Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Our first question from Ashwin Shirvaikar from Citigroup. Please go ahead.
Ashwin Shirvaikar - Citigroup
My first question is is there anything in your recent signings or pipeline that would constitute any kind of one-time work, non-recurring type for project that can cause any volatility in revenues as we look to establishing a trend line beyond December.
Dov Baharav
As we mentioned, the growth that we experienced in the quarter and looking forward is not surprised from one big contract, but a collection of many activities with many customers, different product lines and different geographies. So not so much dependence on one customer or one project.
Ashwin Shirvaikar - Citigroup
Are you happy with cost structure or should we expect ongoing cuts? Can you sustain the margin performance or is that an investment that happens that takes away the margin performance?
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim
We’re happy with the achievements today in the way we were able to address the pressure on top line by aligning very fast and even attractively the cost structure of the company, but I think it’s much beyond that. We’ve been able to create changes in the cost structure that are sustainable going forward and how we perform and how we deliver projects and the product offering we bring to the market, and so forth.
Looking forward into the margin, our priorities are first to grow the top line. We believe that if it will require investing farther into the business in order to accelerate such growth, while we are focused on maintaining at least the profitability level we have today on the operating line. So there will be drivers of the margin expansion on the one end. On the other end, we may decide to invest more in things like extending sales, opportunities, and different growth engines and sales in the R&D areas, and so forth in order to accelerate the growth.
Operator
And we'll take our next question from Tom Roderick with Thomas Weisel Partners. Please go ahead.
Tom Roderick - Thomas Weisel Partners
With respect to the pipeline of transformational deals, when think you’ll have some more clarity as far as when we can start seeing some closes on those types of deals?
Dov Baharav
Looking forward to 2010, as Tamar indicated, we are cautiously optimistic about the next two quarters and overall we feel better. We do not see too many cases where service providers are planning to cut CapEx. We actually see a lot of them talking about new projects to generate revenue and be more effective in the new area; however, we do not antipasti many large transformation of building in the near future.
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