1 [S1 LOGO] EXHIBIT 99.1 CONTACTS: John Chalk Marcy Theobald S1 Corporation S1 Corporation 404-812-6671 404-812-6254 john.chalk@s1.com marcy.theobald@s1.com S1 CORPORATION REPORTS RECORD SECOND QUARTER 2000 RESULTS HIGHLIGHTS: - - SECOND QUARTER REVENUES OF $59.1 MILLION INCREASED 277% OVER SECOND QUARTER 1999 AND 17% OVER FIRST QUARTER 2000. - - TOTAL GROSS MARGIN OF $26.1 MILLION IMPROVED 285% OVER SECOND QUARTER 1999 AND 45% OVER FIRST QUARTER 2000. - - EXCLUDING MERGER-RELATED COSTS AND OTHER NON-CASH CHARGES, EBITDA TOTALED ($14.6) MILLION OR ($0.27) PER SHARE IN Q200. - - S1 DATA CENTER END USERS TOTALED 552,000 AT THE END OF JUNE 2000, UP 382% OVER SECOND QUARTER 1999 AND UP 34% OVER FIRST QUARTER 2000. - - CASH AND INVESTMENT SECURITIES TOTALED $285 MILLION AT END OF THE QUARTER. - - OVER 900 FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS NOW USING S1 SOFTWARE PRODUCTS. - - TOTAL END-USERS OF S1 PRODUCTS OVER 4 MILLION. ATLANTA, AUGUST 1, 2000 - S1 Corporation (NASDAQ:SONE), a leading provider of Internet-based solutions for the financial services industry, reported revenues of $59.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2000, a 277% increase over the $15.7 million recorded for the prior year quarter. Excluding merger related and non-cash charges, the Company posted an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) loss of $14.6 million or $0.27 per share. "A significant component of our strategy has been to leverage our global infrastructure and partner network to continue to expand our market share, product breadth and business model around the world in areas, such as Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Japan, where the adoption rates of Internet-based and wireless eFinance are rapidly increasing," said James S. Mahan III, CEO of S1 Corporation. "We will continue to execute on this strategy, as well as maximize the opportunities here in the United States in the large and community financial service marketplace, to maintain our leadership position and the momentum generated by the successes of our core financial service operations, our subsidiary businesses and our increasing network of strategic alliances." 2 Software license revenues in the second quarter were $15.3 million, or 558% higher than the prior year quarter. Professional services revenues increased to $37.2 million in the second quarter 2000, a 241% increase over the prior year quarter. Data Center revenues of $5.3 million in the second quarter were 160% above the second quarter 1999. The Company recorded a 34% quarterly sequential increase in the number of end users processed through the S1 Data Center, an increase of 382% over the second quarter 1999. As of June 30, 2000, the total number of end users in the Data Center was 552,000. FINANCIAL SUMMARY: (In thousands, except per share amounts) SECOND QUARTER ------------------------- 2000 1999 ---------- ----------- Revenues $ 59,084 $ 15,675 Direct costs 32,981 8,892 ------ ----- Gross margin $ 26,103 $ 6,783 EBITDA(1) ($ 14,574) ($ 962) EBITDA per share(1) ($ 0.27) ($ 0.04) (1) Excludes merger-related costs, stock option compensation expense, acquired in-process research and development and non-cash marketing expense. During the second quarter, the $59.1 million in revenues were derived from the following sources: SECOND QUARTER 2000 ------------------- Licenses Services Data Center Other Total -------- -------- ----------- ----- ----- Financial Institution Division $ 7,652 $33,224 $4,733 $1,207 $46,816 Edify Call Center Technology Division 7,678 4,006 11,684 VerticalOne Division 584 584 Total $15,330 $37,230 $5,317 $1,207 $59,084 FIRST QUARTER 2000 ------------------ Licenses Services Data Center Other Total --------- -------- ----------- ------ ----- Financial Institution Division $ 3,666 $30,969 $3,193 $1,761 $39,589 Edify Call Center Technology Division 7,053 3,413 10,466 VerticalOne Division 314 314 Total $10,719 $34,382 $3,507 $1,761 $50,369 License revenues increased from $10.8 million in the first quarter 2000 to $15.3 million in the second quarter of 2000, primarily as a result of the inclusion of $3.3 million in license sales from the acquisition of Q Up during the quarter. Data Center revenues increased to $5.3 million, or 52% over the 3 first quarter of 2000 due to growth in financial institutions and end users now running in S1 Data Centers. "While we were pleased with the sequential growth in the Edify Call Center Technology Division, the international operations and the incremental revenues associated with the two acquisitions completed during the second quarter, domestic competitive pricing pressures impacted the revenue growth both in the Americas and in the VerticalOne subsidiary," stated Robert F. Stockwell, CFO of S1 Corporation. "As we focus on maintaining our leadership position in the account aggregation and the large domestic financial institution spaces, the existing pricing pressures could have a future impact on revenues and gross margins." The Company's gross margin for the second quarter 2000 was $26.1 million, or 44% compared to 36% in the immediate prior quarter and 43% for the second quarter of 1999. The Company's software license margin improved from 86% in the first quarter of 2000 to 92% in the second quarter of 2000. The increase in the software license margin was primarily driven by a change in the product mix sold through the Edify Call Center Technology Division. The professional services margin increased to 31% in the second quarter versus 25% in the first quarter of 2000 as a result of increasing services margins across all S1 Divisions. S1's Data Center margin was 10% in the second quarter 2000 compared to 4% in the first quarter 2000. While data center revenues grew at a strong pace, costs also increased as a result of the consolidation of the Data Center operations of the two acquisitions completed during the quarter. S1 is currently in the process of integrating the acquired Data Center operations into its existing Data Center facility which should result in future cost efficiencies in the operation. In the second quarter 2000, S1 incurred a net loss of $153 million, or $2.82 per share, compared to a net loss of $2.2 million, or $0.08 per share, for the second quarter 1999. The second quarter loss includes $126.5 million or $2.34 per share of amortization of acquisition intangibles and a charge for acquired in-process research and development. At the end of the second quarter, the Company had cash and marketable securities of $285 million available to fund operations. OPERATIONAL REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: ACQUISITIONS - - During the second quarter S1 completed its acquisitions of Davidge Data Systems and Q UP Systems. STRATEGIC ALLIANCES - - S1 and IBM entered into an alliance to jointly market and sell the S1 Corporate Suite, with IBM expanding its financial services e-business practice to include S1 specialists focused on providing consulting, customization and integration services. - - S1 received equity investments totaling US$244 million from five of the world's largest financial service providers: Zurich Financial Services Group (SWX:ZUAN and LSE:ADZ), Allianz AG (DAX:G.ALL), FleetBoston Financial Corporation (NYSE:FBF), J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) and a large, US-based insurance company. - - S1 formed an alliance with LendingTree to integrate LendingTree's Lend-X(sm) technology into the S1 Consumer Suite platform to provide enhanced Internet-based loan management capabilities. PRODUCT UPDATE - - S1 launched its consumer insurance application, making the S1 Consumer Suite the industry's first solution that provides financial institutions with fully integrated banking, insurance and brokerage Internet-based applications. 4 VERTICALONE MILESTONES - - VerticalOne signed FreeRealTime, INTRUST Bank, YouDecide.com, CNBC, LifeMinders, Centura Banks, and Internet Appliance Network to distribute its service, bringing the total of its live destination partners to 30. At June 30, 2000, VerticalOne had more than 131,000 end users live on its service. EDIFY MILESTONES - - Edify added Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technology to its Internet application. Edify signed Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) as its first customer scheduled to integrate the company's wireless Internet application into its existing Internet banking platform. Edify also announced that its wireless Internet solutions now include support for Short Messaging Services (SMS), a feature of the GSM protocol, the world's most widely deployed protocol for mobile telephones and devices. Q UP SYSTEMS - - During the second quarter, Q Up announced several product developments, including the launch of its e-Commerce Portal, a partnership with InsureRate, and its plans to distribute VerticalOne's account aggregation service within Q Up's solutions. DATA CENTER - - S1's European Data Center remains on track to open in the fourth quarter 2000. In addition, OCBC's finatiQ, Asia's first Internet-only bank, is live in S1's Asia Pacific Data Center. During the quarter, VerticalOne hosting was moved to the S1 Data Center. CUSTOMERS - - S1 had 72 new clients in production at June 30, 2000 and 165 customer projects are currently underway for 119 institutions with 35 new projects targeted for the Data Center. In total, S1 had more than four million end users worldwide at the end of the second quarter 2000. ABOUT S1 CORPORATION S1 (NASDAQ:SONE), the pioneer of Internet banking, is today's global provider of innovative Internet-based financial services solutions. S1 offers a broad range of applications that empower financial organizations to increase revenue, strengthen customer relationships and gain competitive advantage by meeting the evolving needs of their customers across various lines of business, market segments and delivery channels. Through its professional services organization, S1's applications can be implemented in-house or outsourced to the S1 Data Center. Additional information about S1 is available at http://www.s1.com. The Company will hold a conference call to discuss second quarter 2000 results at 5:00 PM EST on August 1, 2000. Simultaneous to the call, management's presentation will be available on the Web at www.s1.com/Q2. S1 will also broadcast the call over the Internet at VCall and Yahoo Finance. To listen to the conference call, go to VCall: - - http://www.vcall.com/NASApp/VCall/ConsoleFrameset?ID=3341 Or Yahoo Finance: - - http://webevents.broadcast.com/financecalls/event/index.asp?EarningsID=1276 5 FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This press release includes statements and other matters which are forward-looking and subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The statements contained in this release that are forward-looking are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results contemplated by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are in no way limited to: - - the possibility that the anticipated benefits from our acquisition transactions will not be fully realized; - - the possibility that costs or difficulties related to our integration of acquisitions will be greater than expected; - - our dependence on the timely development, introduction and customers acceptance of new internet services; - - rapidly changing technology and shifting demand requirements and internet usage patterns; - - other risks and uncertainties, including the impact of competitive services, products and prices, the unsettled conditions in the internet and other high-technology industries and the ability to attract and retain key personnel; and - - other risk factors as may be detailed from time to time in our public announcements and filings with the SEC, including the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999. In addition, nothing in the press release should be viewed as an update or comment on earlier forward looking statements provided by S1 Corporation. As noted above, because actual results, performance or developments may differ materially from forward-looking statements, S1 will not update such statements over the course of future periods. # # # 3390 Peachtree Rd., Ste. 1700 Atlanta, Georgia 30326 6 S1 CORPORATION SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE DATA) THREE MONTHS ENDED SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, JUNE 30, --------------------------- ---------------------------- 2000 1999 2000 1999 --------------------------- ---------------------------- REVENUES: Software licenses $15,330 $2,330 $26,049 $4,638 Professional services 37,230 10,911 71,612 18,633 Data center 5,317 2,044 8,824 3,591 Other 1,207 390 2,968 813 --------------------------- ---------------------------- Total revenues 59,084 15,675 109,453 27,675 --------------------------- ---------------------------- DIRECT COSTS: Software licenses 1,226 99 2,747 232 Professional services 25,865 6,431 51,749 11,386 Data center 4,806 2,029 8,158 3,716 Other 1,084 333 2,678 677 --------------------------- ---------------------------- Total direct costs 32,981 8,892 65,332 16,011 --------------------------- ---------------------------- Gross margin 26,103 6,783 44,121 11,664 --------------------------- ---------------------------- OPERATING EXPENSES: Selling and marketing 13,396 1,174 24,802 2,253 Product development 15,830 4,439 30,822 8,760 General and administrative 11,451 2,132 20,802 3,694 Depreciation and amortization 6,129 1,267 9,533 2,461 Stock option compensation expense 1,599 107 2,724 214 7 Marketing cost from warrants issued 362 - 4,962 - Merger related costs 6,344 250 13,158 250 Acquired in-process research and development 14,100 - 14,100 - Amortization of acquisition intangibles 112,386 103 189,513 206 --------------------------- ---------------------------- Total operating expenses 181,597 9,472 310,416 17,838 --------------------------- ---------------------------- Operating loss (155,494) (2,689) (266,295) (6,174) Interest and investment income 2,498 527 38,091 754 --------------------------- ---------------------------- NET LOSS $(152,996) $(2,162) $(228,204) $(5,420) --------------------------- ---------------------------- EBITDA per share (1) (0.27) (0.04) (0.62) (0.12) Loss per common share from depreciation, amortization and other charges (2.60) (0.06) (4.47) (0.12) --------------------------- ---------------------------- Loss per common share from operations (2.87) (0.10) (5.09) (0.24) Interest and investment income per share 0.05 0.02 0.73 0.03 --------------------------- ---------------------------- Net loss per common share $(2.82) $(0.08) $(4.36) $(0.21) --------------------------- ---------------------------- WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING 54,167,563 26,051,942 52,332,810 25,378,877 COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING AT END OF PERIOD 54,988,454 27,557,074 54,988,454 27,557,074 JUNE 30, DEC. 31, 2000 1999 --------------------------- Cash and investment securities $284,519 $130,604 Accounts receivable, net 81,659 70,136 Deferred revenue 34,513 29,752 8 (1) Excludes merger related costs, stock option compensation expense, acquired in-process research and development and non-cash marketing expense. S1 CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE, PER SHARE, END-USER AND PER END-USER DATA) (UNAUDITED) 6/30/1999 9/30/1999 12/31/1999 3/31/2000 6/30/2000 ---------------------------------------------------- REVENUES: Software licenses $2,330 $2,260 $12,152 $10,719 $15,330 Professional services 10,911 14,769 23,030 34,382 37,230 Data center 2,044 2,072 3,195 3,507 5,317 Other 390 5,698 2,039 1,761 1,207 ---------------------------------------------------- Total revenues 15,675 24,799 40,416 50,369 59,084 ---------------------------------------------------- DIRECT COSTS: Software licenses 99 99 311 1,521 1,226 Professional services 6,431 8,480 16,461 25,884 25,865 Data center 2,029 2,163 3,129 3,352 4,806 Other 333 4,425 2,010 1,594 1,084 -------------------------------------------------- Total direct costs 8,892 15,167 21,911 32,351 32,981 ---------------------------------------------------- Gross margin 6,783 9,632 18,505 18,018 26,103 ---------------------------------------------------- OPERATING EXPENSES: Selling and marketing 1,174 1,153 8,763 11,406 13,396 Product development 4,439 5,221 10,055 14,992 15,830 General and administrative 2,132 3,291 6,928 9,351 11,451 Depreciation and amortization 1,267 1,465 2,998 3,404 6,129 Stock option compensation expense 107 107 797 1,125 1,599 9 Marketing cost from warrant issued - - 715 4,600 362 Merger related costs 250 1,851 6,643 6,814 6,344 Acquired in-process research and development - - 59,300 - 14,100 Amortization of acquisition intangibles 103 - 40,000 77,127 112,386 ---------------------------------------------------------- Total operating expenses 9,472 13,088 136,199 128,819 181,597 ---------------------------------------------------------- Operating loss (2,689) (3,456) (117,694) (110,801) (155,494) Interest and investment income 527 777 706 35,593 2,498 ---------------------------------------------------------- NET LOSS $(2,162) $(2,679) $(116,988) $(75,208) $(152,996) ---------------------------------------------------------- EBITDA (1) $(962) $(33) $(7,241) $(17,731) $(14,574) EBITDA per share (1) $(0.04) $(0.00) $(0.19) $(0.35) $(0.27) Loss per common share from depreciation, amortization and other charges (0.06) (0.13) (2.88) (1.85) (2.60) ---------------------------------------------------------- Loss per common share from operations (0.10) (0.13) (3.07) (2.20) (2.87) Interest and investment income per share 0.02 0.03 0.02 0.71 0.05 ---------------------------------------------------------- Net loss per common share $(0.08) $(0.10) $(3.05) $(1.49) $(2.82) ---------------------------------------------------------- WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING 26,051,942 27,628,446 38,339,221 50,456,210 54,167,563 COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING AT END OF PERIOD 27,557,074 27,701,489 48,831,243 51,163,353 54,988,454 GROSS MARGIN PERCENTAGES: Software licenses $2,231 $2,161 $11,841 $9,198 $14,104 Percentage 96% 96% 97% 86% 92% Professional services $4,480 $6,289 $6,569 $8,498 $11,365 Percentage 41% 43% 29% 25% 31% Data center $15 $(91) $66 $155 $511 Percentage 1% (4%) 2% 4% 10% 10 ---------------------------------------------------------- Gross margin before other revenue $6,726 $8,359 $18,476 $17,851 $25,980 ---------------------------------------------------------- Percentage 44% 44% 48% 37% 45% ---------------------------------------------------------- Other $57 $1,273 $29 $167 $123 Percentage 15% 22% 1% 9% 10% ---------------------------------------------------------- Total gross margin $6,783 $9,632 $18,505 $18,018 $26,103 ---------------------------------------------------------- Percentage 43% 39% 46% 36% 44% ---------------------------------------------------------- DATA CENTER REVENUE PER QUARTERLY AVERAGE END-USERS $18.34 $14.52 $15.45 $12.43 $11.04 NUMBER OF DATA CENTER END-USERS 114,500 163,000 226,000 412,000 552,000 NUMBER OF DATA CENTER END-USER ACCOUNTS 181,000 254,000 347,000 570,000 709,000 (1) Excludes merger related costs, stock option compensation expense, acquired in-process research and development and non-cash marketing expense. 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