Form 10-Q
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-Q

 

 

(Mark One)

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2012

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from             to            

Commission file number 001-35108

 

 

SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in our charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   No. 81-0578975

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

634 Second Street

San Francisco, California

  94107
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

(415) 901-6030

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨    Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   x  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practical date:

 

Class

   Outstanding
as of July 23,  2012

Common Stock

   74,906,424

 

 

 


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SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Form 10-Q

INDEX

 

     Page
No.
 

PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

  

Item 1. Financial Statements (unaudited)

     3   

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011

     3   

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and six months ended June  30, 2012 and 2011

     4   

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011

     5   

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011

     6   

Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

     7   

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

     17   

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

     29   

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

     29   

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

  

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

     31   

Item 1A. Risk Factors

     31   

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

     45   

Item 3. Default Upon Senior Securities

     45   

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

     45   

Item 5. Other Information

     45   

Item 6. Exhibits

     45   

Signatures

     46   

Exhibit Index

     47   

 

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PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements

SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

     June 30,
2012
    December 31,
2011
 

Assets

    

Current assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 65,586      $ 65,983   

Short-term investments

     48,611        42,882   

Accounts receivable, net

     51,391        54,095   

Current portion of deferred income taxes

     203        3,526   

Prepaid expenses and other

     8,404        7,945   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     174,195        174,431   

Property and equipment, net

     33,661        26,840   

Deferred income taxes, net of current portion

     1,341        30,238   

Other assets, net

     1,167        1,118   

Goodwill

     6,334        6,334   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 216,698      $ 238,961   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

    

Current liabilities:

    

Accounts payable

   $ 7,525      $ 8,617   

Accrued taxes

     3,368        4,008   

Accrued compensation and benefits

     14,751        18,665   

Other accrued liabilities

     8,180        7,639   

Obligations under capital leases

     725        706   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     34,549        39,635   

Obligations under capital leases, net of current portion

     787        958   

Other long-term liabilities

     5,307        1,352   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     40,643        41,945   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)

    

Stockholders’ equity:

    

Common stock; $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; 74,966 shares issued and 74,845 shares outstanding as of June 30, 2012; 72,688 shares issued and 72,567 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2011

     7        7   

Treasury stock

     (441     (441

Additional paid-in capital

     194,925        177,796   

Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)

     (18,627     19,416   

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     191        238   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

     176,055        197,016   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 216,698      $ 238,961   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012     2011     2012     2011  

Net revenue

   $ 59,694      $ 48,512      $ 117,268      $ 94,634   

Cost of revenue

     33,882        28,229        66,458        54,365   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     25,812        20,283        50,810        40,269   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

        

Sales and marketing

     14,169        11,415        27,646        22,520   

Research and development

     4,298        3,390        8,879        6,103   

General and administrative

     10,564        7,870        20,639        15,723   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     29,031        22,675        57,164        44,346   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (3,219     (2,392     (6,354     (4,077

Interest expense

     (70     (51     (117     (384

Other expense, net

     (263     (384     (307     (909
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

     (3,552     (2,827     (6,778     (5,370

Income tax (benefit) provision

     33,217        (1,694     31,267        (21,653
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

   $ (36,769   $ (1,133   $ (38,045   $ 16,283   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) per common share:

        

Basic

   $ (0.50   $ (0.02   $ (0.52   $ 0.26   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted

   $ (0.50   $ (0.02   $ (0.52   $ 0.24   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares used in computing net income (loss) per common share:

        

Basic

     74,172        67,607        73,654        62,714   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted

     74,172        67,607        73,654        69,205   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012     2011     2012     2011  

Net income (loss)

   $ (36,769   $ (1,133   $ (38,045   $ 16,283   

Other comprehensive income, net of tax:

        

Foreign currency translation adjustments

     (56     275        (73     628   

Unrealized gain (loss) on investments

     (14     (7     26        (7 )
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

     (70     268        (47     621   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

   $ (36,389   $ (865   $ (38,092   $ 16,904   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

     Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012     2011  

Cash flows from operating activities

    

Net income (loss)

   $ (38,045   $ 16,283   

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:

    

Depreciation and amortization

     4,577        4,488   

Loss on disposal of fixed assets

     (1     46   

Amortization of deferred financing costs

     123        298   

Amortization of premium on short-term investments

     445        14   

Deferred income taxes

     32,220        (22,715

Stock-based compensation

     9,607        5,136   

Income tax deficiency from stock-based compensation

     362        —     

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

    

Accounts receivable

     2,586        4,122   

Prepaid expenses and other

     (811     (1,940

Accounts payable

     (877     1,107   

Accrued taxes

     (618     1,321   

Accrued compensation and benefits

     (3,904     3,404   

Accrued payables to customers

     —          (30,644

Other accrued liabilities

     4,145        1,128   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

     9,809        (17,952
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities

    

Acquisition of property and equipment

     (11,244     (6,288

Purchases of short-term investments, net

     (24,186     (42,273

Sales of marketable securities

     6,210        —     

Maturities of marketable securities

     11,820        —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (17,400     (48,561
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities

    

Net proceeds from issuance of common stock in initial public offering

     —          88,015   

Proceeds from revolving credit facility

     —          23,424   

Repayment of revolving credit facility

     —          (23,424

Repayment on long-term debt

     (155     (15,582

Payment of deferred debt issuance costs

     —          (200

Proceeds from common stock issuances

     7,818        2,247   

Income tax deficiency from stock-based compensation

     (362     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

     7,301        74,480   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     (290     7,967   

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     (107     752   

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

     65,983        22,652   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

   $ 65,586      $ 31,371   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 1 — Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

ServiceSource manages the service contract renewals process of maintenance, support and subscription agreements on behalf of its customers. The Company’s integrated solution consists of a suite of cloud applications, dedicated service sales teams working under its customers’ brands and a proprietary Service Revenue Intelligence Platform. By integrating software, managed services and data, the Company provides end-to-end management and optimization of the service contract renewals process, including data management, quoting, selling and service revenue business intelligence. The Company’s business is built on a pay-for-performance model, whereby customers pay the Company based on renewal sales that the Company generates on the customers’ behalf. The Company’s corporate headquarters is located in San Francisco, California. The Company has additional offices in Colorado, Tennessee, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malaysia and Singapore.

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements (“condensed consolidated financial statements”) include the accounts of ServiceSource International Inc. and its subsidiaries (“SSI” or “Company”). Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

These condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“U.S. GAAP” or “GAAP”) for interim financial information, rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for interim financial statements, and accounting policies, consistent in all material respects with those applied in preparing our audited annual consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011. These condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes should be read in conjunction with our annual consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2011, included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K. In the opinion of management, these condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, including normal recurring adjustments, management considers necessary for a fair statement of our financial position, operating results, and cash flows for the interim periods presented. The results for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year.

The December 31, 2011 condensed consolidated balance sheet data was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes for the year ended December 31, 2011 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

Effective January 1, 2012, the Company adopted revised guidance related to the presentation of comprehensive income that increases comparability between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. This guidance eliminates the current option to report other comprehensive income (OCI) and its components in the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity. The Company adopted this guidance during the first quarter of 2012 and elected to disclose OCI as a separate statement.

Note 2 — Related Party Transactions

In the first quarter of 2012, the Company purchased a software license and related services from Jive Software, Inc. Anthony Zingale, who is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Jive Software, is a member of the Company’s board of directors and serves on the Company’s nominating and governance committee. The aggregate value of the purchase slightly exceeds, per annum, the $120,000 related party disclosure threshold over the 15-month term of the license and was made in the ordinary course of business. Also in the second quarter of 2012, Jive Software signed an agreement with the Company to use the Company’s service. The fees for this agreement are variable based upon sales commissions, but the estimated annual fees from this agreement are not expected to exceed one million dollars. Both transactions were pre-approved by the Company’s audit committee and have been negotiated at arm’s length, on normal commercial terms and reflect normal market prices. Mr. Zingale is not a member of the Company’s audit committee and did not participate in the audit committee’s approval process.

Note 3 — Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments

Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid fixed-income investments with original maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase, including money market funds. Short-term investments consist of readily marketable securities with a remaining maturity of more than three months from time of purchase. The Company classifies all of its cash equivalents and short-term investments as “available for sale,” as these investments are free of trading restrictions. These marketable securities are carried at fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses, net of tax, reported as accumulated other comprehensive income and included as a separate component of

 

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stockholders’ equity. Gains and losses are recognized when realized. When the Company determines that an other-than-temporary decline in fair value has occurred, the amount of the decline that is related to a credit loss is recognized in earnings. Gains and losses are determined using the specific identification method. The Company’s realized gains and losses in the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 were insignificant.

Cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments consisted of the following as of June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011 (in thousands):

June 30, 2012

 

     Amortized
Cost
     Unrealized
Gains
     Unrealized
Losses
    Estimated
Fair Value
 

Cash

   $ 64,193       $ —         $ —        $ 64,193   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash equivalents:

          

Money market mutual funds

     693         —           —          693   

Commercial paper

     700         —           —          700   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cash equivalents

     1,393         —           —          1,393   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

     65,586         —           —          65,586   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Short-term investments:

          

Certificate of deposit

     750         —           (1     749   

Asset-backed securities

     1,000         3         —          1,003   

Municipal securities

     28,390         32         (9     28,413   

Commercial paper

     7,609         3         —          7,612   

Corporate bonds

     10,827         12         (5     10,834   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total short-term investments

     48,576         50         (15     48,611   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments

   $ 114,162       $ 50       $ (15   $ 114,197   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

December 31, 2011

 

     Amortized
Cost
     Unrealized
Gains
     Unrealized
Losses
    Estimated
Fair Value
 

Cash

   $ 59,033       $ —         $ —        $ 59,033   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash equivalents:

          

Money market mutual funds

     4,201         —           —          4,201   

Commercial paper

     2,749         —           —          2,749   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cash equivalents

     6,950         —           —          6,950   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

     65,983         —           —          65,983   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Short-term investments:

          

Certificate of deposit

     750         —           (4     746   

Municipal securities

     33,568         30         (6     33,592   

Commercial paper

     3,645         1         (1     3,645   

Corporate bonds

     4,910         3         (14     4,899   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total short-term investments

     42,873         34         (25     42,882   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments

   $ 108,856       $ 34       $ (25   $ 108,865   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

The following table summarizes the cost and estimated fair value of short-term fixed income securities classified as short-term investments based on stated maturities as of June 30, 2012:

 

     Amortized
Cost
     Estimated
Fair Value
 

Less than 1 year

   $ 37,395       $ 37,428   

Due in 1 to 3 years

     11,181         11,183   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 48,576       $ 48,611   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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As of June 30, 2012, the Company did not consider any of its investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired.

Note 4 — Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The Company measures certain financial instruments at fair value on a recurring basis. The Company uses a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:

Level 1 valuations are based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 valuations are based on inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly, other than quoted prices included within Level 1. Such inputs used in determining fair value for Level 2 valuations include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3 valuations are based on information that is unobservable and significant to the overall fair value measurement.

All of the Company’s cash equivalents and short-term investments are classified within Level 1 or Level 2.

The following table presents information about the Company’s financial instruments that are measured at fair value as of June 30, 2012 and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation (in thousands):

 

     Total      Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
     Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 

Description

           

Cash equivalents:

           

Money market mutual funds

   $ 693       $ 693       $ —         $ —     

Commercial paper

     700         —           700         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cash equivalents

     1,393         693         700         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Short-term investments:

           

Certificate of deposit

     749         —           749         —     

Asset backed securities

     1,003         —           1,003         —     

Municipal securities

     28,413         —           28,413         —     

Commercial paper

     7,612         —           7,612         —     

Corporate bonds

     10,834         —           10,834         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total short-term investments

     48,611         —           48,611         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash equivalents and short-term investments

   $ 50,004       $ 693       $ 49,311       $ —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The following table presents information about the Company’s financial instruments that are measured at fair value as of December 31, 2011 and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation (in thousands):

 

     Total      Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
     Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 

Description

           

Cash equivalents:

           

Money market mutual funds

   $ 4,201       $ 4,201       $ —         $ —     

Commercial paper

     2,749         —           2,749         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cash equivalents

     6,950         4,201         2,749         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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     Total      Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
     Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 

Short-term investments:

           

Certificate of deposit

     746         —           746         —     

Municipal securities

     33,592         —           33,592         —     

Commercial paper

     3,645         —           3,645         —     

Corporate bonds

     4,899         —           4,899         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total short-term investments

     42,882         —           42,882         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash equivalents and short-term investments

   $ 49,832       $ 4,201       $ 45,631       $ —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company did not have any financial liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of June 30, 2012 or December 31, 2011.

Note 5 — Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment balances were comprised of the following (in thousands):

 

     June 30,
2012
    December 31,
2011
 

Computers and equipment

   $ 13,627      $ 11,562   

Software

     19,875        19,487   

Furniture and fixtures

     7,799        5,879   

Leasehold improvements

     8,734        4,957   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     50,035        41,885   

Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization

     (27,092     (23,187
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     22,943        18,698   

Construction in progress

     10,718        8,142   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
   $ 33,661      $ 26,840   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization expense during the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, was $2.3 million, $4.6 million, $2.6 million and $4.5 million, respectively.

Total property and equipment assets under capital lease at June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, was $3.2 and 3.3 million, respectively. Accumulated depreciation related to assets under capital lease as of these dates were $2.0 million and $1.7 million, respectively.

The Company capitalized internal-use software development costs of $2.8 million and $0.6 million during the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively and $5.0 million and $2.0 million during the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. As of June 30, 2012 and December, 31 2011, the carrying value of capitalized costs related to internal-use software was $14.1 million and $9.0 million, respectively. Amortization of capitalized costs related to internal-use software for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 was $0.6 million and $1.2 million, respectively, and for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 was $1.3 million and $1.9 million, respectively.

Note 6 — Other Accrued Liabilities

Other accrued liabilities balances were comprised of the following (in thousands):

 

     June 30,
2012
     December 31,
2011
 

Accrued professional fees

   $ 1,181       $ 944   

Amounts refundable to end customers

     233         582   

Deferred revenue

     372         593   

 

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     June 30,
2012
     December 31,
2011
 

Deferred rent obligations

     583         734   

Employee related

     121         379   

Other (includes ESPP contributions of $1,053 and $1,106 at June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively)

     5,690         4,407   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 8,180       $ 7,639   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Note 7 — Credit Facility and Capital Leases

Revolving Credit Facility

On July 5, 2012, the Company, entered into a new three-year credit agreement which provides for a secured revolving line of credit in the amount of $25.0 million on and before July 5, 2013 and $30.0 million thereafter, in each case with a $2.0 million letter of credit sublimit. Proceeds available under the agreement may be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The Company may prepay borrowing under the agreement in whole or in part at any time without premium or penalty. The Company may terminate the commitments under the credit agreement in whole at any time, and may reduce the commitments by up to $10.0 million between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

The loans bear interest, at the Company’s option, at a base rate determined in accordance with the credit agreement, minus 0.50%, or at a LIBOR rate plus 2.00%. Principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, is due and payable on the maturity date. The Company is also obligated to pay a quarterly commitment fee, payable in arrears, based on the available commitments at a rate of 0.45%.

The credit agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, as well as financial covenants. Affirmative covenants include, among others, delivery of financial statements, compliance certificates and notices of specified events, maintenance of properties and insurance, preservation of existence, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Negative covenants include, among others, limitations on the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to grant liens, incur indebtedness, engage in mergers, consolidations and sales of assets and engage in affiliate transactions. The agreement requires the Company to maintain a maximum leverage ratio and a minimum liquidity amount, each as defined in the agreement.

The credit agreement also contains customary events of default including, among other things, payment defaults, breaches of covenants or representations and warranties, cross-defaults with certain other indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency events and change in control of the Company, subject to grace periods in certain instances. Upon an event of default, the lender may declare the outstanding obligations of the Company under the agreement to be immediately due and payable and exercise other rights and remedies provided for under the credit agreement.

The Company’s obligations under the credit agreement are guaranteed by its subsidiary, ServiceSource Delaware, Inc. and are secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company and the Guarantor.

Effective June 29, 2012, the Company terminated a $20 million credit facility. At the time of the termination, no borrowings and a letter of credit in the face amount of $850,000 were outstanding under this facility.

Capital Leases

The Company has capital lease agreements that are collateralized by the underlying property and equipment and expire through September 2019. The weighted-average imputed interest rates for the capital lease agreements were 3.75% and 5.6 % at June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Future minimum annual payments under capital lease obligations as of June 30, 2012 were as follows (in thousands):

 

Years Ending December 31,

  

2012 (remaining six months)

   $ 569   

2013

     323   

2014

     264   

2015

     71   

2016

     73   

Thereafter

     212   
  

 

 

 
   $ 1,512   
  

 

 

 

 

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Note 8 — Commitments and Contingencies

Operating Leases

The Company leases its office space and certain equipment under non-cancelable operating lease agreements with various expiration dates through September 30, 2022. Rent expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, was $2.0 million, $4.4 million, $1.6 million, and $3.2 million, respectively. The Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease period and accrues for rent expense incurred but not paid.

Future annual minimum lease payments under all noncancelable operating leases as of June 30, 2012 were as follows (in thousands):

 

Years Ending December 31,

  

2012 (remaining six months)

   $ 4,324   

2013

     7,711   

2014

     6,655   

2015

     5,041   

2016

     3,647   

Thereafter

     16,174   
  

 

 

 
   $ 43,552   
  

 

 

 

Other Matters

The Company may be subject to litigation or other claims in the normal course of business. In the opinion of management, the Company’s ultimate liability, if any, related to any currently pending or threatened litigation or claims would not materially affect its consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Note 9 — Stockholders’ Equity

Stock Option Plans

The Company maintained the following stock plans: the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2011 Plan”), and the 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The Company’s board of directors and, as delegated to its compensation committee, administers the 2011 Plan and has authority to determine the directors, officers, employees and consultants to whom options or restricted stock may be granted, the option price or restricted stock purchase price, the timing of when each share is exercisable and the duration of the exercise period and the nature of any restrictions or vesting periods applicable to an option or restricted stock grant

Under the 2011 Plan, options granted are generally subject to a four-year vesting period whereby options become 25% vested after a one-year period and the remainder then vests monthly through the end of the vesting period. Vested options may be exercised up to ten years from the vesting commencement date, as defined in the 2011 Plan. Vested but unexercised options expire three months after termination of employment with the Company. The restricted stock units typically vest over four years with a yearly cliff contingent upon employment with the Company on the dates of vest.

The Company has elected to recognize the compensation cost of all stock-based awards on a straight-line basis over the vesting period of the award. Further, the Company applied an estimated forfeiture rate to unvested awards when computing the share compensation expenses. The Company estimated the forfeiture rate for unvested awards based on its historical experience on employee turnover behavior and other factors.

On February 8, 2012, the Company issued 200,000 performance-based equity awards to an executive which vest upon the achievement of certain financial performance goals, including revenue and an internal metric that is used for measuring customer contract commitments based on a net recurring revenue amount in which the Company measures customer revenue gains offset by losses during the measurement period. Determining the appropriate amount to expense based on the anticipated achievement of the stated goals requires judgment, including forecasting future financial results. The estimate of the timing of the expense recognition is revised periodically based on the probability of achieving the required performance targets and adjustments are made as appropriate. The cumulative impact of any revision is reflected in the period of the change. If the financial performance goals are not met, the award does not vest, no compensation cost is recognized and any previously stock-recognized stock-based compensation expense is reversed. No expense was recorded for the performance –based equity award during the three or six months ended June 30, 2012.

At the end of each fiscal year, the share reserve under the 2011 Plan will increase automatically by an amount equal to 4% of the outstanding shares as of the end of that most recently completed fiscal year or 3,840,000 shares, whichever is less. On January 1, 2012, 2.9 million additional shares were reserved under the 2011 Plan pursuant to the automatic increase.

 

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Determining Fair Value of Stock Options

The Company estimates the fair value of stock option awards at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. Options are granted with an exercise price equal to the fair value of the common stock as of the date of grant. Compensation expense is amortized net of estimated forfeitures on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period of the options, which is generally four years. Restricted stock, upon vesting entitles the holder to one share of common stock for each restricted stock and has an exercise price of $0.0001 per share, which is equal to the par value of the Company’s common stock, and vests over four years. The fair value of the restricted stock is based on the Company’s closing stock price on the date of grant, and compensation expense, net of estimated forfeitures, is recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period.

The weighted average Black-Scholes model assumptions for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 were as follows:

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012     2011     2012     2011  

Expected term (in years)

     5.1        5.4        5.1        5.4   

Expected volatility

     45.5     54.0     45.5     54.0

Risk-free interest rate

     0.83     1.95     0.82     2.13

Expected dividend yield

     —          —          —          —     

 

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Option and restricted stock activity under the Company’s Plans for the six months ended June 30, 2012 were as follows: (shares in thousands):

 

           Options
Outstanding
     Restricted Stock
Outstanding
 
     Shares and Units
Available
for Grant
    Number
of Shares
    Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
     Number
of Shares
 

Outstanding — December 31, 2011

     6,409        15,335      $ 5.70         802   

Additional shares reserved under the 2012 equity incentive plan

     2,903        —          —           —     

Granted

     (3,386     1,575        17.21         1,811   

Options exercised/ Restricted stock released

     —          (1,643     3.97         (34

Forfeited

     671        (585     7.55         (86
  

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Outstanding — June 30, 2012

     6,597        14,682      $ 7.05         2,493   
  

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

The weighted average grant-date fair value of employee stock options granted during the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 was $6.68 and $7.03 per share, respectively and for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 was $6.98 and $6.32 per share, respectively.

The following table summarizes the consolidated stock-based compensation expense by line item in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (in thousands):

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,
     Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012      2011      2012      2011  

Cost of revenue

   $ 715       $ 447       $ 1,287       $ 816   

Sales and marketing

     1,982         949         3,656         1,870   

Research and development

     530         269         893         537   

General and administrative

     2,133         1,023         3,771         1,913   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total stock-based compensation

   $ 5,360       $ 2,688       $ 9,607       $ 5,136   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Company’s 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”) is intended to qualify under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Under the ESPP, employees are eligible to purchase common stock through payroll deductions of up to 10% of their eligible compensation, subject to any plan limitations. The purchase price of the shares on each purchase date is equal to 85% of the lower of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock on the first and last trading days of each six-month offering period.

The Company estimates the fair value of purchase rights under the ESPP using the Black-Scholes valuation model. The fair value of each purchase right under the ESPP was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model and the straight-line attribution approach with the following weighted-average assumptions:

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012     2011     2012     2011  

Expected term (in years)

     0.50        0.39        0.50        0.39   

Expected volatility

     45     36     45     36

Risk-free interest rate

     0.13     0.18     0.13     0.18

Expected dividend yield

     —          —          —          —     

The ESPP provides that additional shares are reserved under the plan annually on the first day of each fiscal year in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 1.5 million shares, (ii) one percent of the outstanding shares of common stock on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year, or (iii) an amount determined by the board of directors and/or the compensation committee of the board of directors. As of June 30, 2012, 190,292 shares had been issued under the ESPP and 1,435,382 shares were available for future issuance.

 

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Note 10 — Income Taxes

The Company files U.S. federal and state and foreign income tax returns in jurisdictions with varying statutes of limitations. In the normal course of business the Company is subject to examination by taxing authorities throughout the world. These audits include questioning the timing and amount of deductions, the allocation of income among various tax jurisdictions and compliance with federal, state, local and foreign tax laws. The Company is not currently undergoing any examination of its income tax returns. Tax returns for the years 2007 through 2011 generally remain subject to examination by federal, state and foreign tax authorities. The Company’s gross amount of unrecognized tax benefits increased from zero as of December 31, 2011 to $0.4 million as of June 30, 2012, all of which, if recognized, would affect the company’s effective tax rate. It is difficult to predict the final timing and resolution of any particular uncertain tax position. Based on the Company’s assessment of many factors, the Company does not expect that changes in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits for the next twelve months will have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations.

In evaluating its ability to recover its deferred tax assets, the Company considers all available positive and negative evidence including its past operating results, the existence of cumulative losses and its forecast of future taxable income. In determining future taxable income, the Company is responsible for assumptions utilized including the amount of state, federal and international pre-tax operating income, the reversal of temporary differences and the implementation of feasible and prudent tax planning strategies. These assumptions require significant judgment about the forecasts of future taxable income and are consistent with the plans and estimates the Company is using to manage the underlying businesses. As a result of the Company’s assessment of the available evidence, the Company has provided a valuation allowance of $31.8 million on the deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2011. The tax benefits relating to any subsequent reversal of all or part of the valuation allowance will be accounted for as a reduction of income tax expense. No valuation allowance has been provided for deferred tax assets arising from jurisdictions where the Company reports taxable profits.

Note 11 — Reportable Segments

The Company’s operations are principally managed on a geographic basis and are comprised of three reportable and operating segments: NALA, EMEA, and APJ, as defined below.

The Company reports segment information based on the management approach. The management approach designates the internal reporting used by the Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), for making decisions and assessing performance as the source of the Company’s reportable segments. The CODM is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. The CODM allocates resources to and assesses the performance of each of the operating segment using information about its revenue and direct profit contribution, which is management’s measure of segment profitability. Management has determined that the Company’s reportable and operating segments are as follows, based on the information used by the CODM:

NALA — Includes operations from offices in San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado and Nashville, Tennessee related primarily to end customers in North America.

EMEA — Includes operations from offices in Liverpool, United Kingdom and Dublin, Ireland related primarily to end customers in Europe.

APJ — Includes operations from offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Singapore related primarily to end customers in Asia Pacific and Japan.

The Company does not allocate sales and marketing, research and development, or general and administrative expenses to its geographic regions because management does not include the information in its measurement of the performance of the operating segments. The Company excludes certain items such as stock-based compensation, overhead allocations and other items from direct profit contribution. Revenue for a particular geography reflects fees the Company earns from its customers for sales and renewals of maintenance, support and subscription contracts on their behalf and managed from the Company’s sales center in that geography.

Summarized financial information by geographic location based on the Company’s internal management reporting and as utilized by the Company’s CODM, is as follows (in thousands):

 

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     Three Months Ended June 30,     Six Months Ended June 30,  
     2012     2011     2012     2011  

Net revenue

        

NALA

   $ 36,961      $ 28,686      $ 73,073      $ 56,431   

EMEA

     15,518        14,254        31,266        29,247   

APJ

     7,215        5,572        12,929        8,956   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net revenue

   $ 59,694      $ 48,512      $ 117,268      $ 94,634   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Direct profit contribution

        

NALA

   $ 19,918      $ 15,699      $ 39,173      $ 30,502   

EMEA

     8,187        6,053        17,070        13,495   

APJ

     1,324        1,116        1,754        1,136   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total direct profit contribution

     29,429        22,868        57,997        45,133   

Adjustments:

        

Stock-based compensation

     (715     (447     (1,287     (816

Overhead allocations

     (5,590     (4,507     (10,935     (8,573

Other, net

     2,688        2,369        5,035        4,525   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross Profit

   $ 25,812      $ 20,283      $ 50,810      $ 40,269   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011.

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains “forward-looking statements” that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to changes in market conditions that impact our ability to generate service revenue on our customers’ behalf; errors in estimates as to the service revenue we can generate for our customers; risks associated with material defects or errors in our software or the effect of data security breaches; our ability to adapt our solution to changes in the market or new competition; our ability to improve our customers’ renewal rates, margins and profitability; our ability to increase our revenue and contribution margin over time from new and existing customers;, including as a result of sales of our next-generation technology platform, Avalon, on a stand-alone subscription basis; the potential effect of mergers and acquisitions on our customer base; business strategies and new sales initiatives; technology development, including relating to the launch of our next-generation technology platform; protection of our intellectual property; investment and financing plans; liquidity; competitive position; the effects of competition; industry environment; and potential growth opportunities. Forward-looking statements are also often identified by the use of words such as, but not limited to, “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions or variations intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of our management based on information currently available to management. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results and the timing of certain events to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below, and those discussed in the section of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q titled “Risk Factors.” Furthermore, such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements.

OVERVIEW

We manage the service contract renewals process for renewals of maintenance, support and subscription agreements on behalf of our customers. Our integrated solution consists of a suite of cloud applications, dedicated service sales teams working under our customers’ brands and a proprietary Service Revenue Intelligence Platform. By integrating software, managed services and data, we address the critical steps of the renewals process including data management, quoting, selling and service revenue business intelligence. Our business is built on our pay-for-performance model, whereby our revenues are based on the service renewals customers achieve with our solution.

We are currently in the midst of a significant investment cycle in which we have taken steps designed to drive our future growth and profitability. We plan to further build out our infrastructure, develop our technology and release and support Avalon, our next-generation technology platform, offer additional cloud based applications, including on a stand-alone, subscription basis, and hire additional sales, service sales and other personnel. These steps impacted our expenses in recent periods, especially capital expenditures, and are expected to continue to impact our profitability in future periods. We have devoted significant resources to developing Avalon, which was recently launched with our first beta customer, we expect our investment in Avalon to continue as we prepare for its fall 2012 general availability and will devote significant resources to expand our sales organization, build out the related partner ecosystem, and further develop the service organization to support the platform. The capital expenditures and expenses related to Avalon are in addition to the expenses of operating our existing technology platform. While these expenses will be incurred and recognized in the near-term, we expect to generate revenues from subscriptions to Avalon commencing in 2013.

Factors Affecting our Performance

Sales Cycle. We sell our integrated solution through our sales organization. At the beginning of the sales process, our quota-carrying sales representatives contact prospective customers and educate them about our offerings. Educating prospective customers about the benefits of our solution can take time, as many of these prospects have not historically relied upon integrated solutions like ours for service revenue management, nor have they typically put out a formal request for proposal or otherwise made a decision to focus on this area. As part of the education process, we utilize our solutions design team to perform a Service Performance Analysis (“SPA”) of our prospect’s service revenue. The SPA includes an analysis of best practices and benchmarks the prospect’s service revenue against industry peers. Through the SPA process, which typically takes several weeks, we are able to assess the characteristics and size of the prospect’s service revenue, identify potential areas of performance improvement, and formulate our proposal for managing the prospect’s service revenue. The length of our sales cycle for a new customer, inclusive of the SPA process and measured from our first formal discussion with the customer until execution of a new customer contract, is typically longer than six months.

We generally contract with new customers to manage a specified portion of their service revenue opportunity, such as the opportunity associated with a particular product line or technology, contract type or geography. We negotiate the customized terms of our customer contracts, including commission rates, based on the output of the SPA, including the areas identified for improvement. Once we demonstrate success to a customer with respect to the opportunity under contract, we seek to expand the scope of our engagement to include other opportunities with the customer. For some customers, we manage all or substantially all of their service contract renewals.

 

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Implementation Cycle. After entering into an engagement with a new customer, and to a lesser extent after adding an engagement with an existing customer, we incur sales and marketing expenses related to the commissions owed to our sales personnel. The commissions are based on the estimated total contract value, a material portion of which is expensed upfront and the remaining portion of which is expensed over a period of eight to fourteen months, including commissions paid on multi-year contracts. We also make upfront investments in technology and personnel to support the engagement. These expenses are typically incurred one to three months before we begin generating sales and recognizing revenue. Accordingly, in a given quarter, an increase in new customers, and, to a lesser extent, an increase in engagements with existing customers, or a significant increase in the contract value associated with such new customers and engagements, will negatively impact our gross margin and operating margins until we begin to achieve anticipated sales levels associated with the new engagements.

Although we expect new customer engagements to contribute to our operating profitability over time, in the initial periods of a customer relationship, the near term impact on our profitability can be negative due to upfront costs we incur, the lower initial level of associated service sales team productivity and lack of mature data and technology integration with the customer. As a result, an increase in the mix of new customers as a percentage of total customers may initially have a negative impact on our operating results. Similarly, a decline in the ratio of new customers to total customers may positively impact our operating results.

Contract Terms. Substantially all of our revenue comes from our pay-for-performance model. Under our pay-for-performance model, we earn commissions based on the value of service contracts we sell on behalf of our customers. In some cases, we earn additional performance-based commissions for exceeding pre-determined service renewal targets.

Since 2009, our new customer contracts have typically had a term of approximately 36 months, although we sometimes have contract terms of up to 60 months. Our contracts generally require our customers to deliver a minimum value of qualifying service revenue contracts for us to renew on their behalf during a specified period. To the extent that our customers do not meet their minimum contractual commitments over a specified period, they may be subject to fees for the shortfall. Our customer contracts are cancelable on relatively short notice, subject in most cases to the payment of an early termination fee by the customer. The amount of this fee is based on the length of the remaining term and value of the contract.

We invoice our customers on a monthly basis based on commissions we earn during the prior month, and with respect to performance-based commissions, on a quarterly basis based on our overall performance during the prior quarter. Amounts invoiced to our customers are recognized as revenue in the period in which our services are performed or, in the case of performance commissions, when the performance condition is determinable. Because the invoicing for our services generally coincides with or immediately follows the sale of service contracts on behalf of our customers, we do not generate or report a significant deferred revenue balance. However, the combination of minimum contractual commitments, combined with our success in generating improved renewal rates for our customers, and our customers’ historical renewal rates, provides us with revenue visibility. In addition, the performance improvement potential identified by our SPA process provides us with revenue visibility for new customers.

M&A Activity. Our customers, particularly those in the technology sector, participate in an active environment for mergers and acquisitions. Large technology companies have maintained active acquisition programs to increase the breadth and depth of their product and service offerings and small and mid-sized companies have combined to better compete with large technology companies. A number of our customers have merged, purchased other companies or been acquired by other companies. We expect merger and acquisition activity to continue to occur in the future.

The impact of these transactions on our business can vary. Acquisitions of other companies by our customers can provide us with the opportunity to pursue additional business to the extent the acquired company is not already one of our customers. Similarly, when a customer is acquired, we may be able to use our relationship with the acquired company to build a relationship with the acquirer. In some cases we have been able to maintain our relationship with an acquired customer even where the acquiring company handles its other service contract renewals through internal resources. In other cases, however, acquirers have elected to terminate or not renew our contract with the acquired company. For example, Oracle terminated our contracts with Sun Microsystems effective as of September 30, 2010 and had previously terminated our contract with another customer, BEA Systems, in April 2008.

Economic Conditions and Seasonality. An improving economic outlook generally has a positive, but mixed, impact on our business. As with most businesses, improved economic conditions can lead to increased end customer demand and sales. In particular, within the technology sector, we believe that the recent economic downturn led many companies to cut their expenses by choosing to let their existing maintenance, support and subscription agreements lapse. An improving economy may have the converse effect.

However, an improving economy may also cause companies to purchase new hardware, software and other technology products, which we generally do not sell on behalf of our customers, instead of purchasing maintenance, support and subscription services for existing products. To the extent this occurs, it would have a negative impact on our opportunities in the near term that would partially offset the benefits of an improving economy.

        We believe the current uncertainty in the economy has led to some slower decision making by a few end customers, particularly federal government agencies, as well as other end customers considering renewals of large, multi-year contracts. This has adversely affected the conversion rates for this group of end customers and contracts. To the extent these conditions continue they will impact our future revenues.

We have added new customers in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first half of 2012 and have not yet fully ramped-up some of these customers. As a result, our revenues have not reflected, and are not expected in the third quarter to reflect, the full potential contribution from these customers. In addition to the uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment, we experience a seasonal variance in our revenue typically for the third quarter of the year as a result of lower or flat renewal volume corresponding to the timing of our customers’ product sales. The impact of this seasonal fluctuation can be amplified if the economy as a whole is experiencing disruption or uncertainty, leading to deferral of some renewal decisions.

 

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Adoption of “Software-as-a-Service” Solutions. Within the software industry, there is a growing trend toward providing software to customers using a software-as-a-service model. Under this model, software-as-a-service companies provide access to software applications to customers on a remote basis, and provide their customers with a subscription to use the software, rather than licensing software to their customers. Software-as-a-service companies face a distinct set of challenges with respect to customer renewals, given the potentially lower switching costs for customers utilizing their solutions, and are more reliant on renewals for their long-term revenues than traditional software companies. Given the strategic importance of renewals to their model, software-as-a-service companies may be less inclined than traditional software companies to rely on third-party solutions such as ours to manage the sale of renewals of subscription contracts. We have tailored our solution to address the needs of software-as-a-service companies in this area and expect to continue to develop and enhance our solution as this market grows.

Basis of Presentation

Net Revenue

Substantially all of our net revenue is attributable to commissions we earn from the sale of renewals of maintenance, support and subscription agreements on behalf of our customers. We generally invoice our customers for our services in arrears on a monthly basis for sales commissions, and on a quarterly basis for certain performance sales commissions; accordingly, we typically have no deferred revenue related to these services. We do not set the price, terms or scope of services in the service contracts with end customers and do not have any obligations related to the underlying service contracts between our customers and their end customers.

We also earn revenue from the sale of subscriptions to our cloud based applications. To date, subscription revenue has been insignificant. However, we plan to promote and sell subscriptions after the general availability launch of Avalon, scheduled for later this year. Subscription fees are accounted for separately from commissions and they are billed on either a monthly or quarterly basis in advance and revenue is recognized ratably over the related subscription term.

We have generated a significant portion of our revenue from a limited number of customers. Our top ten customers accounted for 49% and 48% of our net revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and 49% and 50% for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Our business is geographically diversified. During the second quarter of 2012, 62% of our net revenue was earned in North America and Latin America (“NALA”), 26% in Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) and 12% in Asia Pacific-Japan (“APJ”). Net revenue for a particular geography generally reflects commissions earned from sales of service contracts managed from our sales centers in that geography. Predominantly all of the service contracts sold and managed by our sales centers relate to end customers located in the same geography.

Cost of Revenue and Gross Profit

Our cost of revenue expenses include compensation, technology costs, including those related to the delivery of our cloud-based solutions, and allocated overhead costs. Compensation includes salary, bonus, benefits and stock-based compensation for our dedicated service sales teams. Our allocated overhead includes costs for facilities, information technology and depreciation, including amortization of internal-use software associated with our service revenue technology platform and cloud applications. Allocated costs for facilities consist of rent, maintenance and compensation of personnel in our facilities departments. Our allocated costs for information technology include costs associated with a third-party data center where we maintain our data servers, compensation of our information technology personnel and the cost of support and maintenance contracts associated with computer hardware and software. Our overhead costs are allocated to all departments based on headcount. To the extent our customer base or opportunity under management expands, we may need to hire additional service sales personnel and invest in infrastructure to support such growth. We currently expect that our cost of revenue will fluctuate significantly and may increase on an absolute basis and as a percentage of revenue in the near term, including for the reasons discussed above under “—Factors Affecting Our Performance—Implementation Cycle.” And as a result of our near term plans to run dual technology platforms for several quarters as we commence the launch of Avalon while maintaining our existing technology platform.

Operating Expenses

Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses are the largest component of our operating expenses and consist primarily of compensation and sales commissions for our sales and marketing staff, allocated expenses and marketing programs and events. We sell our solutions through our global sales organization, which is organized across three geographic regions: NALA, EMEA and APJ. Our commission plans provide that payment of commissions to our sales representatives is contingent on their continued employment, and we recognize expense over a period that is generally between twelve and fourteen months following the execution of the applicable contract. We currently expect sales and marketing expense to increase on an absolute basis and as a percentage of revenue in the near term based on commissions earned on customer contracts entered into in prior periods, as well as continued investments in sales and marketing personnel and programs as we expand our business domestically and internationally and pursue new sales initiatives.

Research and Development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of compensation, allocated costs and the cost of third-party service providers. We focus our research and development efforts on developing new products, including Avalon, our next-generation technology platform, and adding new features to our existing technology platform. In addition, we capitalize certain expenditures related to the development and enhancement of internal-use software related to our technology platform. We expect research and development spending, and the related expenses and capitalized costs, to increase on an absolute basis as a percentage of revenue in the near term as we continue to invest in our next-generation technology platform and cloud applications.

 

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General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation for our executive, human resources, finance and legal functions, and related expenses for professional fees for accounting, tax and legal services, as well as allocated expenses. We expect that our general and administrative expenses will increase on an absolute basis and as a percentage of revenue in the near term as our operations continue to expand and as a result of incremental personnel, informational technology and other costs associated with being a publicly-traded company.

Other Income (Expense)

Other income (expense) consists primarily of interest expense associated with borrowings under our credit facility and foreign exchange transaction gains and losses, partially offset by interest income.

Income Tax (Benefit) Provision

We account for income taxes using an asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of taxes payable or refundable for the current year and deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences that currently exist between the tax basis and the financial reporting basis of our taxable subsidiaries’ assets and liabilities using the enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. The effect of a change in tax rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in operations in the period that includes the enactment date. The measurement of deferred tax assets is reduced, if necessary, by the amount of any tax benefits that, based on available evidence, are not expected to be realized.

We account for unrecognized tax benefits using a more-likely-than-not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. We establish reserves for tax-related uncertainties based on estimates of whether, and the extent to which, additional taxes will be due. We record an income tax liability, if any, for the difference between the benefit recognized and measured and the tax position taken or expected to be taken on our tax returns. To the extent that the assessment of such tax positions change, the change in estimate is recorded in the period in which the determination is made. The reserves are adjusted in light of changing facts and circumstances, such as the outcome of a tax audit. The provision for income taxes includes the impact of reserve provisions and changes to reserves that are considered appropriate.

Results of Operations

The table below sets forth our consolidated results of operations for the periods presented. The period-to-period comparison of financial results presented below is not necessarily indicative of financial results to be achieved in future periods.

 

     Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012     2011     2012     2011  
     (in thousands)  

Net revenue

   $ 59,694      $ 48,512      $ 117,268      $ 94,634   

Cost of revenue

     33,882        28,229        66,458        54,365   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     25,812        20,283        50,810        40,269   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

        

Sales and marketing

     14,169        11,415        27,646        22,520   

Research and development

     4,298        3,390        8,879        6,103   

General and administrative

     10,564        7,870        20,639        15,723   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     29,031        22,675        57,164        44,346   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (3,219     (2,392     (6,354     (4,077

Other expense, net

     (333     (435     (424     (1,293
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

     (3,552     (2,827     (6,778     (5,370

Income tax (benefit) provision

     33,217        (1,694     31,267        (21,653
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Income (loss)

   $ (36,769   $ (1,133   $ (38,045   $ 16,283   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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     Three Months Ended
June 30,
     Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012      2011      2012      2011  
     (in thousands)  

Includes stock-based compensation of:

  

Cost of revenue

   $ 715       $ 447       $ 1,287       $ 816   

Sales and marketing

     1,982         949         3,656         1,870   

Research and development

     530         269         893         537   

General and administrative

     2,133         1,023         3,771         1,913   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total stock-based compensation

   $ 5,360       $ 2,688       $ 9,607       $ 5,136   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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The following table sets forth our operating results as a percentage of net revenue:

 

     Three Months Ended
June  30,
    Six Months Ended
June  30,
 
     2012     2011     2012     2011  
     (as % of net revenue)  

Net revenue

     100     100     100     100

Cost of revenue

     57     58     57     57
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     43     42     43     43
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating expenses

        

Sales and marketing

     24     24     24     24

Research and development

     7     7     8     6

General and administrative

     18     16     17     17
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     49     47     49     47
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (6 )%      (5 )%      (6 )%      (4 )% 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Three months ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011

Net Revenue

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,               
     2012     2011               
     Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Change      %
Change
 
     (in thousands)  

Net revenue by geography:

               

NALA

   $ 36,961         62   $ 28,686         59   $ 8,275         29

EMEA

     15,518         26     14,254         29     1,264         9

APJ

     7,215         12     5,572         12     1,643         29
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total net revenue

   $ 59,694         100   $ 48,512         100   $ 11,182         23
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Net revenue increased $11.2 million, or 23%, for the second quarter of 2012, compared to the second quarter of 2011. Our revenue performance was driven by a combination of growth in opportunity from new and existing customers, as well as strong performance across all of our service sales centers around the world in closing service revenue renewals. The increase in net revenue reflects revenue growth in all geographies, particularly NALA and APJ, due to an increase in the number and value of service contracts sold on behalf of our customers and the ramp of new engagements entered into in 2011.

Cost of Revenue and Gross Profit

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,            %
Change
 
     2012     2011     Change     
     (in thousands)  

Cost of revenue

   $ 33,882      $ 28,229      $ 5,653         20

Includes stock-based compensation of:

     715        447        268      

Gross profit

     25,812        20,283        5,529         27

Gross profit percentage

     43     42        1

The 20% increase in our cost of revenue in the second quarter of 2012 reflected an increase in the number of service sales personnel, primarily in NALA and APJ, as we pursue new sales initiatives resulting in a $3.9 million increase in compensation and a $1.1 million increase in allocated costs for facilities, including incremental facility costs related to an expansion of an existing facility, and greater allocations for information technology and depreciation. The slight improvement in our gross profit percentage resulted from higher revenue related to the ramp up of our new engagements.

 

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Operating Expenses

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,     Change      %
Change
 
     2012     2011       
     Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Amount      % of
Net Revenue
      
     (in thousands)  

Operating expenses:

               

Sales and marketing

   $ 14,169         24   $ 11,415         24   $ 2,754         24

Research and development

     4,298         7     3,390         7     908         27

General and administrative

     10,564         18     7,870         16     2,694         34
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total operating expenses

   $ 29,031         49   $ 22,675         47   $ 6,356         28
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Includes stock-based compensation of:

               

Sales and marketing

   $ 1,982         $ 949         $ 1,033      

Research and development

     530           269           261      

General and administrative

     2,133           1,023           1,110      
  

 

 

      

 

 

      

 

 

    

Total

   $ 4,645         $ 2,241         $ 2,404      
  

 

 

      

 

 

      

 

 

    

Sales and marketing expenses

The 24% increase in sales and marketing expenses in the second quarter of 2012 reflected an increase in the number of sales and marketing personnel, primarily in NALA and EMEA resulting in a $1.8 million increase in compensation. The increase also resulted from a $0.7 million increase in expenses due to marketing programs and a $0.2 million increase in allocated costs as compared to the prior year. The increase in headcount reflected our investment in sales and marketing resources aimed at expanding our customer base.

Research and development expenses

The increase in research and development expense in the second quarter of 2012 reflected an increase in the number of research and development personnel primarily in NALA, resulting in a $0.8 million increase in compensation, and a $0.1 million increase in allocated costs. The increase was partially offset by capitalization of $2.4 million of labor and third party costs for development of internal-use software in the second quarter of 2012 as compared to $0.6 million capitalized costs in the second quarter of 2011. The increase in our spending on research in development reflects our continued investment in the development of additional cloud based applications designed to enable greater operational efficiencies and enhanced functionality for our customers.

General and administrative expenses

The 34% increase in general and administrative expense in the second quarter of 2012 as compared to the second quarter of 2011 reflected a $2.9 million increase in compensation due to an increase in headcount in general and administrative primarily in NALA and APJ to support our expansion efforts.

Other Expense, Net

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,     Change     %
Change
 
     2012     2011      
     Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Amount      % of
Net Revenue
     
     (in thousands)  

Other expense, net

   $ 333         1   $ 435         1   $ (102     (23 )% 

The decrease in other expense in the second quarter of 2012 primarily resulted from a gain on foreign exchange transactions due in part to an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to international currencies, most notably the Euro.

 

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Income Tax (Benefit) Provision

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,     Change      %
Change
     2012      2011       
     (in thousands)

Income tax (benefit) provision

   $ 33,217       $ (1,694   $ 34,911       *

 

* Not meaningful

During the second quarter of 2012, a valuation allowance against our U.S. deferred tax assets was recorded. In evaluating our ability to recover our deferred tax assets, we consider all available positive and negative evidence including past operating results, the existence of cumulative losses and to a lesser extent our forecast of future taxable income. Based on the available evidence, we have determined that on a more likely than not basis, we will be unable to realize most of our deferred tax assets, as explained in Note 10 to our condensed consolidated financial statements. As a result, our tax rate was negatively impacted by a valuation allowance of $31.8 million on US deferred tax assets as of December 2011. Accordingly, the computation of the effective tax rate does not include US losses, nor does it include losses incurred by our Singapore subsidiary, which are offset by a full valuation allowance. Current quarter tax expense also reflect the reversal of prior quarter deferred tax benefits, plus tax expense in jurisdictions where we have tax profitable operations.

Six months ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011

Net Revenue

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,     Change      %
Change
 
     2012     2011       
     Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Amount      % of
Net Revenue
      
     (in thousands)  

Net revenue by geography:

               

NALA

   $ 73,073         62   $ 56,431         60   $ 16,642         29

EMEA

     31,266         27     29,247         31     2,019         7

APJ

     12,929         11     8,956         9     3,973         44
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total net revenue

   $ 117,268         100   $ 94,634         100   $ 22,634         24
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Net revenue increased $22.6 million, or 24%, in the six months ended June 30, 2012, compared to the six months ended June 30, 2011. Our revenue performance was driven by a combination of growth in opportunity from new and existing customers, as well as strong performance across all of our service sales centers around the world in closing service revenue renewals. The increase in net revenue reflects revenue growth in all geographies, particularly NALA and APJ, due to an increase in the number and value of service contracts sold on behalf of our customers and the ramp of new engagements entered into in 2011.

Cost of Revenue and Gross Profit

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,            %
Change
 
     2012     2011     Change     
     (in thousands)  

Cost of revenue

   $ 66,458      $ 54,365      $ 12,093         22

Includes stock-based compensation of:

     1,287        816        471      

Gross profit

     50,810        40,269        10,541         26

Gross profit percentage

     43     43        0

The 22% increase in our cost of revenue in the six months ended June 30, 2012 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2011, reflected an increase in the number of service sales personnel, primarily in NALA and APJ, as we pursue new sales initiatives resulting in a $7.9 million increase in compensation and a $2.4 million increase in allocated costs for facilities, including incremental facility costs related to expansion of facilities in NALA and APJ, and greater allocations for information technology and depreciation.

 

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Operating Expenses

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,     Change      %
Change
 
     2012     2011       
     Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Amount      % of
Net Revenue
      
     (in thousands)  

Operating expenses:

               

Sales and marketing

   $ 27,646         24   $ 22,520         24   $ 5,126         23

Research and development

     8,879         8     6,103         6     2,776         45

General and administrative

     20,639         18     15,723         17     4,916         31
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total operating expenses

   $ 57,164         50   $ 44,346         47   $ 12,818         29
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Includes stock-based compensation of:

               

Sales and marketing

   $ 3,656         $ 1,870         $ 1,786      

Research and development

     893           537           356      

General and administrative

     3,771           1,913           1,858      
  

 

 

      

 

 

      

 

 

    

Total

   $ 8,320         $ 4,320         $ 4,000      
  

 

 

      

 

 

      

 

 

    

Sales and marketing expenses

The 23% increase in sales and marketing expenses in the six months ended June 30, 2012 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2011, reflected higher stock-based compensation and an increase in the number of sales and marketing personnel, primarily in NALA and EMEA resulting in a $1.9 million increase in compensation. The increase also resulted from a $2.1 million increase in marketing expenses as a result of additional investments in brand development to heighten awareness and maximize the strength of our brand and an increase in allocations for facilities and IT of $0.8 million.

Research and development expenses

The increase in research and development expense in the six months ended June 30, 2012 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2011, reflected an increase in the number of research and development personnel primarily in NALA, resulting in a $1.2 million increase in compensation, a $1.1 million increase in outside consulting services related to contract research and development services and a $0.5 million increase in allocated costs. The increase was partially offset by capitalization of $4.2 million of labor and third party costs for development of internal-use software in the six months ended June 30, 2012 compared to $1.7 million capitalized costs in the six months ended June 30, 2011. The increase in our spending on research and development reflects our continued investment in the development of Avalon and additional cloud based applications designed to enable greater operational efficiencies and enhanced functionality for our customers.

General and administrative expenses

The 31% increase in general and administrative expense in the six months ended June 30, 2012 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2011 reflected a $5.9 million increase in compensation due to an increase in headcount in the general and administrative functions primarily in NALA to support our expansion efforts, and partially offset by $0.9 million decrease in professional fees primarily related to expenses incurred in connection with our initial public offering in the first quarter of 2011.

Other Expense, Net

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,              
     2012     2011              
     Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Amount      % of
Net Revenue
    Change     %
Change
 
     (in thousands)  

Other expense, net

   $ 424         0   $ 1,293         1   $ (869     (67 )% 

The decrease in other expense in the six months ended June 30, 2012 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2011, resulted from a $0.3 million gain on foreign exchange transactions due in part to an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to international currencies, most notably the Euro. Also contributing to the decrease was a $0.3 million decrease in interest expense in the six months ended June 30, 2012 due to the repayment of outstanding balances on our term loan and borrowings under our revolving credit in March 2011.

 

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Income Tax (Benefit) Provision

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,               
     2012      2011     Change      %
Change
 
     (in thousands)  

Income tax (benefit) provision

   $ 31,267       $ (21,653   $ 52,920         *   

 

* not meaningful

As discussed above, during second quarter of 2012, a valuation allowance against our U.S. deferred tax assets was recorded in the amount of $31.8 million on US deferred tax assets as of December 2011. Accordingly, the computation of the effective tax rate does not include US losses, nor does it include losses incurred by the Company’s Singapore subsidiary, which are offset by a full valuation allowance. Current quarter tax expense also reflect the reversal of prior quarter deferred tax benefits, plus tax expense in jurisdictions where the Company has tax profitable operations.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

At June 30, 2012, we had cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $114.2 million, which primarily consisted of municipal securities, corporate bonds, money market mutual funds and commercial paper held by well-capitalized financial institutions. Our primary operating cash requirements include the payment of compensation and related costs, working capital requirements related to accounts receivable, accounts payable and prepaid expenses, as well as costs for our facilities and information technology infrastructure. Historically, we have financed our operations principally from cash provided by our operating activities and to a lesser extent from borrowings under various credit facilities. We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments and our currently available credit facility will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs for at least the next twelve months.

Credit Facility

On June 29, 2012, we terminated a revolving credit facility scheduled to expire in February 2013. The credit facility provided for a $20.0 million line of credit. At the time of termination, no borrowings and a letter of credit in the face amount of $850,000 were outstanding under the credit facility.

On July 5, 2012, we entered into a new three-year credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”). The Credit Agreement provides for a secured revolving line of credit in the amount of $25.0 million on and before July 5, 2013 and $30.0 million thereafter, in each case with a $2.0 million letter of credit sublimit. The line of credit is scheduled to terminate on July 5, 2015 (the “Maturity Date”). Proceeds available under the Credit Agreement may be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes. We have the option to prepay the loans under the Credit Agreement in whole or in part at any time without premium or penalty. We also have the option to terminate the commitments under the Credit Agreement in whole at any time, and may reduce the commitments by up to $10.0 million between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

The loans bear interest, at our option, at a base rate determined in accordance with the Credit Agreement, minus 0.50%, or at a LIBOR rate plus 2.00%. Principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, is due and payable on the Maturity Date. We are also obligated to pay a quarterly commitment fee, payable in arrears, based on the available commitments at a rate of 0.45%.

The Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, as well as financial covenants. Affirmative covenants include, among others, delivery of financial statements, compliance certificates and notices of specified events, maintenance of properties and insurance, preservation of existence, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Negative covenants include, among others, limitations on the ability of us and our subsidiaries to grant liens, incur indebtedness, engage in mergers, consolidations and sales of assets and engage in affiliate transactions. The Credit Agreement requires us to maintain a maximum leverage ratio and a minimum liquidity amount, each as defined in the Credit Agreement.

The Credit Agreement also contains customary events of default including, among other things, payment defaults, breaches of covenants or representations and warranties, cross-defaults with certain other indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency events and change in control of the Company, subject to grace periods in certain instances. Upon an event of default, the lender may declare the outstanding obligations of the Company under the Credit Agreement to be immediately due and payable and exercise other rights and remedies provided for under the Credit Agreement.

 

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Our obligations under the Credit Agreement are guaranteed by our subsidiary, ServiceSource Delaware, Inc., and are secured by substantially all of our assets and our subsidiary’s assets.

Summary Cash Flows

The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows for the periods indicated (in thousands):

 

     Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
     2012     2011  

Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities

   $ 9,809      $ (17,952

Net cash used in investing activities

     (17,400     (48,561

Net cash provided by financing activities

     7,301        74,480   

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents, net of impact of foreign exchange changes on cash

     (397   $ 8,719   

 

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Operating Activities

Net cash provided by operating activities was $9.8 million during the six months ended June 30, 2012. Our net loss during the period was $38.0 million, which was impacted by a valuation allowance of $33.1 million for a substantial portion of our deferred tax assets and adjusted by non-cash charges of $4.6 million for depreciation and amortization and $9.6 million for stock-based compensation. Cash provided for operations resulted from changes in our working capital, including a $2.6 million decrease in accounts receivable, a $4.1 million increase in other accrued liabilities and a $0.9 million increase in accounts payable. Uses of cash were related to a $3.9 million decrease in accrued compensation and benefits largely due to bonuses that were accrued at December 30, 2011 but were paid out during the first quarter of 2012.

Net cash used in operating activities was $18.0 million during the six months ended June 30, 2011. Our net income during the period was $16.3 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $4.5 million for depreciation and amortization, $5.1 million for stock-based compensation and a one-time non-cash tax benefit of $21.4 million as a result of recognition of deferred tax assets resulting from our election to be subject to taxation as a corporation. Cash used for operations during the six months ended June 30, 2011 principally resulted from $18.1 million in payments to Oracle/Sun Microsystems and the related settlement of accrued payables owed to Oracle/Sun Microsystems and amounts owed to us by Oracle/Sun Microsystems. Additional sources of cash resulted from changes in our working capital, including a $4.1 million decrease in accounts receivable a $3.4 million increase in accrued compensation and benefits, a $1.1 million increase in other accrued liabilities and a $1.1 million increase in accounts payable. Uses of cash were related to a $2.0 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets.

Investing Activities

During the six months ended June 30, 2012 cash used in investing activities was principally for the purchases of property and equipment of $11.2 million, including costs capitalized for development of internal-use software and to a lesser extent for the purchases of short-term investments, net of sales and maturities, of $6.2 million. The $48.6 million of cash used by investing activities during the six months ending June 30, 2011 related to the purchase of available-for-sale short-term investments of $42.3 million and to a lesser extent for purchase of property and equipment, of $6.3 million, including costs capitalized for development of internal-use software.

Financing Activities

Cash provided by financing activities was $7.3 million during the six months ended June 30, 2012 and principally resulted from proceeds of $7.8 million from the exercise of common stock options and the purchase of common stock under our employee stock purchase plan.

During the six months ended June 30, 2011, cash provided by financing activities was $74.5 million comprised primarily of proceeds from our initial public offering, net of issuance costs, of $88.0 million of which $0.2 million of issuance costs remained unpaid at June 30, 2011, and proceeds of $2.2 million from the exercise of stock options to purchase our common stock, partially offset by $15.6 million in net payments to payoff our term loan and payment of capital lease obligations.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not have any relationships with other entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special-purpose entities, which have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

Our principal commitments consist of obligations under operating leases for office space and computer equipment. At June 30, 2012, the future minimum payments under these commitments were as follows (in thousands):

 

     Total      Less than  1
year
     1-3 years      3-5 years      More than  5
years
 

Obligations under capital leases

   $ 1,512       $ 746       $ 517       $ 150       $ 98   

Operating lease obligations

     43,552         8,399         17,147         7,366         10,640   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 45,064       $ 9,145       $ 17,664       $ 7,516       $ 10,738   

The contractual commitment amounts in the table above are associated with agreements that are enforceable and legally binding, which specify significant terms including payment terms, related services and the approximate timing of the transaction. Obligations under contracts that we can cancel without a significant penalty are not included in the table above.

 

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Management has determined that our most critical accounting policies are those related to revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, capitalized internal-use software and income taxes. We continue to monitor our accounting policies to ensure proper application of current rules and regulations. There have been no material changes in our critical accounting policies and estimates during the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 as compared to the critical accounting policies and estimates disclosed in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations–Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2012.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

The information contained in Note 1 to our condensed consolidated financial statements in Item 1 under the heading, “Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements,” is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

We have operations both within the United States and internationally, and we are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. These risks primarily include foreign currency, interest rate and inflation risks, as well as risks relating to changes in the general economic conditions in the countries where we conduct business. To date, we have not used derivative instruments to mitigate the impact of our market-risk exposures. We have also not used, nor do we intend to use, derivatives for trading or speculative purposes.

Foreign Currency Risk

Our results of operations and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly changes in the euro, British pound, Singapore dollar and Malaysian Ringgit. To date, we have not entered into any foreign currency hedging contracts, but may consider entering into such contracts in the future. We believe our operating activities act as a natural hedge for a substantial portion of our foreign currency exposure because we typically collect revenue and incur costs in the currency in the location in which we provide our solution from our sales centers. However, our global sales operations center in Kuala Lumpur incurs costs in the Malaysian Ringgit but we do not generate revenue or cash proceeds in this currency and, as a result, have some related foreign currency risk exposure. As our international operations grow, we will continue to reassess our approach to managing our risk relating to fluctuations in currency rates.

Interest Rate Risk

The primary objectives of our investment activities are to preserve principal, provide liquidity and maximize income without significantly increasing risk. By policy, we do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes. Some of the securities we invest in are subject to market risk. This means that a change in prevailing interest rates may cause the fair value of the investment to fluctuate. To minimize this risk, we invest in a variety of securities, which primarily consist of money market funds, commercial paper, municipal securities and other debt securities of domestic corporations. Due to the nature of these investments and relatively short duration of the underlying securities, we believe that we do not have any material exposure to changes in the fair value of our investment portfolio as a result of changes in interest rates. Declines in interest rates, however, will reduce future interest income. A 10% appreciation or depreciation in interest rates in the second quarter of 2012 would not have had a material impact on our interest income or the fair value of our marketable securities.

Inflation Risk

We do not believe that inflation has had a material effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Nonetheless, if our costs were to become subject to significant inflationary pressures, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases. Our inability or failure to do so could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) of the end of the period covered by this report.

In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.

 

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Based on management’s evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to, and are effective to, provide assurance at a reasonable level that the information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the most recently completed quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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PART II — OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

From time to time, we are subject to litigation or threatened litigation in the general nature of business. We do not believe the resolution of these matters will have a material adverse impact on our consolidated results of operations, cash flows or financial position.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below and the other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. If any of such risks actually occur, our business, operating results or financial condition could be adversely affected. In those cases, the trading price of our common stock could decline and you may lose all or part of your investment.

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

Our quarterly results of operations may fluctuate as a result of numerous factors, many of which may be outside of our control.

Our quarterly operating results are likely to fluctuate. Some of the important factors that may cause our revenue, operating results and cash flows to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include:

 

   

our ability to attract new customers and retain existing customers;

 

   

fluctuations in the value of end customer contracts delivered to us;

 

   

fluctuations in close rates;

 

   

changes in our commission rates;

 

   

seasonality;

 

   

loss of customers for any reason including due to acquisition;

 

   

the mix of new customers as compared to existing customers;

 

   

the length of the sales cycle for our solution, and our level of upfront investments prior to the period we begin generating sales associated with such investments;

 

   

the timing of customer payments and payment defaults by customers;

 

   

the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures related to the operations of our business; including the development of new technologies such as Avalon;

 

   

the rate of expansion, productivity and realignment of our direct sales force;

 

   

the cost and timing of the introduction of new technologies or new services, including additional investments in Avalon;

 

   

general economic conditions;

 

   

technical difficulties or interruptions in delivery of our solution;

 

   

changes in foreign currency exchange rates;

 

   

changes in the effective tax rates;

 

   

regulatory compliance costs, including with respect to data privacy;

 

   

costs associated with acquisitions of companies and technologies;

 

   

extraordinary expenses such as litigation or other dispute-related settlement payments; and

 

   

the impact of new accounting pronouncements.

Many of the above factors are discussed in more detail elsewhere in these Risk Factors. Many of these factors are outside our control, and the variability and unpredictability of such factors could result in our failing to meet our revenue or operating results expectations for a given period. In addition, the occurrence of one or more of these factors might cause our operating results to vary widely which could lead to negative impacts on our margins, short-term liquidity or ability to retain or attract key personnel, and could cause other unanticipated issues. Accordingly, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our revenue, operating results and cash flows may not be meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance.

The market for our solution is relatively undeveloped and may not grow.

The market for service revenue management is still relatively undeveloped, has not yet achieved widespread acceptance and may not grow quickly or at all. Our success will depend to a substantial extent on the willingness of companies to engage a third party

 

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such as us to manage the sales of their support, maintenance and subscription contracts. Many companies have invested substantial personnel, infrastructure and financial resources in their own internal service revenue organizations and therefore may be reluctant to switch to a solution such as ours. Companies may not engage us for other reasons, including a desire to maintain control over all aspects of their sales activities and customer relations, concerns about end customer reaction, a belief that they can sell their support, maintenance and subscription services more cost-effectively using their internal sales organizations, perceptions about the expenses associated with changing to a new approach and the timing of expenses once they adopt a new approach, general reluctance to adopt any new and different approach to old ways of doing business, or other considerations that may not always be evident. New concerns or considerations may also emerge in the future. Particularly because our market is undeveloped, we must address our potential customers’ concerns and explain the benefits of our approach in order to convince them to change the way that they manage the sales of support, maintenance and subscription contracts. If companies are not sufficiently convinced that we can address their concerns and that the benefits of our solution are compelling, then the market for our solution may not develop as we anticipate and our business will not grow.

Our customer relationships and overall business will suffer if we encounter significant problems migrating customers to our next- generation technology platform, or if the new platform does not meet expectations.

We have announced plans to launch Avalon, our next-generation service revenue management platform in the latter part of 2012, and we intend to migrate all of our customers to this new technology platform over time. This new platform which was recently launched with our first beta customer will be the core foundation for our customer-facing cloud applications to be offered on a subscription basis, in addition to those we use for our internal operations. We have limited experience migrating customers from one platform to another. Given the complexity and significance of this transition, including as a result of the amount of customer data within our systems that will need to be accessed and migrated, our customer relationships, our reputation, and our overall business could be severely damaged if these migrations go poorly. In addition, we expect to incur additional expenses as a result of our near term plans to run dual technology platforms for several quarters as we commence the launch of Avalon while maintaining our existing technology platform, and if we experience any delay or technical problems as a result of the launch of and migration to Avalon, we may incur such expenses for much longer than anticipated. Similarly, even if the migrations go smoothly, our business operations and customer relationships will be at high risk if the new platform does not meet our performance expectations, or those of our customers. This could harm our business in numerous ways including, without limitation, a loss of revenue, lost customer contracts, and damage to our reputation.

Delayed or unsuccessful investment in new technology, services and markets may harm our financial results.

We plan to continue to invest significant resources in research and development in order to enhance our existing offerings and introduce Avalon and other new offerings that will appeal to customers and potential customers. We have undertaken the development of Avalon as our new technology to offer improved and more scalable service revenue management, including enhancements to our applications. The development of new products and services entails a number of risks that could adversely affect our business and operating results, including:

 

   

the risk of diverting the attention of our management and our employees from the day-to-day operations of the business;

 

   

insufficient revenue to offset increased expenses associated with research, development, operational and marketing activities; and

 

   

write-offs of the value of such technology investments as a result of unsuccessful implementation or otherwise.

If Avalon or any of our other new or modified technology does not work as intended, is not responsive to user preferences or industry or regulatory changes, is not appropriately timed with market opportunity, or is not effectively brought to market, we may lose existing and potential customers or related service revenue opportunities, in which case our results of operations may suffer. The cost of future development of new service revenue management offerings or technologies also could require us to raise additional debt or equity financing. These actions could negatively impact the ownership percentages of our existing stockholders, our financial condition or our results of operations.

We plan to sell subscriptions to our cloud applications via Avalon separately from our integrated solution, which may not be successful and could impact revenue from our existing solution.

We currently derive a small portion of our revenue from subscriptions to our cloud applications for a few customers, and we plan to package and price the applications we offer on Avalon in a manner to generate more revenues from them using a subscription model. We may not find a successful market for our Avalon subscription applications. In addition, because we have limited prior experience selling technology subscriptions on a stand-alone basis, we may encounter technical and execution challenges that undermine the quality of the technology offering or cause us to fall short of customer expectations. We also have little experience in pricing our technology subscriptions separately, which could result in under pricing that damages our profit margins and other financial performance. It is also possible that selling a technology solution separate via Avalon from our integrated solution will result in a reduction in sales of our current offerings that we might otherwise have sold. An unsuccessful expansion of our business to promote a stand-alone subscription model for any of the foregoing reasons or otherwise would lead to a diversion of financial and managerial resources from our existing business and an inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset our investment costs.

 

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Our estimates of service revenue opportunity under management and other metrics may prove inaccurate.

We use various estimates in formulating our business plans and analyzing our potential and historical performance, including our estimate of service revenue opportunity under management. We base our estimates upon a number of assumptions that are inherently subject to significant business and economic uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our control. Our estimates therefore may prove inaccurate.

Service revenue opportunity under management (“opportunity under management”) is a forward-looking metric and is our estimate, as of a given date, of the value of all end customer service contracts that we will have the opportunity to sell on behalf of our customers over the subsequent twelve-month period. Opportunity under management is not a measure of our expected revenue. We estimate the value of such end customer contracts based on a combination of factors, including the value of end customer contracts made available to us by customers in past periods, the minimum value of end customer contracts that our customers are required to give us the opportunity to sell pursuant to the terms of their contracts with us, periodic internal business reviews of our expectations as to the value of end customer contracts that will be made available to us by customers, the value of end customer contracts included in the SPA and collaborative discussions with our customers assessing their expectations as to the value of service contracts that they will make available to us for sale. While the minimum value of end customer contracts that our customers are required to give us represents a portion of our estimated opportunity under management, a significant portion of the opportunity under management is estimated based on the other factors described above.

When estimating service revenue opportunity under management and other similar metrics, we must, to a large degree, rely on the assumptions described above, which may prove incorrect. These assumptions are inherently subject to significant business and economic uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our control. Our estimates therefore may prove inaccurate, causing the actual value of end customer contracts delivered to us in a given twelve-month period to differ from our estimate of opportunity under management. These factors include:

 

   

the extent to which customers deliver a greater or lesser value of end customer contracts than may be required or otherwise expected;

 

   

roll-overs of unsold service contract renewals from prior periods to the current period or future periods;

 

   

changes in the pricing or terms of service contracts offered by our customers;

 

   

increases or decreases in the end customer base of our customers;

 

   

the extent to which the renewal rates we achieve on behalf of a customer early in an engagement affect the amount of opportunity that the customer makes available to us later in the engagement;

 

   

customer cancellations of their contracts with us due to acquisitions or otherwise; and

 

   

changes in our customers’ businesses, sales organizations, sales processes or priorities, including changes in executive support for our partnership.

In addition, opportunity under management reflects our estimate for a forward twelve-month period and should not be used to estimate our opportunity for any particular quarter within that period.

If our security measures are breached or fail, resulting in unauthorized access to customer data, our solution may be perceived as insecure, the attractiveness of our solution to current or potential customers may be reduced and we may incur significant liabilities.

Our solution involves the storage and transmission of the proprietary information and protected data that we receive from our customers. We rely on proprietary and commercially available systems, software, tools and monitoring, as well as other processes, to provide security for processing, transmission and storage of such information. If our security measures are breached or fail as a result of third-party action, employee negligence, error, malfeasance or otherwise, unauthorized access to customer or end customer data may occur. Improper activities by third parties, advances in computer and software capabilities and encryption technology, new tools and discoveries and other events or developments may facilitate or result in a compromise or breach of our computer systems. Techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, and we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventive measures. Our security measures may not be effective in preventing these types of activities, and the security measures of our third-party data centers and service providers may not be adequate.

Our customer contracts generally provide that we will indemnify our customers for data privacy breaches. If such a breach occurs, we could face contractual damages, damages and fees arising from our indemnification obligations, penalties for violation of applicable laws or regulations, possible lawsuits by affected individuals and significant remediation costs and efforts to prevent future occurrences. In addition, whether there is an actual or a perceived breach of our security, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed significantly and we could lose current or potential customers.

 

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We may be liable to our customers or third parties if we make errors in providing our solution or fail to properly safeguard their confidential information.

The solution we offer is complex, and we make errors from time to time. These may include human errors made in the course of managing the sales process for our customers as we interact with their end customers, or errors arising from our technology solution as it interacts with our customers’ systems and the disparate data contained on such systems. Errors may also arise from the launch of and migration of our offerings to Avalon. The costs incurred in correcting any material errors may be substantial. In addition, as part of our business, we collect, process and analyze confidential information provided by our customers and prospective customers. Although we take significant steps to safeguard the confidentiality of customer information, we could be subject to claims that we disclosed their information without appropriate authorization or used their information inappropriately. Any claims based on errors or unauthorized disclosure or use of information could subject us to exposure for damages, significant legal defense costs, adverse publicity and reputational harm, regardless of the merits or eventual outcome of such claims.

If close rates fall short of our predictions, our revenue will suffer and our ability to grow and achieve broader market acceptance of our solution could be harmed.

Given our pay-for-performance pricing model, our revenue is directly tied to close rates. Close rates represent the percentage of the actual opportunity delivered that we renew on behalf of our customers. If the close rate for a particular customer is lower than anticipated, then our revenue for that customer will also be lower than projected. If close rates fall short of expectations across a broad range of customers, or if they fall below expectations for a particularly large customer, then the impact on our revenue and our overall business will be significant. In the event close rates are lower than expected for a given customer, our margins will suffer because we will have already incurred a certain level of costs in both personnel and infrastructure to support the engagement. This risk is compounded by the fact that many of our customer relationships are terminable if we fail to meet certain specified sales targets over a sustained period of time. If actual close rates fall to a level at which our revenue and customer contracts are at risk, then our financial performance will decline and we will be severely compromised in our ability to retain and attract customers. Increasing our customer base and achieving broader market acceptance of our solution depends, to a large extent, on how effectively our solution increases service sales. As a result, poor performance with respect to our close rates, in addition to causing our revenue, margins and earnings to suffer, will likely damage our reputation and prevent us from effectively developing and maintaining awareness of our brand or achieving widespread acceptance of our solution, in which case we could fail to grow our business and our revenue, margins and earnings would suffer.

Our revenue will decline if there is a decrease in the overall demand for our customers’ products and services for which we provide service revenue management.

Our revenue is based on a pay-for-performance model under which we are paid a commission based on the service contracts we sell on behalf of our customers. If a particular customer’s products or services fail to appeal to its end customers, our revenue may decline. In addition, if end customer demand decreases for other reasons, such as negative news regarding our customers or their products, unfavorable economic conditions, shifts in strategy by our customers away from promoting the service contracts we sell in favor of selling their other products or services to their end customers, or if end customers experience financial constraints and fail to renew the service contracts we sell, we may experience a decrease in our revenue as the demand for our customers’ service contracts declines.

If we are unable to compete effectively against current and future competitors, our business and operating results will be harmed.

The market for service revenue management is evolving. Historically, technology companies have managed their service renewals through internal personnel and relied upon technology ranging from Excel spreadsheets to internally-developed software to customized versions of traditional business intelligence tools and CRM or ERP software from vendors such as Oracle, SAP, salesforce.com and NetSuite. Some companies have made further investments in this area using firms such as Accenture and McKinsey for technology consulting and education services focused on service renewals. These internally-developed solutions represent the primary alternative to our integrated approach. We also face direct competition from smaller companies that offer specialized service revenue management solutions, typically providing technology for use by their customers’ internal sales personnel.

We believe the principal competitive factors in our markets include the following:

 

   

service revenue industry expertise, best practices, and benchmarks;

 

   

performance-based pricing of solutions;

 

   

ability to increase service revenue, renewal rates, and close rates;

 

   

global capabilities;

 

   

completeness of solution;

 

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ability to effectively represent customer brands to end customers and channel partners;

 

   

size of upfront investment; and

 

   

size and financial stability of operations.

We believe that more competitors will emerge. These competitors may have greater name recognition, longer operating histories, well-established relationships with customers in our markets and substantially greater financial, technical, personnel and other resources than we have. Potential competitors of any size may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards or customer or end customer requirements. Even if our solution is more effective than competing solutions, potential customers might choose new entrants unless we can convince them of the advantages of our integrated solution. We expect competition and competitive pressure, from both new and existing competitors, to increase in the future.

If there is a widespread shift away from business customers purchasing maintenance and support service contracts, we could be adversely impacted if we are not able to adapt to new trends or expand our target markets.

As a result of our historical concentration in the software and hardware industries, a significant portion of our revenue comes from the sale of maintenance and support service contracts for the software and hardware products used by our customers’ end customers. Although we also sell other types of renewals, such as subscriptions to software-as-a-service offerings, those sales have to date constituted a relatively small portion of our revenue. The emergence of cloud computing and other alternative technology purchasing models, in which technology services are provided on a remote-access basis, may have a significant impact on the size of the market for traditional maintenance and support contracts. If these alternative models continue gaining traction and reduce the size of our traditional market, we will need to continue to adapt our solution to capitalize on these trends or our results of operations will suffer.

The loss of one or more of our key customers could slow our revenue growth or cause our revenue to decline.

A substantial portion of our revenue has to date come from a relatively small number of customers. For the six months ended June 30, 2012, our top ten customers accounted for 49% of our revenue with one customer representing over 10% of our revenue. A relatively small number of customers may continue to account for a significant portion of our revenue for the foreseeable future. The loss of any of our significant customers for any reason, including the failure to renew our contracts, a change of relationship with any of our key customers or their acquisition as discussed below, may cause a significant decrease in our revenue.

Supporting our existing and growing customer base could strain our personnel resources and infrastructure, and if we cannot scale our operations and increase productivity, we may be unsuccessful in implementing our business plan.

In recent periods, we have experienced significant growth in our customer base, which has placed a strain on our management, administrative, operational and financial infrastructure. We anticipate that additional investments in sales personnel, information technology, infrastructure and research and development spending will be required to:

 

   

scale our operations and increase productivity;

 

   

address the needs of our customers;

 

   

further develop and enhance our solution and offerings;

 

   

develop new technology; and

 

   

expand our markets and opportunity under management, including into new industry verticals and geographic areas.

Our success will depend in part upon our ability to manage our growth effectively. To do so, we must continue to increase the productivity of our existing employees and to hire, train and manage new employees as needed. To manage domestic and international growth of our operations and personnel, we will need to continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls and our reporting processes and procedures, and implement more extensive and integrated financial and business information systems. These additional investments will increase our operating costs, which will make it more difficult for us to offset any future revenue shortfalls by reducing expenses in the short term. Moreover, if we fail to scale our operations successfully and increase productivity, our overall business will be at risk.

Consolidation in the technology sector is continuing at a rapid pace, which could harm our business in the event that our customers are acquired and their contracts are cancelled.

Consolidation among technology companies in our target market has been robust in recent years, and this trend poses a risk for us. Acquisitions of our customers could lead to cancellation of our contracts with those customers by the acquiring companies and could reduce the number of our existing and potential customers. For example, Oracle has acquired a number of our customers in

 

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recent years, including our then largest customer, Sun Microsystems, in January 2010, and another customer, BEA Systems, in April 2008. Oracle has elected to terminate our service contracts with each customer because Oracle conducts its service revenue management internally. If mergers and acquisitions continue, we expect that some of the acquiring companies, and Oracle in particular, will terminate, renegotiate and/or elect not to renew our contracts with the companies they acquire, which would reduce our revenue.

We enter into long-term, commission-based contracts with our customers, and our failure to correctly price these contracts may negatively affect our profitability.

We enter into long-term contracts with our customers that are priced based on multiple factors determined in large part by the SPA we conduct for our customers. These factors include opportunity size, anticipated close rates and expected commission rates at various levels of sales performance. Some of these factors require forward looking assumptions that may prove incorrect. If our assumptions are inaccurate, or if we otherwise fail to correctly price our customer contracts, particularly those with lengthy contract terms, then our revenue, profitability and overall business operations may suffer. Further, if we fail to anticipate any unexpected increase in our cost of providing services, including the costs for employees, office space or technology, we could be exposed to risks associated with cost overruns related to our required performance under our contracts, which could have a negative effect on our margins and earnings.

Many of our customer contracts allow termination for our failure to meet certain performance conditions.

Although most of our customer contracts are subject to multi-year terms, these agreements often have termination rights if we fail to meet specified sales targets. During the SPA and contract negotiation phase with a customer, we typically negotiate minimum performance levels for the engagement. If we fail to meet our required targets and our customers choose to exercise their termination rights, our revenue could decline. These termination rights may also create instability in our revenue forecasts and other forward looking financial metrics.

Our business may be harmed if our customers rely upon our service revenue forecasts in their business and actual results are materially different.

The contracts that we enter into with our customers provide for sharing of information with respect to forecasts and plans for the renewal of maintenance, support and subscription agreements of our customers. Our customers may use such forecasted data for a variety of purposes related to their business. Our forecasts are based upon the data our customers provide to us, and are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. In addition, these forecasted expectations are based upon historical trends and data that may not be true in subsequent periods. Any material inaccuracies related to these forecasts could lead to claims on the part of our customers related to the accuracy of the forecasted data we provide to them, or the appropriateness of our methodology. Any liability that we incur or any harm to our brand that we suffer because of inaccuracies in the forecasted data we provide to our customers could impact our ability to retain existing customers and harm our brand and, ultimately, our business.

Changing global economic conditions and large scale economic shifts may impact our business.

Our overall performance depends in part on worldwide economic conditions that impact the technology sector and other technology-enabled industries such as healthcare, life sciences and industrial systems. For example, the recent economic downturn resulted in many businesses deferring technology investments, including purchases of new software, hardware and other equipment, and purchases of additional or supplemental maintenance, support and subscription services. To a certain extent, these businesses also slowed the rate of renewals of maintenance, support and subscription services for their existing technology base. A future downturn could cause business customers to stop renewing their existing maintenance, support and subscription agreements or contracting for additional maintenance services as they look for ways to further cut expenses, in which case our business could suffer.

Conversely, a significant upturn in global economic conditions could cause business purchasers to purchase new hardware, software and other technology products, which we generally do not sell, instead of renewing or otherwise purchasing maintenance, support and subscription services for their existing products. A general shift toward new product sales could reduce our near term opportunities for these contracts, which could lead to a decline in our revenue.

Our inability to expand our target markets could adversely impact our business and operating results.

We derive substantially all of our revenue from customers in certain sectors in the technology and technology-enabled healthcare and life sciences industries, and an important part of our strategy is to expand our existing customer base and win new customers in these industries. In addition, because of the service revenue opportunities that we believe exist beyond these industries, we intend to target new customers in additional industry vertical markets, such as technology-enabled building services. In connection with the expansion of our target markets, we may not have familiarity with such additional industry verticals, and our execution of such expansion could face risks where our Service Revenue Intelligence Platform is less developed within a particular new vertical.

 

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We may encounter customers in these previously untapped markets that have different pricing and other business sensitivities than we are used to managing. As a result of these and other factors, our efforts to expand our solution to additional industry vertical markets may not succeed, may divert management resources from our existing operations and may require us to commit significant financial resources to unproven parts of our business, all of which may harm our financial performance.

Our business and growth depend substantially on customers renewing their agreements with us and expanding their use of our solution for additional available markets. Any decline in our customer renewals or failure to expand their relationships with us could harm our future operating results.

In order for us to improve our operating results and grow, it is important that our customers renew their agreements with us when the initial contract term expires and that we expand our customer relationships to add new market opportunities and related service revenue opportunity under management. Our customers may elect not to renew their contracts with us after the initial terms have expired, and we cannot assure you that our customers will renew service contracts with us at the same or higher level of service, if at all, or provide us with the opportunity to manage additional opportunity. Although our renewal rates have been historically higher than those achieved by our customers prior to their using our solution, some customers have elected not to renew their agreements with us. Our customers’ renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our solution and results, our pricing, mergers and acquisitions affecting our customers or their end customers, the effects of economic conditions or reductions in our customers’ or their end customers’ spending levels. If our customers do not renew their agreements with us, renew on less favorable terms or fail to contract with us for additional service revenue management opportunities, our revenue may decline and we may not realize improved operating results and growth from our customer base.

A substantial portion of our business consists of supporting our customers’ channel partners in the sale of service contracts. If those channel partners become unreceptive to our solution, our business could be harmed.

Many of our customers, including some of our largest customers, sell service contracts through their channel partners and engage our solution to help those channel partners become more effective at selling service contract renewals. These channel partners may have access to some of our cloud applications, such as our Channel Sales Cloud, in addition to other sales support services we provide. In this context, the ultimate buyers of the service contracts are end customers of those channel partners, who then receive the actual services from our customers. In the event our customers’ channel partners become unreceptive to our involvement in the renewals process, those channel partners could discourage our current or future customers from engaging our solution to support channel sales. This risk is compounded by the fact that large channel partners may have relationships with more than one of our customers or prospects, in which case the negative reaction of one or more of those large channel partners could impact multiple customer relationships. Accordingly, with respect to those customers and prospective customers who sell service contracts through channel partners, any significant resistance to our solution by their channel partners could harm our ability to attract or retain customers, which would damage our overall business operations.

We face long sales cycles to secure new customer contracts, making it difficult to predict the timing of specific new customer relationships.

We face a variable selling cycle to secure new customer agreements, typically spanning a number of months and requiring our effort to obtain and analyze our prospect’s business through the SPA, for which we are not paid. Moreover, even if we succeed in developing a relationship with a potential new customer, the scope of the potential service revenue management engagement frequently changes over the course of the business discussions and, for a variety of reasons, our sales discussions may fail to result in new customer acquisitions. Consequently, we have only a limited ability to predict the timing and size of specific new customer relationships.

If we experience significant fluctuations in our anticipated growth rate and fail to balance our expenses with our revenue forecasts, our results could be harmed.

Due to our evolving business model, the uncertain size of our markets and the unpredictability of future general economic and financial market conditions, we may not be able to accurately forecast our growth rate. We plan our expense levels and investments based on estimates of future sales performance for our customers with respect to their end customers, future revenue and future customer acquisition. If our assumptions prove incorrect, we may not be able to adjust our spending quickly enough to offset the resulting decline in growth and revenue. Consequently, we expect that our gross margins, operating margins and cash flows may fluctuate significantly on a quarterly basis.

 

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If we cannot efficiently implement our offering for customers, we may be delayed in generating revenue, fail to generate revenue and/or incur significant costs.

In general, our customer engagements are complex and may require lengthy and significant work to implement our offerings. As a result, we generally incur sales and marketing expenses related to the commissions owed to our sales representatives and make upfront investments in technology and personnel to support the engagements one to three months before we begin selling end customer contracts. Each customer’s situation may be different, and unanticipated difficulties and delays may arise as a result of our failure, or that of our customer, to meet respective implementation responsibilities. If the customer implementation process is not executed successfully or if execution is delayed, we could incur significant costs without yet generating revenue, and our relationships with some of our customers may be adversely impacted.

Because competition for our target employees is intense, we may be unable to attract and retain the highly skilled employees we need to support our planned growth.

To continue to execute on our growth plan, we must attract and retain highly qualified sales representatives, engineers and other key employees in the international markets in which we have operations. Competition for these personnel is intense, especially for highly educated, qualified sales representatives. We have from time to time in the past experienced, and we expect to continue to experience in the future, difficulty in hiring and retaining highly skilled key employees with appropriate qualifications. If we fail to attract new sales representatives, engineers and other key employees, or fail to retain and motivate our most successful employees, our business and future growth prospects could be harmed.

The length of time it takes our newly-hired sales representatives to become productive could adversely impact our success rate, the execution of our overall business plan and our costs.

It can take twelve months or longer before our internal sales representatives are fully trained and productive in selling our solution to prospects and customers. This long ramp period presents a number of operational challenges as the cost of recruiting, hiring and carrying new sales representatives cannot be offset by the revenue such new sales representatives produce until after they complete their long ramp periods. Further, given the length of the ramp period, we often cannot determine if a sales representative will succeed until he or she has been employed for a year or more. If we cannot reliably develop our sales representatives to a productive level, or if we lose productive representatives in whom we have heavily invested, our future growth rates and revenue will suffer.

If we lose our top executives, or if we are unable to attract, hire, integrate and retain key personnel and other necessary employees, our business will be harmed.

Our future success depends on the continued contributions of our executives, each of whom may be difficult to replace. Our future success also depends in part on our ability to attract, hire, integrate and retain qualified service sales personnel, sales representatives and management level employees to oversee such sales forces. In particular, Michael Smerklo, our chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer, is critical to the management of our business and operations and the development of our strategic direction. The loss of Mr. Smerklo’s services or those of our other executives, or our inability to continue to attract and retain high-quality talent, could harm our business.

We depend on revenue from sources outside the United States, and our international business operations and expansion plans are subject to risks related to international operations, and may not increase our revenue growth or enhance our business operations.

For the six months ended June 30, 2012, approximately 38% of our revenue was generated from sales centers located outside of the United States. As a result of our continued focus on international markets, we expect that future revenue derived from international sources will continue to represent a significant portion of our total revenue.

A portion of the sales commissions earned from our international customers is paid in foreign currencies. As a result, fluctuations in the value of these foreign currencies may make our solution more expensive or cause resulting fluctuations in cost for international customers, which could harm our business. We currently do not undertake hedging activities to manage these currency fluctuations. In addition, if the effective price of the contracts we sell to the end customers were to increase as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of the relevant currencies, demand for such contracts could fall, which in turn would reduce our revenue.

Our growth strategy includes further expansion into international markets. Our international expansion may require significant additional financial resources and management attention, and could negatively affect our financial condition, cash flows and operating results. In addition, we may be exposed to associated risks and challenges, including:

 

   

the need to localize and adapt our solution for specific countries, including translation into foreign languages and associated expenses;

 

   

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different pricing environments, longer sales cycles and longer accounts receivable payment cycles and difficulties in collecting accounts receivable;

 

   

new and different sources of competition;

 

   

weaker protection for our intellectual property than in the United States and practical difficulties in enforcing our rights abroad;

 

   

laws and business practices favoring local competitors;

 

   

compliance obligations related to multiple, conflicting and changing foreign governmental laws and regulations, including employment, tax, privacy and data protection laws and regulations;

 

   

increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;

 

   

restrictions on the transfer of funds;

 

   

adverse tax consequences; and

 

   

unstable regional and economic political conditions.

We cannot assure you we will succeed in creating additional international demand for our solution or that we will be able to effectively sell service agreements in all of the international markets we enter.

We could experience significant problems implementing various new business software applications, including our new financial ERP system, which may negatively impact our internal operations.

We are in the process of upgrading and/or replacing various software systems, including our financial ERP system. If the implementations of these new applications are delayed, or if we encounter unforeseen problems with our new systems or in migrating away from our existing applications and systems, our operations and our ability to plan and forecast our business could be negatively impacted.

We incur increased costs and demands upon management as a result of complying with the laws and regulations affecting public companies, which could adversely affect our operating results.

As a newly public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company, and greater expenditures may be necessary in the future with the advent of new laws, regulations and stock exchange listing requirements pertaining to public companies. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the Securities and Exchange Commission and The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, impose various requirements on public companies, including establishing effective internal controls and certain corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives, and additional laws and regulations may divert further management resources. Moreover, if we are not able to comply with the requirements of new compliance initiatives in a timely manner, the market price of our stock could decline, and we could be subject to investigations and other actions by The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.

In particular, we are required to evaluate our internal control over financial reporting in connection with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and our independent registered public accounting firm will be required to report on our internal control over financial reporting starting with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2012. This assessment will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting identified by our management, as well as our independent registered public accounting firm’s report on our internal control over financial reporting. Compiling the system and processing documentation needed to comply with such requirements is costly and challenging, and as a public company and to manage our growth, we are required to implement and maintain various other control and business systems related to our equity, finance, treasury, information technology, other recordkeeping systems and other operations. We may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing and any required remediation in a timely fashion. During the evaluation and testing processes, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective. If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, or if we are unable to remedy any material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting or implement or maintain other effective control or business systems, our financial statements may be inaccurate, we may face restricted access to the capital markets and our stock price may be adversely affected.

 

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Changes in the U.S. and foreign legal and regulatory environment that affect our operations, including those relating to privacy, data security and cross-border data flows, could pose a significant risk to our company by disrupting our business and increasing our expenses.

We are subject to a wide variety of laws and regulations in the United States and the other jurisdictions in which we operate, and changes in the level of government regulation of our business have the potential to materially alter our business practices with resultant increases in costs and decreases in profitability. Depending on the jurisdiction, those changes may come about through new legislation, the issuance of new regulations or changes in the interpretation of existing laws and regulations by a court, regulatory body or governmental official. Sometimes those changes may have both prospective and retroactive effect, which is particularly true when a change is made through reinterpretation of laws or regulations that have been in effect for some time.

Privacy and data security are rapidly evolving areas of regulation, and additional regulation in those areas, some of it potentially difficult and costly for us to accommodate, is frequently proposed and occasionally adopted. Laws in many countries and jurisdictions, particularly in the European Union and Canada, govern the requirements related to how we store, transfer or otherwise process the private data provided to us by our customers. In addition, the centralized nature of our information systems at the data and operations centers that we use requires the routine flow of data relating to our customers and their respective end customers across national borders, both with respect to the jurisdictions within which we have operations and the jurisdictions in which we provide services to our customers. If this flow of data becomes subject to new or different restrictions, our ability to serve our customers and their respective customers could be seriously impaired for an extended period of time. For example, we participate in the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Framework to govern our treatment of data and data flow with respect to our customers and their respective customers across various jurisdictions. We also have entered into various model contracts and related contractual provisions to enable these data flows. For any jurisdictions in which these measures are not recognized or otherwise not compliant with the laws of the countries in which we process data, or where more stringent data privacy laws are enacted irrespective of international treaty arrangements or other existing compliance mechanisms, we could face increased compliance expenses and face penalties for violating such laws or be excluded from those markets altogether, in which case our operations could be materially damaged.

If we do not adequately protect our intellectual property rights, our competitive position and our business may suffer.

We rely upon a combination of trademark, copyright and trade secret law and contractual terms to protect our intellectual property rights, all of which provide only limited protection. Our success depends, in part, upon our ability to establish, protect and enforce our intellectual property and other proprietary rights. If we fail to protect or effectively enforce our intellectual property rights, others may be able to compete against us using intellectual property that is the same as or similar to our own. In addition, we cannot assure you that our intellectual property rights are sufficient to provide us with a competitive advantage against others who offer services similar to ours.

While we have filed patent applications to protect our intellectual property, we cannot assure you that any issued patents arising from our applications will provide the protection we seek, or that any future patents issued to us will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented. Also, we cannot assure you that we will obtain any copyright or trademark registrations from our pending or future applications or that any of our trademarks will be enforceable or provide adequate protection of our proprietary rights.

We also rely in some circumstances on trade secrets to protect our technology. Trade secrets may lose their value if not properly protected. We endeavor to enter into non-disclosure agreements with our employees, customers, contractors and business partners to limit access to and disclosure of our proprietary information. The steps we have taken, however, may not prevent unauthorized use of our technology, and adequate remedies may not be available in the event of unauthorized use or disclosure of our trade secrets and proprietary technology. However, trade secret protection does not prevent others from reverse engineering or independently developing similar technologies. In addition, reverse engineering, unauthorized copying or other misappropriation of our trade secrets could enable third parties to benefit from our technology without paying for it.

Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing or misappropriating our intellectual property and using our technology for their competitive advantage. Any such infringement or misappropriation could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Monitoring infringement of our intellectual property rights can be difficult and costly, and enforcement of our intellectual property rights may require us to bring legal actions against infringers. Infringement actions are inherently uncertain and therefore may not be successful, even when our rights have been infringed. Even if such actions are successful, they may require a substantial amount of resources and divert our management’s attention.

 

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Claims by others that we infringe or violate their intellectual property could force us to incur significant costs and require us to change the way we conduct our business.

Numerous technology companies including potential competitors protect their intellectual property rights by means such as patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. We have not conducted an independent review of patents issued to third parties. Additionally, because patent applications in the United States and many other jurisdictions are kept confidential for 18 months before they are published, we may be unaware of pending patent applications that relate to our proprietary technology. From time to time we may receive letters from other parties alleging, or inquiring about, possible breaches of their intellectual property rights.

Any party asserting that we infringe its proprietary rights would force us to defend ourselves, and possibly our customers, against the alleged infringement. The technology industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and by frequent litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. Moreover, the risk of such a lawsuit will likely increase as we become larger, the scope of our solution and technology expands and the number of competitors in our market increases. Any such claims or litigation could:

 

   

be time-consuming and expensive to defend, and deplete our financial resources, whether meritorious or not;

 

   

require us to stop providing the services that use the technology that infringes the other party’s intellectual property;

 

   

divert the attention of our technical and managerial resources away from our business;

 

   

require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements with third parties, which may not be available on terms that we deem acceptable, if at all;

 

   

prevent us from operating all or a portion of our business or force us to redesign our technology, which could be difficult and expensive and may make the performance or value of our solution less attractive;

 

   

subject us to significant liability for damages or result in significant settlement payments; or

 

   

require us to indemnify our customers as we are required by contract to indemnify some of our customers for certain claims based upon the infringement or alleged infringement of any third party’s intellectual property rights resulting from our customers’ use of our intellectual property.

During the course of any intellectual property litigation, confidential information may be disclosed in the form of documents or testimony in connection with discovery requests, depositions or trial testimony. Disclosure of our confidential information and our involvement in intellectual property litigation could harm us. In addition, any uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of any litigation could significantly limit our ability to continue our operations and could harm our relationships with current and prospective customers. Any of the foregoing could disrupt our business and have a material adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition.

In addition, we may incorporate open source software into our technology solution. The terms of many open source licenses have not been interpreted by United States or foreign courts, and there is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our commercialization of any of our solutions that may include open source software. As a result, we will be required to analyze and monitor our use of open source software closely. As a result of the use of open source software, we could be required to seek licenses from third parties in order to develop such future products, re-engineer our products, discontinue sales of our solutions or release our software code under the terms of an open source license to the public. Given the nature of open source software, there is also a risk that third parties may assert copyright and other intellectual property infringement claims against us based on any use of such open source software, as more generally discussed with respect to general intellectual property claims.

Various risks could affect our worldwide operations, including numerous events outside of our control, exposing us to significant costs that could adversely affect our operations and customer confidence.

We conduct operations throughout the world, including our headquarters in the United States and various operations in Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Such worldwide operations expose us to potential operational disruptions and costs as a result of a wide variety of events, including local inflation or economic downturn, currency exchange fluctuations, political turmoil, labor issues, terrorism, natural disasters and pandemics. Any such disruptions or costs could have a negative effect on our ability to provide our solution or meet our contractual obligations, the cost of our solution, customer satisfaction, our ability to attract or maintain customers, and, ultimately, our profits.

Natural disasters or other catastrophic events may cause damage or disruption to our operations, international commerce and the global economy, and thus could have a strong negative effect on us. Our business operations are subject to interruption by natural disasters, fire, power shortages, pandemics and other events beyond our control. Such events could make it difficult or impossible for us to deliver our solution to our customers, and could decrease demand for our solution. The majority of our research and development

 

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activities, corporate headquarters, information technology systems and other critical business operations are located near major seismic faults in the San Francisco Bay Area. Because we may not have insurance coverage that would cover quake-related losses, and significant recovery time could be required to resume operations, our financial condition and operating results could be materially adversely affected in the event of a major earthquake or catastrophic event.

Terrorist attacks and other acts of violence or war may adversely affect worldwide financial markets and could potentially lead to economic recession, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. These events could adversely affect our customers’ levels of business activity and precipitate sudden significant changes in regional and global economic conditions and cycles.

The technology we currently use may not operate properly, which could damage our reputation, give rise to claims against us or divert application of our resources from other purposes, any of which could harm our business and operating results.

The technology we currently use, which includes our cloud based applications as well as the technology components of our Service Revenue Intelligence Platform, may contain or develop unexpected defects or errors. There can be no assurance that performance problems or defects in our technology will not arise in the future. Errors may result from receipt, entry or interpretation of customer or end customer information or from the interface of our technology with legacy systems and data that are outside of our control. Despite testing, defects or errors may arise in our solution. Any defects and errors that we discover in our technology and any failure by us to identify and effectively address them could result in loss of revenue or market share, liability to customers or others, failure to achieve market acceptance or expansion, diversion of development resources, injury to our reputation, and increased costs. Defects or errors in our technology may discourage existing or potential customers from contracting with us. Correction of defects or errors could prove impossible or impracticable. The costs incurred in correcting any defects or errors or in responding to resulting claims or liability may be substantial and could adversely affect our operating results.

Disruptions in service or damage to the data center that hosts our data and our locations could adversely affect our business.

Our operations depend on our ability to maintain and protect our data servers and cloud applications, which are located in a data center operated for us by a third party. We cannot control or assure the continued or uninterrupted availability of this third-party data center. In addition, our information technologies and systems, as well as our data center, are vulnerable to damage or interruption from various causes, including natural disasters, war and acts of terrorism and power losses, computer systems failures, Internet and telecommunications or data network failures, operator error, losses of and corruption of data and similar events. Although we conduct business continuity planning and maintain certain insurance for certain events, the situations for which we plan, and the amount of insurance coverage we maintain, may prove inadequate in any particular case. In addition, the occurrence of any of these events could result in interruptions, delays or cessations in the delivery of the solutions we offer to our customers. Any of these events could impair or prohibit our ability to provide our solution, reduce the attractiveness of our solution to current or potential customers and adversely impact our financial condition and results of operations.

In addition, despite the implementation of security measures, our infrastructure, data center, operations and other centers or systems that we interface with, including the Internet and related systems, may be vulnerable to physical intrusions, hackers, improper employee or contractor access, computer viruses, programming errors, denial-of-service attacks or other attacks by third parties.

Any failure or interruptions in the Internet infrastructure, bandwidth providers, data center providers, other third parties or our own systems for providing our solution to customers could negatively impact our business.

Our ability to deliver our solution is dependent on the development and maintenance of the infrastructure of the Internet and other telecommunications services by third parties. Such services include maintenance of a reliable network backbone with the necessary speed, data capacity and security for providing reliable Internet access and services and reliable telecommunications systems that connect our global operations. While our solution is designed to operate without interruption, we have experienced and expect that we will in the future experience interruptions and delays in services and availability from time to time. We rely on internal systems as well as third-party vendors, including data center, bandwidth, and telecommunications equipment providers, to provide our solution. We do not maintain redundant systems or facilities for some of these services. In the event of a catastrophic event with respect to one or more of these systems or facilities, we may experience an extended period of system unavailability, which could negatively impact our relationship with our customers.

Additional government regulations may reduce the size of market for our solution, harm demand for our solution and increase our costs of doing business.

Any changes in government regulations that impact our customers or their end customers could have a harmful effect on our business by reducing the size of our addressable market or otherwise increasing our costs. For example, with respect to our technology-enabled healthcare and life sciences customers, any change in U.S. Food and Drug Administration or foreign equivalent regulation of, or denial, withholding or withdrawal of approval of, our customers’ products could lead to a lack of demand for service revenue management with respect to such products. Other changes in government regulations, in areas such as privacy, export compliance or anti-bribery statutes, such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, could require us to implement changes in our services or operations that increase our cost of doing business and thereby hurt our financial performance.

 

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The future success of our business depends upon the continued use of the Internet as a primary medium for commerce, communication and business applications. Federal, state or foreign government bodies or agencies have in the past adopted, and may in the future adopt, laws or regulations affecting data privacy and the use of the Internet as a commercial medium. In addition, government agencies or private organizations may begin to impose taxes, fees or other charges for accessing the Internet. These laws or charges could limit the growth of Internet-related commerce or communications generally, result in a decline in the use of the Internet and the viability of Internet-based applications such as ours and reduce the demand for our solution.

We operate and offer our services in many jurisdictions and, therefore, may be subject to state, local and foreign taxes that could harm our business.

We operate service sales centers in multiple locations. Some of the jurisdictions in which we operate, such as Ireland, give us the benefit of either relatively low tax rates, tax holidays or government grants, in each case that are dependent on how we operate or how many jobs we create and employees we retain. We plan on utilizing such tax incentives in the future as opportunities are made available to us. Any failure on our part to operate in conformity with applicable requirements to remain qualified for any such tax incentives or grants may result in an increase in our taxes. In addition, jurisdictions may choose to increase rates at any time due to economic or other factors, such as the current economic situation in Ireland. Any such rate increases may harm our results of operations.

In addition, we may lose sales or incur significant costs should various tax jurisdictions impose taxes on either a broader range of services or services that we have performed in the past. We may be subject to audits of the taxing authorities in any such jurisdictions that would require us to incur costs in responding to such audits. Imposition of such taxes on our services could result in substantial unplanned costs, would effectively increase the cost of such services to our customers and may adversely affect our ability to retain existing customers or to gain new customers in the areas in which such taxes are imposed.

If we acquire companies or technologies in the future, they could prove difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and adversely affect our operating results and the value of our common stock.

As part of our business strategy, we may acquire, enter into joint ventures with, or make investments in companies, services and technologies that we believe to be complementary. Acquisitions and investments involve numerous risks, including:

 

   

difficulties in identifying and acquiring technologies or businesses that will help our business;

 

   

difficulties in integrating operations, technologies, services and personnel;

 

   

diversion of financial and managerial resources from existing operations;

 

   

the risk of entering new markets in which we have little to no experience;

 

   

risks related to the assumption of known and unknown liabilities;

 

   

potential litigation by third parties, such as claims related to intellectual property or other assets acquired or liabilities assumed;

 

   

the risk of write-offs of goodwill and other intangible assets;

 

   

delays in customer engagements due to uncertainty and the inability to maintain relationships with customers of the acquired businesses;

 

   

inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset acquisition or investment costs;

 

   

incurrence of acquisition-related costs;

 

   

harm to our existing business relationships with business partners and customers as a result of the acquisition;

 

   

the key personnel of the acquired entity or business may decide not to work for us or may not perform according to our expectations; and

 

   

use of substantial portions of our available cash or dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt to consummate the acquisition.

As a result, if we fail to properly evaluate acquisitions or investments, we may not achieve the anticipated benefits of any such acquisitions, we may incur costs in excess of what we anticipate and management resources and attention may be diverted from other necessary or valuable activities.

 

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Risks Relating to Owning Our Common Stock

Our share price has been volatile and is likely to be volatile in the future.

The trading price of our common stock is likely to be highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors. Further, our common stock has a limited trading history. In addition to the risks described in this section, factors that may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate include:

 

   

fluctuations in our quarterly financial results or the quarterly financial results of companies perceived to be similar to us as discussed in more detail elsewhere in these “Risk Factors;”

 

   

failing to achieve our revenue or earnings expectations, or those of investors or analysts;

 

   

changes in estimates of our financial results or recommendations by securities analysts;

 

   

recruitment or departure of key personnel;

 

   

investors’ general perception of us;

 

   

volatility inherent in prices of technology company stocks;

 

   

adverse publicity;

 

   

the volume of trading in our common stock, including sales upon exercise of outstanding options;

 

   

sales of shares of our common stock by existing stockholders;

 

   

regulatory developments in our target markets affecting us, our customers or our competitors;

 

   

terrorist attacks or natural disasters or other such events impacting countries where we or our customers have operations; and

 

   

actual or perceived changes in general economic, industry and market conditions.

In addition, if the stock market in general experiences a loss of investor confidence, the trading price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Some companies that have had volatile market prices for their securities have had securities class actions filed against them. If a suit were filed against us, regardless of its merits or outcome, it would likely result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention and resources. This could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our actual results may differ significantly from any guidance that we may issue in the future.

From time to time, we may release financial guidance or other forward looking statements in our earnings releases, earnings conference calls or otherwise, regarding our future performance that represent our management’s estimates as of the date of release. If given, this guidance will be based on forecasts prepared by our management. These forecasts are not prepared with a view toward compliance with published accounting guidelines, and neither our registered public accountants nor any other independent expert or outside party compiles or examines the forecasts and, accordingly, no such person expresses any opinion or any other form of assurance with respect to such forecasts. The principal reason that we may release guidance is to provide a basis for our management to discuss our business outlook with analysts and investors. We do not accept any responsibility for any projections or reports published by any such third persons. Guidance is necessarily speculative in nature, and it can be expected that some or all of the assumptions of any future guidance furnished by us may not materialize or may vary significantly from actual future results.

Concentration of ownership among our existing executive officers, directors and their affiliates may prevent new investors from influencing significant corporate decisions.

Our directors and executive officers and their affiliates beneficially own, in the aggregate, approximately 26% of our outstanding common stock as of June 30, 2012. As a result, these stockholders will have substantially influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets. This concentration of ownership could limit the ability of other stockholders to influence corporate matters and may have the effect of delaying or preventing a third party from acquiring control over us.

Anti-takeover provisions contained in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could impair a takeover attempt.

Our certificate of incorporation, by laws and Delaware law contain provisions that could have the effect of rendering more difficult or discouraging an acquisition deemed undesirable by our board of directors. Our corporate governance documents include provisions:

 

   

authorizing blank check preferred stock, which could be issued by our board of directors without stockholder approval, with voting, liquidation, dividend and other rights superior to our common stock;

 

   

classifying our board of directors, staggered into three classes, only one of which is elected at each annual meeting;

 

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limiting the liability of, and providing indemnification to, our directors and officers;

 

   

limiting the ability of our stockholders to call and bring business before special meetings and to take action by written consent in lieu of a meeting;

 

   

requiring advance notice of stockholder proposals for business to be conducted at meetings of our stockholders and for nominations of candidates for election to our board of directors;

 

   

controlling the procedures for the conduct and scheduling of stockholder meetings;

 

   

providing the board of directors with the express power to postpone previously scheduled annual meetings and to cancel previously scheduled special meetings;

 

   

limiting the determination of the number of directors on our board and the filling of vacancies or newly created seats on the board to our board of directors then in office; and

 

   

providing that directors may be removed by stockholders only for cause.

These provisions, alone or together, could delay hostile takeovers and changes in control or changes in our management.

As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation law, which limits the ability of stockholders owning in excess of 15% of our outstanding common stock to merge or combine with us.

Any provision of our certificate of incorporation, by laws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock, and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our common stock.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish or cease publishing research or reports about us, our business or our market, or if they change their recommendations regarding our stock, our stock price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our common stock will depend in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. If any of these analysts cease coverage of our company, the trading price and trading volume of our stock could be negatively impacted. If analysts downgrade our stock or publish unfavorable research about our business, our stock price would also likely decline.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

None.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

None.

Item 5. Other Information

None

Item 6. Exhibits

See the Exhibit Index, which follows the signature page to this report.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

   

SERVICESOURCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

(Registrant)

Date: August 3, 2012

    By:   /s/ David S. Oppenheimer                                                 
      David S. Oppenheimer
      (Principal Financial Officer and Duly Authorized Officer)

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit

Number

 

Description of Document

3.1(1)   Certificate of Incorporation of the Company filed March 24, 2011
3.2(1)   Bylaws of the Company dated March 24, 2011
10.1   Pledge and Security agreement entered into as of July 5, 2012 by and between ServiceSource International, Inc. , ServiceSource Delaware Inc and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
10.2+   Employment and Confidential Information Agreement dated as of July 17, 2012, between the Company and Christine Heckart
31.1   Certification of Principal Executive Officer, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2   Certification of Principal Financial Officer, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1*   Certification of Principal Executive Officer, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2*   Certification of Principal Financial Officer, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101   Interactive data files (XBRL) pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T: (i) the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, (ii) the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, (iii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 and (iv) the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. **

 

(1) Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 1, 2011.
+ Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
* In accordance with Item 601(b)(32)(ii) of Regulation S-K and SEC Release No. 33-8238 and 34-47986, Final Rule: Management’s Reports on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, the certifications furnished in Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 hereto are deemed to accompany this Form 10-Q and will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filings under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.
** XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) information is furnished and not filed herewith, is not a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, is deemed not filed for purposes of section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and otherwise is not subject to liability under these sections.

 

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