Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
First question is from line of Richard Close with Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Richard Close - Jefferies
Yes. Congratulations. Bob, I was wondering if you could just provide that amortization, acquisition amortization guidance again?
Bob Colletti
Yes, Richard. It will be $0.02 per quarter. It's about $1.1 million per quarter.
Richard Close - Jefferies
Okay. And then on capitalized software, what was that again, I'm sorry?
Bob Colletti
The amortization was $4.2 million in the quarter and it will be around that each quarter, the rest of the year.
Richard Close - Jefferies
Okay. And then, you mentioned you're paying higher commissions I believe in the quarter based on strong bookings; obviously, a positive forward-looking statement. Can you guys give any additional color around that statement?
Andy Eckert
Yes. What I'd tell you is we had very solid second quarter. We're positioned as we go in the back half of the year to have a very strong year in sales. So, was just a good solid sales quarter, and that's why our commissions were up.
Richard Close - Jefferies
Okay. And then if we look at the Executive Forum, you guys talked about the attendance being up I think 30% year-over-year. How should we look at that Executive Forum in terms of maybe the composition between potential customers and existing customers who attended? And then maybe your thoughts around, of those people who attend, what is the percentage of those attendees that maybe buy within the next quarter or two?
Jay Deady
Sure. This is Jeff. Take that one. So, in terms of net new prospects versus clients, this is principally a client event. We do and then we had a nice increase of prospective executives come this year, but we're pretty selective on that because this is principally an event to really connect well with the C-suite of our client relationships. We have limited invitations that we extend to new business prospects.
What I can tell you is the pipeline coming out of that event this year versus last, was up threefold between the two events. And now some of that is enterprise buying and certainly some of it is competitive, for sure, but some of that add-on and more modest will probably close in the quarter or two coming out of it and other cases where we might be looking at perhaps an entire revenue cycle opportunity within an SCM client. That's going to be competitive and run a little bit longer sales cycle. So it's a balance of enterprise and shorter add-on solutions.
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