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Segment Reporting and Significant Concentration
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Reporting and Significant Concentration

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Segment Reporting and Significant Concentration

Segment Information. We have evaluated how our chief operating decision maker has organized our company for purposes of making operating decisions and assessing performance, and have concluded that as of December 31, 2017, we have one reportable segment.

Products and Services. Our products and services help companies with complex transaction-centric business models manage the opportunities and challenges associated with accurately capturing, managing, generating, and optimizing the revenue associated with the immense volumes of customer communications and then manage the intricate nature of those customer relationships. Our core billing and customer care platform, Advanced Convergent Platform (“ACP”), is a pre-integrated cloud-based platform. We generate a substantial percentage of our revenues by providing our ACP cloud-based and customer communications management solutions, and related software products (e.g., Advanced Customer Service Representative, Workforce Express, etc.) to the North American cable and satellite markets. Our next-generation solution, Ascendon, a SaaS cloud-based platform, provides a trusted path to digital transformation. Additionally, we license certain software products (e.g., WBMS, TSM, and Singleview) and provide our professional services to implement, configure, and maintain these software products, and allow clients to effectively roll out new products as well as attract and retain customers. We also provide our software solutions under managed services arrangements, where we assume long-term responsibility for delivering our solutions and related operations under a defined scope and specified service levels.

Geographic Regions. For  2017, 2016, and 2015, 85%, 86%, and 84%, respectively, of our revenues were attributable to our operations in the Americas. We use the location of the client as the basis of attributing revenues to individual regions.

Financial information relating to our operations by geographic region is as follows (in thousands):

Total Revenues:

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2015

 

Americas (principally the U.S.)

 

$

669,712

 

 

$

652,376

 

 

$

634,389

 

Europe, Middle East and Africa (principally Europe)

 

 

72,120

 

 

 

69,425

 

 

 

78,711

 

Asia Pacific

 

 

47,750

 

 

 

39,157

 

 

 

39,420

 

Total revenues

 

$

789,582

 

 

$

760,958

 

 

$

752,520

 

 

Property and Equipment:

 

As of December 31,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Americas (principally the U.S.)

 

$

40,286

 

 

$

28,003

 

Europe, Middle East and Africa (principally Europe)

 

 

2,392

 

 

 

2,749

 

Asia Pacific

 

 

1,973

 

 

 

2,364

 

Total property and equipment

 

$

44,651

 

 

$

33,116

 

Significant Clients and Industry Concentration. A large percentage of our historical revenues have been generated from our largest clients, which are Comcast Corporation (“Comcast”), Charter Communications, Inc. (“Charter”), and DISH Network Corporation (“DISH”).  Due to Charter’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Inc. (“Time Warner”) in May 2016, in order to provide a consistent basis of comparison, Charter and Time Warner revenues and accounts receivable balances are combined in the following tables for all periods prior to the acquisition without adjustment.

Revenues from these clients represented the following percentages of our total revenues for the following years:

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2015

 

Comcast

 

 

28

%

 

 

26

%

 

 

24

%

Charter

 

 

22

%

 

 

21

%

 

 

21

%

DISH

 

 

11

%

 

 

13

%

 

 

14

%

 

As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, the percentage of net billed accounts receivable balances attributable to these clients were as follows:

 

 

 

As of December 31,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Comcast

 

 

26

%

 

 

25

%

Charter

 

 

32

%

 

 

24

%

DISH

 

 

8

%

 

 

10

%

We expect to continue to generate a significant percentage of our future revenues from our largest clients, mentioned above.  There are inherent risks whenever a large percentage of total revenues are concentrated with a limited number of clients. Should a significant client: (i) terminate or fail to renew their contracts with us, in whole or in part for any reason; (ii) significantly reduce the number of customer accounts processed on our solutions, the price paid for our services, or the scope of services that we provide; or (iii) experience significant financial or operating difficulties, it could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.