Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Matt McCormack with FBR. Please proceed.
Matt McCormack - FBR
Yes, hi. Good evening. In terms of your guidance and maintaining your guidance in light of your expected Sprint decline in the second quarter, was that contemplated when you gave the guidance a few months back or what is kind of -- where are you seeing the demand to offset that decline.
Alan Herrick
When you look at Sprint overall, it's something that obviously, given our exposure over the years, something we watch very closely and obviously on every call try to give an update on Sprint, given their situation in the market. So it's always been in our thinking, you never know the specifics of how it might happen based on their reaction to certain things and market events but always been in our thinking. But as it relates to the strength in our pipe right now; broadly all thing interactive show very good strength for us across the board.
If you remember on the last call I went over five different categories, buckets of interactive and broadly across all those categories, we are seeing strengths. Then on the consulting side, if you look at -- there's different strengths in different pockets, but discretionary spend a little less strength obviously, which I think would be obvious to everybody at this point. But when you look at trading and risk management, we see a lot of strength in that area of the market, but also in meaningful engagements. Like we talked about our wins in insurance and claims processing, we are seeing more investment in certain things around health care as well.
So when you are getting clients making investments in revenue streams or things that can really drive efficiency that have sponsorship, all of that investment is continuing. So what I characterize it more as, what we see out there is a much stronger thought process around rationalizing and making sure that their investments matter, they can get the return they are looking for and they are looking for a partner like Sapient that can fit that bill and stand tall to getting those thing delivered in an on-time fashion for them.
So really seeing strength cross critical things, seeing a general trend of offshoring, although changing in nature a little bit, continuing because that drives effectiveness, it drives better cost effectiveness for them, and it drives also a desire to have headcount off their books and on somebody else's. So seeing some broad strength across the offshore trend as well. Although as I mentioned it is more capability sensitive than just purely rate sensitive from our experience in how clients at least look to engage us right now.
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