Operator
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Agilysys Fiscal 2015 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Some statements made on today’s call will be predictive and are intended to be made as forward-looking within the Safe Harbor protection of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although the Company believes that its forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these in the forward-looking statements are set forth in the Company’s report on Form 10-K and 10-Q and the news releases filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I’d now like to turn the call over to you Mr. Jim Dennedy, President and CEO. Please go ahead sir. Thank you, Candice, and good morning everyone. We appreciate you joining us on the call today to review our fiscal 2015 fourth quarter and full-year results. Joining me today is our Chief Financial Officer, Janine Seebeck. Before we get started, just a quick reminder that on the call today we’ll be discussing some non-GAAP metrics, primarily adjusted operating income from continuing operations, adjusted income from continuing operations, and adjusted EBITDA which eliminates the effect of restructuring and other items that are either non-cash or non-recurring. Reconciliations to GAAP metrics are provided in the financial section of the press release issued earlier today. I'll start with a brief overview of our financial results. Total net revenue for the fourth quarter was $28.7 million compared with total net revenue of 27.8 million in the comparable prior year period. Full year net revenue increased $2.2 million or 2% to $103.5 million compared with $101.3 million in fiscal 2014. It is important to highlight that recurring revenues which are comprised of support, maintenance and subscription services reached a quarterly record of $14.5 million in the fiscal fourth quarter compared to $14.1 million for the same period in fiscal 2014. Recurring revenue also rose on a full-year basis increasing 5% to $56 million for the full fiscal year 2015 and representing over 54% of fiscal 2015 net revenue. Recurring revenue is important because we flex the businesses underlying stability and strength. Our recurring revenue provides for an improved visibility and the future financial performance while offering clear evidence of the success of our strategic focus on building long term relationships with our customers. Gross margin was 51% in the fiscal 2015 fourth quarter, compared to 60% in the prior-year period. For the full year, gross margin was 58% compared to 63% in the prior year period. Adjusted operating loss from continuing operations for the fourth quarter was $1.4 million compared to a gain of $1.1 million for the same period last year. Adjusted loss from continuing operations for the full year was $2.3 million compared with adjusted income of $4.1 million in fiscal 2014. This led to a loss from continuing operations in the fiscal 2015 fourth quarter of $5.4 million or a loss of $0.24 per diluted share compared to a loss in continuing operations of $700,000 or a loss of $0.03 per diluted share in the prior year period. And on a full year basis, loss from continuing operations was $11.5 million compared to a loss for full year of fiscal 2014 of $2.9 million. Janine will review our financial results in more detail including the impact of one-time items such as asset write-offs and other fair value adjustments. During fiscal 2015 we implemented several tactics to help us execute on our strategy. In particular, over the course of fiscal 2015 we have brought in a number of improvements to our capabilities and operations which we believe better align our organization with our strategic goals and our strength of the business relationships with our customers. These changes are critical to helping Agilysys transition from a traditional product sales, license and maintenance relied business to a subscription services revenue model and we are confident it will generate longer term shareholder value to growth in higher margin recurring revenue, in particular subscription services. Some of these organizational changes include integrating our product marketing organization and product development activity with the product management team, a natural move that better aligns product development with market and competitive challenges. We believe this will help grow the partner eco system [ph], strengthen our sales management [ph] and to achieve faster and even more successful product launches. And we're forming a new operations team to consolidate contract administration, business operations, accounts receivable, the containment [ph] of options in a single team to better align responsibilities and priorities and ultimately improve our ability to quickly and actively quote, deliver, invoice and collect. With respect to our sales force we ended fiscal 2015 with 22 [indiscernible] sales people, 10 of which are focused exclusively on new book of business. Of our now 30 sales people, 18 joined in the last year and of those all have been sales executives covering either hospitality industry or directly selling SaaS solutions. We expect to add 4 additional sales executives in fiscal 2016 and our focus is on getting executives that have direct SaaS selling experience. Over the coming quarters, we are confident that our go-to-market employees will help us increase our footprint and in hotel, resort and cruise sector, improve our effectiveness in the gaming sector and expand into new market sectors such as fine dining, table service and quick casual restaurant sectors. In addition, we expect to development opportunities with new logos across all markets we serve and better equip the team to sell subscription based solutions, all with the angle to better serve our customers, develop our team in order to add more value to our business. Also to address an opportunity we see to make our services business a more strategic part of our revenue mix, we promoted Rehan Jaddi to Senior Vice President of Customer Support and Solution Services. Many customers recognize our Company for delivering peer leading deployment and support services. We are investing in our services business to deliver more strategic and higher value solutions to our customers. We are moving beyond the delivery and component technology deployment to managing the overall projects to which our technology serves innovation [ph]. We expect these organizational changes will promote a more efficient and better decision making, align our cost structure with our revenue plan, position us for future growth and better leverage our talent to support our strategic goals. Over the last three years we have made consistent progress towards our goal around simplifying our business, evolving our offerings and delivering against the milestones of our next generation platform. This progress is particularly evident in a number of the new business wins over 225 in fiscal 2015 and the growth in major releases and new titles since early 2012, which includes 16 major releases and four new titles. Our new business wins have not only been significant in number, but they have also been across a diverse array of our solutions as well as the sectors in which our clients operate in. Taking a more in-depth look at each of our business sectors starting with the commercial and tribal gaming, this sector represents over 55% of our revenues. Our new business wins in this vertical includes Leech Lake Gaming, a tribal casino operator with three properties across Minnesota including the Northern Lights Casino and Hotel, Palace Casino and Hotel and White Oak Casino, who selected InfoGenesis and Visual One to support all three properties. Our hotel, resorts and cruise sector also saw some important wins including Resorts introduction of Stratton Warren System, our comprehensive inventory to our new processes and reduced costs at the 480 units [ph]. Additionally, Harbor Winds Hotel in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, launched the rGuest Stay property management system and rGuest Pay, payment gateway solution to streamline operations and halve efficiency while Palm Garden Hotels went to the Visual One property management system and Visual One sale indicator to streamline efficiency and handles guest service delivery at the 150-room property. And regarding rGuest Stay we are pleased that the historic 55 [indiscernible] Hotel in San Francisco had a one of kind Boutique hotel at Montreal selected rGuest Stay to help them manage these two world class hotel properties. Looking at the foodservice management sector, which is another segment in which we have a very strong market we are pleased with our expanded relationship with Compass Group North America as leader in foodservice management support services which became the first foodservice management customer to implement the InfoGenesis Flex Mobile Point-of-Sales system combined with the rGuest Pay payment gateway application. Additionally City Towers Auxiliary Services [ph] selected Eatec and InfoGenesis to streamline its foodservice operations. Part of the State University of New York system SUNY Cobleskill has nine campus dining facilities that serve more than 3500 meals each day. Moving on to restaurants, university, stadia and healthcare or RUSH, we see continued to remain and an increased need for more sophisticated dining experience including online ordering and reservations, mobile service and a higher level of customer interaction. New business wins in this sector include the Cask & Barrel an Indo-American tapas-style restaurant and bar in Columbus, Ohio, which selected a comprehensive software solution suite to streamline operations and enhance guest services and the Farmers Restaurant Group of Washington D.C. which selected WMx to increase efficiency and streamline operations at its four restaurant locations. More recently, Life Time Fitness, a chain of high-end business centers and health products across the United States and Canada selected rGuest Analyze, our business intelligence and data analytics product to further leverage the customer information across their business, beauty, food and beverage and childcare operations at their more than 110 locations. Fiscal 2015 was also a productive period on the product side as we continue to evolve scope and sophistication of our offering while aligning our go-to-market approach with our strategy. While the benefits and full potential of our strategy may not be reflected in our financial results just yet, we remain confident based on the evidence we see in these results that we are making progress towards achieving our longer term goals and bringing to market updates for our current products that will help transition customers to our next generation of rGuest platform. For example, recently a large university customer upgraded to the latest version of InfoGenesis. As a part of the upgrade the customer transitioned from a license and maintenance customer to subscription services. This transition enabled them to shift the management and application infrastructure to Agilysys and transitioning to a subscription services customer we were able to increase the annual recurring fees associated with point-of-sale services. In addition, this customer also bought a subscription to rGuest Pay and rGuest Analyze. The combined effect of these actions resulted in a nearly doubling of the recurring revenue contribution from this customer. The rGuest platform products, including the recently released rGuest Pay, rGuest Seat and rGuest Analyze solutions provide enhanced capabilities to further drive business for our customers and revenue for our company by integrating with all Agilysys and most non-Agilysys products. Early feedback indicates the substantial new product investments we have made are on target with market needs and desires. We expect the ongoing rollout of our additional next-gen rGuest solutions, such as rGuest Stay and rGuest Buy, will help us continue to grow our already strong market share in the gaming and managed food services sectors while enabling us to expand our presence in the hotels, resorts and cruise, and RUSH hospitality sectors. To highlight our new product launch success rGuest Pay which launched in the second quarter of fiscal 2015 provides an attractive value proposition for hospitality and operators looking for a payment gateway solution for both property management and point-of-sale products that is PCI validated for point-to-point encryption of cardholder data and has low volume tiers or transaction minimums [ph]. We are pleased with the initial performance of rGuest Pay and look forward to continuing the rapid rollout of this exciting product including the recent adoption by an upscale hotel in San Francisco as well as a decision earlier this year by the [indiscernible] in Las Vegas to install rGuest Pay across its 2900 plus property on the Las Vegas strip. Today more than 70 customers have selected rGuest Pay with approximately 40 of those bookings taking place during the fourth quarter and we have a strong pipeline for future installs. We also continue to make progress with rGuest Stay, which is our cloud-based property management solution offering instant scalability, operational efficiency and reduced technology footprint and the ability to upgrade capacity without business interruption. While the initial release of rGuest Stay is especially beneficial for small to mid-sized properties, we have designed this system to support larger hotels, destination resorts and complex casino properties. And of course we continue to adhere to our core [indiscernible] of maintaining strong capital and operational discipline and pursuing the highest value growth opportunities. We continue to make progress involving our product portfolio to better address our customers' current needs, transform our sales efforts and organization to better serve our customers and make consistent progress with the development of our next-generation platform. With that, I would now like to turn the call over to our CFO, Janine Seebeck, who will review our financial results before opening the lines for questions. Janine?