UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 10-K
x | ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009
¨ | 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: 0-29637
SELECTICA, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
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Delaware | | 77-0432030 |
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
1740 Technology Drive Suite 450, San Jose, California 94110-2111
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(408) 570-9700
(Registrant’s Telephone Number)
Securities registered under Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Title of Each Class | | Name of Each Exchange On Which Registered |
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share | | The NASDAQ Global Market |
Securities registered under Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
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As of September 30, 2008, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant, based upon the closing price of $1.01 per share as reported by The NASDAQ Global Market on that date, was $29,009,803.
As of June 22, 2009, the registrant had outstanding 55,583,307 shares of common stock.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement for its fiscal year 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Proxy Statement”) are incorporated herein by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Except with respect to information specifically incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K, the Proxy Statement is not deemed to be filed as a part hereof. The Proxy Statement will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of the registrant’s fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.
SELECTICA, INC.
FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED
MARCH 31, 2009
Table of Contents
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Cautionary Statement Pursuant to Safe Harbor Provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
The words “Selectica”, “we”, “our”, “ours”, “us”, and the “Company” refer to Selectica, Inc. This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In addition, we may make other written and oral communications from time to time that contain such statements. Forward-looking statements include statements as to industry trends and future expectations of ours and other matters that do not relate strictly to historical facts. These statements are often identified by the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “estimate,” or “continue,” and similar expressions or variations. 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 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. These forward-looking statements include statements in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “10-K” or Report) and in our other Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Report. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
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PART I
OVERVIEW
We deliver flexible, enterprise-class software and services that manage and streamline contract management and sales configuration processes. Our solutions enable companies around the world to automate, optimize, link, track, and report on critical business functions including sourcing, procurement, governance, sales and revenue recognition.
The Selectica Contract Lifecycle Management (“CLM” or “CM”) solution is a contract authoring, analysis, repository and process automation product designed to enhance and automate the management of the entire contract lifecycle. It helps companies take control of their contract management processes by converting from paper-based to electronic repositories and by unlocking multiple layers of critical business data, making it available for the evaluation of risk, the exposure of lost revenue, the evaluation of supplier performance, and other purposes. The solution helps to improve the customer buying experience for sales organizations, improve the control of risk and decrease time spent drafting, monitoring and managing contracts for the corporate counsel’s office and gain access to previously hidden discounts through the exposure and elimination of unfavorable agreements for procurement and sourcing organizations.
The Selectica Sales Configuration (”SCS”) solution consolidates configuration, pricing and quoting functions into a single application platform enabling companies to streamline the opportunity-to-order process for manufacturers, service providers, and financial services companies. Our SCS solution provides a critical link between Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems that helps to simplify and automate the configuration, pricing, and quoting of complex products and services. By empowering customers, internal sales staff, and/or channel partners to generate error-free sales proposals for their unique requirements, we believe our SCS solution helps companies to close sales faster, accelerate revenue generation and enhance customer relationships.
While the SCS and CLM products can interact, providing an integrated configuration to sales contract lifecycle management offering, they are managed as separate product lines given the differing stages of product lifecycle and buyer profiles. In addition to our software solutions, we offer professional implementation and customization. For CLM, on-demand hosting services are offered and for SCS, complex product configuration modeling services.
Selectica was incorporated in California in June 1996 and re-incorporated in Delaware in November 1999. The company’s principal executive offices are located at 1740 Technology Drive, Suite 450, San Jose, California, 95110 and its website is www.selectica.com.
SELECTICA PRODUCTS
Contract Management Solution
Our CLM solution includes the following software modules and services: Selectica Contract Lifecycle Management, Selectica Contract Performance Analytics and Selectica Contract Management Professional Services.
Our CLM solution enables customers to create, manage and analyze contracts in a single, easy to use repository and is offered both on-premise or hosted. We believe that our CLM software offers a high degree of flexibility enabling customers across many departments (e.g., sales, services, procurement, finance, IT, leasing or intellectual property) to model their specific contracting processes and to manage the lifecycle of a contract and
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its attendant multi-party relationship from creation through closure. We believe our CLM solutions meet the needs of many challenging and dynamic organizations:
| • | | Corporate legal organizations. The General Counsel’s office and other legal organizations can use the contract management solution to transform paper-bound contracts into a secure, centralized, searchable electronic contract repository and gain visibility and control of all corporate agreements. |
| • | | Procurement organization. Procurement contract managers can use the contract management solution to expose off-contract spending. |
| • | | Sales organization. Sales organizations can use the sales contract management solution to shorten the sales cycle and decrease time to revenue, while potentially protecting the company from inadvertent legal errors. |
| • | | Finance organizations. Finance organizations can use the contract management solution to identify and account for non-standard terms and pricing in the revenue cycle while discovering unrealized revenue buried in sales agreements. |
| • | | Contract Administration. Contract administrators can use the contract management solution to create visibility into contract obligations not captured by ERP and CRM and empower non-contract professionals to create and execute basic contracts. |
We believe our CLM product is differentiated from competitive offerings because it is:
| • | | Adaptable. Adaptable, without sacrificing scalability or speed of implementation. The CLM solution is applicable to both buy and sell-side contracts. Our vertical expertise and advanced sell-side features such as flowdown, workflow and authoring tools help differentiate our CLM solution from its competitors. |
| • | | Configurable. Combines the stability of rigid contract management software solutions with the flexibility of custom solutions by allowing companies to configure and update the product without expensive services and engineering support. |
| • | | Flexible. Available On-Demand (SaaS) Hosted and Enterprise (On-Site / behind-the-firewall) deployment options using the same application platform. |
| • | | Industry Customizable. Customizable for a broad array of contract types including procurement, sales, governance, healthcare provider, intellectual property, IT, equipment leasing, employee, real estate, partnership, supplier and services agreements. |
| • | | Rapid Deployment. Our Contract Performance Management solution is delivered in an average of 90 days or less, which we believe is shorter than the average deployment times for many competitive software solutions. |
| • | | Extensive Analytics and Reporting Capabilities. Enables detailed contract analysis and performance management by combining both structured and unstructured information stored in its contract repository. |
The Contract Performance Analytics module is an add-on to the CLM product that enables multidimensional analyses across multiple data sources including contract information, and presents its analyses using Microsoft Excel or any other industry-standard reporting engine. This tool is an easy-to-use XML-based tool that enables the combination of information external to the contract management system with structured and unstructured contract information into multidimensional data repositories for more advanced analyses.
Our Contract Performance Analytics has web service integration to CLM to get scheduled updates from the contract management database, bringing in structured and unstructured data. The Analytics product can also append data from multiple sources regardless if the data resides in XML, legacy relational databases, or flat files. Thus, the Analytics tool becomes a data mart for reporting solutions to present the data in an organized fashion.
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Contract Management Professional Services
We offer a range of services to ensure that the Contract Management process and Contract Analytics solutions meet users’ requirements. Our Contract Management Professional Services team takes a best-practice, collaborative approach, applying their extensive experience with contract management and Selectica solutions. We provide these services using both our in-house expertise and that of third parties experienced in our solution acting under our direction. As of June 15, 2009, the CLM Professional Services organization had 13 employees.
Sales Configuration Solution
Our SCS solution guides users through the buying process, offering only valid options and features at each step. As a result, limited training is required for the sales force or channel partners, and customers can easily find and configure the solutions they seek. Unlike many competitive solutions, SCS enables virtually unlimited product configuration, pricing and quoting flexibility and provides tight integration with existing applications down to the bill of materials. We believe our configuration solution helps organizations reduce sales cycles and increase productivity through faster product development, easier product updates, automated sales processes (making self-service kiosks possible even for complex products and services) and seamless integration with existing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Inventory Management, Manufacturing and ERP systems, thus helping to ensure order accuracy.

Our SCS products were designed to automate configuration for the largest, most complex product and services offerings. We believe that benefits of Selectica’s configuration solution include:
| • | | Increased Revenue.By enabling context-driven cross-sell and up-sell options, companies can increase incremental revenue. Additionally, the configuration solution enables users to combine lines of business to capture higher spend on a per customer basis. |
| • | | Increased Channel Sales. By equipping channel partners with our easy-to-use, web-based, graphical interface to more easily sell complex products and services, companies can boost channel revenue. |
| • | | Faster Time to Cash. By configuring complex products and services in minutes, rather than days or weeks, organizations can close deals more quickly and accelerate revenue generation. |
| • | | Improved Margin. By incorporating pricing/margin during the configuration process, companies can create a configuration that meets user’s objectives at the lowest price for the company, which can improve margins. |
| • | | Decreased Cost. By preventing rework and cancellations due to incorrect orders, companies can save money. |
| • | | Customer Satisfaction. Our configuration solution ensures quote and order accuracy. |
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| • | | Flexibility. Our configuration solution can accommodate both sales configurations and manufacturing configurations, enabling our solution to be deployed to sales organizations, manufacturing organizations, or both. The configuration solution can also allow a very large number of SKU’s or offerings and a very large number of users. |
We believe key technical differentiators of SCS from our competition include:
| • | | Declarative Constraint Engine (DCE). The DCE describes relationships among product features and components, allowing business logic to be modeled with simple declarative statements rather than complex programming. This approach also helps to simplify model processing and allows for a faster configuration process, even for highly complex products. |
| • | | Efficient Modeling. Flexible modeling tools, easy-to-use wizards, automated business logic creation, and repositories of business logic help shorten the time required for development teams to deliver advanced capabilities and customize or update SCS-based applications. |
| • | | Development Studio. SCS’s Development Studio’s Model Builder is a rich modeling tool that allows graphical modeling of products and services which are submitted to the Selectica Knowledge Base. A model profiler is also available for inspecting and measuring runtime execution of models. |
| • | | Updates by non-technical personnel. In most organizations, business-critical information is stored in repositories, such as relational databases and other applications, and is updated very frequently. The SCS architecture allows changes in business-critical information to be automatically reflected in the application. |
| • | | Flexible and Scalable Deployment. SCS is Java-based and can be deployed on a wide range of server hardware and web application servers, such as JBoss, Weblogic or Websphere. We have also introduced a laptop-based version of the configuration engine for real-time configuration at remote customer locations. |
We also offer a Pricing Module which can integrate with SCS or third party applications to enable enterprises to efficiently manage pricing by seamlessly integrating marketing and selling pricing management processes. Efficiencies in price management can help companies realize greater profit margins and decrease SKU proliferation. We believe SCS delivers the ability to view, model, and dynamically change all aspects of an enterprise’s pricing management and execution processes.
SCS Professional Services
We offer comprehensive consulting, training and implementation services and ongoing customer support and maintenance for our SCS products. Generally, we charge our customers for these services on a time and materials basis, with training services billed upon delivery. Customer support and maintenance typically is charged as a percentage of license fees and can be renewed annually at the election of our customers based on available support offerings. Our in-house services organization also educates third-party system integrators on the use of our software to assist them in providing services to our customers. As of June 15, 2009, our SCS services organization consisted of 5 employees.
Employees
At June 15, 2009, following a reduction in headcount, we had a total of 56 employees, all located in the United States. 55 of our employees are full time and 1 is part time. Of the total, 12 are engaged in research and development, 18 are engaged in professional services, 16 are engaged in sales and marketing, and 10 are engaged in general & administration. See Note 16 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. None of our employees are represented by a labor union and we consider our relations with our employees to be good.
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Sales and Marketing
We sell our CM products primarily through our direct sales force along with strategic and OEM partners. Our SCS products are sold primarily through partnership relationships such as an existing relationship with IBM Global Services. As of June 15, 2009, our sales team consisted of 11 employees and our marketing team consisted of 5 employees.
Our CM direct sales force is complemented by business partners, supported by telesales and system engineering resources. We have developed programs to attract and retain high quality, motivated sales representatives that have the necessary technical skills and consultative sales experience. We have also developed specific partner relationships to expand our solutions and domain expertise into various targeted markets. We believe that the cultivation and integration of these support networks assists in both the establishment and enhancement of customer relationships.
Our marketing department is engaged in revenue-centered, sales-support and awareness-building activities, such as lead generation programs, web marketing, product management, public relations, advertising, speaking programs, seminars, sales collateral creation and production, direct mail, and event hosting.
Research and Development
To date, we have invested substantial resources in research and development. At June 15, 2009, we had 12 full-time engineers and technical writing specialists that primarily work on product development, documentation, quality assurance and testing. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, we incurred approximately $4.2 million and $5.0 million, respectively on research and development.
Enhancements to our existing products are released periodically to add new features, improve functionality and incorporate feedback and suggestions from our customers. These updates are usually provided as part of a separate maintenance agreement sold with the product license. We expect that enhancements to our existing products will be developed internally.
International Operations
On March 31, 2009 we sold the equity interest of our U.S. parent company in our wholly owned foreign subsidiary in India. The subsidiary had formerly provided development and professional services resources for our Sales Configuration group as well as acted as an interface to an outsourcing partner in India for development services for both of our product lines. As of the date of sale, the subsidiary had ceased to perform those functions and employed three people solely in administrative capacities. The sale was for cash consideration of $4.3 million ($1.0 million of which was held in escrow and released in early June 2009) and $0.4 million of forgiveness of intercompany debt. As of March 31, 2009, we no longer have any employees or operations outside the United States but do business with a number of non-US based companies.
Competition
The contract management and sales configuration markets continue to be subject to rapid change. Competitors vary in size and in the scope and breadth of the products and services offered. We encounter competition primarily from (i) publicly-held and private software companies that offer integrated solutions or specific contract management and/or sales configuration solutions, (ii) information systems departments of potential or current customers that internally develop custom software, and (iii) professional services organizations.
We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting our market include product reputation, functionality, ease-of-use, ability to integrate with other products and technologies, quality, performance, price, customer service and support, and the vendors’ reputation. Although we believe that our products currently
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compete favorably with regard to such factors, we cannot assure you that we can maintain our competitive position against current and potential competitors. Increased competition may result in price reductions, less beneficial contract terms, reduced gross margins and loss of market share, any of which could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
Many of our competitors have significantly greater resources and broader alliance and customer relationships than we do. In addition, many of our competitors have extensive knowledge of our industry. Current and potential competitors have established, or may establish, cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to offer a single solution and increase the ability of their products to address customer needs. Furthermore, our competitors may combine with each other and other companies may enter our markets by acquiring or entering into strategic relationships with our competitors. Our competitors may also bundle their products in a manner that may discourage users from purchasing our products. Current and potential competitors may establish cooperative relationships with each other or with third parties, or adopt aggressive pricing policies to gain or maintain market share. Competitive pressures may require us to reduce the prices of our products and services. We may not be able to maintain or expand our sales if competition increases and we are unable to respond effectively.
Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights
We rely on a combination of trademark, trade secret and copyright law and contractual restrictions to protect the proprietary aspects of our technology. These legal protections afford only limited protection for our technology. We currently hold six patents and five pending patents in the United States. In addition, we have various trademarks registered or pending registration in various jurisdictions. Our trademark and patent applications might not result in the issuance of any trademarks or patents. Our patents or any future issued patents or trademarks might be invalidated or circumvented or otherwise fail to provide us any meaningful protection. We seek to protect the source code for our software, documentation and other written materials under trade secret and copyright laws. We license our software pursuant to license agreements, which impose certain restrictions on the licensee’s ability to utilize the software. We also seek to avoid disclosure of our intellectual property by requiring employees and consultants with access to our proprietary information to execute confidentiality agreements. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. In addition, the laws of many countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets and to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Our failure to adequately protect our intellectual property could have a material adverse effect on our business and operating results.
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AVAILABLE INFORMATION
We file annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy and information statements and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The public may read and copy these materials at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the public reference room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains a website (www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding Selectica, Inc. and other companies that file materials with the SEC electronically. You may also obtain copies of reports filed with the SEC, free of charge, on our website at www.selectica.com.
Set forth below and elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K, and in the other documents we file with the SEC, are risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this annual report on Form 10-K . Prospective and existing investors are strongly urged to carefully consider the various cautionary statements and risks set forth in this annual report and our other public filings.
We have a history of significant losses and may incur significant losses in the future.
We incurred net losses of approximately $8.4 million and $23.9 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. We had an accumulated deficit of approximately $249.2 million as of March 31, 2009. We may continue to incur significant losses in the future for a number of reasons, including uncertainty as to the level of our future revenues and the timing and impact of our cost reduction efforts. We plan to continue to pursue opportunities to align research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses in absolute dollars over the next year in order to better balance expense levels with projected revenues, including potentially voluntarily delisting from The Nasdaq Global Market and deregistering under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). We will need to generate significant increases in our revenues to achieve and maintain profitability, particularly given the current small size of our business relative to the costs associated with being a public reporting company. If our revenue fails to grow or grows more slowly than we currently anticipate or our operating expenses exceed our expectations, our losses will significantly increase which would significantly harm our business and operating results.
We do not know the impact of current economic conditions on our customers and our business.
The United States and world economies currently face a number of economic challenges, including the availability of credit for businesses and consumers. The financial markets have been dramatically and adversely affected and many companies are either cutting back expenditures or delaying plans to add additional personnel or systems. If these conditions continue or worsen, the ability of our customers to pay for or obtain funding to pay for our products and services may be adversely affected which would then have a significant adverse impact on our ability to generate revenues and cash flow and may cause us to sustain further losses.
We are increasingly dependent on our CM business.
For the first time in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, revenues from our CM business exceeded revenues from our SC business. As a result, we are increasingly dependent on our CM business and our business and operating results will be harmed if we are unable to successfully grow our CM business in the future.
Our business could be seriously harmed as a result of recent management changes or if we lose the services of our key personnel. We currently do not have a chief executive officer.
We have recently experienced a number of management changes, including the recent appointment of Jason Stern as our Senior Vice President, Operations for Contract Management on June 10, 2009. All members of our
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management team have been with us for a limited period of time. There can be no assurance that they will be effective in their roles or that they will not take some time before they achieve desired levels of performance. The loss of services of one or more members of our management team could seriously harm our business. We currently do not have a chief executive officer, which could harm our business, and anticipate hiring a chief executive officer later in the year. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in hiring a chief executive officer or that any chief executive officer we hire will not take some time to achieve desired levels of performance.
Our recent restructuring of our business may adversely impact our business and operating results.
We recently restructured our business to better align expenses with revenues and position our business for improved operating performance in the future. As part of the restructuring, we reduced our headcount from 64 at March 31, 2009 to 56 as of June 15, 2009. We expect to record charges of at least $500,000 during the six months ending September 30, 2009, primarily for facilities, severance and related benefits for terminated employees. The restructuring has placed increased demands on our personnel and could adversely affect our ability to attract and retain talent, to develop and enhance our products and services, to service existing customers, to achieve our sales and marketing objectives and to perform our accounting, finance and administrative functions, particularly given that we operating two separate businesses with relatively limited overlap between their sales and marketing, customer service and product development teams. The occurrence of any of these adverse affects could materially harm our business.
We may be subject to a number of risks if we do not maintain effective corporate governance policies and procedures.
We have undertaken a review of our corporate governance policies and procedures. We undertook the review, among other reasons, (i) after determining that it was appropriate to reconsider the legal status of our management structure, (ii) in response to a letter from counsel from a stockholder with whom we are currently in litigation, who expressed concerns regarding our internal controls and requesting that we investigate those concerns, and (iii) to assess our internal controls regarding our accounting for non-routine transactions. As part of the review, our Board of Directors formed a special committee, assisted by independent counsel, to investigate the concerns raised in the letter from our stockholder’s counsel. As a result of the review, we have adopted and are in the process of implementing a number of changes designed to enhance the effectiveness of our corporate governance. We cannot assure that these changes, when implemented, will ensure that our internal controls and procedures will be effective to prevent fraud or other errors in the future. For more information about the review, including additional background on the reasons for the review and the changes to our corporate governance policies and procedures resulting from the review, please see Part II, Item 9A “Controls and Procedures.”
The internal review, including the independent investigation and related activities, has required us to incur substantial expenses, primarily for legal services, and have diverted management’s attention and time from our business. In addition, any failure to maintain effective corporate governance policies and procedures may have caused or could cause us to fail to timely meet our periodic reporting requirements, result in material misstatements or omissions in our financial statements and reports and other documents filed with the SEC, subject us to liability for failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and result in private litigation, regulatory proceedings or government enforcement actions. The resolution of any such matters, should they arise, may be time consuming and expensive and may distract management from the conduct of our business. Furthermore, if we are subject to adverse findings in litigation, regulatory proceedings or government enforcement actions, we could be required to pay damages or penalties or have other remedies imposed, which could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations and cash flows.
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We identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2009 and concluded that our internal control over financial reporting and our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2009. As a result, we may be subject to a number of risks, including increased risks that we have or may not file our financial statements and related reports with the SEC on a timely basis and that there are errors in our reported financial statements and material misstatements in our reports and other documents filed with the SEC.
We are required to evaluate the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of each fiscal year and to include a management report assessing the effectiveness of these controls in our Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based on its evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2009, including the information made available to management regarding the results of our review of our corporate governance policies and procedures, our management identified several control deficiencies and significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that, when considered in the aggregate, represent a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2009. As a result, our management determined that our internal control over financial reporting and our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2009. For a description of these significant deficiencies and additional information about management’s evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting, please see Part II, Item 9A “Controls and Procedures.”
As part of the changes to our corporate governance policies and procedures described above, we have adopted and are in the process of implementing a number of measures designed to remediate the control deficiencies and significant deficiencies identified during our evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2009. We cannot assure you that these measures will be sufficient to remediate the deficiencies identified in our evaluation or that we will not identify additional deficiencies or material weaknesses in the future. The absence of effective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures increases the risk that we have not, or may in the future not, file our financial statements and related reports with the SEC on a timely basis, that there may be errors in our financial statements or material misstatements or omissions in our related reports and documents filed with the SEC. The occurrence of any of these events could expose us to private litigation, regulatory proceedings or government enforcement actions and undermine investor confidence in our reported financial information. The resolution of any such matters, should they arise, may be time consuming and expensive and may distract management from the conduct of our business. Furthermore, if we are subject to adverse findings in litigation, regulatory proceedings or government enforcement actions, we could be required to pay damages or penalties or have other remedies imposed, which could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations and cash flows.
We have relied and expect to continue to rely on orders from a relatively small number of customers for a substantial portion of our revenues, and the loss of any of these customers would significantly harm our business and operating results.
Our revenues are dependent on orders from a relatively small number of customers. Our three largest customers accounted for approximately 33% and 45% of our revenues for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. We expect that we will continue to depend upon a relatively small number of customers for a substantial portion of our revenues for the foreseeable future. As a result, if we fail to successfully sell our products and services to one or more large customers in any particular period or a large customer purchases fewer of our products or services, defers or cancels orders, or terminates its relationship with us, our business and operating results would be harmed. In addition, many of our orders are realized at the end of the quarter. As a result of this concentration and timing, our quarterly operating results, including average selling prices, may fluctuate significantly if we are unable to complete one or more substantial sales in any given quarter.
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Our annual and quarterly revenues and operating results are inherently unpredictable and subject to fluctuations, and as a result, we may fail to meet the expectations of security analysts and investors, which could cause volatility or adversely affect the trading price of our common stock.
We enter into arrangements for the sale of: (1) licenses of software products and related maintenance contracts; (2) services; (3) subscription for on-demand services; and (4) bundled license, maintenance, and services. In instances where maintenance is bundled with a license of software products, the maintenance term is typically one year. For each arrangement, we determine whether evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the fees are fixed or determinable, and collection is probable. If any of these criteria are not met, revenue recognition is deferred until such time as all of the criteria are met.
Our annual and quarterly revenues may fluctuate due to our inability to perform services, achieve specific milestones and obtain formal customer acceptance of specific elements of the overall completion of a project. As we provide such services and products, the timing of delivery and acceptance, changed conditions with the customers and projects could result in changes to the timing of our revenue recognition, and thus, our operating results.
Likewise, if our customers do not renew maintenance services or purchase additional products, our operating results could suffer. Historically, we have derived and expect to continue to derive a significant portion of our total revenue from existing customers who purchase additional products or renew maintenance agreements. Our customers may not renew such maintenance agreements or expand the use of our products. In addition, as we introduce new products, our current customers may not require or desire the features of our new products. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions or maintenance agreements with us or choose not to purchase additional products, our operating results could suffer.
Because we rely on a limited number of customers, the timing of customer acceptance or milestone achievement, or the amount of services we provide to a single customer can significantly affect our operating results or the failure to replace a significant customer. Because expenses are relatively fixed in the near term, any shortfall from anticipated revenues could cause our quarterly operating results to fall below anticipated levels.
We may also experience seasonality in revenues. For example, our annual and quarterly results may fluctuate based upon our customers’ calendar year budgeting cycles. These seasonal variations may lead to fluctuations in our annual and quarterly revenues and operating results.
Our Contract Management customers license our software in a number of ways including perpetual licenses and subscriptions, which may be hosted in our third-party hosting center or on the customer’s own facilities. Historically the bulk of our license revenues have come from perpetual licenses which, if revenue recognition requirements are met, are recognized upon execution or release of contingencies, if any. Any trend towards our customers shifting to subscription licenses, which include maintenance and may include hosting, may affect our short-term financial results.
Based upon the foregoing, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations are not necessarily meaningful and that such comparisons should not be relied upon as indications of future performance. In some future period, our operating results may be below the expectations of public market analysts and investors, which could cause volatility or a decline in the price of our common stock.
Our future success depends on our proprietary intellectual property, and if we are unable to protect our intellectual property from potential competitors, our business may be significantly harmed.
We rely on a combination of patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright law and contractual restrictions to protect the proprietary aspects of our technology. These legal protections afford only limited protection for our technology. We currently hold six patents and five pending patents in the United States. In addition, we have various trademarks registered or pending registration in various jurisdictions. Our trademark and patent
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applications might not result in the issuance of any trademarks or patents. Our patents or any future issued trademarks might be invalidated or circumvented or otherwise fail to provide us any meaningful protection. We seek to protect the source code for our software, documentation and other written materials under trade secret and copyright laws. We license our software pursuant to license agreements, which impose certain restrictions on the licensee’s ability to utilize the software. We also seek to avoid disclosure of our intellectual property by requiring employees and consultants with access to our proprietary information to execute confidentiality agreements. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. In addition, the laws of many countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets and to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Regardless of the outcome, such litigation may require us to incur significant legal expenses and management time. Our failure to adequately protect our intellectual property could have a material adverse effect on our business and operating results.
In addition, we have in the past been subject to claims of third parties that our products and services infringe their intellectual property rights. For example, in October 2007 we agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Versata Enterprises, Inc. and a related party for a $10 million payment in October 2007 and an additional amount of not more than $7.5 million in quarterly payments. It is possible that in the future, other third parties may claim that our current or potential future products infringe their intellectual property rights. Any claims, with or without merit, could be time-consuming, result in costly litigation, divert management’s time from developing our business, cause product shipment delays, require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements or require us to satisfy indemnification obligations to our customers. Royalty or licensing agreements, if required, may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all, which could seriously harm our business.
Our lengthy sales cycle for our products makes it difficult for us to forecast revenue and exacerbates the variability of quarterly fluctuations, which could cause our stock price to decline.
The sales cycle of our products has historically averaged between nine to twelve months, and may sometimes be significantly longer. We are generally required to provide a significant level of education regarding the use and benefits of our products, and potential customers tend to engage in extensive internal reviews before making purchase decisions. In addition, the purchase of our products typically involves a significant commitment by our customers of capital and other resources, and is therefore subject to delays that are beyond our control, such as customers’ internal budgetary procedures and the testing and acceptance of new technologies that affect key operations. In addition, because we target large companies, our sales cycle can be lengthier due to the decision process in large organizations. As a result of our products’ long sales cycles, we face difficulty predicting the quarter in which sales to expected customers may occur. If anticipated sales from a specific customer for a particular quarter are not realized in that quarter, our operating results for that quarter could fall below the expectations of financial analysts and investors, which could cause our stock price to decline.
Developments in the market for enterprise software, including our CM and SC solutions, may harm our operating results, which could cause a decline in the price of our common stock.
The market for enterprise software, including CM and SC solutions, is evolving rapidly. In view of changing market trends, including vendor consolidation, the competitive environment growth rate and potential size of the market are difficult to assess. The growth of the market is dependent upon the willingness of businesses and consumers to purchase complex goods and services over the Internet and the acceptance of the Internet as a platform for business applications. In addition, companies that have already invested substantial resources in other methods of Internet selling may be reluctant or slow to adopt a new approach or application that may replace, limit or compete with their existing systems.
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The rapid change in the marketplace poses a number of concerns. Any decrease in technology infrastructure spending may reduce the size of the market for contract management and sales configuration solutions. Our potential customers may decide to purchase more complete solutions offered by larger competitors instead of individual applications. If the market for contract management and sales configuration solutions is slow to develop, or if our customers purchase more fully integrated products, our business and operating results would be significantly harmed.
We face intense competition, which could reduce our sales, prevent us from achieving or maintaining profitability and inhibit our future growth.
The market for software and services that enable electronic commerce is intensely competitive and rapidly changing. We expect competition to persist and intensify, which could result in price reductions, reduced gross margins and loss of market share. Our principal competition comes from (i) publicly-held and private software companies that offer integrated solutions or specific contract management and/or sales configuration solutions and (ii) internally-developed solutions. Existing and potential competitors include public companies such as Oracle Corporation, Ariba, Open Text and AT&T (through its acquisition of Comergent Technologies) as well as privately held companies such as Upside Software, I-Many, Emptoris and Trilogy/Versata (through its acquisition of Nextance).
Our competitors may intensify their efforts in our market. In addition, other enterprise software companies may offer competitive products in the future. Competitors vary in size, in the scope and breadth of the products and services offered. Although we believe we have advantages over our competitors including the comprehensiveness of our solution, our use of Java technology and our multi-threaded architecture, some of our competitors and potential competitors have significant advantages over us, including:
| • | | a longer operating history; |
| • | | preferred vendor status with our customers; |
| • | | more extensive name recognition and marketing power; and |
| • | | significantly greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources, giving them the ability to respond more quickly to new or changing opportunities, technologies, and customer requirements. |
Our competitors may also bundle their products in a manner that may discourage users from purchasing our products. Current and potential competitors may establish cooperative relationships with each other or with third parties, or adopt aggressive pricing policies to gain market share. Competitive pressures may require us to reduce the prices of our products and services. We may not be able to maintain or expand our sales if competition increases, and we are unable to respond effectively.
If we do not keep pace with technological change, including maintaining interoperability of our products with the software and hardware platforms predominantly used by our customers, our products may be rendered obsolete, and our business may fail.
Our industry is characterized by rapid technological change, changes in customer requirements, frequent new product and service introductions and enhancements and emerging industry standards. In order to achieve broad customer acceptance, our products must be compatible with major software and hardware platforms used by our customers. Our products currently operate on the Microsoft Windows NT, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, J2EE, Linux and Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating Systems. In addition, our products are required to interoperate with electronic commerce applications and databases. We must continually modify and enhance our products to keep pace with changes in these operating systems, applications and databases. Our configuration, pricing and quoting products are complex, and new products and product enhancements can require long development and testing periods. If our products were to be incompatible with a popular new operating system, electronic commerce application or database, our business would be significantly harmed. In addition, the development of
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entirely new technologies to replace existing software could lead to new competitive products that have better performance or lower prices than our products and could render our products obsolete and unmarketable.
Our failure to meet customer expectations on deployment of our products could result in negative publicity and reduced sales, both of which would significantly harm our business and operating results.
In the past, a small number of our customers have experienced difficulties or delays in completing implementation of our products. We may experience similar difficulties or delays in the future. Deploying our products typically involves integration with our customers’ legacy systems, such as existing databases and enterprise resource planning software as well adding their data to the system. Failing to meet customer expectations on deployment of our products could result in a loss of customers and negative publicity regarding us and our products, which could adversely affect our ability to attract new customers. In addition, time-consuming deployments may also increase the amount of service personnel we must allocate to each customer, thereby increasing our costs and adversely affecting our business and operating result.
If we are unable to maintain our direct sales force, sales of our products and services may not meet our expectations, and our business and operating results will be significantly harmed.
We depend on our direct sales force for a significant portion of our current sales, and our future growth depends in part on the ability of our direct sales force to develop customer relationships and increase sales to a level that will allow us to reach and maintain profitability. If we are unable to retain qualified sales personnel or if newly hired personnel fail to develop the necessary skills or to reach productivity when anticipated, we may not be able to increase sales of our products and services, and our results of operation could be significantly harmed.
If we are unable to manage our professional services organization, we will be unable to provide our customers with technical support for our products, which could significantly harm our business and operating results.
Services revenues, which generated 78% and 71% of our total revenues during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, are comprised primarily of revenues from consulting fees, maintenance contracts and training and are important to our business. Services revenues have lower gross margins than license revenues. We generally charge for our professional services on a time and materials rather than a fixed-fee basis. To the extent that customers are unwilling to utilize third-party consultants or require us to provide professional services on a fixed-fee basis, our cost of services revenues could increase and could cause us to recognize a loss on a specific contract, either of which would adversely affect our operating results. If we do not properly manage our costs of professional services, we could adversely affect our operating results. In addition, if we are unable to provide these professional services, we may lose sales or incur customer dissatisfaction, and our business and operating results could be significantly harmed.
If new versions and releases of our products contain errors or defects, we could suffer losses and negative publicity, which would adversely affect our business and operating results.
Complex software products such as ours often contain errors or defects, including errors relating to security, particularly when first introduced or when new versions or enhancements are released. In the past, we have discovered defects in our products and provided product updates to our customers to address such defects. Our products and other future products may contain defects or errors that could result in lost revenues, a delay in market acceptance or negative publicity, each which would significantly harm our business and operating results.
Demand for our products and services will decline significantly if our software cannot support and manage a substantial number of users.
Our strategy requires that our products be highly scalable. To date, only a limited number of our customers have deployed our products on a large scale. If our customers cannot successfully implement large-scale
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deployments, or if they determine that we cannot accommodate large-scale deployments, our business and operating results would be significantly harmed.
If we become subject to product liability litigation, it could be costly and time consuming to defend and could distract us from focusing on our business and operations.
Since our products are company-wide, mission-critical computer applications with a potentially strong impact on our customers’ sales, errors, defects or other performance problems could result in financial or other damages to our customers. Although our license agreements generally contain provisions designed to limit our exposure to product liability claims, existing or future laws or unfavorable judicial decisions could negate such limitation of liability provisions. Product liability litigation, even if it were unsuccessful, would be time consuming and costly to defend.
Our results of operations will be reduced by charges associated with stock-based compensation, accelerated vesting associated with stock options issued to employees, charges associated with other securities issued by us, and charges related to variable accounting.
We have in the past and expect in the future to incur a significant amount of charges related to securities issuances, which will negatively affect our operating results. We adopted the provisions of SFAS 123R using a modified prospective application effective April 1, 2006. We use the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine the fair value of our share-based payments and recognize compensation cost on a straight-line basis over the vesting periods. This pronouncement from the FASB provides for certain changes to the method for valuing stock-based compensation. Among other changes, SFAS 123R applies to new awards and to awards that are outstanding which are subsequently modified or cancelled. Compensation expense calculated under SFAS 123R will continue to negatively impact our operating results.
Failure to improve and maintain relationships with systems integrators and consulting firms, which assist us with the sale and installation of our products, would impede the acceptance of our products and the growth of our revenues.
Our strategy has been to rely in part upon systems integrators and consulting firms to recommend our products to their customers and to install and deploy our products. To date, we have had limited success in utilizing these firms as a sales channel or as a provider of professional services. To increase our revenues and implementation capabilities, we must continue to develop and expand our relationships with these systems integrators and consulting firms. If these systems integrators and consulting firms are unwilling to install and deploy our products, we may not have the resources to provide adequate implementation services to our customers, and our business and operating results could be significantly harmed.
Some of our customers are hosted by a third-party provider.
Some of our CM customers’ licenses are hosted by a third-party data center provider under contract to us. Failure of the data center provider to maintain service levels as contracted could result in customer dissatisfaction, customer losses and potential product warranty or performance liabilities.
Our ongoing litigation with Trilogy, Inc. relating to our Rights Agreement could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
On December 22, 2008, we filed suit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against Trilogy, Inc. and certain related parties (“Trilogy”) seeking declaratory relief that our Rights Agreement as amended on November 16, 2008 was an appropriate measure to protect a valuable asset of ours—our net operating loss carryforwards and related tax credits—from being limited as to utilization as provided under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) which could in turn substantially reduce their value to all of our shareholders. We sued Trilogy on December 22, 2008 after (i) we amended our Rights Agreement on November 16, 2008 to reduce
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the ownership threshold from 15% to 4.99%, with existing 5% or greater shareholders limited to acquiring no more than an additional 0.5% and, (ii) despite the ownership threshold, Trilogy increased its beneficial ownership by 0.51% to 6.71% as announced in its 13(d) filing with the SEC on December 22, 2008. As a result, on January 2, 2009, a special committee of our Board of Directors declared Trilogy as an “Acquiring Person” under the Rights Agreement, and on February 4, 2009 we completed the distribution of 26.8 million shares to all existing shareholders (under the Exchange Provision in the Rights Agreement) other than Trilogy.
On January 16, 2009, the defendants in this action, Trilogy, filed an answer to our complaint and a counterclaim alleging that we, through our Board of Directors, had breached our fiduciary duty in amending the Rights Agreement and that such action favored one group of shareholders over another. We, and our Board of Directors, believe that the action taken on November 16, 2008 was appropriate under the circumstances and in the interest of all our shareholders and therefore the allegations of the counterclaim are without merit. The counterclaim asks for various measures of equitable relief and also includes a claim for punitive or exemplary damages, which are not available in Delaware.
The litigation is currently in the post-trial phase with a decision expected in the third or fourth calendar quarter of 2009, subject to appeal. As the costs of this litigation and related legal work are directly related to the issuance of shares under our rights plan, the costs of the litigation have been charged as issuance costs against the additional paid in capital account on our balance sheet, less a reserve for anticipated recovery from our Director’s and Officer’s insurance policy, which is reflected in prepaid expenses and other current assets on our balance sheet. As of March 31, 2009, the amount charged to additional paid in capital was approximately $2.0 million, and the anticipated recovery from our insurance policy was approximately $1.0 million.
There can be no assurance that we will prevail in our current litigation with Trilogy. In the event that we are not successful in that litigation and Trilogy or any other investor substantially increases its ownership of our common stock, our ability to use our NOLs could be substantially and irrevocably limited by application of the restrictions of Section 382 of the IRC. We could also incur significant costs if the Court orders us to distribute additional shares or undertake other measures to remediate our actions taken against Trilogy. Moreover, even if we are successful, the resolution of the litigation has been expensive, time consuming and distracted management from the conduct of our business.
Anti-takeover defenses that we have in place could prevent or frustrate attempts by stockholders to change our board of directors or the direction of our company.
Provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, Delaware law and the stockholder rights agreement adopted by us on February 4, 2003, as subsequently amended and restated on January 2, 2009, may make it more difficult for or prevent a third party from acquiring control of us without approval of our directors. These provisions include:
| • | | providing for a classified board of directors with staggered three-year terms; |
| • | | restricting the ability of stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders; |
| • | | prohibiting stockholder action by written consent; |
| • | | establishing advance notice requirements for nominations for election to the board of directors or for proposing matters that can be acted on by stockholders at stockholder meetings; |
| • | | granting our board of directors the ability to designate the terms of and issue new series of preferred stock without stockholder approval; and |
| • | | issuing shareholders rights to purchase additional shares of stock in the event that any person, together with its affiliates and associates, (i) acquires beneficial ownership of 4.99% or more of our outstanding common stock or (ii) commences a tender offer for our shares if upon consummation of the tender offer such person would beneficially own 4.99% or more of the outstanding common stock, subject, in each case, to certain exceptions. |
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These provisions may have the effect of entrenching our board of directors and may deprive or limit your strategic opportunities to sell your shares.
See the immediately preceding risk factor and Item 1, “Legal Proceedings,” of Part II of this report.
Compliance with new regulations dealing with corporate governance and public disclosure may result in additional expenses and require significant management attention.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as new rules implemented by the SEC and The NASDAQ Global Market, has required changes in corporate governance practices of public companies. These rules are increasing our legal and financial compliance costs and causing some management and accounting activities to become more time-consuming and costly. This includes increased levels of documentation, monitoring internal controls, and increased manpower and use of consultants to comply. We have and will continue to expend significant efforts and resources to comply with these rules and regulations and have implemented a comprehensive program of compliance with these requirements and high standards of corporate governance and public disclosure.
We are currently not compliant with NASDAQ listing requirements given that the bid price of our stock is and has been under $1.00 per share for a period exceeding 180 days. However, given the current extraordinary market conditions, NASDAQ has temporarily suspended the applicability of this listing requirement and we have not been notified of any delisting action by NASDAQ. The $1.00 bid price minimum will be reinstated on July 20, 2009 and NASDAQ has not indicated any further suspension of the requirement beyond that date. There cannot be any assurance that any action will be taken by NASDAQ or that our stock will continue to be listed on the NASDAQ Global Market. Such action may make trading in our stock more difficult for investors and impair the liquidity of the stock.
These rules may also make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and may make us accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs for such coverage. The rules and regulations may also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified executive officers and members of our board of directors, particularly to serve on our Audit Committee.
Restrictions on export of encrypted technology could cause us to incur delays in international product sales, which would adversely impact the expansion and growth of our business.
Our software utilizes encryption technology, the export of which is regulated by the United States government. If our export authority is revoked or modified, if our software is unlawfully exported or if the United States adopts new legislation restricting export of software and encryption technology, we may experience delay or reduction in shipment of our products internationally. Current or future export regulations could limit our ability to distribute our products outside of the United States. While we take precautions against unlawful exportation of our software, we cannot effectively control the unauthorized distribution of software across the Internet.
Unauthorized break-ins or other assaults on our computer systems could harm our business.
Our servers are vulnerable to physical or electronic break-ins and similar disruptions, which could lead to loss of data or public release of proprietary information. In addition, unauthorized persons may improperly access our data. These and other types of attacks could harm us. Actions of this sort may be very expensive to remedy and could adversely affect results of operations.
Changes to accounting standards and financial reporting requirements or tax laws, may affect our financial results.
We are required to follow accounting and financial reporting standards set by governing bodies in the U.S. and other countries where we do business. From time to time, these governing bodies implement new and revised
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laws and regulations. These new and revised accounting standards, financial reporting and tax laws may require changes to accounting principles used in preparing our financial statements. These changes may have a material impact on our business and financial results. For example, a change in accounting rules can have a significant effect on our reported results and may even affect our reporting of transactions completed before the change became effective. As a result, changes to existing rules or reconsideration of current practices caused by such changes may adversely affect our reported financial results or the way we conduct our business.
Increasing government regulation of the Internet could limit the market for our products and services, or impose greater tax burdens on us or liability for transmission of protected data.
As electronic commerce and the Internet continue to evolve, federal, state and foreign governments may adopt laws and regulations covering issues such as user privacy, taxation of goods and services provided over the Internet, pricing, content and quality of products and services. If enacted, these laws and regulations could limit the market for electronic commerce, and therefore the market for our products and services. Although many of these regulations may not apply directly to our business, we expect that laws regulating the solicitation, collection or processing of personal or consumer information could indirectly affect our business.
Item 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments |
Not applicable.
Facilities
Our headquarters is located in San Jose, California, where we lease approximately 10,500 square feet of commercial space under a term lease that expires on October 31, 2009. We are currently seeking to either renew this lease or find office space elsewhere in the vicinity. Prior to December 2006, our headquarters was located in San Jose, California in an 80,000 square foot commercial office building under a non-cancelable operating lease expiring in December 2009. This facility was subleased in March 2007 to Nuova Systems. We also lease office space in San Francisco, California, with a lease that extends through April 2010.
Patent Infringement
On October 20, 2006, Versata Software, Inc., formerly known as Trilogy Software Inc., and a related party (collectively, “Versata”) filed a complaint against us in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, alleging that we have been and are willfully infringing, directly and indirectly, U.S. Patent Nos. 5,515,524; 5,708,798 and 6,002,854 (collectively, the “Versata Patents”) by making, using, licensing, selling, offering for sale, or importing configuration software and related services (the “Versata Lawsuit”). On October 9, 2007, we reached a settlement on the Versata Lawsuit. Under the terms of the settlement, Selectica paid Versata $10.0 million on October 9, 2007 and agreed to pay an additional amount of not more than $7.5 million in quarterly payments. The quarterly payments are the greater of (i) $200,000 or (ii) amounts calculated based on 10% of revenues from our Sales Configuration Solution’s (“SCS”) products and services and a 50% revenue share of SCS revenue from new Company SCS customers that are currently Versata customers and to whom Versata makes an introduction to Selectica. Both parties entered into mutual releases, releasing any and all claims that they may have against the other occurring before the settlement date.
Rights Agreement
On December 22, 2008, we filed suit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against Trilogy, Inc. and certain related parties (“Trilogy”) seeking declaratory relief that our Rights Agreement as amended on
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November 16, 2008 was an appropriate measure to protect a valuable asset of ours—our net operating loss carryforwards and related tax credits—from being limited as to utilization as provided under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) which could in turn substantially reduce their value to all of our shareholders. We sued Trilogy after (i) we amended our Rights Agreement on November 16, 2008 to reduce the ownership threshold from 15% to 4.99%, with existing 5% or greater shareholders limited to acquiring no more than an additional 0.5% and, (ii) despite the ownership threshold, Trilogy increased its beneficial ownership by 0.51% to 6.71% as announced in its 13(d) filing with the SEC on December 22, 2008. As a result, on January 2, 2009, a special committee of our Board of Directors declared Trilogy as an “Acquiring Person” under the Rights Agreement, and on February 4, 2009 we completed the distribution of 26.8 million shares to all existing shareholders (under the Exchange Provision in the Rights Agreement) other than Trilogy.
On January 16, 2009, the defendants in this action, Trilogy, filed an answer to our complaint and a counterclaim alleging that we, through our Board of Directors, had breached our fiduciary duty in amending the Rights Agreement and that such action favored one group of shareholders over another. We, and our Board of Directors, believe that the action taken on November 16, 2008 was appropriate under the circumstances and in the interest of all our shareholders and therefore the allegations of the counterclaim are without merit. The counterclaim asks for various measures of equitable relief and also includes a claim for punitive or exemplary damages, which are not available in Delaware.
The litigation is currently in the post-trial phase with a decision expected in the third or fourth calendar quarter of 2009, subject to appeal. As the costs of this litigation and related legal work are directly related to the issuance of shares under our rights plan, the costs of the litigation have been charged as issuance costs against the additional paid in capital account on our balance sheet, less a reserve for anticipated recovery from our Director’s and Officer’s insurance policy, which is reflected in prepaid expenses and other current assets on our balance sheet. As of March 31, 2009, the amount charged to additional paid in capital was approximately $2.0 million, and the anticipated recovery from our insurance policy was approximately $1.0 million.
Other
In the future we may be subject to other lawsuits, including claims relating to intellectual property matters or securities laws. Any litigation, even if not successful against us, could result in substantial costs and divert management’s and other resources away from the operations of our business. If successful against us, we could be liable for large damage awards and, in the case of patent litigation, subject to injunctions that significantly harm our business.
Item 4. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders |
Not applicable.
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PART II
Item 5. | Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Small Business Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities |
Our common stock is traded over the counter on The NASDAQ Global Market (“NASDAQ”) under the symbol “SLTC.” Our common stock began trading in March 2000.
As of June 22, 2009, there were approximately 107 holders of record of our common stock. Brokers and other institutions hold many of such shares on behalf of stockholders.
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| | High | | Low | |
Fiscal 2008 | | | | | | | |
First Quarter | | $ | 2.00 | | $ | 1.78 | |
Second Quarter | | $ | 1.87 | | $ | 1.45 | |
Third Quarter | | $ | 2.00 | | $ | 1.59 | |
Fourth Quarter | | $ | 1.85 | | $ | 1.25 | |
Fiscal 2009 | | | | | | | |
First Quarter | | $ | 1.56 | | $ | 1.30 | |
Second Quarter | | $ | 1.26 | | $ | 1.01 | |
Third Quarter | | $ | 1.09 | | $ | 0.60 | |
Fourth Quarter | | $ | 0.88 | | $ | 0.29 | (1) |
(1) | On January 2, 2009, a special committee of our Board of Directors declared Trilogy as an “Acquiring Person” under the Rights Agreement, and as a result, on February 4, 2009 we completed the distribution of 26.8 million shares to all existing shareholders (under the Exchange Provision in the Rights Agreement) other than Trilogy. |
The trading price of our common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to quarterly variations in operating results, announcements of technological innovations or new products by us or our competitors, changes in financial estimates or purchase recommendations by securities analysts and other events or factors. In addition, the stock market has experienced volatility that has affected the market prices of equity securities of many high technology companies and that often has been unrelated to the operating performance of such companies. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of our common stock. See “Risk Factors.”
Equity Compensation Plan Information
The following table sets forth as of March 31, 2009, certain information regarding our equity compensation plans.
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| | A | | B | | C | |
Plan category | | Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options warrants and rights | | Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options warrants and rights | | Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in Column A) | |
| | (in thousands, except for per share amounts below) | |
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders | | 4,016 | | $ | 1.24 | | 33,676 | (1)(2) |
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders | | 104 | | $ | 1.92 | | 3,588 | |
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Total | | 4,120 | | $ | 1.27 | | 37,264 | |
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(1) | These plans permit the grant of options, stock appreciation rights, shares of restricted stock and stock units. |
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(2) | On each January 1, starting in 2001, the number of shares reserved for issuance under our 1999 Equity Incentive Plan will be automatically increased by the lesser of 5% of the then outstanding shares of common stock or 3.6 million shares. On each May 1, starting in 2001, the number of shares reserved for issuance under our 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan will be automatically increased by the lesser of 2% of the then outstanding shares of common stock or 2.0 million shares. |
Stock Option Plans—Not Required to be Approved by Stockholders
2001 Supplemental Plan
We adopted the 2001 Supplemental Plan (the “Supplemental Plan”) on May 30, 2001; the Supplemental Plan did not require stockholder approval. A total of approximately 5.0 million shares of common stock have been reserved for issuance under the Supplemental Plan. With limited restrictions, if shares awarded under the Supplemental Plan are forfeited, those shares will again become available for new awards under the Supplemental Plan. The Supplemental Plan permits the grant of non-statutory options and shares of restricted stock. Employees and consultants, who are not officers or members of the Board of Directors, are eligible to participate in the Supplemental Plan. Options are granted at an exercise price of not less than 85% of the fair market value per share on the date of grant. Options generally vest with respect to 25% of the shares one year after the options’ vesting commencement date and the remainder vest in equal monthly installments over the following 36 months. Options granted under the Supplemental Plan have a maximum term of ten years.
The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors administers the Supplemental Plan and has complete discretion to make all decisions relating to the interpretation and operation of the Supplemental Plan. The Compensation Committee has the discretion to determine which eligible persons are to receive an award, and to determine the type, number, vesting requirements and other features and conditions of each award. The exercise price of options may be paid with: cash, outstanding shares of common stock, the cashless exercise method through a designated broker, a pledge of shares to a broker or a promissory note. The purchase price for newly issued restricted shares may be paid with: cash, a promissory note or the rendering of past or future services. The Compensation Committee may reprice options and may modify, extend or assume outstanding options. The Compensation Committee may accept the cancellation of outstanding options in return for the grant of new options. The new option may have the same or a different number of shares and the same or a different exercise price. If a merger or other reorganization occurs, the agreement of merger or reorganization shall provide that outstanding options and other awards under the Supplemental Plan shall be assumed or substituted with comparable awards by the surviving corporation or its parent or subsidiary, shall be continued by the Company if it is the surviving corporation, shall have accelerated vesting and then expire early or shall be cancelled for a cash payment. If a change in control occurs, awards will become fully exercisable and fully vested if the awards do not remain outstanding, are not assumed by the surviving corporation or its parent or subsidiary and if the surviving corporation or its parent or subsidiary does not substitute its own awards that have substantially the same terms for the awards granted under the Supplemental Plan. If a change in control occurs and a plan participant is involuntarily terminated within 12 months following this change in control, then the vesting of awards held by the participant will accelerate, as if the participant provided another 12 months of service. A change in control includes: a merger or consolidation after which the then-current stockholders own less than 50% of the surviving corporation, a sale of all or substantially all of the assets, a proxy contest that results in replacement of more than one-half of the directors over a 24-month period or an acquisition of 50% or more of the outstanding stock by a person other than a person related to the Company, including a corporation owned by the stockholders. The Board of Directors may amend or terminate the Supplemental Plan at any time. The Supplemental Plan will continue in effect indefinitely unless the Board of Directors decides to terminate the plan earlier.
Dividend Policy
We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our capital stock. Whether or not a dividend will be paid in the future will be determined by our Board of Directors.
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Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
Not applicable.
Use of Proceeds from Sales of Registered Securities
Not applicable.
Item 6. | Selected Financial Data. |
We are a “smaller reporting company” as defined by Regulation S-K and as such, are not required to provide the information contained in this item pursuant to Regulation S-K.
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Item 7. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. |
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements reflecting our current expectations and estimates and assumptions concerning events and financial trends that may affect our future operating results or financial position. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from those contained in these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed in the “Forward-Looking Statements” set forth above.
Overview
We provide contract management and sales configuration software solutions that allow enterprises to efficiently manage sell-side business processes. Our solutions include software, on demand hosting, professional services and expertise.
The Selectica Contract Lifecycle Management (“CLM” or “CM”) solution is a contract authoring, analysis, repository and process automation product designed to enhance and automate the management of the entire contract lifecycle. It helps companies take control of their contract management processes by converting from paper-based to electronic repositories and by unlocking multiple layers of critical business data, making it available for the evaluation of risk, the exposure of lost revenue and the evaluation of supplier performance, and other purposes. The solution helps to improve the customer buying experience for sales organizations, improve the control of risk and decrease time spent drafting, monitoring and managing contracts for the corporate counsel’s office and gain access to previously hidden discounts through the exposure and elimination of unfavorable agreements for procurement and sourcing organizations.
The Selectica Sales Configuration (“SCS”) solution consolidates configuration, pricing and quoting functions into a single application platform enabling companies to streamline the opportunity-to-order process for manufacturers, service providers, and financial services companies. Our SCS solution provides a critical link between Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems that helps to simplify and automate the configuration, pricing, and quoting of complex products and services. By empowering customers, internal sales staff, and/or channel partners to generate error-free sales proposals for their unique requirements, we believe our SCS solution helps companies to close sales faster, accelerate revenue generation and enhance customer relationships.
Summary of Operating Results for Fiscal 2009
During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, our total revenues increased by 3%, or $0.4 million, to $16.4 million compared with total revenues of $16.0 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. The results for 2009 also reflected a shift of revenues from being primarily dependent on our SCS products to being primarily dependent on our CLM products. In fiscal 2009, CLM products and service revenues totaled $9.9 million or 60% of total revenues, representing an increase of $4.1 million or 72% over fiscal 2008, whereas our SCS products and service revenues totaled $6.5 million or 40% of total revenues, representing a decrease of $3.7 million or 36% over fiscal 2008. This resulted largely from increased license and professional service revenues for our CM products, reflecting the investments we made in fiscal 2009 to expand our CM business and the decline in license revenues for our SCS products.
During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, our net loss declined by 65% or $15.5 million, to $8.4 million compared to a net loss of $23.9 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. The most significant factors affecting the decline in our net loss are (i) a decline in charges from $16.3 million related to a litigation settlement in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, to $92,000 in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 (ii) a decline in professional fees related to our stock option investigation from $3.6 million in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008 to $38,000 in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 and (iii) a decline in gross margins in the
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period ended March 31, 2009 due to the shift in mix between license revenues and service revenues offset by declines in costs for research and development, sales and marketing and restructuring. Service revenues typically have lower margins than license revenues and the shift towards service revenues in the year ended March 31, 2009 resulted in a decline of 8.9% (from 73.8% to 64.9%) in our overall gross margin from the year ended March 31, 2008.
Outlook for Fiscal 2010
We anticipate that our shift in focus from our SCS business to our CM business will continue in fiscal year 2010 and, specifically, that revenues from our CM business will continue to grow in fiscal year 2010, but at a lower rate of growth than in fiscal 2009, while revenues from our SCS business will remain flat or decline modestly. We believe that our success in fiscal year 2010 will depend critically on our ability to (i) manage the continuing shift from our SCS business to our CM business, (ii) increase our CM license revenue , (iii) manage our costs of professional services to increase our margins in that segment of our business, (iv) enhance our management team, (v) execute on our business plan despite a significant reduction in our workforce in the first quarter of fiscal 2010 and (vi) achieve targeted expense reductions. We believe that key risks in fiscal 2010 include (i) the impact of continuing adverse worldwide economic conditions on overall demand for our products, (ii) risks associated with the planned transition of our business, and (iii) the impact of our continuing litigation with Trilogy regarding our shareholder rights plan.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Our significant accounting policies are described in notes accompanying the consolidated financial statements. The preparation of the consolidated financial statements requires our management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Estimates are based on information available as of the date of the financial statements, and accordingly, actual results in future periods could differ from these estimates. Significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements apply critical accounting policies described in the notes to our consolidated financial statements.
We consider our recognition of revenue, calculation of liabilities and stock-based compensation to be the most critical judgments that are involved in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements.
Results of Operations
Revenues
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | | | Change | |
| | (in thousands, except percentages) | |
License | | $ | 3,569 | | | $ | 4,588 | | | $ | (1,019 | ) |
Percentage of total revenues | | | 22 | % | | | 29 | % | | | — | |
Services | | $ | 12,876 | | | $ | 11,415 | | | $ | 1,461 | |
Percentage of total revenues | | | 78 | % | | | 71 | % | | | — | |
Total revenues | | $ | 16,445 | | | $ | 16,003 | | | $ | 442 | |
License. License revenues consist of revenue from licensing our software products. Fiscal 2009 license revenue decreased by $1.0 million from the prior year primarily due to the $1.9 million decline in license revenues from our sales configuration business as we increased our focus to our CM products, which produced an increase in CM license revenues of $0.9 million which did not offset the decline in SCS license revenues.
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Services.Services revenues are comprised of fees from consulting, maintenance, training, subscription revenues and out-of pocket reimbursements. Services revenues for fiscal year 2009 increased $1.5 million, or 13%, from the prior year, primarily due to more consulting revenues provided by new and existing customer agreements in the CM business unit. Maintenance revenues were 44% and 49% of total service revenues for the twelve months ended March 31, 2009, and 2008, respectively.
We expect services revenues to continue to fluctuate in future periods as a percentage of total revenues and in absolute dollars. This will depend on new license revenue and the number and size of new software implementations and follow-on services to our existing customers. We expect maintenance revenue to fluctuate in absolute dollars and as a percentage of services revenues with respect to the number of maintenance renewals, and number and size of new license contracts. In addition, maintenance renewals, although renewed at a 100% rate from existing customers in fiscal 2009, are extremely dependent upon economic conditions, customer satisfaction and the level of need to make changes or upgrade versions of our software by our customers. Fluctuations in revenue are also due to timing of revenue recognition, achievement of milestones, customer acceptance, changes in scope or renegotiated terms, and additional services.
Factors Affecting Operating Results
A small number of customers in our SCS category account for a significant portion of our total revenues. We expect that our revenue will continue to depend upon a limited number of customers. If we were to lose a customer, it would have a significant impact upon future revenue. Customers who accounted for at least 10% of total revenues were as follows:
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
Customer A | | 18 | % | | 25 | % |
Customer B | | * | | | 12 | % |
* Revenues were less than 10% of total revenues
We no longer have significant foreign activities. We anticipate that any exposure to foreign currency fluctuations will not be significant.
Cost of Revenues
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | | | Change | |
Cost of license revenues | | $ | 206 | | | $ | 255 | | | $ | (49 | ) |
Percentage of license revenues | | | 6 | % | | | 6 | % | | | — | |
Cost of services revenues | | $ | 5,563 | | | $ | 3,946 | | | $ | 1,617 | |
Percentage of services revenues | | | 43 | % | | | 35 | % | | | — | |
Total cost of revenues | | $ | 5,769 | | | $ | 4,201 | | | $ | 1,568 | |
Cost of License Revenues. Cost of license revenues consists of a fixed allocation of our research and development costs. During the fiscal year 2009, license costs were $0.2 million. We expect cost of license revenues to maintain a relatively consistent level in absolute dollars in fiscal year 2010.
Cost of Services Revenues. Cost of services revenues is comprised mainly of salaries and related expenses of our services organization plus certain allocated corporate expenses. During fiscal 2009, these costs increased by approximately $1.6 million primarily due to the increase in investments in our CM professional services staff as well as an increase in the use of third-party consultants. This increase was partially offset by a decrease during fiscal 2009 of approximately $0.7 million from the SCS business unit due to a decrease of 10 headcount in SCS professional services.
We expect cost of service revenues to fluctuate as a percentage of service revenues.
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Gross Margin
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
Gross margin, license revenues | | 94 | % | | 94 | % |
Gross margin, services revenues | | 57 | % | | 65 | % |
Gross margin, total revenues | | 65 | % | | 74 | % |
Gross Margin—Gross margins represent gross profit as a percentage of revenue. Gross margins in fiscal 2009 and 2008 were affected by the factors discussed above under “Revenues” and “Cost of Revenues”.
Gross Profit
Gross profit was $10.7 million, or 65% of revenues, in fiscal 2009 compared with $11.8 million, or 74% of revenues, in fiscal 2008. The decline in gross profit during fiscal year 2009 was due to the change in mix to a greater percentage of revenue being from services, which have lower margins, and an increase in our cost of services revenue due to the increase in investments in our CM professional services staff as well as an increase in the use of third-party consultants.
SCS gross profit was $4.9 million, or 75% of revenues, in fiscal 2009 compared with $7.9 million, or 77% of revenues, in fiscal 2008. The decrease was due to a $1.9 million reduction in license revenues and higher relative professional services revenues which operate at lower margins.
CM gross profit was $5.7 million, or 58% of revenues, in fiscal 2009 compared with $3.9 million, or 67% of revenues, in fiscal 2008. The increase in gross profit during fiscal year 2009 was due to increased license revenues while margins decreased due to the increase in development expenditures and investments in our CM professional services staff as well as an increase in the use of third-party consultants to complete historic fixed-price arrangements to assure customer satisfaction.
We expect that our overall gross margins will continue to fluctuate due to the timing of service and license revenue recognition and will continue to be adversely affected by lower margins associated with service revenues. The impact on our gross margin will depend on the mix of services we provide, whether the services are performed by our in-house staff or third party consultants, and the overall utilization rates of our professional services organization. In addition, gross margins may be lower as a result of the shift and increased investment we have made to our CM business which, in the short term may have lower gross margins than our SCS business depending on the relationship of professional service revenues to license or subscription revenues.
Operating Expenses
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | | | Change | |
Total research and development | | $ | 4,218 | | | $ | 5,045 | | | $ | (827 | ) |
Percentage of total revenues | | | 26 | % | | | 32 | % | | | — | |
Research and Development.Research and development expenses consist mainly of salaries and related costs of our engineering, quality assurance, technical publications efforts, and certain allocated expenses. The decrease in research and development expenses of $0.8 million in fiscal 2009 compared to fiscal year 2008 was attributable primarily to reductions in headcount and decreases in costs for facilities, overhead and benefits. We expect research and development expenditures to increase modestly in absolute dollars over the next several years as we continue development in our CM products and integrate with tools provided by third parties.
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | | | Change | |
Sales and marketing | | $ | 6,307 | | | $ | 6,664 | | | $ | (357 | ) |
Percentage of total revenues | | | 38 | % | | | 42 | % | | | — | |
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Sales and Marketing.Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of salaries and related costs for our sales and marketing organization, sales commissions, expenses for travel and entertainment, trade shows, public relations, collateral sales materials, advertising and certain allocated expenses. In fiscal 2009, sales and marketing expenses decreased $0.4 million primarily due to decreases in expenditures in our SCS product line and the implementation of a new team in our CM product line which was fully in place only for the second half of fiscal 2009. We expect modest reductions in sales and marketing expenses in fiscal 2010 compared to fiscal 2009 both in absolute dollars and as a percentage of total revenues.
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | | | Change | |
General and administrative | | $ | 5,522 | | | $ | 5,427 | | | $ | 95 | |
Percentage of total revenues | | | 34 | % | | | 34 | % | | | — | |
Professional fees related to stock option investigation | | $ | 38 | | | $ | 3,596 | | | $ | (3,558 | ) |
Percentage of total revenues | | | 0.2 | % | | | 22 | % | | | — | |
Litigation settlement | | $ | 92 | | | $ | 16,275 | | | $ | (16,183 | ) |
Percentage of total revenues | | | 0.6 | % | | | 101 | % | | | — | |
General and Administrative, Professional fees related to stock option investigation, and litigation settlement. General and administrative expenses consist mainly of personnel and related costs for general corporate functions, including finance, accounting, legal, human resources, bad debt expense and certain allocated expenses. General and administrative expenses increased $0.1 million in fiscal 2009 compared with fiscal 2008 due to increased expenditures for outside contractors, and payments to our board members who assumed more active roles as a result of not having a full time CEO, offset partially by internal efficiencies. We incurred approximately $38,000 in professional fees related to the stock option investigation in fiscal 2009, compared to $3.6 million in fiscal year 2008 in professional fees related to the stock option investigation. We incurred approximately $92,000 in litigation settlement expenses related to the Versata lawsuit as the majority of those expenses were incurred in the prior year (See Footnote 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements). We incurred approximately $16.3 million in legal settlement costs related to the Versata lawsuit in the prior year. We expect modest reductions in general and administrative expenses in fiscal 2010 compared to fiscal 2009 both in absolute dollars and as a percentage of total revenues.
Restructuring. Restructuring expenses consist primarily of personnel reductions and excess facility charges related to our cost realignment initiatives. The restructuring accrual and the related utilization for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 were (in thousands):
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| | Severance and Benefits | | | Excess Facilities | | | Total | |
Balance, March 31, 2008 | | $ | 126 | | | $ | 2,705 | | | $ | 2,831 | |
Additional accruals | | | 661 | | | | (143 | ) | | | 518 | |
Amounts paid in cash | | | (735 | ) | | | (1,812 | ) | | | (2,547 | ) |
Loan to sublessee | | | — | | | | 463 | | | | 463 | |
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Balance, March 31, 2009 | | $ | 52 | | | $ | 1,213 | | | $ | 1,265 | |
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During fiscal year 2009, we reduced certain executive headcount and revised our excess facility accrual related to our corporate headquarters relocation in the amount of $0.7 million and $0.3 million, respectively. Based on a reduction of headcount in the first quarter of fiscal 2010, we expect to record restructuring charges of at least $500,000 in fiscal 2010.
Other income (expense), net
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | | Change | |
Other income (expense), net | | $ | (2,122 | ) | | $ | 381 | | $ | (2,503 | ) |
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Other income (expense), net consists primarily of expenses from the impact of foreign currency remeasurement, primarily from our Indian subsidiary (which was sold on March 31, 2009) as well as interest expense associated with our note payable to Versata. In fiscal 2009, other income (expense), net decreased $2.5 million primarily due to unfavorable foreign exchange rate movements against the U.S. dollar that occurred prior to our adopting a hedging program in December 2008. Subsequent to the sale of our Indian subsidiary, our foreign exchange exposure has been substantially eliminated.
Interest Income
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| | 2009 | | 2008 | | Change | |
Interest income | | $ | 983 | | $ | 2,477 | | $ | (1,494 | ) |
Interest income consists primarily of interest earned on cash balances and short-term investments. Interest income decreased in fiscal year 2009 due to lower cash balances and interest rates. We anticipate that interest income in fiscal 2010 will decline relative to fiscal 2009 as a result of lower cash balances and lower interest rates.
Provision for Income Taxes
We incurred income taxes of approximately $157,000 for fiscal year 2009 and approximately $361,000 for fiscal year 2008. As of March 31, 2009, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $166.5 million and $87.3 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2009, we also had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $3.1 million and $4.3 million, respectively.
The fiscal 2009 and 2008 tax provisions vary from the expected provision or benefit at the U.S. federal statutory rate due to the recording of valuation allowances against our U.S. operating loss and the effects of different tax rates in our foreign jurisdictions. Given our history of operating losses and our inability to achieve profitable operations, it is difficult to accurately forecast how results will be affected by the realization of net operating loss carryforwards.
SFAS No. 109 provides for the recognition of deferred tax assets if realization of such assets is more likely than not. Based upon the weight of available evidence, which includes our historical operating performance and the reported cumulative net losses in all prior years, we have provided a full valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets. We will continue to evaluate the realizability of the deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis.
In addition, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (“Act”), signed into law in July 2008 and modified under the Economic Stimulus Act of 2009, allows taxpayers to claim refundable AMT or research and development credit carryovers if they forego bonus depreciation on certain qualified fixed assets placed in service from the period between April 2008 through December 2009. We estimated and recognized the credit based on fixed assets placed into service through the twelve months ended March 31, 2009. During the twelve months ended March 31, 2009 we recorded a net income tax benefit of $13,756 for a U.S. federal refundable credit as provided by the Act.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
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| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments | | $ | 23,452 | | | $ | 35,213 | |
Working capital | | $ | 20,180 | | | $ | 30,762 | |
Net cash used for operating activities | | $ | (8,002 | ) | | $ | (22,162 | ) |
Net cash provided by investing activities | | $ | 10,470 | | | $ | 15,014 | |
Net cash used for financing activities | | $ | (2,808 | ) | | $ | (484 | ) |
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Our primary sources of liquidity consisted of approximately $23.5 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of March 31, 2009 compared to approximately $35.2 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of March 31, 2008.
Net cash used in operating activities was $8.0 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2009, resulting primarily from our net loss of $8.4 million, a $3.3 million increase in accounts receivable and a $1.6 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets. These decreases in cash flows from operating activities were partially offset by a $1.9 million increase in deferred revenues and a $2.7 million increase in accounts payable.
Net cash used in operating activities was $22.2 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2008, resulting primarily from our net loss of approximately $23.9 million. Adjustments for non-cash expenses include a net non-cash charge for litigation settlement of $6.1 million, stock based compensation expenses of $1.5 million, depreciation and amortization of approximately $0.7 million, a decrease in accounts payable of approximately $2.5 million and a decrease in accrued liabilities of approximately $3.8 million.
Net cash provided by investing activities was $10.5 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2009, resulting primarily from $8.2 million of net proceeds of short-term investments, and $2.6 million in net proceeds from the sale of our Indian subsidiary, which was completed on March 31, 2009.
Net cash provided by investing activities was $15.0 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2008, which was primarily due to net proceeds from the maturity of short-term investments.
As a result of current adverse financial market conditions, investments in some financial instruments may pose risks arising from liquidity and credit concerns. Although we believe our current investment portfolio has very little risk of impairment, we cannot predict future market conditions or market liquidity and can provide no assurance that our investment portfolio will remain unimpaired.
Net cash used in financing activities was $2.8 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2009, resulting primarily from $2.0 million in costs to defend our Rights Agreement, as well as $0.8 million of payments on our note payable to Versata.
Net cash used in financing activities was $0.5 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2008, which was primarily due to $0.2 million in payments on our note payable to Versata and $0.3 million used to purchase treasury stock.
We expect to incur significant operating costs for the foreseeable future. We expect to fund our operating costs, as well as our future capital expenditures and liquidity needs, from a combination of available cash balances and internally generated funds. We have no outside debt, and do not have any plans to enter into borrowing arrangements. As a result, our net cash flows will depend heavily on the level of future sales, changes in deferred revenues, our ability to manage costs and ongoing legal proceedings.
We believe our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investment balances as of March 31, 2009 should be adequate to fund our operations through at least March 31, 2010. However, given the significant changes in our business and results of operations in the last 12 months, the fluctuation in cash and investment balances may be greater than presently anticipated. See “Risk Factors.” After the next 12 months, we may find it necessary to obtain additional funds. In the event additional funds are required, we may not be able to obtain additional financing on favorable terms or at all.
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Contractual Obligations
The following table summarizes our outstanding contractual obligations as of March 31, 2009 and the effect those obligations are expected to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods (in thousands):
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| | Payments Due by Period |
Contractual Obligations | | Total | | Less than 1 Year | | 1-3 Years | | 3-5 years | | More than 5 Years |
Operating lease—real estate, net | | $ | 1,472 | | $ | 1,464 | | $ | 8 | | $ | 0 | | $ | 0 |
Other | | | 41 | | | 18 | | | 18 | | | 3 | | | 2 |
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Total | | $ | 1,513 | | $ | 1,482 | | $ | 26 | | $ | 3 | | $ | 2 |
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Our contractual obligations and commercial commitments at March 31, 2009 were approximately $1.5 million. We had no significant commitments for capital expenditures as of March 31, 2009.
We do not anticipate any significant capital expenditures, un-planned payments due on long-term obligations, or other contractual obligations. However, management is continuing to review the Company’s cost structure to minimize expenses and use of cash as it implements its planned business model changes. This activity may result in additional restructuring charges for severance and other benefits.
Off-balance sheet arrangements
We have no off-balance sheet arrangements or transactions with unconsolidated limited purpose entities, nor do we have any undisclosed material transactions or commitments involving related persons or entities.
Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk. |
We are a “smaller reporting company” as defined by Regulation S-K and as such, are not required to provide the information contained in this item pursuant to Regulation S-K.
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Item 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. |
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Selectica, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Selectica, Inc. (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended March 31, 2009. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the financial statement schedule listed in Item 15b. These consolidated financial statements and related financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Selectica, Inc. at March 31, 2009 and March 31, 2008, and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended March 31, 2009, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material aspects, the information set forth therein.
/S/ ARMANINO MCKENNA LLP
San Ramon, California
July 7, 2009
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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
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| | March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands, except par value) | |
Assets | | | | | | | | |
Current assets: | | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 23,256 | | | $ | 22,137 | |
Short-term investments | | | 196 | | | | 13,076 | |
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $373 and $0, as of March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively | | | 5,598 | | | | 1,330 | |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | | | 2,485 | | | | 919 | |
Total current assets | | | 31,535 | | | | 37,462 | |
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Property and equipment, net | | | 1,060 | | | | 2,185 | |
Intangible assets | | | 7 | | | | 102 | |
Other assets | | | 665 | | | | 491 | |
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Total assets | | $ | 33,267 | | | $ | 40,240 | |
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Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity | | | | | | | | |
Current liabilities: | | | | | | | | |
Current portion of note payable to Versata | | $ | 786 | | | $ | 786 | |
Accounts payable | | | 3,133 | | | | 518 | |
Current portion of accrual for restructuring liability | | | 1,265 | | | | 1,937 | |
Accrued payroll and related liabilities | | | 720 | | | | 740 | |
Other accrued liabilities | | | 1,520 | | | | 735 | |
Deferred revenues | | | 3,931 | | | | 1,984 | |
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Total current liabilities | | | 11,355 | | | | 6,700 | |
Accrual for restructuring liability, net of current portion | | | — | | | | 924 | |
Note payable to Versata, net of current portion | | | 4,588 | | | | 5,113 | |
Other long-term liabilities | | | 48 | | | | 245 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Total liabilities | | | 15,991 | | | | 12,982 | |
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Commitments and contingencies (See Notes 7 and 8) | | | | | | | | |
Stockholders’ equity: | | | | | | | | |
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value: | | | | | | | | |
Authorized: 25,000 shares at March 31, 2009 and 2008; None issued and outstanding | | | — | | | | — | |
Common stock, $0.0001 par value: | | | | | | | | |
Authorized: 150,000 shares at March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively Issued: 66,892 and 40,041 shares at March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively Outstanding: 55,546 and 28,695 shares at March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively | | | 4 | | | | 4 | |
Additional paid-in capital | | | 299,383 | | | | 300,939 | |
Accumulated deficit | | | (249,205 | ) | | | (240,783 | ) |
Accumulated other comprehensive income, net of income taxes | | | — | | | | 4 | |
| | |
Treasury stock at cost—11,346 shares at March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively | | | (32,906 | ) | | | (32,906 | ) |
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Total stockholders’ equity | | | 17,276 | | | | 27,258 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | | $ | 33,267 | | | $ | 40,240 | |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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SELECTICA, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
| | | | | | | | |
| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands, except per share amounts) | |
Revenues: | | | | | | | | |
License | | $ | 3,569 | | | $ | 4,588 | |
Services | | | 12,876 | | | | 11,415 | |
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Total revenues | | | 16,445 | | | | 16,003 | |
Cost of revenues: | | | | | | | | |
License | | | 206 | | | | 255 | |
Services | | | 5,563 | | | | 3,946 | |
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Total cost of revenues | | | 5,769 | | | | 4,201 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Gross profit | | | 10,676 | | | | 11,802 | |
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Operating expenses: | | | | | | | | |
Research and development | | | 4,218 | | | | 5,045 | |
Sales and marketing | | | 6,307 | | | | 6,664 | |
General and administrative | | | 5,522 | | | | 5,427 | |
Restructuring | | | 675 | | | | 1,193 | |
Professional fees related to stock option investigation | | | 38 | | | | 3,596 | |
Litigation settlement | | | 92 | | | | 16,275 | |
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Total operating expenses | | | 16,852 | | | | 38,200 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Loss from operations | | | (6,176 | ) | | | (26,398 | ) |
Other income (expense), net | | | (2,122 | ) | | | 381 | |
Loss on sale of subsidiary | | | (950 | ) | | | — | |
Interest income | | | 983 | | | | 2,477 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Loss before provision for income taxes | | | (8,265 | ) | | | (23,540 | ) |
Provision for income taxes | | | 157 | | | | 361 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (8,422 | ) | | $ | (23,901 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
Basic and diluted net loss per share | | $ | (0.26 | ) | | $ | (0.84 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
Weighted-average shares of common stock used in computing basic and diluted net loss per share | | | 32,828 | | | | 28,457 | |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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SELECTICA, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(In thousands)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Common Stock | | Additional Paid-In Capital | | | Accumulated Deficit | | | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), net of taxes | | | Treasury Stock | | | Total Stockholders’ Equity | | | Comprehensive Loss | |
| Shares | | Amount | | | | | Shares | | | Amount | | | |
Balance at March 31, 2007 | | 39,596 | | $ | 4 | | $ | 299,476 | | | $ | (216,889 | ) | | $ | (18 | ) | | (11,189 | ) | | $ | (32,660 | ) | | $ | 49,913 | | | | | |
Exercise of stock options by employees, net of repurchase | | 92 | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | |
Issuance of restricted stock | | 353 | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | (157 | ) | | | (246 | ) | | | (246 | ) | | | | |
Stock-based compensation expense | | — | | | — | | | 1,463 | | | | — | | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | 1,463 | | | | | |
Comprehensive loss: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Other comprehensive gain, net of taxes | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | 7 | | | | 22 | | | — | | | | — | | | | 29 | | | $ | 29 | |
Net loss | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | (23,901 | ) | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | (23,901 | ) | | | (23,901 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Total comprehensive loss | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | (23,872 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at March 31, 2008 | | 40,041 | | | 4 | | | 300,939 | | | | (240,783 | ) | | | 4 | | | (11,346 | ) | | | (32,906 | ) | | | 27,258 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Stock-based compensation expense | | — | | | — | | | 452 | | | | — | | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | 452 | | | | | |
Proceeds from sales of shares through employee stock purchase plan | | 56 | | | — | | | 26 | | | | — | | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | 26 | | | | | |
Issuance of additional common shares under Rights Agreement (see Note 8) | | 26,795 | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | |
Common stock issuance costs, net (see Note 8) | | — | | | — | | | (2,034 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | (2,034 | ) | | | | |
Comprehensive loss: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Other comprehensive loss, net of taxes | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | (4 | ) | | — | | | | — | | | | (4 | ) | | $ | (4 | ) |
Net loss | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | (8,422 | ) | | | — | | | — | | | | — | | | | (8,422 | ) | | | (8,422 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Total comprehensive loss | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | (8,426 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at March 31, 2009 | | 66,892 | | $ | 4 | | $ | 299,383 | | | $ | (249,205 | ) | | $ | — | | | (11,346 | ) | | $ | (32,906 | ) | | $ | 17,276 | | | | | |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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SELECTICA, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
| | | | | | | | |
| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Operating activities: | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (8,422 | ) | | $ | (23,901 | ) |
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | | | | | | | | |
Depreciation | | | 394 | | | | 449 | |
Amortization | | | 95 | | | | 207 | |
Non-cash charge for litigation settlement | | | — | | | | 6,118 | |
Loss on sale of subsidiary | | | 950 | | | | — | |
Loss (gain) on disposition of property and equipment | | | 97 | | | | (20 | ) |
Stock-based compensation expense | | | 452 | | | | 1,469 | |
Changes in assets and liabilities: | | | | | | | | |
Accounts receivable (net) | | | (3,268 | ) | | | 448 | |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | | | (1,615 | ) | | | (352 | ) |
Other assets | | | (180 | ) | | | 40 | |
Accounts payable | | | 2,651 | | | | (2,496 | ) |
Accrual for restructuring liability | | | (1,585 | ) | | | (2,835 | ) |
Accrued payroll and related liabilities | | | 6 | | | | (180 | ) |
Other accrued and long-term liabilities | | | 475 | | | | (841 | ) |
Deferred revenues | | | 1,948 | | | | (268 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
Net cash used for operating activities | | | (8,002 | ) | | | (22,162 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
Investing activities: | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from sale of subsidiary, net of cash contributed | | | 2,639 | | | | — | |
Purchase of capital assets | | | (361 | ) | | | (558 | ) |
Proceeds from disposition of property and equipment | | | 19 | | | | 22 | |
Proceeds from sale of restricted investments | | | — | | | | 150 | |
Purchase of short-term investments | | | (9,169 | ) | | | (55,272 | ) |
Proceeds from maturities of short-term investments | | | 17,342 | | | | 69,663 | |
Proceeds from maturities of long-term investments | | | — | | | | 1,009 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Net cash provided by investing activities | | | 10,470 | | | | 15,014 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Financing activities: | | | | | | | | |
Payments on note payable to Versata | | | (800 | ) | | | (238 | ) |
Common stock issuance costs, net (See Note 8) | | | (2,034 | ) | | | — | |
Purchase of treasury stock | | | — | | | | (246 | ) |
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under stock option and stock purchase plans | | | 26 | | | | — | |
| | | | | | | | |
Net cash used for financing activities | | | (2,808 | ) | | | (484 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash | | | 1,459 | | | | (396 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | | | 1,119 | | | | (8,028 | ) |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the period | | | 22,137 | | | | 30,165 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents at end of the period | | $ | 23,256 | | | $ | 22,137 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: | | | | | | | | |
Income taxes paid | | $ | 106 | | | $ | 927 | |
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash financing activities: | | | | | | | | |
Change in unrealized gain (loss) on available for sales securities | | $ | (4 | ) | | $ | 22 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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SELECTICA, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. | Organization and Operations |
Selectica, Inc. (the Company or Selectica) was incorporated in the State of California on June 6, 1996 and subsequently reincorporated in the State of Delaware on January 19, 2000. The Company was originally organized to provide configuration, pricing management and quoting solutions for automating customers’ opportunity to order process. In May 2005, the Company purchased Determine Software, Inc. and entered the contract management software business.
2. | Summary of Significant Accounting Policies |
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include all accounts of the Company and those of its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Foreign Currency Transactions
Foreign currency transactions at foreign operations are measured using the U.S. dollar as the functional currency. Accordingly, monetary accounts (principally cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and accrued liabilities) are remeasured into the U.S. dollar using the foreign exchange rate at the balance sheet date. Operational accounts and non-monetary balance sheet accounts are remeasured at the rate in effect at the date of a transaction. The impact of foreign currency remeasurement is reported in current operations, and was approximately a $1.4 million charge to earnings prior to the Company’s adoption of its hedging program in December 2008. The impact of foreign currency remeasurement was immaterial in the prior year.
Concentrations of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments, long-term investments, restricted investments, and accounts receivable. The Company places its short-term, long-term and restricted investments in high-credit quality financial institutions. The Company is exposed to credit risk in the event of default by these institutions to the extent of the amount recorded on the balance sheet. The Company’s cash balances periodically exceed the FDIC insured amounts. Investments are not protected by FDIC insurance. Restricted investments include corporate bonds and term deposits. As of March 31, 2009, the Company only has short-term investments in a certificate of deposit. Accounts receivable are derived from revenue earned from customers primarily located in the United States. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers’ financial condition and generally does not require collateral. The Company maintains reserves for potential credit losses, and historically, such losses have not been significant.
Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments
The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company’s cash equivalents consist of money market funds, certificates of deposits, and commercial paper. Debt securities with maturities less than one year are available-for-sale and are
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classified as short-term investments. All of the Company’s short-term investments were classified as available-for-sale as of the balance sheet dates presented and, accordingly, are reported at fair value with unrealized gains and losses recorded net of tax as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income in stockholders’ equity. Fair values of cash equivalents approximated original cost due to the short period of time to maturity. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific identification method. The Company’s investment policy limits the amount of credit exposure to any one issuer of debt securities.
The Company monitors its investments for impairment on a quarterly basis and determines whether a decline in fair value is other-than-temporary by considering factors such as current economic and market conditions, the credit rating of the issuers, the length of time an investment has been below the Company’s carrying value, and the Company’s ability and intent to hold the investment to maturity. If a decline in fair value, caused by factors other than changes in interest rates, is determined to be other-than-temporary, an adjustment is recorded and charged to operations.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
The Company evaluates the collectibility of its accounts receivable based on a combination of factors. When the Company believes a collectibility issue exists with respect to a specific receivable, the Company records an allowance to reduce that receivable to the amount that it believes to be collectible. In making the evaluations, the Company will consider the collection history with the customer, the customer’s credit rating, communications with the customer as to reasons for the delay in payment, disputes or claims filed by the customer, warranty claims, non-responsiveness of customers to collection calls, and feedback from the responsible sales contact. In addition, the Company will also consider general economic conditions, the age of the receivable and the quality of the collection efforts.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method based on estimated useful lives. The estimated useful lives for computer software and equipment is three years, furniture and fixtures is five years, and leasehold improvements is the shorter of the applicable lease term or estimated useful life.
Revenue Recognition
We enter into arrangements for the sale of: (1) licenses of software products and related maintenance contracts; (2) bundled license, maintenance, and services; (3) services; and (4) subscription for licenses, maintenance and/or other services. In instances where maintenance is bundled with a license of software products, the maintenance term is typically one year.
For each arrangement, the Company determines whether evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the fees are fixed or determinable, and collection is probable. If any of these criteria are not met, revenue recognition is deferred until such time as all of the criteria are met.
Arrangements consisting of license and maintenance only. For those contracts that consist solely of license and maintenance, the Company recognizes license revenues based upon the residual method after all elements other than maintenance have been delivered as prescribed by Statement of Position (“SOP”) “Modification of SOP No. 97-2 Software Revenue Recognition, with Respect to Certain Transactions” (“SOP 98-9”). The Company recognizes maintenance revenues over the term of the maintenance contract because vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value for maintenance exists. Under the residual method, the fair value of the undelivered elements is deferred and the remaining portion of the arrangement fee is recognized as revenue. If vendor specific objective evidence does not exist to allocate the total fee to all undelivered elements of the arrangement, revenue is deferred until the earlier of the time at which (1) such evidence does exist for the
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undelivered elements, or (2) all elements are delivered. If unspecified future products are given over a specified term, the Company recognizes license revenue ratably over the applicable period. The Company recognizes license fees from resellers as revenue when the above criteria have been met and the reseller has sold the subject licenses through to the end-user.
Arrangements consisting of license, maintenance and other services. Services revenues can consist of maintenance, training and/or consulting services. Consulting services include a range of services including installation of off-the-shelf software, customization of the software for the customer’s specific application, data conversion and building of interfaces to allow the software to operate in customized environments.
In all cases, the Company assesses whether the service element of the arrangement is essential to the functionality of the other elements of the arrangement. In this determination the Company focuses on whether the software is off-the-shelf software, whether the services include significant alterations to the features and functionality of the software, whether the services involve the building of complex interfaces, the timing of payments and the existence of milestones. Often the installation of the software requires the building of interfaces to the customer’s existing applications or customization of the software for specific applications. As a result, judgment is required in the determination of whether such services constitute “complex” interfaces. In making this determination the Company considers the following: (1) the relative fair value of the services compared to the software; (2) the amount of time and effort subsequent to delivery of the software until the interfaces or other modifications are completed; (3) the degree of technical difficulty in building of the interface and uniqueness of the application; (4) the degree of involvement of customer personnel; and (5) any contractual cancellation, acceptance, or termination provisions for failure to complete the interfaces. The Company also considers the likelihood of refunds, forfeitures and concessions when determining the significance of such services.
In those instances where the Company determines that the service elements are essential to the other elements of the arrangement, the Company accounts for the entire arrangement under the percentage of completion contract method in accordance with the provisions of SOP 81-1, “Accounting for Performance of Construction Type and Certain Production Type Contracts” (“SOP 81-1”). The Company follows the percentage of completion method if reasonably dependable estimates of progress toward completion of a contract can be made. The Company estimates the percentage of completion on contracts utilizing hours and costs incurred to date as a percentage of the total estimated hours and costs to complete the project. Recognized revenues and profits are subject to revisions as the contract progresses to completion. Revisions in profit estimates are charged to income in the period in which the facts that give rise to the revision become known. The Company also accounts for certain arrangements under the completed contract method, when the terms of acceptance and warranty commitments preclude revenue recognition until all uncertainties expire. To date, when the Company has been primarily responsible for the implementation of the software, where the services have been considered essential to the functionality of the software products, license and services revenues have been recognized in accordance with SOP 81-1.
For those contracts that include contract milestones or acceptance criteria, the Company recognizes revenue as such milestones are achieved or as such acceptance occurs.
For those contracts with unspecified future products and services which are not essential to the functionality of the other elements of the arrangement, license revenue is recognized by the subscription method over the length of time that the unspecified future product is available to the customer.
In some instances the acceptance criteria in the contract require acceptance after all services are complete and all other elements have been delivered. In these instances the Company recognizes revenue based upon the completed contract method after such acceptance has occurred.
For those arrangements for which the Company has concluded that the service element is not essential to the other elements of the arrangement, the Company determines whether the services are available from other
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vendors, do not involve a significant degree of risk or unique acceptance criteria, and whether the Company has sufficient experience in providing the service to be able to separately account for the service. When services qualify for separate accounting, the Company uses vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value for the services and the maintenance to account for the arrangement using the residual method, regardless of any separate prices stated within the contract for each element.
Vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value of services is based upon hourly rates. As previously noted, the Company enters into contracts for services alone, and such contracts are based on a time and materials basis. Such hourly rates are used to assess the vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value in multiple element arrangements.
In accordance with SOP 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition” (“SOP 97-2”), vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value of maintenance is determined by reference to the price the customer will be required to pay when it is sold separately (that is, the renewal rate). Each license agreement offers additional maintenance renewal periods at a stated price. Maintenance contracts are typically one year in duration.
Arrangements consisting of consulting services. Consulting services consist of a range of services including installation of off-the-shelf software, customization of the software for the customer’s specific application, data conversion and building of interfaces to allow the software to operate in customized environments. Consulting services may be recognized based on customer acceptance in the form of customer-signed timesheets, invoices, cash received, or customer-signed acceptance as defined in the master service agreement.
Contract Management (CM) Arrangements. CM arrangements generate revenue from three principal sources: (1) perpetual licenses and related maintenance; (2) subscription revenues, which are comprised of subscription fees from customers accessing the Company’s on-demand application service, and from customers purchasing additional support beyond the standard support that is included in the basic subscription fee; and (3) related consulting services, consisting primarily of integration and training fees. Because the Company provides its application as a service, the Company follows the provisions of Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 101, Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements, as amended by SAB No. 104, Revenue Recognition. Consulting services, when sold with subscription and support offerings, are accounted for separately when these services have stand-alone value to the customer, and there is objective and reliable evidence of fair value of the undelivered elements. In these circumstances, consulting service revenues are recognized as the services are rendered for time and material contracts, and when the milestones are achieved and accepted by the customer for fixed price contracts. Training revenues are recognized after the services are performed.
In determining whether the consulting services can be accounted for separately from subscription revenues, the Company considers the following factors for each consulting agreement: availability of the consulting services from other vendors, whether objective and reliable evidence for fair value exists for the undelivered elements, the nature of the consulting services, the timing of when the consulting contract was signed in comparison to the subscription arrangement, and the contractual dependence of the subscription service on the customer’s satisfaction with the consulting work. If a consulting arrangement does not qualify for separate accounting, we initially defer all revenue under the arrangement and then, when all consulting services have been delivered, we recognize the consulting and subscription revenues ratably over the remaining term of the subscription contract. In these situations we defer the costs of the consulting arrangement and amortize those costs over the same time period as the consulting revenue is recognized.
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Customer Concentrations
A limited number of customers have historically accounted for a substantial portion of the Company’s revenues. The following table presents customers that accounted for more than 10% of revenue for the last two fiscal years:
| | | | | | |
| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
Customer A | | 18 | % | | 25 | % |
Customer B | | * | | | 12 | % |
| * | Revenues were less than 10% of total revenues. |
Customers who accounted for at least 10% of gross accounts receivable were as follows:
| | | | | | |
| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
Customer A | | 13 | % | | 15 | % |
Customer B | | * | | | 15 | % |
Customer C | | * | | | 15 | % |
Customer D | | * | | | 12 | % |
Customer E | | * | | | 10 | % |
Customer F | | 11 | % | | * | |
Customer G | | 21 | % | | * | |
| * | Accounts receivable was less than 10% of total accounts receivable. |
Warranties and Indemnifications
The Company generally provides a warranty for its software product to its customers and accounts for its warranties under Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 5, “Accounting for Contingencies” (SFAS 5). The Company’s products are generally warranted to perform substantially in accordance with the functional specifications set forth in the associated product documentation for a period of 90 days. In the event there is a failure of such warranties, the Company generally is obligated to correct the product to conform to the product documentation or, if the Company is unable to do so, the customer is entitled to seek a refund of the purchase price of the product or service. The Company has not provided for a warranty accrual as of March 31, 2009 and 2008. To date, the Company has not refunded any amounts in relation to the warranty.
The Company generally agrees to indemnify its customers against legal claims that the Company’s software infringes certain third-party intellectual property rights and accounts for its indemnification under SFAS 5. In the event of such a claim, the Company is obligated to defend its customer against the claim and to either settle the claim at the Company’s expense or pay damages that the customer is legally required to pay to the third-party claimant. In addition, in the event of the infringement, the Company agrees to modify or replace the infringing product, or, if those options are not reasonably possible, to refund the purchase price of the software. To date, the Company has not been required to make any payment resulting from infringement claims asserted against its customers. As such, the Company has not provided for an indemnification accrual as of March 31, 2009 and 2008.
Advertising Expense
The cost of advertising is expensed as incurred. Advertising expense for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 was approximately $117,000 and $113,000, respectively.
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Development Costs
Software development costs incurred prior to the establishment of technological feasibility are included in research and development expenses. The Company defines establishment of technological feasibility as the completion of a working model. Software development costs incurred subsequent to the establishment of technological feasibility through the period of general market availability of the products are capitalized, if material, after consideration of various factors, including net realizable value. To date, software development costs that are eligible for capitalization have not been material and have been expensed.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income or Loss
SFAS No. 130 “Reporting Comprehensive Income” (“SFAS 130”) establishes standards for reporting and displaying comprehensive net income or loss and its components in stockholders’ equity. However, it has no impact on the Company’s net loss as presented in its financial statements. There was no accumulated other comprehensive income or loss at March 31, 2009. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, accumulated other comprehensive income or loss was comprised of net unrealized gains on available for sale securities of approximately $4,000.
Stock-Based Compensation
Beginning April 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of, and accounts for stock-based compensation in accordance with, SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004) “Share-Based Payment” (“SFAS 123R”) and Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107 (“SAB 107”). The Company elected the modified-prospective method, under which prior periods are not revised for comparative purposes. The Company currently uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to determine the fair value of stock options and employee stock purchase plan rights and compensation cost is recognized as expense over the requisite service period.
The Company estimates the fair value of each stock option on the date of grant using a Black-Scholes option-pricing model, consistent with the provisions of SFAS 123R, SAB 107 and the Company’s prior period pro forma disclosures of net loss, including stock-based compensation (determined under a fair value method as prescribed by SFAS No. 123) to determine the fair value of stock options and employee stock purchase plan shares. The determination of the fair value of stock-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model is affected by the stock price as well as assumptions regarding a number of complex and subjective variables. These variables include expected stock price volatility over the term of the awards, actual and projected employee stock option exercise behaviors, risk-free interest rate and expected dividends.
The Company estimates the expected term of options granted by calculating the average term from the Company’s historical stock option exercise experience. The Company estimates the volatility of its stock options by using historical volatility in accordance with SAB 107. The Company believes its historical volatility is representative of its estimate of expectations of the expected term of its equity instruments. The Company bases the risk-free interest rate used in the option-pricing model on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with remaining terms similar to the expected term on the options. The Company does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future and therefore uses an expected dividend yield of zero in the option-pricing model. The Company is required to estimate forfeitures at the time of grant and revise those estimates in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. The Company uses historical experience to estimate pre-vesting option forfeitures and record stock-based compensation expense only for those awards that are expected to vest. All share-based payment awards are amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods of the awards, which are the vesting periods.
If factors change and the Company employs different assumptions for estimating stock-based compensation expense in future periods or if it decides to use a different option-pricing model, the future periods may differ significantly from what has been recorded in the current period and could materially affect operating income (loss), net income (loss) and net income (loss) per share.
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The Black-Scholes option-pricing model was developed for use in estimating the fair value of traded options that have no vesting restrictions and are fully transferable, characteristics not present in our option grants and employee stock purchase plan shares. Existing option-pricing models, including the Black-Scholes option-pricing and binomial lattice models, may not provide reliable measures of the fair values of our stock-based compensation. Consequently, there is a risk that the Company’s estimates of the fair values of its stock-based compensation awards on the grant dates may bear little resemblance to the actual values realized upon the exercise, expiration, early termination or forfeiture of those stock-based payments in the future. Certain stock-based payments, such as employee stock options, may expire worthless or otherwise result in zero intrinsic value as compared to the fair values originally estimated on the grant date and reported in our financial statements. Alternatively, value may be realized from these instruments that are significantly higher than the fair values originally estimated on the grant date and reported in the Company’s financial statements. There is no market-based mechanism or other practical application to verify the reliability and accuracy of the estimates stemming from these option-pricing models, nor is there a means to compare and adjust the estimates to actual values.
The effect of recording stock-based compensation for each of the periods presented was as follows:
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, |
| | 2009 | | 2008 |
Stock-based compensation expense by category is as follows: | | | | | | |
Cost of revenues | | $ | 85,000 | | $ | 27,000 |
Research and development | | | 172,000 | | | 374,000 |
Sales and marketing | | | 63,000 | | | 184,000 |
General and administrative | | | 132,000 | | | 884,000 |
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Impact on net loss | | $ | 452,000 | | $ | 1,469,000 |
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1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”)
The price paid for the Company’s common stock purchased under the ESPP is equal to 85% of the lower of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock at the beginning of each offering period or at the end of each offering period. The compensation expense in connection with the ESPP for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 was $36,000 and $19,000, respectively. During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, there were 56,070, and zero shares issued, respectively, under the ESPP at a weighted average purchase price of $0.4675 and $0 per share, respectively.
Geographic Information:
International revenues are attributable to countries based on the location of the customers. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, 6% of sales were from international locations. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, sales to international locations were derived primarily from Canada, India, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
International revenues | | 6 | % | | 13 | % |
Domestic revenues | | 94 | % | | 87 | % |
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Total revenues | | 100 | % | | 100 | % |
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For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, there were no sales to a specific international customer that accounted for 10% of total revenues.
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For the year ended March 31, 2009, the Company did not hold long-lived assets outside of the United States as a result of the sale of the Indian subsidiary that occurred on March 31, 2009 (Note 15). For the year ended March 31, 2008, the Company held long-lived assets outside of the United States with a net book value of approximately $1.0 million. The assets were located in India.
Treasury Stock
From time to time, the Company’s Board of Directors has approved common stock repurchase programs allowing management to repurchase shares of its common stock in the open market. In December 2005, the Board of Directors approved a stock buyback program to repurchase up to $25.0 million worth of stock in the open market subject to certain criteria as determined by the Board. The Board also dissolved the previous stock buyback program initiated in May 2003.
There were no stock repurchases during fiscal 2009 or 2008.
All repurchases have been made in compliance with Rule 10b 5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company values the repurchased Treasury Stock at the market value of the day of the transaction. The Company has no plans to resell any of the current Treasury Stock shares held. The Company records the repurchase of Treasury Stock at cost using the par value method.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In April 2009, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 157-4, Determining Fair Value When the Volume and Level of Activity for the Asset or Liability Have Significantly Decreased and Identifying Transactions That Are Not Orderly, which provides additional guidance for estimating fair value in accordance with SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (SFAS 157). This FSP states that a significant decrease in the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability when compared with normal market activity is an indication that transactions or quoted prices may not be determinative of fair value because there may be increased instances of transactions that are not orderly in such market conditions. Accordingly, further analysis of transactions or quoted prices is needed, and a significant adjustment to the transactions or quoted prices may be necessary to estimate fair value. This FSP is effective for the Company beginning the first quarter of fiscal 2010. The Company does not expect the impact of the adoption of this FSP to be material on its consolidated financial statements.
In April 2009, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 107-1 and APB 28-1, Interim Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments, which requires disclosures about the fair value of the Company’s financial instruments for which it is practicable to estimate that value, whether recognized or not recognized in the balance sheets, in the interim reporting periods as well as in the annual reporting periods. In addition, the FSP requires disclosures of the methods and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value of those financial instruments. This FSP is effective for the Company beginning the first quarter of fiscal 2010. The Company does not expect the impact of the adoption of this FSP to be material on its consolidated financial statements.
In April 2009, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 115-2 and FAS 124-2, Recognition and Presentation of Other-Than-Temporary Impairments, which establishes a new method of recognizing and reporting other-than-temporary impairments of debt securities and requires additional disclosures related to debt and equity securities. This FSP does not change existing recognition and measurement guidance related to other-than-temporary impairments of equity securities. This FSP is effective for the Company beginning the first quarter of fiscal 2010. The Company does not expect the impact of the adoption of this FSP to be material on its consolidated financial statements.
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3. | Cash, Cash Equivalents, Investments and Fair Value Measurements |
Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments consisted of the following:
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| | Unrealized |
| | Cost | | Gain | | Loss | | | Market |
| | (in thousands) |
March 31, 2009: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cash | | $ | 6,636 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | | $ | 6,636 |
Money market fund | | | 16,620 | | | — | | | — | | | | 16,620 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | $ | 23,256 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | | $ | 23,256 |
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Short-term investments: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(due in less than 12 months) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Certificate of deposit | | $ | 196 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | | $ | 196 |
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March 31, 2008: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cash | | $ | 2,418 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | | $ | 2,418 |
Money market fund | | | 5,320 | | | — | | | — | | | | 5,320 |
Commercial paper | | | 9,592 | | | | | | — | | | | 9,592 |
Certificate of deposit | | | 4,807 | | | — | | | — | | | | 4,807 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | $ | 22,137 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | | $ | 22,137 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Short-term investments: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(due in less than 12 months) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Commercial paper | | $ | 10,461 | | $ | — | | $ | (2 | ) | | $ | 10,459 |
Corporate notes & bonds | | | 2,457 | | | 6 | | | — | | | | 2,463 |
Certificate of deposit | | | 154 | | | — | | | — | | | | 154 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | $ | 13,072 | | $ | 6 | | $ | (2 | ) | | $ | 13,076 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
The fair value of cash equivalents, based on quoted market prices, is substantially equal to their carrying value as of March 31, 2009 and 2008.
Fair Value Measurements
The following table summarizes the Company’s financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis in accordance with SFAS No. 157 as of March 31, 2009 (in thousands):
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Description | | Balance as of March 31, 2009 | | Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) | | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) |
Cash equivalents: | | | | | | | | | |
Money market fund | | $ | 16,620 | | $ | 16,620 | | $ | — |
Short-term investments: | | | | | | | | | |
Certificates of deposit | | | 196 | | | — | | | 196 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | $ | 16,816 | | $ | 16,620 | | $ | 196 |
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The Company’s financial assets and liabilities are valued using market prices on both active markets (Level 1) and less active markets (Level 2). Level 1 instrument valuations are obtained from real-time quotes for transactions in active exchange markets involving identical assets. Level 2 instrument valuations are obtained from readily-available pricing sources for comparable instruments. As of March 31, 2009, the Company did not
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have any assets or liabilities without observable market values that would require a high level of judgment to determine fair value (Level 3).
Property and equipment consist of the following:
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| | March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Computers and software | | $ | 2,760 | | | $ | 8,128 | |
Furniture and equipment | | | 651 | | | | 1,584 | |
Leasehold improvements | | | 498 | | | | 869 | |
Land and building | | | — | | | | 1,225 | |
Automobile | | | — | | | | 36 | |
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| | | 3,909 | | | | 11,842 | |
Less: accumulated depreciation | | | (2,849 | ) | | | (9,657 | ) |
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Total property and equipment, net | | $ | 1,060 | | | $ | 2,185 | |
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Depreciation expense related to property and equipment was approximately $394,000 and $449,000 for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The decrease in net property and equipment in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 was due primarily to the sale of the Company’s Indian subsidiary which was completed on March 31, 2009. See Note 15 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
5. | Accrued and Other Liabilities |
As of March 31, 2009 and 2008, liabilities consisted of the following:
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| | 2009 | | 2008 |
| | (in thousands) |
Accrued Payroll | | | | | | |
Accrued salaries | | $ | 57 | | $ | 203 |
Accrued vacation | | | 400 | | | 299 |
Accrued bonus | | | — | | | 71 |
Accrued commissions | | | 235 | | | 77 |
Accrued benefits | | | 28 | | | 90 |
| | | | | | |
Total | | $ | 720 | | $ | 740 |
| | | | | | |
| | |
| | 2009 | | 2008 |
| | (in thousands) |
Other Accrued Liabilities | | | | | | |
Other payables | | | 923 | | | 249 |
Accrued sales tax | | | 23 | | | 53 |
Accrued taxes and accounting | | | 574 | | | 433 |
| | | | | | |
Total | | $ | 1,520 | | $ | 735 |
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Deferred Revenue | | | | | | |
Deferred revenue hosting | | $ | 34 | | $ | 6 |
Deferred revenue consulting | | | 32 | | | 188 |
Deferred revenue subscription | | | 818 | | | 708 |
Deferred revenue maintenance | | | 3,047 | | | 1,082 |
| | | | | | |
Total | | $ | 3,931 | | $ | 1,984 |
| | | | | | |
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| | | | | | |
| | |
| | 2009 | | 2008 |
| | (in thousands) |
Other Long-Term Liabilities | | | | | | |
Long-term deferred revenue | | $ | 48 | | $ | 234 |
Lease obligation | | | — | | | 11 |
| | | | | | |
| | |
Total | | $ | 48 | | $ | 245 |
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As of March 31, 2009 and 2008, intangible assets are as follows:
| | | | | | | | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Cost | | $ | 801 | | | $ | 801 | |
Accumulated amortization | | | (794 | ) | | | (699 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
Net | | $ | 7 | | | $ | 102 | |
These intangible assets will be fully amortized in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010. Amortization for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 was approximately $95,000 and $207,000, respectively.
7. | Operating Lease Commitments |
The Company leases office space and office equipment under non-cancelable operating lease agreements that expire at various dates through 2013. Aggregate future minimum annual payments under these lease agreements, which have non-cancelable lease terms, as of March 31, 2009, along with sublease rental income commitments are as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Amount |
| | (in thousands) |
| | Offices | | Equipment | | Sublease Income | | | Total |
2010 | | $ | 2,008 | | $ | 18 | | $ | (544 | ) | | $ | 1,482 |
2011 | | | 8 | | | 18 | | | — | | | | 26 |
2012 | | | — | | | 3 | | | — | | | | 3 |
2013 | | | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | | 2 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Total future minimum payments | | $ | 2,016 | | $ | 41 | | $ | (544 | ) | | $ | 1,513 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Rental expenses for office space and equipment were approximately $544,000 and $559,000 for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Patent Infringement
On October 20, 2006, Versata Software, Inc., formerly known as Trilogy Software Inc., and a related party (collectively, “Versata”) filed a complaint against the Company in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, alleging that the Company has been and is willfully infringing, directly and indirectly, U.S. Patent Nos. 5,515,524; 5,708,798 and 6,002,854 (collectively, the “Versata Patents”) by making, using, licensing, selling, offering for sale, or importing configuration software and related services. On October 9, 2007 Selectica Inc. and Versata Software Inc. reached a settlement of a patent lawsuit. Selectica paid Versata $10.0 million on October 9, 2007 and agreed to pay an additional amount of not more than $7.5 million in quarterly payments. The quarterly payments are based on 10% of revenues from the Company’s
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Configuration, Pricing or Quoting (SCS or Sales Configuration Segment) products and services and a 50% revenue share of SCS revenue from new Company SCS customers that are currently Versata customers and to whom Versata makes an introduction to Selectica. The Company agreed that its quarterly payments will be the greater of the sum calculated by the percentages of SCS revenues or $200,000. Both parties entered into mutual releases releasing any and all claims that they may have against the other occurring before the settlement date. At March 31, 2009, the present value of the amount owed to Versata was approximately $5.4 million.
Rights Agreement
On December 22, 2008, the Company filed suit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against Trilogy, Inc. and certain related parties (“Trilogy”) seeking declaratory relief that the Company’s Rights Agreement as amended on November 16, 2008 was an appropriate measure to protect a valuable asset – the Company’s net operating loss carryforwards and related tax credits – from being limited as to utilization as provided under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code which could in turn substantially reduce their value to all of the Company’s shareholders. The Company sued Trilogy after amending its Rights Agreement on November 16, 2008 to reduce the ownership threshold from 15% to 4.99%, with existing 5% or greater shareholders limited to acquiring no more than an additional 0.5% and, despite the ownership threshold, Trilogy increased its beneficial ownership by 0.51% to 6.71% as announced in its 13(d) filing with the SEC on December 22, 2008. As a result, on January 2, 2009, a special committee of the Company’s Board of Directors declared Trilogy as an “Acquiring Person” under the Rights Agreement, and as a result, on February 4, 2009 the Company completed the distribution of 26.8 million shares to all existing shareholders (under the Exchange Provision in the Rights Agreement) other than Trilogy. On January 16, 2009, the defendants in this action, Trilogy/Versata, filed an answer to the Company’s complaint and a counterclaim alleging that the Company, through its Board of Directors, had breached its fiduciary duty in amending the Rights Agreement and that such action favored one group of shareholders over another. The Company, and its Board of Directors, believes that the action taken on November 16, 2008 was appropriate under the circumstances and in the interest of all the Company’s shareholders and therefore the allegations of the counterclaim are without merit. The counterclaim asks for various measures of equitable relief and also includes a claim for punitive or exemplary damages, which are not available in Delaware. The litigation is currently in the post-trial phase with a decision expected in the third or fourth calendar quarter of 2009, subject to appeal. As the costs of this litigation and related legal work are directly related to the issuance of shares under the Company’s rights plan, the costs of the litigation have been charged as issuance costs against the additional paid in capital account on the Company’s balance sheet, less a reserve for anticipated recovery from the Company’s Director’s and Officer’s insurance policy, which is reflected in prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Company’s balance sheet. As of March 31, 2009, the amount charged to additional paid in capital was approximately $2.0 million, and the anticipated recovery from the Company’s insurance policy was approximately $1.0 million.
9. | Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) |
Common Stock Reserved for Future Issuance
At March 31, 2009, shares of common stock reserved for future issuance were as follows:
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| | (in thousands) |
Stock option plans: | | |
Outstanding | | 2,588 |
Reserved for future grants | | 28,640 |
Employee Stock Purchase Plan | | 8,624 |
| | |
Total common stock reserved for future issuance | | 39,852 |
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Preferred Stock
The Company is authorized to issue 25 million shares of preferred stock at a par value of $0.0001 per share. There was no preferred stock issued and outstanding at March 31, 2009 and 2008.
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The Board of Directors has the authority, without action by the stockholders, to designate and issue the preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges, and related restrictions, including dividend rights, dividend rates, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, redemption prices, liquidation preferences and the number of shares constituting any series or the designation of the series.
Stock Option Plans—Approved by Stockholders
1996 Plan
The Company adopted the 1996 Stock Plan as amended and restated March 28, 2001 (the “1996 Plan”). A total of approximately 16.3 million shares of common stock have been reserved under the 1996 Plan. With limited restrictions, if shares awarded under the 1996 Plan are forfeited, those shares will again become available for new awards under the 1996 Plan. The 1996 Plan permits the grant of options, stock appreciation rights, shares of restricted stock, and stock units. The types of options include incentive stock options that qualify for favorable tax treatment for the optionee under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and nonstatutory stock options not designed to qualify for favorable tax treatment. Employees, non-employee members of the board and consultants are eligible to participate in the 1996 Plan. Incentive stock options are granted at an exercise price of not less than 100% of the fair market value per share of the common stock on the date of grant, and nonstatutory stock options are granted at an exercise price of not less than 85% of the fair market value per share on the date of grant. Options generally vest with respect to 25% of the shares one year after the options’ vesting commencement date and the remainder vest in equal monthly installments over the following 36 months. Options granted under the 1996 Plan have a maximum term of ten years.
1999 Equity Incentive Plan
The Company adopted the 1999 Equity Incentive Plan (the “1999 Plan”) on November 18, 1999. A total of 4.4 million shares of common stock were initially reserved for issuance under the 1999 Plan. On each January 1, starting in 2001, the number of shares reserved for issuance will be automatically increased by the lesser of 5% of the then outstanding shares of common stock or 3.6 million. With limited restrictions, if shares awarded under the 1999 Plan are forfeited, those shares will again become available for new awards under the 1999 Plan. The 1999 Plan permits the grant of options, stock appreciation rights, shares of restricted stock, and stock units. The types of options include incentive stock options that qualify for favorable tax treatment for the optionee under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and nonstatutory stock options not designed to qualify for favorable tax treatment. Employees, non-employee members of the Board of Directors and consultants are eligible to participate in the 1999 Plan. Each eligible participant is limited to being granted options or stock appreciation rights covering no more than 660,000 shares per fiscal year, except in the first year of employment where the limit is 1,320,000 shares. Incentive stock options are granted at an exercise price of not less than 100% of the fair market value per share of the common stock on the date of grant, and nonstatutory stock options are granted at an exercise price of not less than 85% of the fair market value per share on the date of grant. Options generally vest with respect to 25% of the shares one year after the options’ vesting commencement date and the remainder vest in equal monthly installments over the following 36 months. Options granted under the 1999 Plan have a maximum term of ten years.
1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
On November 18, 1999, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the adoption of the 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Purchase Plan”) and the Company’s stockholders have approved of the Purchase Plan. A total of 2.0 million shares of common stock were initially reserved for issuance under the Purchase Plan. On each May 1, starting in 2001, the number of shares reserved for issuance will be automatically increased by the lesser of 2% of the then outstanding shares of common stock or 2.0 million shares.
The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors administers this plan. The Purchase Plan is intended to qualify under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Purchase Plan permits eligible
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employees to purchase common stock through payroll deductions, which may not exceed 15% of an employee’s cash compensation, at a purchase price equal to the lower of 85% of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock at the beginning of each offering period or at the end of each purchase period. Employees who work more than five months per year and more than twenty hours per week are eligible to participate in the Purchase Plan. Stockholders who own more than 5% of the Company’s outstanding common stock are excluded from participating in the Purchase Plan. Each eligible employee cannot purchase more than 2,500 shares per purchase date (5,000 shares per year) and, generally, cannot purchase more than $25,000 of stock per calendar year. Eligible employees may begin participating in the Purchase Plan at the start of an offering period. Each offering period lasts 24 months and consists of four consecutive purchase periods of six months duration. Two overlapping offering periods start on May 1 and November 1 of each calendar year. Employees may end their participation in the Purchase Plan at any time. Participation ends automatically upon termination of employment. The Board of Directors may amend or terminate the Purchase Plan at any time. If not terminated earlier, the Purchase Plan has a term of twenty years. If the Board of Directors increases the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the Purchase Plan, other than any share increase resulting from the formula described in the previous paragraph, it must seek the approval of the Company’s stockholders.
2001 Supplemental Plan
The Company adopted the 2001 Supplemental Plan (the “Supplemental Plan”) on April 4, 2001, and the Supplemental Plan did not require stockholder approval. A total of approximately 5.0 million shares of common stock have been reserved for issuance under the Supplemental Plan. With limited restrictions, if shares awarded under the Supplemental Plan are forfeited, those shares will again become available for new awards under the Supplemental Plan. The Supplemental Plan permits the grant of non-statutory options and shares of restricted stock. Employees and consultants, who are not officers or members of the Board of Directors, are eligible to participate in the Supplemental Plan. Options are granted at an exercise price of not less than 85% of the fair market value per share on the date of grant. Options generally vest with respect to 25% of the shares one year after the options’ vesting commencement date and the remainder vest in equal monthly installments over the following 36 months. Options granted under the Supplemental Plan have a maximum term of ten years.
Activity under all equity plans is as follows:
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| | Shares Available for Grant | | | Options Outstanding |
| | Number of Shares | | | Exercise Price Per Share | | Weighted- Average Exercise Price Per Share |
| | (in thousands except for per share amounts) |
Balance at March 31, 2007 | | 21,071 | | | 6,991 | | | $ | 0.84 – $31.74 | | $ | 1.61 |
Increase in shares reserved | | 2,849 | | | — | | | | | | | |
Options granted | | (2,648 | ) | | 2,648 | | | $ | 0.75 – $ 0.95 | | $ | 0.91 |
Options cancelled | | 4,707 | | | (4,707 | ) | | $ | 0.85 – $31.74 | | $ | 1.58 |
Options expired | | (154 | ) | | — | | | | | | | |
Restricted stock awards granted | | (1,534 | ) | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at March 31, 2008 | | 24,291 | | | 4,932 | | | $ | 0.75 – $31.74 | | $ | 1.25 |
Increase in shares reserved | | 3,362 | | | — | | | | | | | |
Options granted | | (610 | ) | | 610 | | | $ | 0.36 – $ 0.73 | | $ | 0.51 |
Options cancelled | | 2,954 | | | (2,954 | ) | | $ | 0.73 – $31.74 | | $ | 1.09 |
Restricted stock awards issued | | (1,357 | ) | | | | | | | | | |
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Balance at March 31, 2009 | | 28,640 | | | 2,588 | | | $ | 0.36 – $31.74 | | $ | 1.27 |
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Options outstanding and exercisable at March 31, 2009 were in the following exercise price ranges:
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| | Options Outstanding | | Options Vested |
Range of Exercise Prices Per Share | | Number of Shares | | Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years) | | Number of Shares | | Weighted- Average Exercise Price Per Share |
$0.36 – $0.72 | | 530,000 | | 7.00 | | 5,000 | | $ | 0.72 |
$0.73 – $0.91 | | 400,000 | | 8.41 | | 192,707 | | $ | 0.87 |
$0.92 – $1.22 | | 559,125 | | 8.57 | | 216,561 | | $ | 0.95 |
$1.23 – $1.71 | | 636,000 | | 6.21 | | 588,535 | | $ | 1.58 |
$1.72 – $26.35 | | 462,892 | | 3.47 | | 462,871 | | $ | 2.49 |
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$0.36 – $26.35 | | 2,558,017 | | 6.73 | | 1,465,674 | | $ | 1.68 |
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The weighted average term for exercisable options is 5.96 years. The intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the market value as of March 31, 2009 and the exercise price of the shares. The market value of the Company’s common stock as of March 31, 2009 was $0.41 as reported by the NASDAQ National Market. The aggregate intrinsic value of stock options outstanding at March 31, 2009 was $7,400 and none of the intrinsic value was related to exercisable options.
The following table summarizes values for options granted during the respective years:
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, |
| | 2009 | | 2008(1) |
Weighted average grant date fair value | | $ | 109,959 | | $ | 795,531 |
Intrinsic value of options exercised | | | — | | | — |
Fair value of shares vesting during the year | | $ | 202,639 | | $ | 1,397,923 |
(1) | In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, there were no participants in the Company’s employee stock purchase plan. |
The fair value of rights granted under the employee stock purchase plan were estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted average assumptions:
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
Risk-free interest rate | | | 2.19 | % | | | 0.00 | % |
Dividend yield | | | 0.00 | % | | | 0.00 | % |
Expected volatility | | | 41.49 | % | | | 0.00 | % |
Expected term in years | | | 1.24 | | | | — | |
Weighted average fair value at grant date | | $ | 0.26 | | | $ | — | |
The fair value of options granted under employee stock options were estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted average assumptions:
| | | | | | | | |
| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
Risk-free interest rate | | | 1.75 | % | | | 3.72 | % |
Dividend yield | | | 0.00 | % | | | 0.00 | % |
Expected volatility | | | 50.25 | % | | | 34.34 | % |
Expected option life in years | | | 3.26 | | | | 3.91 | |
Weighted average fair value at grant date | | $ | 0.18 | | | $ | 0.58 | |
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Equity Compensation Plan Information
The table below demonstrates the number of options issued and the number of options available for issuance, respectively, under the Company’s current equity compensation plans as of March 31, 2009:
| | | | | | | |
| | Number of Securities to be Issued upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, and Rights | | Weighted-Average Exercise Price Per Share of Outstanding Options and Rights | | Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans |
| | (in thousands, except for per share amount) |
Plans Approved by Stockholders | | | | | | | |
1996 Stock Plan | | 207 | | $ | 1.94 | | 2,746 |
1999 Equity Incentive Plan | | 2,277 | | $ | 1.18 | | 22,306 |
Plans Not Required to be Approved by Stockholders | | | | | | | |
2001 Supplemental Plan | | 104 | | $ | 1.92 | | 3,588 |
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Total | | 2,588 | | | | | 28,640 |
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All vested shares granted under all Plans are exercisable; however, shares exercised but not vested under the 1996 Stock Plan are subject to repurchase.
10. | Computation of Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share |
Basic and diluted net loss per common share is presented in conformity with SFAS No. 128, “Earnings per Share” (“SFAS 128”), for all periods presented. In accordance with SFAS 128, basic and diluted net loss per share has been computed using the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The diluted net loss per share is equivalent to the basic net loss per share because the Company has experienced losses in all periods presented and thus no potential common shares from the exercise of stock options have been included in the net loss per share calculation.
The following common stock equivalents were excluded from the net loss per share computation:
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, |
| | 2009 | | 2008 |
| | (In thousands) |
Options excluded due to the exercise price exceeding the average fair market value of the Company’s common stock during the period | | 2,248 | | 2,181 |
Options excluded for which the exercise price was less than the average fair market value of the Company’s common stock during the period but were excluded as inclusion would decrease the Company’s net loss per share | | 340 | | 329 |
| | | | |
Total common stock equivalents excluded from diluted net loss per common share | | 2,588 | | 2,510 |
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The provision for income taxes is based upon loss before income taxes as follows:
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Domestic pre-tax loss | | $ | (4,682 | ) | | $ | (24,066 | ) |
Foreign pre-tax income (loss) | | | (3,583 | ) | | | 527 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Total pre-tax loss | | $ | (8,265 | ) | | $ | (23,539 | ) |
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Federal tax at statutory rate | | $ | (2,810 | ) | | $ | (8,004 | ) |
Computed state tax | | | 934 | | | | (1,251 | ) |
Computed foreign tax | | | 1,557 | | | | 275 | |
Losses not benefited | | | 270 | | | | 9,238 | |
Change in tax reserve | | | 12 | | | | — | |
Non-deductible expenses | | | 321 | | | | 190 | |
Research and development tax credits | | | (127 | ) | | | (88 | ) |
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Income tax provision | | $ | 157 | | | $ | 361 | |
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The components of the provision for income taxes are as follows:
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| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, |
| | 2009 | | 2008 |
| | (in thousands) |
Current: | | | | | | |
US | | $ | 15 | | $ | 196 |
Foreign | | | 142 | | | 165 |
| | | | | | |
Income tax provision | | | 157 | | | 361 |
Deferred: | | | | | | |
Federal | | | — | | | — |
State | | | — | | | — |
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Income tax provision | | $ | 157 | | $ | 361 |
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Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 109 provides for the recognition of deferred tax assets if realization of such assets is more likely than not. Based on the weight of available evidence, which includes the Company’s historical operation performance and the reported cumulative net losses in all prior years, the Company has provided a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets.
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Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets are as follows (in thousands):
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| | March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Deferred tax assets: | | | | | | | | |
Net operating loss carryforwards | | $ | 61,649 | | | $ | 53,544 | |
Intangible assets | | | 16,063 | | | | 15,789 | |
Tax credit carryforwards | | | 4,519 | | | | 2,776 | |
Reserves and accruals | | | 1,227 | | | | 1,572 | |
Depreciation | | | (17 | ) | | | 61 | |
Stock compensation | | | 326 | | | | 658 | |
Deferred revenue | | | 132 | | | | 180 | |
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Total net deferred tax asset | | | 83,899 | | | | 74,580 | |
Valuation allowance | | | (83,899 | ) | | | (74,580 | ) |
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Net deferred tax assets | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
| | | | | | | | |
Realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon future earnings, if any, the timing and amount of which are uncertain. Accordingly, the net deferred tax assets have been fully offset by a valuation allowance change by $9.3 million and ($8.2 million) during 2009 and 2008 respectively.
As of March 31, 2009, the Company had federal and state operating loss carryforwards of approximately $166.5 million and $87.3 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2009, the Company also had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of $3.1 and $4.3 million, respectively.
The federal net operating loss and credit carryforwards begin to expire in 2012 through 2029, if not utilized. The state net operating loss carryforwards begin to expire in 2011 through various dates, if not utilized. The state tax credit carryforwards have no expiration date.
The Internal Revenue Code limits the use of net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards in certain situations where changes occur in the stock ownership of a company. In the event the Company has had a change in ownership, utilization of the carryforwards could be restricted.
Based on its most recently performed study, the Company has concluded it has not had a prior ownership change, as defined by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), which could limit the future realization of its net operating loss carryforwards since June 1999. Based on this recent study, the Company believes that the application of Section 382 will not result in the forfeiture of any net operating loss carryforward for federal income tax purposes and any net operating loss carryforward for California income tax purposes. Please note the net operating loss carryforwards above take into account this belief. Applicable taxing authorities could disagree if and when an income tax return is filed that utilizes some or all of these net operating loss carryforwards.
In addition, based on this recent study, the Company has concluded that none of the federal and California research tax credit carryforwards, respectively, would be subject to forfeiture due to Section 382 ownership changes under IRC Section 383 and/or possible credit amount reduction upon audit, but as noted above this is subject to review by the applicable taxing authority. Please note the research and development tax credit carryforwards above take into account this reduction.
On April 1, 2007, the Company adopted FASB Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes and prescribes a recognition threshold, measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax
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position taken, or expected to be taken, in a tax return. Under FIN 48, the Company is required to recognize in the financial statements the impact of a tax position, if that position is more likely than not of being sustained on audit, based on the technical merits of the position.
FIN 48 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods and disclosure. The Company policy is to record interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense.
The implementation of FIN 48 did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements. At March 31, 2009, there was no material increase in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits.
At March 31, 2009, the Company has accrued $130,000 of income tax expense and $40,000 of interest and penalties due to Selectica India Private Ltd.’s branch operations within the U.S. resulting in an increase on the Company’s effective tax rate. In addition at March 31, 2009, the Company had $1.82 million of unrecognized tax benefits of which was netted against deferred tax assets with a full valuation allowance or other fully reserved amounts, and if recognized there will be no effect on the Company’s effective tax rate. The Company does not have any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amount of gross unrecognized tax benefits will increase or decrease within 12 months of the year.
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending unrecognized tax benefit amounts for fiscal year 2009 are as follows (in thousands):
| | | |
| | Amount |
Balance at April 1, 2008 | | $ | 1,564 |
Increases related to current year tax positions | | | 256 |
| | | |
Balance at March 31, 2009 | | $ | 1,820 |
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The Company’s Federal, state, and foreign tax returns are subject to examination by the tax authorities from 1997 to 2008 due to net operating losses and tax carryforwards unutilized from such years.
Effective February 1998, the Company adopted a tax-deferred savings plan, the Selectica 401(k) Plan (the 401(k) Plan), for the benefit of qualified employees. The 401(k) Plan is designed to provide employees with an accumulation of funds at retirement. Qualified employees may elect to make contributions to the 401(k) Plan on a monthly basis. The 401(k) Plan does not require the Company to make any contributions. No contributions were made by the Company for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008. Administrative expenses relating to the 401(k) Plan are insignificant.
On June 30, 2008, the Company entered into a Separation Arrangement (“Separation Agreement”) with its former CEO, Robert Jurkowski. Pursuant to the terms of the Separation Agreement, Mr. Jurkowski’s employment with the Company terminated on June 30, 2008. Mr. Jurkowski also resigned as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors effective June 30, 2008. Under the Separation Agreement, Mr. Jurkowski received a payment of $45,000 representing his target bonus for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 and also a payment of $180,000 equal to six months of his base salary on July 10, 2008. The Company will also continue to pay Mr. Jurkowski payments equal to six months of his base salary and health insurance premiums for himself and his dependents until June 30, 2009. These amounts have been accrued for as of June 30, 2008. Mr. Jurkowski’s outstanding issuances of restricted stock were cancelled and a $400,823 non-cash stock-based compensation expense reduction was recorded in the Company’s statements of operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.
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The restructuring accrual and the related utilization for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively were (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Severance and Benefits | | | Excess Facilities | | | Total | |
Balance, March 31, 2007 | | $ | 103 | | | $ | 5,740 | | | $ | 5,843 | |
Additional accruals | | | 300 | | | | 436 | | | | 736 | |
Amounts paid in cash | | | (277 | ) | | | (2,974 | ) | | | (3,251 | ) |
Loan to sublessee | | | — | | | | (497 | ) | | | (497 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance, March 31, 2008 | | | 126 | | | | 2,705 | | | | 2,831 | |
Additional accruals | | | 661 | | | | (143 | ) | | | 518 | |
Amounts paid in cash | | | (735 | ) | | | (1,812 | ) | | | (2,547 | ) |
Loan to sublessee | | | — | | | | 463 | | | | 463 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance, March 31, 2009 | | $ | 52 | | | $ | 1,213 | | | $ | 1,265 | |
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SFAS No. 131, “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information” (SFAS 131), requires disclosures of certain information regarding operating segments, products and services, geographic areas of operation and major customers. SFAS 131 reporting is based upon the “management approach”. This requires management to organize the Company’s operating segments for which separate financial information is: (i) available and (ii) evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance.
Selectica offers comprehensive consulting, training and implementation services and ongoing customer support and maintenance, to support its software applications. The business is focused towards delivering software and services under two operating segments (1) contract management, and (2) sales configuration.
The Selectica Contract Lifecycle Management (“CLM” or “CM”) solution is a contract authoring, analysis, repository and process automation component designed to enhance and automate the management of the entire contract lifecycle. It helps companies take control of their contract management processes by converting from paper-based to electronic repositories and by unlocking multiple layers of critical business data, making it available for the evaluation of risk, the exposure of lost revenue and the evaluation of supplier performance, and other purposes. The solution helps to improve the customer buying experience for sales organizations, improve the control of risk and decrease time spent drafting, monitoring and managing contracts for the corporate counsel’s office and gain access to previously hidden discounts through the exposure and elimination of unfavorable agreements for procurement and sourcing organizations.
The Selectica Sales Configuration (“SCS”) solution consolidates configuration, pricing and quoting functions into a single application platform enabling companies to streamline the opportunity-to-order process for manufacturers, service providers, and financial services companies. The Company’s SCS solution provides a critical link between Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems that helps to simplify and automate the configuration, pricing, and quoting of complex products and services. By empowering customers, internal sales staff, and/or channel partners to generate error-free sales proposals for their unique requirements, the Company believes its SCS solution helps companies to close sales faster, accelerate revenue generation and enhance customer relationships.
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The Company evaluates performance and allocates resources based on segment revenue and segment operating income (loss). Segment operating income (loss) is comprised of income before unallocated selling, general and administrative expenses, interest income and interest and other income. Segment information for total assets, capital expenditures and depreciation is not presented as such information is not used in measuring segment performance or allocating resources between segments.
| | | | | | | | |
| | Fiscal Years Ended March 31, | |
| | 2009 | | | 2008 | |
| | (in thousands) | |
Sales Configuration Solutions: | | | | | | | | |
Net Revenues | | $ | 6,552 | | | $ | 10,248 | |
Cost of Sales | | | 1,625 | | | | 2,321 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Gross Profit | | | 4,927 | | | | 7,927 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Income from Operations | | | 2,134 | | | | 4,246 | |
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Contract Management Solutions: | | | | | | | | |
Net Revenues | | | 9,893 | | | | 5,755 | |
Cost of Sales | | | 4,144 | | | | 1,880 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Gross Profit | | | 5,749 | | | | 3,875 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Loss from Operations | | | (1,983 | ) | | | (4,715 | ) |
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Unallocated Corporate Expenses | | | 6,327 | | | | (25,929 | ) |
15. | Sale of Indian Subsidiary |
On March 31, 2009, the Company sold the equity interest of its U.S. parent company in its wholly owned foreign subsidiary in India. The subsidiary had formerly provided development and professional services resources for the Sales Configuration group as well as acted as an interface to an outsourcing partner in India for development services for both product lines. The sale was for a cash consideration of $4.3 million ($1.0 million of which was held in escrow and released in early June 2009) and $0.4 million of forgiveness of intercompany debt. The Company recorded a net $0.9 million loss on sale, which included a non-cash charge of $2.6 million due to the liquidation of the subsidiary, on its consolidated statements of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.
On June 10, 2009, the Company announced that, following a review of its business operations, it has implemented a re-alignment and restructuring, reducing headcount from 64 at March 31, 2009 to 56 as of June 15, 2009. The Company expects to record charges of at least $0.5 million in the six months ending September 30, 2009.
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Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. |
None.
Item 9A. | Controls and Procedures. |
Controls and Procedures
Review of Corporate Governance Policies and Procedures
Background. In early 2009, we began a review of certain of our corporate governance policies and procedures, including policies and procedures that impact our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting (collectively, our “internal controls”).
There were three interrelated reasons for initiating this review. First, our Board of Directors determined that it was appropriate to reconsider the legal status of our management structure due to the length of time following the appointment of Jim Thanos and Brenda Zawatski as Co-Chairs of our Board in July 2008 without the appointment of a CEO. Second, we received a letter from counsel for a stockholder of the Company with whom we are currently in litigation in April 2009 expressing concern regarding possible weaknesses in our internal controls and procedures. Third, our Audit Committee undertook a review of our internal controls regarding our accounting for certain non-routine transactions.
Management Structure. On June 30, 2008, Jim Thanos and Brenda Zawatski were appointed Co-Chairs of our Board of Directors, following the departure of our former chief executive officer on the same day. As originally contemplated, Mr. Thanos and Ms. Zawatski would, in their capacity as non-employee directors, devote additional time on an interim basis to overseeing operational matters until we appointed a successor chief executive officer. On August 1, 2008, our Board determined to compensate Mr. Thanos and Ms. Zawatski at the rate of $250 per hour in cash, subject to a maximum of eight hours per day, for time spent providing operational assistance beyond the time spent on normal Board matters. Pursuant to this arrangement, Mr. Thanos and Ms. Zawatski received $164,125 and $274,273 in cash, respectively, in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, but no equity compensation. These amounts exclude cash and equity compensation paid to them pursuant to our regular compensation program for non-employee directors of our Board of Directors.
The responsibilities of Mr. Thanos and Ms. Zawatski have evolved over time to the point that collectively, they are acting in a capacity similar to that of a chief executive officer, largely because we deferred efforts to hire a new chief executive officer after deciding to evaluate strategic alternatives in July, 2008. As a result of their greater involvement in operational matters for a longer time period than initially anticipated, we have determined to disclose their fiscal year 2009 compensation and compensation arrangements as if they were “named executive officers” of the Company in Item 11 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Annual Report”). As more fully disclosed below, we have also (i) determined that Mr. Thanos and Ms. Zawatski are not “independent” directors within the meaning of applicable rules of the SEC and The Nasdaq Global Stock Market, (ii) accepted their resignations as members of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee of our Board of Directors to ensure that all members of these committees are independent, and (iii) determined that Ms. Zawatski and Mr. Thanos certify our Annual Report and our Quarterly Reports for the quarters ended June 30, September 30, and December 31, 2008 (the “Quarterly Reports”).
Stockholder Letter.On or about April 7, 2009, our Board of Directors received a letter from counsel to a stockholder of the Company expressing concern regarding certain of our internal controls and compliance matters and requesting that we investigate those concerns. The Company is currently involved in litigation with the stockholder. In response to the letter, on April 8, 2009, the Board of Directors formed a special committee of our Board of Directors (the “Special Committee”), assisted by independent legal counsel, to investigate each of the matters raised in the letter and to report to our Board of Directors. As a result of the investigation, which is substantially complete, pending confirmation of certain additional information, the Special Committee recommend that our Board of Directors enhance our corporate governance policies and procedures to, among other things, ensure that we comply with applicable regulatory and legal requirements.
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Changes in Corporate Governance Policies and Procedures.On June 28, 2009, as a result of the review described above, including the recommendations of the Special Committee described above and of our Audit Committee, our Board of Directors adopted a number of changes designed to enhance the effectiveness of our corporate governance policies and procedures, including our internal controls. Among other things, our Board of Directors:
| 1. | Determined that Jim Thanos and Brenda Zawatski are not “independent” directors within the meaning of applicable rules of the SEC and The Nasdaq Global Market, which led to them resigning as members of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating committees; |
| 2. | Determined that Jim Thanos and Brenda Zawatski are acting together in a capacity similar to that of a chief executive officer of the Company and therefore should certify the Annual Report and the Quarterly Reports; |
| 3. | Amended the charters of our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee to enhance their responsibilities and authority, including additional policies and procedures as summarized herein; |
| 4. | Reconstituted the Nominating Committee as the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee and granted it responsibility and authority to, among other things, oversee corporate governance policies and procedures, including compliance with applicable regulatory and legal requirements; |
| 5. | Adopted Corporate Governance Guidelines setting forth specific guidelines with respect to our Board of Directors’ composition, responsibilities, meetings, committees, and review of management and with respect to stockholder communications; |
| 6. | Adopted policies and procedures for related party transactions, as contemplated by item 404(b) of Regulation S-K; |
| 7. | Adopted policies and procedures to ensure that there is sufficient time to review (i) our annual and quarterly business plans before we publicly disclose guidance regarding our forecast financial results and (ii) all earnings announcements and other financial releases and related disclosure before they are released to the public; |
| 8. | Adopted policies and procedures for increased scrutiny and review of the accounting for significant non-routine transactions and transactions requiring increased levels of management judgment; |
| 9. | Adopted a requirement that all officers and directors of the Company receive additional training in the Company’s corporate governance policies and procedures, including the responsibilities of the committees of our Board of Directors, our insider trading policy and our Regulation FD communications compliance policy; and |
| 10. | Adopted a requirement that our management prepare a detailed annual calendar of all meetings of our Board of Directors and its committees, including the specific matters to be addressed at those meetings, to ensure that all corporate governance policies and procedures are complied with on an annual basis. |
Accounting for Non-Routine Transactions. As previously reported in our Form 8-K for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, following the appointment of our current Chief Financial Officer in September 2008, we initiated a review of our internal control over financial reporting. As a result of the review, our management determined that we had a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2008 due to the combined effect of several significant deficiencies. Among the items identified by our management was the improper reporting of a non-routine compensation expense in a prior accounting period. In addition, on April 6, 2009, we disclosed the sale of our Indian subsidiary along with the expected accounting treatment of that transaction. As a result of additional work by our management, we determined that our disclosure was incomplete and filed a report on Form 8-K reporting that the original disclosure should not be relied upon. On June 10, 2009, we subsequently disclosed the full accounting treatment of the sale. As a result of these transactions, our Audit Committee recommended changes in our internal controls over financial reporting designed to ensure that our accounting for non-routine transactions receives appropriate levels of management scrutiny, review and judgment. As summarized above, these proposed changes have been adopted by our Board of Directors.
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Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)). Internal control over financial reporting means a process designed by, or under the supervision of, our principal executive and principal financial officers (or persons performing similar functions), and effected by our Board of Directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the issuer; (ii) provide reasonable assurances that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.
Our management, including the Co-Chairs of our Board of Directors and our Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2009 based on the guidelines established inInternal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
Based upon our evaluation of internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2009, including the information made available to management regarding the results of our review of certain of our corporate governance policies and procedures, as summarized above, our management identified control deficiencies and significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting as of that date. These control deficiencies and significant deficiencies relate primarily to the need to implement changes described above under Review of Corporate Governance Policies and Procedures. Although none of these internal control deficiencies or significant deficiencies was considered material individually, when considered in the aggregate, our management determined that these control deficiencies and significant deficiencies together represent a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. As a result, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of March 31, 2009 and that additional steps were needed to provide assurance that effective controls could be maintained in the future.
A control deficiency in internal control over financial reporting exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or combination of control deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those responsible for oversight of the company’s financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Our management believes that the steps taken by our Board of Directors, as summarized above, when fully implemented should be sufficient to remediate the material weakness. We plan to monitor implementation of the steps taken by our Board of Directors and to evaluate whether these steps are sufficient.
This 10-K does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the SEC that permit us to provide only management’s report in this 10-K.
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Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act ). Disclosure controls and procedures means controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified by the rule and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Our management, including the Co-Chairs of our Board of Directors and our Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures for each fiscal quarter during the period ended March 31, 2009. Based on its evaluation, our management concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2009, because of the need to implement the changes described above under Review of Corporate Governance Policies and Procedures and the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting described above.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting in the quarter ended March 31, 2009 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. However, as noted above, we have made a number of material changes to our corporate governance policies and procedures in the quarter ending June 30, 2009, that are designed to enhance our internal control over financial reporting.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer (or persons performing those functions), do not expect that our internal controls will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within a company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
Item 9B.Other Information.
None.
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PART III
Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. |
Directors
The following table sets forth, as of June 29, 2009, the names and certain information concerning our directors:
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Name | | Age | | Position | | Director Since | | End of Term |
Brenda Zawatski | | 48 | | Co-Chair of the Board | | 2005 | | 2009 |
Jim Thanos | | 60 | | Co-Chair of the Board | | 2007 | | 2011 |
James Arnold, Jr. (1)(2)(3) | | 52 | | Director | | 2003 | | 2010 |
Lloyd Sems (1)(2)(3) | | 38 | | Director | | 2008 | | 2010 |
Alan Howe (1)(2)(3) | | 47 | | Director | | 2009 | | 2009 |
(1) | Member of the Audit Committee |
(2) | Member of the Compensation Committee |
(3) | Member of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee |
Brenda Zawatski has served as a director since November 2005 and as Co-Chair of the Board since June 30, 2008. Ms. Zawatski was the vice president of sales and marketing for Pillar Data Systems from January 2006 to July 2007. Prior to joining Pillar, Ms. Zawatski was the vice president of sales and general manager of Information Lifecycle Management Solutions at StorageTek. Previously, Ms. Zawatski served as vice president of Product and Solutions Marketing for VERITAS Software. Prior to her move to VERITAS, Ms. Zawatski held significant roles at IBM as vice president, Tivoli Storage Software; vice president, Removable Media Storage Solutions; and director of S/390 Enterprise Systems. Ms. Zawatski holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Accounting and Computer Science from Penn State University.
Jim Thanos was appointed Co-Chair of the Board on June 30, 2008, and has served as a director since October 2007. Since June 2002, Mr. Thanos has served on advisory boards and provided consulting services to a variety of companies. From June 2000 to June 2002, Mr. Thanos served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Field Operations at Broadvision. Previously, Mr. Thanos held senior sales management roles for Aurum Software, Harvest Software, and Metaphor Inc. Mr. Thanos also serves on the Board of Directors of SupportSoft, a provider of software and services for technology problem resolution. Mr. Thanos holds a B.A. in behavioral sciences from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
James Arnold, Jr. has served as chairman and financial expert of the Board’s Audit Committee since 2003. Mr. Arnold has served as Senior Vice President since 2004 and was Chief Financial Officer of Nuance Communications from 2004 to 2008. Prior to joining Nuance Communications, Mr. Arnold served as Corporate Vice President and Corporate Controller of Cadence Design Systems. Prior to joining Cadence, Mr. Arnold held a number of senior finance positions, including Chief Financial Officer, at Informix Corp.—now known as Ascential Software Corporation. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Arnold served as Corporate Controller for Centura Software Corporation. Mr. Arnold worked in public accounting at Price Waterhouse LLP from 1983 to 1995, where he provided consulting and auditing services. Mr. Arnold received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi and an M.B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lloyd Sems was elected to the Board of Directors of the Company on June 2, 2008, and serves as chairman of the Board’s Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee. Since October 2003, he served as President of Sems Capital, LLC and of Capital Edge, LLC, both of which he founded. Previously, Mr. Sems served as Director of Research and Portfolio Manager for Watchpoint Asset Management. Mr. Sems holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Finance from Albright College.
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Alan Howe was elected to the Board on January 12, 2009 and serves as chairman of the Board’s Compensation Committee. Mr. Howe has extensive operational experience as well as involvement with many aspects of corporate finance and business development. He is co-founder and managing partner of Broadband Initiatives, LLC, a boutique corporate advisory and consulting firm. He served as vice president of strategic and wireless business development for Covad Communications, Inc., a national broadband telecommunications company. Prior to that, Mr. Howe was chief financial officer and vice president of corporate development of Teletrac, Inc., and director of corporate development for Sprint PCS. Mr. Howe is a member of the board of directors of Proxim Wireless Corporation, Alliance Semiconductor Corporation, Crossroads Systems, Inc., LCC International, Anacomp Inc., and Dyntek, Inc. Mr. Howe holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Indiana University Kelley Graduate School of Business.
Executive Officers
The following table sets forth, as of June 29, 2009, the names and certain information concerning our executive officers who do not also serve as directors:
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Name | | Age | | Position |
Richard Heaps | | 56 | | Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Secretary |
Jason Stern | | 39 | | Senior Vice President, Operations of the Contract Management Business |
Richard Heapswas appointed the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel on September 8, 2008. Since 2001, Mr. Heaps served as managing director of The Management Group, LLC, a financial and strategic management advisory practice focused on early-stage technology companies. Prior to that, Mr. Heaps served as CFO and COO of Clarent Corporation and CFO and General Counsel of Centura Software. He also has held various positions at Unisoft, Oracle and Dataquest. Mr. Heaps has a J.D. and M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University. Mr. Heaps is an active member of the State Bar of California.
Jason Stern was appointed Senior Vice President of Operations of the Company’s Contract Management Business on June 10, 2009, and did not serve as an executive officer of the Company in fiscal year 2009. From March 2008 to June 2009, Mr. Stern served as the Company’s Vice President of Products and Business Development for Contract Management Solutions and from January 2007 to March 2008, was Vice President of Solutions. Prior to joining the Company in November of 2006, Mr. Stern was the Vice President of Product Management for I-many, a contract management software and services company. With more than 10 years of experience in enterprise software product management, Mr. Stern also spent four years at Oracle, an enterprise software company, managing products for CRM, Call Center, and Finance. Mr. Stern has a B.A. from UCLA and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
In June 2009, we determined that Jim Thanos and Brenda Zawatski are acting together in capacity similar to that of a chief executive officer by virtue of service as Co-Chair of the Board.
The information required by this item regarding our directors and corporate governance matters is included under the captions “Corporate Governance and Board of Directors Matters” and “Proposals to be Voted On—Proposal Number 1—Election of Directors” in Selectica’s Proxy Statement for its fiscal year 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 (the “2010 Proxy Statement”) and is incorporated herein by reference. The information required by this item regarding delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is included under the heading “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance” in the 2010 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference. The information required by this item regarding our procedures by which Stockholders may recommend nominees to the Board of Directors pursuant to Item 407(c)(3) of Regulation S-K is included under the heading “Stockholder Communication with the Board of Directors” in the 2010 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 11. | Executive Compensation. |
The information required by this item is included under the captions “Director Compensation” and “Executive Compensation” in the fiscal year 2010 Proxy Statement and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. |
The information required by this item is included under the captions “Common Stock Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Executive Compensation—Equity Compensation Plan Information” in the fiscal year 2010 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence |
The information required by this item is included under the captions “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” and “Corporate Governance—Independence of Directors” in the fiscal year 2010 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 14. | Principal Accounting Fees and Services. |
The information required by this item is included under the caption “Independent Public Accountants” in the fiscal year 2010 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
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PART IV
Item 15. | Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules. |
The following documents are filed as part of this report:
(a)Financial Statements: See Index to Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8.
(b)Financial Statement Schedule:
Schedule II—Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves
All other schedules are omitted because they are not applicable or the required information is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.
Schedule II: Valuation and Qualifying Accounts
Accounts Receivable Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
The following describes activity in the accounts receivable allowance for doubtful accounts for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively:
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| | Balance at Beginning of Period | | Additions to Costs and Expenses | | Write Offs | | | Reversal Benefit to Revenue | | | Balance at End of Period |
Allowance for doubtful accounts: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Fiscal year ended March 31, 2008 | | $ | 121 | | $ | — | | $ | (81 | ) | | $ | (40 | ) | | $ | — |
Fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 | | $ | — | | $ | 373 | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 373 |
(c)Exhibits: See the Exhibit Index immediately following the signature page of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) 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, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on the day of July 8, 2009.
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SELECTICA, INC. |
Registrant |
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/S/ BRENDA ZAWATSKI |
Brenda Zawatski |
Co-Chair |
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/S/ JIM THANOS |
Jim Thanos |
Co-Chair |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Brenda Zawatski and Richard Heaps, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, each with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this report on Form 10-K and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact or their substitute or substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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Signature | | Title | | Date |
/S/ BRENDA ZAWATSKI Brenda Zawatski | | Co-Chair | | July 8, 2009 |
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/S/ JIM THANOS Jim Thanos | | Co-Chair | | July 8, 2009 |
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/S/ RICHARD HEAPS Richard Heaps | | Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer), General Counsel and Secretary | | July 8, 2009 |
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Directors: | | | | |
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/S/ JAMIE ARNOLD Jamie Arnold | | Director | | July 8, 2009 |
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/S/ BRENDA ZAWATSKI Brenda Zawatski | | Director | | July 8, 2009 |
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/S/ LLOYD SEMS Lloyd Sems | | Director | | July 8, 2009 |
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/S/ JIM THANOS Jim Thanos | | Director | | July 8, 2009 |
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/S/ ALAN HOWE Alan Howe | | Director | | July 8, 2009 |
EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit No. | | Description |
3.1(1) | | The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. |
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3.2(3) | | Certificate of Designation of Series A Junior or Participating Preferred Stock. |
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3.3(3) | | Amended and Restated Bylaws. |
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3.4(12) | | Certificate of Designation of Series B Junior or Participating Preferred Stock. |
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4.1 | | Reference is made to Exhibits 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4. |
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4.2(1) | | Form of Registrant’s Common Stock certificate. |
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4.3(1) | | Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement, dated June 16, 1999. |
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4.4(9) | | Transfer Agent Agreement between Registrant and Wells Fargo Corporation, as Transfer Agent, dated February 13, 2007 |
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4.5(12) | | Amended and Restated Rights Agreement between Registrant and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent, dated January 2, 2009. |
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4.6(13) | | Amendment dated as of January 26, 2009, to the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement between Registrant and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. as Rights Agent, dated January 2, 2009. |
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4.7(17) | | Amendment 2, dated as of May 8, 2009, between Registrant and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent, to the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement between Registrant and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., dated January 2, 2009, as amended, |
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10.1(1) | | Form of Indemnification Agreement. |
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10.2(1)* | | 1996 Stock Plan. |
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10.3(1) | | Lease between John Arrillaga Survivors Trust and the Richard T. Perry Separate Property Trust as Landlord and the Registrant as Tenant, dated October 1, 1999. |
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10.4(2)* | | Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Stephen Bennion, dated as of January 1, 2003. |
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10.5(5) | | Sublease Agreement between Selectica Incorporated and Nuova Systems, dated March 6, 2007 |
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10.6(6)* | | Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Stephen Bennion, dated August 9, 2006. |
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10.7(9)* | | Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Bill Roeschlein, dated September 11, 2006. |
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10.8(9)* | | Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Steve Goldner, dated September 27, 2006. |
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10.9(9)* | | Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Terry Nicholson, dated September 27, 2006. |
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10.10(3) | | Warrant to Purchase Common Stock issued to Sales Technologies Limited, dated April 4, 2001. |
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10.11(3) | | Licensed Works Agreement between the Registrant and International Business Machines Corporation, dated December 11, 2002. |
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10.12(3) | | Licensed Works Agreement Statement of Work between the Registrant and International Business Machines Corporation, dated December 11, 2002. |
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10.13(3) | | Professional Services Agreement between the Registrant and GE Medical Services, dated June 28, 2002. |
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10.14(3) | | Major Account License Agreement between the Registrant and GE Medical Systems, dated June 28, 2002. |
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10.15(3) | | Amendment #1 to Major Account License Agreement between the Registrant and GE Medical Systems. |
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Exhibit No. | | Description |
10.16(3) | | Amendment #2 to Major Account License Agreement between the Registrant and GE Medical Systems, dated October 8, 2002. |
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10.17(3) | | Amendment #3 to Major Account License Agreement between the Registrant and GE Medical Systems, dated March 31, 2003. |
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10.18(3) | | Amendment #1 to Professional Services Agreement between Registrant and GE Medical Services, dated August 27, 2002. |
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10.19(3) | | Amendment #2 to Professional Services Agreement between Registrant and GE Medical Services, dated March 3, 2003. |
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10.20(9)* | | Company Compensation Plan for Non Employee Directors, dated August 1, 2006. |
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10.21(7) | | Letter Agreement between Registrant and Sanjay Mittal, dated July 21, 2006. |
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10.22(6) | | Separation Agreement between Registrant and Vince Ostrosky, dated August 9, 2006. |
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10.23(4)* | | 1999 Equity Incentive Plan Stock Option Agreement. |
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10.24(4)* | | 1999 Equity Incentive Plan Stock Option Agreement (Initial Grant to Directors). |
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10.25(4)* | | 1999 Equity Incentive Plan Stock Option Agreement (Annual Grant to Directors). |
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10.26(4) | | Selectica UK Limited Major Account License Agreement, dated December 5, 2003. |
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10.27(4) | | Amendment Agreement between MCI WorldCom, Limited and Selectica UK Limited, dated December 23, 2004. |
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10.28(8) | | Notice of Delisting, dated June 19, 2007. |
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10.29(10) | | Separation Agreement between Registrant and Stephen Bennion, dated October 23, 2007. |
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10.30(11) | | Severance Agreement between Registrant and William Roeschlein, dated September 27, 2006. |
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10.31(11) | | Severance Agreement between Registrant and Michael Shaw, dated January 14, 2008. |
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10.32(11)* | | Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Robert Jurkowski, dated August 21, 2007. |
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10.33(11)* | | Offer Letter between Registrant and Michael Shaw, dated January 9, 2008. |
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10.34(15)* | | Employment Agreement between the Registrant and Richard Heaps, dated September 5, 2008. |
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10.35(15) | | Severance Agreement between the Registrant and Richard Heaps, dated September 4, 2008. |
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10.36(16) | | Share Purchase Agreement between the Registrant and DAX Partners, L.P., dated March 31, 2009. |
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10.37* | | 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated February 1, 2008. |
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10.38* | | 1999 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended and restated August 1, 2006. |
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10.39* | | Form of Stock Unit Agreement for issuance of restricted stock units pursuant to the Registrant’s 1999 Equity Incentive Plan to plan participants, including named executive officers. |
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10.40* | | Registrant Compensation Program for Non-Employee Directors effective January 2, 2009. |
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10.41* | | Registrant Compensation Program for Non-Employee Directors effective May 20, 2009. |
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10.42 | | Registrant Master Software License Agreement with CA, Inc., dated February 13, 2009. |
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10.43 | | Settlement, Release and License Agreement between Registrant and Versata Software Inc., a corporation f/k/a Trilogy Software, Inc., dated October 5, 2007. |
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10.44* | | Summary of Registrant’s Board Co-Chairs Compensation Arrangement. |
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21.1 | | Subsidiaries. |
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Exhibit No. | | Description |
23.1 | | Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. |
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24.1 | | Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page to this Annual Report on Form 10-K). |
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31.1** | | Certification of Co-Chair Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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31.2** | | Certification of Co-Chair Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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31.3** | | Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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32.1** | | Certification of Co-Chair Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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32.2** | | Certification of Co-Chair Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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32.3** | | Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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99.1(14) | | Trust Agreement, dated January 27, 2009, between Registrant and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee. |
(1) | Previously filed in the Company’s Registration Statement (No. 333-92545) declared effective on March 9, 2000. |
(2) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 10-Q filed on February 14, 2003. |
(3) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 10-K filed on June 30, 2003. |
(4) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 10-K filed on June 29, 2006. |
(5) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K filed on March 27, 2008. |
(6) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K on August 15, 2007. |
(7) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K on July 27, 2007. |
(8) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K on June 22, 2008. |
(9) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 10-K on October 3, 2007 |
(10) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K on October 23, 2007. |
(11) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 10-KSB filed on June 10, 2008. |
(12) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K on January 2, 2009. |
(13) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K on January 28, 2009. |
(14) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K filed on February 4, 2009. |
(15) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 10-Q filed on February 17, 2009. |
(16) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K filed on April 6, 2009. |
(17) | Previously filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K filed on April 28, 2009. |
* | Represents a management agreement or compensatory plan. |
** | This certification is not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Such certification will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except to the extent that Selectica, Inc. specifically incorporates it by reference. |