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Varonis Systems, Inc. (VRNS) — this company's answers

The model's full reasoning — Q2 2016 call → NO我们根据提供的财报电话会议记录，判断管理层是否描述了公司最近加大自身投入力度（相对于过去几个季度），并且这种投入是基于当前业务中已经出现的需求、采用、订单或客户行为。 分析： - 管理层提到“我们专注于增加人员以提供创新和扩大自身能力，以推动增长，同时专注于扩大业务规模。”（We are focused on adding people to deliver innovation and expanding self-capacity in order to drive growth while also focusing on scaling the business.）这暗示了增加人员，但这是否是“最近加大投入”？ - 在回答分析师关于销售和营销杠杆的问题时，Yaki说：“我们说过，我们有更多经验和更多人在整体生产力曲线上。我们说过我们将逐步走向盈利，这就是我们正在做的。”（We said that we've more tenure and more people in the overall productivity curve. And we said that we'll inch forward towards profitability and this is what we were doing.）这似乎表明他们一直在增加人员，但这是否是“最近加大”？ - 在回答关于销售队伍扩张的问题时，Yaki说：“拥有覆盖范围和增加销售能力始终是计划的一部分，只是谈论我们拥有的巨大市场，但我们以有节制的方式这样做。我们想确保引进高素质人才，我们想确保我们使他们能够提高生产力，这可能会因季度而异，但建立一支能够抓住这一巨大机会的重要销售队伍是我们计划的关键。”（Having coverage and increasing sales capacity is always part of the plan, just talking about just enormous market that we own, but we are doing it in a measured way. We want to make sure bringing the high talent, we want to make sure we enable them, we make them productivity the right manager and this can fluctuate a bit from quarter-to-quarter, but definitely building is significant sales force that can capture on this massive opportunity is key for our plan.）这听起来像是持续的投资，而不是“最近加大”。 - 在回答关于销售和营销杠杆的问题时，Gili说：“我们在业务上进行了大量投资，我们认为业务中有很多容量，现在这些投资正在产生成果。”（And we've made a lot of investments in the business that we guess there is a lot of capacity into the business and now it's come into fruition.）这暗示过去有投资，现在正在收获，但并没有明确说最近加大了投入。 - 在回答关于销售队伍扩张的问题时，Gili说：“正如你从指导中看到的，我们正在改善利润率，但我们也给自己一些灵活性，在下半年进行投资，我们将第二季度的大部分收益转化为年度指导，但不是全部。所以我们并没有真正改变我们在投资业务、销售能力和产品开发以及走向盈利之间的平衡方式，但我们仍在投资以抓住机会。”（And as you can see from the guidance we're improving their margin, but we are also giving us some flexibility to invest during the second half of the year we're flowing through a healthy portion of Q2 be to the annual guidance but not all of this. So we didn't really change the way we think about balancing between investing in the business in the sales capacity and product development and also moving on the path to profitability, but we're still investing in the business to capture the opportunity.）这明确表示他们没有改变投资方式，只是继续投资。 因此，管理层没有描述“最近加大投入”的步骤。他们提到增加人员，但这是持续性的，没有说“比之前更多”或“加速”。他们也没有明确说这种投入是基于当前需求，而是基于市场机会。虽然他们提到了需求强劲，但并没有将投入与需求直接挂钩，而是说“我们正在投资以抓住机会”。 因此，答案应为NO。

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