Modified · split · Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this Quarterly Report) contains statements that are not historical in nature, are predictive in nature, or that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions or otherwise contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 19341933, as amended (the Exchange Act), and Section 27A21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 19331934, as amended (the Securities Act). Forward-lookingAll statements may appear throughout this Quarterly Report and includeother than statements of historical fact, among other things, including statements regarding our future operations, financial condition and prospects, and business strategies; our expectation that, on a constant currency basisstrategy, our total cloud and software revenues generally will continue to increase due to expected growth in our cloud revenues and continued demand for our software offerings; our expectation that substantially all of our customers will renew their software support contracts upon expiration; our expectation that current and expected customer demand will require continued growth in our cloud , products and software expenses and capital expenditures in order to increase our existing data center capacity and establish additional data centers in new geographic locations; our expectation that the proportion services, results of our cloud revenues relative to our total revenues will continue to increase; the sufficiency of our sources of fundingoperations, financial condition, including future sales of our common stock under the at-the-market offering program and uses of such funds for working capitalcash flows, capital expenditures, contractual obligations, acquisitions, dividends, stock repurchases, debt repayments and other matters; our belief that we have adequately provided under United States (U.S.) generally accepted accounting principles for outcomes related to our tax audits, that the final outcome of our tax-related examinations, agreements future events or judicial proceedings will not have a material effect on our results of operations and that our net deferred tax assets will likely be realized in the foreseeable future; our belief that the outcome of certain legal proceedings and claims to which we are a party will not, individually or in the aggregate, result in losses that are materially in excess of amounts already recognized, if any; the timing and amount of expenses we expect to incur; declarations and amounts of future cash dividend payments and the timing and amount of future stock repurchases; our ability to manage dilution associated with our at-the-market offering program; our expectations regarding the impact of recent accounting pronouncements on our consolidated financial forward-looking statements; our ability to predict revenues and margins; and the amounts and percentages of remaining performance obligations that we expect to recognize . Words such as revenues over respective future periods. These and other forward-looking statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “anticipates,” “believes,” “commits,” “continues,” “could,” “endeavors,” “estimates,” “expects,” “focus,” “forecasts,” “future,” “goal,” “intends,” “is designed to,” “likely,” “maintains,” “may,” “ongoing,” “plans,” “possible,” “potential,” “projects,” “seeks,” “shall,” “should,” “strives,” “will” and similar expressions. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. We undertake no obligation are intended to update or revise publicly any identify forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise.