Amit Singh - Jefferies LLC
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Hi, guys. This is Amit Singh for Jason. Just staying on some of the discussion about various industries and your focus areas, most of the other industries – insurance, healthcare, banking, travel, transportation – they seem to be growing decently when you look at year-over-year basis. Some of the smaller verticals – just wanted to get your view over there – like utilities, it's declined year-over-year and sequentially, and also the other vertical, I think, which includes some of the tech work that declined also year-over-year. So just wanted to get your view on what is your long-term strategy in those verticals.
Pavan Bagai - President & Chief Operating Officer: Amit, this is Pavan here. Talking about the utilities vertical, that particular vertical has been characterized by a small number of clients with a large relationship with them. The way we are approaching that vertical is to look to – and so far, it's been restricted to energy, to electricity and gas. What we are looking to do is to tap into opportunities in other utilities like water within the UK geography and also look at a geographical expansion in terms of opportunities that may exist in the United States and Australia. So the way we view that vertical at this point in time is, it seems to be at an inflection point. And if we were to succeed with regard to this broader approach to the market, then we would see a more rapid growth there. The other opportunity in that particular vertical is the adoption of smart technology. And that opens up a number of opportunities in Analytics for us. So in fact, the Analytics component of utilities grew faster than the Operations Management component of utilities in 2015. So, I guess, the point I am making is that there is a degree of uncertainty attached to it. We believe that we are at a point, where we could either see that vertical accelerate and that's the strategy that we are adopting at this point in time. I will say that within the Analytics business, banking and financial services remains a very strong vertical for us. And Rohit talked about the dynamics within healthcare and insurance. I will say that in banking and financial services, the focus on risk management, the greater regulatory scrutiny, the focus on compliance as well as a greater degree of digitization with the idea of improving customer experience, all of these are industry factors that play into our Analytics capabilities, and that remains a highly attractive vertical for us.