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8-Nov-2012
Quarterly Report
Company delivers services to more than 500 different enterprises in over 68
countries supporting thousands of video endpoints, immersive telepresence rooms,
and infrastructure for business-quality, real-time, two-way visual
communications. Glowpoint's managed services solve the challenges associated
with achieving consistent high-quality video experiences and controlling the
total cost of ownership related to technology and support, while increasing the
return on investment (ROI) of its end users' video equipment by providing
seamless access to video equipment outside of their immediate enterprise
network. On October 1, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of privately
held Affinity VideoNet, Inc. ("Affinity"), a provider of public
videoconferencing rooms and managed videoconferencing services to professional
service organizations globally (as discussed in Note 14 to our consolidated
financial statements attached hereto).
Glowpoint's solutions are hardware-agnostic, meaning the video equipment may be
manufactured by Cisco, Polycom, Avaya, Logitech, StarLeaf, Sony or others and
network-neutral, in that connectivity may be via native Internet or network
provided by AT&T, Verizon, TATA Communications, British Telecom or others,
supporting all recognized video standards across any IP network.
With its carrier-grade, multi-tenant OpenVideo™ platform built in-house,
Glowpoint provides a range of remote monitoring and management services that
increase the utilization of the video deployment by ensuring all systems are on,
all the time, and calls start on time with the highest possible quality.
Glowpoint's core value proposition for customers includes the enablement of
integration of their video deployment into the unified communications
environment, allowing wide adoption and usage of video communications,
increasing ROI and lowering the total cost of ownership. With its multi-tenant
infrastructure in the cloud, Glowpoint provides an alternative to
capital-intensive, premise-based infrastructure, which customers traditionally
have had to purchase for the video environment to function, as well as the tools
and services to enable wide adoption of video communications throughout their
business. Glowpoint is a leader in managed video and global video exchange
services that provide businesses and service providers a way to link together
their "islands of video" across third party private networks and enable
organizations to drive adoption.
The Company has been recognized in the industry for focusing on providing an
innovative customer experience through our use of IP-based video functionality
and innovation. Industry awards and recognition over the last few years include:
Excellence in Globalization Award (Frost and Sullivan); Top Ten Managed Service
Provider (MSP mentor); Best US Managed Conferencing Services Provider
(Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter); PACE Award for
contributions to the advancement of video communications (Telespan); and Growth
Company of the Year, Finalist (New Jersey Technology Council). We are also
widely followed and discussed in market research by the leading industry and
research analyst firms, including Gartner, Forrester, Frost and Sullivan, and
Wainhouse Research.
Glowpoint, a Delaware corporation, was formed in May 2000. The Company operates
in one segment and therefore segment information is not presented
Glowpoint Services and Features
Today's telepresence and video conferencing environments have become a key part
of a complete unified business communications strategy. For organizations that
are already using video, and for those exploring its benefits for the first
time, OpenVideo™ is a unique platform that can help them achieve a successful
video collaboration program.
Traditionally, video has presented challenges by presenting a complex maze of
systems and networks that must be navigated through and closely managed - and
although most of the business-quality video systems today are "standards-based,"
there are inherent interoperability problems between different vendors' video
equipment, resulting in communication islands. Glowpoint's suite of cloud
managed video services can be accessed and utilized by customers regardless of
the technology and network they are using. Customers who purchase a Cisco,
Polycom, Avaya, LifeSize (Logitech), StarLeaf or use any other third-party video
communications software, may all take advantage of the Glowpoint OpenVideo™
cloud regardless of their choice of network. Glowpoint's core services are
offered as part of OpenVideo™ to generate monthly recurring revenue for the
Company.
OpenVideo™ is a cloud platform that offers telepresence, video and unified
communications and collaboration users a way to meet and communicate across the
varying hardware/software platforms and carrier networks in a secure and
seamless fashion. OpenVideo™ combines years of best practices, experience and
technology development into video collaboration platform that provides instant
connectivity, self-serve and managed help desk resources, and the ease of use
that makes video collaboration seamless and effortless. Beyond the technology
and
applications, OpenVideo™ is built around security protocols to ensure that
enterprises and organizations of any size can communicate to any other desired
video users in a secure, high-quality and reliable fashion.
Glowpoint's services are categorized as follows:
Monitoring & Management Services and Collaboration Services ("Managed Services
Combined")
We provide end-to-end cloud managed services for telepresence, conference room,
desktop, mobile solutions, and video infrastructure. We have a team of video
experts utilizing the latest in remote management technologies. These
engineering and operational customer support resources operate out of our four
Video Network Operations Centers (VNOCs) located in the United States, in
California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. These VNOC facilities
provide global 24/7 support to our network and managed service customers,
including our wholesale branded partners customers. The primary functions of
these operational resources located in these centers are customer service,
conference production, network operation monitoring and remediation, and help
desk technical support.
The company also maintains Point-of Presence (POP) locations that house the technology and infrastructure along with the servers and database warehousing for the OpenVideo platform and support systems of the business. There are currently three POPs located in the United States (Newark, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois) and United Kingdom (London), with additional POPs planned as needed. These carrier-neutral data centers are co-location facilities where network equipment that serves our video infrastructure is housed and acts as shared or dedicated infrastructure for our business customers. The POPs provide power redundancy and UPS (uninterrupted Power Supply) systems, which are constantly monitored and maintained. They also have physical security, flood controls, fire detection and suppression systems and are structurally designed for protection from earthquakes.
We offer a complete portfolio of remote monitoring and management services that
can help make video more widely available, improve up-time, drive higher usage,
off-load IT teams, or all of the above. Our service packages can be customized
to suit the needs of the business, whether for a large enterprise, or small or
medium sized business.
Glowpoint provides wholesale programs and private-labeled resale options for
hardware manufacturers, network operators and systems integrators seeking to
offer video services as a value-added addition to their collaboration and
communications offerings. All of Glowpoint's unique features and services have
been designed so that the entire suite can be private labeled by other service
providers or companies who want to integrate video communications into their
existing products quickly and cost effectively. Glowpoint will provide all of
the video infrastructure and support, including customer portals and billing
applications, as a private label service for a third party. This means that our
services are branded with the other company's name, logo and other information,
our live operators answer calls using the other company's name, and the other
company's end user customers view the service as provided by that other company
even though it is actually "powered by Glowpoint." Glowpoint has been involved
in a number of private label opportunities and currently provides branding of
its services to six strategic global partners that serve 165 customers with
these services and support from Glowpoint through their unique brands. These
services account for approximately 38% of Glowpoint's total revenue for the nine
months ended September 30, 2012. Many strategic global companies in the unified
communications industry have recognized Glowpoint's value to their own sales and
marketing efforts. These strategic partnerships are core to the Company's global
sales strategy.
Glowpoint's collaboration services, hosted via the OpenVideo™ cloud, are
designed to connect video users all over the world whether they are on immersive
telepresence, conference room, desktop or mobile devices. Customers that are
registered to the OpenVideo™ cloud can connect to any other customer in the
OpenVideo™ cloud and get access to Glowpoint's full suite of cloud managed video
services, including the Virtual Video Room, video bridging, and webcasting
services. Through our extensive partnerships, OpenVideo™ customers can also have
business-to-business connectivity across other service providers platforms.
Network Services
In order to provide customers with access to the OpenVideo™ cloud, Glowpoint maintains a dedicated video overlay network. We have partnered with Tier 1 MPLS providers, including Global Crossing, Masergy, XO, Qwest, TATA, PCCW and Verizon Business, to provide a global access footprint with flexible options to consume our suite of OpenVideo™ services. Our OpenVideo™ cloud is also connected to the Equnix Ethernet Carrier Exchange to provide native Layer 2 Ethernet services to enterprise customers.
Glowpoint leverages the last mile and network connectivity of carriers and provides an option for businesses to purchase a full overlay network for their video only needs. The network bandwidth that we provide for these dedicated overlay networks ranges from 1.5Mbps to 1Gbps. As a result of this, our network services business carries variable costs associated with the purchasing and reselling of this connectivity.
With our network services, we provide customers with the flexibility to either source the entire network from a single provider, maintain existing network and extend a logical connection to the OpenVideo™ cloud or bring bandwidth to OpenVideo™ datacenters. Although a declining component of our revenue stream, we believe that network services will continue to be an integral part of our revenue mix in the future, driven by new connectivity needs to connect and peer with Glowpoint's OpenVideo™ cloud. However, Glowpoint does not consider this a core driver or measurement of its market share in the cloud managed video service industry.
Professional and Other Services
With the growing interest in convergence and the desire by some enterprises to
add the transport of video to their enterprise networks, we have provided
professional services and believe the market for such services is growing.
Additionally, our extensive knowledge of all leading video conferencing vendors'
equipment makes our video engineers a valuable resource for manufacturers,
partners and end users on an outsourced basis. While our primary focus is
generating monthly recurring revenue from our subscription services, our
professional services have been a valuable lead for video communication
opportunities leading to sales of our managed video services. Glowpoint provides
professional services to its partners and customers for custom solutions but
does not consider this a core driver or measurement of its market share in the
cloud managed video service industry.
We have bundled certain components of our managed services to offer video
communication solutions for broadcast/media content acquisition and event
services. Customers have used our managed video services during events to
cost-effectively acquire video content for broadcasters, cable companies and
other media enterprises, especially in the sports, news and entertainment
industries. While it includes our core managed video services, IP-based
broadcasting and event services require more project management and dedicated
operational and engineering personnel than our standard subscription services.
Rather than using an expensive satellite feed, companies can acquire
broadcast-quality standard or high definition footage at a fraction of the cost
from Glowpoint over a dedicated IP connection. Since 2002, we have provided this
service to ESPN during the professional football and basketball drafts. ESPN has
used our service for interviews from team locations with coaches, players and
analysts during their coverage. In 2007, we launched a High Definition (HD)
content acquisition solution that we branded TeamCamHD and RemoteCamHD. This
offering provides two-way HD video communication for content acquisition from
remote locations. Glowpoint now provides a full suite of HD solutions for the
broadcast, entertainment and media industry and is considered a high-quality
alternative to the traditional means of acquiring content in many applications,
including interviews and even full motion video.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates There have been no changes to our critical accounting policies in the three months ended September 30, 2012. Critical accounting policies and the significant estimates made in accordance with them are regularly discussed with our audit committee. Those policies are discussed under "Critical Accounting Policies" in our "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" included in Item 7, as well as in our consolidated financial statements and the footnotes thereto for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, as filed with the Commission with our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 8, 2012.
Results of Operations
Nine and Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 ("2012 Period" and the "2012
Quarter," respectively) compared to Nine and Three Months Ended September 30,
2011 ("2011 Period" and the "2011 Quarter," respectively)
Revenue. Total revenue decreased $657,000, or 3.2%, in the 2012 Period to
$20,107,000 from $20,764,000 in the 2011 Period. Total revenue decreased
$268,000 or 3.9% in the 2012 Quarter to $6,561,000 from $6,829,000 in the 2011
Quarter. The following are the changes in the components of our revenue:
• Revenue for Managed Services Combined, which represents subscription
(monitoring and management) services generally tied to contracts of 12
months or more and usage based collaboration services, increased
3.9% to $9,705,000 and 1.3% to $3,204,000 in the 2012 Period and 2012 Quarter,
respectively. Revenue for Managed Services Combined accounted for 48.3% of our
total revenue in the 2012 Period compared to 45.0% for the 2011 Period. The
increase in revenue for Managed Services Combined was primarily attributable to
new customer acquisitions.
• Revenue for network services, which represents network sales and related
services generally tied to contracts of 12 months or more, decreased 9.8%
to $9,168,000 and 8.7% to $2,998,000 in the 2012 Period and 2012 Quarter,
respectively. Revenue for network services accounted for 45.6% of total
revenue in the 2012 Period compared to 48.9% for the 2011 Period. The
decrease in revenue for network services was primarily attributable to
customers disconnecting or transitioning to managed service in their
portfolio of Glowpoint services. The trends in the economy, the
commoditization of IP networking, along with the availability of converged
networking services such that end users can purchase one network and use
for all their unified communications applications to include video, have
all contributed to the decline in these revenues for Glowpoint. We believe
our network service revenue will continue to decline in the current year,
although at a slower pace than the previous year.
• Revenue for professional and other services, which represent non-recurring services, decreased 1.9% to $1,234,000 in the 2012 Period and increased 6.3% to $359,000 in the 2012 Quarter. Revenue for professional and other services accounted for 6.1% of revenue in the 2012 Period compared to 6.1% for the 2011 Period. The decrease in revenue for professional and other services in the 2012 Quarter was primarily attributable to a lower number of special projects for our wholesale partners.
Nine Months Ended September 30, Three Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands) (in thousands)
Increase % Change Increase % Change
2012 2011 (Decrease) 2012 2011 (Decrease)
Revenue
Managed
Services
Combined $ 9,705 $ 9,344 $ 361 3.9 % $ 3,204 $ 3,164 $ 40 1.3 %
Network
services 9,168 10,162 (994 ) (9.8 ) 2,998 3,282 (284 ) (8.7 )
Professional
and other
services 1,234 1,258 (24 ) (1.9 ) 359 383 (24 ) (6.3 )
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Network and Infrastructure Expenses. Network and infrastructure expenses
decreased 12.0% to $6,297,000 in the 2012 Period and 8.7% to $2,076,000 in the
2012 Quarter. Network and infrastructure expenses include all external costs,
exclusive of depreciation and amortization, related to the Glowpoint network and
hosting facilities for our cloud-based infrastructure. This operating expense
category also includes the cost for taxes which have been billed to customers.
The decrease was primarily attributed to customers disconnecting or reducing
their portfolio of Glowpoint services and the achievement of cost efficiencies
exclusive of the lost customers.
Global Managed Services Expenses. Global managed services expenses decreased
7.2% to $5,262,000 in the 2012 Period and increased 0.2% to $1,801,000 in the
2012 Quarter. Global managed services expenses include all costs for delivering
and servicing our managed services, such as delivering customer service
operations, internal costs of maintaining the network and infrastructure, and
the development and implementation of operating support systems and associated
hardware enhancements. The decrease in the 2012 Period was primarily attributed
to automation and efficiencies in use of capacity of platform.
Sales and Marketing Expenses. Sales and marketing expenses increased 12.4% to
$2,954,000 in the 2012 Period and increased 35.7% to $1,090,000 in the 2012
Quarter. The increase in the 2012 Period and Quarter was primarily attributed to
investments in expanding the sales force.
General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses, which
include direct corporate expenses related to costs of personnel in the various
corporate support categories, including executive, finance,
human resources and information technology, increased 4.9% to $4,384,000 in the
2012 Period and 16.1% to $1,732,000 in the 2012 Quarter. The increase in the
2012 Period and 2012 Quarter was primarily due to expenses related with the
acquisition of Affinity.
Depreciation and Amortization Expenses. Depreciation and amortization expenses
increased 32.6% to $1,301,000 in the 2012 Period and 6.9% to $436,000 in the
2012 Quarter, due to purchases of property and equipment (as discussed in Note
13 to our consolidated financial statements attached hereto) exceeding the
retirement of these assets.
Income (Loss) from Operations. Income from operations decreased by $240,000 in
the 2012 Period to a $91,000 loss and $629,000 in the 2012 Quarter to a $574,000
loss. The primary drivers of the decrease were due to acquisition related
expenses and a decline in revenue associated with professional services.
Interest and Other Expense. Interest and other expense in the 2012 Period was
$76,000, which principally reflected $43,000 of interest charges from vendors
and $33,000 of the amortization of financing charges related to our Revolving
Loan Facility. Interest and other expense in the 2011 Period was $93,000, which
principally reflected $47,000 of interest charges from vendors and $46,000 of
the amortization of financing charges related to our Revolving Loan Facility.
Interest and other expense in the 2012 Quarter was $18,000, which principally
reflected $14,000 of interest charges from vendors and $4,000 of the
amortization of financing charges related to our Revolving Loan Facility.
Interest and other expenses in the 2011 Quarter was $30,000, which principally
reflected $15,000 of interest charges from vendors and $15,000 of the
amortization of financing charges related to our Revolving Loan Facility.
Income Taxes. As a result of our current taxable income, we recorded a $5,000
provision for incomes taxes for certain minimum taxes in the 2012 Period. There
was no provision recorded in the 2012 Quarter, 2011 Period or 2011 Quarter. Any
deferred tax asset that would be related to our losses has been fully reserved
under a valuation allowance, reflecting the uncertainties as to realization
evidenced by our historical results and restrictions on the usage of the net
operating loss carry forwards.
Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations. Income from continuing operations
decreased by $223,000 to a $167,000 loss in the 2012 Period, and by $617,000 to
a $592,000 loss in the 2012 Quarter. This increase was due to acquisition
related expenses and a reduction in revenue as noted above.
Income from Discontinued Operations. Income from discontinued operations
decreased by $29,000 to $0 in the 2012 Period and $11,000 to $0 in the 2012
Quarter. This decrease was a result of the transfer of our ISDN resale business
completed in the third quarter of 2011.
Net Income (Loss). Net Income decreased by $257,000 to a $172,000 loss or, or
$(0.01) per basic and diluted share, in the 2012 Period. Net Income decreased by
$628,000 to a $592,000 loss, or $(0.02) per basic and diluted share, in the 2012
Quarter. The primary drivers of the decrease were due to acquisition related
expenses and a decline in professional services revenue.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, we had a net loss of $172,000 and
a positive cash flow from operations of $707,000. As of September 30, 2012, we
had $1,650,000 of cash, positive working capital of $1,157,000 and an
accumulated deficit of $164,871,000. In June 2012, the Company entered into the
Second Loan Modification Agreement (as amended, the "Revolving Loan Facility")
with Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") pursuant to which the Company may borrow up to
$5,000,000 for working capital purposes and under which we had unused borrowing
availability of approximately $2,662,000 as of September 30, 2012 (as discussed
in Note 10 to our consolidated financial statements attached hereto). In October
2012, the Revolving Loan facility with SVB was terminated in connection with
repayment of outstanding amounts due and replaced with a revolving line of
credit with Comerica Bank (the "Comerica Revolver") which will bear interest at
a rate equal to the Prime Rate (as defined in the Comerica Loan Agreement) plus
2.00% and matures on April 1, 2014.
Also in October 2012, Loan and Security Agreements ("Loan Agreement") were entered into with Comerica Bank and Escalate Capital Partners SBIC I, L.P. ("Escalate") in order to finance a portion of the Affinity acquisition (as discussed in Note 14 to our consolidated financial statements attached hereto). The Loan Agreement with Comerica Bank provided the Company with a $2.0 million term loan (the "Comerica Term Loan") and will bear interest at a rate equal to the Prime Rate (as defined in the Comerica Loan Agreement) plus 3.00%. The Comerica Term Loan matures on November 1, 2015. The Loan Agreement with Escalate provided the Company with a $6.5 million term loan (the "Escalate Term Loan") . . .
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