Nadir Ali
Analyst · Dougherty & Company. Please go ahead
Thank you Scott and good afternoon everyone. Welcome to our Second Quarter 2015 earnings call and thank you for joining us. I am here today with Wendy Loundermon, our interim CFO, who will be discussing our Second Quarter 2015 financial results after my opening remarks and I will return to conclude our prepared remarks and field your questions. The Sysorex of today is a Big Data Analytics Platform company with complimentary mobile/IoT products; enterprise infrastructure solutions; and Professional Services that is reaping the rewards of our intensive transformation efforts over the past two years. I am pleased to discuss our results for the Second Quarter 2015 and highlight the achievements our team delivered across our now fully integrated business segments. A quick thank you to our Chief Sales Officer, Bret Osborn and his team for delivering our highest recorded revenues this quarter as compared to any prior quarter. I think it is important to note that the results we announced today along with our recent customer wins reflect our successful efforts at driving growth not just across our entire enterprise, but particularly across our higher margin segments including professional services, data analytics and AirPatrol. Let me take a few minutes to expand on each of these. Our focus on our professional services segment has yielded approximately 40% growth in Q2 2015 compared to Q2 2014. I am pleased to report that we also closed our largest professional services contract ever during the second quarter of 2015 with the signing of Gilead Sciences, Inc. a Fortune 500 research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. The project’s scope includes designing and deploying an advanced systems architecture that will inter-connect the client’s systems across the country and help ensure that mission critical business and health care information always remains available while being safely secured in compliance with corporate security and disaster recovery standards as well as state and federal government mandates. We recently completed the first major phases of this Data Center transformation project which has an aggregate value of over $5 million. Our increased traction in big data analytic solutions and services is represented in a number of high-profile client engagements. In May, 2015 we announced that Sysorex had been chosen by Burlingame, California-based mobile game developer CrowdStar Inc. to build a real-time analytics solution that will allow CrowdStar to improve its customer sentiment analysis and player retention. Sysorex is developing a big data analytics system that allows CrowdStar to process data in real time from millions of players and then make adjustments to games “on-the-fly” in order to improve the in-game experience, which CrowdStar believes will enhance their bottom line. With the CrowdStar transaction, we have now entered into big data and analytics engagements with half a dozen leading mobile game developers over the past two years. The growing momentum and adoption of our AirPatrol offerings that I know that many of you have been waiting for is also evidenced by certain recently acquired customer relationships. On July 01, 2015 Sysorex announced a $2.5 million contract to provide real time employee location-based security, asset tracking and management, and big data analysis in newly constructed “smart” communities for workers on 2022 World Cup infrastructure projects utilizing our AirPatrol mobile device locationing and our analytics system. Work on the new community under development in the State of Qatar to house workers on the country’s infrastructure projects is about to begin. Our AirPatrol deliverables are currently planned for Q4, 2015 and Q1, 2016, since workers are expected to begin moving in by February of 2016. Approximately $1.1 million of the $2.5 million is billable at installation and the balance is distributed over eight years for maintenance and warranty. Further supporting our evolution of the integrated AirPatrol location based products with our data analytics capabilities is our recent announcement to provide Retail Analytics for a large Saudi retail shopping center. Sysorex has been chosen to provide retail analytics initially just for the common areas to approximately 35,000 sq ft and eventually to the rest of the upscale shopping, dining and entertainment center north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Our technology will be used to collect detailed insights such as visitor counts, foot traffic, store performance and customer engagement, to provide unparalleled accuracy and insight into nearly every aspect of mall operations - from how many people visit and how often they return, to the optimal store placement and configuration, to ensure an outstanding customer experience and maximize engagement - to help mall management better understand its visitors and improve operations. Our technology yields new capabilities to deliver real-time and near real-time actionable insights for retailers that they were unable to produce in the past. Malls have largely relied upon disparate systems like cameras, motion detectors, etc. that have very poor accuracy and manual efforts that are not capable of gathering and analyzing the critical data points that our technology enables. Even newer technologies using Wi-Fi or beacon provide proximity rather than precision locationing and typically capture 25% to 50% of the devices. Our AirPatrol solution provides significantly better accuracy and can typically capture 99% of the devices. The mall is one of 17 owned and operated by a Saudi-based retail property company. The Saudi Arabian mall will be Sysorex’s first AirPatrol retail center installation in the Middle East. The solution is expected to be up and running by late August 2015. These two new client relationships that I have just discussed are evidence of the growing adoption of our Location-Based AirPatrol solutions combined with our Data Analytics platform offering. Our announcement in April 2015 of the acquisition substantially all of the assets of LightMiner Systems, including all intellectual property related to its high-speed database management system further strengthens our portfolio of market leading offerings. LightMiner Systems’ unique high-speed database technology could enable Sysorex to leap to the forefront of an industry-wide race to manage and analyze massive amounts of data in near-real time on premise or in the cloud. The assets acquired from LightMiner Systems include an in-memory, real-time, data analysis system designed to perform very large, highly complex and extremely difficult calculations using off-the-shelf hardware and memory. It supports both traditional SQL-based business intelligence and analytics applications as well as a host of integrated statistical, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms allowing it to provide supercomputer-like performance at competitive prices. Sysorex is launching a pilot program with our Lightminer analytics platform with a variety of customers. These pilots will allow us to build quick-start modules for various verticals that will allow us to scale as we roll out the product line in 2016. We believe that with LMS we can provide a very competitive product in terms of technology while offering our customers a more cost effective solution than competitors. We believe this will significantly increase our role and value proposition to customers. Before I turn the call over to Wendy to discuss our financial results for the second quarter, I also want to touch upon our most recent announcement of publishing magnate, Hearst Corp., signing a 3-year contract with our Shoom subsidiary for Sysorex’s Shoom eTearsheets, an advertising proof-of-publication and competitive analysis service for newspaper publishers. Shoom eTearsheets is a software-as-a-service big data platform that provides proof-of-publication, ad archive and competitive market analysis to more than 250,000 advertisers and 11,000 agencies. eTearsheets allows newspapers and advertisers to search more than 95 million ads across 41 categories for competitive insight and analysis on ad rates, reach and other important metrics. The 3 year renewal deal is the third such Shoom renewal by Hearst, which owns 15 daily and 34 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union. We are thrilled to continue to provide Hearst with this market leading Big Data-as-a-Service solution, which illustrates our deep commitment to driving innovative solutions through this focused strategy. As I mentioned in our last earnings call, Big Data as-a-Service is an integral part of our growth strategy and we remain on the forefront of driving innovation throughout this value chain. With that I will now turn the call over to Wendy to discuss our financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015.