SPLUNK INC - Quarter Report: 2014 October (Form 10-Q)

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(MARK ONE)

ý QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2014

o TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM TO

COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 001-35498

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SPLUNK INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

_____________________________________________________



Delaware		86-1106510
(State or other jurisdiction of		(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)		Identification No.)

250 Brannan Street

San Francisco, California 94107

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

(415) 848-8400

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. YES ý NO o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data file required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). YES ý NO o

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Large accelerated filer x		Accelerated filer o

Non-accelerated filer o		Smaller reporting company o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). YES o NO ý

There were 121,262,760 shares of the registrant’s Common Stock issued and outstanding as of December 2, 2014.

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	PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.	Financial Statements (Unaudited)	1
	Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of October 31, 2014 and January 31, 2014	1
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three and Nine Months Ended October 31, 2014 and 2013	2
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the Three and Nine Months Ended October 31, 2014 and 2013	3
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Nine Months Ended October 31, 2014 and 2013	4
	Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements	5
Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	13
Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk	28
Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	29
	PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	30
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	31
Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	52
Item 6.	Exhibits	52
	Signatures	53

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Splunk Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

(Unaudited)



	October 31, 2014			January 31, 2014
ASSETS
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	329,553		$	897,453
Investments, current portion	466,835			—
Accounts receivable, net	82,550			83,348
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	13,495			12,019
Total current assets	892,433			992,820
Investments, non-current	160,923			—
Property and equipment, net	43,236			15,505
Intangible assets, net	11,546			12,294
Goodwill	19,070			19,070
Other assets	2,000			642
Total assets	$	1,129,208		$	1,040,331
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities
Accounts payable	$	2,830		$	2,079
Accrued payroll and compensation	48,481			43,876
Accrued expenses and other liabilities	23,461			12,743
Deferred revenue, current portion	180,131			149,156
Total current liabilities	254,903			207,854
Deferred revenue, non-current	49,146			43,165
Other liabilities, non-current	27,265			4,404
Total non-current liabilities	76,411			47,569
Total liabilities	331,314			255,423
Commitments and contingencies (Note 3)
Stockholders’ equity
Common stock: $0.001 par value; 1,000,000,000 shares authorized; 120,932,143 shares issued and outstanding at October 31, 2014, and 116,099,516 shares issued and outstanding at January 31, 2014	121			116
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	(205		)	58
Additional paid-in capital	1,127,773			954,441
Accumulated deficit	(329,795		)	(169,707		)
Total stockholders’ equity	797,894			784,908
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	1,129,208		$	1,040,331

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Splunk Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)



	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
Revenues
License	$	71,754		$	50,873		$	185,109		$	130,230
Maintenance and services	44,275			27,760			118,374			72,483
Total revenues	116,029			78,633			303,483			202,713
Cost of revenues (1)
License	535			84			685			229
Maintenance and services	17,045			10,441			46,153			24,398
Total cost of revenues	17,580			10,525			46,838			24,627
Gross profit	98,449			68,108			256,645			178,086
Operating expenses (1)
Research and development	39,534			18,961			103,455			49,635
Sales and marketing	85,720			53,052			236,776			138,999
General and administrative	21,446			12,917			75,125			35,275
Total operating expenses	146,700			84,930			415,356			223,909
Operating loss	(48,251		)	(16,822		)	(158,711		)	(45,823		)
Interest and other income (expense), net
Interest income, net	199			55			492			174
Other income (expense), net	(52		)	(283		)	(326		)	(459		)
Total interest and other income (expense), net	147			(228		)	166			(285		)
Loss before income taxes	(48,104		)	(17,050		)	(158,545		)	(46,108		)
Income tax provision (benefit)	447			(500		)	1,543			269
Net loss	$	(48,551	)	$	(16,550	)	$	(160,088	)	$	(46,377	)

Basic and diluted net loss per share	$	(0.40	)	$	(0.16	)	$	(1.35	)	$	(0.45	)

Weighted-average shares used in computing basic and diluted net loss per share	120,331			106,008			118,895			104,063

(1) Amounts include stock-based compensation expense, as follows:



Cost of revenues	$	4,039	$	1,165	$	11,653	$	2,735
Research and development	15,352		4,405		41,517		10,995
Sales and marketing	21,075		5,947		61,458		15,425
General and administrative	7,770		2,815		36,357		6,969

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Splunk Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)



	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
Net loss	$	(48,551	)	$	(16,550	)	$	(160,088	)	$	(46,377	)
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Net unrealized loss on investments	(57		)	—			(61		)	—
Foreign currency translation adjustments	(190		)	87			(202		)	(21		)
Total other comprehensive income (loss)	(247		)	87			(263		)	(21		)
Comprehensive loss	$	(48,798	)	$	(16,463	)	$	(160,351	)	$	(46,398	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Splunk Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)



	Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013
Cash flows from operating activities
Net loss	$	(160,088	)	$	(46,377	)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization	8,968			4,500
Amortization of investment premiums	452			—
Stock-based compensation	150,985			36,124
Deferred income taxes	(793		)	(1,188		)
Excess tax benefits from employee stock plans	(1,108		)	(539		)
Impairment of long-lived asset	—			2,128
Changes in operating assets and liabilities
Accounts receivable, net	798			9,953
Prepaid expenses, other current and non-current assets	(2,041		)	366
Accounts payable	1,045			267
Accrued payroll and compensation	4,605			2,532
Accrued expenses and other liabilities	12,673			5,220
Deferred revenue	36,956			26,433
Net cash provided by operating activities	52,452			39,419
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of investments	(691,277		)	—
Maturities of investments	63,000			—
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired	(2,500		)	(8,958		)
Purchases of property and equipment	(11,200		)	(7,265		)
Net cash used in investing activities	(641,977		)	(16,223		)
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from the exercise of stock options	12,805			18,865
Excess tax benefits from employee stock plans	1,108			539
Proceeds from employee stock purchase plans	8,355			6,076
Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards	—			(2,752		)
Payment related to build-to-suit lease obligation	(523		)	—
Net cash provided by financing activities	21,745			22,728
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents	(120		)	32
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	(567,900		)	45,956
Cash and cash equivalents
Beginning of period	897,453			305,939
End of period	$	329,553		$	351,895
Supplemental disclosures
Cash paid for income taxes	$	877		$	297
Non-cash investing and financing activities
Accrued purchases of property and equipment	477			856
Vesting of early exercised options	84			83
Capitalized construction costs related to build-to-suit lease	23,085			—

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

(1) Description of the Business and Significant Accounting Policies

Business

Splunk Inc. (“we,” "us," "our") provides innovative software products that enable organizations to gain real-time operational intelligence by harnessing the value of their data. Our products enable users to collect, index, search, explore, monitor and analyze data regardless of format or source. Our products address large and diverse data sets, commonly referred to as big data, and are specifically tailored for machine-generated data. Machine data is produced by nearly every software application and electronic device and contains a definitive, time-stamped record of various activities, such as transactions, customer and user activities and security threats. Our products help users derive new insights from machine data that can be used to, among other things, improve service levels, reduce operational costs, mitigate security risks, demonstrate and maintain compliance, and drive better business decisions. We were incorporated in California in October 2003 and reincorporated in Delaware in May 2006.

Fiscal Year

Our fiscal year ends on January 31. References to fiscal 2015 or fiscal year 2015, for example, refer to the fiscal year ending January 31, 2015.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. The condensed consolidated balance sheet data as of January 31, 2014 was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by GAAP. Therefore, these condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2014, filed with the SEC on March 31, 2014. There have been no changes in the significant accounting policies from those that were disclosed in the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2014 included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K.

In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary to state fairly the financial position, results of operations, comprehensive loss and cash flows for the interim periods, but are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be anticipated for the full fiscal year 2015.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the "FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Accounting Standards Codification 605, Revenue Recognition. This ASU is based on the principle that revenue is recognized to depict the transfer of goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The ASU also requires additional disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including significant judgments and changes in judgments and assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract. The effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 using one of two retrospective application methods. We have not determined the potential effects on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

In July 2013, the FASB determined that an unrecognized tax benefit should be presented as a reduction of a deferred tax asset for a net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforward or other tax credit carryforward when settlement in this manner is available under applicable tax law. This guidance is effective for our interim and annual periods beginning February 1, 2014. The adoption of this guidance did not have an impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

Use of Estimates

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The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods covered by the financial statements and accompanying notes. In particular, we make estimates with respect to the fair value of multiple elements in revenue recognition, uncollectible accounts receivable, the assessment of the useful life and recoverability of long-lived assets (property and equipment, goodwill and identified intangibles), stock-based compensation expense, the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed for business combinations, income taxes and contingencies. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Segments

We operate our business as one operating segment: the development and marketing of software products that enable our customers to gain real-time operational intelligence by harnessing the value of their data. Our chief operating decision maker is our Chief Executive Officer, who reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis for purposes of making operating decisions, assessing financial performance and allocating resources.

Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Splunk Inc. and its direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated upon consolidation.

Foreign Currency

The functional currency of our foreign subsidiaries is the respective local currency. Translation adjustments arising from the use of differing exchange rates from period to period are included in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss within Stockholders' Equity. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are included in Other Income (Expense), Net and were not material for the three or nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013. All assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate on the balance sheet date. Revenues and expenses are translated at the average exchange rate during the period. Equity transactions are translated using historical exchange rates.

Investments

We determine the appropriate classification of our investments at the time of purchase and reevaluate such determination at each balance sheet date. Securities are classified as available-for-sale and are carried at fair value, with the change in unrealized gains and losses, net of tax, reported as a separate component on the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss. Fair value is determined based on quoted market rates when observable or utilizing data points that are observable, such as quoted prices, interest rates and yield curves. Declines in fair value judged to be other-than-temporary on securities available for sale are included as a component of investment income. In order to determine whether a decline in value is other-than-temporary, we evaluate, among other factors, the duration and extent to which the fair value has been less than the carrying value and our intent and ability to retain the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in fair value. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific-identification method. Interest on securities classified as available-for-sale is included as a component of interest income.

(2) Investments and Fair Value Measurements

The carrying amounts of certain of our financial instruments including cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximate fair value due to their short-term maturities.

Assets and liabilities recorded at fair value in the financial statements are categorized based upon the level of judgment associated with the inputs used to measure their fair value. Hierarchical levels that are directly related to the amount of subjectivity associated with the inputs to the valuation of these assets or liabilities are as follows:

Level 1—Observable inputs, such as quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2—Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

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Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. Our assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires management to make judgments and consider factors specific to the asset or liability.

The following table sets forth the fair value of our financial assets and liabilities that were measured on a recurring basis as of October 31, 2014 and January 31, 2014 (in thousands):



	October 31, 2014								January 31, 2014
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Total		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Total
Assets:
Money market funds	$	317,713	$	—	$	—	$	317,713	$	864,012	$	—	$	—	$	864,012
U.S. treasury securities	$	—	$	627,758	$	—	$	627,758	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Reported as:
Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents							$	317,713							$	864,012
Investments, current portion							466,835								—
Investments, non-current							160,923								—
Total							$	945,471							$	864,012

We invested in U.S. treasury securities during the nine months ended October 31, 2014, which we have classified as available-for-sale securities. The following table presents our available-for-sale investments as of October 31, 2014 (in thousands):



	October 31, 2014
	Amortized Cost		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value
Cash and cash equivalents:
U.S. treasury securities	$	—	$	—	$	—		$	—
Investments, current portion:
U.S. treasury securities	466,899		62		(126		)	466,835
Investments, non-current:
U.S. treasury securities	160,916		121		(114		)	160,923
Total available-for-sale investments	$	627,815	$	183	$	(240	)	$	627,758

As of October 31, 2014, we did not consider any of our investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired.

The contractual maturities of our investments are as follows (in thousands):



	October 31, 2014
Due within one year	$	466,835
Due within one to two years	160,923
Total	$	627,758

Investments with maturities of less than 12 months from the balance sheet date are classified as current assets, which are available for use to fund current operations. Investments with maturities greater than 12 months from the balance sheet date are classified as long-term assets.

(3) Commitments and Contingencies

Office Lease Commitments

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We lease our office spaces under non-cancelable leases with rent expense recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Rent expense was $2.6 million and $1.9 million for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $7.5 million and $4.3 million for the nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

On April 29, 2014, we entered into an office lease (the "Lease") for approximately 182,000 square feet located at 270 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California (the "Premises"). The Premises will be allocated to approximately 95,000 square feet of rentable space (the "Initial Premises") which we expect to occupy in January 2016 and approximately 87,000 square feet of rentable space (the "Must-Take Premises"), which we expect to occupy one year thereafter. The Initial Premises and the Must-Take Premises each have a term of 84 months, subject to the completion of certain pre-occupancy improvements by our landlord. Our total obligation for the base rent is approximately $92.0 million. On May 13, 2014, we entered into an irrevocable, standby letter of credit with Silicon Valley Bank for $6.0 million to serve as a security deposit for the Lease.

As a result of our involvement during the construction period, whereby we have certain indemnification obligations related to the construction, we are considered for accounting purposes only, the owner of the construction project under build-to-suit lease accounting. We have recorded estimated project construction costs incurred by the landlord as an asset and a corresponding long term liability in “Property and equipment, net” and “Other liabilities, non-current” respectively, on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. We will increase the asset and corresponding long term liability as additional building costs are incurred by the landlord during the construction period. Once the landlord completes the construction of the Initial Premises, which is estimated to be in January 2016, we will evaluate the Lease in order to determine whether or not the Lease meets the criteria for “sale-leaseback” treatment.

The following summarizes our contractual commitments and obligations as of October 31, 2014:



	Payments Due by Period*
	Total		Less Than 1 year		1-3 years		3-5 years		More Than 5 years
	(in thousands)
Office lease obligations	$	148,884	$	9,582	$	37,200	$	41,804	$	60,298

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*We entered into a sublease agreement on November 16, 2012 for a portion of our office space in the United Kingdom, and the future sublease rental income of $0.9 million has been included as an offset to our future minimum rental payments.

Legal Proceedings

We are subject to certain routine legal proceedings, as well as demands and claims that arise in the normal course of our business. We make a provision for a liability relating to legal matters when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. These provisions are reviewed at least quarterly and adjusted to reflect the impact of negotiations, estimated settlements, legal rulings, advice of legal counsel and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter. In our opinion, resolution of any pending claims (either individually or in the aggregate) is not expected to have a material adverse impact on our consolidated results of operations, cash flows or financial position, nor is it possible to provide an estimated amount of any such loss. However, depending on the nature and timing of any such dispute, an unfavorable resolution of a matter could materially affect our future results of operations or cash flows, or both, in a particular quarter.

Indemnification Arrangements

During the ordinary course of business, we may indemnify, hold harmless and agree to reimburse for losses suffered or incurred, our customers, vendors, and each of their affiliates for certain intellectual property infringement and other claims by third parties with respect to our products and services, in connection with our commercial license arrangements or related to general business dealings with those parties.

As permitted under Delaware law, we have entered into indemnification agreements with our officers, directors and certain employees, indemnifying them for certain events or occurrences while they serve as our officers or directors or those of our direct and indirect subsidiaries.

To date, there have not been any costs incurred in connection with such indemnification obligations; therefore, there is no accrual of such amounts at October 31, 2014. We are unable to estimate the maximum potential impact of these indemnifications on our future results of operations.

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(4) Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are stated at cost, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization. These assets are depreciated and amortized using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives. Property and equipment consisted of the following (in thousands):



	As of
	October 31, 2014			January 31, 2014
Computer equipment and software	$	26,478		$	20,451
Furniture and fixtures	7,156			5,364
Leasehold improvements	9,660			7,128
Construction in progress (1)	23,085			—
	66,379			32,943
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization	(23,143		)	(17,438		)
Property and equipment, net	$	43,236		$	15,505

(1) This relates to the capitalization of construction costs in connection with our build-to-suit lease obligation, where we are considered the owner of the asset, for accounting purposes only, during the construction period. There is a corresponding long-term liability for this obligation on our condensed consolidated balance sheets under “Other liabilities, non-current.” Refer to Note 3 “Commitments and Contingencies” for details.

Depreciation and amortization expense on Property and Equipment, net was $2.0 million and $3.6 million for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $5.7 million and $6.5 million for the nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Included in depreciation and amortization expense on Property and Equipment, net during the three and nine months ended October 31, 2013 was a $2.1 million impairment charge of a long-lived asset for previously capitalized software development costs for our Splunk Storm product as a result of our decision to make Splunk Storm available to customers at no cost.

(5) Acquisitions, Goodwill and Intangible Assets

BugSense

On September 25, 2013, we acquired BugSense, a privately-held Delaware corporation, which developed and offered as a service an analytics solution for machine data generated by mobile devices. This acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination. The purchase price of $9.0 million paid in cash was allocated as follows: $4.7 million to identifiable intangible assets, $0.7 million to net deferred tax liability recorded and $0.7 million to net liabilities assumed, and the excess $5.7 million of the purchase price over the fair value of net assets acquired was recorded as goodwill allocated to our one operating segment. Goodwill is primarily attributable to our ability to further improve the overall performance of our mobile data gathering capabilities, expand our visibility into machine data generated by mobile devices and the value of acquired personnel. This goodwill is not deductible for U.S. income tax purposes. Pro forma results of operations of the acquired business have not been presented as we do not consider the results to have a material effect during any of the periods presented on our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.

The following table sets forth the components of identifiable intangible assets acquired and their estimated useful lives as of the date of acquisition (in thousands, except Useful Life):



	Fair value		Useful Life (months)
Developed technology	$	2,940	36
Customer relationships	1,460		36
Other acquired intangible assets	330		24
Total intangible assets subject to amortization	$	4,730

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Cloudmeter

On December 6, 2013, we acquired Cloudmeter, a privately-held Delaware corporation, which developed technology that enables users to capture machine data directly from network traffic. This acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination. The purchase price of $21.0 million paid in cash was allocated as follows: $8.5 million to identifiable intangible assets, $0.6 million to net deferred tax liability recorded and $0.2 million to net liabilities assumed, and the excess $13.3 million of the purchase price over the fair value of net assets acquired was recorded as goodwill allocated to our one operating segment. Goodwill is primarily attributable to enhancing the ability of our customers to analyze machine data directly from their networks and correlate it with other machine-generated data to gain insights across our core use cases in application and infrastructure management, IT operations, security and business analytics. This goodwill is not deductible for U.S. income tax purposes. Pro forma results of operations of the acquired business have not been presented as we do not consider the results to have a material effect on any of the periods presented in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

The following table sets forth the components of identifiable intangible assets acquired and their estimated useful lives as of the date of acquisition (in thousands, except Useful Life):



	Fair value		Useful Life (months)
Developed technology	$	7,330	48
In-process research and development	500		Indefinite
Customer relationships	160		36
Other acquired intangible assets	480		24-36
Total intangible assets subject to amortization	$	8,470

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets subject to amortization obtained from acquisitions as of October 31, 2014 are as follows (in thousands, except Useful Life):



	Gross Fair Value		Accumulated Amortization			Net Book Value		Weighted Average Remaining Useful Life (months)
Developed technology	$	12,770	$	(2,742	)	$	10,028	34
Customer relationships	1,620		(576		)	1,044		23
Other acquired intangible assets	810		(336		)	474		20
Total intangible assets subject to amortization	$	15,200	$	(3,654	)	$	11,546

Additionally, we recognized $0.5 million in expense related to the change in net realizable value of in-process research and development obtained upon the acquisition of Cloudmeter during the three months ended October 31, 2014.

The expected future amortization expense for acquired intangible assets as of October 31, 2014 is as follows (in thousands):



Fiscal Period:
Remaining three months of fiscal 2015	$	1,130
Fiscal 2016	4,462
Fiscal 2017	3,802
Fiscal 2018	2,152
Total amortization expense	$	11,546

(6) Debt Financing Facilities

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plus 2.75%. As of October 31, 2014, we had no balance outstanding under this agreement. The agreement contains customary financial covenants and other affirmative and negative covenants. We were in compliance with all covenants as of October 31, 2014.

(7) Stock Compensation Plans

The following table summarizes the stock option and restricted stock unit ("RSU") award activity during the nine months ended October 31, 2014:



			Options Outstanding							RSUs Outstanding
	Shares Available for Grant		Shares		Weighted- Average Exercise Price Per Share		Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term	Aggregate Intrinsic Value (1)		Shares
								(in thousands)
Balances as of January 31, 2014	5,918,773		11,094,438		$	4.84	6.42	$	800,933	9,993,688
Additional Shares Authorized	5,804,975
Options granted	(40,000	)	40,000		88.64
Options exercised	—		(3,348,239	)	3.82
Options forfeited and expired	284,912		(284,912	)	6.64
RSUs granted	(2,829,729	)								2,829,729
RSUs vested										(1,268,114)
RSUs forfeited	864,807									(864,807	)
Balances as of October 31, 2014	10,003,738		7,501,287		$	5.67	5.93	$	454,089	10,690,496
Vested and expected to vest			7,493,476		$	5.65	5.93	$	453,748	10,288,688
Exercisable as of October 31, 2014			4,845,252		$	3.37	5.23	$	303,867

(1) The intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying stock option award and the closing market price of our common stock as of October 31, 2014.

During fiscal 2015, we began requiring that employees sell a portion of the shares that they receive upon the vesting of RSUs in order to cover any required withholding taxes, rather than our previous approach of net share settlement.

During the nine months ended October 31, 2014, $1.1 million of tax benefits have been realized from exercised stock options. At October 31, 2014, there was a total unrecognized compensation cost of $11.0 million related to these stock options, adjusted for estimated forfeitures, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.13 years. At October 31, 2014, total unrecognized compensation cost was $466.2 million related to RSUs, adjusted for estimated forfeitures, which is expected to be recognized over the next 2.99 years.

The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the nine months ended October 31, 2014 was $219.8 million. The weighted-average grant date fair value of RSUs granted was $59.34 per share for the nine months ended October 31, 2014.

(8) Geographic Information

Revenues

Revenues by geography are based on the shipping address of the customer. The following table presents our revenues by geographic region for the periods presented (in thousands):

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	Three Months Ended October 31,				Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014		2013		2014		2013
United States	$	91,190	$	61,844	$	231,895	$	159,599
International	24,839		16,789		71,588		43,114
Total revenues	$	116,029	$	78,633	$	303,483	$	202,713

Other than the United States, no other individual country exceeded 10% of total revenues during any of the periods presented. At October 31, 2014, there was one channel partner that represented approximately 32% of total accounts receivable and approximately 17% and 14% of total revenues during the three months and nine months ended October 31, 2014, respectively. The accounts receivable and revenues from this channel partner is comprised of a number of customer transactions, none of which were individually greater than 10% of total accounts receivable at October 31, 2014 or total revenues for the three months or nine months ended October 31, 2014. At January 31, 2014, no customer or channel partner represented greater than 10% of total accounts receivable.

Property and Equipment

The following table presents our property and equipment by geographic region for the periods presented (in thousands):



	As of
	October 31, 2014		January 31, 2014
United States	$	39,789	$	14,005
International	3,447		1,500
Total property and equipment, net	$	43,236	$	15,505

Other than the United States, no other country represented 10% or more of our total property and equipment as of October 31, 2014 or January 31, 2014.

(9) Income Taxes

For the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, we recorded $0.4 million in income tax expense and $0.5 million in income tax benefit, respectively. The increase in income tax expense was primarily due to an increase in taxable income in our international jurisdictions and state franchise tax, as well as the absence of a partial release of the valuation allowance as a result of a prior year acquisition. For the nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, we recorded $1.5 million and $0.3 million in income tax expense, respectively. The increase was primarily due to an increase in taxable income in our international jurisdictions and state franchise tax, as well as the absence of a partial release of the valuation allowance as a result of a prior year acquisition.

There were no material changes to our unrecognized tax benefits in the nine months ended October 31, 2014, and we do not expect to have any significant changes to unrecognized tax benefits through the end of the fiscal year. Because of our history of tax losses, all years remain open to tax audit.

(10) Net Loss Per Share

Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period, less the weighted-average unvested common stock subject to repurchase or forfeiture. Diluted net loss per share is computed by giving effect to all potential shares of common stock, including preferred stock, stock options, RSUs and warrants, to the extent dilutive.

The following table sets forth the computation of historical basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands, except per share data):

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	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
Numerator:
Net loss	$	(48,551	)	$	(16,550	)	$	(160,088	)	$	(46,377	)
Denominator:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding	120,365			106,079			118,938			104,144
Less: Weighted-average unvested common shares subject to repurchase or forfeiture	(34		)	(71		)	(43		)	(81		)
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted	120,331			106,008			118,895			104,063
Net loss per share, basic and diluted	$	(0.40	)	$	(0.16	)	$	(1.35	)	$	(0.45	)

Since we were in a net loss position for all periods presented, basic net loss per share is the same as diluted net loss per share for all periods as the inclusion of all potential common shares outstanding would have been anti-dilutive. Potentially dilutive securities that were not included in the diluted per share calculations because they would be anti-dilutive were as follows (in thousands):



	As of October 31,
	2014	2013
Shares subject to outstanding common stock options	7,501	13,191
Shares subject to outstanding RSUs	10,690	4,316
Employee stock purchase plan	368	296
Total	18,559	17,803

(11) Related Party Transactions

Certain members of our board of directors ("Board") serve on the board of directors of and/or are executive officers of, and, in some cases, are investors in, companies that are customers or vendors of ours. Certain of our executive officers also serve on the board of directors of companies that are customers or vendors of ours. We believe the transactions between these companies and us were carried out on terms that are consistent with similar transactions with our other similarly situated customers or vendors. We recognized revenues from sales to these companies of $0.8 million and $0.6 million for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $2.3 million and $1.8 million for the nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. We also recorded $0.5 million and $0.3 million in expenses related to purchases from these companies during the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $1.4 million and $0.9 million for the nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. We had $6.9 million and $0 of accounts receivable from these companies as of October 31, 2014 and January 31, 2014, respectively. There were no accounts payable to these companies as of October 31, 2014 or January 31, 2014.

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The following discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Statements that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of words such as, but not limited to, “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions or variations intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning our market opportunity, our future financial and operating results; our planned investments, particularly in our product development efforts; our planned expansion of our sales and marketing organization; our growth and integration strategies; our continued efforts to market and sell both domestically and internationally; our expectations about seasonal trends; our expectations regarding our revenues mix; use of non-GAAP financial measures; our expectations regarding our operating expenses, including changes in research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses; sufficiency of cash to meet cash needs for at

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least the next 12 months; exposure to interest rate changes; inflation; anticipated income tax rates; our expectations regarding our leases; and our expected capital expenditures, cash flows and liquidity.

These statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of our management based on information currently available to us. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results and the timing of certain events to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below, and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” included under Part II, Item 1A below. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date of this report.

Overview

Splunk provides innovative software products that enable organizations to gain real-time operational intelligence by harnessing the value of their data. Our products enable users to collect, index, search, explore, monitor and analyze data regardless of format or source. Our products address large and diverse data sets, commonly referred to as big data, and are specifically tailored for machine-generated data. Machine data is produced by nearly every software application and electronic device and contains a definitive, time-stamped record of various activities, such as transactions, customer and user activities and security threats. Outside of an organization's traditional IT and security infrastructure, every processor-based system, including HVAC controllers, smart electrical meters, GPS devices and radio-frequency identification tags, and many consumer-oriented systems, such as mobile devices, automobiles and medical devices that contain embedded electronic devices, are also continuously generating machine data.

We believe the market for software that provides operational intelligence presents a substantial opportunity as data grows in volume and diversity, creating new risks, opportunities and challenges for organizations. Since our inception, we have invested a substantial amount of resources developing our products and technology to address this market, specifically with respect to machine data.

Our products are designed to accelerate return-on-investment for our customers. They generally do not require customization, long deployment cycles or extensive professional services commonly associated with traditional enterprise software applications. Users can simply download and install the software, typically in a matter of hours, to connect to their relevant machine data sources. Alternatively, they can sign up for our Splunk Cloud service and avoid the need to provision, deploy and manage internal infrastructure. They can also provision a computing instance on Amazon Web Services and use Splunk Enterprise as an Amazon Machine Image. We also offer support, training and professional services to our customers to assist in the deployment of our software.

For Splunk Enterprise, we base our license fees on the estimated daily data indexing capacity our customers require. Prospective customers can download a trial version of our software that provides a full set of features but limited data indexing capacity. Following the 60-day trial period, prospective customers can purchase a license for our product or continue using our product with reduced features and limited data indexing capacity. We primarily license our software under perpetual licenses whereby we generally recognize the license fee portion of these arrangements upfront. As a result, the timing of when we enter into large perpetual licenses may lead to fluctuations in our revenues and operating results because our expenses are largely fixed in the short-term. Additionally, we license our software under term licenses which are generally recognized ratably over the contract term. From time to time, we also enter into transactions that are designed to enable broad adoption of our software within an enterprise, referred to as enterprise adoption agreements. These agreements typically include provisions that require revenue deferral and recognition over time.

Splunk Cloud delivers the core functionalities of Splunk Enterprise as a scalable, reliable cloud service. During fiscal 2014, we introduced the first version of our product now known as Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores, which is a software product that enables exploration, analysis and visualization of data in Hadoop and NoSQL. During the third quarter of fiscal 2015, we introduced Splunk MINT Express, the first new product from our acquisition of BugSense, which enables customers to gain greater operational intelligence from mobile apps. We intend to continue investing for long-term growth. We have invested and expect to continue to invest heavily in our product development efforts to deliver additional compelling features, address customer needs and enable solutions that can address new end markets. In addition, we expect to continue to aggressively expand our sales and marketing organizations to market and sell our software both in the United States and internationally.

Our goal is to make our software the platform for delivering operational intelligence and real-time business insights from machine data. The key elements of our growth strategy are to:

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•	Extend our technological capabilities.


•	Continue to expand our direct and indirect sales organization, including our channel relationships, to acquire new customers.


•	Further penetrate our existing customer base and drive enterprise-wide adoption.


•	Build premium apps on our core platforms that enable organizations to realize additional value from our software and to use our products in different ways.


•	Grow our user communities and partner ecosystem to increase awareness of our brand, target new use cases, drive operational leverage and deliver more targeted, higher value solutions.


•	Continue to deliver a rich developer environment to enable rapid development of enterprise applications that leverage machine data and the Splunk platform.

We believe the factors that will influence our ability to achieve our goals include, among other things, our ability to deliver additional functionality; acquire new customers across geographies and industries; cultivate incremental sales from our existing customers by driving increased use of our software within organizations; provide additional solutions that leverage our core machine data engine to help organizations understand and realize the value of their machine data in specific end markets and use cases; add additional OEM and strategic relationships to enable new sales channels for our software as well as extend our integration with third party products; and help software developers leverage the functionality of our machine data engine through software development kits ("SDKs") and application programming interfaces ("APIs").

For the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, our total revenues were $116.0 million and $78.6 million, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of approximately 48%. For the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, approximately 21% of our total revenues were derived from customers located outside the United States. Our customers and end-users represent the public sector and a wide variety of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, retail and technology, among others. As of October 31, 2014, we had over 8,400 customers.

For the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, our GAAP operating loss was $48.3 million and $16.8 million, respectively. Our non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million and $0.9 million for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

For the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, our GAAP net loss was $48.6 million and $16.6 million, respectively. Our non-GAAP net income was $2.4 million and $0.4 million for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

Our quarterly results reflect seasonality in the sale of our products and services. Historically, a pattern of increased license sales in the fourth fiscal quarter as a result of industry buying patterns has positively impacted sales activity in that period, which can result in lower sequential revenues in the following first fiscal quarter. Our gross margins and operating losses have been affected by these historical trends because the majority of our expenses are relatively fixed in the short-term. The majority of our expenses are personnel-related and include salaries, stock-based compensation, benefits and incentive-based compensation plan expenses. As a result, we have not experienced significant seasonal fluctuations in the timing of expenses from period to period.

Non-GAAP Financial Results

To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we provide investors with certain non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating income (loss), non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP net income (loss) per share (collectively the “non-GAAP financial measures”). These non-GAAP financial measures exclude all or a combination of the following (as reflected in the following reconciliation tables): stock-based compensation expense, employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock plans, amortization of acquired intangible assets, ground lease expense related to a build-to-suit lease obligation, impairment of a long-lived asset, acquisition-related costs and the partial release of the valuation allowance due to acquisition. In addition, non-GAAP financial measures include free cash flow, which represents cash from operations less purchases of property and equipment. The presentation of the non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. We

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use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision-making purposes and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about our operating results, enhance the overall understanding of past financial performance and future prospects and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by our management in its financial and operational decision making. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures facilitate comparisons to competitors’ operating results.

We exclude stock-based compensation expense because it is non-cash in nature and excluding this expense provides meaningful supplemental information regarding our operational performance. In particular, because of varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types that companies can use under FASB ASC Topic 718, we believe that providing non-GAAP financial measures that exclude this expense allows investors the ability to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies. We exclude employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock plans in order for investors to see the full effect that excluding that stock-based compensation expense had on our operating results. These expenses are tied to the exercise or vesting of underlying equity awards and the price of our common stock at the time of vesting or exercise, which may vary from period to period independent of the operating performance of our business. We also exclude the non-cash charge for previously capitalized research and development expense for our Splunk Storm product (reflected as an impairment of a long-lived asset) as a result of our strategic decision to start making Splunk Storm available at no cost to customers, a decision that we expect to be infrequent in nature. We also exclude acquisition-related costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets and ground lease expense related to a build-to-suit lease obligation from our non-GAAP financial measures because these are considered by management to be outside of our core operating results. We further exclude the partial release of the valuation allowance due to acquisition from non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP net income (loss) per share because it is also considered by management to be outside our core operating results. Accordingly, we believe that excluding these expenses provides investors and management with greater visibility to the underlying performance of our business operations, facilitates comparison of our results with other periods and may also facilitate comparison with the results of other companies in our industry. We consider free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business that can be used for strategic opportunities, including investing in our business, making strategic acquisitions and strengthening our balance sheet.

There are limitations in using non-GAAP financial measures because the non-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by our competitors and exclude expenses that may have a material impact upon our reported financial results. Further, stock-based compensation expense has been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a significant recurring expense in our business and an important part of the compensation provided to our employees. The non-GAAP financial measures are meant to supplement and be viewed in conjunction with GAAP financial measures.

The following table reconciles net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013 (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	24,205		$	13,317		$	52,452		$	39,419
Less purchases of property and equipment	(4,054		)	(4,035		)	(11,200		)	(7,265		)
Free cash flow (Non-GAAP)	$	20,151		$	9,282		$	41,252		$	32,154
Net cash used in investing activities	$	(343,378	)	$	(12,993	)	$	(641,977	)	$	(16,223	)
Net cash provided by financing activities	$	3,627		$	4,374		$	21,745		$	22,728

The following table reconciles GAAP gross margin to non-GAAP gross margin for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013:

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	Three Months Ended October 31,				Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014		2013		2014		2013
GAAP gross margin	84.8	%	86.6	%	84.6	%	87.9	%
Stock-based compensation expense	3.5		1.5		3.8		1.3
Employer payroll tax on employee stock plans	0.1		0.1		0.1		—
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	0.6		0.1		0.7		—
Impairment of long-lived asset	—		2.7		—		1.0
Non-GAAP gross margin	89.0	%	91.0	%	89.2	%	90.2	%

The following table reconciles GAAP operating loss to non-GAAP operating income (loss) for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013 (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
GAAP operating loss	$	(48,251	)	$	(16,822	)	$	(158,711	)	$	(45,823	)
Stock-based compensation expense	48,236			14,332			150,985			36,124
Employer payroll tax on employee stock plans	1,092			691			4,821			1,857
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	1,422			136			3,247			136
Impairment of long-lived asset	—			2,128			—			2,128
Acquisition-related costs	—			408			—			408
Ground lease expense related to build-to-suit lease obligation	222			—			444			—
Non-GAAP operating income (loss)	$	2,721		$	873		$	786		$	(5,170	)

The following table reconciles GAAP operating margin to non-GAAP operating margin for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013:



	Three Months Ended October 31,				Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014		2013		2014		2013
GAAP operating margin	(41.6	)%	(21.4	)%	(52.3	)%	(22.6	)%
Stock-based compensation expense	41.6		18.2		49.8		17.8
Employer payroll tax on employee stock plans	0.9		0.9		1.6		0.9
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	1.2		0.2		1.1		0.1
Impairment of long-lived asset	—		2.7		—		1.0
Acquisition-related costs	—		0.5		—		0.2
Ground lease expense related to build-to-suit lease obligation	0.2		—		0.1		—
Non-GAAP operating margin	2.3	%	1.1	%	0.3	%	(2.6	)%

The following table reconciles GAAP net loss to non-GAAP net income (loss) for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013 (in thousands):

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	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
GAAP net loss	$	(48,551	)	$	(16,550	)	$	(160,088	)	$	(46,377	)
Stock-based compensation expense	48,236			14,332			150,985			36,124
Employer payroll tax on employee stock plans	1,092			691			4,821			1,857
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	1,422			136			3,247			136
Impairment of long-lived asset	—			2,128			—			2,128
Acquisition-related costs	—			408			—			408
Ground lease expense related to build-to-suit lease obligation	222			—			444			—
Partial release of the valuation allowance due to acquisition	—			(747		)	—			(747		)
Non-GAAP net income (loss)	$	2,421		$	398		$	(591	)	$	(6,471	)

The following table reconciles the shares used in computing basic and diluted GAAP and non-GAAP net income (loss) per share for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013 (in thousands, except per share amounts):



	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
Weighted-average shares used in computing GAAP basic net loss per share	120,331			106,008			118,895			104,063
Effect of dilutive securities: Employee stock awards	6,541			12,117			—			—
Weighted-average shares used in computing Non-GAAP basic and diluted net income (loss) per share	126,872			118,125			118,895			104,063

GAAP basic and diluted net loss per share	$	(0.40	)	$	(0.16	)	$	(1.35	)	$	(0.45	)
Non-GAAP basic and diluted net income (loss) per share	$	0.02		$	0.00		$	(0.00	)	$	(0.06	)

Components of Operating Results

Revenues

License revenues. License revenues reflect the revenues recognized from sales of licenses to new customers and additional licenses to existing customers. We are focused on acquiring new customers and increasing revenues from our existing customers as they realize the value of our software by indexing higher volumes of machine data and expanding the use of our software through additional use cases and broader deployment within their organizations. A majority of our license revenues consists of revenues from perpetual licenses, under which we generally recognize the license fee portion of the arrangement upfront, assuming all revenue recognition criteria are satisfied. Customers can also purchase term license agreements, under which we recognize the license fee ratably, on a straight-line basis, over the term of the license. Due to the differing revenue recognition policies applicable to perpetual and term licenses, shifts in the mix between perpetual and term licenses from quarter to quarter could produce substantial variation in revenues recognized even if our sales remain consistent. In addition, seasonal trends that contribute to increased sales activity in the fourth fiscal quarter often result in lower sequential revenues in the first fiscal quarter, and we expect this trend to continue. Comparing our revenues on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful, and you should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance.

Maintenance and services revenues. Maintenance and services revenues consist of revenues from maintenance agreements and, to a lesser extent, professional services and training. Typically, when purchasing a perpetual license, a customer also purchases one year of maintenance service for which we charge a percentage of the license fee. When a term license is purchased, maintenance service is typically bundled with the license for the term of the license period. Customers with maintenance agreements are entitled to receive support and unspecified upgrades and enhancements when and if they become available during the maintenance period. We recognize the revenues associated with maintenance agreements ratably, on a straight-line basis, over the associated maintenance period. In arrangements involving a term license, we recognize both

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the license and maintenance revenues over the contract period. We have a professional services organization focused on helping some of our largest customers deploy our software in highly complex operational environments and train their personnel. We recognize the revenues associated with these professional services on a time and materials basis as we deliver the services or provide the training. We expect maintenance and services revenues to become a larger percentage of our total revenues as our installed customer base grows.

Professional services and training revenues as a percentage of total revenues were 8% and 7% for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. We have experienced continued growth in our professional services revenues primarily due to the deployment of our software with some customers that have large, highly complex IT environments.

Cost of Revenues

Cost of license revenues. Cost of license revenues includes all direct costs to deliver our product, including salaries, benefits, stock-based compensation and related expenses such as employer taxes, allocated overhead for facilities and IT and amortization of acquired intangible assets. We recognize these expenses as they are incurred.

Cost of maintenance and services revenues. Cost of maintenance and services revenues includes salaries, benefits, stock-based compensation and related expenses such as employer taxes for our maintenance and services organization, allocated overhead for depreciation of equipment, facilities and IT, and amortization. We recognize expenses related to our maintenance and services organization as they are incurred.

Operating Expenses

Our operating expenses are classified into three categories: research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative. For each category, the largest component is personnel costs, which include salaries, employee benefit costs, bonuses, commissions as applicable, stock-based compensation and related expenses such as employer taxes. Operating expenses also include allocated overhead costs for depreciation of equipment, facilities and IT. Allocated costs for facilities consist of leasehold improvements and rent. Our allocated costs for IT include costs for compensation of our IT personnel and costs associated with our IT infrastructure. Operating expenses are generally recognized as incurred.

Research and development. Research and development expenses primarily consist of personnel and facility-related costs attributable to our research and development personnel. We have devoted our product development efforts primarily to enhancing the functionality and expanding the capabilities of our software and services. We expect that our research and development expenses will continue to increase, in absolute dollars, as we increase our research and development headcount to further strengthen and enhance our software and services and invest in the development of our solutions and apps.

Sales and marketing. Sales and marketing expenses primarily consist of personnel and facility-related costs for our sales, marketing and business development personnel, commissions earned by our sales personnel, and the cost of marketing and business development programs. We expect that sales and marketing expenses will continue to increase, in absolute dollars, as we continue to hire additional personnel and invest in marketing programs.

General and administrative. General and administrative expenses primarily consist of personnel and facility-related costs for our executive, finance, legal, human resources and administrative personnel; our legal, accounting and other professional services fees; and other corporate expenses. We anticipate continuing to incur additional expenses due to growing our operations and being a publicly traded company, including higher legal, corporate insurance and accounting expenses and costs related to maintaining compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related regulations.

Interest and other income (expense), net

Interest and other income (expense), net consists primarily of foreign exchange gains and losses, interest income on our investments and cash and cash equivalents balances, and interest expense on outstanding debt.

Provision for income taxes

The provision for income taxes consists of federal, state and foreign income taxes. We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected tax consequences of temporary differences between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and their reported amounts using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which we expect the differences to reverse. We record a valuation allowance to reduce the deferred tax assets to the amount that we are more-likely-than-not to realize. Because of our history of U.S. net operating losses, we have established, in prior years, a full valuation allowance against potential future

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benefits for U.S. deferred tax assets including loss carry-forwards and research and development and other tax credits. We regularly assess the likelihood that our deferred income tax assets will be realized based on the realization guidance available. To the extent that we believe any amounts are not more-likely-than-not to be realized, we record a valuation allowance to reduce the deferred income tax assets. We regularly assess the need for the valuation allowance on our deferred tax assets, and to the extent that we determine that an adjustment is needed, such adjustment will be recorded in the period that the determination is made.

Results of Operations

The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented and as a percentage of our total revenues for those periods. The period-to-period comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of financial results to be achieved in future periods.



	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
	(in thousands)
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:
Revenues
License	$	71,754		$	50,873		$	185,109		$	130,230
Maintenance and services	44,275			27,760			118,374			72,483
Total revenues	116,029			78,633			303,483			202,713
Cost of revenues
License	535			84			685			229
Maintenance and services	17,045			10,441			46,153			24,398
Total cost of revenues	17,580			10,525			46,838			24,627
Gross profit	98,449			68,108			256,645			178,086
Operating expenses
Research and development	39,534			18,961			103,455			49,635
Sales and marketing	85,720			53,052			236,776			138,999
General and administrative	21,446			12,917			75,125			35,275
Total operating expenses	146,700			84,930			415,356			223,909
Operating loss	(48,251		)	(16,822		)	(158,711		)	(45,823		)
Interest and other income (expense), net
Interest income	199			55			492			174
Other income (expense), net	(52		)	(283		)	(326		)	(459		)
Total interest and other income (expense), net	147			(228		)	166			(285		)
Loss before income taxes	(48,104		)	(17,050		)	(158,545		)	(46,108		)
Income tax provision (benefit)	447			(500		)	1,543			269
Net loss	$	(48,551	)	$	(16,550	)	$	(160,088	)	$	(46,377	)

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	Three Months Ended October 31,				Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014		2013		2014		2013
	(as % of revenues)
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:
Revenues
License	61.8	%	64.7	%	61.0	%	64.2	%
Maintenance and services	38.2		35.3		39.0		35.8
Total revenues	100.0		100.0		100.0		100.0
Cost of revenues
License (1)	0.7		0.2		0.4		0.2
Maintenance and services (1)	38.5		37.6		39.0		33.7
Total cost of revenues	15.2		13.4		15.4		12.1
Gross profit	84.8		86.6		84.6		87.9
Operating expenses
Research and development	34.1		24.1		34.1		24.5
Sales and marketing	73.8		67.5		78.0		68.6
General and administrative	18.5		16.4		24.8		17.4
Total operating expenses	126.4		108.0		136.9		110.5
Operating loss	(41.6	)	(21.4	)	(52.3	)	(22.6	)
Interest and other income (expense), net
Interest income (expense), net	0.2		0.1		0.2		0.1
Other income (expense), net	—		(0.4	)	(0.1	)	(0.2	)
Total interest and other income (expense), net	0.2		(0.3	)	0.1		(0.1	)
Loss before income taxes	(41.4	)	(21.7	)	(52.2	)	(22.7	)
Income tax provision (benefit)	0.4		(0.6	)	0.5		0.1
Net loss	(41.8	)%	(21.1	)%	(52.7	)%	(22.8	)%

(1) Calculated as a percentage of the associated revenues.

Comparison of the Three Months Ended October 31, 2014 and 2013

Revenues



	Three Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			% Change
	($ amounts in thousands)
Revenues
License	$	71,754		$	50,873		41.0	%
Maintenance and services	44,275			27,760			59.5	%
Total revenues	$	116,029		$	78,633		47.6	%
Percentage of revenues
License	61.8		%	64.7		%
Maintenance and services	38.2			35.3
Total	100.0		%	100.0		%

The increase in license revenues of $20.9 million was primarily driven by increases in our total number of customers, sales to existing customers and an increase in the number of large orders. For example, we had 290 and 207 orders greater than $100,000 for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Our total number of customers increased from approximately 6,400 at October 31, 2013 to more than 8,400 at October 31, 2014. The increase in maintenance and services

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revenues of $16.5 million was due to increases in sales of maintenance agreements as well as sales of professional services resulting from the growth of our installed customer base.

Cost of Revenues and Gross Margin



	Three Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			% Change
	($ amounts in thousands)
Cost of revenues
License	$	535		$	84		536.9	%
Maintenance and services	17,045			10,441			63.3	%
Total cost of revenues	$	17,580		$	10,525		67.0	%
Gross margin
License	99.3		%	99.8		%
Maintenance and services	61.5		%	62.4		%
Total gross margin	84.8		%	86.6		%

Total cost of revenues increased $7.1 million due to the increase in cost of maintenance and services revenues. The increase in cost of maintenance and services revenues was primarily related to an increase of $5.3 million in salaries and benefits expense, which includes a $2.9 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, due to increased headcount, an increase of $2.1 million related to professional services expense and an increase of $0.9 million related to overhead costs. These increases were partially offset by a $2.1 million decrease due to the absence of a prior year impairment charge of a long-lived asset for previously capitalized software development costs for our Splunk Storm product as a result of our decision to make Splunk Storm available to customers at no cost.

Operating Expenses



	Three Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			% Change
	($ amounts in thousands)
Operating expenses (1)
Research and development	$	39,534		$	18,961		108.5	%
Sales and marketing	85,720			53,052			61.6	%
General and administrative	21,446			12,917			66.0	%
Total operating expenses	$	146,700		$	84,930		72.7	%
Percentage of revenues
Research and development	34.1		%	24.1		%
Sales and marketing	73.8			67.5
General and administrative	18.5			16.4
Total	126.4		%	108.0		%

(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense:
Research and development	$	15,352		$	4,405
Sales and marketing	21,075			5,947
General and administrative	7,770			2,815
Total stock-based compensation expense	$	44,197		$	13,167

Research and development expense. Research and development expense increased $20.6 million primarily due to a $17.6 million increase in salaries and benefits, which includes a $10.9 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, as we increased headcount as part of our focus on further developing and enhancing our products. We also had an increase of $2.6 million related to overhead costs.

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Sales and marketing expense. Sales and marketing expense increased $32.7 million primarily due to a $24.6 million increase in salaries and benefits, which includes a $15.1 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, as we increased headcount to expand our field sales organization and experienced higher commission expense as a result of increased customer orders. We experienced an increase of $4.3 million in expenses due to increased facilities and overhead, as well as an increase of $2.3 million in marketing program fees as a result of increases due to our annual users’ conference, marketing events and advertising. Additionally, we had an increase of $1.1 million in travel expenses due to increased travel from our growing field sales organization.

General and administrative expense. General and administrative expense increased $8.5 million due primarily to an increase of $7.8 million related to salaries and benefits, which includes a $5.0 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, due to increased headcount.

Interest and Other Income (Expense), net



	Three Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013
	(in thousands)
Interest and other income (expense), net:
Interest income	$	199		$	55
Other income (expense), net	(52		)	(283		)
Total interest and other income (expense), net	$	147		$	(228	)

Interest and other income (expense), net reflects a net increase in income primarily due to an increase in interest income from our investments.

Income Tax Provision (Benefit)



	Three Months Ended October 31,
	2014		2013
	(in thousands)
Income tax provision (benefit)	$	447	$	(500	)

For the three months ended October 31, 2014, we recorded an income tax expense that was primarily attributable to an increase in tax expense from our increased activity in our foreign operations and state franchise tax and the absence of a partial release of the valuation allowance as a result of a prior year acquisition.

Comparison of the Nine Months Ended October 31, 2014 and 2013

Revenues



	Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			% Change
	($ amounts in thousands)
Revenues
License	$	185,109		$	130,230		42.1	%
Maintenance and services	118,374			72,483			63.3	%
Total revenues	$	303,483		$	202,713		49.7	%
Percentage of revenues
License	61.0		%	64.2		%
Maintenance and services	39.0			35.8
Total	100.0		%	100.0		%

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The increase in license revenues of $54.9 million was primarily driven by increases in our total number of customers, sales to existing customers and an increase in the number of large orders. For example, we had 683 and 502 orders greater than $100,000 for the nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Our total number of customers increased from approximately 6,400 at October 31, 2013 to more than 8,400 at October 31, 2014. The increase in maintenance and services revenues of $45.9 million was due to increases in sales of maintenance agreements as well as sales of professional services resulting from the growth of our installed customer base.

Cost of Revenues and Gross Margin



	Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			% Change
	($ amounts in thousands)
Cost of revenues
License	$	685		$	229		199.1	%
Maintenance and services	46,153			24,398			89.2	%
Total cost of revenues	$	46,838		$	24,627		90.2	%
Gross margin
License	99.6		%	99.8		%
Maintenance and services	61.0		%	66.3		%
Total gross margin	84.6		%	87.9		%

Total cost of revenues increased $22.2 million due to the increase in cost of maintenance and services revenues. The increase in cost of maintenance and services revenues was primarily related to an increase of $15.5 million in salaries and benefits expense, which includes a $8.9 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, due to increased headcount, an increase of $4.8 million related to professional services expense, an increase of $2.3 million related to overhead costs and an increase of $1.3 million of travel expenses from our services organizations. These increases were partially offset by a $2.1 million decrease due to the absence of a prior year impairment charge of a long-lived asset for previously capitalized software development costs for our Splunk Storm product as a result of our decision to make Splunk Storm available to customers at no cost.

Operating Expenses



	Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013			% Change
	($ amounts in thousands)
Operating expenses (1)
Research and development	$	103,455		$	49,635		108.4	%
Sales and marketing	236,776			138,999			70.3	%
General and administrative	75,125			35,275			113.0	%
Total operating expenses	$	415,356		$	223,909		85.5	%
Percentage of revenues
Research and development	34.1		%	24.5		%
Sales and marketing	78.0			68.6
General and administrative	24.8			17.4
Total	136.9		%	110.5		%

(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense:
Research and development	$	41,517		$	10,995
Sales and marketing	61,458			15,425
General and administrative	36,357			6,969
Total stock-based compensation expense	$	139,332		$	33,389

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Research and development expense. Research and development expense increased $53.8 million primarily due to a $46.3 million increase in salaries and benefits, which includes a $30.5 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, as we increased headcount as part of our focus on further developing and enhancing our products. We also had an increase of $6.2 million related to overhead costs and an increase of $1.3 million due to payroll related taxes as a result of increased headcount.

Sales and marketing expense. Sales and marketing expense increased $97.8 million primarily due to a $78.8 million increase in salaries and benefits, which includes a $46.0 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, as we increased headcount to expand our field sales organization and experienced higher commission expense as a result of increased customer orders. We experienced an increase of $10.2 million in expenses due to increased facilities and overhead as a result of our international expansion efforts. We had a $4.3 million increase in marketing program fees as a result of increases due to our annual users’ conference, marketing events and advertising. Additionally, we had an increase of $4.0 million in travel expenses due to increased travel from our growing field sales organization.

General and administrative expense. General and administrative expense increased $39.9 million due primarily to an increase of $37.3 million related to salaries and benefits, which includes a $29.4 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, in part due to an acceleration of stock-based compensation expense of $13.1 million related to the return of two restricted stock unit grants from our Chief Executive Officer, as well as increased headcount.

Interest and Other Income (Expense), net



	Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013
	(in thousands)
Interest and other income (expense), net:
Interest income	$	492		$	174
Other income (expense), net	(326		)	(459		)
Total interest and other income (expense), net	$	166		$	(285	)

Interest and other income (expense), net reflects a net increase in income primarily due to an increase in interest income from our investments.

Income Tax Provision



	Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014		2013
	(in thousands)
Income tax provision	$	1,543	$	269

For the nine months ended October 31, 2014, we recorded an income tax expense that was primarily attributable to an increase in tax expense from our increased activity in our foreign operations and state franchise tax and the absence of a partial release of the valuation allowance as a result of a prior year acquisition.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

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	October 31, 2014			January 31, 2014
	(in thousands)
Cash and cash equivalents	$	329,553		$	897,453

	Nine Months Ended October 31,
	2014			2013
	(in thousands)
Cash provided by operating activities	$	52,452		$	39,419
Cash used in investing activities	(641,977		)	(16,223		)
Cash provided by financing activities	21,745			22,728

Since fiscal 2010 we have funded our operations primarily through cash generated from operations. At October 31, 2014, our cash and cash equivalents of $329.6 million were held for working capital purposes, a majority of which was invested in money market funds. We intend to increase our capital expenditures for the remainder of fiscal 2015, consistent with the growth in our business and operations. We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors including our growth rate, the timing and extent of spending to support development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the introduction of new and enhanced software and services offerings, the continuing market acceptance of our products and our planned investments, particularly in our product development efforts or acquisitions of complementary businesses, applications or technologies.

In the event that additional financing is required from outside sources, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us if at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.

Operating Activities

In the nine months ended October 31, 2014, cash inflows from our operating activities were $52.5 million, which reflects our net loss of $160.1 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $158.5 million, consisting primarily of $151.0 million for stock-based compensation, $9.0 million for depreciation and amortization, $0.4 million for amortization of investment premiums, partially offset by $1.1 million for excess tax benefits from employee stock plans and $0.8 million for deferred income taxes. Sources of cash inflows were from changes in our working capital, including a $37.0 million increase in deferred revenue, a $12.7 million increase in accrued expenses and other liabilities, a $4.6 million increase in accrued payroll and compensation, a $1.0 million increase in accounts payable and a $0.8 million decrease in accounts receivable due to strong collections. These cash inflows were offset by a $2.0 million increase in prepaid expense and other current and non-current assets.

In the nine months ended October 31, 2013, cash inflows from our operating activities were $39.4 million, which reflects our net loss of $46.4 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $41.0 million, consisting primarily of $36.1 million for stock-based compensation, $4.5 million for depreciation and amortization, $2.1 million related to the impairment of a long-lived asset, partially offset by $1.2 million for deferred income taxes and $0.5 million for excess tax benefits from employee stock plans. Sources of cash inflows were from changes in our working capital, including a $10.0 million decrease in accounts receivable due to strong collections, a $26.4 million increase in deferred revenue, a $5.2 million increase in accrued expenses and other liabilities and a $2.5 million increase in accrued payroll and compensation. These cash inflows were partially offset by a $0.4 million increase in prepaid expense and other current and non-current assets.

Investing Activities

In the nine months ended October 31, 2014, cash used in investing activities of $642.0 million was primarily attributable to $691.3 million of investments in U.S. treasury securities, $11.2 million of capital expenditures for the purchase of technology and hardware as well as purchases related to our facilities and infrastructure and $2.5 million which was used for a technology asset acquisition. These cash outflows were partially offset by $63.0 million cash inflow due to the maturities of our investments.

In the nine months ended October 31, 2013, cash used in investing activities of $16.2 million was primarily attributable to $9.0 million of cash purchase price paid, net of cash acquired, for an acquisition and $7.3 million of capital

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expenditures for technology and hardware, as well as leasehold improvements on our corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California to support the growth of our business.

Financing Activities

In the nine months ended October 31, 2014, cash provided by financing activities of $21.7 million consisted primarily of $12.8 million of proceeds from the exercise of stock options, $8.3 million of proceeds from our employee stock purchase plan and $1.1 million of proceeds from excess tax benefits from employee stock plans, partially offset by a $0.5 million lease deposit payment which, for accounting purposes only, is treated as a payment related to a build-to-suit lease obligation.

In the nine months ended October 31, 2013, cash provided by financing activities of $22.7 million consisted primarily of $18.9 million of proceeds from the exercise of stock options and $6.1 million of proceeds from our employee stock purchase plan, partially offset by $2.8 million of taxes paid related to the net settlement of RSUs.

Loan and Security Agreement

On May 9, 2013 we entered into a Loan Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank. The agreement provides for a revolving line of credit facility, which expires May 9, 2015. Under the agreement, we are able to borrow up to $25 million. Interest on any drawdown under the revolving line of credit accrues either at the prime rate (3.25% in October 2014) or the LIBOR rate plus 2.75%. As of October 31, 2014, we had no balance outstanding under this agreement. The agreement includes restrictive covenants, in each case subject to certain exceptions, that limit our ability to: sell or otherwise dispose of our business or property; change our business, liquidate or dissolve or undergo a change in control; enter into mergers, consolidations and acquisitions; incur indebtedness; create liens; pay dividends or make distributions; make investments; enter into material transactions with affiliates; pay any subordinated debt or amend certain terms thereof; or become an investment company.

In addition, the agreement contains customary financial covenants and other affirmative and negative covenants. We were in compliance with all covenants as of October 31, 2014.

Contractual Payment Obligations

The following summarizes our contractual commitments and obligations as of October 31, 2014:



	Payments Due by Period*
	Total		Less Than 1 year		1-3 years		3-5 years		More Than 5 years
	(in thousands)
Office lease obligations	$	148,884	$	9,582	$	37,200	$	41,804	$	60,298

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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

During the three months and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013, we did not have any relationships with unconsolidated organizations or financial partnerships, such as structured finance or special purpose entities, that have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.

Indemnification Arrangements

During the ordinary course of business, we may indemnify, hold harmless and agree to reimburse for losses suffered or incurred, our customers, channel partners, vendors and each of their affiliates for certain intellectual property infringement and other claims by third parties with respect to our products and services, in connection with our commercial license arrangements or related to general business dealings with those parties.

To date, there have not been any costs incurred in connection with such indemnification obligations; therefore, there is no accrual of any amounts at October 31, 2014. We are unable to estimate the maximum potential impact of these indemnifications on our future results of operations.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

We prepare our condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements also requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, costs and expenses and related disclosures. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ significantly from the estimates made by our management. To the extent that there are differences between our estimates and actual results, our future financial statement presentation, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows will be affected.

There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates as compared to the critical accounting policies and estimates described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 31, 2014.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

We are exposed to financial market risks, primarily changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates.

Interest Rate Risk

We hold our cash, cash equivalents and investments for working capital purposes. Some of the securities we invest in are subject to market risk. This means that a change in prevailing interest rates may cause the principal amount of the investment to fluctuate. To minimize this risk, we maintain our portfolio of cash, cash equivalents and investments in a variety of securities, including money market funds and government debt securities. The risk associated with fluctuating interest rates is limited to our investment portfolio. Due to the short-term nature of these instruments, we believe that we do not have any material exposure to changes in the fair value of our investment portfolio as a result of changes in interest rates. Declines in interest rates, however, would reduce future interest income.

The primary objective of our investment activities is to preserve principal while maximizing yields without significantly increasing risk. This objective is accomplished by making diversified investments, consisting only of investment grade securities. The effect of a hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in overall interest rates would not have had a material impact on our operating results or the total fair value of the portfolio.

Any draws under our revolving credit facility bear interest at a variable rate tied to the prime rate or the LIBOR rate. As of October 31, 2014, we had no balance outstanding under this agreement.

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Foreign Currency Exchange Risk

Our results of operations and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. All of our revenues are generated in U.S. dollars. Our expenses are generally denominated in the currencies in which our operations are located, which is primarily in the United States and to a lesser extent in Europe and Asia. Our results of operations and cash flows are, therefore, subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates and may be adversely affected in the future due to changes in foreign exchange rates. The effect of a hypothetical 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates applicable to our business would not have a material impact on our historical consolidated financial statements. To date, we have not engaged in any hedging strategies. As our international operations grow, we will continue to reassess our approach to manage our risk relating to fluctuations in currency rates.

Inflation

We do not believe that inflation had a material effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations in the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014 and 2013. If our costs were to become subject to significant inflationary pressures, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases. Our inability or failure to do so could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of October 31, 2014. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of October 31, 2014, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls

Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, believes that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and are effective at the reasonable assurance level. However, our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

The information set forth above under Legal Proceedings in Note 3 contained in the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” is incorporated herein by reference.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties including those described below. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, also may become important factors that affect us. If any of the following risks or others not specified below materialize, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. In that case, the trading price of our common stock could decline.

The market for our products is new and unproven and may not grow.

We believe our future success will depend in large part on the growth, if any, in the market for products that provide operational intelligence, particularly from machine data. We market our products as targeted solutions for specific use cases and as an enterprise solution for machine data. In order to grow our business, we intend to expand the functionality of our products to increase their acceptance and use by the broader market as well as develop new products. It is difficult to predict customer adoption and renewal rates, customer demand for our products, the size and growth rate of this market, the entry of competitive products or the success of existing competitive products. Any expansion in our market depends on a number of factors, including the cost, performance and perceived value associated with our products. If our products do not achieve widespread adoption or there is a reduction in demand for products in our market caused by a lack of customer acceptance or expansion, technological challenges, decreases in accessible machine data, competing technologies and products, pricing pressure, decreases in corporate or information technology spending, weakening economic conditions, or otherwise, it could result in reduced customer orders, early terminations, reduced renewal rates or decreased revenues, any of which would adversely affect our business operations and financial results. We believe that these are inherent risks and difficulties in this new and unproven market.

Our future operating results may fluctuate significantly, and our recent operating results may not be a good indication of our future performance.

Our revenues and operating results could vary significantly from period to period as a result of various factors, many of which are outside of our control. For example, we have historically generated a majority of our license revenues from perpetual license agreements, whereby we generally recognize the license fee portion of the arrangement upfront, assuming all revenue recognition criteria are satisfied. Our customers also have the choice of entering into term licenses for our software, whereby the license fee is recognized ratably over the license term, and, in combination with our introduction of enterprise adoption agreements, we have seen the proportion of our customer orders where revenue will be recognized ratably increase steadily as a percentage of total orders. At the beginning of each quarter, we do not know the ratio between perpetual licenses and term licenses that we will enter into during the quarter. In the third quarter of fiscal 2015, 34% of total license orders will be recognized ratably. As a result, our operating results could be significantly impacted by unexpected shifts in the ratio between perpetual licenses and term licenses. In addition, the size of our licenses varies greatly, and a single, large perpetual license in a given period could distort our operating results. The timing and size of large transactions are often hard to predict in any particular period. Further, since we recognize a portion of our revenue ratably over the life of the term license agreements and maintenance agreements, a portion of the revenue we report in each quarter is the result of agreements entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in business from term license agreements or maintenance agreements in any quarter may not be reflected in our revenue results for that quarter. Any such decline, however, will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. Accordingly, the effect of downturns in sales and market acceptance of our products and services may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. Comparing our revenues and operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful, and you should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance.

We may not be able to accurately predict our future revenues or results of operations. In particular, approximately half of the revenues we currently recognize each quarter has been attributable to sales made in that same quarter with the balance of the revenues being attributable to sales made in prior quarters in which the related revenues were not recognized upfront. As a result, our ability to forecast revenues on a quarterly or longer-term basis is extremely limited. We base our current and future expense levels on our operating plans and sales forecasts, and our operating costs are expected to be relatively fixed in the short-term. As a result, we may not be able to reduce our costs sufficiently to compensate for an unexpected shortfall in revenues, and even a small shortfall in revenues could disproportionately and adversely affect our financial results for that quarter.

In addition to other risk factors described elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, factors that may cause our financial results to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include:

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•	the timing of our sales during the quarter, particularly because a large portion of our sales occur toward the end of the quarter, or the loss or delay of a few large contracts;


•	the mix of revenues attributable to larger transactions as opposed to smaller transactions and the impact that a change in mix may have on the overall average selling price of our products;


•	the mix of revenues attributable to perpetual and term licenses, subscriptions, maintenance and professional services and training, which may impact our gross margins and operating income;


•	the renewal and usage rates of our customers;


•	changes in the competitive dynamics of our market;


•	changes in customers’ budgets and in the timing of their purchasing decisions;


•	customers delaying purchasing decisions in anticipation of new products or software enhancements by us or our competitors;


•	customer acceptance of and willingness to pay for new versions of our products or new solutions for specific product and end markets;


•	our ability to successfully introduce and monetize new products and licensing and service models for our new products, such as Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores (“Hunk”), Splunk Cloud and Splunk MINT Express;


•	our ability to control costs, including our operating expenses;


•	the timing of satisfying revenue recognition criteria;


•	our ability to qualify and compete for government contracts;


•	the collectability of receivables from customers and resellers, which may be hindered or delayed; and


•	general economic conditions, both domestically and internationally, as well as economic conditions specifically affecting industries in which our customers participate.

Many of these factors are outside our control, and the variability and unpredictability of such factors could result in our failing to meet or exceed our financial expectations for a given period. We believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our revenues, operating results and cash flows may not necessarily be indicative of our future performance.

We have a short operating history, which makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and may increase the risk that we will not be successful.

We have a short operating history, which limits our ability to forecast our future operating results and subjects us to a number of uncertainties, including our ability to plan for and model future growth. We have encountered and will continue to encounter risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in developing industries. If our assumptions regarding these uncertainties, which we use to plan our business, are incorrect or change in reaction to changes in our markets, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our operating and financial results could differ materially from our expectations and our business could suffer. Moreover, although we have experienced rapid growth historically, we may not continue to grow as rapidly in the future. Any success that we may experience in the future will depend in large part on our ability to, among other things:


•	improve the performance and capabilities of our products and technology through research and development;


•	continue to develop and expand adoption of our cloud-based services, including Splunk Cloud;


•	successfully develop, introduce and expand adoption of new products, such as Hunk;


•	increase revenues from existing customers through increased or broader use of our products within their organizations;

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•	successfully expand our business domestically and internationally;


•	maintain and expand our customer base and the ways in which our customers use our products;


•	successfully compete with other companies, open source projects and custom development efforts that are currently in, or may in the future enter, the markets for our products;


•	successfully provide our customers a compelling business case to purchase our products in a time frame that matches our and our customers’ sales and purchase cycles and at a compelling price point;

•respond timely and effectively to competitor offerings and pricing models;


•	generate leads and convert users of the trial versions of our products to paying customers;


•	prevent users from circumventing the terms of their licenses and subscriptions;


•	continue to invest in our application development platform to deliver additional content for our platform products and to foster an ecosystem of developers and users to expand the use cases of our products;


•	maintain and enhance our website and cloud services infrastructure to minimize interruptions when accessing our software or cloud services;


•	process, store and use our customers’ data in compliance with applicable governmental regulations and other legal obligations related to data privacy and security; and


•	hire, integrate and retain world-class professional and technical talent.

If we fail to address the risks and difficulties we face, including those described elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, our business will be adversely affected and our business operations and financial results will suffer.

If we fail to effectively manage our growth, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

Although our business has experienced significant growth, we cannot provide any assurance that our business will continue to grow at the same rate or at all. We have experienced and may continue to experience rapid growth in our headcount and operations, which has placed and will continue to place significant demands on our management and our operational and financial infrastructure. As of October 31, 2014, approximately 36% of our employees had been with us for less than one year. As we continue to grow, we must effectively integrate, develop and motivate a large number of new employees, while maintaining the effectiveness of our business execution and the beneficial aspects of our corporate culture. In particular, we intend to continue to make directed and substantial investments to expand our research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative organizations, as well as our international operations.

To effectively manage growth, we must continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls, and our reporting systems and procedures by, among other things:


•	improving our key business applications, processes and IT infrastructure to support our business needs;


•	enhancing information and communication systems to ensure that our employees and offices around the world are well-coordinated and can effectively communicate with each other and our growing base of customers and channel partners;


•	enhancing our internal controls to ensure timely and accurate reporting of all of our operations and financial results; and


•	appropriately documenting our IT systems and our business processes.

These systems enhancements and improvements will require significant capital expenditures and allocation of valuable management and employee resources. If we fail to implement these improvements effectively, our ability to manage our expected growth, ensure uninterrupted operation of key business systems and comply with the rules and regulations that are

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applicable to public reporting companies will be impaired. Additionally, if we do not effectively manage the growth of our business and operations, the quality of our products could suffer, which could negatively affect our brand, financial results and overall business.

We face intense competition in our markets, and we may be unable to compete effectively for sales opportunities.

Although our products target the new and emerging market for software and cloud services that provide operational intelligence, we compete against a variety of large software vendors and smaller specialized companies, open source projects and custom development efforts, which provide solutions in the specific markets we address. Our principal competitors include:


•	IT departments of potential customers which have undertaken custom software development efforts to analyze and manage their machine data;


•	security, systems management and other IT vendors, including BMC Software, CA Technologies, Compuware, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, TIBCO and VMware;


•	web analytics vendors, including Adobe Systems, Google, IBM and Webtrends;


•	business intelligence vendors, including IBM, Oracle and SAP;


•	companies targeting the big data market by commercializing open source software, such as the various Hadoop distributions and NoSQL data stores; and


•	small-specialized vendors, which provide complementary and competitive solutions in enterprise data analytics, data warehousing and big data technologies that may compete with our products.

The principal competitive factors in our markets include product features, performance and support, product scalability and flexibility, ease of deployment and use, total cost of ownership and time to value. Some of our actual and potential competitors have advantages over us, such as longer operating histories, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing or other resources, stronger brand and business user recognition, larger intellectual property portfolios and broader global distribution and presence. Further, competitors may be able to offer products or functionality similar to ours at a more attractive price than we can, such as by integrating or bundling their software products with their other product offerings. In addition, our industry is evolving rapidly and is becoming increasingly competitive. Larger and more established companies may focus on operational intelligence and could directly compete with us. For example, companies may commercialize open source software, such as Hadoop, in a manner that competes with our products or causes potential customers to believe that such product and our products perform the same function. If companies move a greater proportion of their data and computational needs to the cloud, new competitors may emerge that offer services comparable to ours or that are better suited for cloud-based data, and the demand for our products may decrease. Smaller companies could also launch new products and services that we do not offer and that could gain market acceptance quickly.

In recent years, there have been significant acquisitions and consolidation by and among our actual and potential competitors. We anticipate this trend of consolidation will continue, which will present heightened competitive challenges to our business. In particular, consolidation in our industry increases the likelihood of our competitors offering bundled or integrated products, and we believe that it may increase the competitive pressures we face with respect to our products. If we are unable to differentiate our products from the integrated or bundled products of our competitors, such as by offering enhanced functionality, performance or value, we may see decreased demand for those products, which would adversely affect our business operations, financial results and growth prospects. Further, it is possible that continued industry consolidation may impact customers’ perceptions of the viability of smaller or even medium-sized software firms and consequently their willingness to use software solutions from such firms. Similarly, if customers seek to concentrate their software license purchases in the product portfolios of a few large providers, we may be at a competitive disadvantage regardless of the performance and features of our products. We believe that in order to remain competitive at the large enterprise level, we will need to develop and expand relationships with resellers and large system integrators that provide a broad range of products and services. If we are unable to compete effectively, our business operations and financial results could be materially and adversely affected.

Because we derive substantially all of our revenues and cash flows from sales of licenses of one software product, failure of this product to satisfy customer demands or to achieve increased market acceptance would adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and growth prospects.

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Although we have recently introduced several new product offerings, we derive and expect to continue to derive substantially all of our revenues and cash flows from sales of licenses and maintenance of our Splunk Enterprise product. As such, the market acceptance of Splunk Enterprise is critical to our continued success. Demand for licenses to Splunk Enterprise is affected by a number of factors beyond our control, including continued market acceptance of Splunk Enterprise by referenceable accounts for existing and new use cases, the timing of development and release of new products by our competitors, technological change, and growth or contraction in our market. In addition, users of software that provides operational intelligence may seek a cloud-based service, and only recently we began to offer a cloud service with the features and functionality of our Splunk Enterprise software. Our cloud-based services currently represent a de minimis percentage of our overall revenues. We expect the proliferation of machine data to lead to an increase in the data analysis demands of our customers, and our products may not be able to scale and perform to meet those demands or may not be chosen by users for those needs. If we are unable to continue to meet customer demands or to achieve more widespread market acceptance of Splunk Enterprise, our business operations, financial results and growth prospects will be materially and adversely affected.

We have a history of losses, and we may not be profitable in the future.

We have incurred net losses in each year since our inception. As a result, we had an accumulated deficit of $329.8 million at October 31, 2014. Because the market for our products is rapidly evolving and has not yet reached widespread adoption, it is difficult for us to predict our future operating results. We expect our operating expenses to increase over the next several years as we hire additional personnel, expand and improve the effectiveness of our distribution channels, and continue to develop features and functionality for our products. In addition, as we grow as a public company, we have incurred and will continue to incur significant legal, accounting and other operating expenses, including compliance with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If our revenues do not increase to offset these increases in our operating expenses, we may not be profitable in future periods. Our historical revenue growth has been inconsistent and should not be considered indicative of our future performance. Further, in future periods, our revenue growth could slow or our revenues could decline for a number of reasons, including slowing demand for our products, increasing competition, a decrease in the growth of our overall market, or our failure, for any reason, to continue to capitalize on growth opportunities. Any failure by us to achieve, sustain or increase profitability on a consistent basis could cause the value of our common stock to decline.

If customers do not expand their use of our products beyond the current predominant use cases, or if they react adversely to our pricing models as the amount of their indexed data grows, our ability to grow our business and operating results may be adversely affected.

Most of our customers currently use our products to support application management, IT operations, security and compliance functions. Our ability to grow our business depends in part on our ability to persuade current and future customers to expand their use of our products to additional use cases, such as facilities management, supply chain management, business analytics and customer usage analytics. If we fail to achieve market acceptance of our products for these applications, or if a competitor establishes a more widely adopted solution for these applications, our ability to grow our business and financial results will be adversely affected. In addition, as the amount of data indexed or Hadoop data nodes covered by our products for a given customer grows, that customer must agree to higher license fees for our products or limit the amount of data indexed in order to stay within the limits of its existing license. If their fees grow significantly, customers may react adversely to this pricing model, particularly if they perceive that the value of our products has become eclipsed by such fees or otherwise. If customers react adversely to our pricing models, our ability to grow our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

If we do not effectively expand and train our sales force, we may be unable to add new customers or increase sales to our existing customers and our business will be adversely affected.

We continue to be substantially dependent on our sales force to obtain new customers and to drive additional use cases and adoption among our existing customers. We believe that there is significant competition for sales personnel with the skills and technical knowledge that we require. Our ability to achieve significant revenue growth will depend, in large part, on our success in recruiting, training and retaining sufficient numbers of sales personnel to support our growth. New hires require significant training and may take significant time before they achieve full productivity. Our recent hires and planned hires may not become productive as quickly as we expect, and we may be unable to hire or retain sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the markets where we do business or plan to do business. In addition, as we continue to grow rapidly, a large percentage of our sales force is new to the company and our products. Our growth creates additional challenges and risks with respect to attracting, integrating and retaining qualified employees, particularly sales personnel. If we are unable to hire and train sufficient numbers of effective sales personnel, or the sales personnel are not successful in obtaining new customers or increasing sales to our existing customer base, our business will be adversely affected.

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Our sales cycle is long and unpredictable, particularly with respect to large customers, and our sales efforts require considerable time and expense.

Our operating results may fluctuate, in part, because of the resource intensive nature of our sales efforts, the length and variability of the sales cycle of our software licensing offerings and the short-term difficulty in adjusting our operating expenses. Our operating results depend in part on sales to large customers and conversions of users of the trial versions of our products into paying customers. The length of our sales cycle, from initial evaluation to delivery of and payment for the software license, varies substantially from customer to customer. In addition, the introduction of our cloud-based service Splunk Cloud has generated interest from our customers who are also considering purchasing and deploying Splunk Enterprise, our on-premise solution. In some cases, our customers may wish to consider a combination of these products, potentially further slowing our sales cycle. Our sales cycle can extend to more than a year for certain customers, particularly large customers. It is difficult to predict exactly when, or even if, we will make a sale with a potential customer or if a user of a trial version of one of our products will upgrade to the paid version of that product. As a result, large individual sales have, in some cases, occurred in quarters subsequent to those we anticipated, or have not occurred at all. The loss or delay of one or more large transactions in a quarter could impact our operating results for that quarter and any future quarters for which revenue from that transaction is delayed. As a result of these factors, it is difficult for us to forecast our revenues accurately in any quarter. Because a substantial portion of our expenses are relatively fixed in the short-term, our operating results will suffer if revenues fall below our expectations in a particular quarter, which could cause the price of our common stock to decline.

Our business and growth depend substantially on customers renewing their term licenses and maintenance agreements with us. Any decline in our customer renewals could adversely affect our future operating results.

While much of our software is sold under perpetual license agreements, all of our maintenance and support agreements are sold on a term basis. In addition, we also enter into term license agreements for our software and cloud services. In order for us to improve our operating results, it is important that our existing customers renew their term licenses, if applicable, and maintenance and support agreements when the initial contract term expires. Our customers have no obligation to renew their term licenses or maintenance and support contracts with us after the initial terms have expired. Our customers’ renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our software, our cloud services, our pricing, the effects of economic conditions, competitive offerings or alterations or reductions in our customers’ spending levels. If our customers do not renew their agreements with us or renew on terms less favorable to us, our revenues may decline.

Our international sales and operations subject us to additional risks that can adversely affect our business operations and financial results.

During the three and nine months ended October 31, 2014, we derived approximately 21% and 24% of our total revenues from customers outside the United States, respectively, and we are continuing to expand our international operations as part of our growth strategy. We currently have sales personnel and sales and support operations in the United States and certain countries around the world. However, our sales organization outside the United States is substantially smaller than our sales organization in the United States, and we rely heavily on our sales channel for non-U.S. sales. Our ability to convince customers to expand their use of our products or renew their maintenance agreements with us is directly correlated to our direct engagement with the customer. To the extent we are unable to engage with non-U.S. customers effectively with our limited sales force capacity or our indirect sales model, we may be unable to grow sales to existing customers to the same degree we have experienced in the United States.

Our international operations subject us to a variety of risks and challenges, including:


•	increased management, travel, infrastructure and legal compliance costs associated with having multiple international operations;


•	reliance on channel partners;


•	longer payment cycles and difficulties in collecting accounts receivable or satisfying revenue recognition criteria, especially in emerging markets;


•	increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;


•	general economic conditions in each country or region;

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•	economic and political uncertainty around the world;


•	compliance with multiple and changing foreign laws and regulations, including those governing employment, tax, privacy and data protection, and the risks and costs of non-compliance with such laws and regulations;


•	compliance with laws and regulations for foreign operations, including the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the United Kingdom Bribery Act, import and export control laws, tariffs, trade barriers, economic sanctions and other regulatory or contractual limitations on our ability to sell our products in certain foreign markets, and the risks and costs of non-compliance;


•	heightened risks of unfair or corrupt business practices in certain geographies and of improper or fraudulent sales arrangements that may impact financial results and result in restatements of financial statements and irregularities in financial statements;


•	fluctuations in currency exchange rates and the related effect on our financial results;


•	difficulties in repatriating or transferring funds from or converting currencies in certain countries;


•	the need for localized software and licensing programs;


•	reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries and practical difficulties of enforcing intellectual property and contract rights abroad; and


•	compliance with the laws of numerous foreign taxing jurisdictions and overlapping of different tax regimes.

Any of these risks could adversely affect our international operations, reduce our international revenues or increase our operating costs, adversely affecting our business operations, financial results and growth prospects.

In addition, compliance with laws and regulations applicable to our international operations increases our cost of doing business in foreign jurisdictions. We may be unable to keep current with changes in foreign government requirements and laws as they change from time to time. Failure to comply with these regulations could have adverse effects on our business. In many foreign countries it is common for others to engage in business practices that are prohibited by our internal policies and procedures or United States regulations applicable to us. In addition, although we have implemented policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with these laws and policies, there can be no assurance that all of our employees, contractors, channel partners and agents will comply with these laws and policies. Violations of laws or key control policies by our employees, contractors, channel partners or agents could result in delays in revenue recognition, financial reporting misstatements, fines, penalties, or the prohibition of the importation or exportation of our products and cloud services and could have a material adverse effect on our business operations and financial results.

If we are unable to maintain successful relationships with our channel partners, our business operations, financial results and growth prospects could be adversely affected.

In addition to our direct sales force, we use indirect channel partners, such as distributors and resellers, to license and support our products. We derive a portion of our revenues from sales of our products through our channel partners, particularly in the Europe, Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, and Asia Pacific, or APAC, regions and for sales to government agencies. We expect that sales through channel partners in all regions will continue to grow as a portion of our revenues for the foreseeable future.

Our agreements with our channel partners are generally non-exclusive, meaning our channel partners may offer customers the products of several different companies, including products that compete with ours. If our channel partners do not effectively market and sell our products, choose to use greater efforts to market and sell their own products or those of our competitors, or fail to meet the needs of our customers, our ability to grow our business and sell our products may be adversely affected. Our channel partners may cease marketing our products with limited or no notice and with little or no penalty. The loss of a substantial number of our channel partners, our possible inability to replace them, or the failure to recruit additional channel partners could materially and adversely affect our results of operations. In addition, sales by channel partners are more likely than direct sales to involve collectability concerns, in particular sales by our channel partners in developing markets, and accordingly, variations in the mix between revenues attributable to sales by channel partners and revenues attributable to direct sales may result in fluctuations in our operating results.

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Our ability to achieve revenue growth in the future will depend in part on our success in maintaining successful relationships with our channel partners, and to help our channel partners enhance their ability to independently sell and deploy our products. If we are unable to maintain our relationships with these channel partners, or otherwise develop and expand our indirect distribution channel, our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows could be adversely affected.

We employ unique pricing models, which subject us to various pricing and licensing challenges that could make it difficult for us to derive value from our customers.

We employ unique and evolving pricing models for our products. For example, we generally charge our customers for their use of our Splunk Enterprise software based on their estimated peak daily indexing capacity. In addition, our Splunk Cloud service is generally priced based on peak daily indexing capacity and length of data retention, and our Hunk software is priced based on the number of Hadoop data nodes. Our pricing methods may ultimately result in a higher total cost to our customers generally as data volumes increase over time, making it more difficult for us to compete in our markets. As the amount of machine data within our customers’ organizations grows, we may face downward pressure from our customers regarding our pricing, which could adversely affect our revenues and operating margins. In addition, our unique pricing models may allow competitors with different pricing models to attract customers unfamiliar or uncomfortable with our pricing models, which would cause us to lose business or modify our pricing models, both of which could adversely affect our revenues and operating margins.

Furthermore, while our products can measure and limit customer usage, such limitations may be improperly circumvented or otherwise bypassed by certain users. Similarly, we provide our customers with an encrypted key for enabling their use of our products. There is no guarantee that users of our products will abide by the terms of these encrypted keys, and if they do not, we may not be able to capture the full value for the use of our products. For example, our enterprise license is generally meant for our customers’ internal use only. If our internal use customers improperly make our products available to their customers, for example, through a cloud or managed service offering, it may displace our end user sales or commoditize our products in the market. Additionally, if an internal use customer that has received a volume discount from us improperly makes available our products to its end customers, we may experience price erosion and be unable to capture the appropriate value from those end customers.

We recently increased the license capacity of our entry-level licenses for Splunk Enterprise. Although we believe that this price reduction will enable our customers to more rapidly increase their ability to adopt Splunk Enterprise, there is no guarantee this will occur. It is possible that such price reduction will not be offset by an increase in sales of additional license capacity, which would have the effect of lowering our revenue and negatively impacting our financial results.

Our license agreements generally provide that we can audit our customers’ use of our products to ensure compliance with the terms of our license agreement. However, a customer may resist or refuse to allow us to audit their usage, in which case we may have to pursue legal recourse to enforce our rights under the license agreement, which would require us to spend money, distract management and potentially adversely affect our relationship with our customers and users.

Incorrect or improper implementation or use of our software could result in customer dissatisfaction and negatively affect our business, operations, financial results and growth prospects.

Our software is deployed in a wide variety of technology environments. Increasingly, our software has been deployed in large scale, complex technology environments, and we believe our future success will depend on our ability to increase sales of our software licenses for use in such deployments. We often must assist our customers in achieving successful implementations for large, complex deployments. If we or our customers are unable to implement our software successfully, or are unable to do so in a timely manner, customer perceptions of our company may be impaired, our reputation and brand may suffer, and customers may choose not to increase their use of our products. In addition, our software imposes server load and index storage requirements for implementation. If our customers do not have the server load capacity or the storage capacity required, they may not be able to effectively implement and use our software and, therefore, may not choose to increase their use of our products.

Our customers and third-party partners may need training in the proper use of and the variety of benefits that can be derived from our software to maximize its potential. If our software is not implemented or used correctly or as intended, inadequate performance may result. Because our customers rely on our software and maintenance and support services to manage a wide range of operations, the incorrect or improper implementation or use of our software, our failure to train customers on how to efficiently and effectively use our software, or our failure to provide maintenance services to our customers, may result in negative publicity or legal claims against us. Also, as we continue to expand our customer base, any

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failure by us to properly provide these services will likely result in lost opportunities for follow-on sales of our software and services.

Interruptions or performance problems associated with our technology and infrastructure, and our reliance on Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, technologies from third parties, may adversely affect our business operations and financial results.

Our continued growth depends in part on the ability of our existing and potential customers to access our cloud services or our website in order to download our on-premise software or encrypted access keys for our software within an acceptable amount of time. We have experienced, and may in the future experience, website and 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 and services 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 and service performance problems within an acceptable period of time. It may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve our website and service performance, especially during peak usage times and as our products become more complex and our user traffic increases. If our website or services are unavailable or if our users are unable to download our software or encrypted access keys within a reasonable amount of time or at all, our business would be negatively affected. We expect to continue to make significant investments to maintain and improve website and service performance and to enable rapid releases of new features and apps for our software and cloud services. To the extent that we do not effectively address capacity constraints, upgrade our systems as needed and continually develop our technology and network architecture to accommodate actual and anticipated changes in technology, our business and operating results may be adversely affected.

In addition, we rely heavily on hosted SaaS technologies from third parties in order to operate critical functions of our business, including enterprise resource planning services and customer relationship management services. Further, our cloud-based services, such as Splunk Cloud, are hosted exclusively by third parties. If any of these services fail or become unavailable due to extended outages, interruptions or because they are no longer available on commercially reasonable terms or prices, our revenue could be reduced, our reputation could be damaged, we could be exposed to legal liability, expenses could increase, our ability to manage our finances could be interrupted and our processes for managing sales of our products and supporting our customers could be impaired until equivalent services, if available, are identified, obtained and implemented, all of which could adversely affect our business.

Our systems and third-party systems upon which we rely are also vulnerable to damage or interruption from catastrophic occurrences such as earthquakes, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunication failures, terrorist attacks, geopolitical events and similar events. Our United States corporate offices and certain of the facilities we lease to house our computer and telecommunications equipment are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region known for seismic activity. Despite any precautions we may take, the occurrence of a natural disaster or other unanticipated problems at our and third parties’ hosting facilities could result in interruptions, performance problems or failure of our infrastructure.

We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could impair our ability to compete in international markets or subject us to liability if we violate the controls.

Our products are subject to United States export controls, and we incorporate encryption technology into certain of our products. These encryption products and the underlying technology may be exported outside of the United States only with the required export authorizations, including by license, a license exception or other appropriate government authorizations, including the filing of an encryption registration. We shipped our encryption products prior to obtaining the required export authorizations. Accordingly, we have not fully complied with applicable encryption controls in the Export Administration Regulations. We have taken a number of actions to prevent such violations from recurring and continue to review and make enhancements to our export compliance procedures that are designed to further strengthen compliance with the laws.

Furthermore, our products are subject to United States export controls that prohibit the shipment of certain products and services without the required export authorizations or export to countries, governments, and persons targeted by United States sanctions. While we take precautions to prevent our products and services from being exported in violation of these laws, including implementing IP address blocking and screenings against U.S. Government and international lists of restricted and prohibited persons, we cannot guarantee that the precautions we take will prevent violations of export control and sanctions laws. For example, in certain instances, we shipped our encryption products prior to obtaining the required export authorizations and certain of our products that are available at no cost have been downloaded by persons in countries that are the subject of United States embargoes. These exports were likely made in violation of United States export control and sanction laws. In March 2012, we filed Final Voluntary Self Disclosures with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), concerning these potential violations. On July 3, 2012, OFAC notified us that it had completed its review of these matters and closed its

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review with the issuance of a Cautionary Letter, and on November 15, 2012, BIS notified us that it had completed its review of these matters and closed its review with the issuance of a Warning Letter. No monetary penalties were assessed against us by either OFAC or BIS with respect to the 2012 filings. In addition, we filed an Initial Voluntary Self Disclosure in October 2014 with BIS and OFAC. We are currently in the process of preparing the Final Voluntary Disclosure for submission to BIS and OFAC.

Based upon our internal review, we believe that we have not had any paying customers in countries sanctioned by the United States Government, and have instituted procedures, including IP blocking, that are intended to prevent any downloads from being made into sanctioned countries in the future. In addition, we have implemented screening of our customers against the United States Government and international lists of prohibited persons, including the Treasury Department’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and the Commerce Department’s List of Denied Persons. Based upon our internal review, we believe that we do not have any paying or non-paying customers on any United States Government lists of prohibited persons. We have instituted a process for screening all paying and non-paying customers against United States Government lists of prohibited persons going forward.

In the future, if we are found to be in violation of United States sanctions or export control laws, it could result in fines or penalties for us and for individuals, including civil penalties of up to $250,000 or twice the value of the transaction, whichever is greater, per violation, and in the event of conviction for a criminal violation, fines of up to $1 million and possible incarceration for responsible employees and managers for willful and knowing violations.

We also note that if our channel partners fail to obtain appropriate import, export or re-export licenses or permits, we may also be adversely affected, through reputational harm as well as other negative consequences including government investigations and penalties. We presently incorporate export control compliance requirements in our channel partner agreements. Complying with export control and sanctions regulations for a particular sale may be time-consuming and may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities.

In addition, various countries regulate the import and export of certain encryption and other technology, including import and export permitting and licensing requirements, and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to distribute our products or could limit our customers’ ability to implement our products in those countries. Changes in our products or future changes in export and import regulations may create delays in the introduction of our products in international markets, prevent our customers with international operations from deploying our products globally or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our products to certain countries, governments, or persons altogether. Any change in export or import regulations, economic sanctions or related legislation, or change in the countries, governments, persons or technologies targeted by such regulations, could result in decreased use of our products by, or in our decreased ability to export or sell our products to, existing or potential customers with international operations. Any decreased use of our products or limitation on our ability to export or sell our products would likely adversely affect our business operations and financial results.

If our new products and product enhancements do not achieve sufficient market acceptance, our financial results and competitive position will suffer.

We spend substantial amounts of time and money to research and develop new product offerings and enhanced versions of our existing products to incorporate additional features, improve functionality or other enhancements in order to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving demands. In addition, we continue to invest in solutions that can be deployed on top of our core platform to target specific use cases and to cultivate our community of application developers and users. When we develop a new or enhanced version of an existing product, we typically incur expenses and expend resources upfront to market, promote and sell the new offering. Therefore, when we develop and introduce new or enhanced products, they must achieve high levels of market acceptance in order to justify the amount of our investment in developing and bringing them to market. For example, if our cloud-based services such as Splunk Cloud do not garner widespread market adoption and implementation, our financial results and competitive position could suffer.

Further, we may make changes to our products that our customers do not like, find useful or agree with. We may also discontinue certain features, begin to charge for certain features that are currently free or increase fees for any of our features or usage of our products.

Our new products or product enhancements and changes to our existing products could fail to attain sufficient market acceptance for many reasons, including:


•	our failure to predict market demand accurately in terms of product functionality and to supply products that meet this demand in a timely fashion;

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•	defects, errors or failures;


•	negative publicity about their performance or effectiveness;


•	delays in releasing to the market our new products or enhancements to our existing products to the market;


•	introduction or anticipated introduction of competing products by our competitors;


•	poor business conditions for our end-customers, causing them to delay IT purchases; and


•	reluctance of customers to purchase products incorporating open source software.

If our new products or enhancements and changes do not achieve adequate acceptance in the market, our competitive position will be impaired, and our revenues will be diminished. The adverse effect on our financial results may be particularly acute because of the significant research, development, marketing, sales and other expenses we will have incurred in connection with the new products or enhancements.

Our business depends, in part, on sales to the public sector, and significant changes in the contracting or fiscal policies of the public sector could have a material adverse effect on our business.

We derive a portion of our revenues from contracts with federal, state, local and foreign governments, and we believe that the success and growth of our business will continue to depend on our successful procurement of government contracts. Factors that could impede our ability to maintain or increase the amount of revenues derived from government contracts, include:


•	changes in fiscal or contracting policies;


•	decreases in available government funding;


•	changes in government programs or applicable requirements;


•	the adoption of new laws or regulations or changes to existing laws or regulations;


•	potential delays or changes in the government appropriations or other funding authorization processes; and


•	delays in the payment of our invoices by government payment offices.

The occurrence of any of the foregoing could cause governments and governmental agencies to delay or refrain from purchasing licenses of our products in the future or otherwise have an adverse effect on our business operations and financial results.

Failure to comply with laws or regulations applicable to our business could cause us to lose customers in the public sector or negatively impact our ability to contract with the public sector.

We must comply with laws and regulations relating to the formation, administration and performance of contracts with the public sector, including United States federal, state and local governmental bodies, which affect how our channel partners and we do business with governmental agencies. These laws and regulations may impose added costs on our business, and failure to comply with these or other applicable regulations and requirements, including non-compliance in the past, could lead to claims for damages from our channel partners, penalties, termination of contracts, loss of exclusive rights in our intellectual property, and temporary suspension or permanent debarment from government contracting. Any such damages, penalties, disruptions or limitations in our ability to do business with the public sector could have a material adverse effect on our business operations and financial results.

The SaaS version of our Splunk Enterprise product, Splunk Cloud, is a nascent product offering, and a lack of market adoption of this SaaS offering could adversely affect our business.

SaaS is a model of software deployment in which a software provider typically licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand through web browser technologies. In October 2013, we released Splunk Cloud, our cloud-

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based service that provides a fully functional version of Splunk Enterprise. In recent years, companies have begun to expect that key software, such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning systems, be provided through a SaaS model. In order to provide Splunk Cloud via a SaaS deployment, we have made and will continue to make capital investments to implement this alternative business model, which could negatively affect our financial results. Even with these investments, the SaaS business model for Splunk Cloud may not be successful. Moreover, sales of Splunk Cloud could displace sales of our Splunk Enterprise software licenses. In addition, the change to a SaaS model results in changes in the manner in which we recognize revenues. Changes in revenue recognition would affect our operating results and could have an adverse effect on our business operations and financial results.

Real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our products could adversely affect our financial results and growth prospects.

Because our products are complex, undetected errors, failures or bugs may occur, especially when new products, versions or updates are released. Our on-premise software is often installed and used in large-scale computing environments with different operating systems, system management software, and equipment and networking configurations, which may cause errors or failures of our software or other aspects of the computing environment into which it is deployed. In addition, deployment of our software into complicated, large-scale computing environments may expose undetected errors, failures or bugs in our software. Despite testing by us, errors, failures or bugs may not be found in our products until they are released to our customers. In the past, we have discovered errors, failures and bugs in some of our offerings after their introduction. Real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our products could result in negative publicity, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our products, loss of competitive position or claims by customers for losses sustained by them. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or other reasons, to expend additional resources in order to help correct the problem.

In addition, if an actual or perceived failure of our on-premise software occurs in a customer’s deployment, regardless of whether the failure is attributable to our software, the market perception of the effectiveness of our products could be adversely affected. Alleviating any of these problems could require significant expenditures of our capital and other resources and could cause interruptions, delays or cessation of our licensing, which could cause us to lose existing or potential customers and could adversely affect our financial results and growth prospects.

Failure to protect our intellectual property rights could adversely affect our business.

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect proprietary methods and technologies that we develop under patent and other intellectual property laws of the United States and other jurisdictions outside of the United States 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, defending our intellectual property rights might entail significant expenses. Any of our patent rights, copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property rights may be challenged by others or invalidated through administrative process or litigation. Our issued patents and any patents issued in the future may not provide us with any competitive advantages, and our patent applications may never be granted. Additionally, the process of obtaining patent protection is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to file and prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications, or we may not be able to do so at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner. Even if issued, there can be no assurance that these patents will adequately protect our intellectual property, as the legal standards relating to the infringement, validity, enforceability and scope of protection of patent and other intellectual property rights are complex and often uncertain.

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 we were the first to use the inventions claimed in our issued patents or pending patent applications or otherwise used in our products, that we were the first to file patent applications, or that third parties do not have blocking patents that could be used to prevent us from marketing or practicing our products or technology. Effective patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available to us 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. Additional uncertainty may result from recent and future changes to intellectual property legislation in the United States (including the “America Invents Act”) and other countries and from interpretations of the intellectual property laws of the United States and other countries by applicable courts and agencies. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon or misappropriating our intellectual property.

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We rely in part on trade secrets, proprietary know-how and other confidential information to maintain our competitive position. We generally enter into confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants, vendors and customers, and generally limit access to and distribution of our proprietary information. Although we endeavor to enter into non-disclosure agreements with our employees, licensees and others who may have access to this information, we cannot assure you that these agreements or other steps we have taken will prevent unauthorized use, disclosure or reverse engineering of our technology. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as the laws of the United States, and many foreign countries do not enforce these laws as diligently as government agencies and private parties in the United States. Moreover, third parties may independently develop technologies or products that compete with ours, and we may be unable to prevent this competition.

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. 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 adequate to compensate us for the harm suffered. Any litigation, whether or not it is 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 operations or financial results.

We have been, and may in the future be, subject to intellectual property rights claims by third parties, which are extremely costly to defend, could require us to pay significant damages and could limit our ability to use certain technologies.

Companies in the software and technology industries, including some of our current and potential competitors, own large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. In addition, many of these companies have the capability to dedicate substantially greater resources to enforce their intellectual property rights and to defend claims that may be brought against them. The litigation may involve patent holding companies or other adverse patent owners that have no relevant product revenues and against which our patents may therefore provide little or no deterrence. From time-to-time, third parties, including certain of these leading companies, have asserted and may assert patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights against us, our channel partners, our technology partners or our customers. We have received, and may in the future receive, notices that claim we have misappropriated, misused, or infringed other parties’ intellectual property rights, and, to the extent we gain greater market visibility, we face a higher risk of being the subject of intellectual property infringement claims, which is not uncommon with respect to the enterprise software market.

There may be third-party intellectual property rights, including issued or pending patents, that cover significant aspects of our technologies or business methods. We may be exposed to increased risk of being the subject of intellectual property infringement claims as a result of acquisitions, as, among other things, we have a lower level of visibility into the development process with respect to such technology or the care taken to safeguard against infringement risks. Any intellectual property claims, with or without merit, could be very time-consuming, could be expensive to settle or litigate and could divert our management’s attention and other resources. These claims could also subject us to significant liability for damages, potentially including treble damages if we are found to have willfully infringed patents or copyrights. These claims could also result in our having to stop using technology found to be in violation of a third party’s rights. We might be required to seek a license for the intellectual property, which may not be available on reasonable terms or at all. Even if a license were available, we could be required to pay significant royalties, which would increase our operating expenses. As a result, we may be required to develop alternative non-infringing technology, which could require significant effort and expense. If we cannot license or develop technology for any infringing aspect of our business, we would be forced to limit or stop sales of our products and may be unable to compete effectively. Any of these results would adversely affect our business operations and financial results.

One of our marketing strategies is to offer trial versions of our products, and we may not be able to realize the benefits of this strategy.

We offer trial version licenses of certain of our products to users free of charge as part of our overall strategy of developing the market for products that provides operational intelligence and promoting additional penetration of our products in the markets in which we compete. Some users never convert from the trial version license to the paid version license. To the extent that these users do not become paying customers, we will not realize the intended benefits of this marketing strategy and our ability to grow our revenues will be adversely affected.

If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, our business and operating results may be adversely affected.

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We believe that maintaining and enhancing the “Splunk” brand identity is critical to our relationships with our customers and channel partners and to our ability to attract new customers and channel partners. The successful promotion of our brand will depend largely upon our marketing efforts, our ability to continue to offer high-quality products and our ability to successfully differentiate our products from those of our competitors. Our brand promotion activities may not be successful or yield increased revenues. In addition, independent industry analysts often provide reviews of our products, as well as those of our competitors, and perception of our products in the marketplace may be significantly influenced by these reviews. If these reviews are negative, or less positive as compared to those of our competitors’ products and services, our brand may be adversely affected.

Moreover, it may be difficult to maintain and enhance our brand in connection with sales through channel or strategic partners. The promotion of our brand requires us to make substantial expenditures, and we anticipate that the expenditures will increase as our market becomes more competitive, as we expand into new markets and as more sales are generated through our channel partners. To the extent that these activities yield increased revenues, these revenues may not offset the increased expenses we incur. If we do not successfully maintain and enhance our brand, our business may not grow, we may have reduced pricing power relative to competitors with stronger brands, and we could lose customers and channel partners, all of which would adversely affect our business operations and financial results.

Our future performance depends in part on proper use of our community website, Splunk Apps, and support from third-party software developers.

Our products enable third-party software developers to build apps on top of our platform. We operate a community website, Splunk Apps, for sharing these third-party apps, including add-ons and extensions. While we expect Splunk Apps to support our sales and marketing efforts, it also presents certain risks to our business, including:


•	third-party developers may not continue developing or supporting the software apps that they share on our community website, Splunk Apps;


•	we cannot provide any assurance that these apps meet the same quality standards that we apply to our own development efforts, and, to the extent they contain bugs or defects, they may create disruptions in our customers’ use of our products or negatively affect our brand;


•	we do not currently provide support for software apps developed by third-party software developers, and users may be left without support and potentially cease using our products if the third-party software developers do not provide support for these apps;


•	these third-party software developers may not possess the appropriate intellectual property rights to develop and share their apps; and


•	some of these developers may use the insight they gain using our products and from documentation publicly available on our website to develop competing products.

Many of these risks are not within our control to prevent, and our brand may be damaged if these apps, add-ons and extensions do not perform to our customers’ satisfaction and that dissatisfaction is attributed to us.

If poor advice or misinformation is spread through our community site, Splunk Answers, users of our products may experience unsatisfactory results from using our products, which could adversely affect our reputation and our ability to grow our business.

We host Splunk Answers for sharing knowledge about how to perform certain functions with our products. Our users are increasingly turning to our Splunk Answers community site for support in connection with their use of our products. We do not review or test the information that non-Splunk employees post on our Splunk Answers community site to ensure its accuracy or efficacy in resolving technical issues. Therefore, we cannot ensure that all the information listed on our Splunk Answers community site is accurate or that it will not adversely affect the performance of our products. Furthermore, users who post such information on our Splunk Answers community site may not have adequate rights to the information to share it publicly, and we could be the subject of intellectual property claims based on our hosting of such information. If poor advice or misinformation is spread among users of our Splunk Answers community site, our customers or other users of our products may experience unsatisfactory results from using our products, which could adversely affect our reputation and our ability to grow our business.

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

We use open source software in our products and expect to continue to use open source software in the future. We may face claims from others claiming ownership of, or seeking to enforce the terms of, an open source license, including by demanding release of the open source software, derivative works or our proprietary source code that was developed using such software. These claims could also result in litigation, require us to purchase a costly license or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our products, any of which would have a negative effect on our business and operating results. In addition, if the license terms for the open source code change, we may be forced to re-engineer our products or incur additional costs. Finally, we cannot assure that we have not incorporated additional open source software in our products in a manner that is inconsistent with our current policies and procedures.

If our security measures are breached or unauthorized access to customer data is otherwise obtained, our products may be perceived as not being secure, customers may reduce the use of or stop using our products, and we may incur significant liabilities.

Our software and cloud services involve the storage and transmission of data, and security breaches could result in the loss of this information, litigation, indemnity obligations and other liability. While we have taken steps to protect the confidential information that we have access to, including confidential information we may obtain through our customer support services or customer usage of our cloud-based services, our security measures could be breached. In addition, we do not have the ability to monitor or review the content that customers of Splunk Enterprise store, and therefore, we have no direct control over the substance of that content. Therefore, if customers use our products for the transmission or storage of personally identifiable information and our security measures are breached as a result of third-party action, employee error, malfeasance or otherwise, our reputation could be damaged, our business may suffer, and we could incur significant liability. Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or 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. Any or all of these issues could negatively impact our ability to attract new customers and increase engagement by existing customers, cause existing customers to elect to not renew their subscriptions, or subject us to third-party lawsuits, regulatory fines or other action or liability, thereby adversely affecting our financial results.

We use third-party technology and systems for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation, encryption and authentication technology, employee email, content delivery to customers, back-office support and other functions. Although we have developed systems and processes that are designed to protect customer information and prevent data loss and other security breaches, including systems and processes designed to reduce the impact of a security breach at a third-party vendor, such measures cannot provide absolute security.

Because our products could be used to collect and store personal information, domestic and international privacy concerns could result in additional costs and liabilities to us or inhibit sales of our products.

Privacy and data information security have become a significant issue in the United States and in many other countries where we offer licenses of our software and subscriptions of our cloud services. The regulatory framework for privacy and personal information security issues worldwide is rapidly evolving and is likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future. Many federal, state and foreign government bodies and agencies have adopted or are considering adopting laws and regulations regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. In the United States, these include rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of the Federal Trade Commission, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and state breach notification laws. Internationally, virtually every jurisdiction in which we operate has established its own data security and privacy legal framework with which we or our customers must comply, including the Data Protection Directive established in the European Union and the Federal Data Protection Act implemented in Germany.

In addition to government regulation, privacy advocates and industry groups may propose new and different self-regulatory standards that either legally or contractually apply to us. Because the interpretation and application of privacy and data protection laws are still uncertain, it is possible that these laws may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our existing data management practices or the features of our software and cloud services. If so, in addition to the possibility of fines, lawsuits and other claims, we could be required to fundamentally change our business activities and practices or modify our products, which could have an adverse effect on our business. Any inability to adequately address privacy concerns, even if unfounded, or comply with applicable privacy or data protection laws, regulations and policies, could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, inhibit sales and adversely affect our business.

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Furthermore, the costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, the laws, regulations, and policies that are applicable to the businesses of our customers may limit the use and adoption of, and reduce the overall demand for, our products. Privacy and personal information security concerns, whether valid or not valid, may inhibit market adoption of our products particularly in certain industries and foreign countries.

Federal, state and industry regulations as well as self-regulation related to privacy and data security concerns pose the threat of lawsuits and other liability.

We may collect and utilize demographic and other information, including personally identifiable information, from and about users (such as customers, potential customers, and others) as they interact with Splunk over the internet and otherwise provide us with information whether via our website, through email, or through other means. Users may provide personal information to us in many contexts such as when signing up for certain services, registering for seminars, participating in a survey, when answering questions on our Splunk Answers community site, when posting reviews or otherwise commenting on Splunk apps, when using other community or social networking features, when participating in polls or when signing up to receive e-mail newsletters.

Within the United States, various federal and state laws and regulations govern the collection, use, retention, sharing and security of the data we receive from and about users. Outside of the United States, various jurisdictions actively regulate and enforce laws regarding the collection, retention, transfer, and use (including loss and unauthorized access) of personal information. Privacy advocates and government bodies have increasingly scrutinized the ways in which companies link personal identities and data associated with particular users or devices with data collected through the internet, and we expect such scrutiny to continue to increase. Loss, retention or misuse of certain information and alleged violations of laws and regulations relating to privacy and data security, and any relevant claims, may expose us to potential liability and may require us to expend significant resources on data security and in responding to and defending such allegations and claims.

If we are unable to attract and retain key personnel, our business could be adversely affected.

We depend on the continued contributions of our senior management and other key personnel, the loss of whom could adversely affect our business. All of our executive officers and key employees are at-will employees, which means they may terminate their employment relationship with us at any time. We do not maintain a key-person life insurance policy on any of our officers or other employees.

Our future success also depends on our ability to identify, attract and retain highly skilled technical, managerial, finance and other personnel, particularly in our sales and marketing, research and development, general and administrative, and professional service departments. We face intense competition for qualified individuals from numerous software and other technology companies.

In addition, competition for qualified personnel, particularly software engineers, is particularly intense in the San Francisco Bay Area, where our headquarters are located. We may incur significant costs to attract and retain them, and we may lose new employees to our competitors or other technology companies before we realize the benefit of our investment in recruiting and training them. As we move into new geographies, we will need to attract and recruit skilled personnel in those areas. If we are unable to attract and retain suitably qualified individuals who are capable of meeting our growing technical, operational and managerial requirements, on a timely basis or at all, our business will be adversely affected.

Volatility or lack of performance in our stock price may also affect our ability to attract and retain our key employees. Many of our senior management personnel and other key employees have become, or will soon become, vested in a substantial amount of stock, restricted stock units or stock options. Employees may be more likely to leave us if the shares they own or the shares underlying their vested restricted stock units or options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the original purchase prices of the shares or the exercise prices of the options, or, conversely, if the exercise prices of the options that they hold are significantly above the market price of our common stock. If we are unable to retain our employees, or if we need to increase our compensation expenses to retain our employees, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows would be adversely affected.

Prolonged economic uncertainties or downturns could materially adversely affect our business.

Current or future economic downturns or uncertainty could adversely affect our business operations or financial results. Negative conditions in the general economy both in the United States and abroad, including conditions resulting from financial and credit market fluctuations and terrorist attacks on the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific or elsewhere, could

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cause a decrease in corporate spending on enterprise software in general and negatively affect the rate of growth of our business.

General worldwide economic conditions have experienced a significant downturn and continue to remain unstable. These conditions make it extremely difficult for our customers and us to forecast and plan future business activities accurately, and they could cause our customers to reevaluate their decision to purchase our products, which could delay and lengthen our sales cycles or result in cancellations of planned purchases. Furthermore, during challenging economic times our customers may face issues in gaining timely access to sufficient credit, which could result in an impairment of their ability to make timely payments to us. If that were to occur, we may be required to increase our allowance for doubtful accounts, which would adversely affect our financial results.

We have a significant number of customers in the business services, energy, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, technology, manufacturing, media and entertainment, online services, retail, telecommunications and travel and transportation industries. A substantial downturn in any of these industries may cause firms to react to worsening conditions by reducing their capital expenditures in general or by specifically reducing their spending on information technology. Customers in these industries may delay or cancel information technology projects or seek to lower their costs by renegotiating vendor contracts. To the extent purchases of our products are perceived by customers and potential customers to be discretionary, our revenues may be disproportionately affected by delays or reductions in general information technology spending. Also, customers may choose to develop in-house software as an alternative to using our products. Moreover, competitors may respond to market conditions by lowering prices and attempting to lure away our customers. In addition, the increased pace of consolidation in certain industries may result in reduced overall spending on our products.

We cannot predict the timing, strength or duration of any economic slowdown, instability or recovery, generally or within any particular industry or geography. If the economic conditions of the general economy or industries in which we operate worsen from present levels, our business operations and financial results could be adversely affected.

We may require additional capital to support business growth, and this capital might not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.

We intend to continue to make investments to support our business growth and may require additional funds to respond to business challenges, including the need to develop new features or enhance our products, improve our operating infrastructure or acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we raise additional funds through future issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences and privileges superior to those of holders of our common stock. Any debt financing that we may secure in the future could involve restrictive covenants relating to our capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. We may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly impaired, and our business may be adversely affected.

We have in the past made and may in the future make acquisitions that could prove difficult to integrate and/or adversely affect our business operations and financial results.

From time to time, we may choose to expand by making acquisitions that could be material to our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. Our ability as an organization to successfully acquire and integrate technologies or businesses is unproven. Acquisitions involve many risks, including the following:

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an acquisition may negatively affect our financial results because it may require us to incur charges or assume substantial debt or other liabilities, may cause adverse tax consequences or unfavorable accounting treatment, may expose us to claims and disputes by third parties, including intellectual property claims and disputes, or may not generate sufficient financial return to offset additional costs and expenses related to the acquisition;


•	potential goodwill impairment charges related to acquisitions;


•	costs and potential difficulties associated with the requirement to test and assimilate the internal control processes of the acquired business;

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•	we may encounter difficulties or unforeseen expenditures in integrating the business, technologies, products, personnel or operations of any company that we acquire, particularly if key personnel of the acquired company decide not to work for us;


•	we may not realize the expected benefits of the acquisition;


•	an acquisition may disrupt our ongoing business, divert resources, increase our expenses and distract our management;


•	an acquisition may result in a delay or reduction of customer purchases for both us and the company acquired due to customer uncertainty about continuity and effectiveness of service from either company;


•	the potential impact on relationships with existing customers, vendors and distributors as business partners as a result of acquiring another company or business that competes with or otherwise is incompatible with those existing relationships;


•	the potential that our due diligence of the acquired company or business does not identify significant problems or liabilities;


•	we may encounter difficulties in, or may be unable to, successfully sell any acquired products;


•	an acquisition may involve the entry into geographic or business markets in which we have little or no prior experience or where competitors have stronger market positions;


•	an acquisition may require us to comply with additional laws and regulations or result in liabilities resulting from the acquired company’s pre-acquisition failure to comply with applicable laws;


•	our use of cash to pay for an acquisition would limit other potential uses for our cash;


•	if we incur debt to fund such acquisition, such debt may subject us to material restrictions on our ability to conduct our business as well as financial maintenance covenants; and


•	to the extent that we issue a significant amount of equity securities in connection with future acquisitions, existing stockholders may be diluted and earnings per share may decrease.

The occurrence of any of these risks could have a material adverse effect on our business operations and financial results.

If currency exchange rates fluctuate substantially in the future, our financial results, which are reported in U.S. dollars, could be adversely affected.

As we continue to expand our international operations, we become more exposed to the effects of fluctuations in currency exchange rates. Although most of our sales contracts are denominated in U.S. dollars, and therefore substantially all of our revenues are not subject to foreign currency risk, a strengthening of the U.S. dollar could increase the real cost of our products to our customers outside of the United States, adversely affecting our business operations and financial results. We incur expenses for employee compensation and other operating expenses at our non-U.S. locations in the local currency. Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and other currencies could result in the dollar equivalent of such expenses being higher. This could have a negative impact on our reported operating results. To date, we have not engaged in any hedging strategies, and any such strategies, such as forward contracts, options and foreign exchange swaps related to transaction exposures that we may implement to mitigate this risk may not eliminate our exposure to foreign exchange fluctuations.

The enactment of legislation implementing changes in the United States of taxation of international business activities or the adoption of other tax reform policies could materially impact our financial position and results of operations.

Recent changes to United States tax laws, including limitations on the ability of taxpayers to claim and utilize foreign tax credits and the deferral of certain tax deductions until earnings outside of the United States are repatriated to the United States, as well as changes to United States tax laws that may be enacted in the future, could impact the tax treatment of our foreign earnings. Due to expansion of our international business activities, any changes in the United States taxation of such activities may increase our worldwide effective tax rate and adversely affect our financial position and results of operations.

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Our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations.

In general, under Section 382 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, a corporation that undergoes an “ownership change” is subject to limitations on its ability to utilize its pre-change net operating losses, or NOLs, to offset future taxable income. If our existing NOLs are subject to limitations arising from previous ownership changes, our ability to utilize NOLs could be limited by Section 382 of the Code. Future changes in our stock ownership, some of which are outside of our control, could result in an ownership change under Section 382 of the Code. Furthermore, our ability to utilize NOLs of companies that we may acquire in the future may be subject to limitations. There is also a risk that due to regulatory changes, such as suspensions on the use of NOLs, or other unforeseen reasons, our existing NOLs could expire or otherwise be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities. For these reasons, we may not be able to utilize a portion of the NOLs reflected on our balance sheet, even if we attain profitability.

Taxing authorities may successfully assert that we should have collected or in the future should collect sales and use, value added or similar taxes, and we could be subject to liability with respect to past or future sales, which could adversely affect our financial results.

We do not collect sales and use, value added and similar taxes in all jurisdictions in which we have sales, based on our belief that such taxes are not applicable. Sales and use, value added and similar tax laws and rates vary greatly by jurisdiction. Certain jurisdictions in which we do not collect such taxes may assert that such taxes are applicable, which could result in tax assessments, penalties and interest, and we may be required to collect such taxes in the future. Such tax assessments, penalties and interest or future requirements may adversely affect our financial results.

Our international operations subject us to potentially adverse tax consequences.

We generally conduct our international operations through wholly owned subsidiaries, branches and representative offices and report our taxable income in various jurisdictions worldwide based upon our business operations in those jurisdictions. We are in the process of organizing our corporate structure to more closely align with the international nature of our business activities. Our intercompany relationships are subject to complex transfer pricing regulations administered by taxing authorities in various jurisdictions. The relevant taxing authorities may disagree with our determinations as to the income and expenses attributable to specific jurisdictions. If such a disagreement were to occur, and our position were not sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest and penalties, which could result in one-time tax charges, higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows and lower overall profitability of our operations. We believe that our financial statements reflect adequate reserves to cover such a contingency, but there can be no assurances in that regard.

We could be subject to additional tax liabilities.

We are subject to federal, state and local taxes in the United States and numerous foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in evaluating our tax positions and our worldwide provision for taxes. During the ordinary course of business, there are many activities and transactions for which the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. We previously discovered that we have not complied with various tax rules and regulations in certain foreign jurisdictions. We are working to resolve these matters. In addition, our tax obligations and effective tax rates could be adversely affected by changes in the relevant tax, accounting and other laws, regulations, principles and interpretations, including those relating to income tax nexus, by our earnings being lower than anticipated in jurisdictions where we have lower statutory rates and higher than anticipated in jurisdictions where we have higher statutory rates, by changes in foreign currency exchange rates, or by changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities. We may be audited in various jurisdictions, and such jurisdictions may assess additional taxes against us. Although we believe our tax estimates are reasonable, the final determination of any tax audits or litigation could be materially different from our historical tax provisions and accruals, which could have a material adverse effect on our operating results or cash flows in the period or periods for which a determination is made.

Our stock price has been volatile, may continue to be volatile and may decline regardless of our financial performance.

The trading prices of the securities of technology companies have been highly volatile. The market price of our common stock has fluctuated significantly and may continue to fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:


•	actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial results;

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•	the financial projections we provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet or exceed these projections;


•	failure of securities analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of our company, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;


•	ratings changes by any securities analysts who follow our company;


•	announcements by us or our competitors of significant technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments;


•	changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in our industry in particular;


•	price and volume fluctuations in certain categories of companies or the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the global economy;


•	any major change in our board of directors or management;


•	lawsuits threatened or filed against us; and


•	other events or factors, including those resulting from war, incidents of terrorism or responses to these events.

In addition, the stock markets, and in particular the market on which our common stock is listed, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many technology companies. Stock prices of many technology companies have fluctuated in a manner unrelated or disproportionate to the financial performance of those companies. In the past, stockholders have instituted securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or publish negative reports about our business, our share price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our common stock depends in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business, our market and our competitors. We do not have any control over these analysts. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our shares or change their opinion of our shares, our share price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our share price or trading volume to decline.

Substantial future sales of shares of our common stock could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

The market price of shares of our common stock could decline as a result of substantial sales of our common stock, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers, employees and significant stockholders, a large number of shares of our common stock becoming available for sale, or the perception in the market that holders of a large number of shares intend to sell their shares. As of October 31, 2014, we had outstanding approximately 120.9 million shares of our common stock. We have also registered shares of common stock that we may issue under our employee equity incentive plans. These shares will be able to be sold freely in the public market upon issuance.

The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention and affect our ability to attract and retain executive management and qualified board members.

As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, the listing requirements of The NASDAQ Stock Market and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Compliance with these rules and regulations has increased our legal and financial compliance costs, made some activities more difficult, time-consuming or costly and increased and will continue to increase demand on our systems and resources. The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business and operating results. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. In order to maintain and,

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if required, improve our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting to meet this standard, significant resources and management oversight may be required. As a result, management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could adversely affect our business and operating results. Although we have already hired additional employees to comply with these requirements, we may need to hire more employees in the future or engage outside consultants, which will increase our costs and expenses.

In addition, changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs and making some activities more time consuming. These laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as regulatory and governing bodies provide new guidance. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We will continue to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to their application and practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business may be adversely affected.

As a result of disclosure of information as a public company, our business and financial condition have become more visible, which we believe may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business operations and financial results could be adversely affected, and even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and adversely affect our business operations and financial results. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified employees, executive officers and members of our board of directors.

We are obligated to develop and maintain proper and effective internal control over financial reporting. These internal controls may not be determined to be effective, which may adversely affect investor confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our common stock.

We are required, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. This assessment includes disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting. We are also required to have our independent registered public accounting firm issue an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting on an annual basis. During the evaluation and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal controls are effective.

If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if, when required, our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would cause the price of our common stock to decline, and we may be subject to investigation or sanctions by the SEC.

We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock and do not intend to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. We anticipate that we will retain all of our future earnings for use in the development of our business and for general corporate purposes. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our board of directors. Accordingly, price appreciation of our common stock, which may never occur, may be the only way our stockholders realize any future gains on their investments.

Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management and limit the market price of our common stock.

Provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws include provisions that:


•	authorize our board of directors to issue, without further action by the stockholders, shares of undesignated preferred stock with terms, rights and preferences determined by our board of directors;

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•	require that any action to be taken by our stockholders be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting and not by written consent;


•	specify that special meetings of our stockholders can be called only by our board of directors, the Chairman of our board of directors, or our Chief Executive Officer;


•	establish an advance notice procedure for stockholder proposals to be brought before an annual meeting, including proposed nominations of persons for election to our board of directors;


•	establish that our board of directors is divided into three classes, Class I, Class II and Class III, with each class serving three-year staggered terms;


•	prohibit cumulative voting in the election of directors;


•	provide that our directors may be removed only for cause;


•	provide that vacancies on our board of directors may be filled only by a majority of directors then in office, even though less than a quorum; and


•	require the approval of our board of directors or the holders of a supermajority of our outstanding shares of capital stock to amend our bylaws and certain provisions of our certificate of incorporation.

These provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management by making it more difficult for stockholders to replace members of our board of directors, which is responsible for appointing the members of our management. In addition, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which generally prohibits a Delaware corporation from engaging in any of a broad range of business combinations with any “interested” stockholder for a period of three years following the date on which the stockholder became an “interested” stockholder.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

a) Not applicable.

Item 6. Exhibits.

The exhibits listed in the accompanying Exhibit Index are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Quarterly Report.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.



Date: December 10, 2014


	SPLUNK INC.


	By:	/s/ David F. Conte
		David F. Conte
		Chief Financial Officer
		(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

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EXHIBIT

INDEX



Exhibit Number		Description

3.1		Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 filed with the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 15, 2014).

31.1		Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required Under Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

31.2		Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required Under Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

32.1		Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Required Under Rule 13a-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and 18 U.S.C. §1350.

101.INS		XBRL Instance Document

101.SCH		XBRL Taxonomy Schema Linkbase Document

101.CAL		XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document

101.DEF		XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document

101.LAB		XBRL Taxonomy Labels Linkbase Document

101.PRE		XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document