Frederic Kerrest
Analyst · Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.
Yes, absolutely. Thank you, Shaul for the kind words, happy to talk about that. So for those of you who might not be as familiar with the story, partners and channel partners to us there’s a couple of different buckets of it. The first one obviously is independent software vendors, so organizations like Microsoft Office 365, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, where they're very good partners of ours, because obviously integration to the Okta Identity Cloud means faster deployments and better results with those products. Secondly, the global system integrators, in particular there have been a number of comments on today’s call about how we’re going to be with large enterprise, whether it's Accenture, Deloitte, PWC, they're all building very strong practices around Okta, which is great. We saw them as very strong sponsors of sales kick-off, which happened in February as well. And they're all getting more and more trained and certified, whether it's for their security practices. So implementing for Workforce or helping large organizations with digital transformation in a managed service environment. And then finally, there's a lot of regional identity experts and consulting firms who are partnering with us to bring Okta Identity Cloud out there to the channel. In particular, what you're talking about Shaul there, is also international, is a huge opportunity for us. We're very happy with the overall growth of the business. International obviously grew 60% year-over-year, which is phenomenal. But there's a lot of opportunity out there. We're excited to open offices where it makes sense, like we just did in Germany. But in a lot of the other territories where every organization is looking to adopt public cloud services and think more about this hybrid environment, we are going to partner more and more with organizations to do that in the channel. So you're going to continue to see that. What is the model look like over the next three and five years? We don't have specific numbers that we're sharing at this time. But I think that having a quarter of the business impacted by the channel today is very, very good. And I expect that strong growth to continue in the times ahead.