Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. Operator Instructions One moment, please, for our first question. Our first question comes from the line of Brad Whitt with RBC Capital Markets.
Q - Brad Whitt
Good afternoon. Joe, you talked about the improving pipeline. I'm just curious whether or not you think that will lead to sequential growth in your software revenue this quarter?
A - Joe Cowan
You know, as we've stated, we're not going to, we're not going to give you guidance in terms of what's going to happen, but we felt that we did want to give you some indication in terms of what we're seeing in the market with the business and some of our investments are starting to pay off by increasing the number of opportunities that we see. And we've told you in the past that one of the challenges we've had is we don't see enough opportunities, especially when you start with the approach that you're not going to give the farm away in order to get business closed at the end of the quarter, you actually need more opportunities in the pipeline. We believe that we're seeing additional opportunities, we think it's positive. But we're not going to give any kind of guidance in terms of what's going to happen.
Q - Brad Whitt
What about the pipeline for the government business? You mentioned that last quarter, that it was strong. I'm just curious as to whether you closed any software transactions in that vertical this quarter and what your expectations are going forward.
A - Joe Cowan
We did have one small deal that we closed there. The pipeline is still there. We haven't lost any deals there. But the thing that you see with the government business is the pipeline is actually made up of a lot more smaller deals. I think the days of the real big government deals are going to be few and far between. So we're really starting to focus on trying to actually build that pipeline with more smaller deals, and we also believe that there's an opportunity to engage in longer term service commitments in the government. So we're retooling some of our government business, refocusing those people. But yeah, we did close one deal and we stiffly all those same deals in our pipeline but we're still also aggressively working on building that pipeline with new types of business.
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