Pat Goepel - Chief Executive Officer
Management
Thanks, Cheryl. And my name is Pat Goepel, and I would like to welcome investors, analysts, clients, employees, and interested third-parties to the second quarter call. First part of the call we’ll talk about operational performance and some of the initiatives and Jennifer will talk about the actual results and then we will close the call with a little bit of a look ahead for 2013 and also some non-operational activities that we have going on at a share. In the second quarter, we had a very solid quarter. Operationally, we saw revenue growth, bookings growth, SaaS bookings growth year-over-year, gross margin, operating income, and net income, all were not just minor increases, but healthy increases. The integration of PeopleCube is one of our initiatives and it’s now at the advanced stage where we are really talking about growth opportunities in the future. Our clocks have been taken out as evidenced by our recent hosting consolidation, where we say it’s approximately $1.2 million annually. We did see those cost reductions happen in the second quarter. Our European initiative has gone very well and we were very thrilled with Scottish Water for choosing us as their partner. This multiple year SaaS deal and our partnership with British Telecom, where we saw $50,000 a year in annual revenue and we have more partnerships in Europe on the horizon and more types of clients like Scottish Water in the future. So, that was an example of success. Our land and expand strategy is continuing to bear fruit. Notable expansions were Moody’s, Federal Reserve, Staples were engaging clients in much more of a strategic way and we are selling more products. Our SaaS conversions are happening at a steady pace. We would prefer in the original plan for them to happen more quickly, but the strategic value of these conversions, are leading to SaaS conversions and additional products for which we are very grateful. Our client satisfaction and services teams are working very, very hard and case backlog is now about half of what it is or what it was a year ago. And our client retention is now approaching 90%, both AsureForce which has had very, very strong client retention and AsureSpace have really shown a nice increase in client retention. New products are now getting to our clients and we are very grateful and happy that we’ve sold now GeoPunch and we expect 20 clients to be live by the end of the third quarter. This bodes well for 2014 and in the AsureSpace we have a new client and a re-launching of PeopleCounter. And we think 2014 revenue will be expanded as we rollout that product. So, all-in-all, a very strong quarter operationally and here is Jennifer Crow, our CFO with the specific results.