our global cloud data center
footprint to 46. We already have an ecosystem of millions of developers globally, and our Bluemix platform as a service has already expended to
over a million users adding 15,000 developers a week. With nearly $18 billion of analytics revenue, we are also the largest analytics provider and
will extend that lead by moving into new areas including Watson Health and Watson Internet of Things.
And currency was also a headwind to our profit performance. We estimate it impacted our profit growth by about $300 million in the fourth quarter and over $1 billion for the year. At current spot rates, we would expect a significant impact to revenue and profit again in 2016 not just from the translation but from the year-to-year cash flow hedging dynamics.
urning to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with a cash balance of $8.2 billion. Total debt was nearly $40 billion of which $27 billion was in support of our Financing business. The leverage in our financing business remains just over 7 to 1. The credit quality of our financing receivables remains strong at 55% investment grade. You can see this in our supplemental charts. The year-to-year reduction in investment grade was driven by rating changes to our existing portfolio not by changing our approach to the market. Our non financing debt of $12.7 billion was almost $1 billion lower than September and up just over $1 billion year-to-year.
The ELA construct quite powerful. It is the right way, I think, for our clients to consume our software and the right way to give them flexibility to deploy it.
And currency was also a headwind to our profit performance. We estimate it impacted our profit growth by about $300 million in the fourth quarter and over $1 billion for the year. At current spot rates, we would expect a significant impact to revenue and profit again in 2016 not just from the translation but from the year-to-year cash flow hedging dynamics.
urning to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with a cash balance of $8.2 billion. Total debt was nearly $40 billion of which $27 billion was in support of our Financing business. The leverage in our financing business remains just over 7 to 1. The credit quality of our financing receivables remains strong at 55% investment grade. You can see this in our supplemental charts. The year-to-year reduction in investment grade was driven by rating changes to our existing portfolio not by changing our approach to the market. Our non financing debt of $12.7 billion was almost $1 billion lower than September and up just over $1 billion year-to-year.
The ELA construct quite powerful. It is the right way, I think, for our clients to consume our software and the right way to give them flexibility to deploy it.
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