In the overall picture, "Much of the revenue change was due to higher sales of subscription-based cloud offerings," said Roth. "Four of the deals sold in Q1 were subscription-based versus zero from last year." That translated in to "well over $250,000 in deferred revenue over the next 12 months," he said. Services revenue rose to $4.3 million, a rise of 29.6 percent from $3.3 million in last year's corresponding period. Roth said there was a 7,000hour consulting backlog at the end of the quarter while "our consultants' utilization is the highest it has even been." SilverSun reported sales of its cloud-based software for the craft and brewery business increased and the company continued to book major orders of X3.