Pega Cloud Revenue and ACV grow by more than 50%

• Total ACV up 21% to $738 million, powered by Pega Cloud Choice
• Pega Cloud ACV up 56% to $211 million
• Pega Cloud Backlog grows by 26%; First Half Pega Cloud Revenue grows by 55%

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — July 28, 2020 — Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering digital transformation at the world’s leading enterprises, released its financial results for the second quarter of 2020.

“I’m pleased with our results through the first half of the year as we continue to demonstrate resiliency in our business throughout this global pandemic,” said Alan Trefler, founder and CEO, Pegasystems. “Clients and prospects continue to see value in our solutions, both for their short-term crisis related needs and their longer-term digital transformation goals, and we remain confident in our long-term opportunity.”

“Our subscription revenue grew 38 percent year over year in the first half of 2020, which reflects the impact of passing the midpoint of our cloud transition,” said Ken Stillwell, CFO, Pegasystems. “This impressive result demonstrates the power of growing ACV by more than 20 percent quarter in and quarter out. With over $500 million of cash on the balance sheet and a notable portfolio of enterprise clients, Pega is in a strong position to capture an even greater share of the more than $50 billion market for digital transformation solutions.”

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Quarterly conference call

A conference call and audio-only webcast will be conducted at 5:00 p.m. EDT on July 28, 2020.

Members of the public and investors are invited to join the call and participate in the question and answer session by dialing 1-888-394-8218 (domestic), 1-323-701-0225 (international), or via webcast (http://public.viavid.com/index.php?id=140614) by logging onto www.pega.com at least five minutes prior to the event's broadcast and clicking on the webcast icon in the Investors section.

A replay of the call will also be available on www.pega.com by clicking the Earnings Calls link in the Investors section.

Discussion of Non-GAAP financial measures

To supplement the financial results presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (“GAAP”), we provide Non-GAAP measures, including in this release. We utilize several different financial measures, both GAAP and Non-GAAP, to analyze and assess the business’ overall performance, make operating decisions, and forecast and plan for future periods. Our annual financial plan is prepared on both a GAAP and a Non-GAAP basis. We use Non-GAAP measures in the evaluation process to establish management’s compensation because of the importance of these measures in managing the business.

The Non-GAAP measures exclude the effects of stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, foreign currency transaction gains and losses, costs arising in connection with the issuance of our convertible senior notes and the related capped call transactions, gains and losses arising from our venture investments, gains and losses from our capped call transactions, gains and losses arising in connection with the change in the format of PegaWorld, and related income tax effects. We believe these Non-GAAP measures are helpful in understanding our past financial performance and our anticipated future results.

These Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP measures. They should only be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.

A reconciliation of the GAAP measures to our Non-GAAP measures is contained in the financial schedules at the end of this release.

Forward-looking statements

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These forward-looking statements deal with future events, and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, including, but not limited to, statements about our future financial performance and business plans, the adequacy of our liquidity and capital resources, the continued payment of quarterly dividends, the timing of revenue recognition, management of our transition to a more subscription-based business model, variation in demand for our products and services, including among clients in the public sector, the impact of actual or threatened public health emergencies, such as the Coronavirus (COVID-19), reliance on third-party service providers, compliance with our debt obligations and debt covenants, the potential impact of our convertible senior notes and related Capped Call Transactions, reliance on key personnel, the continued uncertainties in the global economy, foreign currency exchange rates, the potential legal and financial liabilities and reputation damage due to cyber-attacks, security breaches and security flaws, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and costs associated with defending such rights, maintenance of our client retention rate, and management of our growth. These risks and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements are described further in Part I of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, and other filings we make with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). These documents are available on our website at www.pega.com/about/investors. Except as required by applicable law, we do not undertake and expressly disclaim any obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements whether as the result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

The forward-looking statements contained in this press release represent our views as of July 28, 2020.