Elizabeth Cholawsky
Analyst · Craig Hallum. Your line is open
Thanks, Greg. Good afternoon everyone and welcome. I will start with some key financial results and then talk in more detail about what has happened during the quarter. Our revenue for the second quarter of 2015 was $20.6 million which was in line with our guidance of $20 million to $21 million. Our non-GAAP loss from continuing operations came in at $0.03 per share which was better than our guidance of a $0.05 to $0.08 loss per share. I am pleased with the operational efficiencies we drove in Q2 and Roop will discuss this in more details later in the call. I will be updating you on our achievements for services and Nexus. As you know we have been focused on growing and diversifying our services area. We are seeing results. Today we will discuss new wins with Staples and original service provider, contract extensions with both Suddenlink and Dish, expansion of Comcast, Xfinity Home program and becoming the chosen vendor for a major North American service provider. We have also made progress with Nexus in many areas. We have added customers, extended the product functionality and grown the pipeline from our direct sales efforts and our channel partners. I will give you details on all of these subjects later in the call. Let's start with our services program. I am excited to welcome Staples back as a customer of Support.com. We have entered a new agreement to provide Staples brand at technology support services that will be sold both online and in their stores nationwide. Our program with Staples was launched quickly and already can be found on service part within their stores. This is a national program and although the current program is smaller than the work we previously did with Staples we are delighted about reestablishing our relationship with this premier brand. Also during Q2 we competed in a request for proposal process for a service program with a major North American service provider. We were selected as their chosen partner. In this relationship we will support this partner's premium tech support subscribers. This program is a kin to our traditional premium tech support programs which tend to carry higher gross margin than our current corporate average. We are currently negotiating the final contract terms. As we look into 2016, this program will have the potential to be one of our top three services programs and contribute at multimillion dollar level to the topline. We also made progress with our existing clients in Q2 Suddenlink who became a customer in early 2014 continues to do well in growing their SMB subscriber base. This offering packages tech support with their broadband services. Now, certainly have signed multi-year contract extension with us continuing our relationship into 2018. The strong partnership with Suddenlink position us well for more opportunities with other regional service providers. In fact during Q2, we acquired a similar customer to Suddenlink, a regional service provider in the Caribbean, who will be bundling tech support services with their higher tier broadband offerings. We’re looking forward to supporting another partner as I use this proven successful model of bundling services with product to grow their business. And also pleased to report that our agreement with this has been expanded on two fronts. First, this has extended our agreement for two years. In addition, this has us to support expansion of their business into the home automation IoT market. Importantly, we will use our Nexus IoT capabilities to deliver this service. This is another example of brand name customers are allowing on Support.com for expertise and the emerging market of IoT. Turning to Comcast, as I mentioned in our Q1 call. Comcast have been undertaking efforts to improve their customers experience with wireless gateways. As a result, this is reducing the volume of calls we support. As expected during Q2, we began to see the effect of the wireless gateway improvement efforts. Based on our current understanding, we now expect to reduce call volume to continue and you’ll see this reflected in our guidance. As for Xfinity Home program it continues to grow. In fact most recently Comcast has expanded our service program to include the support of additional Internet of Things devices and to provide consulting services to help graph this broader programming. Our support of activities within IoT whether for Comcast or other customers. Again reinforces our leadership in the IoT area. Our relationship with Comcast, which is in it’s this year now strong. We continue to perform at or above the key metrics by which Comcast hold this accountable including achieving top mark for their voice of the customer metric. Looking ahead to Q4 2015 and fiscal year 2016, we expect Comcast to remain our largest services customer. I’m proud of my teams Q2 performance, we manage the changes in the Comcast wireless gateway program and improve Q1 services margins. At the same time, we may progress on diversifying our services customer base both by adding new customer logo and by expanding the nature of our services within our existing customer based. During Q2, we also may good progress with our SaaS offerings Nexus. We advance in many areas including increased adoption of the products by our current customers, the acquisition of new customers increased to market reach, the release of additional functionality in the product and further development of Nexus strategic initiatives. Nexus customers continue grow active users increased by 30%, average number of week recession another important metric grew at close to 70%, which shows that overtime customers acquiring increased value from Nexus. As I mentioned on previous call tracking customer usage is important and engage of realize value and product sickness. Seen our customers use to products more and more reinforces our belief the Nexus is delivering value in the market. Our go-to-market effort has expanded. In addition to our direct sales channel, we also have a productive partner program for Nexus. Within the partner program, the referral channel has produced its first do Nexus customers and there are more Nexus prospects and the pipeline as a result of referral. We also seeing continue demand from companies who want to become Nexus referral partners. With our latest referral partner being lean and D&L a consultancy for mobile virtual network operators. As you may remember from the last earnings call, we see the needs of the mobile virtual network operators has been particularly well met by the capabilities of Nexus and the MVNO market as a sizable and growing market opportunity. In Q2, we further extended Nexus capabilities with the release of our software development kit or SDK. The SDK provides the ability to incorporate Nexus capabilities natively into mobile apps. With the SDK, it's easy to embed Nexus help into an app allowing users to push one button and get directly to an agent or in the near future help themselves by running selected guided tabs. The SDK will be particularly important for our continued growth in the IoT market since almost all IoT platforms are controlled by a mobile app. For example, one customer who supports mobile devices has their own app residing on the mobile device which allows their end users to perform self-diagnosis before engaging with the live agent. Before using Nexus, if a user needed help, they have to enter in our actions within the app and engage with the agent via telephone call thus disrupting the user's experience. Now, with the Nexus SDK, the user is provided with contextual support where they are at the moment in the app and it creates continuity between the activity history of the user in the app and the information the agent has presented when they answer the request for support. Assistance is now given to the user wherever they are in the product journey, which is a different and necessary evolution of the old support mindset. It's great to see Nexus in the forefront of this evolution. Finally, I would like to talk briefly about our plans for expanding Nexus into the self service support market. Due to the changing dynamics of the support market, self service capabilities are important for any well rounded support offering. Demand for self service is growing rapidly as shown by [indiscernible] Research reporting that all types of self-service have increased substantially from 2012 to 2014, while phone interactions have remained stagnant. Almost half of the $1.3 billion support interaction optimization market is attributable to customer self-service. The Nexus solution for customer self-service takes the core value of the product guided paths which embody the best agent troubleshooting expertise and puts them directly in the hands of the end user. We're also building the capability into our self-service to escalate to an agent if you get stuck on a step in the guided paths. When the agent engages to offer help, they would know exactly where the user got into trouble and what else they've tried to resolve their issue. We feel that both the expert help available through guided paths and the ability to have an agent assisted self-service experience will further differentiate Nexus in the market. Customers and prospects are telling us that these capabilities have the potential to break through the chronic problems of low customer satisfaction and poor issue resolution that have dogged the success of self service offerings. Look for the release of Nexus self service capabilities by the end of the year. As you remember from Q1, our goal is to exit the year with Nexus annual recurring revenue of at least $1 million and between 1,300 and 1,700 agent licenses. Our teams have been laser focused and working hard towards these objectives. With the progress we were making on all Nexus fronts, we remain committed and optimistic that we will meet our year end goals for Nexus. Turning to the team we have in place, we recently announced the addition of Alex Poulos as Vice President of Marketing. Alex brings a 20 year pedigree as a marketing and business leader with the particular focus on SaaS. We also welcome our new Vice President and General Counsel, Michelle Johnson, a 15 year veteran of in-house Silicon Valley legal positions most recently as Managing Counsel at Oracle for the last seven years. Both Alex and Michelle bring unique skills to the team and I know they will have an immediate impact. And as you may have seen, our long serving Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Greg Wrenn will be leaving Support.com. These are scintillating introductions to our earnings call which I know you will all miss. Greg have made enumerable contributions to our company and it is with great sadness that we will say goodbye. Greg is relocating with a family to Seattle, Washington for personal family reasons and will be returning to private path practice. Before I close, I would like to remind you that we will be hosting an Investor Day in Redwood City, California on Thursday, September 10. During that day, you’ll be able to meet our senior executive team as well as hear directly from our customers and our partners. We will go into more depth on our services area and on Nexus including showcasing its features and functionality via product demos. I look forward to seeing many of you in person out here on the West Coast or via webcast for those you that cannot make it in person. Q2 was a dynamic quarter with some big news on new services programs and good progress on Nexus. We would now like to discuss our financials and for that let me turn the call over to Roop.