Segment Disclosure

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2011

Segment Disclosure

Segment Disclosure

Note 12. Segment Disclosure

ASC 280, Segment Reporting, requires disclosures of certain information regarding operating segments, products and services, geographic areas of operation and major customers. Segment reporting is based upon the "management approach," i.e., how management organizes the Company's operating segments for which separate financial information is (1) available and (2) evaluated regularly by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM) in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The Company's CODMs are the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer.

The Company provides software and hardware products and consulting services. The Company operates in a single segment. In making operating decisions, the CODMs primarily consider consolidated financial information, accompanied by disaggregated information about revenues by geographic region. Specifically, the CODMs consider where individual "seats" or licenses of the Company's products are used in allocating revenue to particular geographic areas. Revenue is defined as revenues from external customers. Goodwill is not allocated since the Company operates in one reportable operating segment.

The following table presents the revenues related to operations by geographic areas:

	Three Months Ended July 31,				Nine Months Ended July 31,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
	(in thousands)
Revenue:
United States	$	176,811	$	165,841	$	526,126	$	489,112
Europe		55,548		45,245		155,010		136,482
Japan		67,978		61,261		206,276		187,504
Asia-Pacific and other		86,458		64,582		257,697		192,104
Consolidated	$	386,795	$	336,929	$	1,145,109	$	1,005,202

Geographic revenue data for multi-region, multi-product transactions reflects internal allocations and is therefore subject to certain assumptions and to the Company's methodology.

One customer accounted for 10.5% and 10.9% of the Company's consolidated revenue for the three months ended July 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and accounted for 10.5% and 10.9% of the Company's consolidated revenue for the nine months ended July 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively.