Duck Creek (DCT) 7 Jan 222022 Q1 Earnings call transcript

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Duck Creek Technologies First Quarter Fiscal 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. I will now turn the conference to your host, Mr. ICR. from Denyeau Brian

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you. Saket comes Instructions] Kalia, Barclays. [Operator from Our Thank first question

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