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S-1/A 1 solarwindss-1a1.htm S-1/A Document

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 5, 2018 .

Registration No. 333-227479

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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Amendment No. 1

Form S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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SolarWinds Corporation

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)



Delaware	7372	81-0753267
(State or Other Jurisdiction of	(Primary Standard Industrial	(IRS Employer
Incorporation or Organization)	Classification Code Number)	Identification No.)

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7171 Southwest Parkway, Building 400

Austin, Texas 78735

(512) 682-9300

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

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Jason W. Bliss

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

SolarWinds Corporation

7171 Southwest Parkway, Building 400

Austin, Texas 78735

(512) 682-9300

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

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Copies to:



John J. Gilluly III, P.C. DLA Piper LLP (US) 401 Congress Avenue, Suite 2500 Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 457-7000		Alan F. Denenberg Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 1600 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025 (650) 752-2004

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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE



Title of Each Class of Securities to Be Registered		Amount to be Registered⁽¹⁾	Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price Per Share	Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price⁽²⁾	Amount of Registration Fee⁽³⁾
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share		48,300,000	$19.00	$917,700,000	$111,225.24
(1)	Includes 6,300,000 shares reflecting the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.
(2)	Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(3)	The Registrant previously paid $62,250.00 of the total registration fee in connection with a previous filing of this Registration Statement.

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to such Section 8(a), may determine.

TABLE OF CONTENTS



		Page
Prospectus Summary		1
Risk Factors		21
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements		49
Market and Industry Data		51
Use of Proceeds		52
Dividend Policy		53
Capitalization		54
Dilution		55
Selected Consolidated Financial Data		57
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		67
Business		103
Management		114
Executive Compensation		122
Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions		133
Principal and Selling Stockholders		137
Description of Indebtedness		141
Description of Capital Stock		146
Shares Eligible for Future Sale		152
Material United States Federal Income Tax Consequences to Non-U.S. Holders		154
Underwriting		158
Legal Matters		164
Experts		164
Where You Can Find More Information		164
Index to Consolidated Financial Statements		F-1

None of us, the selling stockholders or the underwriters have authorized anyone to provide you with any information other than that contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of us or to which we have referred you. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give to you. None of us, the selling stockholders or the underwriters are making an offer to sell shares of common stock in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of the common stock.

For investors outside of the United States: None of us, the selling stockholders or any of the underwriters have done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. You are required to inform yourselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to this offering and the distribution of this prospectus outside of the United States.

Dealer Prospectus Delivery Obligation

Until , 2018 (25 days after the commencement of this offering), all dealers that effect transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealer’s obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to unsold allotments or subscriptions.

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected information that is presented in greater detail elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should read this entire prospectus carefully, including “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, before making an investment decision.

In this prospectus “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to SolarWinds Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries.

The term “Silver Lake Funds” refers to Silver Lake Partners IV, L.P., Silver Lake Technology Investors IV, L.P., and SLP Aurora Co-Invest, L.P., and the term “Silver Lake” refers to Silver Lake Group, L.L.C., the ultimate general partner of the Silver Lake Funds. The term “Thoma Bravo Funds” refers to Thoma Bravo Fund XI, L.P., Thoma Bravo Fund XI-A, L.P., Thoma Bravo Fund XII, L.P., Thoma Bravo Fund XII-A, L.P., Thoma Bravo Executive Fund XI, L.P., Thoma Bravo Executive Fund XII, L.P., Thoma Bravo Executive Fund XII-a, L.P., Thoma Bravo Special Opportunities Fund II, L.P. and Thoma Bravo Special Opportunities Fund II-A, L.P. and the term “Thoma Bravo” refers to Thoma Bravo, LLC, the ultimate general partner of the Thoma Bravo Funds. The term “Sponsors” refers collectively to Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo, together with the Silver Lake Funds and the Thoma Bravo Funds and, as applicable, their co-investors. The term “Lead Sponsors” refers collectively to the Silver Lake Funds, the Thoma Bravo Funds and their respective affiliates.

Our Business

SolarWinds is a leading provider of information technology, or IT, infrastructure management software. Our products give organizations worldwide, regardless of type, size or IT infrastructure complexity, the power to monitor and manage the performance of their IT environments, whether on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid models. We combine powerful, scalable, affordable, easy to use products with a high-velocity, low-touch sales model to grow our business while also generating significant cash flow.

Our business is focused on building products that enable technology professionals to manage “all things IT.” We continuously engage with technology professionals to understand the challenges they face maintaining high-performing and highly available on-premise, public and private cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures. The insights we gain from engaging with technology professionals allow us to build products that solve well-understood IT management challenges in ways that technology professionals want them solved.

Our approach, which we call the “SolarWinds Model,” enables us to market and sell our products directly to network and systems engineers, database administrators, storage administrators, DevOps professionals and managed service providers, or MSPs. These technology professionals have become empowered to influence the selection, and often the purchase, of products needed to rapidly solve the problems they confront.

Technology professionals use our products in organizations ranging in size from very small businesses to large enterprises, including 499 of the Fortune 500. As of June 30, 2018, we had over 275,000 customers in 190 countries. We define customers as individuals or entities that have an active subscription for at least one of our subscription products or that have purchased one or more of our perpetual license products since our inception. We may have multiple purchasers of our products within a single organization.

We serve the entire IT market uniquely and efficiently with our SolarWinds Model. Our products are designed to do the complex work of monitoring and managing networks, systems and applications across on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT environments without the need for customization or professional services. Many of our products are built on common technology platforms that enable our customers to easily purchase and deploy our products individually or as integrated suites as their needs evolve. We utilize a cost-efficient, integrated global product development model and have expanded our offerings over time through both organic development and strategic acquisitions.

We market and sell our products directly to technology professionals with a high-velocity, low-touch digital marketing and direct inside sales approach that we call “selling from the inside.” We have built a highly flexible and analytics-driven marketing model designed to efficiently drive website traffic and high-quality leads. We also engage with over 150,000 registered members through THWACK, our online community designed to train and inform technology professionals about our products, keep us connected to them and provide network effects to amplify word-of-mouth marketing for our products. Our sales team uses a prescriptive approach designed to manage these leads and quickly sell our products pursuant to our standard pricing and contract terms. We do not utilize an outside sales force or provide professional services.

Technology professionals often find our products when they are online searching for a solution to address a specific need and use our full-featured trials to experience our purpose-built, powerful and easy to use products in their own environments. These experiences often lead to initial purchases of one or more products and, over time, purchases of additional products and advocacy within both their organizations and their networks of technology professionals.

We extend our sales reach through our MSP customers, who provide IT management as a service and rely on our products to manage and monitor the IT environments of their end customers. Our MSP customer base enables us to reach across a fragmented end market opportunity of millions of organizations and access a broader universe of customers. We benefit from the addition of end customers served by our MSP customers, the proliferation of devices managed by those MSPs and the expansion of products used by those MSPs to manage end customers’ IT infrastructures. As of June 30, 2018, we had over 22,000 MSP customers that served over 450,000 organizations globally.

We have grown while maintaining high levels of operating efficiency. We derive our revenue from a combination of subscription revenue from the sale of our cloud management and MSP products and license and maintenance revenue from the sale of our on-premise network and systems management perpetual license products. Over time, we have significantly increased our subscription and maintenance revenue and intend to grow our revenue and cash flow by gaining new customers, increasing penetration within our existing customer base, expanding our international footprint, bringing new products to market and expanding into new markets through organic development and targeted acquisitions.

Our Journey

We began our business in 1999 selling a set of software tools directly to network engineers. In 2009, we went public as a point provider of on-premise network management products. After our initial public offering, we broadened our product offerings to address the needs of a wider variety of technology professionals. In February 2016, we were acquired by the Sponsors. Following the acquisition, we pursued our initiatives in the cloud and MSP markets, growing our product offerings and expanding our market opportunity through organic product development and targeted acquisitions, while at the same time continuing to invest in our on-premise IT management product portfolio. We also enhanced our sales and marketing initiatives to better sell into these new markets.

Today, we are a very different company than we were in early 2016. While we have remained a leading provider of network management software and remote management and monitoring software for MSPs, we believe our addressable market opportunity is much larger with our recent product additions. We have grown our product offerings through organic development and acquisitions of businesses and technologies and have focused on offering more subscription-based products that make our business even more visible and predictable as sales of those products scale. We now provide full IT management capabilities across over 50 products that span on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT environments and empower technology professionals to manage their IT environments in ways that we believe distinguish us from our competitors.

Market Trends

Organizations across industries are using technology and software to drive business success and competitive differentiation. As the landscape for IT infrastructure and software deployment worldwide rapidly changes to meet businesses’ evolving needs, the performance, speed, availability and security of IT has become critical to business

strategy. The job of the technology professionals who deploy and manage these environments is more challenging than ever.

Growing IT Complexity Creates Significant Challenges for Organizations. As organizations deploy and rely on a mix of on-premise, public and private cloud and hybrid IT environments, they require performance monitoring and management solutions that work across their increasingly complex environments and provide full visibility into performance. In addition, IT management software must keep pace as technology innovation and the deployment velocity of new applications and software accelerate.

Empowerment of the Technology Professional. Optimizing IT performance and effectively managing IT infrastructure have become strategic imperatives for organizations. The technology professionals charged with managing these infrastructures are increasingly responsible for making technology choices to help ensure performance of IT infrastructure meets the needs of the business. We have found that technology professionals prefer to trial software products in real time to determine if the products meet their needs. They also want the flexibility to select from a range of IT management products to find those best suited to address their specific challenges.

Organizations Have Choices in Allocating Resources to Manage IT. Efficiently managing IT and quickly resolving problems are paramount for organizations of all sizes. Organizations can choose to manage their own IT infrastructure or buy IT management as a service through MSPs. MSPs maintain and operate an organization’s IT environment and can deliver the full range of IT solutions, including network monitoring, server and desktop management, backup and recovery and IT security.

Limitations of Alternative Solutions. Alternative IT management solutions have limitations that impair their ability to efficiently serve the unique needs of technology professionals. Alternative IT management solutions include a range of the following:


•	IT Management Frameworks. Software vendors predominately focused on large enterprises offer solutions and services that cater to the CIO rather than the day-to-day needs of the technology professional. These solutions can be expensive, complicated and inflexible and may require significant professional services to customize, implement, operate and maintain.


•	Point Solutions. Point solutions have limited capabilities and often are not suited to handle the demands of distributed environments or managing complex, hybrid IT infrastructure architectures. The implementation and management of multiple point solutions can result in disjointed workflows and data and be challenging and expensive to deploy and operate.


•	Internally Developed Solutions. Internally developed solutions require ongoing development and maintenance that can be costly and time-consuming. These solutions typically provide limited functionality, which has to be constantly updated to adapt to changes in technology and IT environments.

Given the challenges associated with operating across a complex range of dynamic, hybrid IT environments and the limited ability of existing solutions to address these challenges in the ways that technology professionals want them addressed, we believe there is a significant market opportunity for broad hybrid IT management solutions purpose-built to serve the needs of technology professionals.

Market Opportunity

We design software products to serve the entire IT management market. Our technology is scalable to meet the needs of large organizations and at the same time built to be affordable, easy to implement and easy to use so small businesses can manage their infrastructure internally or through MSPs. We designed our go-to-market model to enable us to reach all of these businesses efficiently, and we believe we have one of the broadest software portfolios for hybrid IT management across the industry, adding 14 products over the last three years. As a result, we address large and growing markets across IT operations, security, and backup & storage management. In aggregate, International Data

Corporation, or IDC, estimates global software revenue for these markets to be approximately $41.5 billion in 2017, growing annually at 6.6% to approximately $53.6 billion in 2021.¹

We believe this market sizing underestimates the size of the market opportunity beyond the enterprise and mid-market. Our products and the SolarWinds Model are designed to allow us to address the entire market, including small businesses and operational units within larger enterprises that we feel may not be fully represented in the above market sizing, and we therefore believe our market opportunity is even larger than the IDC estimate.

In a study we commissioned, Compass Intelligence Research estimated the number of enterprises, mid-sized companies and small companies worldwide, as well as the number of operational units within enterprises that purchase as separate entities. Based on these estimates, our assumptions on the number of our products that would address the needs of organizations according to the size of such organizations, and our historical average sales price for each product based on similarly sized customers, we estimate that we have an aggregate license revenue market opportunity of approximately $61.9 billion, which drives an annual maintenance revenue opportunity of $25.3 billion. When combined with our estimated annual subscription opportunity of $41.5 billion, this creates an annual recurring revenue market opportunity of approximately $66.7 billion.

Internal view of our annual recurring revenue opportunity ($ in billions)²

We calculated the annual maintenance revenue opportunity based on the aggregate license revenue market opportunity and a historical average of the percentage of a new license sale allocated to maintenance revenue. We believe a meaningful portion of our opportunity can be attained by selling additional products to our large existing customer base.

The SolarWinds Model

At SolarWinds, we do things differently. The focus and discipline that we bring to our business distinguish us in a highly competitive landscape.

¹ IT operations (Network Management, IT Ops Management, IT Service Management, Configuration Management, Database Management & Managed File Transfer); security (Security & Vulnerability Management and Messaging Security) and backup & storage management (Data Protection, Storage & Device Management); IDC Semiannual Software Tracker, 2017 H2 update, May 2018.

² Compass Intelligence, April 2018; management estimates. Excludes 31.4 million worldwide businesses with 1–19 employees.

We believe that growth and profitability are not conflicting priorities. We designed our business to allow us to grow and generate significant positive cash flow at the same time.

At the heart of everything we do as a company is the SolarWinds Model, which consists of five principles that guide our business and help explain why technology professionals choose our products:

Focus on the Technology Professional. We are committed to understanding technology professionals and the daily challenges that they face managing the complex, ever-changing demands of business-critical IT environments. We have a substantial customer base and community of technology professionals. We engage with them on a daily basis through digital marketing and online communications. These include THWACK, our online community with over 150,000 registered members that provides forums, tools and valuable resources; several company-sponsored blogs in which we provide perspectives and information relevant to the IT management market; and web-based events designed to train and inform participants about deeper aspects of our products.

Build Great Products for the Entire Market. Organizations of all sizes have complex IT environments that make managing IT challenging. Our commitment to technology professionals allows us to deliver products that solve well-understood IT problems simply, quickly and affordably for the entire market, from very small businesses to the largest of global enterprises, regardless of whether their IT is managed internally or through an MSP.

Capture Demand Using Cost-Efficient, Mass-Reach Digital Marketing. We utilize digital marketing to directly reach technology professionals of all levels of sophistication managing IT environments of all levels of complexity and size. We believe we build credibility and confidence in our products by being present and active in the communities and on the sites that technology professionals trust.

Sell from the Inside. We are committed to selling from the inside. We adhere to a prescriptive process and metrics-based approach that drives predictability and consistency and has helped us add over 6,000 new customers each quarter for the last eight calendar quarters. We close the smallest and most simple transactions to our largest and most complex deals efficiently without the need for an outside sales force, product customization or professional services.

Focus on the Long-Term Value of the Relationship with Our Customers. When our customers experience the value of our products, our investment in our product portfolio and our responsiveness to their changing needs, they often grow their relationship with us and become our advocates within both their organizations and their networks of technology professionals. The power of our approach is evidenced by the long-term relationships we have with our customers.

Growth Strategies

We intend to extend our leadership in network management and grow our market share in adjacent areas of IT management with powerful yet easy to use software products designed to manage “all things IT” across hybrid IT environments. The following are key elements of our growth strategy:

Win New Customers Using the SolarWinds Model. The SolarWinds Model allows us to win new customers in existing markets where our products and our model give us a competitive advantage. We have increased our customer base by over 6,000 new customers per quarter for the past eight calendar quarters, and intend to leverage our ability to efficiently attract new customers to continue to increase our overall customer base.

Increase Penetration Within Our Existing Customer Base. As of June 30, 2018, we had over 275,000 customers in 190 countries. Many of our customers make an initial purchase to meet an immediate need, such as network or application performance monitoring in a small portion of their IT infrastructure, and then subsequently purchase additional products for other use cases or expansion across their organization. Once our customers have used our products within their IT environment, we are well positioned to help identify additional products that offer further value to those customers. We continue to refine our sales efforts to better target our marketing and sales efforts and expand the sales of our products within organizations, particularly those that have multiple purchasers of our IT management products.

Increase Our International Footprint. We believe a substantial market opportunity exists to increase our international footprint across all of our product lines. We have made significant investments in recent years to increase our sales and marketing operations internationally, and expect to continue to invest to grow our international sales and global brand awareness.

Continue to Innovate. We intend to continue focusing on innovation and bringing new products and tools to market that address problems that technology professionals are asking us to solve. We also intend to continue providing frequent feature releases to our existing products. We are focused on enhancing the overall integration of our products to improve our value proposition and allow our customers to further benefit from expanding their usage of our products as their needs evolve.

Expand into New Markets Aligned with the SolarWinds Model. We have successfully entered new markets and expanded our product offerings to solve a broader set of challenges for customers. For example, in recent years we broadened our product offerings to address the database, storage, cloud and MSP markets. We intend to further expand into markets where our SolarWinds Model provides us with competitive advantages.

Pursue Targeted Acquisitions of Products and Technologies. We have successfully acquired and integrated businesses and technologies in the past that provided us with new product offerings and capabilities and helped us to establish positions in new segments and markets. We intend to continue making targeted acquisitions that complement and strengthen our product portfolio and capabilities or provide access to new markets. We believe our ability to effectively transition acquired companies and products to the SolarWinds Model represents a unique opportunity for our business.

Recent Operating Results (Preliminary and Unaudited)

Set forth below are preliminary estimates of selected unaudited financial and other information for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and actual unaudited financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2017. Our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements for the three months ended September 30, 2018 are not yet available. The following information reflects our preliminary estimates based on currently available information and is subject to change. We have provided ranges, rather than specific amounts, for the preliminary estimates of the financial information described below primarily because our financial closing procedures for the three months ended September 30, 2018 are not yet complete and, as a result, our final results upon completion of our closing procedures may vary from the preliminary estimates. See “ Risk Factors ,” “ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations ,” and “ Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements ” for additional information regarding factors that could result in differences between the preliminary estimated ranges of certain of our financial results and operating data presented below and the actual financial results and other information we will report for the three months ended September 30, 2018 .

The preliminary recent estimates presented below have been prepared by, and are the responsibility of, management. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has not audited, reviewed, compiled or performed any procedures with respect to such preliminary information. Accordingly, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP does not express an opinion or any other form of assurance with respect thereto.



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2018
	Actual		Low		High

	(in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Revenue:
Subscription	$	55,361	$	67,150	$	67,550
Maintenance	93,258		101,325		101,625
Total recurring revenue	148,619		168,475		169,175
License	40,493		43,300		43,600
Total revenue	$	189,112	$	211,775	$	212,775
Operating income	$	26,831	$	32,500	$	33,850
Other Data:
Non-GAAP subscription revenue⁽¹⁾	$	55,714	$	67,300	$	67,700
Non-GAAP maintenance revenue⁽¹⁾	94,828		101,900		102,200
Non-GAAP license revenue⁽¹⁾	40,493		43,300		43,600
Non-GAAP total revenue⁽¹⁾	191,035		212,500		213,500
Adjusted EBITDA⁽²⁾	99,302		104,000		106,000

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We define non-GAAP subscription revenue, non-GAAP maintenance revenue, non-GAAP license revenue and non-GAAP total revenue, as subscription revenue, maintenance revenue, license revenue and total revenue, respectively, excluding the impact of purchase accounting related to the Take Private and other acquisitions. For a reconciliation of GAAP revenue to non-GAAP revenue, please see below. For further information regarding our use of non-GAAP revenue, see “Selected Consolidated Financial Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”


(2)	Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure. For a reconciliation of operating income to Adjusted EBITDA, please see below. For further information regarding our use of adjusted EBITDA, see “Selected Consolidated Financial Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”


•	For the three months ended September 30, 2018, we expect total recurring revenue to be between $168.5 million and $169.2 million , representing an estimated increase of approximately 13.4% to 13.8% as compared to total recurring revenue of $148.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017.


•	For the three months ended September 30, 2018, we expect license revenue to be between $43.3 million and $43.6 million , representing an estimated increase of approximately 6.9% to 7.7% as compared to license revenue of $40.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017.


•	For the three months ended September 30, 2018, we expect operating income to be between $32.5 million and $33.9 million compared to operating income of $26.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017.


•	For the three months ended September 30, 2018, we expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $104.0 million and $106.0 million compared to adjusted EBITDA of $99.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017.

The following table reconciles expected GAAP subscription revenue, GAAP maintenance revenue, GAAP license revenue and GAAP total revenue to expected non-GAAP subscription revenue, non-GAAP maintenance revenue, non-GAAP license revenue and non-GAAP total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2018, and reconciles actual GAAP subscription revenue, GAAP maintenance revenue, GAAP license revenue and GAAP total revenue to non-GAAP subscription revenue, non-GAAP maintenance revenue, non-GAAP license revenue and non-GAAP total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2017:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017		2018
	Actual		Low		High

	(in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Revenue:
GAAP subscription revenue	$	55,361	$	67,150	$	67,550
Impact of purchase accounting	353		150		150
Non-GAAP subscription revenue	55,714		67,300		67,700
GAAP maintenance revenue	93,258		101,325		101,625
Impact of purchase accounting	1,570		575		575
Non-GAAP maintenance revenue	94,828		101,900		102,200
GAAP license revenue	40,493		43,300		43,600
Impact of purchase accounting	—		—		—
Non-GAAP license revenue	40,493		43,300		43,600
GAAP total revenue	189,112		211,775		212,775
Impact of purchase accounting	1,923		725		725
Non-GAAP total revenue	$	191,035	$	212,500	$	213,500

The following table reconciles expected operating income to expected adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 30, 2018, and reconciles actual operating income to adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 30, 2017:



	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2018
	Actual			Low		High

	(in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Operating income ⁽¹⁾	$	26,831		$	32,500	$	33,850
Amortization and depreciation	63,825			64,500		64,750
Impact of purchase accounting on total revenue	1,923			725		725
Other income (expense)	(143		)	175		200
Acquisition and Sponsor related costs	6,097			5,600		5,900
Debt related costs	192			100		100
Stock-based compensation expense	21			150		175
Restructuring costs and other	556			250		300
Adjusted EBITDA	$	99,302		$	104,000	$	106,000

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We are not able to reconcile our expected adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss), the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, without unreasonable efforts because we are unable to predict with a reasonable degree of certainty the actual impact of the tax provision. Instead, we have presented a reconciliation of expected adjusted EBITDA to operating income, the next most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.

Risks Affecting Us

Our business is subject to a number of risks that you should understand before making an investment decision. These risks are discussed more fully in “Risk Factors” following this prospectus summary. Some of these risks are:


•	Our quarterly revenue and operating results may fluctuate in the future because of a number of factors, which makes our future results difficult to predict and could cause our operating results to fall below expectations or the guidance we may provide in the future.


•	If we are unable to capture significant volumes of high quality sales leads from our digital marketing initiatives, it could adversely affect our revenue growth and operating results.


•	If we are unable to sell products to new customers or to sell additional products or upgrades to our existing customers, it could adversely affect our revenue growth and operating results.


•	Our business depends on customers renewing their maintenance or subscription agreements. Any decline in renewal or net retention rates could harm our future operating results.


•	We have experienced substantial growth in recent years, and if we fail to manage our growth effectively, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain high levels of customer satisfaction or adequately address competitive challenges, and our financial performance may be adversely affected.


•	Because our long-term success depends on our ability to operate our business internationally and increase sales of our products to customers located outside of the United States, our business is susceptible to risks associated with international operations.


•	We operate in highly competitive markets, which could make it difficult for us to acquire and retain customers at historic rates.


•	Our actual operating results may differ significantly from information we may provide in the future regarding our financial outlook.


•	Acquisitions present many risks that could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.


•	The Sponsors have a controlling influence over matters requiring stockholder approval, which could delay or prevent a change of control.


•	The Sponsors and their affiliated funds may pursue corporate opportunities independent of us that could present conflicts with our and our stockholders’ interests.

Our Sponsors

SolarWinds Corporation was formed by affiliates of investment firms Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo to acquire SolarWinds, Inc., then a publicly traded company. On February 5, 2016, we completed the acquisition, as a result of which SolarWinds, Inc. became our wholly owned subsidiary and ceased being an SEC registrant.

Silver Lake is the global leader in technology investing, with about $42.5 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of approximately 100 investment and value creation professionals located around the world. Silver Lake has professionals based in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Thoma Bravo is a leading investment firm building on a more than 35-year history of providing capital and strategic support to experienced management teams and growing companies. Thoma Bravo has invested in many fragmented,

consolidating industry sectors in the past, but has become known particularly for its history of successful investments in the application, infrastructure and security software and technology-enabled services sectors, which now have been its investment focus for more than 15 years. Thoma Bravo manages a series of investment funds representing more than $26 billion of capital commitments.

Our Sponsors’ interests may not coincide with the interests of our other stockholders. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to This Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock—Our Sponsors have a controlling influence over matters requiring stockholder approval, which could delay or prevent a change of control.” Additionally, each of our Sponsors is in the business of making investments in companies and may, from time to time, acquire and hold interests in businesses that compete directly or indirectly with us. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to This Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock—Our Sponsors may pursue corporate opportunities independent of us that could present conflicts with our and our stockholders’ interests” and “Description of Capital Stock—Anti-Takeover Provisions in Our Charter and Bylaws—Corporate Opportunity.”

Controlled Company Status

Because our Sponsors will initially own 250,462,263 shares of our common stock immediately following the completion of this offering, assuming an offering size as set forth in “ —The Offering ,” participation in this offering as set forth in “ Principal and Selling Stockholders ” and an initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), representing approximately 83.0% of the voting power of our company following the completion of this offering, we will be a controlled company as of the completion of the offering under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the rules of the NYSE.

Because we will be a controlled company, a majority of our board of directors is not required to be independent, and our board of directors is not required to form independent compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees. As a controlled company, we will remain subject to rules of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the NYSE that require us to have an audit committee composed entirely of independent directors. Under these rules, we must have at least one independent director on our audit committee by the date our common stock is listed on the NYSE, at least two independent directors on our audit committee within 90 days of the listing date, and at least three independent directors on our audit committee within one year of the listing date. We expect to have nine independent directors upon the closing of this offering.

If at any time we cease to be a controlled company, we will take all action necessary to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and rules of the NYSE, including by appointing a majority of independent directors to our board of directors and ensuring we have a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee, each composed entirely of independent directors, subject to a permitted “phase-in” period. See “Management—Status As a Controlled Company.”

Upon the completion of this offering, our Sponsors will own approximately 83.0% of our common stock (or 80.9% of our common stock if the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares is exercised in full) and will therefore be able to control all matters that require approval by our stockholders, including the election and removal of directors, changes to our organizational documents and approval of acquisition offers and other significant corporate transactions. The Sponsors have entered into a stockholders’ agreement whereby they each agreed, among other things, to vote the shares each beneficially owns in favor of the director nominees designated by the applicable Sponsor.

Corporate Information

SolarWinds Corporation is a holding company. SolarWinds Corporation was incorporated in the State of Delaware in 2015 under the name Project Aurora Parent, Inc. It changed its name to SolarWinds Parent, Inc. in May 2016, and in May 2018 changed its name to SolarWinds Corporation. SolarWinds Corporation was organized for the purpose of acquiring SolarWinds, Inc. SolarWinds, Inc. was incorporated in the State of Oklahoma in 1999 and reincorporated in the State of Delaware in 2008. In May 2018, SolarWinds, Inc. changed its name to SolarWinds North America, Inc.

The principal operating subsidiaries of SolarWinds Corporation are SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC, or SolarWinds Worldwide, SolarWinds Software Europe Limited and SolarWinds MSP UK Limited.

Our principal executive offices are located at 7171 Southwest Parkway, Building 400, Austin, Texas 78735, and our telephone number is (512) 682-9300. Our website address is www.solarwinds.com. The information contained in, or that can be accessed through, our website is not part of this prospectus.

SolarWinds, SolarWinds & Design, Orion and THWACK trademarks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide or its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service marks, and logos may be common law marks or are registered or pending registration. Trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this prospectus are the property of their respective holders.

Emerging Growth Company

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, was enacted in April 2012 with the intention of encouraging capital formation in the United States and reducing the regulatory burden on newly public companies that qualify as emerging growth companies. We are an emerging growth company within the meaning of the JOBS Act. As an emerging growth company, we intend to take advantage of certain exemptions from various public reporting requirements, including the requirement that we provide more than two years of audited financial statements and related management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, that our internal control over financial reporting be audited by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that we provide certain disclosures regarding executive compensation, and that we hold nonbinding stockholder advisory votes on executive compensation and any golden parachute payments not previously approved. We may take advantage of these exemptions until we are no longer an emerging growth company.

In addition, under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We intend to take advantage of the longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards under the JOBS Act until we are no longer an emerging growth company. Our election to use the phase-in periods permitted by this election may make it difficult to compare our financial statements to those of non-emerging growth companies and other emerging growth companies that have opted out of the longer phase-in periods permitted under the JOBS Act and who will comply with new or revised financial accounting standards. If we were to subsequently elect instead to comply with public company effective dates, such election would be irrevocable pursuant to the JOBS Act.

We will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest to occur of (i) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have more than $1.07 billion in annual revenue; (ii) the date on which we become a “large accelerated filer” (the fiscal year-end on which at least $700.0 million of equity securities are held by non-affiliates as of the last day of our then most recently completed second fiscal quarter); (iii) the date on which we have issued, in any three-year period, more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities; and (iv) the last day of the fiscal year ending after the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering.

See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to This Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock—For as long as we are an emerging growth company, we will not be required to comply with certain requirements that apply to other public companies” for certain risks related to our status as an emerging growth company.

THE OFFERING



Common stock offered by us	17,000,000 shares

Common stock offered by the selling stockholders	25,000,000 shares

Common stock to be outstanding after this offering	301,942,149 shares

Underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares offered by the selling stockholders	6,300,000 shares

Use of proceeds	We estimate that our net proceeds from this offering will be approximately $286.4 million, assuming an initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the public offering price would increase or decrease our net proceeds by approximately $16.2 million. The principal purposes of this offering are to increase our financial flexibility, create a public market for our common stock and enable access to the public equity markets for us and our stockholders. We intend to use all of our net proceeds from this offering to repay a portion of our outstanding indebtedness. If there were to be excess proceeds, we would use such proceeds for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures and continued investments in our growth strategies described in “Business—Growth Strategies.” We may also use any such excess proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products, services or technologies. We do not have agreements or commitments for any acquisitions or investments at this time. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares being offered by the selling stockholders. See “Use of Proceeds” for additional information.

Controlled company	After this offering, assuming an offering size as set forth in this section, participation in this offering as set forth in “Principal and Selling Stockholders” and an initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), the Sponsors will beneficially own, in the aggregate, approximately 83.0% of our common stock (or 80.9% of our common stock if the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares is exercised in full). As a result, we expect to be a controlled company within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of the NYSE. See “Management-Status As a Controlled Company.”

Risk factors	See “Risk Factors” and other information included in this prospectus for a discussion of factors you should carefully consider before deciding to invest in our common stock.

Proposed NYSE symbol	SWI

Except as otherwise indicated in this prospectus, the number of shares of our common stock that will be outstanding after this offering is based on 284,942,149 shares of our common stock outstanding as of September 30, 2018, which includes (a) an aggregate 177,811,544 shares of common stock issuable upon the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion (each as defined below) as if such conversions had occurred as of September 30, 2018 based on the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus and, for purposes of calculating the Accrued Yield Conversion, the aggregate amount of accrued and unpaid dividends on our Class A Stock (as defined below) that

we anticipate having as of October 18, 2018, and (b) 5,042,533 restricted stock awards issued to our directors, officers and other employees that are subject to vesting, and excludes:


•	3,204,400 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options outstanding as of September 30, 2018, having a weighted average exercise price of $ 1.66 per share;


•	497,833 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the SolarWinds Corporation Equity Plan, or the 2016 Plan;

•

30,000,000 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the SolarWinds Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan, or the 2018 Plan, which has been adopted in connection with this offering and under which we intend to grant $109.8 million of equity awards based on the initial public offering price per share of our common stock in this offering, which would result in our granting equity awards with respect to 6,102,222 shares of common stock assuming an initial public offering price of $ 18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus); and


•	3,750,000 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the SolarWinds Corporation 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Except as otherwise indicated in this prospectus, all information contained in this prospectus assumes or gives effect to:


•	the filing and effectiveness of our third amended and restated certificate of incorporation, or our restated charter, and the effectiveness of our amended and restated bylaws, or our restated bylaws, each of which will occur immediately prior to the completion of this offering;


•	the reclassification of all of our Class B Common Stock, or our Class B Stock, as common stock and securities convertible into or exercisable for Class B Stock as securities convertible into or exercisable for common stock, each effected immediately prior to the completion of this offering; and


•	no exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to an additional 6,300,000 shares of our common stock from the selling stockholders.

As noted above, except as otherwise indicated, all information in this prospectus gives effect to the automatic conversion immediately prior to the completion of this offering of all outstanding shares of our Class A Common Stock, or our Class A Stock, into an aggregate of 140,053,434 shares of our common stock, based on the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, which we refer to as the Class A Conversion. Immediately prior to the completion of this offering, we will convert each outstanding share of our Class A Stock into a number of shares of common stock equal to the result of the liquidation value of such share of Class A Stock, divided by the greater of the initial public offering price per share of our common stock in this offering or the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, as such price range may be amended. As of September 30, 2018, we had 2,661,015 shares of Class A Stock outstanding, each share of which had a liquidation value equal to $1,000.

At the time of the Class A Conversion, we intend to convert all accrued and unpaid dividends on our Class A Stock into a number of shares of common stock equal to the result of the accrued and unpaid dividends on each share of Class A Stock, divided by the greater of the initial public offering price per share of our common stock in this offering or the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, as such price range may be amended, which we refer to as the Accrued Yield Conversion. As of June 30, 2018 , we had $627.9 million of cumulative but unpaid accruing dividends on our Class A Stock. For purposes of calculating the Accrued Yield Conversion, dividends on our Class A Stock will cease to accrue on the date on which our second amended and restated certificate of incorporation is filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, which is expected to be October 18, 2018. We anticipate that as of October 18, 2018, we will have $717.4 million of accrued and unpaid dividends, which will convert into 37,758,110 shares of common stock based on the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus .

Because the number of shares of common stock issuable in connection with the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion will be determined by reference to the greater of the initial public offering price per share of our common stock in this offering or the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, as such price range may be amended, an initial public offering price greater than the high point of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus or on the cover page of any amendment to this prospectus would effectively result in a fewer number of outstanding shares after the offering than would have been outstanding had the offering been priced at the high end of such price range, after giving effect to the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion. In such a scenario, the number of shares of common stock issued in connection with the Class A Conversion would be determined by dividing the liquidation value of such share of Class A Stock by the initial public offering price per share of our common stock, and the number of shares of common stock issued in connection with the Accrued Yield Conversion would be determined by dividing the accrued and unpaid dividends on each share of Class A Stock by the initial public offering price per share of our common stock.

SUMMARY HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL AND OTHER DATA

You should read the following summary consolidated financial and other data together with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus and the information under “Selected Consolidated Financial Data” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

On February 5, 2016, we were acquired by the Sponsors in a take private transaction, or the Take Private. We applied purchase accounting on the date of the Take Private. We refer to the Company as Predecessor in the periods before the Take Private and Successor in the subsequent periods.

The summary consolidated statements of operations presented below from January 1, 2016 to February 4, 2016 relate to the Predecessor and are derived from audited consolidated financial statements that are included in this prospectus. The summary consolidated statements of operations data for the period from February 5, 2016 to December 31, 2017, and the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2016 and 2017, relate to the Successor and are derived from audited consolidated financial statements that are included in this prospectus.

The summary consolidated statements of operations data for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2018 and the summary consolidated balance sheet data as of June 30, 2018 are derived from our unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. We have prepared the unaudited consolidated financial data on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements. The unaudited consolidated financial data include, in our opinion, all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that we consider necessary for a fair statement of the financial information set forth in those statements.

Although the period from January 1, 2016 to February 4, 2016 relates to the Predecessor and the period from February 5, 2016 to December 31, 2016 relates to the Successor, to assist with the period-to-period comparison we have combined these periods as a sum of the amounts without any other adjustments and refer to the combined period as the combined year ended December 31, 2016. This combination does not comply with GAAP or with the rules for pro forma presentation.

Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in the future, and our results for the six months ended June 30, 2018 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the entire year ending December 31, 2018.



Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:
	Predecessor			Successor			Combined			Successor			Successor
	Period From January 1 Through February 4,			Period From February 5 Through December 31,			(Unaudited) Year Ended December 31,			Year Ended December 31,			Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016			2016			2016			2017			2017			2018

				(in thousands, except per share data)									(unaudited)
Revenue:
Subscription	$	6,551		$	126,960		$	133,511		$	213,754		$	100,041		$	128,291
Maintenance	29,500			145,234			174,734			357,630			168,203			195,767
Total recurring revenue	36,051			272,194			308,245			571,384			268,244			324,058
License	11,276			149,900			161,176			156,633			72,322			74,573
Total revenue	47,327			422,094			469,421			728,017			340,566			398,631
Cost of revenue:
Cost of recurring revenue⁽¹⁾	9,551			46,238			55,789			60,698			29,689			34,595
Amortization of acquired technologies	2,186			147,517			149,703			171,033			84,268			88,286
Total cost of revenue	11,737			193,755			205,492			231,731			113,957			122,881
Gross profit	35,590			228,339			263,929			496,286			226,609			275,750
Operating expenses:⁽¹⁾
Sales and marketing	47,064			165,355			212,419			205,631			101,128			109,096
Research and development	32,183			65,806			97,989			86,618			42,893			48,526
General and administrative	79,636			71,011			150,647			67,303			35,785			40,252
Amortization of acquired intangibles	917			58,553			59,470			67,080			32,875			33,781
Total operating expenses	159,800			360,725			520,525			426,632			212,681			231,655
Operating income (loss)	(124,210		)	(132,386		)	(256,596		)	69,654			13,928			44,095
Other income (expense):
Interest expense, net	(473		)	(169,900		)	(170,373		)	(169,786		)	(84,484		)	(76,476		)
Other income (expense), net⁽²⁾	(284		)	(56,959		)	(57,243		)	38,664			15,400			(74,463		)
Total other income (expense)	(757		)	(226,859		)	(227,616		)	(131,122		)	(69,084		)	(150,939		)
Loss before income taxes	(124,967		)	(359,245		)	(484,212		)	(61,468		)	(55,156		)	(106,844		)
Income tax expense (benefit)	(53,156		)	(96,651		)	(149,807		)	22,398			(9,414		)	(19,919		)
Net loss	$	(71,811	)	$	(262,594	)	$	(334,405	)	$	(83,866	)	$	(45,742	)	$	(86,925	)
Net loss available to common stockholders	$	(71,811	)	$	(480,498	)	$	(552,309	)	$	(351,873	)	$	(175,683	)	$	(228,938	)
Basic and diluted loss per share	$	(1.00	)	$	(4.98	)				$	(3.50	)	$	(1.75	)	$	(2.25	)
Weighted-average shares used in computation of basic and diluted loss per share	71,989			96,465						100,433			100,112			101,832
Pro forma basic and diluted loss per share available to common stockholders (unaudited)⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾										$	(1.29	)				$	(0.83	)
Pro forma weighted-average shares used in computation of basic and diluted net loss per share (unaudited)⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾										273,533						274,932

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(1)	Includes stock-based compensation as follows:



	Predecessor		Successor		Combined		Successor		Successor
	Period From January 1 Through February 4,		Period From February 5 Through December 31,		(Unaudited) Year Ended December 31,		Year Ended December 31,		Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016		2016		2016		2017		2017		2018

					(in thousands)				(unaudited)
Cost of recurring revenue	$	5,562	$	2	$	5,564	$	4	$	2	$	5
Sales and marketing	30,725		7		30,732		44		16		119
Research and development	23,822		7		23,829		21		8		27
General and administrative	27,654		1		27,655		11		2		21
	$	87,763	$	17	$	87,780	$	80	$	28	$	172


(2)	Other income (expense), net includes the following:



	Predecessor		Successor			Combined			Successor		Successor
	Period From January 1 Through February 4,		Period From February 5 Through December 31,			(Unaudited) Year Ended December 31,			Year Ended December 31,		Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016		2016			2016			2017		2017		2018

						(in thousands)					(unaudited)
Unrealized net transaction gains (losses) related to the remeasurement of intercompany loans:	$	—	$	(26,651	)	$	(26,651	)	$	56,539	$	35,181	$	(12,711	)


(3)	See Note 12. Net Loss Per Share in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements appearing elsewhere in this prospectus for an explanation of the method used to compute the historical and pro forma net loss per share available to common stockholders and the weighted-average number of shares used in the computation of the per share amounts.

(4)

Pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share available to common stockholders and pro forma weighted-average common shares outstanding have been computed assuming the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion as of June 30, 2018, based on the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, as if such event had occurred at the beginning of the periods presented. This pro forma data is presented for informational purposes only and does not purport to represent what our net loss or net loss per share available to common stockholders actually would have been had the Class A Conversion or the Accrued Yield Conversion occurred on January 1, 2017 or to project our net loss or net loss per share for any future period.

The following table presents consolidated balance sheet data as of June 30, 2018:



Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:	As of June 30, 2018					Pro Forma As Adjusted ⁽²⁾⁽³⁾
	Actual			Pro Forma⁽¹⁾		Pro Forma As Adjusted ⁽²⁾⁽³⁾
				(in thousands)
				(unaudited)
Cash and cash equivalents	$	278,078		$	278,078	$	278,078
Working capital, excluding deferred revenue	299,506			299,506		299,506
Total assets	5,173,639			5,173,639		5,173,639
Deferred revenue, current and non-current portion⁽⁴⁾	276,135			276,135		276,135
Long-term debt, net of current portion	2,218,684			2,218,684		1,932,284
Total liabilities	2,868,480			2,868,480		2,582,080
Redeemable convertible Class A common stock	3,288,900			—		—
Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)	(983,741		)	2,305,159		2,591,559

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(1)	Gives effect to the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion, in each case, as if such event had occurred on June 30, 2018 based on the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.

(2)

Gives effect to the adjustments described in footnote (1) above as well as the issuance by us of 17,000,000 shares of common stock in this offering, and the application of the net proceeds from this offering as set forth under “ Use of Proceeds ,” assuming an initial public offering price of $ 18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus).

(3)


(4)	At June 30, 2018, deferred revenue reflects a write-down of $1.2 million associated with purchase accounting adjustments. These cumulative purchase price adjustments will not have an impact on the December 31, 2018 deferred revenue balances.

Impact of Purchase Accounting Related to the Take Private and Acquisitions

The comparability of our operating results in fiscal 2017 versus fiscal 2016 was significantly impacted by the Take Private and to a lesser extent, other acquisitions. We account for acquired businesses, including the Take Private, using the acquisition method of accounting, which requires that the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, including deferred revenue, be recorded at the date of acquisition at their respective fair values which could differ from the historical book values. In most cases, adjusting the acquired deferred revenue balances to fair value on the date of the relevant acquisition had the effect of reducing the historical deferred revenue balance and therefore reducing the revenue recognized in subsequent periods. In addition, we incurred amortization of acquired technology and intangibles in connection with the Take Private and to a lesser extent, other acquisitions. For further information of the impact of the Take Private and other acquisitions on our financial statements, see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below. See also Note 4. Acquisitions in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. While the deferred revenue written down in connection with our acquisitions will never be recognized as revenue under GAAP, we do not expect the Take Private to have an impact on future renewal rates of the maintenance contracts included within the deferred revenue write-down, nor do we expect revenue generated from new license and subscription contracts to be similarly impacted by purchase accounting adjustments.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, we use certain non-GAAP financial measures to clarify and enhance our understanding, and aid in the period-to-period comparison, of our performance. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide supplemental information that is meaningful when assessing our operating performance because they exclude the impact of certain amounts that our management and board of directors do not consider part of core operating results when assessing our operational performance, allocating resources,

preparing annual budgets and determining compensation. Accordingly, these non-GAAP financial measures may provide insight to investors into the motivation and decision-making of management in operating the business. Set forth in the first table below are the corresponding GAAP financial measures for each non-GAAP financial measure. Investors are encouraged to review the reconciliation of each of these non-GAAP financial measures to its most comparable GAAP financial measure included in “Selected Consolidated Financial Data—Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”



	Predecessor			Successor⁽⁴⁾			Combined⁽⁴⁾			Successor			Successor
	Period From January 1 Through February 4,			Period From February 5 Through December 31,			(Unaudited) Year Ended December 31,			Year Ended December 31,			Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016			2016			2016			2017			2017			2018

				(in thousands, except margin data)									(unaudited)
Subscription revenue	$	6,551		$	126,960		$	133,511		$	213,754		$	100,041		$	128,291
Maintenance revenue	29,500			145,234			174,734			357,630			168,203			195,767
License revenue	11,276			149,900			161,176			156,633			72,322			74,573
Total revenue	47,327			422,094			469,421			728,017			340,566			398,631
Gross margin	75.2		%	54.1		%	56.2		%	68.2		%	66.5		%	69.2		%
Operating margin	(262.5		)%	(31.4		)%	(54.7		)%	9.6		%	4.1		%	11.1		%
Net loss	(71,811		)	(262,594		)	(334,405		)	(83,866		)	(45,742		)	(86,925		)



	Predecessor			Successor⁽⁴⁾			Combined⁽⁴⁾			Successor			Successor
	Period From January 1 Through February 4,			Period From February 5 Through December 31,			(Unaudited) Year Ended December 31,			Year Ended December 31,			Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016			2016			2016			2017			2017			2018

				(in thousands, except margin data)									(unaudited)
Non-GAAP subscription revenue⁽¹⁾	$	6,551		$	134,179		$	140,730		$	215,218		$	100,856		$	129,253
Non-GAAP maintenance revenue⁽¹⁾	29,500			298,454			327,954			369,144			177,013			197,366
Non-GAAP license revenue⁽¹⁾	11,276			150,821			162,097			156,636			72,325			74,573
Non-GAAP total revenue⁽¹⁾	47,327			583,454			630,781			740,998			350,194			401,192
Non-GAAP gross margin⁽²⁾	93.5		%	92.2		%	92.3		%	91.9		%	91.6		%	91.4		%
Non-GAAP operating margin⁽²⁾	44.9		%	48.4		%	48.2		%	46.9		%	44.2		%	45.1		%
Adjusted EBITDA⁽³⁾	21,963			293,200			315,163			361,871			162,502			189,174

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(1)	We define non-GAAP subscription revenue, non-GAAP maintenance revenue, non-GAAP license revenue and non-GAAP total revenue, as subscription revenue, maintenance revenue, license revenue and total revenue, respectively, excluding the impact of purchase accounting related to the Take Private and other acquisitions.

(2)

We calculate non-GAAP gross margin and non-GAAP operating margin using non-GAAP revenue as discussed above in footnote (1) and excluding certain items such as the write-down of deferred revenue related to purchase accounting, amortization of acquired intangible assets, stock-based compensation and related employer-paid payroll taxes, acquisition and Sponsor related costs and restructuring charges that may not be indicative of our core business.

(3)

We regularly monitor adjusted EBITDA, as it is a measure we use to assess our operating performance. We believe that adjusted EBITDA is a measure widely used by securities analysts and investors to evaluate the financial performance of our company and other companies. We believe that adjusted EBITDA is an important measure for evaluating our performance because it facilitates comparisons of our core operating results from period to period by removing the impact of our capital structure (net interest expense from our outstanding debt, debt servicing costs and losses on debt extinguishment), asset base (depreciation and amortization), tax consequences, purchase accounting adjustments, acquisition and Sponsor related costs, stock-based compensation and gains (losses) resulting from changes in exchange rates on foreign currency denominated intercompany loans and restructuring costs and other.


(4)	The operating results of LOGICnow are included in our consolidated financial statements from the acquisition date of May 27, 2016 to December 31, 2016.

While we believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information, non-GAAP financial measures have limitations and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, their most comparable GAAP measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, do not reflect a comprehensive system of accounting and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies due to potential differences in their financing and accounting methods, the book value of their assets, their capital structures, the method by which their assets were acquired and the manner in which they define non-GAAP measures. Items such as the amortization of acquired intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition related adjustments and restructuring charges, as well as the related tax impacts of these items can have a material impact on our GAAP financial results.

RISK FACTORS

An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below before deciding whether to purchase shares of our common stock. The trading price of our common stock could decline because of any of these risks, and you may lose all or part of your investment. In assessing these risks, you should also refer to the other information contained in this prospectus, including our consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto. The risks described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks we are not currently aware of or that we currently believe are immaterial may also impair our business, operations, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

Our quarterly revenue and operating results may fluctuate in the future because of a number of factors, which makes our future results difficult to predict and could cause our operating results to fall below expectations or the guidance we may provide in the future.

We believe our quarterly revenue and operating results may vary significantly in the future. As a result, you should not rely on the results of any one quarter as an indication of future performance and period-to-period comparisons of our revenue and operating results may not be meaningful.

Our quarterly results of operations may fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, those listed below, many of which are outside of our control:


•	our ability to maintain and increase sales to existing customers and to attract new customers;


•	decline in maintenance or subscription renewals;


•	our ability to capture a significant volume of qualified sales leads;


•	our ability to convert qualified sales leads into new business sales at acceptable conversion rates;


•	the amount and timing of operating expenses and capital expenditures related to the expansion of our operations and infrastructure and customer acquisition;


•	our failure to achieve the growth rate that was anticipated by us in setting our operating and capital expense budgets;


•	potential foreign exchange gains and losses related to expenses and sales denominated in currencies other than the functional currency of an associated entity;


•	fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates that may negatively impact our reported results of operations;


•	the timing of revenue and expenses related to the development or acquisition of technologies, products or businesses;


•	potential goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges and amortization associated with acquired businesses;


•	the timing and success of new product, enhancements or functionalities introduced by us or our competitors;


•	our ability to obtain, maintain, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights;


•	changes in our pricing policies or those of our competitors;


•	the impact of new accounting pronouncements;


•	occasional large customer orders, including in particular those placed by the U.S. federal government;


•	unpredictability and timing of buying decisions by the U.S. federal government;


•	general economic, industry and market conditions that impact expenditures for enterprise IT management software in the United States and other countries where we sell our software;


•	significant security breaches, technical difficulties or interruptions to our products; and


•	changes in tax rates in jurisdictions in which we operate.

Fluctuations in our quarterly operating results might lead analysts to change their models for valuing our common stock. As a result, our stock price could decline rapidly and we could face costly securities class action suits or other unanticipated issues.

If we are unable to capture significant volumes of high quality sales leads from our digital marketing initiatives, it could adversely affect our revenue growth and operating results.

Our digital marketing program is designed to efficiently and cost-effectively drive a high volume of website traffic and deliver high quality leads, which are generally trials of our products, to our sales teams. We drive website traffic and capture leads through various digital marketing initiatives, including search engine optimization, or SEO, targeted email campaigns, localized websites, social media, e-book distribution, video content, blogging and webinars. If we fail to drive a sufficient amount of website traffic or capture a sufficient volume of high quality sales leads from these activities, our revenue may not grow as expected or could decrease. If these activities are unsuccessful, we may be required to increase our sales and marketing expenses, which may not be offset by additional revenue, and could adversely affect our operating results.

Our digital marketing initiatives may be unsuccessful in driving high volumes of website traffic and generating trials of our products, resulting in fewer high quality sales leads, for a number of reasons. For example, technology professionals often find our products when they are online searching for a solution to address a specific need. Search engines typically provide two types of search results, algorithmic and purchased listings, and we rely on both. The display, including rankings, of unpaid search results can be affected by a number of factors, many of which are not in our direct control, and may change frequently. Our SEO techniques have been developed to work with existing search algorithms used by the major search engines. However, major search engines frequently modify their search algorithms and such modifications could cause our websites to receive less favorable placements, which could reduce the number of technology professionals who visit our websites. In addition, websites must comply with search engine guidelines and policies that are complex and may change at any time. If we fail to follow such guidelines and policies properly, search engines may rank our content lower in search results or could remove our content altogether from their indexes. If our websites are displayed less prominently, or fail to appear in search result listings in response to search inquiries regarding IT management problems through Internet search engines for any reason, our website traffic could significantly decline, requiring us to incur increased marketing expenses to replace this traffic. Any failure to replace this traffic could reduce our revenue.

In addition, the success of our digital marketing initiatives depends in part on our ability to collect customer data and communicate with existing and potential customers online and through phone calls. As part of the product evaluation trial process and during our sales process, most of our customers agree to receive emails and other communications from us. We also use tracking technologies, including cookies and related technologies, to help us track the activities of the visitors to our websites. However, as discussed in greater detail below, we are subject to a wide variety of data privacy and security laws and regulations in the U.S. and internationally that affect our ability to collect and use customer data and communicate with customers through email and phone calls. Several jurisdictions have proposed or adopted laws that restrict or prohibit unsolicited email or “spam” or regulate the use of cookies, including the European Union’s recently enacted General Data Protection Regulation. These new laws and regulations may impose significant monetary

penalties for violations and complex and often burdensome requirements in connection with sending commercial email or other data-driven marketing practices. As a result of such regulation, we may be required to modify or discontinue our existing marketing practices, which could increase our marketing costs.

If we are unable to sell products to new customers or to sell additional products or upgrades to our existing customers, it could adversely affect our revenue growth and operating results.

To increase our revenue, we must regularly add new customers, including new customers within existing client organizations, and sell additional products or upgrades to existing customers. Even if we capture a significant volume of leads from our digital marketing activities, we must be able to convert those leads into sales of our products in order to achieve revenue growth.

We primarily rely on our direct sales force to sell our products to new and existing customers and convert qualified leads into sales using our low-touch, high-velocity sales model. Accordingly, our ability to achieve significant growth in revenue in the future will depend on our ability to recruit, train and retain sufficient numbers of sales personnel, and on the productivity of those personnel. We plan to continue to expand our sales force both domestically and internationally. Our recent and planned personnel additions may not become as productive as we would like or in a timely manner, and we may be unable to hire or retain sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the future in the markets where we do or plan to do business. If we are unable to sell products to new customers and additional products or upgrades to our existing customers through our direct sales force or through our channel partners, which supplement our direct sales force by distributing our products and generating sales opportunities, we may be unable to grow our revenue and our operating results could be adversely affected.

We offer and sell our products to two main groups of customers: technology professionals, who use our cloud and on-premises products to manage their organization’s own IT infrastructure, and managed service providers, or MSPs, who use our products to manage their end clients’ IT infrastructure. In addition to the growth in our core IT offerings since our inception, since 2013, we have also devoted significant resources to expanding our MSP offerings, including through our acquisition of LOGICnow in 2016. If we fail to continue to add MSP customers, our business and operating results may be harmed.

Our business depends on customers renewing their maintenance or subscription agreements. Any decline in renewal or net retention rates could harm our future operating results.

The significant majority of our revenue is recurring and consists of maintenance revenue and subscription revenue. Our perpetual license products typically include the first year of maintenance as part of the initial price. Our subscription products generally have a subscription period of one year and are invoiced monthly over the subscription period. Our customers have no obligation to renew their maintenance or subscription agreements after the expiration of the initial period. Additionally, customers could cancel their subscription agreements prior to the expiration of the subscription period, which could result in us recognizing less subscription revenue than expected over the term of the agreement.

It is difficult to accurately predict long-term customer retention. Our customers’ maintenance renewal rates and subscription net retention rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their level of satisfaction with our products, the prices of our products, the prices of products and services offered by our competitors or reductions in our customers’ spending levels. If our customers do not renew their maintenance or subscription arrangements or if they renew them on less favorable terms, our revenue may decline and our business will suffer. A substantial portion of our quarterly maintenance and subscription revenue is attributable to agreements entered into during previous quarters. As a result, if there is a decline in renewed maintenance or subscription agreements in any one quarter, only a small portion of the decline will be reflected in our revenue recognized in that quarter and the rest will be reflected in our revenue recognized in the following four quarters or more.

We have experienced substantial growth in recent years, and if we fail to manage our growth effectively, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain high levels of customer satisfaction or adequately address competitive challenges, and our financial performance may be adversely affected.

Our business has rapidly grown, which has resulted in large increases in our number of employees, expansion of our infrastructure, new internal systems and other significant changes and additional complexities. We increased our total number of employees from 1,767 as of March 31, 2016, to 2,540 as of June 30, 2018. While we intend to further expand our overall business, customer base, and number of employees, our historical growth rate is not necessarily indicative of the growth that we may achieve in the future. The growth in our business generally and our management of a growing workforce and customer base geographically dispersed across the U.S. and internationally will require substantial management effort, infrastructure and operational capabilities. To support our growth, we must continue to improve our management resources and our operational and financial controls and systems, and these improvements may increase our expenses more than anticipated and result in a more complex business. We will also have to anticipate the necessary expansion of our relationship management, implementation, customer service and other personnel to support our growth and achieve high levels of customer service and satisfaction. Our success will depend on our ability to plan for and manage this growth effectively. If we fail to anticipate and manage our growth or are unable to provide high levels of customer service, our reputation, as well as our business, results of operations and financial condition, could be harmed.

Because our long-term success depends on our ability to operate our business internationally and increase sales of our products to customers located outside of the United States, our business is susceptible to risks associated with international operations.

We have international operations in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Belarus, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Canada, Australia, Singapore and the Philippines. We also expect to continue to expand our international operations for the foreseeable future. The continued international expansion of our operations requires significant management attention and financial resources and results in increased administrative and compliance costs. Our limited experience in operating our business in certain regions outside the United States increases the risk that our expansion efforts into those regions may not be successful. In particular, our business model may not be successful in particular countries or regions outside the United States for reasons that we currently are unable to anticipate. In addition, conducting international operations subjects us to risks that we have not generally faced in the United States. These include, but are not limited to:


•	fluctuations in currency exchange rates (which we hedge only to a limited extent at this time);


•	the complexity of, or changes in, foreign regulatory requirements;


•	difficulties in managing the staffing of international operations, including compliance with local labor and employment laws and regulations;


•	potentially adverse tax consequences, including the complexities of foreign value added tax systems, overlapping tax regimes, restrictions on the repatriation of earnings and changes in tax rates;


•	dependence on resellers and distributors to increase customer acquisition or drive localization efforts;


•	the burdens of complying with a wide variety of foreign laws and different legal standards;


•	increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;


•	longer payment cycles and difficulties in collecting accounts receivable;


•	longer sales cycles;


•	political, social and economic instability abroad;


•	terrorist attacks and security concerns in general;


•	reduced or varied protection for intellectual property rights in some countries; and


•	the risk of U.S. regulation of foreign operations.

The occurrence of any one of these risks could negatively affect our international business and, consequently, our operating results. We cannot be certain that the investment and additional resources required to establish, acquire or integrate operations in other countries will produce desired levels of revenue or profitability. If we are unable to effectively manage our expansion into additional geographic markets, our financial condition and results of operations could be harmed.

In particular, we operate much of our research and development activities internationally and outsource a portion of the coding and testing of our products and product enhancements to contract development vendors. We believe that performing research and development in our international facilities and supplementing these activities with our contract development vendors enhances the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our product development. If we experience problems with our workforce or facilities internationally, we may not be able to develop new products or enhance existing products in an alternate manner that may be equally or less efficient and cost-effective.

We operate in highly competitive markets, which could make it difficult for us to acquire and retain customers at historic rates.

We operate in a highly competitive industry. Competition in our market is based primarily on brand awareness and reputation; product capabilities, including scalability, performance and reliability; ability to solve problems for companies of all sizes and infrastructure complexities; ease of use; total cost of ownership; flexible deployment models, including on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment; strength of sales and marketing efforts; and focus on customer service. We often compete to sell our products against existing products or systems that our potential customers have already made significant expenditures to install. Many of our current and potential competitors enjoy substantial competitive advantages over us, such as greater brand awareness and substantially greater financial, technical and other resources. In addition, many of our competitors have established marketing relationships and access to larger customer bases, and have major distribution agreements with consultants, system integrators and resellers. Given their larger size, greater resources and existing customer relationships, our competitors may be able to compete and respond more effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards or customer requirements.

We face competition from both large network management and IT vendors offering enterprise-wide software frameworks and services and smaller companies in the cloud and application monitoring and the MSP IT tools markets. We also compete with network equipment vendors and systems management product providers, as well as infrastructure providers and their native applications, whose products and services also address network and IT management requirements. Our principal competitors vary depending on the product we offer and include large network management and IT vendors such as NetScout Systems, Inc., Micro Focus International plc, CA, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation and BMC Software, Inc., and smaller companies in the cloud and application monitoring and the MSP IT tools markets, where we do not believe that a single or small group of companies has achieved market leadership.

Some of our competitors have made acquisitions or entered into strategic relationships with one another to offer more comprehensive or bundled or integrated product offerings. We expect this trend to continue as companies attempt to strengthen or maintain their market positions in an evolving industry and as companies enter into partnerships or are acquired. Companies and alliances resulting from these possible consolidations and partnerships may create more compelling product offerings and be able to offer more attractive pricing, making it more difficult for us to compete effectively.

Our actual operating results may differ significantly from information we may provide in the future regarding our financial outlook.

From time to time, we may provide information regarding our financial outlook in our quarterly earnings releases, quarterly earnings conference calls, or otherwise, that represents our management’s estimates as of the date of release. This information regarding our financial outlook, which includes forward-looking statements, will be based on projections, including those related to certain of the factors listed above, prepared by our management. Neither our independent registered public accounting firm nor any other independent expert or outside party will compile or examine the projections nor, accordingly, will any such person express any opinion or any other form of assurance with respect thereto.

These projections will be based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while presented with numerical specificity, will be inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which will be beyond our control, and will also be based upon specific assumptions with respect to future business decisions, some of which will change. We intend to state possible outcomes as high and low ranges, which will be intended to provide a sensitivity analysis as variables are changed, but will not be intended to represent that actual results could not fall outside of the suggested ranges. The principal reason that we may in the future release such information is to provide a basis for our management to discuss our business outlook with analysts and investors. We do not accept any responsibility for any projections or reports published by analysts.

Information regarding our financial outlook would be necessarily speculative in nature, and it can be expected that some or all of the assumptions underlying such information furnished by us will not materialize or will vary significantly from actual results. Accordingly, information that we may provide regarding our financial outlook will only be an estimate of what management believes is realizable as of the date of release. Actual results will vary from our financial outlook, and the variations may be material and adverse. In light of the foregoing, investors are urged to consider these factors, not to rely exclusively upon information we may provide regarding our financial outlook in making an investment decision regarding our common stock, and to take such information into consideration only in connection with other information included in our filings filed with or furnished to the SEC, including the “Risk Factors” sections in such filings.

Any failure to implement our operating strategy successfully or the occurrence of any of the events or circumstances set forth under “Risk Factors” in this prospectus could result in our actual operating results being different from information we provide regarding our financial outlook, and those differences might be adverse and material.

If we sustain system failures, cyberattacks against our systems or against our products, or other data security incidents or breaches, we could suffer a loss of revenue and increased costs, exposure to significant liability, reputational harm and other serious negative consequences.

We are heavily dependent on our technology infrastructure to sell our products and operate our business, and our customers rely on our technology to help manage their own IT infrastructure. Our systems and those of our third-party service providers are vulnerable to damage or interruption from natural disasters, fire, power loss, telecommunication failures, traditional computer “hackers,” malicious code (such as viruses and worms), employee theft or misuse, and denial-of-service attacks, as well as sophisticated nation-state and nation-state-supported actors (including advanced persistent threat intrusions). The risk of a security breach or disruption, particularly through cyberattacks or cyber intrusion, including by computer hacks, foreign governments, and cyber terrorists, has generally increased the number, intensity and sophistication of attempted attacks, and intrusions from around the world have increased. In addition, sophisticated hardware and operating system software and applications that we procure from third parties may contain defects in design or manufacture, including “bugs” and other problems that could unexpectedly interfere with the operation of our systems.

Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not identified until they are launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. We may also experience security breaches that may remain undetected for an extended

period and, therefore, have a greater impact on the products we offer, the proprietary data contained therein, and ultimately on our business.

The foregoing security problems could result in, among other consequences, damage to our own systems or our customers’ IT infrastructure or the loss or theft of our customers’ proprietary or other sensitive information. The costs to us to eliminate or address the foregoing security problems and security vulnerabilities before or after a cyber incident could be significant. Our remediation efforts may not be successful and could result in interruptions, delays or cessation of service and loss of existing or potential customers that may impede sales of our products or other critical functions. We could lose existing or potential customers in connection with any actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in our websites or our products.

During the purchasing process and in connection with evaluations of our software, either we or third-party providers collect and use customer information, including personally identifiable information, such as credit card numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. We have legal and contractual obligations to protect the confidentiality and appropriate use of customer data. Despite our security measures, unauthorized access to, or security breaches of, our software or systems could result in the loss, compromise or corruption of data, loss of business, severe reputational damage adversely affecting customer or investor confidence, regulatory investigations and orders, litigation, indemnity obligations, damages for contract breach, penalties for violation of applicable laws or regulations, significant costs for remediation and other liabilities. We have incurred and expect to incur significant expenses to prevent security breaches, including deploying additional personnel and protection technologies, training employees, and engaging third-party experts and consultants. Our errors and omissions insurance coverage covering certain security and privacy damages and claim expenses may not be sufficient to compensate for all liabilities we incur.

Acquisitions present many risks that could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

In order to expand our business, we have made several acquisitions and expect to continue making similar acquisitions and possibly larger acquisitions as part of our growth strategy. The success of our future growth strategy will depend on our ability to identify, negotiate, complete and integrate acquisitions and, if necessary, to obtain satisfactory debt or equity financing to fund those acquisitions. Acquisitions are inherently risky, and any acquisitions we complete may not be successful. Our past acquisitions and any mergers and acquisitions that we may undertake in the future involve numerous risks, including, but not limited to, the following:


•	difficulties in integrating and managing the operations, personnel, systems, technologies and products of the companies we acquire;


•	diversion of our management’s attention from normal daily operations of our business;


•	our inability to maintain the key business relationships and the reputations of the businesses we acquire;


•	uncertainty of entry into markets in which we have limited or no prior experience and in which competitors have stronger market positions;


•	our dependence on unfamiliar affiliates, resellers, distributors and partners of the companies we acquire;


•	our inability to increase revenue from an acquisition for a number of reasons, including our failure to drive demand in our existing customer base for acquired products and our failure to obtain maintenance renewals or upgrades and new product sales from customers of the acquired businesses;


•	increased costs related to acquired operations and continuing support and development of acquired products;


•	our responsibility for the liabilities of the businesses we acquire;


•	potential goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges and amortization associated with acquired businesses;


•	adverse tax consequences associated with acquisitions;


•	changes in how we are required to account for our acquisitions under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, including arrangements that we assume from an acquisition;


•	potential negative perceptions of our acquisitions by customers, financial markets or investors;


•	failure to obtain required approvals from governmental authorities under competition and antitrust laws on a timely basis, if at all, which could, among other things, delay or prevent us from completing a transaction, or otherwise restrict our ability to realize the expected financial or strategic goals of an acquisition;


•	potential increases in our interest expense, leverage and debt service requirements if we incur additional debt to pay for an acquisition;


•	our inability to apply and maintain our internal standards, controls, procedures and policies to acquired businesses; and


•	potential loss of key employees of the companies we acquire.

Additionally, acquisitions or asset purchases made entirely or partially for cash may reduce our cash reserves or require us to incur additional debt under our credit agreements or otherwise. We may seek to obtain additional cash to fund an acquisition by selling equity or debt securities. We may be unable to secure the equity or debt funding necessary to finance future acquisitions on terms that are acceptable to us. If we finance acquisitions by issuing equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders will experience ownership dilution.

The occurrence of any of these risks could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows, particularly in the case of a larger acquisition or substantially concurrent acquisitions.

Businesses that we acquire may have greater than expected liabilities for which we become responsible.

Businesses that we acquire may have liabilities or adverse operating issues, or both, that we fail to discover through due diligence or the extent of which we underestimate prior to the acquisition. For example, to the extent that any business that we acquire or any prior owners, employees or agents of any acquired businesses or properties (i) failed to comply with or otherwise violated applicable laws, rules or regulations; (ii) failed to fulfill or disclose their obligations, contractual or otherwise, to applicable government authorities, their customers, suppliers or others; or (iii) incurred tax or other liabilities, we, as the successor owner, may be financially responsible for these violations and failures and may suffer harm to our reputation and otherwise be adversely affected. An acquired business may have problems with internal control over financial reporting, which could be difficult for us to discover during our due diligence process and could in turn lead us to have significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in our own internal control over financial reporting. These and any other costs, liabilities and disruptions associated with any of our past acquisitions and any future acquisitions could harm our operating results.

Charges to earnings resulting from acquisitions may adversely affect our operating results.

When we acquire businesses, we allocate the purchase price to tangible assets and liabilities and identifiable intangible assets acquired at their acquisition date fair values. Any residual purchase price is recorded as goodwill, which is also generally measured at fair value. We also estimate the fair value of any contingent consideration. Our estimates of fair value are based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable, but which are uncertain and involve significant judgments by management. After we complete an acquisition, the following factors could result in material charges and adversely affect our operating results and may adversely affect our cash flows:


•	costs incurred to combine the operations of companies we acquire, such as transitional employee expenses and employee retention or relocation expenses;


•	impairment of goodwill or intangible assets;


•	a reduction in the useful lives of intangible assets acquired;


•	impairment of long-lived assets;


•	identification of, or changes to, assumed contingent liabilities;


•	changes in the fair value of any contingent consideration;


•	charges to our operating results due to duplicative pre-merger activities;


•	charges to our operating results from expenses incurred to effect the acquisition; and


•	charges to our operating results due to the expensing of certain stock awards assumed in an acquisition.

Substantially all of these costs will be accounted for as expenses that will decrease our net income and earnings per share for the periods in which those costs are incurred. Charges to our operating results in any given period could differ substantially from other periods based on the timing and size of our acquisitions and the extent of integration activities.

Our operating margins and cash flows from operations could fluctuate as we make further expenditures to expand our operations in order to support additional growth in our business.

Our GAAP operating margin was (54.7)% and 9.6% for the years ended December 31, 2016 (on a combined basis) and 2017, respectively. Our non-GAAP operating margin was 48.2% and 46.9% for the years ended December 31, 2016 (on a combined basis) and 2017, respectively. Our cash flows from operations were $90.2 million and $232.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2016 (on a combined basis) and 2017, respectively. We have made significant investments in our operations to support additional growth, such as hiring substantial numbers of new personnel, investing in new facilities, acquiring other companies or their assets and establishing and broadening our international operations in order to expand our business. We have made substantial investments in recent years to increase our sales and marketing operations in the EMEA and APAC regions and expect to continue to invest to grow our international sales and global brand awareness. We have made multiple acquisitions in recent years and expect these acquisitions will continue to increase our operating expenses in future periods. These investments may not yield increased revenue, and even if they do, the increased revenue may not offset the amount of the investments. We also expect to continue to pursue acquisitions in order to expand our presence in current markets or new markets, many or all of which may increase our operating costs more than our revenue. As a result of any of these factors, our operating income could fluctuate and may continue to decline as a percentage of revenue relative to our prior annual periods.

The ability to recruit, retain and develop key employees and management personnel is critical to our success and growth, and our inability to attract and retain qualified personnel could harm our business.

Our business requires certain expertise and intellectual capital, particularly within our management team. We rely on our management team in the areas of operations, security, marketing, sales, support and general and administrative functions. The loss of one or more of our management team could have a material adverse effect on our business.

For us to compete successfully and grow, we must retain, recruit and develop key personnel who can provide the needed expertise for our industry and products. As we move into new geographic areas, we will need to attract, recruit and retain qualified personnel in those locations. In addition, acquisitions could cause us to lose key personnel of the acquired businesses. The market for qualified personnel is competitive and we may not succeed in recruiting additional key personnel or may fail to effectively replace current key personnel who depart with qualified or effective successors. We believe that replacing our key personnel with qualified successors is particularly challenging as we feel that our business model and approach to marketing and selling our products are unique. Any successors that we hire from outside of the Company would likely be unfamiliar with our business model and may therefore require significant time to

understand and appreciate the important aspects of our business or fail to do so altogether. Our effort to retain and develop personnel may also result in significant additional expenses, including stock-based compensation expenses, which could adversely affect our profitability. New regulations and volatility or lack of performance in our stock price could also affect the value of our equity awards, which could affect our ability to attract and retain our key employees. We have made significant changes, and may make additional changes in the future, to our senior management team and other key personnel. We cannot provide assurances that key personnel, including our executive officers, will continue to be employed by us or that we will be able to attract and retain qualified personnel in the future. Failure to retain or attract key personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Our success depends on our ability to maintain a product portfolio that responds to the needs of technology professionals and the evolving IT management market.

Our product portfolio has grown from on-premise network management products to broad-based on-premise systems monitoring and management and products for the growing but still emerging cloud and MSP markets. We offer over 50 products designed to solve the day-to-day problems encountered by technology professionals managing complex IT infrastructure, spanning on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT environments. Our long-term growth depends on our ability to continually enhance and improve our existing products and develop or acquire new products that address the common problems encountered by technology professionals on a day-to-day basis in an evolving IT management market. The success of any enhancement or new product depends on a number of factors, including its relevance to our existing and potential customers, timely completion and introduction and market acceptance. New products and enhancements that we develop or acquire may not sufficiently address the evolving needs of our existing and potential customers, may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner and may not achieve the broad market acceptance necessary to generate the amount of revenue necessary to realize returns on our investments in developing or acquiring such products or enhancements. If our new products and enhancements are not successful for any reason, certain products in our portfolio may become obsolete, less marketable and less competitive, and our business will be harmed.

If we are unable to develop and maintain successful relationships with channel partners, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

We have established relationships with certain channel partners to distribute our products and generate sales opportunities, particularly internationally. We believe that continued growth in our business is dependent upon identifying, developing and maintaining strategic relationships with our existing and potential channel partners that can drive substantial revenue and provide additional valued-added services to our customers. Our agreements with our existing channel partners are non-exclusive, meaning our channel partners may offer customers the products of several different companies, including products that compete with ours. They may also cease marketing our products with limited or no notice and with little or no penalty. We expect that any additional channel partners we identify and develop will be similarly non-exclusive and not bound by any requirement to continue to market our products. If we fail to identify additional channel partners in a timely and cost-effective manner, or at all, or are unable to assist our current and future channel partners in independently distributing and deploying our products, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed. If our channel partners do not effectively market and sell our products, or fail to meet the needs of our customers, our reputation and ability to grow our business may also be harmed.

We depend on the U.S. federal government in certain calendar quarters for a meaningful portion of our on-premise license sales, including maintenance renewals associated with such products, and orders from the U.S. federal government are unpredictable. The delay or loss of these sales may harm our operating results.

A portion of our on-premise license sales, including maintenance renewals associated with such products, are to a number of different departments of the U.S. federal government. In certain calendar quarters, particularly the third calendar quarter, this portion may be meaningful. Any factors that cause a decline in government expenditures generally or government IT expenditures in particular could cause our revenue to grow less rapidly or even to decline. These factors include, but are not limited to, constraints on the budgetary process, including changes in the policies and priorities of the U.S. federal government, deficit-reduction legislation, and any shutdown of the U.S. federal government. Furthermore, sales orders from the U.S. federal government tend to be dependent on many factors and therefore unpredictable in timing. Any sales we expect to make in a quarter may not be made in that quarter or at all, and our operating results for that quarter may therefore be adversely affected.

We are subject to various global data privacy and security regulations, which could result in additional costs and liabilities to us.

Our business is subject to a wide variety of local, state, national and international laws, directives and regulations that apply to the collection, use, retention, protection, disclosure, transfer and other processing of personal data. These data protection and privacy-related laws and regulations continue to evolve and may result in ever-increasing regulatory and public scrutiny and escalating levels of enforcement and sanctions and increased costs of compliance. In the United States, these include rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of the Federal Trade Commission, and state breach notification laws. If there is a breach of our computer systems and we know or suspect that unencrypted personal customer information has been stolen, we may be required to inform the representative state attorney general or federal or country regulator, media and credit reporting agencies, and any customers whose information was stolen, which could harm our reputation and business. Other states and countries have enacted different requirements for protecting personal information collected and maintained electronically. We expect that there will continue to be new proposed laws, regulations and industry standards concerning privacy, data protection and information security in the United States, the European Union and other jurisdictions, and we cannot yet determine the impact such future laws, regulations and standards will have on our business or the businesses of our customers, including, but not limited to, the European Union’s recently enacted General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force in May 2018 and creates a range of new compliance obligations, which could require us to change our business practices, and significantly increases financial penalties for noncompliance.

Failure to comply with laws concerning privacy, data protection and information security could result in enforcement action against us, including fines, imprisonment of company officials and public censure, claims for damages by end customers and other affected individuals, damage to our reputation and loss of goodwill (both in relation to existing end customers and prospective end customers), any of which could have a material adverse effect on our operations, financial performance and business. In addition, we could suffer adverse publicity and loss of customer confidence were it known that we did not take adequate measures to assure the confidentiality of the personally identifiable information that our customers had given to us. This could result in a loss of customers and revenue that could jeopardize our success. We may not be successful in avoiding potential liability or disruption of business resulting from the failure to comply with these laws and, even if we comply with laws, may be subject to liability because of a security incident. If we were required to pay any significant amount of money in satisfaction of claims under these laws, or any similar laws enacted by other jurisdictions, or if we were forced to cease our business operations for any length of time as a result of our inability to comply fully with any of these laws, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected. Further, complying with the applicable notice requirements in the event of a security breach could result in significant costs.

Additionally, our business efficiencies and economies of scale depend on generally uniform product offerings and uniform treatment of customers across all jurisdictions in which we operate. Compliance requirements that vary significantly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction impose added costs on our business and can increase liability for compliance deficiencies.

If we fail to develop and maintain our brands cost-effectively, our financial condition and operating results might suffer.

We believe that developing and maintaining awareness and integrity of our brands in a cost-effective manner are important to achieving widespread acceptance of our existing and future products and are important elements in attracting new customers. We believe that the importance of brand recognition will increase as we enter new markets and as competition in our existing markets further intensifies. Successful promotion of our brands will depend on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and on our ability to provide reliable and useful products at competitive prices. We intend to increase our expenditures on brand promotion. Brand promotion activities may not yield increased revenue, and even if they do, the increased revenue may not offset the expenses we incur in building our brands. We rely on resellers and distributors to some extent in the distribution of our products. We have limited control over these third parties, and actions by these third parties could negatively impact our brand. We also rely on our customer base and community of end-users in a variety of ways, including to give us feedback on our products and to provide user-based support to our other customers through THWACK, our online community. If poor advice or misinformation regarding

our products is spread among users of THWACK, it could adversely affect our reputation, our financial results and our ability to promote and maintain our brands. If we fail to promote and maintain our brands successfully, fail to maintain loyalty among our customers and our end-user community, or incur substantial expenses in an unsuccessful attempt to promote and maintain our brands, we may fail to attract new customers or retain our existing customers and our financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. Additionally, if our MSP customers do not use or ineffectively use our products to serve their end clients, our reputation and ability to grow our business may be harmed.

Adverse economic conditions may negatively affect our business.

Our business depends on the overall demand for information technology and on the economic health of our current and prospective customers. Any significant weakening of the economy in the United States, EMEA, APAC and of the global economy, more limited availability of credit, a reduction in business confidence and activity, decreased government spending, economic uncertainty, and other difficulties may affect one or more of the sectors or countries in which we sell our products. Global economic and political uncertainty may cause some of our customers or potential customers to curtail spending generally or IT management spending specifically, and may ultimately result in new regulatory and cost challenges to our international operations. In addition, a strong dollar could reduce demand for our products in countries with relatively weaker currencies. These adverse conditions could result in reductions in sales of our products, longer sales cycles, slower adoption of new technologies and increased price competition. Any of these events could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial position.

Interruptions or performance problems associated with our internal infrastructure, and its reliance on technologies from third parties, may adversely affect our ability to manage our business and meet reporting obligations.

Currently, we use NetSuite to manage our order management and financial processes, salesforce.com to track our sales and marketing efforts and other third-party vendors to manage online marketing and web services. We believe the availability of these services is essential to the management of our high-volume, transaction-oriented business model. We also use third-party vendors to manage our equity compensation plans and certain aspects of our financial reporting processes. As we expand our operations, we expect to utilize additional systems and service providers that may also be essential to managing our business. Although the systems and services that we require are typically available from a number of providers, it is time-consuming and costly to qualify and implement these relationships. Therefore, if one or more of our providers suffer an interruption in their business, or experience delays, disruptions or quality-control problems in their operations, or we have to change or add additional systems and services, our ability to manage our business and produce timely and accurate financial statements would suffer.

Interruptions or performance problems associated with our products, including disruptions at any third-party data centers upon which we rely, may impair our ability to support our customers.

Our continued growth depends in part on the ability of our existing and potential customers to access our websites, software or cloud-based products within an acceptable amount of time. We have experienced, and may in the future experience, service disruptions, outages and other performance problems due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes, human or software errors, capacity constraints due to an overwhelming number of users accessing our website simultaneously and denial of service or fraud or security attacks. In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of these website performance problems within an acceptable period of time. It may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve our website performance, especially during peak usage times and as our user traffic increases. If our websites are unavailable or if our customers are unable to access our software or cloud-based products within a reasonable amount of time or at all, our business would be negatively affected. Additionally, our data centers and networks and third-party data centers and networks may experience technical failures and downtime, may fail to distribute appropriate updates, or may fail to meet the increased requirements of a growing customer base.

We provide certain of our cloud management and MSP products through third-party data center hosting facilities located in the United States and other countries. While we control and have access to our servers and all of the components of our network that are located in such third-party data centers, we do not control the operation of these facilities. Following expiration of the current agreement terms, the owners of the data center facilities have no obligation to renew their agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we are unable to renew these agreements on

commercially reasonable terms, or if one of our data center operators is acquired, we may be required to transfer our servers and other infrastructure to new data center facilities, and we may incur significant costs and possible service interruptions in connection with doing so.

If we fail to integrate our products with a variety of operating systems, software applications, platforms and hardware that are developed by others or ourselves, our products may become less competitive or obsolete and our results of operations would be harmed.

Our products must integrate with a variety of network, hardware and software platforms, and we need to continuously modify and enhance our products to adapt to changes in hardware, software, networking, browser and database technologies. We believe a significant component of our value proposition to customers is the ability to optimize and configure our products to integrate with our systems and those of third parties. If we are not able to integrate our products in a meaningful and efficient manner, demand for our products could decrease and our business and results of operations would be harmed.

In addition, we have a large number of products, and maintaining and integrating them effectively requires extensive resources. Our continuing efforts to make our products more interoperative may not be successful. Failure of our products to operate effectively with future infrastructure platforms and technologies could reduce the demand for our products, resulting in customer dissatisfaction and harm to our business. If we are unable to respond to changes in a cost-effective manner, our products may become less marketable, less competitive or obsolete and our business and results of operations may be harmed.

Material defects or errors in our products could harm our reputation, result in significant costs to us and impair our ability to sell our products.

Software products are inherently complex and often contain defects and errors when first introduced or when new versions are released. Any defects or errors in our products could result in:


•	lost or delayed market acceptance and sales of our products;


•	a reduction in subscription or maintenance renewals;


•	diversion of development resources;


•	legal claims; and


•	injury to our reputation and our brand.

The costs incurred in correcting or remediating the impact of defects or errors in our products may be substantial and could adversely affect our operating results.

The success of our business depends on our ability to obtain, maintain, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights.

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect proprietary methods and technologies that we develop or license so that we can prevent others from using our inventions and proprietary information. If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitors might gain access to our technology, and our business might be adversely affected. However, protecting and enforcing our intellectual property rights might entail significant expenses. Any of our intellectual property rights may be challenged by others, weakened or invalidated through administrative process or litigation. We rely primarily on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress, unfair competition and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual restrictions, to establish and protect our proprietary rights. These laws, procedures and restrictions provide only limited protection.

As of June 30, 2018, we had approximately 29 issued U.S. patents and have also filed patent applications, but patents may not be issued with respect to these applications. The process of obtaining patent protection is expensive

and time-consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner. Even if issued, there can be no assurance that these patents, or our existing patents, will adequately protect our intellectual property, as the legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of patent and other intellectual property rights are uncertain. Our patents and any future patents issued to us may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, and may not provide sufficiently broad protection or may not prove to be enforceable in actions against alleged infringers. Any patents that are issued may subsequently be invalidated or otherwise limited, allowing other companies to develop offerings that compete with ours, which could adversely affect our competitive business position, business prospects and financial condition. In addition, issuance of a patent does not guarantee that we have a right to practice the patented invention. Patent applications in the United States are typically not published until 18 months after filing or, in some cases, not at all, and publications of discoveries in industry-related literature lag behind actual discoveries. We cannot be certain that third parties do not have blocking patents that could be used to prevent us from marketing or practicing our patented software or technology.

We endeavor to enter into agreements with our employees and contractors and with parties with which we do business in order to limit access to and disclosure of our trade secrets and other proprietary information. We cannot be certain that the steps we have taken will prevent unauthorized use, misappropriation or reverse engineering of our technology. Moreover, others may independently develop technologies that are competitive to ours and may infringe our intellectual property. The enforcement of our intellectual property rights also depends on our legal actions against these infringers being successful, but these actions may not be successful, even when our rights have been infringed. Further, any litigation, whether or not resolved in our favor, could be costly and time-consuming.

Our exposure to risks related to the protection of intellectual property may be increased in the context of acquired technologies as we have a lower level of visibility into the development process and the actions taken to establish and protect proprietary rights in the acquired technology. In connection with past acquisitions, we have found that some associated intellectual property rights, such as domain names and trademarks in certain jurisdictions, are owned by resellers, distributors or other third parties. In the past, we have experienced difficulties in obtaining assignments of these associated intellectual property rights from third parties.

Furthermore, effective patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available in every country in which our products are available. The laws of some foreign countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States (in particular, some foreign jurisdictions do not permit patent protection for software), and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate. In addition, the legal standards, both in the United States and in foreign countries, relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain and still evolving. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon or misappropriating our intellectual property.

We might be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. We may initiate claims or litigation against third parties for infringement of our proprietary rights or to establish the validity of our proprietary rights. Litigation also puts our patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and our patent applications at risk of not issuing. Additionally, we may provoke third parties to assert counterclaims against us. We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate, and the damages or other remedies awarded, if any, may not be commercially viable. Any litigation, whether or not resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel, which may adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Exposure related to any future litigation could adversely affect our results of operations, profitability and cash flows.

From time to time, we have been and may be involved in various legal proceedings and claims arising in our ordinary course of business. At this time, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries is a party to, and none of our respective property is the subject of, any material legal proceeding. However, the outcomes of legal proceedings and claims brought against us are subject to significant uncertainty. Future litigation may result in a diversion of management’s attention and resources, significant costs, including monetary damages and legal fees, and injunctive relief, and may contribute to current and future stock price volatility. No assurance can be made that future litigation will not result in material

financial exposure or reputational harm, which could have a material adverse effect upon our results of operations, profitability or cash flows.

In particular, the software and technology industries are characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and by frequent litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. We have received, and from time to time may receive, letters claiming that our products infringe or may infringe the patents or other intellectual property rights of others. As we face increasing competition and as our brand awareness increases, the possibility of additional intellectual property rights claims against us grows. Our technologies may not be able to withstand any third-party claims or rights against their use. Additionally, we have licensed from other parties proprietary technology covered by patents and other intellectual property rights, and these patents or other intellectual property rights may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented. These types of claims could harm our relationships with our customers, might deter future customers from acquiring our products or could expose us to litigation with respect to these claims. Even if we are not a party to any litigation between a customer and a third party, an adverse outcome in that litigation could make it more difficult for us to defend our intellectual property in any subsequent litigation in which we are named as a party. Any of these results would have a negative effect on our business and operating results.

Any intellectual property rights claim against us or our customers, with or without merit, could be time-consuming and expensive to litigate or settle and could divert management resources and attention. As a result of any successful intellectual property rights claim against us or our customers, we might have to pay damages or stop using technology found to be in violation of a third party’s rights, which could prevent us from offering our products to our customers. We could also have to seek a license for the technology, which might not be available on reasonable terms, might significantly increase our cost of revenue or might require us to restrict our business activities in one or more respects. The technology also might not be available for license to us at all. As a result, we could also be required to develop alternative non-infringing technology or cease to offer a particular product, which could require significant effort and expense and/or hurt our revenue and financial results of operations.

Our exposure to risks associated with the use of intellectual property may be increased as a result of our past and any future acquisitions as we have a lower level of visibility into the development process with respect to acquired technology or the care taken to safeguard against infringement risks. Third parties may make infringement and similar or related claims after we have acquired technology that had not been asserted prior to our acquisition.

Our use of open source software could negatively affect our ability to sell our products and subject us to possible litigation.

Some of our products incorporate open source software, and we intend to continue to use open source software in the future. Some terms of certain open source licenses to which we are subject have not been interpreted by U.S. or foreign courts, and there is a risk that open source software licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to monetize our products. Additionally, we may from time to time face claims from third parties claiming ownership of, or demanding release of, the open source software or derivative works that we developed using such software, which could include our proprietary source code, or otherwise seeking to enforce the terms of the applicable open source software license. These claims could result in litigation and could require us to make our software source code freely available, purchase a costly license to continue offering the software or cease offering the implicated services unless and until we can re-engineer them to avoid infringement or violation. This re-engineering process could require significant additional research and development resources, and we may not be willing to entertain the cost associated with updating the software or be able to complete it successfully. In addition to risks related to license requirements, use of certain open source software can lead to greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or controls on the origin of software and, thus, may contain security vulnerabilities or infringing or broken code. Additionally, if we utilize open source licenses that require us to contribute to open source projects, this software code is publicly available; and our ability to protect our intellectual property rights with respect to such software source code may be limited or lost entirely. We may be unable to prevent our competitors or others from using such contributed software source code. Any of these risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage, and if not addressed, could have a negative effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our products use third-party software that may be difficult to replace or cause errors or failures of our products that could lead to a loss of customers or harm to our reputation and our operating results.

We license third-party software from various third parties for use in our products. In the future, this software may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. Any loss of the right to use any of the software could result in decreased functionality of our products until equivalent technology is either developed by us or, if available from another provider, is identified, obtained and integrated, which could harm our business. In addition, any errors or defects in or failures of the third-party software could result in errors or defects in our products or cause our products to fail, which could harm our business and be costly to correct. Many of these providers attempt to impose limitations on their liability for such errors, defects or failures, and if enforceable, we may have additional liability to our customers or third-party providers that could harm our reputation and increase our operating costs.

We have substantial indebtedness, which could adversely affect our financial health and our ability to obtain financing in the future, react to changes in our business and meet our obligations with respect to our indebtedness.

We entered into credit agreements in 2016 and 2018. As of June 30, 2018, our total indebtedness was $2.3 billion and we had $125.0 million available for additional borrowing under our credit facilities. Our net interest expense during the years ended December 31, 2016 (on a combined basis) and 2017 and the six months ended June 30, 2018 was approximately $170.4 million, $169.8 million and $76.5 million, respectively.

Our substantial indebtedness incurred under the credit agreements could have important consequences, including:


•	requiring us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flows from operations to payments on our indebtedness, thereby reducing the funds available for operations;


•	increasing our vulnerability to adverse economic and industry conditions, which could place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that have relatively less indebtedness;


•	limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the industries in which we operate;


•	restricting us from making strategic acquisitions or causing us to make non-strategic divestitures;


•	requiring us under certain circumstances to repatriate earnings from our international operations in order to make payments on our indebtedness, which could subject us to local country income and withholding taxes and/or state income taxes that are not currently accrued in our financial statements;


•	requiring us to liquidate short-term or long-term investments in order to make payments on our indebtedness, which could generate losses;


•	exposing us to the risk of increased interest rates as borrowings under the credit agreements are subject to variable rates of interest; and


•	limiting our ability to borrow additional funds, or to dispose of assets to raise funds, if needed, for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions, product development and other corporate purposes.

Despite our current indebtedness level, we and our restricted subsidiaries may be able to incur substantially more indebtedness, which could further exacerbate the risks associated with our substantial indebtedness.

Although the terms of the agreements governing our outstanding indebtedness contain restrictions on the incurrence of additional indebtedness, such restrictions are subject to a number of important exceptions and indebtedness incurred in compliance with such restrictions could be substantial. If we and our restricted subsidiaries incur significant additional indebtedness, the related risks that we face could increase. If new debt is added to our or our subsidiaries’ current debt levels, the related risks that we now face would increase, and we may not be able to meet all our debt obligations. See

“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources.”

The agreements governing our indebtedness contain restrictions and limitations that may restrict our business and financing activities and expose us to risks that could adversely affect our liquidity and financial condition.

The credit agreements governing our credit facilities contain various covenants that are operative so long as our credit facilities remain outstanding. The covenants, among other things, limit our and certain of our subsidiaries’ abilities to:


•	incur additional indebtedness;


•	incur liens;


•	engage in mergers, consolidations, liquidations or dissolutions;


•	pay dividends and distributions on, or redeem, repurchase or retire our capital stock;


•	make investments, acquisitions, loans or advances;


•	create negative pledges or restrictions on the payment of dividends or payment of other amounts owed from subsidiaries;


•	sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of assets, including capital stock of subsidiaries;


•	make prepayments of material debt that is subordinated with respect to right of payment;


•	engage in certain transactions with affiliates;


•	modify certain documents governing material debt that is subordinated with respect to right of payment;


•	change our fiscal year; and


•	change our lines of business.

Our credit agreements also contain numerous affirmative covenants, including a financial covenant which requires that, at the end of each fiscal quarter, for so long as the aggregate principal amount of borrowings under our revolving credit facility exceeds 35% of the aggregate commitments under the revolving credit facility, our first lien net leverage ratio cannot exceed 7.40 to 1.00. A breach of this financial covenant will not result in a default or event of default under the term loan facility under our first lien credit agreement unless and until the lenders under our revolving credit facility have terminated the commitments under the revolving credit facility and declared the borrowings under the revolving credit facility due and payable.

Our ability to comply with the covenants and restrictions contained in the credit agreements governing our credit facilities may be affected by economic, financial and industry conditions beyond our control. The restrictions in the credit agreements governing our credit facilities may prevent us from taking actions that we believe would be in the best interests of our business and may make it difficult for us to execute our business strategy successfully or effectively compete with companies that are not similarly restricted. Even if any of our credit agreements are terminated, any additional debt that we incur in the future could subject us to similar or additional covenants.

The credit agreements include customary events of default, including, among others, failure to pay principal, interest or other amounts; material inaccuracy of representations and warranties; violation of covenants; specified cross-default and cross-acceleration to other material indebtedness; certain bankruptcy and insolvency events; certain ERISA events; certain undischarged judgments; material invalidity of guarantees or grant of security interest; and change of

control. Any default that is not cured or waived could result in the termination of our credit agreements or an acceleration of the obligations under the credit agreements. Any such default would permit the applicable lenders to declare all amounts outstanding thereunder to be due and payable, together with accrued and unpaid interest. In addition, such a default or acceleration may result in the acceleration of any other debt to which a cross-acceleration or cross-default provision applies. If we are unable to repay our indebtedness, lenders having secured obligations, such as the lenders under our credit facilities, could proceed against the collateral securing the indebtedness. In any such case, we may be unable to borrow under our credit facilities and may not be able to repay the amounts due under our credit facilities. This could have serious consequences to our financial condition and results of operations and could cause us to become bankrupt or insolvent.

Certain of our indebtedness may be denominated in foreign currencies, which subjects us to foreign exchange risk, which could cause our debt service obligations to increase significantly.

Our credit facilities include a senior secured revolving credit facility, which permits borrowings denominated in Euros and other alternative currencies that may be approved by the applicable lenders. See “Description of Indebtedness.” Such non-U.S. dollar-denominated debt may not necessarily correspond to the cash flow we generate in such currencies. Sharp changes in the exchange rates between the currencies in which we borrow and the currencies in which we generate cash flow could adversely affect us. In the future, we may enter into contractual arrangements designed to hedge a portion of the foreign currency exchange risk associated with any non-U.S. dollar-denominated debt. If these hedging arrangements are unsuccessful, we may experience an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

We are subject to fluctuations in interest rates.

Borrowings under our credit facilities are subject to variable rates of interest and expose us to interest rate risk. At present, we do not have any existing interest rate swap agreements, which involve the exchange of floating for fixed rate interest payments to reduce interest rate volatility. However, we may decide to enter into such swaps in the future. If we do, we may not maintain interest rate swaps with respect to all of our variable rate indebtedness and any swaps we enter into may not fully mitigate our interest rate risk, may prove disadvantageous or may create additional risks.

Failure to maintain proper and effective internal controls could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and stock price.

As a public company, we will be required to maintain internal control over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal controls. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and, beginning with our second annual report following this offering, provide a management report on internal control over financial reporting. However, while we remain an emerging growth company, we will not be required to include an attestation report on internal control over financial reporting issued by our independent registered public accounting firm.

Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods or adversely affect the results of management evaluations and independent registered public accounting firm audits of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC. Ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial and other information, which would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of our common stock.

We are in the process of designing and implementing the internal control over financial reporting required to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This process will be time-consuming, costly and complicated. If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or when required in the future, if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our common stock could be adversely affected and we could become subject to investigations by

the stock exchange on which our securities are listed, the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources.

Changes in financial accounting standards or practices may cause adverse, unexpected financial reporting fluctuations and affect our reported results of operations.

A change in accounting standards or practices can have a significant effect on our reported results and may even affect our reporting of transactions completed before the change is effective. New accounting pronouncements and varying interpretations of accounting pronouncements have occurred and may occur in the future. Changes to existing rules or the questioning of current practices may adversely affect our reported financial results or the way in which we conduct our business.

Our business and financial performance could be negatively impacted by other changes in tax laws or regulations.

New income, sales, use or other tax laws, statutes, rules, regulations or ordinances could be enacted at any time. Further, existing tax laws, statutes, rules, regulations or ordinances could be interpreted, changed, modified or applied adversely to us. Any changes to these existing tax laws could adversely affect our domestic and international business operations, and our business and financial performance. Additionally, these events could require us or our customers to pay additional tax amounts on a prospective or retroactive basis, as well as require us or our customers to pay fines and/or penalties and interest for past amounts deemed to be due. If we raise our product and maintenance prices to offset the costs of these changes, existing customers may elect not to renew their maintenance arrangements and potential customers may elect not to purchase our products. Additionally, new, changed, modified or newly interpreted or applied tax laws could increase our customers’ and our compliance, operating and other costs, as well as the costs of our products. Further, these events could decrease the capital we have available to operate our business. Any or all of these events could adversely impact our business and financial performance.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or the Tax Act, was enacted, which significantly revises the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code. The Tax Act, among other things, contains significant changes to corporate taxation, including reduction of the corporate tax rate from a top marginal rate of 35% to a flat rate of 21%, limitation of the tax deduction for net interest expense to 30% of adjusted earnings (except for certain small businesses), limitation of the deduction for NOLs to 80% of current year taxable income and elimination of NOL carrybacks, in each case, for losses arising in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 (though any such NOLs may be carried forward indefinitely), one-time taxation of offshore earnings at reduced rates regardless of whether they are repatriated, elimination of U.S. tax on foreign earnings (subject to certain important exceptions), immediate deductions for certain new investments instead of deductions for depreciation expense over time, and modifying or repealing many business deductions and credits. The overall and final impact of the Tax Act is uncertain, and our business and financial condition could be adversely affected. In addition, it is uncertain how various states will respond to the newly enacted federal tax law.

The U.S. Department of Treasury has broad authority to issue regulations and interpretative guidance that may significantly impact how we will apply the law and impact our results of operations in the period issued. As additional regulatory guidance is issued by the applicable taxing authorities, as accounting treatment is clarified, as we perform additional analysis on the application of the law, and as we refine estimates in calculating the impact, our final analysis, which will be recorded in the period completed, may be different from our current provisional amounts, which could materially affect our tax obligations and effective tax rate. The impact of this tax reform on holders of our common stock is also uncertain and could be adverse. We urge our stockholders to consult with their legal and tax advisors with respect to this legislation and the potential tax consequences of investing in or holding our common stock.

Additional liabilities related to taxes or potential tax adjustments could adversely impact our business and financial performance.

We are subject to tax and related obligations in various federal, state, local and foreign jurisdictions in which we operate or do business. The taxing rules of the various jurisdictions in which we operate or do business are often complex and subject to differing interpretations. Tax authorities could challenge our tax positions we historically have taken, or intend to take in the future, or may audit the tax filings we have made and assess additional taxes. Tax authorities may

also assess taxes in jurisdictions where we have not made tax filings. Any assessments incurred could be material, and may also involve the imposition of substantial penalties and interest. Significant judgment is required in evaluating our tax positions and in establishing appropriate reserves, and the resolutions of our tax positions are unpredictable. The payment of additional taxes, penalties or interest resulting from any assessments could adversely impact our business and financial performance.

Our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements are subject to the tax laws of various jurisdictions, and we could be obligated to pay additional taxes, which would harm our operating results.

Based on our current corporate structure, we may be subject to taxation in several jurisdictions around the world with increasingly complex tax laws, the application of which can be uncertain. The amount of taxes we pay in these jurisdictions could increase substantially as a result of changes in the applicable tax rules, including increased tax rates, new tax laws or revised interpretations of existing tax laws and precedents. In addition, the authorities in these jurisdictions could challenge our methodologies for valuing developed technology or intercompany arrangements, including our transfer pricing. The relevant taxing authorities may determine that the manner in which we operate our business does not achieve the intended tax consequences. If such a disagreement were to occur, and our position were not sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest and penalties. Such authorities could claim that various withholding requirements apply to us or our subsidiaries or assert that benefits of tax treaties are not available to us or our subsidiaries. Any increase in the amount of taxes we pay or that are imposed on us could increase our worldwide effective tax rate and adversely affect our business and operating results.

We are subject to governmental export controls and economic sanctions laws that could impair our ability to compete in international markets and subject us to liability if we are not in full compliance with applicable laws.

Certain of our products are subject to U.S. export controls, including the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Export Administration Regulations and economic and trade sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. These regulations may limit the export of our products and provision of our services outside of the United States, or may require export authorizations, including by license, a license exception or other appropriate government authorizations, including annual or semi-annual reporting and the filing of an encryption registration. Export control and economic sanctions laws may also include prohibitions on the sale or supply of certain of our products to embargoed or sanctioned countries, regions, governments, persons and entities. In addition, various countries regulate the importation of certain products, through import permitting and licensing requirements, and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to distribute our products. The exportation, re-exportation and importation of our products and the provision of services, including by our partners, must comply with these laws or else we may be adversely affected, through reputational harm, government investigations, penalties, and a denial or curtailment of our ability to export our products or provide services. Complying with export control and sanctions laws may be time consuming and may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities. If we are found to be in violation of U.S. sanctions or export control laws, it could result in substantial fines and penalties for us and for the individuals working for us. Changes in export or import laws or corresponding sanctions may delay the introduction and sale of our products in international markets, or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our products to certain countries, regions, governments, persons or entities altogether, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We are also subject to various domestic and international anti-corruption laws, such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act, as well as other similar anti-bribery and anti-kickback laws and regulations. These laws and regulations generally prohibit companies and their employees and intermediaries from authorizing, offering or providing improper payments or benefits to officials and other recipients for improper purposes. Although we take precautions to prevent violations of these laws, our exposure for violating these laws increases as our international presence expands and as we increase sales and operations in foreign jurisdictions.

Government regulation of the Internet and e-commerce is evolving, and unfavorable changes or our failure to comply with regulations could harm our operating results.

As Internet commerce continues to evolve, increasing regulation by federal, state or foreign agencies becomes more likely. In addition to data privacy and security laws and regulations, taxation of products and services provided

over the Internet or other charges imposed by government agencies or by private organizations for accessing the Internet may also be imposed. Any regulation imposing greater fees for Internet use or restricting information exchange over the Internet could result in a decline in the use of the Internet and the viability of Internet-based services and product offerings, which could harm our business and operating results.

Risks Related to This Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock

The requirements of being a public company, including compliance with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the requirements of the NYSE, may strain our resources, increase our costs and distract management, and we may be unable to comply with these requirements in a timely or cost-effective manner.

As a public company, we will need to comply with new laws, regulations and requirements, certain corporate governance provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, related regulations of the SEC and the requirements of the NYSE, with which we are not required to comply as a private company. Complying with these statutes, regulations and requirements will occupy a significant amount of time of our board of directors and management and will significantly increase our costs and expenses. We will need to:


•	institute a more comprehensive compliance function;


•	comply with rules promulgated by the NYSE;


•	continue to prepare and distribute periodic public reports in compliance with our obligations under the federal securities laws;


•	establish new internal policies, such as those relating to insider trading; and


•	involve and retain to a greater degree outside counsel and accountants in the above activities.

Furthermore, while we generally must comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for the year ending December 31, 2018, we are not required to have our independent registered public accounting firm attest to the effectiveness of our internal controls until our first annual report subsequent to our ceasing to be an emerging growth company. Accordingly, we may not be required to have our independent registered public accounting firm attest to the effectiveness of our internal controls until as late as our annual report for the year ending December 31, 2023. Once it is required to do so, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue a report that is adverse in the event it is not satisfied with the level at which our controls are documented, designed, operated or reviewed. Compliance with these requirements may strain our resources, increase our costs and distract management, and we may be unable to comply with these requirements in a timely or cost-effective manner.

In addition, we expect that being a public company subject to these rules and regulations may make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified individuals to serve on our board of directors or as executive officers. We are currently evaluating these rules, and we cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs.

There has been no prior public trading market for our common stock, and an active trading market may not develop or be sustained following this offering.

We have been approved to list our common stock on the NYSE under the symbol “SWI” upon official notice of issuance. However, there has been no prior public trading market for our common stock. We cannot assure you that an active trading market for our common stock will develop on such exchange or elsewhere or, if developed, that any market will be sustained. Accordingly, we cannot assure you of the liquidity of any trading market, your ability to sell your shares of our common stock when desired or the prices that you may obtain for your shares of our common stock.

The trading price of our common stock could be volatile, which could cause the value of your investment to decline.

Technology stocks have historically experienced high levels of volatility. The trading price of our common stock following this offering may fluctuate substantially. Following the completion of this offering, the market price of our common stock may be higher or lower than the price you pay in the offering, depending on many factors, some of which are beyond our control and may not be related to our operating performance. These fluctuations could cause you to lose all or part of your investment in our common stock. Factors that could cause fluctuations in the trading price of our common stock include the following:


•	announcements of new products or technologies, commercial relationships, acquisitions or other events by us or our competitors;


•	changes in how customers perceive the benefits of our products;


•	shifts in the mix of revenue attributable to perpetual licenses and to subscriptions from quarter to quarter;


•	departures of key personnel;


•	price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;


•	fluctuations in the trading volume of our shares or the size of our public float;


•	sales of large blocks of our common stock, including sales by our Sponsors;


•	actual or anticipated changes or fluctuations in our operating results;


•	whether our operating results meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors;


•	changes in actual or future expectations of investors or securities analysts;


•	litigation involving us, our industry or both;


•	regulatory developments in the United States, foreign countries or both;


•	general economic conditions and trends;


•	major catastrophic events in our domestic and foreign markets; and


•	“flash crashes,” “freeze flashes” or other glitches that disrupt trading on the securities exchange on which we are listed.

In addition, if the market for technology stocks or the stock market in general experiences a loss of investor confidence, the trading price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, operating results or financial condition. The trading price of our common stock might also decline in reaction to events that affect other companies in our industry even if these events do not directly affect us. In the past, following periods of volatility in the trading price of a company’s securities, securities class-action litigation has often been brought against that company. If our stock price is volatile, we may become the target of securities litigation. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention and resources from our business. This could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

If securities analysts or industry analysts were to downgrade our stock, publish negative research or reports or fail to publish reports about our business, our competitive position could suffer, and our stock price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our common stock will, to some extent, depend on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. We do not have any control over these analysts. If our results fail to meet the expectations of one or more of the analysts who cover our stock, or if one or more of such analysts should downgrade our stock or publish negative research or reports, cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports about our business, our competitive position could suffer, and our stock price and trading volume could decline.

Investors in this offering will experience immediate and substantial dilution of $ 21.69 per share.

Based on an assumed initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover of this prospectus), purchasers of our common stock in this offering will experience an immediate and substantial dilution of $ 21.69 per share in the as-adjusted net tangible book value per share of common stock from the initial public offering price, and our as-adjusted net tangible book value as of June 30, 2018 , after giving effect to this offering would be $ (3.69) per share. This dilution is due in large part to earlier investors’ having paid substantially less than the initial public offering price when they purchased their shares. See “ Dilution ” below.

Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public markets, or the perception that such sales could occur, could reduce the market price of our common stock.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market after this offering, or the perception that such sales could occur, could adversely affect the market price of our common stock and may make it more difficult for you to sell your common stock at a time and price that you deem appropriate. Based on the total number of outstanding shares of our common stock as of September 30, 2018 (including shares of common stock resulting from the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion), upon the completion of this offering, we will have approximately 301,942,149 shares of common stock outstanding. All of the shares of common stock sold in this offering will be freely tradable without restrictions or further registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, except for any shares held by our “affiliates” as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

Subject to certain exceptions described in “ Underwriting ,” we, our directors and executive officers, the Sponsors and their affiliated funds, the selling stockholders and other holders of our common stock who together hold substantially all of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to this offering (including holders of shares of common stock to be issued as a result of the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion) have agreed or will agree to enter into lock-up agreements with the underwriters of this offering pursuant to which we and they have agreed or will agree that, subject to certain exceptions, we and they will not dispose of or hedge any shares or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of our common stock for a period of 180 days after the date of this prospectus. See “ Underwriting ” and “ Shares Eligible for Future Sale ” below for more information. Sales of a substantial number of such shares upon expiration of, or the perception that such sales may occur, or early release of the securities subject to, the lock-up agreements could cause our stock price to fall or make it more difficult for you to sell your common stock at a time and price that you deem appropriate.

Our issuance of additional capital stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive plans or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.

We may issue additional capital stock in the future that will result in dilution to all other stockholders. We may also raise capital through equity financings in the future. As part of our business strategy, we may acquire or make investments in complementary companies, products or technologies and issue equity securities to pay for any such acquisition or investment. Any such issuances of additional capital stock may cause stockholders to experience significant dilution of their ownership interests and the per-share value of our common stock to decline.

Management will have broad discretion over the use of our proceeds from this offering.

The principal purposes of this offering include increasing our financial flexibility, creating a public market for our stock, thereby enabling access to the public equity markets by our employees and stockholders, obtaining additional capital and increasing our visibility in the marketplace. We intend to use all of our net proceeds from this offering to repay the borrowings outstanding under our second lien term loan. If there were to be any excess proceeds we would use such proceeds for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures and continued investments in our growth strategies described in “ Business—Growth Strategies. ” We may also use any such excess proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products, services or technologies. We will have broad discretion in using these proceeds and might not be able to obtain a significant return, if any, on investment of these net proceeds. Investors in this offering will need to rely upon the judgment of our management with respect to the use of our proceeds. If we do not use the net proceeds that we receive in this offering effectively, our business, operating results and financial condition could be harmed.

We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock, and consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation in the price of our common stock.

We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock after the completion of this offering. We intend to retain any earnings to finance the operation and expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. As a result, you may receive a return on your investment in our common stock only if the market price of our common stock increases.

Our restated charter and restated bylaws will contain anti-takeover provisions that could delay or discourage takeover attempts that stockholders may consider favorable.

Our restated charter and restated bylaws will contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control of our company. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to elect directors who are not nominated by the current members of our board of directors or take other corporate actions, including effecting changes in our management. These provisions include:


•	a classified board of directors with three-year staggered terms, which could delay the ability of stockholders to change the membership of a majority of our board of directors;


•	after the Lead Sponsors cease to beneficially own, in the aggregate, at least 30% of the outstanding shares of our common stock, removal of directors only for cause;


•	the ability of our board of directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer;


•	subject to the rights of the Sponsors under the stockholders’ agreement, allowing only our board of directors to fill vacancies on our board of directors, which prevents stockholders from being able to fill vacancies on our board of directors;


•	after the Lead Sponsors cease to beneficially own, in the aggregate, at least 40% of the outstanding shares of our common stock, a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, which forces stockholder action to be taken at an annual or special meeting of our stockholders;

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after the Lead Sponsors cease to beneficially own, in the aggregate, at least 40% of the outstanding shares of our common stock, our stockholders may not take action by written consent but may take action only at annual or special meetings of our stockholders. As a result, a holder controlling a majority of our capital stock would not be able to amend our bylaws or remove directors without holding a meeting of our stockholders called in accordance with our bylaws;

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after the Lead Sponsors cease to beneficially own, in the aggregate, at least 40% of the outstanding shares of our common stock, the requirement for the affirmative vote of holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the voting stock, voting together as a single class, to amend the provisions of our restated charter relating to the management of our business (including our classified board structure) or certain provisions of our bylaws, which may inhibit the ability of an acquirer to effect such amendments to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt;


•	the ability of our board of directors to amend the bylaws, which may allow our board of directors to take additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquirer to amend the bylaws to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt;


•	advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us; and


•	a prohibition of cumulative voting in the election of our board of directors, which would otherwise allow less than a majority of stockholders to elect director candidates.

Our restated charter will also contain a provision that provides us with protections similar to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or the DGCL, and prevents us from engaging in a business combination, such as a merger, with an interested stockholder (i.e., a person or group that acquires at least 15% of our voting stock) for a period of three years from the date such person became an interested stockholder, unless (with certain exceptions) the business combination or the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder is approved in a prescribed manner. However, our restated charter will also provide that the Sponsors, including the Silver Lake Funds and the Thoma Bravo Funds and any persons to whom any Silver Lake Fund or Thoma Bravo Fund or any of their respective affiliates sells its common stock, will not constitute “interested stockholders” for purposes of this provision.

The Lead Sponsors have a controlling influence over matters requiring stockholder approval, which could delay or prevent a change of control.

The Sponsors beneficially owned in the aggregate 96.6% of our common stock as of September 30, 2018, and, after this offering, will beneficially own in the aggregate 83.0% of our common stock (or, if the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares is exercised in full, 80.9% of our common stock), assuming an offering size as set forth in “ Prospectus Summary—The Offering ,” participation in this offering as set forth in “ Principal and Selling Stockholders ” and an initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus). The Sponsors have entered into a stockholders’ agreement whereby they each agreed, among other things, to vote the shares each beneficially owns in favor of the director nominees designated by Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo, respectively. As a result, Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo could exert significant influence over our operations and business strategy and would together have sufficient voting power to effectively control the outcome of matters requiring stockholder approval. These matters may include:


•	the composition of our board of directors, which has the authority to direct our business and to appoint and remove our officers;


•	approving or rejecting a merger, consolidation or other business combination;


•	raising future capital; and


•	amending our restated charter and restated bylaws, which govern the rights attached to our common stock.

Additionally, for so long as the Sponsors beneficially own, in the aggregate, 40% or more of our outstanding shares of common stock, the Sponsors will have the right to designate a majority of our board of directors. For so long as the Sponsors have the right to designate a majority of our board of directors, the directors designated by the Sponsors are

expected to constitute a majority of each committee of our board of directors, other than the audit committee, and the chairman of each of the committees, other than the audit committee, is expected to be a director serving on such committee who is designated by the Sponsors. However, as soon as we are no longer a “controlled company” under the NYSE corporate governance standards, our committee membership will comply with all applicable requirements of those standards and a majority of our board of directors will be “independent directors,” as defined under the rules of the NYSE, subject to any phase-in provisions.

This concentration of ownership of our common stock could delay or prevent proxy contests, mergers, tender offers, open-market purchase programs or other purchases of our common stock that might otherwise give you the opportunity to realize a premium over the then-prevailing market price of our common stock. This concentration of ownership may also adversely affect our share price.

Certain of our directors have relationships with the Lead Sponsors, which may cause conflicts of interest with respect to our business.

Following this offering, three of our ten directors will be affiliated with Silver Lake and three will be affiliated with Thoma Bravo. These directors have fiduciary duties to us and, in addition, have duties to the respective Sponsor and their affiliated funds, respectively. As a result, these directors may face real or apparent conflicts of interest with respect to matters affecting both us and the Sponsors, whose interests may be adverse to ours in some circumstances.

The Sponsors and their affiliated funds may pursue corporate opportunities independent of us that could present conflicts with our and our stockholders’ interests.

The Sponsors and their affiliated funds are in the business of making or advising on investments in companies and hold (and may from time to time in the future acquire) interests in or provide advice to businesses that directly or indirectly compete with certain portions of our business or are suppliers or customers of ours. The Sponsors and their affiliated funds may also pursue acquisitions that may be complementary to our business and, as a result, those acquisition opportunities may not be available to us.

Our restated charter will provide that no officer or director of the Company who is also an officer, director, employee, partner, managing director, principal, independent contractor or other affiliate of either of the Sponsors will be liable to us or our stockholders for breach of any fiduciary duty by reason of the fact that any such individual pursues or acquires a corporate opportunity for its own account or the account of an affiliate, as applicable, instead of us, directs a corporate opportunity to any other person instead of us or does not communicate information regarding a corporate opportunity to us.

We may issue preferred stock whose terms could adversely affect the voting power or value of our common stock.

Our restated charter will authorize us to issue, without the approval of our stockholders, one or more classes or series of preferred stock having such designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights, including preferences over our common stock respecting dividends and distributions, as our board of directors may determine. The terms of one or more classes or series of preferred stock could adversely impact the voting power or value of our common stock. For example, we might grant holders of preferred stock the right to elect some number of our directors in all events or on the happening of specified events or the right to veto specified transactions. Similarly, the repurchase or redemption rights or liquidation preferences we might assign to holders of preferred stock could affect the residual value of our common stock.

Our restated charter will designate the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or agents.

Our restated charter will provide that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of

breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers, employees or agents to us or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, our charter or bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine, in each such case subject to such Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants therein. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock will be deemed to have notice of, and consented to, the provisions of our restated charter described in the preceding sentence. This choice-of-forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or agents, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and such persons. Alternatively, if a court were to find these provisions of our restated charter inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition or operating results.

For as long as we are an emerging growth company, we will not be required to comply with certain requirements that apply to other public companies.

We are an emerging growth company, as defined in the JOBS Act. For as long as we are an emerging growth company, which may be up to five full fiscal years, we, unlike other public companies, will not be required to, among other things: (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our system of internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; (ii) comply with any new requirements adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board requiring mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report in which the auditor would be required to provide additional information about the audit and the financial statements of the issuer; (iii) provide certain disclosures regarding executive compensation required of larger public companies; or (iv) hold nonbinding advisory votes on executive compensation and any golden-parachute payments not previously approved. In addition, the JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for adopting new or revised financial accounting standards. We intend to take advantage of the longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards permitted under the JOBS Act until we are no longer an emerging growth company. If we were to subsequently elect instead to comply with these public company effective dates, such election would be irrevocable pursuant to the JOBS Act.

We will remain an emerging growth company for up to five years, although we will lose that status sooner if we have more than $1.07 billion of revenue in a fiscal year, have more than $700.0 million in market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates, or issue more than $1.0 billion of non-convertible debt over a three-year period.

For so long as we rely on any of the exemptions available to emerging growth companies, you will receive less information about our executive compensation and internal control over financial reporting than issuers that are not emerging growth companies. We cannot predict whether investors will find our common stock less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our common stock to be less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile.

We expect to be a controlled company within the meaning of the NYSE rules and, as a result, will qualify for and intend to rely on exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements.

Upon the completion of this offering, the Sponsors will beneficially own a majority of the combined voting power of all classes of our outstanding voting stock. As a result, we expect to be a controlled company within the meaning of the NYSE corporate governance standards. Under the NYSE rules, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power is held by another person or group of persons acting together is a controlled company and may elect not to comply with certain NYSE corporate governance requirements, including the requirements that:


•	a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors as defined under the rules of the NYSE;


•	the nominating and governance committee be composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities; and


•	the compensation committee be composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities.

These requirements will not apply to us as long as we remain a controlled company. Following the offering, we intend to take advantage of these exemptions. Accordingly, you may not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of the NYSE. See “Management—Status As a Controlled Company.”

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus, including “Summary,” “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and “Business,” contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements convey our current expectations or forecasts of future events. All statements contained in this prospectus, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking. You can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “can,” “continue,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “seeks,” “should,” “will,” or “would” or the negative of these terms or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus include, but are not limited to, statements about:


•	Our expectations regarding our plans and strategies to grow our business and expand our market share, including internationally;


•	Our expectations concerning our product offerings and the expansion of these offerings and our market opportunities;


•	Our expectations regarding our financial condition and results of operations, including revenue, operating expenses and cash flow;


•	Our expectations regarding our non-U.S. earnings in foreign operations;


•	Our expectations concerning potential acquisitions and the anticipated benefits of acquisitions;


•	Our expectations concerning our ability to compete successfully against current and future competitors;


•	Our market opportunities and our ability to take advantage of such market opportunities, the demand for IT management products in various markets, and factors contributing to such demand;


•	Trends associated with our industry and potential market;


•	Our sales and marketing efforts and our expectations about the results of those efforts;


•	Our expectations about our ability to generate and maintain customer loyalty and our ability to manage customer growth;


•	Our expectations regarding investment plans and capital expenditures;


•	Our research and development plans;


•	Our equity compensation plans and practices;


•	Our future borrowings and our beliefs regarding the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents, cash flows from operating activities and borrowing capacity;


•	Our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel;


•	Our ability to protect and defend our intellectual property and not infringe upon others’ intellectual property; and


•	Other factors that we discuss in this prospectus in “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

There are a number of important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements. These important factors include those that we discuss in this prospectus in “Risk Factors.” You should read these factors and the other cautionary statements made in this prospectus as being applicable to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear in this prospectus. If one or more of these factors materialize, or if any underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results, performance or achievements may vary materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-

looking statements. Forward-looking statements represent our management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the documents that we have filed as exhibits to the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA

Unless otherwise indicated, information contained in this prospectus concerning our industry and the markets in which we operate, including our general expectations and market position, market opportunity, and market share, is based on information from various sources, on assumptions that we have made that are based on those data and other similar sources, and on our knowledge of the markets for our products. In addition, while we believe the industry, market and competitive position data included in this prospectus is reliable and is based on reasonable assumptions, such data is necessarily subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk due to a variety of factors, including those described in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. These and other factors could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in the estimates included in this prospectus.

Some of the industry and market data contained in this prospectus are based on information from various sources, including a report we commissioned by Compass Intelligence Research and independent industry publications generated by IDC. The IDC reports referenced herein, or the IDC Reports, represent research opinions or viewpoints published, as part of a syndicated subscription service, by IDC and are not representations of fact. Each IDC Report speaks as of its original publication date (and not as of the date of this prospectus), and the opinions expressed in the IDC Reports are subject to change without notice.

USE OF PROCEEDS

We estimate that our net proceeds from this offering will be approximately $286.4 million , assuming an initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) would increase or decrease, as applicable, the net proceeds that we receive from this offering by approximately $16.2 million , assuming that the number of shares of common stock offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same. Similarly, each increase or decrease of 1.0 million in the number of shares of our common stock offered by us would increase or decrease the net proceeds that we receive from this offering by approximately $17.1 million , assuming the assumed initial public offering price remains the same.

We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares being offered by the selling stockholders. The selling stockholders include certain of our executive officers and members of our board of directors or entities affiliated with or controlled by them.

The principal purposes of this offering are to increase our financial flexibility, create a public market for our common stock and enable access to the public equity markets for us and our stockholders.

We intend to use all of our net proceeds from this offering to repay the borrowings outstanding under our second lien term loan. If there were to be any excess proceeds, we would use such proceeds for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures and continued investments in our growth strategies described in “ Business—Growth Strategies. ” We may also use any such excess proceeds to acquire complementary businesses, products, services or technologies. However, we do not have agreements or commitments for any acquisitions at this time.

As of June 30, 2018, we had $315.0 million of debt outstanding under our second lien term loan. The second lien term loan matures on February 5, 2025, and bears interest at a variable rate, initially 9.03%. All of the outstanding borrowings under our second lien term loan that were incurred within one year of the date of this prospectus were incurred to refinance outstanding debt.

Our expected uses of our net proceeds from this offering are based upon our present plans, objectives and business condition. As of the date of this prospectus, we cannot predict with certainty the particular uses for our net proceeds from this offering, and management has not estimated the amount of proceeds, or the range of proceeds, to be used for any particular purpose. As such, our management will have broad discretion in the application of our net proceeds from this offering, and investors will be relying on the judgment of our management regarding the application of our net proceeds. Pending the use of our proceeds from this offering as described above, we intend to invest our net proceeds in short-term and long-term interest-bearing obligations, including government and investment-grade debt securities and money market funds.

DIVIDEND POLICY

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. Neither Delaware law nor our restated charter requires our board of directors to declare dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings for use in the operation of our business and do not expect to pay any dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. Any future determination to declare cash dividends on our common stock will be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on a number of factors, including our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, general business conditions and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant. In addition, our credit facilities place restrictions on our ability to pay cash dividends.

CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents and capitalization as of June 30, 2018:


•	on an actual basis;


•	on a pro forma basis, giving effect to the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion, in each case as if such event had occurred on June 30, 2018 based on the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus; and

•

on a pro forma as adjusted basis, giving effect to the pro forma adjustments set forth above and the sale and issuance by us of 17,000,000 shares of our common stock in this offering, assuming an initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expen ses payable by us, and the application of our net proceeds from this offering as set forth under “ Use of Proceeds .”

You should read the information in this table together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes and “Selected Consolidated Financial Data,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Use of Proceeds” included elsewhere in this prospectus.



	As of June 30, 2018
	Actual			Pro Forma			Pro Forma As Adjusted

	(In thousands, except share and per share data)
Cash and cash equivalents	$	278,078		$	278,078		$	278,078
Long-term debt, net of current portion⁽¹⁾:	$	2,218,684		$	2,218,684		$	1,932,284
Redeemable convertible Class A common stock, $0.001 par value per share—5,755,000 shares authorized, 2,661,030 issued and outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, issued and outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted	3,288,900			—			—
Stockholders’ equity (deficit):
Preferred stock, $0.001 per value per share— no shares authorized and no shares issued and outstanding, actual; 50,000,000 shares authorized and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted	—			—			—
Common stock, $0.001 par value per share— 233,000,000 shares authorized and 107,247,724 shares issued and outstanding, actual; 1,000,000,000 shares authorized, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted; and 275,160,711 shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; and 292,160,711 shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted	102			275			292
Additional paid-in capital	—			3,288,727			3,575,110
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	49,725			49,725			49,725
Accumulated deficit	(1,033,568		)	(1,033,568		)	(1,033,568		)
Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)⁽¹⁾	(983,741		)	2,305,159			2,591,559
Total capitalization⁽¹⁾	$	4,523,843		$	4,523,843		$	4,523,843

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(1)

A $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) would increase or decrease long-term debt (net of current portion), total stockholders’ equity (deficit) and total capitalization by approximately $16.2 million , assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We may also increase or decrease the number of shares we are offering. An increase or decrease of 1.0 million shares offered by us at the assumed offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) would increase or decrease long-term debt (net of current portion), total stockholders’ equity (deficit) and total capitalization by approximately $17.1 million , after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Because the number of shares of common stock issuable in connection with the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion will be determined by reference to the greater of the initial public offering price per share of our common stock in this offering or the high point of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, an initial public offering price greater than the high point of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus would effectively result in a fewer number of outstanding shares after the offering than would have been outstanding had the offering been priced at the high end of such estimated price range, after giving effect to the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion.

DILUTION

If you purchase shares of our common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $ 18.00 (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), your ownership interest will be diluted to the extent of the difference between the initial public offering price per share of our common stock in this offering and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share immediately after this offering. Dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering represents the difference between the amount per share paid by investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after the completion of this offering.

Net tangible book value per share is determined by dividing our total tangible assets less our total liabilities by the number of shares of our common stock outstanding. Our pro forma net tangible book value as of June 30, 2018 was $(1.4) billion , or $(4.96) per share, based on the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding as of June 30, 2018 , after giving effect to the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion, which will occur, in each case immediately prior to the completion of this offering, as if such events had occurred on June 30, 2018 based on the high end of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.

After giving effect to the sale by us of 17,000,000 shares of our common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price of $18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value as of June 30, 2018 would have been $(1.1) billion , or $(3.69) per share. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value of $9.68 per share to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in pro forma net tangible book value of $21.69 per share to investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering. The following table illustrates this dilution:



Assumed initial public offering price per share				$	18.00
Pro forma net tangible book value per share as of June 30, 2018, before giving effect to this offering	$	(13.38	)
Increase in pro forma net tangible book value per share attributable to investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering	9.68
Pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share immediately after the completion of this offering				(3.69		)
Dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to investors purchasing shares in this offering				$	21.69

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(1)	If the initial public offering price were to increase or decrease by $1.00 per share, then dilution in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share to new investors in this offering would equal $22.64 or $20.75 , respectively.

The following table presents, on a pro forma basis as of September 30, 2018 after giving effect to (i) the Class A Conversion and the Accrued Yield Conversion , and (ii) the sale by us of 17,000,000 shares of our common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $ 18.00 per share (the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) , the difference between the existing stockholders and the investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering with respect to the number of shares of our common stock purchased from us, the total consideration paid or to be paid to us, and the average price per share paid or to be paid to us, before deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us:



	Shares Purchased			Total Consideration				Average Price Per Share
	Number	Percent		Amount		Percent
	(in thousands)			(in thousands)
Existing stockholders	284,942	94.4	%	$	2,691,612	89.8	%	$9.45
Investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering	17,000	5.6		306,000		10.2		$18.00
Totals	301,942	100.0	%	$	2,997,612	100.0	%

SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and other financial information included elsewhere in this prospectus. The following selected consolidated financial data is not intended to replace, and is qualified in its entirety by, the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.

On February 5, 2016, we were acquired by the Sponsors in a take private transaction, or the Take Private. As a result of the Take Private, we applied purchase accounting on the date of the Take Private. We refer to the Company as Predecessor in the periods before the Take Private and Successor in the subsequent periods.

The selected consolidated statements of operations presented below from January 1, 2016 to February 4, 2016 relate to the Predecessor and are derived from audited consolidated financial statements that are included in this prospectus. The selected consolidated statements of operations data for the period from February 5, 2016 to December 31, 2017, and the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2016 and 2017, relate to the Successor and are derived from audited consolidated financial statements that are included in this prospectus.

The selected consolidated statements of operations data for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2018 and the selected consolidated balance sheet data as of June 30, 2018 are derived from our unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. We have prepared the unaudited consolidated financial data on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements. The unaudited consolidated financial data include, in our opinion, all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that we consider necessary for a fair statement of the financial information set forth in those statements.

Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in the future, and our operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2018 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the entire year ending December 31, 2018.



Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:
	Predecessor		Successor		Combined		Successor		Successor
	Period From January 1 Through February 4,		Period From February 5 Through December 31,		(Unaudited) Year Ended December 31,		Year Ended December 31,		Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016		2016		2016		2017		2017		2018

			(in thousands, except per share data)						(unaudited)
Revenue:
Subscription	$	6,551	$	126,960	$	133,511	$	213,754	$	100,041	$	128,291
Maintenance	29,500		145,234		174,734		357,630		168,203		195,767
Total recurring revenue	36,051		272,194		308,245		571,384		268,244		324,058
License	11,276		149,900		161,176		156,633		72,322		74,573
Total revenue	47,327		422,094		469,421		728,017		340,566		398,631
Cost of revenue:
Cost of recurring revenue⁽¹⁾	9,551		46,238		55,789		60,698		29,689		34,595
Amortization of acquired technologies	2,186		147,517		149,703		171,033		84,268		88,286
Total cost of revenue	11,737		193,755		205,492		231,731		113,957		122,881
Gross profit	35,590		228,339