REDWOOD CITY, CA — April 25th, 2012 — BroadVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: BVSN) an innovative provider of online commerce and business social networking solutions, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Revenues for the first quarter were $3.8 million, compared with revenues of $4.2 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011 and $5.1 million for the comparable quarter of 2011.
License revenue for the first quarter of 2012 was $1.4 million, compared with $1.6 million for the prior quarter and $1.5 million for the comparable quarter of 2011. The majority of the first quarter license and subscription revenue was generated from the company's BroadVision® Business Agility Suite™, Commerce Agility Suite™, QuickSilver™, and Clearvale™ solutions. Revenue during the quarter was generated from sales to both new and existing customers such as BMIT Inc., Centre National de l'Expertise Hospitalière, Club Méditerranée, Front Burner Restaurants, Vias Y Construcciones S.A., and several other brand-name global customers.
In the first quarter of 2012, BroadVision posted net loss on a U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) basis of $1.3 million, or $0.29 per basic and diluted share, as compared with GAAP net loss of $1.8 million, or $0.40 per basic and diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2011 and GAAP net loss of $0.4 million, or $0.09 per basic and diluted share, for the comparable quarter of 2011.
As of March 31, 2012 the Company had $55.3 million of cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, compared to a combined balance of $54.4 million as of December 31, 2011 and $60.9 million as of March 31, 2011.
"Although Q1 is a seasonally slower quarter, as reflected in the 10 percent revenue decline compared to Q4, we achieved a number of important milestones during the quarter, especially in the business development front," said Dr. Pehong Chen, President and CEO, BroadVision. "Continuing our two-pronged go-to-market strategy, we made very good progress in developing new channel partners across the globe via our Clearvale PaasPort program and on driving adoption via our Clearvale Social Enterprise Transformation (SET) program. As social business and cloud computing reach the mainstream, we believe Clearvale is very well positioned to dramatically change how people and businesses collaborate and in doing so transform the entire industry."
Conference Call Information
BroadVision management will host a conference call today, Wednesday, April 25th, 2012, at 2:00PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). The conference call may be accessed by dialing: 1-866-200-6965, with pin code 62051100#. Callers outside North America should call +1-646-216-7221 to be connected. These numbers can be accessed 15 minutes before the call begins, as well as during the call. A web replay will also be available following the call on the Company’s website.
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