Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Brad Reback – Oppenheimer & Co.
Brad Reback – Oppenheimer & Co.
I saw on the data sheet that the service industry business was up very significantly year-over-year. Is there anything special going on there?
Hamish N. U. Brewer
Yes, you know we made actually a conscious decision at the beginning of this year that we were going to try and grow that business unit and I think we're really starting to get a lot of traction in the marketplace. And we had a great, really fantastic quarter. We are expecting our service industries business unit to expand during the course of this year, most of it happening in the second quarter. It's a very lumpy business with big transactions that happen infrequently, but second quarter was certainly I think the best quarter we've ever had.
Brad Reback – Oppenheimer & Co.
You had mentioned a pretty significant deal in Asia. Can you put any parameters around that?
Hamish N. U. Brewer
Not a great deal, no. I can't tell you very much about it but—
Brad Reback – Oppenheimer & Co.
Can you tell us if it was over a $5.0 million transaction?
Hamish N. U. Brewer
No, I can't. It was a substantial deal and in historic terms for JDA. And I think what's important about it is not just the immediate impact of the deal but hopefully the long-term revenue and opportunities that we can both derive from it.
Brad Reback – Oppenheimer & Co.
On the service business, finally you've stemmed the tide and got going in the right direction there. Is this going to be a steady move upward or should we expect some volatility there, some lumpiness from quarter-to-quarter as the margin improves?
Hamish N. U. Brewer
Right now we're hoping for, and we're projecting, steady improvement through the balance of 2009. There will be the usual seasonal impact. First quarter has got seasonally small number of billing days, so there will be that kind of fluctuation that we normally would have, but overall we are expecting to see hopefully some of the continued steady improvement in the margins throughout the rest of this year.
Operator
Your next question comes from Patrick Walraven - JMP Securities.
Patrick Walraven - JMP Securities
If I look at your space and category management product line that was 41 deals, that was tremendous. Can you just describe for us what's going on and so when people ask us what's driving the business there we can give some sense of the dynamic?
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