SEGMENT INFORMATION

12 Months Ended

May 31, 2020

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

SEGMENT INFORMATION

15. SEGMENT INFORMATION

ASC 280, Segment Reporting, establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker, or decision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. Our chief operating decision makers (CODMs) are our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer. We are organized by line of business and geographically. While our CODMs evaluate results in a number of different ways, the line of business management structure is the primary basis for which the allocation of resources and financial results are assessed. The tabular information below presents the financial information provided to our CODMs for their review and assists our CODMs with evaluating the company’s performance and allocating company resources.

We have three businesses—cloud and license, hardware and services—each of which is comprised of a single operating segment. All three of our businesses market and sell our offerings globally to businesses of many sizes, government agencies, educational institutions and resellers with a worldwide sales force positioned to offer the combinations that best meet customer needs.

Our cloud and license business engages in the sale, marketing and delivery of our applications and infrastructure technologies through cloud and on-premise deployment models including our cloud services and license support offerings; and our cloud license and on-premise license offerings. Cloud services and license support revenues are generated from offerings that are typically contracted with customers directly, billed to customers in advance, delivered to customers over time with our revenue recognition occurring over the contractual terms, and renewed by customers upon completion of the contractual terms. Cloud services and license support contracts provide customers with access to the latest updates to the applications and infrastructure technologies as they become available and for which the customer contracted and also include related technical support services over the contractual term. Cloud license and on-premise license revenues represent fees earned from granting customers licenses, generally on a perpetual basis, to use our database and middleware and our applications software products within cloud and on-premise IT environments. We generally recognize revenues at the point in time the software is made available to the customer to download and use, which typically is immediate upon signature of the license contract. In each fiscal year, our cloud and license business’ contractual activities are typically highest in our fourth fiscal quarter and the related cash flows are typically highest in the following quarter (i.e., in the first fiscal quarter of the next fiscal year) as we receive payments from these contracts.

Our hardware business provides Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware, operating systems, virtualization, management and other hardware-related software to support diverse IT environments. Our hardware business also offers hardware support, which provides customers with software updates for the software components that are essential to the functionality of their hardware products, such as Oracle Solaris and certain other software, and can also include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services.

Our services business provides services to customers and partners to help maximize the performance of their investments in Oracle applications and infrastructure technologies.

We do not track our assets for each business. Consequently, it is not practical to show assets by operating segment.

The following table presents summary results for each of our three businesses for each of fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018:

	Year Ended May 31,
(in millions)	2020		2019		2018
Cloud and license:
Revenues(1)	$	32,523	$	32,582	$	32,041
Cloud services and license support expenses		3,803		3,597		3,441
Sales and marketing expenses		7,159		7,398		7,213
Margin(2)	$	21,561	$	21,587	$	21,387
Hardware:
Revenues	$	3,443	$	3,704	$	3,994
Hardware products and support expenses		1,084		1,327		1,547
Sales and marketing expenses		456		520		643
Margin(2)	$	1,903	$	1,857	$	1,804
Services:
Revenues	$	3,106	$	3,240	$	3,395
Services expenses		2,656		2,703		2,729
Margin(2)	$	450	$	537	$	666
Totals:
Revenues(1)	$	39,072	$	39,526	$	39,430
Expenses		15,158		15,545		15,573
Margin(2)	$	23,914	$	23,981	$	23,857

⁽¹⁾ Cloud and license revenues presented for management reporting included revenues related to cloud and license obligations that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in our consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to business combination accounting requirements. See Note 9 for an explanation of these adjustments and the table below for a reconciliation of our total operating segment revenues to our total consolidated revenues as reported in our consolidated statements of operations.

⁽²⁾ The margins reported reflect only the direct controllable costs of each line of business and do not include allocations of product development, general and administrative and certain other allocable expenses, net. Additionally, the margins reported above do not reflect amortization of intangible assets, acquisition related and other expenses, restructuring expenses, stock-based compensation, interest expense or non-operating income, net. Refer to the table below for a reconciliation of our total margin for operating segments to our income before provision for income taxes as reported per our consolidated statements of operations.

The following table reconciles total operating segment revenues to total revenues as well as total operating segment margin to income before provision for income taxes:

	Year Ended May 31,
(in millions)	2020			2019			2018
Total revenues for operating segments	$	39,072		$	39,526		$	39,430
Cloud and license revenues(1)		(4	)		(20	)		(47	)
Total revenues	$	39,068		$	39,506		$	39,383

Total margin for operating segments	$	23,914		$	23,981		$	23,857
Cloud and license revenues(1)		(4	)		(20	)		(47	)
Research and development		(6,067	)		(6,026	)		(6,084	)
General and administrative		(1,181	)		(1,265	)		(1,282	)
Amortization of intangible assets		(1,586	)		(1,689	)		(1,620	)
Acquisition related and other		(56	)		(44	)		(52	)
Restructuring		(250	)		(443	)		(588	)
Stock-based compensation for operating segments		(436	)		(518	)		(505	)
Expense allocations and other, net		(438	)		(441	)		(415	)
Interest expense		(1,995	)		(2,082	)		(2,025	)
Non-operating income, net		162			815			1,185
Income before provision for income taxes	$	12,063		$	12,268		$	12,424

⁽¹⁾ Cloud and license revenues presented for management reporting included revenues related to cloud and license obligations that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in our consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to business combination accounting requirements. See Note 9 for an explanation of these adjustments and this table for a reconciliation of our total operating segment revenues to our total revenues as reported in our consolidated statements of operations.

Disaggregation of Revenues

We have considered information that is regularly reviewed by our CODMs in evaluating financial performance, and disclosures presented outside of our financial statements in our earnings releases and used in investor presentations to disaggregate revenues to depict how the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenues and cash flows are affected by economic factors. The principal category we use to disaggregate revenues is the nature of our products and services as presented in our consolidated statements of operations, the total of which is reconciled to revenues from our reportable segments as per the preceding tables of this footnote.

The following table is a summary of our total revenues by geographic region. The relative proportion of our total revenues between each geographic region as presented in the table below was materially consistent across each of our operating segments’ revenues for each of fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018:

	Year Ended May 31,
(in millions)	2020		2019		2018
Americas	$	21,563	$	21,856	$	21,648
EMEA(1)		11,035		11,270		11,409
Asia Pacific		6,470		6,380		6,326
Total revenues	$	39,068	$	39,506	$	39,383

⁽¹⁾ Comprised of Europe, the Middle East and Africa  

The following table presents our cloud services and license support revenues by applications and infrastructure ecosystems.

	Year Ended May 31,
(in millions)	2020		2019		2018
Applications cloud services and license support	$	11,015	$	10,553	$	10,038
Infrastructure cloud services and license support		16,377		16,154		16,184
Total cloud services and license support revenues	$	27,392	$	26,707	$	26,222

Geographic Information

Disclosed in the table below is geographic information for each country that comprised greater than three percent of our total revenues for any of fiscal 2020, 2019 or 2018.

	As of and for the Year Ended May 31,
	2020				2019				2018
(in millions)	Revenues		Long-Lived Assets(1)		Revenues		Long-Lived Assets(1)		Revenues		Long-Lived Assets(1)
United States	$	18,428	$	6,012	$	18,596	$	5,318	$	18,330	$	4,976
Japan		1,977		655		1,848		422		1,716		388
United Kingdom		1,904		472		2,054		423		2,093		510
Germany		1,510		418		1,583		263		1,526		179
Canada		1,162		169		1,166		87		1,200		78
Other countries		14,087		1,977		14,259		1,356		14,518		1,223
Total	$	39,068	$	9,703	$	39,506	$	7,869	$	39,383	$	7,354

⁽¹⁾ Long-lived assets exclude goodwill, intangible assets, equity investments and deferred taxes, which are not allocated to specific geographic locations as it is impracticable to do so.