Attunity Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results

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Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:55am EDT

Company Posts Second Quarter Non-GAAP Operational Profit

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Attunity Ltd
(OTC: ATTUF), a leading provider of real-time event capture and data
integration software, reported today its unaudited financial results for the
second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
    Key financial metrics for the second quarter of 2008:

    - Revenues: $3,425,000 compared to $3,410,000 in the second quarter of
      2007.

    - Net Operating Profit (Non GAAP): $24,000 Non-GAAP net operating profit
      compared to $721,000 Non-GAAP net operating loss in the second quarter
      of 2007. Non-GAAP operating profit /loss excludes equity based
      compensation expenses (see footnote 1), software development costs
      capitalization and amortization (see footnote 2) and employment
      termination and offices shutdown costs (see footnote 3).

    - Net Operating Loss (GAAP): $566,000, compared to $1,081,000 in the
      second quarter of 2007, an improvement of 48%.

    - Net Loss (GAAP): $905,000, compared to $1,325,000 in the second quarter
      of 2007, an improvement of 32%.

    - Net Loss (Non-GAAP): $92,000, compared to $754,000 in the second
      quarter of 2007, an improvement of 88%. Non-GAAP net loss excludes
      equity based compensation expenses (see footnote 1), software
      development costs capitalization and amortization (see footnote 2),
      employment termination and offices shutdown costs (see footnote 3) and
      amortization of debt discount and deferred charges (see footnote 4).

    - Net Loss per Diluted Share (GAAP): $0.04, compared to $0.06 in the
      second quarter of 2007.

    - Net Loss per Diluted Share (Non-GAAP): $0.00, compared to $0.03 in the
      second quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP loss per Diluted Share excludes equity
      based compensation expenses (see footnote 1), software development
      costs capitalization and Amortization (see footnote 2), employment
      termination and offices shutdown costs (see footnote 3) and
      amortization of debt discount and deferred charges (see footnote 4).


    See "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information" below for more information
regarding Attunity's use of Non-GAAP financial measures.
    "We are pleased to report our operational profitability, on a non-GAAP
basis, for the second quarter", stated Shimon Alon, Attunity Chairman and
CEO. "This is a solid milestone for us, not least given the backdrop of my
transition in as CEO during the quarter. Some excellent new customer wins,
good repeat business, innovative and competitive products, and growing
interest in our core capabilities of real-time data integration and
event-capture, have all contributed to driving a good first half-year for us."
    Highlights of the Quarter:

    - Shimon Alon chairman of the board appointed Chief Executive Officer

    - Major customer wins across the world such as Schretlen & Co. (a
      subsidiary of Netherlands-based Rabobank), Greyhound Lines, The
      Warranty Group, Sensient, and Turkey National Insurance

    - Sungard announcement of their new compliance dashboard product based on
      Attunity InFocus

    - Sponsorship of the securities event SIFMA in NYC, and HP Technology
      Forum & Expo, Las Vegas

    - Announcement of the full availability of Attunity Integration Suite
      (AIS) v5.1 across entire HP server range


    "Since coming on board as Chief Executive Officer I have been encouraged
by what I have seen," continued Shimon Alon. "We have an excellent base of
loyal customers, partners who trust us as a strategic enabler of their goals,
a solid and field-proven product-offering, and a motivated and very
experienced Attunity team. With renewed vigor, and a refined focus on our
corporate goals, I believe that this combination will be a winning formula,
helping drive additional customers, partnerships and growth over the coming
quarters."
    About Attunity
    Attunity is a leading provider of real-time event capture and data
integration software. Using our software solutions, Attunity's customers
enjoy dramatic business benefits by driving down the cost of managing their
operational systems, creating flexible, service-based architectures for
increased business agility, and by detecting critical actionable business
events, as they happen, for faster business execution.
    Attunity has supplied innovative software solutions to its
enterprise-class customers for nearly 20 years and has successful deployments
at thousands of organizations worldwide. Attunity provides software directly
and indirectly through a number of strategic and OEM agreements with partners
such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP and SAP/Business Objects. Headquartered in
Boston, Attunity serves its customers via offices in North America, Europe,
and Asia Pacific and through a network of local partners. For more
information, please visit us at http://www.attunity.com, the content of which
is not part of this press release.
    Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
    In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, Attunity uses non-GAAP measures of
net loss, net operating profit (loss) and net loss per share, which are
adjustments from results based on GAAP to exclude non-cash equity based
compensation charges in accordance with SFAS 123(R), non-cash capitalization
and amortization of software development costs in accordance with SFAS 86,
expenses related to employment termination and offices shutdown costs, and
non cash financial expenses such as amortization of beneficial conversion
features related to the convertible debt and deferred charges related to
warrants granted in connection with a long term loan. Attunity's management
believes the non-GAAP financial information provided in this release is
useful to investors' understanding and assessment of Attunity's on-going core
operations and prospects for the future. Management uses both GAAP and
non-GAAP information in evaluating and operating business internally and as
such has determined that it is important to provide this information to
investors. The presentation of this non-GAAP financial information is not
intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results
prepared in accordance with GAAP.
    Safe Harbor Statement
    This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995 and other Federal Securities laws. For example, when we discuss
our expectation that the combination of our excellent base of loyal
customers, partners who trust us as a strategic enabler of their goals, a
solid and field-proven product-offering, and a motivated and very experienced
Attunity team together with a refined focus on our corporate goals, will be a
winning formula, helping drive additional customers, partnerships and growth
over the coming quarters, we are using a forward looking statement. Because
such statements deal with future events, they are subject to various risks
and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from Attunity's
current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such
differences include, but are not limited to: the impact on revenues of
economic and political uncertainties and weaknesses in various regions of the
world, including the commencement or escalation of hostilities or acts of
terrorism; any unforeseen developmental or technological difficulties with
regard to Attunity's products; changes in the competitive landscape,
including new competitors or the impact of competitive pricing and products;
a shift in demand for products such as Attunity's; unknown factors affecting
third parties with which Attunity has formed business alliances; timely
availability and customer acceptance of Attunity's new and existing products;
and other factors and risks on which Attunity may have little or no control.
This list is intended to identify only certain of the principal factors that
could cause actual results to differ. For a more detailed description of the
risks and uncertainties affecting Attunity, reference is made to Attunity's
Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007, which is on
file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as otherwise
required by law, Attunity undertakes no obligation to publicly release any
revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
    (c) 2008 Attunity Ltd. All rights reserved. Attunity is a trademark of
Attunity Inc.
    CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

    U.S. dollars in thousands


                                                       June 30,   December 31,
                                                         2008         2007
                                                       Unaudited
    ASSETS

    CURRENT ASSETS:
    Cash and cash equivalents                            $ 1,285      $ 1,321
    Restricted cash                                          232          159
    Trade receivables and unbilled revenues (net of
    allowance for doubtful accounts of $ 25 and $ 78
    at June 30, 2008 and December 31, 2007,
    respectively)                                          1,304          912
    Other accounts receivable and prepaid expenses           465          484

    Total current assets                                   3,286        2,876

    LONG-TERM ASSETS:
    Long-term prepaid expenses                               113           72
    Severance pay fund                                     1,215          972
    Property and equipment, net                              460          579
    Software development costs, net                        4,094        4,374
    Goodwill                                               6,524        6,361
    Deferred charges, net                                    314          423

    Total long-term assets                                12,720       12,781

    Total assets                                        $ 16,006     $ 15,657

    CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
    U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share data

                                                       June 30,   December 31,
                                                          2008           2007
                                                       Unaudited
    LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

    CURRENT LIABILITIES:
    Current maturities of long-term debt                 $ 1,022         $ 18
    Current maturities of long-term convertible debt       1,440            -
    Trade payables                                           535          457
    Deferred revenues                                      2,983        2,344
    Employees and payroll accruals                           967          876
    Accrued expenses and other liabilities                   959          901

    Total current liabilities                              7,906        4,596

    LONG-TERM LIABILITIES:
    Convertible debt                                           -        1,099
    Long-term debt                                         1,000        2,009
    Accrued severance pay                                  1,562        1,287

    Total long-term liabilities                            2,562        4,395

    SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:
    Share capital - Ordinary shares of NIS 0.1 par
    value -

    Authorized: 70,000,000 shares at June 30, 2008
    and December 31, 2007; Issued and outstanding:
    23,196,236 shares at June 30, 2008 and December
    31, 2007                                                 720         720
    Additional paid-in capital                           104,132     103,924
    Accumulated other comprehensive loss                    (309)       (431)
    Accumulated deficit                                  (99,005)    (97,547)

    Total shareholders' equity                             5,538       6,666

    Total liabilities and shareholders' equity          $ 16,006    $ 15,657


    CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

    U.S. dollars in thousands, except share and per share data



                                                               Three months
                                       Six months ended           ended

                                           June 30,              June 30,
                                       2008       2007       2008       2007
                                                     Unaudited
    Revenues:
    Software licenses                 $ 3,500    $ 3,369    $ 1,846  $ 1,683
    Maintenance and services            3,201      3,361      1,579    1,727

                                        6,701      6,730      3,425    3,410
    Operating expenses:
    Cost of revenues                    1,285      1,352        653      693
    Research and development, net       1,449      1,974        739    1,030
    Selling and marketing               3,476      4,366      1,775    1,978
    General and administrative          1,279      1,408        824      740
    Employment termination and
    offices shutdown costs                  -        761          -       50

    Total operating expenses            7,489      9,861      3,991    4,491

    Operating loss                       (788)    (3,131)      (566)  (1,081)

    Financial expenses, net              (647)      (455)      (337)    (230)
    Other income                            3         40          3        -

    Loss before income taxes           (1,432)    (3,546)      (900)  (1,311)
    Taxes on income                        26         35          5       14

                                          $          $                    $
    Net loss                           (1,458)    (3,581)    $ (905)  (1,325)

    Basic and diluted net loss per       $          $          $          $
    share                               (0.06)     (0.15)     (0.04)   (0.06)
    Weighted average number of
    shares used in computing basic
    and diluted net loss per share     23,196     23,173     23,196   23,176


    RECONCILIATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION

    U.S. dollars in thousands, except per share data



                                                               Three months
                                       Six months ended           ended

                                           June 30,              June 30,
                                       2008       2007       2008       2007
                                                     Unaudited

                                                    $                     $
    GAAP operating loss               $  (788)    (3,131)    $ (566)  (1,081)
    Stock based compensation (1)          185        390         94      191
    Software development costs
    capitalization and amortization
    (2)                                   303        123        133      119
    Employment termination and
    offices shutdown costs (3)            363        761        363       50

                                                 $
    Non-GAAP operating profit (loss)  $ 63       (1,857)    $ 24      $ (721)

                                      $          $                    $
    GAAP net loss                      (1,458)    (3,581)    $ (905)  (1,325)
    Stock based compensation (1)          185        390         94      191
    Software development costs
    capitalization and amortization
    (2)                                   303        123        133      119
    Employment termination and
    offices shutdown costs (3)            363        761        363       50
    Financial expenses (4)                446        408        223      211

                                                 $
    Non-GAAP net loss                  $ (161)    (1,899)     $ (92)  $ (754)

    GAAP basic and diluted net loss       $          $          $          $
    per share                           (0.06)     (0.15)     (0.04)   (0.06)
    Stock based compensation (1)         0.01       0.02          *)    0.01
    Software development costs
    capitalization and amortization
    (2)                                  0.01       0.01          *)    0.01
    Employment termination and
    offices shutdown costs (3)           0.01       0.03       0.02        *)
    Financial expenses (4)               0.02       0.02       0.01     0.01

    Non-GAAP basic and diluted net        $          $          $          $
    loss per share                      (0.01)     (0.07)     (0.00)   (0.03)
    Weighted average number of
    shares used in computing basic
    and diluted net loss per share     23,196     23,173     23,196   23,176

    *) Less than $0.01 per share

    (1) Equity-based compensation**
    expenses resulting under SFAS
    123(R):
    Equity-based compensation
    expense included in "Research
    and development"                   $ 63       $ 84      $ 32        $ 45
    Equity-based compensation
    expense included in "Selling and
    marketing"                           93        107        46          41
    Equity-based compensation
    expense included in "General and
    administrative"                      29        199        16         105

                                      $ 185      $ 390      $ 94       $ 191

    ** "Equity based compensation expenses" refer to the amortized fair value
of all equity based awards granted to employees.
    (2) Software development costs
    capitalization and amortization
    resulting under SFAS 86:
    Capitalization                          $ 755    $ 674    $ 374    $ 336
    Amortization                              452      551      241      217

                                            $ 303    $ 123    $ 133    $ 119

    (3) The Company terminated its entire workforce in France and Australia
in March 2007. The company's former CEO retired in May 2008.
    (4) Financial expenses:
    Amortization of debt discount           $ 340    $ 339    $ 170    $ 170
    Amortization of deferred charges          106       69       53       41

                                            $ 446    $ 408    $ 223    $ 211



    For more information:

    Andy Bailey, VP Marketing         Dror Elkayam, VP Finance
    Attunity                          Attunity
    +1-781-213-5204                   +972-9-899-3000
    andy.bailey@attunity.com          dror.elkayam@attunity.com


SOURCE  Attunity Ltd

Andy Bailey, VP Marketing, Attunity, +1-781-213-5204,
andy.bailey@attunity.com; Dror Elkayam, VP Finance, Attunity, +972-9-899-3000,
dror.elkayam@attunity.com
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