax payments in 2024 totaled $1.1 million. In January 2025, our Board of Directors raised the Company’s share repurchase authority to an aggregate of $100.0 million of our common stock.
We believe that our existing cash will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs at least for the next twelve months, although there can be no assurance that this will be the case. In 2025, we anticipate that our priorities for use of cash will be similar to prior years, with our first priority being continued investment in product development and in our business to extend our market leadership. We will also continue to weigh our share repurchase options against cash for acquisitions and investing in the business. At this time, we do not anticipate any borrowing requirements in 2025 for general corporate purposes.
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Periodically, opportunities may arise to grow our business through the acquisition of complementary products and technologies. Any material acquisition could result in a decrease to our working capital depending on the amount, timing, and nature of the consideration to be paid. We expect to continue to evaluate acquisition opportunities that are complementary to our product footprint and technology direction.
Aggregate Contractual Obligations
Our principal commitments as of December 31, 2024 consist of multiple non-cancellable contracts for cloud infrastructure services and obligations under operating leases. As of December 31, 2024, our cloud infrastructure contractual obligations are approximately $239.7 million over the next 6 years. We also enter into non-cancellable subscriptions in the ordinary course of business for internal software to support our operations. Our contractual obligations, as of December 31, 2024, are approximately $25.1 million over the next 6 years. We expect to fulfill all of these commitments from our working capital.
Lease Commitments
We lease our facilities and some of our equipment under noncancelable operating lease arrangements that expire at various dates ranging from 2025 to 2036. Rent expense for these leases aggregated$9.3 million,$8.1million, and $7.7 million during 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
In the following table, we present a summary of our contractual commitments as of December 31, 2024 (in thousands):
Indemnities
Our customer contracts generally contain infringement indemnity provisions. Under those provisions, we generally agree, subject to certain exceptions, to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the customer in connection with third party claims against the customer alleging that the customer’s use of our software services and products infringe third party intellectual property rights. Conditions to our obligations generally include that we are provided the right to control the defense of the claims and, in general, to control settlement negotiations. Those provisions generally provide also that, if the customer is prevented from using our services or products because of a third party infringement claim, our sole obligation (in addition to the indemnification, defense, and hold harmless obligation referred to above) is to, at our expense, (i) procure for the customer the right to continue to use the services or products, (ii) replace or modify the services or products so that the customer’s use does not infringe, or, if neither of those options is reasonably feasible, terminate that particular services or products and provide, as applicable, a refund of services fees paid for services not received or a refund of the unamortized portion of the license fees paid for the products (based on a five year amortization period). Our customer contracts sometimes also require us to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the customer in connection with death, personal injury or property damage claims made by third parties with respect to actions of our personnel or contractors. The indemnity obligations contained in our customer contracts generally have no specified expiration date and no specified monetary limitation on liability, but they do not cover indirect or consequential damages, such as our customers’ lost revenues or profits. We have not previously incurred costs to settle claims or pay awards under these indemnification obligations. We account for these indemnity obligations in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board's guidance on accounting for contingencies and record a liability for these obligations when a loss is probable and reasonably estimable. We have not recorded any liabilities for these indemnification obligations as of December 31, 2024.
Warranties
In general, in our customer contracts for purchase of our cloud SaaS services or license of our on-premises software products, we warrant that our services or software will perform in accordance with our published services or product specifications. Additionally, we may include other warranties such as “no-malware” warranties and warranties that we will perform our SaaS services consistent with generally accepted industry standards or similar standards. In our SaaS services agreements, we also include service level agreements (SLAs) under which we agree to provide service credits to our customers if our services availability drops below certain defined levels. If necessary, we would reserve for the estimated cost of product and service warranties based on specific warranty claims and claims history. However, we have not incurred significant recurring expense under our services or product warranties. As a result, we believe the estimated fair value of our warranty obligations is nominal, and we have no liabilities recorded for them as of December 31, 2024.
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Application of Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The SEC defines “critical accounting policies” as those that require application of management’s most difficult, subjective, or complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain and may change in subsequent periods.
Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions in certain circumstances that affect amounts reported in the accompanying consolidated financial statements and related footnotes. We believe that the estimates, judgments, and assumptions upon which we rely are reasonable based on information available to us at the time that these estimates, judgments, and assumptions are made. To the extent there are material differences between those estimates, judgments, or assumptions and actual results, our financial statements will be affected. The accounting policy that reflect our more significant estimates, judgments, and assumptions is Revenue Recognition.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue when we transfer control of the promised products or services to our customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for those products or services. We derive our revenue mainly from cloud subscriptions, customer support services, and software enhancements (“maintenance”), and professional services. We exclude sales and usage-based taxes from revenue.
Nature of Products and Services
Cloud subscriptions includes software as a service (SaaS) and arrangements which provide customers with the right to use our software within a cloud environment that we provide and manage where the customer does not have the right to take possession of the software without significant penalty. SaaS and hosting revenues are recognized over the contract period.
Our services revenue consists of fees generated from implementation, training and application managed services, including reimbursements of out-of-pocket expenses in connection with our implementation services. Implementation services include system planning, design, configuration, testing, and other software implementation support, and are typically optional and distinct from our software. Following implementation, customers may purchase application managed services to support and maintain our software. Fees for our services are separately priced and are generally billed on an hourly basis, and revenue is recognized over time as the services are performed. In certain situations, we render professional services under agreements based upon a fixed fee for portions of or all of the engagement. Revenue related to fixed-fee-based services contracts is recognized over time based on the proportion performed.
Significant Judgments
Our cloud customer contracts can include the sale of SaaS and services. Judgment is required to determine whether each service or product sold is a distinct performance obligation that should be accounted for separately. We allocate the transaction price to the distinct performance obligations based on relative standalone selling price (“SSP”). We estimate SSP based on the prices we charge our customers or by using other information such as market conditions and other observable inputs. The selling price of our cloud subscriptions are highly variable. Thus, we estimate SSP for cloud subscriptions using the residual approach, determined based on total transaction price less the SSP of other goods and services promised in the contract.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Foreign Business
Our international business is subject to risks typical of an international business, including, but not limited to differing economic conditions, changes in political climate, differing tax structures, other regulations and restrictions, and foreign exchange rate volatility. Our international operations currently include business activity out of offices in the Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom. When the U.S. dollar strengthens against a foreign currency, the value of our sales and expenses in that currency converted to U.S. dollars decreases. When the U.S. dollar weakens, the value of our sales and expenses in that currency converted to U.S. dollars increases. We recognized foreign exchange losses of $1.0 million in 2024, compared to losses of $1.5 million in 2023, and gains of $4.7 million in 2022. Foreign exchange rate transaction gains and losses are classified in “Other (loss) income, net” in our Consolidated Statements of Income. A fluctuation of 10% in the period end exchange rates at December 31, 2024 relative to the U.S. dollar would have resulted in a change of approximately $5.6 million in the reported foreign currency loss.
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Interest Rates
We currently invest our cash and cash equivalents in a variety of financial instruments, including taxable floating rate obligations in money market funds and certificate of deposits with original maturities of less than three months when purchased. These investments are mainly denominated in U.S. dollars. Cash balances in foreign currencies overseas, except for India, are derived from business operations. Our operations in India are funded by the U.S. operations. At December 31, 2024, our cash and cash equivalents balances totaled $266.2 million, of which all is highly liquid.
Investments in both fixed rate and floating rate interest-earning instruments carry interest rate risks. Fixed rate securities may have their fair market value adversely impacted due to a rise in interest rates, while floating rate securities may produce less income than expected if interest rates fall. Due in part to these factors, our future investment income may fall short of expectations due to changes in interest rates, or we may suffer losses in principal if forced to sell securities that have seen a decline in market value due to changes in interest rates. The weighted-average interest rate of return on cash equivalents and short-term investments was approximately 2% and 2% for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The fair value of cash equivalents held at December 31, 2024 and 2023 was $93.8 million and $86.2 million, respectively. Based on the average cash equivalents and short-term investments outstanding during 2024 and 2023, increases or decreases in the rates of return of 25 basis points would result in increases or decreases to interest income of approximately $0.7 million and $0.6 million from the reported interest income for 2024 and 2023, respectively.
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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Financial Statements
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting 42
Consolidated Statements of Income 46
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income 47
Consolidated Balance Sheets 48
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 49
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity 50
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 51
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MANAGEMENT’S ANNUAL REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
Management of Manhattan Associates, Inc. is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of the Company’s principal executive and principal financial officers to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the Company’s financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
The Company’s internal control over financial reporting includes policies and procedures that pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect transactions and dispositions of assets; provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and the directors of the Company; and provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
As of the end of the Company’s 2024 fiscal year, management conducted an assessment of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on the framework established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 Framework) (COSO). Based on this assessment, management has determined that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024 was effective.
Ernst & Young LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that audited the Company’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024, has audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024 and has issued a report regarding the Company’s internal control over financial reporting appearing on page 43, which expresses an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024.
/s/ Eddie Capel
Eddie Capel
President and Chief Executive Officer
/s/ Dennis B. Story
Dennis B. Story
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Manhattan Associates, Inc.
Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited Manhattan Associates, Inc. and subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Manhattan Associates, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, cash flows and shareholders’ equity for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes and our report dated February 7, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Atlanta, Georgia
February 7, 2025
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Manhattan Associates, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Manhattan Associates, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, cash flows and shareholders’ equity for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 7, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the account or disclosure to which it relates.
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/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2002.
Atlanta, Georgia
February 7, 2025
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MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Income
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
Year Ended December 31,
Revenue:
Costs and expenses:
Diluted earnings per share $ 3.51 $ 2.82 $ 2.03
Weighted average number of shares:
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements of Income.
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MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
(in thousands)
Year Ended December 31,
Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of tax (3,884 ) 494 (7,704 )
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.
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MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
December 31,
ASSETS
Current Assets:
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Operating lease liabilities, long-term 47,794 17,694
Commitments and contingencies (Note 5)
Shareholders' equity:
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (30,922 ) (27,038 )
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $ 757,551 $ 673,353
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Balance Sheets.
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MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
Year Ended December 31,
Operating activities:
(Gain) loss on disposal of equipment (133 ) 57 (89 )
Unrealized foreign currency (gain) loss (380 ) 1,280 (1,515 )
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Investing activities:
Purchases of property and equipment (8,675 ) (4,730 ) (6,587 )
Net cash used in investing activities (8,675 ) (4,730 ) (6,587 )
Financing activities:
Foreign currency impact on cash (4,473 ) (163 ) (6,826 )
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
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MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity
(in thousands, except share data)
Accumulated
Additional Other Total
Common Stock Paid-In Retained Comprehensive Shareholders'
Shares Amount Capital Earnings Income (Loss) Equity
Restricted stock units issuance 606,607 6 (6 ) - - -
Foreign currency translation adjustment - - - - (7,704 ) (7,704 )
Restricted stock units issuance 620,698 6 (6 ) - - -
Excise tax accrued - - (1,108 ) - - (1,108 )
Foreign currency translation adjustment - - - - 494 494
Restricted stock units issuance 519,717 5 (5 ) - - -
Excise tax accrued - - (1,581 ) - - (1,581 )
Foreign currency translation adjustment - - - - (3,884 ) (3,884 )
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity.
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MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
1. Organization, Consolidation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Organization and Business
Manhattan Associates, Inc. (“Manhattan”, the “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) is a developer and provider of supply chain commerce solutions that help organizations optimize the effectiveness, efficiency, and strategic advantages of their supply chains. Our solutions consist of software, services, and hardware, which coordinate people, workflows, assets, events, and tasks holistically across the functions linked in a supply chain from planning through execution. These solutions also help coordinate the actions, data exchange, and communication of participants in supply chain ecosystems, such as manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, trading partners, transportation providers, channels (such as catalogers, store retailers, and Web outlets), and consumers.
Our operations are in North and South America (the “Americas"), Europe (EMEA), and the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region. The Americas operation are conducted through the Parent Company, Manhattan Associates, Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Manhattan Associates Chile Spa. Our European and Asia Pacific operations are conducted through wholly owned subsidiaries within their respective geographies. We occasionally sell our products and services in other countries, such as countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Asia, through our direct sales channel as well as various reseller channels.
Risks Associated with Single Business Line, Technological Advances, and Foreign Operations
We currently derive a substantial portion of our revenues from sales of cloud solutions and related services. The markets for supply chain commerce solutions are highly competitive, subject to rapid technological change, changing customer needs, frequent new product introductions, and evolving industry standards that may render existing products and services obsolete. As a result, our position in these markets could be eroded rapidly by unforeseen changes in customer requirements for application features, functions, and technologies.
Our international business is subject to risks typical of an international business, including, but not limited to, differing economic conditions, changes in political climate, differing tax structures, other regulations and restrictions, and foreign exchange rate volatility. We recognized foreign exchange losses of $1.0 million in 2024, compared to losses of $1.5 million in 2023, and gains of $4.7 million in 2022. Foreign exchange rate transaction gains and losses are classified in “Other (loss) income, net” on the Consolidated Statements of Income.
In addition, we have a large development center in Bangalore, India, that does not have a natural in-market revenue hedge to mitigate currency risk to our operating expenses in India. Fluctuations in the value of other currencies, particularly the Indian Rupee, could significantly affect our expenses, operating profit and net income.
Principles of Consolidation and Foreign Currency Translation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The financial statements of foreign subsidiaries have been translated into United States dollars in accordance with the foreign currency matters topic in the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (the “Codification”). Revenues and expenses from international operations were denominated in the respective local currencies and translated using the average monthly exchange rates for the year. All balance sheet accounts have been translated using the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date and the effect of changes in exchange rates from year to year are disclosed as a separate component of shareholders’ equity and comprehensive income.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Cash and Cash Equivalents
We consider all highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash or cash equivalents.
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Concentrations of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject us to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. We maintain cash and cash equivalents with various financial institutions. Amounts held are above the federally insured limit.
Our sales are primarily to companies located in the United States, Europe and Asia. We perform periodic credit evaluations of our customers’ financial condition and do not require collateral. Accounts receivable are due principally from large U.S., European and Asia Pacific companies under stated contract terms. Accounts receivable, net as of December 31, 2024 for the Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments were $144.8 million, $50.6 million, and $10.1 million, respectively. Accounts receivable, net as of December 31, 2023 for the Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments were $137.2 million, $34.6 million, and $9.4 million, respectively. Our top five customers in aggregate accounted for 12%, 11%, and 11% of total revenue recognized for each of the years ended December 31, 2024 (“2024”), the year ended December 31, 2023 (“2023”), and the year ended December 31, 2022 (“2022”), respectively. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of revenue in 2024, 2023 and 2022, or more than 10% of accounts receivable as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Fair Value Measurement
We measure our investments based on a fair value hierarchy disclosure framework that prioritizes and ranks the level of market price observability used in measuring assets and liabilities at fair value. Market price observability is affected by a number of factors, including the type of asset or liability and their characteristics. This hierarchy prioritizes the inputs into three broad levels as follows:
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Level 1–Quoted prices in active markets for identical instruments.
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Level 2–Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs and significant value drivers are observable in active markets.
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Level 3–Valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable.
Investments with maturities of 90 days or less from the date of purchase are classified as cash equivalents; investments with maturities of greater than 90 days from the date of purchase but less than one year are generally classified as short-term investments; and investments with maturities of one year or greater from the date of purchase are generally classified as long-term investments. Unrealized holding gains and losses are reflected as a net amount in a separate component of shareholders’ equity until realized. For the purposes of computing realized gains and losses, cost is determined on a specific identification basis.
At December 31, 2024, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents were $172.4 million and $93.8 million, respectively. Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid money market funds of $83.9 million and certificates of deposit of $9.9 million. For money market funds, we use quoted prices from active markets that are classified as Level 1, the highest level of observable input in the disclosure hierarchy framework. The Company had no investments at December 31, 2024.
The carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, accounts receivable, and accounts payable included in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets approximate their fair values principally due to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Estimates include the allowance for credit losses, which is based upon an evaluation of historical amounts written-off, the customers’ ability to pay, and general economic conditions; self-insurance accruals; impairment testing of goodwill; and our effective income tax rate (including the impact of unrecognized tax benefits) and deferred tax assets, which are based upon our expectations of future taxable income, allowable deductions, and projected tax credits. Actual results will differ from these estimates.
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Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue when we transfer control of the promised products or services to our customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for those products or services. We derive our revenue from cloud subscriptions, software licenses, customer support services and software enhancements (“maintenance”) for software licenses, professional services, and sales of hardware. We exclude sales and usage-based taxes from revenue.
Nature of Products and Services
Cloud subscriptions includes software as a service (“SaaS”) and arrangements which provide customers with the right to use our software within a cloud environment that we provide and manage where the customer does not have the right to take possession of the software without significant penalty. SaaS and hosting revenues are recognized over the contract period.
Our services revenue consists of fees generated from implementation, training and application managed services, including reimbursements of out-pocket expenses in connection with our implementation services. Implementation services include system planning, design, configuration, testing, and other software implementation support, and are typically optional and distinct from our software. Following implementation, customers may purchase application managed services to support and maintain our software. Fees for our services are separately priced and are generally billed on an hourly basis, and revenue is recognized over time as the services are performed. In certain situations, we render professional services under agreements based upon a fixed fee for portions of or all of the engagement. Revenue related to fixed-fee-based services contracts is recognized over time based on the proportion performed.
We provide maintenance services, to customers who have previously purchased a perpetual license, that include a comprehensive 24 hours per day, 365 days per year program that provides customers with software upgrades, when and if available, which include additional or improved functionality and technological advances incorporating emerging supply chain and industry initiatives. Maintenance contracts typically only have one performance obligation. Revenue related to maintenance is generally paid in advance and recognized over the term of the agreement, typically twelve months.
Our perpetual software licenses provide the customer with a right to use the software as it exists at the time of purchase. We recognize revenue for distinct software licenses once the license period has begun and we have made the software available to the customer. The selling price of our software licenses are highly variable. Thus, we estimate SSP for software licenses using the residual approach, determined based on total transaction price less the SSP of other goods and services promised in the contract.
Our customers periodically purchase hardware products developed and manufactured by third parties from us for use with the software licenses purchased from us. These products include computer hardware, radio frequency terminal networks, radio frequency identification (RFID) chip readers, bar code printers and scanners, and other peripherals. As we do not physically control the hardware that we sell, we are acting as an agent in the transaction and recognize our hardware revenue net of related cost. We recognize hardware revenue when control is transferred to the customer upon shipment.
Significant Judgments
Our cloud contracts with customers can include the sales of SaaS and services. Judgment is required to determine whether each product and service is considered to be a distinct performance obligation that should be accounted for separately under the contract. We allocate the transaction price to the distinct performance obligations based on relative standalone selling price (“SSP”). We estimate SSP based on the prices charged to customers, or by using information such as market conditions and other observable inputs. The selling price of our cloud subscriptions are highly variable. Thus, we estimate SSP for our cloud subscriptions and using the residual approach, determined based on total transaction price less the SSP of other goods and services promised in the contract.
Contract Balances
Cloud subscriptions and maintenance for perpetual software licenses are typically billed annually in advance.Timing of invoicing to customers may differ from timing of revenue recognition. Payment terms for our software licenses vary. We have an established history of collecting under the terms of our software license contracts without providing refunds or concessions to our customers. Services are typically billed monthly as performed. In instances where the timing of revenue recognition differs from the timing of invoicing, we have determined that our contracts generally do not include a significant financing component. The primary purpose of our invoicing terms is to provide customers with predictable ways to purchase our software and services, not to provide or receive financing. Additionally, we are applying the practical expedient to exclude from consideration any contracts with payment terms of one year or less. We rarely offer terms extending beyond one year.
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Deferred revenue mainly represents amounts collected prior to having fully satisfied cloud subscriptions, maintenance and professional services performance obligations. $232.5 million of revenue that was included in the deferred revenue balance as of December 31, 2023 was recognized in 2024.
No revenue was recognized in 2024 from performance obligations that were satisfied in prior periods.
Remaining Performance Obligations