Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Our first question of the day will go to Aaron Schwartz of JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Aaron Schwartz - JPMorgan
Good afternoon. I just wanted to talk about the geographic split there and was wondering if that was truly just some out performance internationally or if the changes you made in the North American sales force have kept you back there a little bit, or if there are the macro impacts more hitting your North American business?
Vinny Smith
This is Vinny speaking. It's tough to give you a feel for that. I can tell you that the changes we made, I don't know, they are definitely for the better, and we're going to benefit for years to come from them, but it's hard to measure in the quarter and how much was due to that versus just a bit of a hotter economy outside the United States than inside the United States.
Aaron Schwartz - JPMorgan
Okay. And then just looking at margins in your commentary around that and raising that guidance for the year. What was sort of the decision-making process around maybe pulling back a little bit of the reinvestment in to the company?
Vinny Smith
This is Vinny again speaking. We are concerned about just the climate out there, and we're really happy the Q1 came in the way it did. We just thought it would be the right thing to do to be a little careful going into what looks like a spicy situation. Remember we do a fair amount of business in particular verticals that are pretty hard hit in the last nine months like banks in particular. So we don't have any hard data that that our business is going to be affected, but we're just showing some concern and being careful.
Scott Davidson
And Aaron, the other I guess answer to your question around international versus domestic, clearly we had a couple of million dollars of benefit on the revenue line related to the foreign exchange benefit, right, from the weakness of the US dollar. I think you have seen that in most of your companies, and we're fairly consistent there.
Aaron Schwartz - JPMorgan
Sure, and related to that, I believe you have a little more impact from currency in the margin as well. Can you just sort of give us a total impact on the operating margin from currency?
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