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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-Q

 

 

 

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2015

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                      to                     

Commission File No. 001-35367

 

 

JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   42-1515522

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

325 Lytton Avenue, Suite 200, Palo Alto, California   94301
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 650-319-1920

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨     Accelerated filer   x
Non-accelerated filer   ¨     (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)   Smaller reporting company   ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

The number of shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding as of November 4, 2015 was 75,890,197.

 

 

 


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JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

INDEX TO FORM 10-Q

 

          Page  

PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

  

Item 1.

   Financial Statements (Unaudited)   
   Consolidated Balance Sheets – September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014      2   
   Consolidated Statements of Operations – Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2015 and 2014      3   
   Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss – Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2015 and 2014      4   
   Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows – Nine Months Ended September 30, 2015 and 2014      5   
   Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements      6   

Item 2.

   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations      13   

Item 3.

   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk      28   

Item 4.

   Controls and Procedures      28   

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

  

Item 1A.

   Risk Factors      28   

Item 5.

   Other Information      49   

Item 6.

   Exhibits      49   

Signatures

     50   

 

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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements

JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

     September 30,
2015
    December 31,
2014
 

Assets

    

Current assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 17,451      $ 20,594   

Short-term marketable securities

     93,767        93,001   

Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $973 and $559

     47,037        66,729   

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     13,558        13,490   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     171,813        193,814   

Marketable securities, noncurrent

     8,384        7,542   

Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $35,509 and $29,548

     11,857        12,986   

Goodwill

     29,753        29,753   

Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization of $21,216 and $17,390

     5,622        9,448   

Other assets

     8,750        9,314   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 236,179      $ 262,857   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

    

Current liabilities:

    

Accounts payable

   $ 7,889      $ 3,565   

Accrued payroll and related liabilities

     5,840        6,622   

Other accrued liabilities

     7,972        8,246   

Deferred revenue, current

     121,752        128,592   

Term debt, current

     2,400        2,400   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     145,853        149,425   

Deferred revenue, less current portion

     19,522        31,947   

Term debt, less current portion

     1,800        3,600   

Other long-term liabilities

     1,665        1,288   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     168,840        186,260   

Commitments and contingencies (Note 9)

    

Stockholders’ Equity:

    

Common stock, $0.0001 par value. Authorized 290,000 shares;
issued – 82,257 shares at September 30, 2015 and 80,342 at December 31, 2014; outstanding – 75,831 at September 30, 2015 and 73,917 at December 31, 2014

     7        7   

Less treasury stock at cost

     (3,352     (3,352

Additional paid-in capital

     380,636        363,587   

Accumulated deficit

     (309,988     (283,684

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     36        39   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

     67,339        76,597   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 236,179      $ 262,857   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

 

     For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
             2015                     2014                     2015                     2014          

Revenues:

        

Product

   $ 45,960      $ 42,162      $ 133,628      $ 118,576   

Professional services

     3,945        4,438        12,014        12,428   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenues

     49,905        46,600        145,642        131,004   

Cost of revenues:

        

Product

     12,623        11,175        36,630        31,931   

Professional services

     5,542        6,060        16,912        17,399   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues

     18,165        17,235        53,542        49,330   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     31,740        29,365        92,100        81,674   

Operating expenses:

        

Research and development

     13,187        13,608        40,737        39,496   

Sales and marketing

     20,172        21,696        57,996        66,855   

General and administrative

     7,141        6,161        20,420        18,994   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     40,500        41,465        119,153        125,345   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (8,760     (12,100     (27,053     (43,671

Other income (expense), net:

        

Interest income

     72        50        192        151   

Interest expense

     (27     (55     (149     (202

Other, net

     (1     160        1,036        9   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total other income (expense), net

     44        155        1,079        (42
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before provision for income taxes

     (8,716     (11,945     (25,974     (43,713

Provision for income taxes

     113        164        330        350   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (8,829   $ (12,109   $ (26,304   $ (44,063
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Basic and diluted net loss per share

   $ (0.12   $ (0.17   $ (0.35   $ (0.63
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Shares used in basic and diluted per share calculations

     75,632        71,026        74,922        70,202   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

     For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
             2015                     2014                     2015                     2014          

Net loss

   $ (8,829   $ (12,109   $ (26,304   $ (44,063

Other comprehensive loss related to:

        

Foreign currency translation, net of tax

     (139     (179     (60     (94

Unrealized gain (loss) on marketable securities, net of tax

     32        (17     57        (15
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other comprehensive loss

     (107     (196     (3     (109
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

   $ (8,936   $ (12,305   $ (26,307   $ (44,172
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2015     2014  

Cash flows from operating activities:

    

Net loss

   $ (26,304   $ (44,063

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

    

Depreciation and amortization

     11,871        11,650   

Stock-based compensation

     16,765        26,820   

Change in deferred taxes

     95        96   

Non-recurring gain

     (1,107     —     

(Increase) decrease in:

    

Accounts receivable, net

     19,692        8,820   

Prepaid expenses and other assets

     (664     (5,918

Increase (decrease) in:

    

Accounts payable

     4,155        893   

Accrued payroll and related liabilities

     (779     (899

Other accrued liabilities

     (207     1,128   

Deferred revenue

     (19,265     (170

Other long-term liabilities

     282        37   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

     4,534        (1,606

Cash flows from investing activities:

    

Payments for purchase of property and equipment

     (4,783     (7,891

Purchases of marketable securities

     (81,445     (80,036

Sales of marketable securities

     17,903        18,672   

Maturities of marketable securities

     61,101        61,774   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (7,224     (7,481

Cash flows from financing activities:

    

Proceeds from exercise of stock options

     1,073        1,747   

Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards

     (789     (1,571

Repayments of term loans

     (1,800     (1,800

Earnout payment for prior acquisition

     —          (576

Non-recurring gain

     1,107        —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in financing activities

     (409     (2,200
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

     (3,099     (11,287

Effect of exchange rate changes

     (44     56   

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

     20,594        38,415   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

   $ 17,451      $ 27,184   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

CONDENSED NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

Note 1.     Nature of Business

We provide products that we believe improve business results by enabling a more productive and effective workforce through enhanced communications and collaboration both inside and outside the enterprise. Organizations deploy our products to improve the level of engagement, the quality of interaction and the overall relationship they have with their employees, customers and partners. Our products are primarily offered on a subscription basis, deployable in a private or public cloud and used for internal or external communities. We generate revenues from product subscription license fees as well as from professional service fees for strategic consulting, configuration, implementation and training.

Note 2.     Basis of Presentation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Jive Software, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements and condensed footnotes have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, the financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for fair presentation have been included. The results of operations for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 27, 2015.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses, and the related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the accompanying notes. Significant estimates include the estimates relating to:

 

    revenue recognition;

 

    the useful lives of property and equipment;

 

    stock-based compensation;

 

    assumptions used in testing for impairment of goodwill;

 

    other long-lived assets;

 

    capitalized software development costs; and

 

    the recoverability of deferred income tax assets and liabilities.

Actual results could differ from those estimates, and such differences may be material to the consolidated financial statements.

 

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Note 3.     Stock-Based Compensation

Stock Plan and Option Activity

Certain information regarding stock option activity for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2015 and stock options outstanding as of September 30, 2015 was as follows:

 

     Shares
Available
for Grant
    Outstanding
Stock
Options
    Weighted
average
exercise
price
     Weighted
average
remaining
life

(in years)
     Aggregate
intrinsic
value

(in
thousands)
 

Balances, December 31, 2014

     3,389,132        7,329,575      $ 5.97         

Additional shares reserved

     2,870,538             

Granted – stock options

     (1,743,630     1,743,630        5.50         

Forfeited – stock options

     762,578        (762,578     11.70         

Exercised – stock options

       (944,981     1.13         

Granted – restricted stock units (“RSUs”)

     (3,152,208          

Forfeited – RSUs

     742,976             

Forfeited – performance stock units (“PSUs”)

     250,000             

Vested RSUs adjusted for taxes

     151,217             
  

 

 

   

 

 

         

Balances, September 30, 2015

     3,270,603        7,365,646      $ 5.88         5.90       $ 8,900   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Exercisable at September 30, 2015

       4,743,434      $ 5.40         4.26       $ 8,900   
    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Vested and expected to vest

       6,999,763      $ 5.86         5.73       $ 8,900   
    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Activity

Restricted stock results from the exercise of non-qualified stock options (“NSOs”) with reverse vesting provisions and the grant of PSUs and RSUs. The shares of restricted stock vest over the period specified in the related NSO, PSU and RSU agreements. Restricted stock activity was as follows:

 

     Number
of shares
     Weighted average
grant date
fair value
 

Balances, December 31, 2014

     4,043,912       $ 11.21   

Granted – RSUs

     3,152,208         4.82   

Vested – RSUs

     (1,157,492      11.57   

Forfeited – RSUs

     (742,976      11.34   

Forfeited – PSUs

     (250,000      8.12   
  

 

 

    

Balances, September 30, 2015

     5,045,652         7.68   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

All shares to be issued upon the exercise of stock options and the vesting of RSUs and PSUs will come from newly issued shares.

 

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Stock-Based Compensation

Our stock-based compensation expense was included in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as follows (in thousands):

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
         2015              2014          2015      2014  

Cost of revenues

   $ 734       $ 1,014       $ 2,388       $ 3,125   

Research and development

     1,644         2,723         5,997         8,695   

Sales and marketing

     1,164         2,526         2,958         9,153   

General and administrative

     1,937         1,932         5,426         5,847   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 5,479       $ 8,195       $ 16,769       $ 26,820   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Stock-based compensation capitalized related to the development of internal-use software

   $ —         $ 211       $ —         $ 1,370   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

As of September 30, 2015, unrecognized stock-based compensation related to all stock-based awards was $39.9 million, which will be recognized over the weighted average remaining vesting period of 2.8 years.

Note 4.     Net Loss Per Share

Since we were in a loss position for all periods presented, basic net loss per share is the same as diluted net loss per share for all periods.

The following table sets forth the computation of historical basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands, except per share data):

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2015      2014      2015      2014  

Numerator:

           

Net loss

   $ (8,829    $ (12,109    $ (26,304    $ (44,063
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Denominator:

           

Weighted-average common shares outstanding

     75,673         71,426         75,101         70,752   

Less: Weighted-average unvested common shares subject to repurchase or forfeiture

     (41      (400      (179      (550
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted

     75,632         71,026         74,922         70,202   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

   $ (0.12    $ (0.17    $ (0.35    $ (0.63
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Potentially dilutive securities that are not included in the diluted per share calculations because they would be anti-dilutive were as follows:

 

     As of September 30,  
     2015      2014  

Shares subject to outstanding common stock options

     7,365,646         9,033,424   

Unvested restricted common stock

     5,045,652         5,105,020   

Common stock subject to repurchase

     41,344         396,368   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     12,452,642         14,534,812   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Note 5.     Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

Goodwill

Our goodwill balance did not change during the nine months ended September 30, 2015 or during the year ended December 31, 2014.

Other Intangible Assets, net

The following table presents our intangible assets and their related useful lives (dollars in thousands):

 

     Useful
Life
   September 30,
2015
     December 31,
2014
 

Acquired technology

   5-7 years    $ 20,441       $ 20,441   

Accumulated amortization

        (15,198      (12,049
     

 

 

    

 

 

 
        5,243         8,392   

Perpetual software licenses

   2 years      2,430         2,430   

Accumulated amortization

        (2,430      (2,430
     

 

 

    

 

 

 
        —           —     

Covenant not to compete

   1-4 years      2,028         2,028   

Accumulated amortization

        (1,923      (1,634
     

 

 

    

 

 

 
        105         394   

Other

   2-7 years      1,939         1,939   

Accumulated amortization

        (1,665      (1,277
     

 

 

    

 

 

 
        274         662   
     

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total intangible assets, net

      $ 5,622       $ 9,448   
     

 

 

    

 

 

 

Amortization expense related to intangible assets was as follows (in thousands):

 

Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
2015      2014      2015      2014  
$ 1,095       $ 1,210       $ 3,826       $ 3,651   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Expected future amortization expense as of September 30, 2015 is as follows (in thousands):

 

Remainder of 2015

   $ 1,076   

2016

     2,579   

2017

     1,587   

2018

     380   

2019

     —     

Thereafter

     —     
  

 

 

 
   $ 5,622   
  

 

 

 

 

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Note 6.     Cash, Cash Equivalents and Marketable Securities

Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

September 30, 2015

                           

Description

   Cost      Unrealized
Gains
     Unrealized
Losses
     Estimated
Fair Value
 

Cash

   $ 16,549       $ —         $ —         $ 16,549   

Cash equivalents:

           

Money market mutual funds

     902         —           —           902   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

     17,451         —           —           17,451   

Short-term marketable securities:

           

Commercial paper

     5,496         —           —           5,496   

Corporate notes and bonds

     48,770         —           (4      48,766   

Government obligations

     1,999         2         —           2,001   

U.S. agency obligations

     37,500         4         —           37,504   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total short-term marketable securities

     93,765         6         (4      93,767   

Marketable securities, noncurrent:

           

Corporate notes and bonds

     5,383         —           (1      5,382   

Government obligations

     1,996         4         —           2,000   

U.S. agency obligations

     1,001         1         —           1,002   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total marketable securities, noncurrent

     8,380         5         (1      8,384   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents, short-term marketable securities and marketable securities, noncurrent

   $ 119,596       $ 11       $ (5    $ 119,602   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2014

                           

Description

   Cost      Unrealized
Gains
     Unrealized
Losses
     Estimated
Fair Value
 

Cash

   $ 18,985       $ —         $ —         $ 18,985   

Cash equivalents:

           

Money market mutual funds

     1,609         —           —           1,609   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

     20,594         —           —           20,594   

Short-term marketable securities:

           

Commercial paper

     2,499         —           —           2,499   

Corporate notes and bonds

     53,643         —           (35      53,608   

U.S. agency obligations

     36,907         —           (13      36,894   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total short-term marketable securities

     93,049         —           (48      93,001   

Marketable securities, noncurrent:

           

Corporate notes and bonds

     3,501         —           (4      3,497   

Government obligations

     1,995         1         —           1,996   

U.S. agency obligations

     2,049         —           —           2,049   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total marketable securities, noncurrent

     7,545         1         (4      7,542   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents, short-term marketable securities and marketable securities, noncurrent

   $ 121,188       $ 1       $ (52    $ 121,137   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

As of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, we did not consider any of our investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired.

As of September 30, 2015, the following table summarizes the estimated fair value of our investments in marketable securities, all of which are considered available-for-sale, classified by the contractual maturity date (in thousands):

 

Due within 1 year

   $ 93,767   

Due within 1 year through 3 years

     8,384   
  

 

 

 

Total marketable securities

   $ 102,151   
  

 

 

 

See also Note 7.

 

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Note 7.     Fair Value Measurements

Factors used in determining the fair value of financial assets and liabilities are summarized into three broad categories:

 

    Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical securities as of the reporting date;

 

    Level 2 – other significant directly or indirectly observable inputs, including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risk; and

 

    Level 3 – significant inputs that are generally less observable than objective sources, including our own assumptions in determining fair value.

The factors or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The following tables present our financial assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis (in thousands):

 

     September 30, 2015  
     Level 1      Level 2      Level 3      Total  

Assets:

           

Cash equivalents

           

Money market mutual funds

   $ 902       $ —         $ —         $ 902   

Marketable securities

           

Commercial paper

     —           5,496         —           5,496   

Corporate notes and bonds

     —           54,148         —           54,148   

Government obligations

     —           4,001         —           4,001   

U.S. agency obligations

     —           38,506         —           38,506   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
     —           102,151         —           102,151   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 902       $ 102,151       $ —         $ 103,053   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     December 31, 2014  
     Level 1      Level 2      Level 3      Total  

Assets:

           

Cash equivalents

           

Money market mutual funds

   $ 1,609       $ —         $ —         $ 1,609   

Marketable securities

           

Commercial paper

     —           2,499         —           2,499   

Corporate notes and bonds

     —           57,105         —           57,105   

Government obligations

     —           1,996         —           1,996   

U.S. agency obligations

     —           38,943         —           38,943   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
     —           100,543         —           100,543   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 1,609       $ 100,543       $ —         $ 102,152   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

We did not have any financial liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis at September 30, 2015 or December 31, 2014.

We classify our marketable securities as available-for-sale and, accordingly, record them at fair value based on quoted market prices for similar securities. Unrealized holding gains and losses are excluded from earnings and are reported as a separate component of Stockholders’ equity until realized. See the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss.

There were no changes to our valuation techniques during the nine months ended September 30, 2015.

During the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, we did not record any other-than-temporary impairments.

We recognize or disclose the fair value of certain assets such as non-financial assets, primarily long-lived

 

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assets, goodwill, intangible assets and certain other assets in connection with impairment evaluations. All of our non-recurring valuations use significant unobservable inputs and therefore fall under Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

The carrying value of our term loan approximates its fair value and falls under Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, as the interest rate is variable and based on current market rates.

Note 8.     Long-Term Debt

We have a secured revolving loan facility and term loan facility of up to $30.0 million under a loan agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”), which expires by its terms on May 23, 2017.

On March 31, 2015, we entered into a Third Loan Modification Agreement with SVB to modify the adjusted EBITDA financial covenant for periods ending after December 31, 2014 and to amend the expiration date of the Loan Agreement.

At September 30, 2015, we had $0.7 million of outstanding letters of credit, no revolving loans outstanding under the Loan Agreement and $4.2 million of term loans outstanding at an interest rate of 2.33%. We were in compliance with all covenants as of September 30, 2015.

Note 9.     Commitments and Contingencies

In addition to the $23.0 million of future payments under our operating leases, we have $3.6 million of commitments under non-cancelable purchase orders at September 30, 2015. These non-cancelable purchase order commitments will be filled at various times through the second quarter of 2017; and our longest operating lease expires in October 2022.

Note 10.     Statements of Cash Flows

The summary of supplemental cash flows information is as follows (in thousands):

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2015      2014      2015      2014  

Supplemental Cash Flow Information

           

Cash paid for interest

   $ 26       $ 39       $ 100       $ 145   

Cash paid for income taxes

     4         96         282         193   

Note 11.     Related-Party Transactions

Certain members of our board of directors also serve on the board of directors of certain of our customers and in some cases are also investors of these customers. Certain information regarding these customers was as follows (in thousands):

 

     September 30,
2015
     December 31,
2014
 

Accounts receivable

   $ 68       $ 46   

Current deferred revenue

     523         548   

Non-current deferred revenue

     72         75   

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
         2015              2014              2015              2014      

Revenues

   $ 274       $ 278       $ 769       $ 737   

 

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Note 12.     Disgorgement Funds Received

On January 8, 2015, we received $1.1 million from a stockholder in settlement of a claim under Section 16(b) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We recognized the amount when realized in other, net on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The amount is reflected as a non-recurring gain in our financing cash flows on our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

Note 13.     New Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers,” which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The ASU will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in GAAP when it becomes effective. The new standard, as amended, is effective for us on January 1, 2018 with early application effective January 1, 2017 permitted. The standard permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. We are evaluating the effect that ASU 2014-09 will have on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. We have not yet selected a transition method nor have we determined the effect of the standard on our ongoing financial reporting.

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-05, “Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40).” ASU 2015-05 provides guidance regarding the accounting for a customer’s fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement; specifically about whether a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license, and, if so, how to account for the software license. ASU 2015-05 is effective for public companies’ annual periods, including interim periods, beginning after December 15, 2015. Early adoption is permitted. We do not expect the adoption of ASU 2015-05 to have a material effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Forward Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”). Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “plan,” “expect” or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following:

 

    the effects of increased competition in our market;

 

    our ability to successfully enter new markets and manage our international expansion;

 

    our ability to timely and effectively scale and adapt our existing technology and network infrastructure;

 

    our ability to timely and effectively acquire or develop new products that meet the needs and expectations of our market;

 

    our ability to increase adoption of our platform by our customers’ internal and external users;

 

    our ability to grow our external community business;

 

    our ability to protect our users’ information and adequately address security and privacy concerns;

 

    our ability to maintain an adequate rate of growth;

 

    our future expenses;

 

    our ability to effectively manage our growth;

 

    our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our brand and intellectual property;

 

    the attraction and retention of qualified employees and key personnel; and

 

    other risk factors included under “Risk Factors” in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

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These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Please refer to Item 1A. Risk Factors in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, for a discussion of reasons why our actual results may differ materially from our forward-looking statements. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so, even if our expectations change.

Overview

We provide products that we believe improve business results by enabling a more productive and effective workforce through enhanced communications and collaboration both inside and outside the enterprise. Organizations deploy our products to improve the level of engagement, the quality of interaction and the overall relationship they have with their employees, customers and partners. Our products are primarily sold on a subscription basis, deployable in a private or public cloud and used for internal or external communities. We generate revenues from product subscription license fees as well as from professional service fees for strategic consulting, configuration, implementation and training.

We sell our comprehensive Jive Platform across two principal communities: internally for employees within the enterprise and externally for customers and partners outside the enterprise. Internally focused communities comprised 75.9% of revenues derived from our Jive Platform in the first nine months of 2015 compared to 73.5% in the first nine months of 2014. As the market opportunity for enterprise collaboration software within the enterprise continues to grow, we expect revenues generated from internally focused communities to continue to be a higher percentage of our total revenues than revenues generated from externally focused communities. However, we believe there is a meaningful growth opportunity in the external community market as well, and we are continuing to invest in our external community technology with the goal of growing market-share.

Our products are provided as cloud services with certain products also being available on-premise. Jive Cloud is our non-customizable version of our cloud-based platform, which is generally on a quarterly release cycle for new features and functionality. In the first nine months of 2015, product revenues from all public cloud deployments, including Jive Cloud, represented 66.7% of total product revenues compared to 67.7% in the first nine months of 2014. With the release of Jive Cloud and the increase in overall adoption by enterprises of cloud-based technologies, we anticipate that, over the long-term, public cloud deployments of our platform will continue to comprise an increasing portion of our business.

Historically, we have generated the majority of our revenues from sales to customers within the United States. Revenues from customers in the United States accounted for 73.4% of total revenues in the first nine months of 2015 compared to 76.4% in the first nine months of 2014. We are continuing to focus on strengthening our direct sales presence and network of channel partners internationally, and we anticipate the percentage of our revenues generated outside of the United States may increase in the future.

In 2015, we launched three new workstyle-focused applications built around employees’ mobile work habits:

 

    Jive Daily. A modern, mobile employee communications and strategic alignment solution.

 

    Jive Chime. A frictionless, real-time messaging solution for co-workers available on mobile devices and desktops.

 

    Jive Circle. An enhanced, dynamic company directory to identify and connect with colleagues on the go.

The Jive workstyle mobile applications are built on a unified architecture and will be capable of use by users either independently or together as a suite of products.

 

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Seasonality

Our fourth quarter has historically been our strongest quarter for new billings and renewals. This pattern may be amplified over time if the number of our customers with renewal dates occurring in the fourth quarter continues to increase. Furthermore, our quarterly sales cycles are frequently weighted toward the end of the quarter, with an increased volume of sales in the last few weeks of each quarter. The year-over-year compounding effect of this seasonality in billing patterns and overall new business and renewal activity has historically resulted in the value of invoices that we generate in the fourth quarter to increase in proportion to our billings in the other three quarters of our fiscal year. As a result, our first quarter has become our largest quarter for collections and operating cash flow. We expect this trend to continue in future years.

Critical Accounting Policies and the Use of Estimates

Preparation of our financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. We believe the most complex and sensitive judgments, because of their significance to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, result primarily from the need to make estimates about the effects of matters that are inherently uncertain.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis and Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in our 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K describe the significant accounting estimates and policies used in preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements. Actual results in these areas could differ from management’s estimates. During the first nine months of 2015, there were no significant changes in our critical accounting policies or estimates from those reported in our 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 27, 2015.

New Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 13 of the Condensed Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for a discussion of new accounting pronouncements.

Non-GAAP Key Metrics

In addition to GAAP metrics, such as total revenues and gross margin, we also regularly review short-term billings and total billings, both non-GAAP measures, as well as the number of Jive Platform customers to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, allocate capital and make strategic decisions.

 

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The following tables set forth a reconciliation of total revenues to short-term billings and total billings, respectively (dollars in thousands):

Short-Term Billings

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Dollar
Change
     % Change  
     2015      2014        

Total revenues

   $ 49,905       $ 46,600       $ 3,305         7.1

Deferred revenue, current, end of period

     121,752         114,777         6,975         6.1

Less: deferred revenue, current, beginning of period

     (123,779      (116,134      (7,645      6.6
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

Short-term billings

   $ 47,878       $ 45,243       $ 2,635         5.8
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
     Dollar
Change
     % Change  
     2015      2014        

Total revenues

   $ 145,642       $ 131,004       $ 14,638         11.2

Deferred revenue, current, end of period

     121,752         114,777         6,975         6.1

Less: deferred revenue, current, beginning of period

     (128,592      (112,432      (16,160      14.4
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

Short-term billings

   $ 138,802       $ 133,349       $ 5,453         4.1
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Billings

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Dollar
Change
     % Change  
     2015      2014        

Total revenues

   $ 49,905       $ 46,600       $ 3,305         7.1

Deferred revenue, end of period

     141,274         147,167         (5,893      (4.0 )% 

Less: deferred revenue, beginning of period

     (147,891      (143,578      (4,313      3.0
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

Total billings

   $ 43,288       $ 50,189       $ (6,901      (13.8 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
     Dollar
Change
     % Change  
     2015      2014        

Total revenues

   $ 145,642       $ 131,004       $ 14,638         11.2

Deferred revenue, end of period

     141,274         147,167         (5,893      (4.0 )% 

Less: deferred revenue, beginning of period

     (160,539      (147,337      (13,202      9.0
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

Total billings

   $ 126,377       $ 130,834       $ (4,457      (3.4 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

We monitor short-term billings and total billings in addition to other financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP to manage our business, make planning decisions, evaluate our performance and allocate resources. We believe that these non-GAAP measures offer valuable supplemental information regarding the performance of our business, and they will help investors better understand the sales volumes and performance of our business.

Our uses of short-term billings and total billings have limitations as analytical tools, and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for total revenues or an analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are:

 

    short-term billings and total billings are not substitutes for total revenues, as billings are recognized when invoiced, while revenue is primarily recognized ratably over the contract term;

 

    short-term billings can include fees paid for license terms greater than 12 months in prior periods that were previously recorded on our Consolidated Balance Sheets as a component of non-current deferred revenue and were reclassified in the current period as deferred revenue, current and therefore do not always reflect billings that occurred in the period;

 

   

total billings can include fees paid for license terms greater than 12 months and for subscription

 

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renewals prior to the expiration of the current subscription term and, therefore, do not always closely match with the timing of delivery of support, maintenance and hosting services and the costs associated with delivering those services;

 

    changes to the composition of current period short-term billings and total billings may impact the correlation of current period short-term billings and total billings to future period revenues;

 

    short-term billings and total billings would not exclude any agreements that contain customer acceptance provisions or other contractual contingencies that would require deferral of revenue required under GAAP; and

 

    other companies, including companies in our industry, may not use short-term billings or total billings, may calculate non-GAAP measures differently or may use other financial measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP measures as comparative measures.

We consider short-term billings and total billings to be significant performance measures and leading indicators of future recognized revenue based on our business model of billing for subscription licenses annually and recognizing revenue ratably over the subscription term. The billings we record in any particular period reflect sales to new customers plus subscription renewals and upsell to existing customers, and represent amounts invoiced for product license fees and professional services. We typically invoice our customers for subscription fees in annual increments upon initiation of the initial contract or subsequent renewal. In addition, we also enter into arrangements with customers to purchase subscriptions for a term greater than 12 months, most typically 36 months. For subscriptions greater than 12 months, the customer has the option of being invoiced annually or paying for the full term of the subscription at the time the contract is signed. If the customer elects to pay the full multi-year amount at the time the contract is signed, the total amount billed for the entire term will be reflected in total billings; but only the amount that will be recognized as revenue in the following 12 month period would be included in short-term billings until the portion of the total billings beyond 12 months is subsequently reclassified from non-current deferred revenue to deferred revenue, current in a future period. However, if the customer elects to be invoiced annually for a multi-year contract, only the amount billed for the 12-month period will be included in both short-term billings and total billings. The portion of subscription terms under contract and not yet invoiced is considered backlog and is not reflected on our Consolidated Balance Sheets as deferred revenue.

Billings for consulting services can occur on either a time and materials or fixed fee basis. Billings for time and materials contracts typically occur on a bi-weekly basis as the services are delivered. Billings for fixed fee contracts are typically billed 100% at the beginning of the contract or 50% upon either signing or initiation of the project and 50% upon completion of the project.

The increases in short-term billings in the periods presented were primarily driven by an increase in customers renewing prior to the period in which their existing subscription term concludes, the addition of new customers and increased upsell of our products to existing customers.

The decreases in total billings in the periods presented were primarily driven by a decrease in customers electing multi-year terms where the full amount was billed up front.

Jive Platform Customers

We define the number of our platform customers at the end of any given measurement period by counting each customer under an active contract for our Jive Platform products that carries a balance in our deferred revenue account at the end of that period. While a single customer may have multiple internal and external communities to support distinct departments, operating segments or geographies, we only include that customer once for purposes of this metric. We believe the number of Jive Platform customers is a leading indicator of our future revenues, billings and upsell opportunities.

 

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Our Jive Platform customer count was as follows:

 

     As of September 30,                
     2015      2014      Change      % Change  

Jive Platform customer count

     989         936         53         5.7
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Our product revenues grew by 12.7% in the first nine months of 2015 compared to the first nine months of 2014. Our product revenues have grown at a faster rate than our customer count as we have realized greater upsell with our existing customers.

Components of Results of Operations

Revenues

We generate revenues primarily in the form of software subscription fees and professional services for strategic consulting, upgrade services, configuration, implementation and other services related to our software. We offer our products with subscription terms typically ranging from 12 to 36 months. In addition to license fees for our platform, our revenues include fees for sales of modules, premium support offerings, additional users and page views. While subscription-based licenses make up the substantial majority of our product revenues, in certain instances we license our software to customers on a perpetual basis, with ongoing support and maintenance services. Revenues generated through the sale of subscription licenses also include fees, embedded in the total license fee, for updates and maintenance. We recognize revenue from professional services ratably over the subscription term when they are bundled with a subscription license, because we do not have fair value for all of our undelivered elements, including support and professional services. When professional services are sold on a standalone basis, the contract revenue is recognized as the services are delivered. These amounts, when recognized, are classified as professional services revenues on our Consolidated Statements of Operations based on the hourly rates at which they are billed.

Cost of Revenues

Cost of product revenues includes all direct costs to produce and distribute our product offerings, including data center and support personnel, depreciation and maintenance related to equipment located at our hosting service providers and in our Jive managed data centers, salaries, amortization related to capitalized software development costs, rent expense for our data centers, web hosting services expense for cloud implementations, third-party royalty costs, benefits, amortization of acquired intangible assets and stock-based compensation. We recognize expense related to cost of revenues as they are incurred, while the associated product revenues are recognized ratably over the subscription term.

Cost of professional services revenues includes all direct costs to provide our professional services, which primarily include salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation for our professional services personnel, as well as third-party subcontracting and outside services fees. We recognize expenses related to our professional services organization as they are incurred, while the majority of associated professional services revenues are recognized ratably over the subscription term.

Cost of revenues also includes allocated overhead costs for facilities and information technology. Allocated costs for facilities consist of rent and depreciation of equipment and leasehold improvements related to our facilities. Our allocated costs for information technology include costs for compensation of our information technology personnel and the cost associated with our information technology infrastructure. Our overhead costs are allocated to all departments based on headcount.

We expect that cost of revenues may increase in the future depending on the growth rate of our new customers and billings and our need to support the implementation, hosting and support of those new customers. We also expect that cost of revenues as a percentage of total revenues could fluctuate from period to period depending on growth of our services business and any associated costs relating to the delivery of services, the timing of sales of products that have royalties associated with them, the amount and timing of amortization of intangibles from acquisitions and capitalized software development costs and the timing of significant expenditures. Additionally, we expect professional services gross margin to continue to be negative through the remainder of 2015 as we continue to focus our professional services organization on strategic consulting, user adoption and enablement.

 

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Research and Development

Research and development costs include salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation for our engineers and developers, allocated facilities costs and payments to third parties for research and development of new software. We focus our research and development efforts on developing new versions of our platform with new and expanded features and enhancing the ease of use of our platform. We believe that continued investment in our technology is important for our future growth, and, as a result, we expect research and development expenses to increase in absolute dollars although they may fluctuate as a percentage of total revenues.

Through the third quarter of 2014, we capitalized costs to develop internal-use software during the application development stage. In the third quarter of 2014, management developed a substantive plan to repurpose the in-process development into our existing software platform and new software products. As a result of this decision, the associated capitalized internal-use software costs became governed by the accounting standards related to capitalized software development costs. As such, subsequent to July 2014, we no longer capitalize costs related to internal-use software and we account for our current capitalized costs as capitalized software development costs.

Material software development costs incurred subsequent to establishing technological feasibility through the general release of the software products are capitalized. Technological feasibility is demonstrated by the completion of a detailed program design or, working model if no program design is completed. Historically, technological feasibility has occurred concurrently with the commercial release of our products and as a result we have not capitalized software development costs. We do not anticipate capitalizing material software development costs in future periods.

The software development costs are being amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful life and recorded as a component of cost of product revenues. We begin amortizing the associated capitalized costs upon each product’s or enhancement’s release. Through September 30, 2015, we released products and enhancements related to $4.4 million of the capitalized costs. We anticipate the remaining products and enhancements related to the capitalized costs to be commercially released through the second half of 2016.

We make ongoing evaluations of the recoverability of our capitalized software by comparing the amount capitalized for each product to the estimated net realizable value of the product. If such evaluations indicate that the unamortized software development costs exceed the net realizable value, we write off the amount by which the unamortized software development costs exceed net realizable value. There was no impairment charge related to capitalized software development costs during the three or nine months ended September 30, 2015 or 2014.

Capitalized computer software development costs consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     September 30,
2015
     December 31,
2014
 

Capitalized software development costs

   $ 8,981       $ 8,981   

Accumulated amortization

     (1,431      (65
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 7,550       $ 8,916   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing expenses primarily consist of salaries, incentive compensation and benefits, travel expense, marketing program fees, partner referral fees and stock-based compensation. Sales incentive compensation is recorded as earned as a component of sales and marketing expense. Sales incentive compensation is generally earned at the time a customer enters into a binding purchase agreement while associated revenue is recognized ratably over the subscription term. In addition, sales and marketing expenses include customer acquisition marketing, branding, advertising, customer events and public

 

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relations costs, as well as allocated facilities costs. We plan to continue investing in sales and marketing to expand our global operations, increase revenues from current customers, build brand awareness and expand our indirect sales channel. We expect sales and marketing expenses to remain relatively unchanged in absolute dollars and remain our largest expense in absolute dollars and as a percentage of total revenues, although they may fluctuate as a percentage of total revenues.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses primarily consist of salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation for our executive, finance, legal, information technology, human resources and other administrative employees. In addition, general and administrative expenses include legal and accounting services, outside consulting, facilities and other supporting overhead costs not allocated to other departments. We expect that our general and administrative expenses will increase in absolute dollars as we continue to expand our business domestically and internationally.

Other Income (Expense), Net

Other income (expense), net consists primarily of interest expense on our outstanding debt and foreign exchange gains and losses, as well as income related to our investments. Also included in the first nine months of 2015 is a disgorgement of profits from a stockholder to us in settlement of a claim under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.

Provision For Income Taxes

Provision for income taxes consists of federal and state income taxes in the United States and income taxes in certain foreign tax jurisdictions. Since we have generated net losses, we have placed a valuation allowance against any potential future benefits for loss carryforwards and research and development and other tax credits.

Results of Operations

The following tables set forth our statement of operations data, both in absolute dollars and as a percentage of total revenues (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts):

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30, 2015(1)(2)
    Three Months Ended
September 30, 2014(1)(2)
 

Revenues:

          

Products

   $ 45,960         92.1   $ 42,162         90.5

Professional services

     3,945         7.9     4,438         9.5
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenues

     49,905         100.0     46,600         100.0

Cost of revenues:

          

Products

     12,623         25.3     11,175         24.0

Professional services

     5,542         11.1     6,060         13.0
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues

     18,165         36.4     17,235         37.0
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Gross profit:

          

Products

     33,337         66.8     30,987         66.5

Professional services

     (1,597      (3.2 )%      (1,622      (3.5 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total gross profit

     31,740         63.6     29,365         63.0

Operating expenses:

          

Research and development

     13,187         26.4     13,608         29.2

Sales and marketing

     20,172         40.4     21,696         46.6

General and administrative

     7,141         14.3     6,161         13.2
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     40,500         81.2     41,465         89.0
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (8,760      (17.6 )%      (12,100      (26.0 )% 

Other income, net

     44         0.1     155         0.3
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Loss before provision for income taxes

     (8,716      (17.5 )%      (11,945      (25.6 )% 

Provision for income taxes

     113         0.2     164         0.4
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (8,829      (17.7 )%    $ (12,109      (26.0 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Basic and diluted net loss per common share

   $ (0.12      $ (0.17   
  

 

 

      

 

 

    

Shares used in per share calculations

     75,632           71,026      
  

 

 

      

 

 

    

 

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     Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2015(1)(2)
    Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2014(1)(2)
 

Revenues:

          

Products

   $ 133,628         91.8   $ 118,576         90.5

Professional services

     12,014         8.2     12,428         9.5
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenues

     145,642         100.0     131,004         100.0

Cost of revenues:

          

Products

     36,630         25.2     31,931         24.4

Professional services

     16,912         11.6     17,399         13.3
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues

     53,542         36.8     49,330         37.7
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Gross profit:

          

Products

     96,998         66.6     86,645         66.1

Professional services

     (4,898      (3.4 )%      (4,971      (3.8 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total gross profit

     92,100         63.2     81,674         62.3

Operating expenses:

          

Research and development

     40,737         28.0     39,496         30.1

Sales and marketing

     57,996         39.8     66,855         51.0

General and administrative

     20,420         14.0     18,994         14.5
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     119,153         81.8     125,345         95.7
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (27,053      (18.6 )%      (43,671      (33.3 )% 

Other income (expense), net

     1,079         0.7     (42      0.0
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Loss before provision for income taxes

     (25,974      (17.8 )%      (43,713      (33.4 )% 

Provision for income taxes

     330         0.2     350         0.3
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (26,304      (18.1 )%    $ (44,063      (33.6 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Basic and diluted net loss per common share

   $ (0.35      $ (0.63   
  

 

 

      

 

 

    

Shares used in per share calculations

     74,922           70,202      
  

 

 

      

 

 

    

 

(1) Stock-based compensation was included in our statements of operations data as follows (dollars in thousands):

 

       Three Months Ended
September 30, 2015(2)
     Three Months Ended
September 30, 2014(2)
 

Cost of revenues

     $ 734           1.5    $ 1,014           2.2

Research and development

       1,644           3.3      2,723           5.8

Sales and marketing

       1,164           2.3      2,526           5.4

General and administrative

       1,937           3.9      1,932           4.1
    

 

 

      

 

 

    

 

 

      

 

 

 
     $ 5,479           11.0    $ 8,195           17.6
    

 

 

      

 

 

    

 

 

      

 

 

 
       Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2015(2)
     Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2014(2)
 

Cost of revenues

     $ 2,388           1.6    $ 3,125           2.4

Research and development

       5,997           4.1      8,695           6.6

Sales and marketing

       2,958           2.0      9,153           7.0

General and administrative

       5,426           3.7      5,847           4.5
    

 

 

      

 

 

    

 

 

      

 

 

 
     $ 16,769           11.5    $ 26,820           20.5
    

 

 

      

 

 

    

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

(2) Percentages may not add due to rounding.

 

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Revenues

 

(Dollars in thousands)

   Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Dollar
Change
     % Change  
     2015      2014        

Products

   $ 45,960       $ 42,162       $ 3,798         9.0

Professional services

     3,945         4,438         (493      (11.1 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

Total revenues

   $ 49,905       $ 46,600       $ 3,305         7.1
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

   Nine Months Ended
September 30,
     Dollar
Change
     % Change  
     2015      2014        

Products

   $ 133,628       $ 118,576       $ 15,052         12.7

Professional services

     12,014         12,428         (414      (3.3 )% 
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

Total revenues

   $ 145,642       $ 131,004       $ 14,638         11.2
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Products Revenues

The increases in products revenue in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same periods in 2014 were primarily the result of increases in the average annual subscription value and in the aggregate number of customers on the Jive Platform, which grew to 989 as of September 30, 2015 from 936 as of September 30, 2014. The increases in the average annual subscription value were primarily driven by upsell to existing customers.

Certain revenue information was as follows:

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2015     2014     2015     2014  

Dollar value of total revenues generated in the U.S.

   $ 36.7 million      $ 35.4 million      $ 106.9 million      $ 100.1 million   

Percentage of total revenues generated in the U.S.

     73.6     76.0     73.4     76.4

Product revenues from public cloud deployments as percentage of total product revenues

     66.7     68.7     66.7     67.7

Product revenues from private cloud deployments as percentage of total product revenues

     33.3     31.3     33.3     32.3

Percentage of Jive Platform revenues that represented internally focused communities

     76.9     73.9     75.9     73.5

Percentage of Jive Platform revenues that represented externally focused communities

     23.1     26.1     24.1     26.5

Additionally, renewal rates, excluding upsell, were slightly below 90% for transactions over $50,000 in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015. They were slightly above 90% for the three and nine-month period ended September 30, 2014. Renewal rates being slightly below 90% is the result of certain enterprise customers electing not to renew due to a combination of factors including competition, level of usage and budget constraints.

Professional Services Revenues

The decreases in professional services revenue in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same periods in 2014 were primarily due to a decrease in standalone services sold during 2015. Professional services revenues as a percentage of product revenues decreased slightly in the 2015 periods compared to the 2014 periods. We expect this percentage to experience minor fluctuations as we focus our professional services organization on strategic consulting and migrating existing customers to the Jive Cloud, which requires less customization work to implement.

We offer professional services as both standalone and bundled services. When sold as standalone services, the contract revenue is recognized as the services are delivered. For our bundled services, the amounts are recognized ratably over the subscription term of which they are bundled with. Standalone professional services revenues in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 decreased $0.2 million and $0.4 million, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2014.

 

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Cost of Revenues and Gross Margins

Cost of Revenues: Products

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Cost of revenues: products

   $ 12,623      $ 11,175      $ 1,448         13.0

Products gross margin

     72.5     73.5     
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Cost of revenues: products

   $ 36,630      $ 31,931      $ 4,699         14.7

Products gross margin

     72.6     73.1     

The increases in cost of revenues for products in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same periods in 2014 were primarily due to the increases in products revenues and included the following:

 

    a $0.4 million and a $1.6 million increase, respectively, in third-party hosting services;

 

    a $0.6 million and a $1.4 million increase, respectively, in capitalized software amortization;

 

    a $0.4 million and a $1.2 million increase, respectively, in subscription services;

 

    a $0.2 million and a $0.6 million increase, respectively, in salaries and benefits, which includes a $0.1 million and a $0.4 million decrease, respectively, in stock-based compensation;

 

    a $0.6 million increase in third-party royalties for the nine-month period;

 

    a $0.4 million increase in rent for the nine-month period; and

 

    a $0.1 million increase in miscellaneous costs for each of the three and nine-month periods.

The increases in costs of revenues for products noted above were partially offset by a $0.3 million and a $1.2 million decrease, respectively, in depreciation expense.

Cost of Revenues: Professional Services

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Cost of revenues: professional services

   $ 5,542      $ 6,060      $ (518      (8.5 )% 

Professional services gross margin

     (40.5 )%      (36.5 )%      
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Cost of revenues: professional services

   $ 16,912      $ 17,399      $ (487      (2.8 )% 

Professional services gross margin

     (40.8 )%      (40.0 )%      

The decreases in cost of revenues for professional services in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same periods in 2014 were primarily due to:

 

    a $0.8 million and a $0.9 million decrease, respectively, in consulting fees;

 

    a $0.2 million and a $0.3 million increase, respectively, in salaries and benefits, which includes a $0.1 million increase and a $0.3 million decrease, respectively, in stock-based compensation; and

 

    a $0.1 million increase in miscellaneous costs for each of the three and nine-month periods.

 

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The decreases in professional services gross margin in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same periods in 2014 were primarily due to decreases in standalone professional services revenue.

Research and Development

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Research and development

   $ 13,187      $ 13,608      $ (421      (3.1 )% 

Percentage of total revenues

     26.4     29.2     
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Research and development

   $ 40,737      $ 39,496      $ 1,241         3.1

Percentage of total revenues

     28.0     30.1     

The decrease in research and development expenses in the three-month period ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same period in 2014 was primarily due to a $1.2 million decrease in salaries and benefits, which included a $1.1 million decrease in stock-based compensation. This decrease was partially offset by:

 

    a $0.3 million increase in overhead costs allocated to research and development based on relative headcount in 2015 compared to 2014;

 

    a $0.2 million increase in consulting fees; and

 

    a $0.3 million increase in other miscellaneous costs.

The increase in research and development expenses in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same period in 2014 was primarily due to:

 

    a $2.0 million increase in salaries and benefits;

 

    a $0.8 million increase in overhead costs allocated to research and development based on relative headcount in 2015 compared to 2014;

 

    a $0.3 million increase in consulting fees;

 

    a $0.3 million increase in amortization expense;

 

    a $0.3 million increase in third-party hosting services; and

 

    a $0.2 million increase in other miscellaneous costs.

The increases noted above were partially offset by a $2.7 million decrease in stock-based compensation.

During 2013 and 2014, we capitalized a total of $9.0 million of research and development expenses related to internal-use software development costs. These costs otherwise would have been recognized as research and development salaries and benefits expenses. In the third quarter of 2014, our management developed a substantive plan to repurpose the in-process development into our existing software platform and new software products. As a result of this decision, the associated capitalized internal-use software costs became governed by the accounting standards related to capitalized software development costs in the third quarter of 2014. Subsequent to July 2014, we no longer capitalize these costs, which will increase research and development costs in future periods as such costs will be recognized in the period they are incurred. Through September 30, 2015, we released products and enhancements related to a total of $4.4 million of the capitalized costs. We anticipate the remaining products and enhancements related to the capitalized costs to be commercially released through the second half of 2016. The capitalized amounts will be amortized over their estimated useful life once the related product is placed into service.

 

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Sales and Marketing

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Sales and marketing

   $ 20,172      $ 21,696      $ (1,524      (7.0 )% 

Percentage of total revenues

     40.4     46.6     
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Sales and marketing

   $ 57,996      $ 66,855      $ (8,859      (13.3 )% 

Percentage of total revenues

     39.8     51.0     

The decreases in sales and marketing expenses in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same periods in 2014 were primarily due to:

 

    a $2.5 million and a $8.6 million decrease, respectively, in salaries and benefits, including a $1.4 million and a $6.2 million decrease, respectively, in stock-based compensation;

 

    a $0.6 million and $0.8 million decrease, respectively, in marketing expenses related to brand audits that were performed during the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2014;

 

    a $0.5 million decrease in travel expenses for the nine-month period;

 

    a $0.3 million and a $1.2 million decrease, respectively, in third-party commissions; and

 

    a $0.2 million decrease in other miscellaneous costs for the nine-month period.

The decreases noted above were partially offset by:

 

    a $1.0 million and $1.8 million increase, respectively, in consulting fees;

 

    a $0.4 million and $0.3 million increase, respectively, in overhead costs allocated to sales and marketing based on relative headcount in 2015 compared to 2014;

 

    a $0.3 million increase in subscription services for each of the three and nine-month periods; and

 

    a $0.2 million increase in other miscellaneous costs for the three-month period.

General and Administrative

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

General and administrative

   $ 7,141      $ 6,161      $ 980         15.9

Percentage of total revenues

     14.3     13.2     
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

General and administrative

   $ 20,420      $ 18,994      $ 1,426         7.5

Percentage of total revenues

     14.0     14.5     

The increases in general and administrative expenses in the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same periods in 2014 were primarily due to:

 

    a $0.6 million and a $0.8 million increase, respectively, in third-party recruiting fees; and

 

    a $0.4 million and a $0.8 million increase, respectively, in salaries and benefits, which includes a $0.4 million decrease in stock-based compensation for the nine-month period.

The increase noted above was partially offset by a $0.2 million decrease in other miscellaneous costs in the nine-month period.

 

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Other Income (Expense), net

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Other income (expense), net

   $ 44      $ 155      $ (111      (71.6 )% 

Percentage of total revenues

     0.1     0.3     
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Dollar
Change
     % Change  

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015     2014       

Other income (expense), net

   $ 1,079      $ (42   $ 1,121         NM   

Percentage of total revenues

     0.7     (0.0 )%      

NM – not meaningful.

The decrease in other income (expense), net in the three-month period ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same period of 2014 was primarily due to a decrease in unrealized foreign currency gains.

The increase in other income (expense), net in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2015 compared to the same period of 2014 was primarily due to a $1.1 million disgorgement of profit from a stockholder to us in connection with the settlement of a claim under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.

Provision For Income Taxes

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
(Dollars in thousands)        2015             2014             2015             2014      

Provision for income taxes

   $ 113      $ 164      $ 330      $ 350   

Percentage of loss before income taxes

     1.3     1.4     1.3     0.8

In both the 2015 and 2014 periods, we recorded income taxes that were principally attributable to state and foreign taxes. We believe that the recognition of the deferred tax assets arising from future tax benefits as a result of our losses before provision for income taxes is not more likely than not to be realized. We therefore continued to record valuation allowances against our deferred tax assets and, accordingly, benefits generated related to losses were offset by increases in the valuation allowance.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 

(Dollars in thousands)

   2015      2014  

Cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ 4,534       $ (1,606

Cash used in investing activities

     (7,224      (7,481

Cash used in financing activities

     (409      (2,200
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Decrease in cash and cash equivalents

   $ (3,099    $ (11,287
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

We have financed our operations primarily through issuances of preferred stock, borrowings under our credit facility, cash generated from customer sales and the proceeds from our initial public offering in December 2011.

Our principal source of liquidity at September 30, 2015 consisted of $17.5 million of cash and cash equivalents, $93.8 million of short-term marketable securities and $8.4 million of non-current marketable securities. As of September 30, 2015, $3.1 million of our cash was held in foreign bank accounts. Our principal needs for liquidity include funding of our operating losses, working capital requirements, capital expenditures, debt service and acquisitions. We believe that our available resources are sufficient to fund our liquidity requirements for at least the next 12 months from September 30, 2015.

 

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Free cash flow, which we define as cash flows provided by operating activities minus cash flows used for the purchase of property and equipment, was negative $0.2 million in the first nine months of 2015. We expect free cash flow for the full year 2015 to be between negative $2.0 million and negative $7.0 million. This is primarily due to our first quarter being our largest quarter for collections and operating cash flow, which is offset by funding our operations and purchases of property and equipment through the remainder of the year.

Cash Flows from Operating Activities

Cash flows provided by operating activities were $4.5 million during the first nine months of 2015 compared to cash flows used in operating activities of $1.6 million in the first nine months of 2014. The increase in cash flows generated from operating activities primarily resulted from a lower net loss. Changes to our operating cash flows are historically impacted by the growth in our calculated billings and our ability to maintain or improve the timeframe to collect the cash from outstanding accounts receivable, or days billings outstanding, offset by funding our growth and working capital needs.

The $4.5 million of cash provided by operating activities in the first nine months of 2015 resulted from our net loss of $26.3 million, partially offset by net non-cash charges of $27.6 million. Net cash provided by operating activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2015 increased $6.1 million over the same period a year ago primarily due to higher collections than in the prior year and a decrease in net loss. Additionally, the timing of payments against accounts payable and timing of payments of annual contracts contributed to the increase.

Cash Flows from Investing Activities

Our primary investing activities have consisted of purchases of investments and purchases of property and equipment, primarily related to the build out of our data centers. We utilized $7.2 million in net investing activities in the first nine months of 2015, which included $4.8 million used for purchases of property and equipment and $2.4 million used for purchases of marketable securities, net of maturities and sales.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

Our financing activities have consisted primarily of repayments under our revolving credit facilities and the net proceeds from the issuance of our common stock from employee option exercises and equity awards. Cash used in financing activities of $0.4 million in the first nine months of 2015 resulted from $1.8 million in principal payments on our term debt and $0.8 million in taxes paid related to the net settlement of equity awards, partially offset by a $1.1 million disgorgement of profit by a stockholder to us and $1.1 million in cash receipts related to stock option exercises.

Debt Arrangements

Term Loan

We have a secured revolving loan facility and term loan facility of up to $30.0 million. Revolving loans may be converted into term loans under the facility, with all outstanding term loans reducing the availability under the revolving loan facility. Interest is accrued, at our option, at (i) an adjusted LIBOR rate, plus a margin of 2.0% or 2.25%, or (ii) the prime rate, plus a margin of 0.25% or 0.50%, in each case with such margin determined based on our adjusted quick ratio.

Repayment began July 1, 2012, and is payable in 16 quarterly installments. Each of the installment payments is $0.6 million, plus accrued interest. At September 30, 2015, we had $0.7 million of outstanding letters of credit, no revolving loans outstanding, $4.2 million of term loans outstanding at an interest rate of 2.33% and we were in compliance with all financial and restrictive covenants.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

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this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a material current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

 

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

There have been no material changes in our reported market risks or risk management policies since the filing of our 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 27, 2015.

 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2015. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2015, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the quarter ended September 30, 2015 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Our operating and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties including those described below. You should carefully consider the following risk factors, together with all of the other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes included elsewhere herein and therein, before deciding whether to invest in shares of our common stock. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, may also become important factors that adversely affect our business. If any of the following risks, or others not specified below, actually occur, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and future prospects could be materially and adversely affected. In that event, the market price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment.

 

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Risks Related to our Business and Industry

We have a history of cumulative losses and we do not expect to be profitable for the foreseeable future.

We have incurred losses in each of the last seven years and in the first nine months of 2015, including a net loss of $26.3 million in the first nine months of 2015, $56.2 million in 2014 and $75.4 million in 2013. At September 30, 2015, we had an accumulated deficit of $310.0 million. As we continue to invest in infrastructure, development of our solutions and international expansion of our sales and marketing efforts, our operating expenses will continue to increase. Additionally, to accommodate future growth, we have transitioned our customer data centers from third-party service providers to co-located facilities managed by our internal hosting operations team and the costs and expenses associated with this transition may exceed the rate at which we realize any associated incremental billings or revenues. As a result, our losses in future periods may be significantly greater than the losses we would incur if we developed our business more slowly. In addition, the transition may not result in increased revenues or billings or provide the gross margin improvements we anticipated, which may result in us undertaking cost savings initiatives or identifying opportunities to achieve greater efficiencies in how we conduct our business. Although we have experienced revenue growth in prior periods, you should not consider any previous revenue growth or growth rates as indicative of our future performance. We do not expect to be profitable on a GAAP basis in the foreseeable future and we cannot assure you that we will achieve profitability in the future or that, if we do become profitable, we will sustain profitability.

Our quarterly results are likely to fluctuate due to a number of factors, and the value of our stock could decline substantially.

Our quarterly operating results are likely to fluctuate. For example, our fourth quarter has historically been our strongest quarter for new billings and renewals. This pattern may be amplified over time if the number of customers with renewal dates occurring in the fourth quarter continues to increase. Fluctuations in our quarterly financial results may be caused by a number of factors, many of which are out of our control. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

    the renewal rates for our products;

 

    upsell rates for our solutions and services;

 

    changes in deferred revenue balances due to changes in the average duration of subscriptions, rate of renewals, timing of renewal billings, composition of billings for professional services, amount of multi-year prepayments, amount of non-renewable perpetual license billings and the rate of new business growth;

 

    changes in the composition of current period billings;

 

    changes in the mix of the average term length and payment terms;

 

    changes in the mix of our revenue derived from internal and external communities;

 

    order sizes in any given quarter;

 

    the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures related to the operations and expansion of our business;

 

    changes in our pricing policies, whether initiated by us or as a response to competitive or other factors;

 

    the cost and timing associated with, and management effort for, the introduction of new products and product features;

 

    the rate of expansion and productivity of our sales force;

 

    the length of the sales cycle for our products;

 

    changes in our go-to-market strategy;

 

    the success of our channel partners and strategic partners in reselling our products;

 

    the success of our international expansion strategy;

 

    new solution introductions by our competitors;

 

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    our success in selling into the IT department of our customers;

 

    general economic conditions that may adversely affect either our customers’ ability or willingness to purchase additional subscriptions or a larger deployment, or hinder or delay a prospective customer’s purchasing decision, or reduce the value of new subscriptions, or affect renewal rates or the timing of renewals;

 

    timing of additional investments in the development of our platform or deployment of our services;

 

    disruptions in our hosting services or our inability to meet service level agreements and any resulting refunds to customers;

 

    security breaches and potential financial penalties to customers and government entities;

 

    concerns over government-sponsored electronic surveillance activities;

 

    purchases of new equipment and bandwidth in connection with our data center expansion;

 

    regulatory compliance costs;

 

    potential delay in revenue recognition for product acceptance rights;

 

    the timing of customer payments and payment defaults by customers;

 

    the impact on services margins as a result of the use of third-party contractors to fulfill demand;

 

    the impact on services margins as a result of periods of less than full utilization of our full-time services employees;

 

    costs associated with acquisitions of companies and technologies;

 

    potential goodwill, other long-lived asset or capitalized software development cost impairment;

 

    the impact of capitalized research and development costs on current and future periods;

 

    extraordinary expenses such as litigation or other dispute-related settlement payments;

 

    adjustments arising from future foreign, federal, state and local sales and income tax examinations;

 

    the impact of new accounting pronouncements; and

 

    the timing and size of stock awards to employees.

Based on the factors described above, we believe that our quarterly operating results may vary significantly in the future and that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be indicative of future results.

In addition, due to our evolving business model, the rapid pace of technological change, the unpredictability of the emerging market in which we participate, and potential fluctuations in future general economic and financial market conditions, we may not be able to accurately forecast our rate of growth. We plan our expense levels and investments on estimates of future billings, revenues and anticipated rate of growth. We may not be able to adjust our spending quickly enough if the addition of new customers, the upsell rate for existing customers, or the price for which we are able to sell our platform is below our expectations. As a result, we expect that our billings, revenues, operating results and cash flows may fluctuate significantly and comparisons of our billings, revenues, operating results and cash flows may not be meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance.

Furthermore, we may fail to meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts and investors, and the market price for our common stock could decline. If one or more of the securities analysts who cover us change their recommendation regarding our stock adversely, the market price for our common stock could decline. Additionally, our stock price may be based on expectations, estimates or forecasts of our future performance that may be unrealistic or may not be achieved. Further, our stock price may be affected by financial media, including press reports and blogs.

Because we generally recognize revenues from subscriptions for our products ratably over the term of the agreement, near term changes in sales may not be reflected immediately in our operating results.

We generally recognize revenues from customers ratably over the term of their agreements, which generally range from 12 to 36 months. As a result, most of the revenues we report in each quarter are derived from the recognition of deferred revenue relating to subscription agreements entered into during previous quarters or years. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed subscriptions in any one quarter is

 

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not likely to be reflected immediately in our revenues results for that quarter. Such declines, however, would negatively affect our revenues in future periods and the effect of significant downturns in sales and market acceptance of our solutions, and potential changes in our rate of renewals, may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. Our subscription model also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our total revenues through additional sales in any period, as revenues from new customers must be recognized over the applicable subscription term. In some instances, our customers choose to pre-pay the entire term of their multi-year subscriptions up front. As a result, billings can fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter.

Our future growth is, in large part, dependent upon the widespread adoption of collaboration software by enterprises and it is difficult to forecast the rate at which this will happen.

Collaboration software for enterprises remains at an early stage of technological and market development and the extent to which enterprise collaboration software will become widely adopted remains uncertain. It continues to remain difficult to predict customer adoption rates, customer demand for our platform, the future growth rate and size of this market and the entry of competitive solutions. Any expansion of the enterprise collaboration software market depends on a number of factors, including the cost, performance and perceived value and benefits associated with enterprise collaboration software. If enterprise collaboration software does not achieve widespread adoption, or if there is a reduction in demand for enterprise collaboration software caused by a lack of customer acceptance, technological challenges, weakening economic conditions, competing technologies and products, decreases in corporate spending or otherwise, it could result in lower billings, reduced renewal rates and decreased revenues and our business could be adversely affected. Additionally, mergers or consolidations among our customers could reduce the number of our customers and could adversely affect our revenues and billings. In particular, if our customers are acquired by entities that are not our customers, are customers of our competitors, or that use fewer of our solutions, or that have more favorable contract terms and choose to discontinue, reduce or change the terms of their use of our platform, our business and operating results could be materially and adversely affected.

The market for enterprise collaboration software is intensely competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our business will be harmed.

The market for enterprise collaboration software is highly competitive and rapidly evolving with new competitors entering the market. We expect the competitive landscape to continue to intensify in the future as a result of regularly evolving customer needs and frequent introductions of new products and services. We currently compete with large well-established multi-solution enterprise software vendors, stand-alone enterprise software application providers, and smaller software application vendors. Our primary competition for internal communities currently comes from large well-established enterprise software vendors such as Microsoft Corporation, IBM Corporation and salesforce.com, inc., each of which are significantly larger than we are, have greater name recognition, larger customer bases, much longer operating histories, significantly greater financial, technical, sales, marketing and other resources, and are able to provide comprehensive business solutions that are broader in scope than the solutions we offer. These well-established vendors may have preexisting relationships with our existing and potential customers and to the extent our solutions are not viewed as being superior in features, function and integration or priced competitively to existing solutions, we might have difficulty displacing them. We also compete with stand-alone enterprise software application companies that have begun adding social features to their existing offerings. Some of these companies have large installed bases of active customers that may prefer to implement enterprise collaboration software solutions that are provided by an existing provider of customer management software, and these companies may be able to offer discounts and other pricing incentives that make their solutions more attractive. For our external community business, we also compete with standalone privately-held software providers, whose primary products are focused on providing external communities to their customers. For our team-based real time messaging business, we compete with many smaller startup software providers, whose primary products are focused on providing real time messaging products to their customers. In addition, large social and professional networking providers with greater name recognition, financial resources and other resources may add enterprise collaboration applications to their existing applications. For example, in early 2015

 

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Facebook announced plans to launch Facebook at Work to provide an enterprise version of its social network service and LinkedIn has also announced its intention to provide an enterprise-based offering. In addition, our competitors have in the past, and may in the future, enter into strategic alliances with each other, resulting in increased competition. To the extent that our competitors are successful in combining these social networking capabilities with their existing products and to the extent social and professional networking providers are able to adapt their solutions to the enterprise collaboration market, we could experience increased competition, which could adversely affect our billings, renewal rates, revenues and margins.

Some of our competitors offer their solutions at a lower price or at no incremental cost, which has resulted in pricing pressures and increased competition. If we are unable to price our solutions appropriately, our operating results could be negatively impacted. In addition, lower margins, pricing pressures and increased competition generally could result in reduced sales and billings, losses or the failure of our platform to achieve or maintain more widespread market acceptance, any of which could harm our business. Our current and potential competitors may also establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties that may further enhance their product offerings or resources. Certain current competitors have been, and current or potential competitors may be, acquired by third parties with greater available resources and as a result of such acquisitions, might be able to adapt more quickly to new technologies and customer needs, devote greater resources to the promotion or sale of their solutions, initiate or withstand substantial price competition, take advantage of other opportunities more readily or develop and expand their offerings more quickly than we do. If we are unable to compete effectively for a share of our market, our business, operating results and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.

We cannot accurately predict new subscription, subscription renewal or upsell rates and the impact these rates may have on our future revenues and operating results.

In order for us to improve our operating results and continue to grow our business, it is important that we continually attract new customers and that existing customers renew their subscriptions with us when their existing contract term expires. Our existing customers have no contractual obligation to renew their subscriptions after the initial subscription period and we cannot accurately predict renewal rates. Our customers’ renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including, but not limited to, their satisfaction with our products and our customer support, the level of usage of our platform within their enterprise, the frequency and severity of outages, our product uptime or latency, the pricing of our, or competing, software or professional services, the effects of global economic conditions, and reductions in spending levels or changes in our customers’ strategies regarding enterprise collaboration tools. If our customers renew their subscriptions, they may renew for fewer users or page views, for shorter contract lengths or on other terms that are less economically beneficial to us. In recent quarters, our renewal rates, excluding upsell, have declined to below 90% for transactions over $50,000, and we expect them to continue to decline and fluctuate in future periods. If customers enter into shorter initial subscription periods, the risk of customers not renewing their subscriptions with us would increase and our billings and revenues may be adversely impacted. We cannot assure you that our customers will renew their subscriptions, and if our customers do not renew their agreements or renew on less favorable terms, our revenues may grow more slowly than expected or decline and our billings may be adversely impacted.

To the extent we are successful in increasing our customer base, we could incur increased losses because costs associated with generating customer agreements and performing services are generally incurred up front, while revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the agreement. This risk is particularly applicable for those customers who choose to deploy our products in the public cloud. If new customers sign agreements with short initial subscription periods and do not renew their subscriptions, our operating results could be negatively impacted due to the upfront expenses associated with our sales and implementation efforts. Alternatively, to the extent we are unsuccessful in increasing our customer base, we could also incur increased losses as costs associated with marketing programs and new products intended to attract new customers would not be offset by future incremental revenues and cash flow.

 

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In order for us to improve our operating results, it is important that our customers make additional significant purchases of our functionality and offerings, including additional communities, modules, users or page views or professional services. If our customers do not purchase additional functionality or offerings, our revenues may grow more slowly than expected. Additionally, increasing incremental sales to our current customer base requires increasingly sophisticated and costly sales efforts that are targeted at senior management. We also invest various resources targeted at expanding the utilization rates of our products. There can be no assurance that our efforts would result in increased sales to existing customers, or upsells, and additional revenues. If our efforts to upsell to our customers are not successful, our business will suffer.

Additionally, our quarterly sales cycles are frequently more heavily weighted toward the end of the quarter with an increased volume of sales in the last few weeks of the quarter. If this trend becomes more exaggerated, it could negatively impact the timing of recognized revenues, cash collections and delivery of professional services in subsequent periods. Furthermore, the concentration of contract negotiations in the last few weeks of the quarter could require us to hire additional sales, legal and finance employees.

We depend on key personnel and our senior management team to run our business, and the loss of one or more key employees or the inability of replacements to quickly and successfully perform in their roles could harm our business and prevent us from implementing our business plan in a timely manner.

Our success depends largely upon the continued services of our executive officers, which includes key leadership in the areas of research and development, marketing, sales, product, services and the general and administrative functions. In the last year, we announced the resignations of our Chief Executive Officer, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Executive Vice President, Products, and Executive Vice President of Engineering and the related transition of departed executives’ roles and responsibilities to new and existing members of the senior management team and the announcement of a new Chief Executive Officer. If the new members of executive management do not successfully transition into their new positions, it could negatively impact our business and potentially prevent us from implementing a successful business plan in a timely manner. From time to time, there may be additional changes in our executive management team resulting from the hiring or departure of executives, which could disrupt our business. We are also substantially dependent on the continued service of our existing development personnel because of the complexity of our platform and other solutions.

Our personnel do not have employment arrangements that require them to continue to work for us for any specified period and, therefore, they could terminate their employment with us at any time. We do not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of our employees. The loss of one or more of our key employees or groups could seriously harm our business.

Because competition for our target employees is intense, we may not be able to attract and retain the highly skilled employees we need to support our operations and growing customer base.

Our future success will depend on our continued ability to identify, hire, develop, motivate and retain talent. In the software industry in general, and in the San Francisco Bay Area specifically, there is substantial and continuous competition for software engineers with high levels of experience in designing, developing and managing software, as well as competition for sales executives and operations personnel. We may not be successful in attracting and retaining qualified personnel. We have, from time to time, experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, difficulty in hiring and retaining highly skilled employees with appropriate qualifications. In addition, job candidates and existing employees often consider the value of the stock awards they receive in connection with their employment. If the value of our stock does not increase or declines, it may adversely affect our ability to retain highly skilled employees. In addition, since we expense all stock-based compensation, we may periodically change our stock compensation practices, which may include reducing the number of employees eligible for options or reducing the size of equity awards granted per employee. If the anticipated value of such stock-based incentive awards does not materialize, if our stock-based compensation otherwise ceases to be viewed

 

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as a valuable benefit, or if our total compensation package is not viewed as being competitive, our ability to attract, retain, and motivate executives and key employees could be weakened. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, our business and future growth prospects could be severely harmed.

Because our long-term success depends, in part, on our ability to expand our sales to customers outside the United States, our business will be susceptible to risks associated with international operations.

We sell our products primarily through our direct sales organization, which is comprised of inside sales and field sales personnel located in a variety of geographic regions, including the United States, Canada, the Asia Pacific region, South America and Europe. In addition, we supplement our direct sales efforts through relationships established with local resellers in such regions. Sales outside of the United States represented approximately 27%, 24% and 23% of our total revenues in the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and the fiscal years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. As we continue to expand sales of our products to customers located outside the United States, our business will be increasingly susceptible to risks associated with international operations. However, we have a limited operating history outside the United States, and our ability to manage our business and conduct our operations internationally, particularly in new geographies, requires considerable management attention and resources and is subject to particular challenges of supporting a business in an environment of diverse cultures, languages, customs, tax laws, legal systems, alternate dispute systems and regulatory systems. The risks and challenges associated with international expansion include:

 

    continued localization of our platform, sales collateral and legal agreements, including translation into foreign languages and associated expenses;

 

    laws and business practices favoring local competitors;

 

    compliance with multiple, conflicting and changing governmental laws and regulations, including employment, tax, privacy and data protection laws and regulations;

 

    compliance with anti-bribery laws, including compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Anti-Bribery Act;

 

    international customers’ potential reluctance to do business with U.S. companies who host content and data as a result of concerns around alleged data monitoring activities by the United States National Security Administration (the “NSA”);

 

    regional data privacy laws that apply to the processing of personal information, particularly those focused on the transmission of our customers’ data across international borders;

 

    ability to provide local hosting, consulting and support services;

 

    different pricing environments, including invoicing and collecting in foreign currencies and associated foreign currency exposure;

 

    difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations and the increased travel, infrastructure, accounting, tax and legal compliance costs associated with international operations;

 

    different or lesser protection of our intellectual property rights;

 

    difficulties in enforcing contracts and collecting accounts receivable, longer payment cycles and other collection difficulties;

 

    regional economic and political conditions;

 

    disruption as a result of the obligation of certain of our personnel in Israel to perform military service; and

 

    security concerns such as civil or military unrest and terrorist activities.

Additionally, a substantial majority of our international customers currently pay us in U.S. dollars and, as a result, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies may make our platform more expensive for international customers, which could harm our business. In the future, an increasing number of our customers may pay us in foreign currencies. Any fluctuation in the exchange rate of these foreign currencies or pressure on the creditworthiness of sovereign nations, particularly in Europe, may negatively impact our business. If we are unable to successfully manage the challenges of international operations and expansion, our growth could be limited, and our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

 

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Our sales cycle can be long and unpredictable, particularly with respect to large enterprises, and we may have to delay revenue recognition for some of the more complex transactions, which could harm our business and operating results.

The timing of our sales is difficult to predict. Our sales efforts involve educating our customers, frequently at an executive level, about the use, potential return on investment, technical capabilities, security and other benefits of our products. Customers often undertake a prolonged product-evaluation process which frequently involves not only our solutions but also those of our competitors. When targeting our sales efforts at large enterprise customers, we will face greater costs, long sales cycles and less predictability in completing some of our sales. In this market segment, the customer’s decision to subscribe to our platform may be an enterprise-wide decision and, if so, may require us to provide even greater levels of education regarding the use and benefits of our products and obtain support from multiple departments within larger enterprises, as well as obtain support from the IT departments. In addition, prospective enterprise customers may require customized features and functions unique to their business process and may require acceptance testing related to those unique features. As a result of these factors, these sales opportunities may require us to devote greater sales support, operational support, technical support and professional services resources to individual customers, increasing costs and time required to complete sales and diverting our own sales and professional services resources to a smaller number of larger transactions, while potentially requiring us to delay revenue recognition on some of these transactions until the acceptance requirements have been met.

Our internally managed data hosting facilities expose us to additional risks which could result in operational inefficiencies, increase our costs and ultimately have a negative impact on our business.

Our internally managed hosting facilities are vulnerable to damage or interruption from natural disasters, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures and similar events. They are also subject to employee negligence, break-ins, computer viruses, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and other misconduct. The occurrence of any of these disasters, or other unanticipated problems, could result in lengthy interruptions in our service, which would materially impact our customers’ use of our offerings and may result in financial penalties for which we will be directly and solely responsible.

In addition, we are subject to other risks and challenges inherent in managing the infrastructure that hosts our customer communities, including any failure to properly plan for our infrastructure capacity requirements and our inability to obtain and maintain the technologies and personnel necessary to cause the hosting services to operate efficiently and in accordance with our contractual commitments, including those pertaining to uptime and security.

To the extent that we are required to add data center capacity to accommodate customer demands for additional bandwidth or storage to enable their communities, we may need to significantly increase the bandwidth, storage, power or other elements of our hosting operations, and the costs associated with adjustments to our data center architecture could also negatively affect our margins and operating results.

Interruptions or delays in our service as a result of a variety of factors could impair the delivery of our service and harm our business.

The availability of our platform could be interrupted by a number of factors, including disaster events at our hosting facilities, our customers’ inability to access the Internet, the failure of our network or software systems due to human or other error, security breaches or inability of the infrastructure to handle spikes in customer usage. We may be required to issue credits or refunds or indemnify or otherwise be liable to customers or third parties for damages that may occur resulting from certain of these events. In December 2013, we experienced a hosting outage, which impacted several of our U.S. customers for up to 11.5 hours, as well as shorter outages in March 2014 and April 2015. Recently, on November 4, 2015, we experienced a hosting outage which resulted in varying periods of downtime during an approximately nine (9) hour time period affecting several of our U.S. customers. As a result of these outages, we provided service credits to certain customers. Service credits provided to date have not been material, both individually and in the aggregate. If we experience similar outages in the future,

 

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we may experience customer dissatisfaction, the termination of customer contracts, potential contract liability and potential loss of confidence, which could harm our reputation and impact future revenues from these customers.

A rapid expansion of our business could cause our network or systems to fail.

In the future, we may need to expand our hosting operations at a more rapid pace than we have in the past, spend substantial amounts to purchase or lease data centers and equipment, upgrade our technology and infrastructure to handle increased customer demand and introduce new solutions. For example, if we secure a large customer or a group of customers which require significant amounts of bandwidth, storage or computing power to enable their communities, we may need to increase bandwidth, storage, server deployments, electrical power or other elements of our hosting operations and our existing systems may not be able to scale in a manner satisfactory to our existing or prospective customers. In addition, our sales expansion strategies in Asia and Latin America may require us to set up or partner with hosting providers in those regions, and we may have to spend substantial amounts to purchase or lease new data centers and equipment. Any such expansion could be expensive and complex and result in inefficiencies or operational failures and could reduce our margins.

If our internal or third-party vendors’ security measures are breached or unauthorized access to customer data is otherwise obtained, our solutions may be perceived as not being secure, customers may reduce the use of or stop using our solutions and we may incur significant liabilities.

Our hosting operations involve the storage and transmission of customer data. In certain circumstances, we use third-party providers to assist in these operations for certain lines of our business. Security breaches or unauthorized access to customer data that we, or our third-party hosting providers, host could result in the misuse or loss of this information, litigation, indemnity obligations, regulatory fines and penalties and other liabilities.

Many of our customer and partner contracts provide that we assume full responsibility and will indemnify our customers for data privacy or security breaches or unauthorized access of customer data. If such a breach occurs, we could face contractual damages, damages and fees arising from our indemnification obligations, penalties for violation of applicable laws or regulations, possible lawsuits by affected individuals and significant remediation costs and efforts to prevent future occurrences. In addition, whether there is an actual or a perceived breach of our security, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed significantly and we could lose current or potential customers. These risks increase as the adoption of our cloud-based products by enterprise customers increases.

While we and our third-party vendors have security measures in place, these systems and networks are subject to ongoing threats and, therefore, these security measures may be breached as a result of third-party action, including cyber attacks or other intentional misconduct by computer hackers, employee error, failure to implement appropriate processes and procedures, malfeasance or otherwise. The frequency, severity, sophistication and public awareness of these cyber attacks or other intentional misconduct by computer hackers has increased in recent years. If any such security breaches were to occur, it could result in one or more third parties obtaining unauthorized access to our customers’ data or our data, including personally identifiable information, information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), intellectual property and other confidential business information. Third parties may also attempt to fraudulently induce employees or customers into disclosing sensitive information such as user names, passwords or other information in order to gain access to our customers’ data or our data, including intellectual property and other confidential business information.

Our hosting, support and professional services personnel sometimes must access customer communities to fulfill our contractual obligations to provide these services to our customers. This access may result in exposure to confidential customer data and personally-identifiable information that is stored within our platform. If our personnel or our software systems were to permit unauthorized loss or access to this data by a third party, our reputation could be damaged and we could incur significant liability.

 

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As described above, some of our lines of business rely on certain third-party service providers to host and deliver services and data, and any interruptions or delays in these hosted services, any security or privacy breaches, or any failures in data collection could expose us to liability and harm our business and reputation. A security incident at any third-party hosting facility may compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of customer data.

Additionally, while our platform is not intended for the transmission or storage of credit card data, sensitive health, personal account or financial information and we contractually prohibit our customers from doing so, neither we nor our suppliers monitor or review the content that our customers upload and store within their communities. Therefore, we have no direct control over the substance or use of the content within our hosted communities. If customers use our platform for the transmission or storage of sensitive health, credit card, personal account or financial information and our security measures are breached our reputation could be damaged, our business may suffer and we could incur significant liability as many domestic and international laws place a higher burden of care on organizations that transmit and process this type of information.

Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not identified until they are launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques, to implement adequate preventative or mitigation measures or to detect any such security breaches in a timely manner. If an actual or perceived breach of our, or our third-party vendors, security occurs, it could negatively impact our ability to attract new customers and increase engagement by existing customers, cause existing customers to elect to not renew their subscriptions, subject us to third-party lawsuits, regulatory fines or other action or liability, thereby harming our reputation and our operating results.

In addition, through the Application Program Interfaces (APIs) we make available to our customers and technology partners and through our add-on modules we deliver our customers may obtain third-party applications which access the data stored within their community. Because we do not control the transmissions between our customers and these third-party technology providers, or the processing of such data by third-party technology providers, we cannot ensure the complete integrity or security of such transmissions or processing. Any security breach could result in a loss of confidence in the security of our service, damage our reputation, disrupt our business, lead to legal and financial liability and negatively impact our future sales.

Because our platform could be used to collect and store personal information of our customers’ employees or customers, privacy concerns could result in additional cost and liability to us or inhibit sales of our platform.

Personal privacy has become a significant issue in the United States and in many other countries where we offer our solutions. The regulatory framework for privacy issues worldwide is currently evolving and is likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future. Many federal, state and foreign government bodies and agencies have adopted or are considering adopting laws and regulations regarding the collection, use, disclosure, control and deletion of personal information. In the United States, these include, without limitation, rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of the Federal Trade Commission, HIPAA and state breach notification laws. Internationally, virtually every jurisdiction in which we operate has established its own data security and privacy legal framework with which we and our customers must comply. These obligations include, for example, the Data Protection Directive established in the European Union (“EU”), European Directive 2002/58/EC (commonly known as the “EU Cookie Law”), laws and regulations of EU member states, such as the German Federal Data Protection Act, and the Personal Data Protection Ordinance promulgated in Hong Kong. Many of these obligations are frequently modified or updated and require ongoing supervision. For example, with regard to transfers of personal data, as such term is used in the EU Data Protection Directive and applicable EU member state legislation, from our employees and European customers to the United States, we historically have relied upon adherence to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Privacy Principles and compliance with the U.S.-EU

 

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and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks agreed to by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Union and Switzerland. The U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, which, together with the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework, established means for legitimizing the transfer of personal data by U.S. companies from the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), to the United States, recently was invalidated by a decision of the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ Ruling”). As a result of the ECJ Ruling, the Swiss data protection regulator has questioned the status of the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework. In light of these events, we anticipate engaging in measures designed to legitimize our transfers of personal data from the EEA to the United States, and may find it necessary or desirable to make other changes to our personal data handling. We may be unsuccessful in establishing legitimate means for our transfer of personal data from the EEA or otherwise responding to the ECJ Ruling, and we may experience reluctance or refusal by current or prospective European customers to use our solutions. Our response to the ECJ Ruling may cause us to assume additional liabilities or incur additional expenses for implementing compliance requirements, and the ECJ Ruling and our response could adversely affect our billings. Additionally, we and our customers may face a risk of enforcement actions by data protection authorities in the EEA until the time, if any, that personal data transfers to us and by us from the EEA are legitimized under applicable EU data protection law.

In addition to government regulation, privacy advocacy and industry groups may propose new and different self-regulatory standards that either legally or contractually apply to us. Because the interpretation and application of privacy and data protection laws, regulations and standards are uncertain, it is possible that these laws, regulations and standards may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our data management practices or the technological features of our solutions. If so, in addition to the possibility of fines, investigations, lawsuits and other claims and proceedings, it may be necessary or desirable for us to fundamentally change our business activities and practices or modify our software, which could have an adverse effect on our business. We may be unable to make such changes or modifications in a commercially reasonable manner or at all. Any inability to adequately address privacy concerns, even if unfounded, or any actual or perceived failure to comply with applicable privacy or data protection laws, regulations, standards and policies, could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, inhibit sales and harm our business.

Furthermore, the costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, the laws, regulations, standards and policies that are applicable to the businesses of our customers may limit the use and adoption of, and reduce the overall demand for, our platform. Privacy concerns, whether valid or not valid, may inhibit market adoption of our platform particularly in certain industries and foreign countries.

For instance, the publicity in the United States and abroad regarding the alleged surveillance activities of the NSA may cause our current and prospective customers to require additional information regarding our data disclosure policies which may elongate our sales cycles, require us to make additional contractual commitments, assume additional liabilities and adversely affect our billings.

If we fail to manage our growth effectively, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain high levels of service or adequately address competitive challenges.

We have continued to grow in recent periods. For example, we have grown from 527 employees at December 31, 2012 to 722 at September 30, 2015 and we have acquired six companies since January 2011. This growth has placed, and any future growth may place, a significant strain on our management and operational infrastructure, including our hosting operations and enterprise resource planning system. Our success will depend, in part, on our ability to manage these changes effectively. We will need to continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls and our reporting systems and procedures, which may include the implementation of a new enterprise resource planning system in the future. Failure to effectively manage growth could result in declines in quality or customer satisfaction, increases in costs, difficulties in introducing new features or other operational difficulties. Any failure to effectively manage growth could adversely impact our business and reputation.

 

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Changes in laws and/or regulations related to the Internet or related to privacy and data security concerns or changes in the Internet infrastructure itself may cause our business to suffer.

The future success of our business depends upon the continued use of the Internet as a primary medium for commerce, communication and business applications. Federal, state or foreign government bodies or agencies have in the past adopted, and may in the future adopt, laws or regulations affecting data privacy and the transmission of certain types of content using the Internet. For example, the State of California has adopted legislation requiring operators of commercial websites and mobile applications that collect personal information from California residents to conspicuously post and comply with privacy policies that satisfy certain requirements. Several other U.S. states have adopted legislation requiring companies to protect the security of personal information that they collect from consumers over the Internet, and more states may adopt similar legislation in the future. Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission has used its authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to bring actions against companies for failing to maintain adequate security for personal information collected from consumers over the Internet and for failing to comply with privacy-related representations made to Internet users. The U.S. Congress has at various times proposed federal legislation intended to protect the privacy of Internet users and the security of personal information collected from Internet users that would impose additional compliance burdens upon companies collecting personal information from Internet users, and the U.S. Congress may adopt such legislation in the future. The EU also has adopted various directives regulating data privacy and security and the transmission of content using the Internet involving residents of the EU, including those directives known as the Data Protection Directive, the E-Privacy Directive, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, and may adopt similar directives in the future. The European Commission is currently considering a data protection regulation that may include operational requirements for companies that receive personal data that are different than those currently in place in the EU, and that may also include significant penalties for non-compliance. Additionally, various EU member states have passed legislation addressing data privacy and security, such as the German Federal Data Protection Act. Several other countries, including Canada and several Latin American and Asian countries, have constitutional protections for, or have adopted legislation protecting, individuals’ personal information. Additionally, some federal, state, or foreign governmental bodies have established laws which seek to censor the transmission of certain types of content over the Internet or require that individuals be provided with the ability to permanently delete all electronic personal information, such as the German Multimedia Law of 1997.

Given the variety of global privacy and data protection regimes, as well as their uncertain interpretation and application, it is possible we may find ourselves subject to inconsistent obligations. For instance, the USA Patriot Act is considered by some to be in conflict with certain directives of the EU. Situations such as these require that we make prospective determinations regarding compliance with conflicting regulations. Increased enforcement of existing laws and regulations, as well as any laws, regulations or changes that may be adopted or implemented in the future, could limit the growth of the use of public cloud applications or communications generally, result in a decline in the use of the Internet and the viability of Internet-based applications such as our public cloud solutions, require implementation of additional technological safeguards and reduce the demand for our enterprise collaboration software platform. Additionally, due to the complexity and diversity of these laws, our customers often include contractual obligations, which can impose significant risk of termination and financial penalties if we fail to comply.

If we are not able to develop and introduce enhancements and new features that achieve market acceptance or that keep pace with technological developments, our business could be harmed.

We operate in a dynamic environment characterized by rapidly changing technologies and industry and legal standards. The introduction of new enterprise collaboration software products by our competitors or new market entrants, the market acceptance of solutions or products based on new or alternative technologies, or the emergence of new industry standards could affect our ability to compete or potentially render our platform obsolete. Our ability to compete successfully, attract new customers and increase revenues from existing customers depends in large part on our ability to enhance and improve our existing enterprise collaboration software platform and to continually introduce or acquire new

 

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features that are in demand by the market we serve. The success of any enhancement or new solution depends on several factors, including timely completion and integration, adequate quality testing, introduction and market acceptance. Any new platform or feature that we develop or acquire may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner, may contain defects or may not achieve the market acceptance necessary to generate significant revenues. If we are unable to anticipate or timely and successfully develop or acquire new offerings or features or enhance our existing platform to meet customer requirements, our business and operating results will be adversely affected. Additionally, for technologies that are acquired, we may not be able to successfully integrate or monetize the acquired technology at a rate that is consistent with the market’s expectations.

Our platform must integrate with a variety of operating systems, software applications and hardware that are developed by others and, if we are unable to devote the necessary resources to ensure that our solutions interoperate with such software and hardware, we may fail to increase, or we may lose, market share and we may experience a weakening demand for our platform.

Our enterprise collaboration software platform must integrate with a variety of network, hardware and software platforms and cloud-based product suites, including Microsoft Office, and we need to continuously modify and enhance our platform to adapt to changes in Internet-related hardware, software, communication, browser and database technologies. Any failure of our solutions to operate effectively with future network platforms and technologies could reduce the demand for our platform, result in customer dissatisfaction and harm our business. If we are unable to respond in a timely manner to these changes in a cost-effective manner, our solutions may become less marketable and less competitive or obsolete and our operating results may be negatively impacted. In addition, an increasing number of individuals within the enterprise are utilizing devices other than personal computers, such as mobile phones and other handheld devices, to access the Internet and corporate resources and conduct business. If we cannot effectively make our platform available on these mobile devices, we may experience difficulty attracting and retaining customers.

We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from a single software platform.

We have historically derived a substantial portion of our total revenues from sales of a single software platform, the Jive Platform, and related modules. As such, any factor adversely affecting sales of this platform, including product release cycles, market acceptance, product competition, performance and reliability, reputation, price competition, and economic and market conditions, could harm our business and operating results.

Our business could be adversely affected if our customers are not satisfied with our implementation, customization or other professional services we provide.

Our business depends on our ability to satisfy our customers and meet our customers’ business needs. If a customer is not satisfied with the type of solutions and professional services we or our partners deliver, we could incur additional costs to remedy the situation, the profitability of that work might be impaired, and the customer’s dissatisfaction with our services could damage our ability to sell additional services to that customer or our ability to renew that customer’s subscription in subsequent periods. If we are not able to accurately estimate the cost of services requested by the customer, it might result in providing services on a discounted basis or free of charge until customer satisfaction is achieved. In addition, negative publicity related to our customer relationships, regardless of its accuracy, may further damage our business by affecting our ability to compete for new business with current and prospective customers. Further, we have customer payment obligations not yet due that are attributable to software we have already delivered. These customer obligations are typically not cancelable, but will not yield the expected revenues and cash flow if the customer defaults and fails to pay amounts owed, which could have a negative impact on our financial condition and operating results.

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a large enterprise contract requires customized features and functions, we cannot recognize any revenue related to the contract until the customized features and functions have been delivered to the customer. In addition, supporting large enterprise customers could require us to devote significant development services and support personnel and strain our personnel resources and infrastructure. If we are unable to address the needs of these customers in a timely fashion or further develop and enhance our platform, these customers may not renew their subscriptions, seek to terminate their relationship, renew on less favorable terms or fail to purchase additional features. If any of these were to occur, our revenues and billings may decline and we may not realize significantly improved operating results.

We might experience significant errors or security flaws in our platform.

Despite testing prior to their release, software products frequently contain undetected errors, defects or security vulnerabilities, especially when initially introduced or when new versions are released. Errors in our products could affect the ability of our products to interoperate with other hardware or software products, impact functionality and delay the development or release of new solutions or new versions of solutions and adversely affect market acceptance of our products. The detection and correction of any bugs or security flaws can be time consuming and costly. Some errors in our platform and related solutions may only be discovered after installation and use by customers. Any errors, defects or security vulnerabilities discovered after commercial release or contained in custom implementations could result in loss of revenues or delay in revenue recognition, loss of customers or increased service and warranty cost, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Our products have contained and may contain undetected errors, defects or security vulnerabilities that could result in data unavailability, data security breaches, data loss or corruption or other harm to our customers. Undiscovered vulnerabilities in our products could expose them to hackers or other unscrupulous third parties who develop and deploy viruses, worms, and other malicious software programs that could attack our solutions, result in unauthorized access to customer data, or fraudulently induce individuals to provide their log-in credentials. Actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in our products could result in contractual or regulatory liability, harm our reputation and lead some customers to cancel subscriptions, reduce or delay future purchases or use competitive solutions.

Failure to adequately expand and retain our direct sales force will impede our growth.

We will need to continue to expand and optimize our sales and marketing infrastructure in order to grow our customer base and our business. We plan to continue to invest in our direct sales force, both domestically and internationally. Identifying and recruiting qualified personnel and training them in the use of our platform require significant time, expense and attention. It can take nine to 12 months or longer before our new sales representatives are fully trained and productive. Our business may be harmed if our efforts to expand and train our direct sales force do not generate a corresponding significant increase in billings and revenues. In addition, the market for sales talent in the software industry is highly competitive and we may not be successful in our efforts to retain our sales representatives. If we are unable to hire, develop and retain talented sales personnel or if new direct sales personnel are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time, we may not be able to realize the expected benefits of this investment or increase our billings and revenues or grow our business.

Our growth depends in part on the success of our strategic relationships with third parties.

Our future growth may depend on our ability to enter into successful strategic relationships with third parties. For example, we are investing resources in building our indirect sales channel by establishing relationships with third parties to facilitate incremental sales and to implement and customize our platform. In addition, we are also establishing relationships with other third parties to develop integrations with compatible technology and content. These relationships may not result in additional customers or enable us to generate significant billings or revenues. Identifying partners as well as negotiating and documenting relationships with them requires significant time and resources. Our agreements for these relationships are typically non-exclusive and do not prohibit the other party from working with our competitors or from offering competing services. If we are unsuccessful in establishing or maintaining our relationships with these third parties, our ability to compete in the marketplace or to grow our revenues

 

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and billings could be impaired and our operating results would suffer. In particular, leveraging third-party reseller and referral partner relationships is important to our strategy to expand our presence in the Latin America and Asia Pacific regions. If these relationships are not successful it could impede our growth in revenues and billings.

Our use of open source technology could impose limitations on our ability to commercialize our products.

Our products contain software modules licensed to us by third-party authors under “open source” licenses. Use and distribution of open source software may entail greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or other contractual protections regarding infringement claims or the quality of the code. Some open source licenses contain provisions that require attribution or that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon the type of open source software used. If we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a certain manner, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software to the public at no cost. This would allow our competitors to create similar products with lower development effort and time and ultimately could result in an adverse impact upon our intellectual property rights and ability to commercialize our products.

Although we monitor our use of open source software to avoid subjecting our products to conditions we do not intend, the terms of many open source licenses have not been interpreted by U.S. courts, and there is a risk that these licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our products. Moreover, we cannot assure you that our processes for controlling our use of open source software in our products will be effective. If we are held to have breached the terms of an open source software license, we could be required to seek licenses from third parties to continue offering our products on terms that are not economically feasible, to re-engineer our products, to discontinue the sale of our products if re-engineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis, or to make generally available, in source code form, our proprietary code, any of which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

We, or our customers, may be sued by third parties for alleged infringement or misuse of their intellectual property.

The software industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property and proprietary rights. Recently, a number of large software, technology and social networking companies have become active in initiating litigation against competitors and other third parties for misuse of these rights. Additionally, within the United States in particular, non-practicing entities have significantly increased their activities of pursuing patent litigation against technology companies and their customers. As a result, technology and software companies are increasingly required to defend against litigation claims that are based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. Our technologies may not be able to withstand any third-party claims or rights against their use. As a result, our success depends upon our not infringing upon or misappropriating the intellectual property rights of others. Our competitors, as well as a number of other entities and individuals, may own or claim to own confidential information or certain intellectual property. In addition, as we continue to expand globally, we may need to increase our headcount and, in doing so, we may hire individuals from competing industries and companies. While we have implemented procedures designed to ensure that we do not receive confidential information from third parties in such situations third parties may believe that their former employees may misuse confidential information obtained during their previous employment which may lead to an increased risk of litigation related to claims of misuse or unauthorized use of such competitors’ proprietary information.

From time to time, third parties have claimed, and may claim, that we infringe upon or have misappropriated their intellectual property rights, and we may be found to be infringing upon or misappropriating such rights. In the future, we, or our customers, may be the subject of claims that our platform, underlying technology or our actions in connection therewith infringe, misappropriate or violate the intellectual property rights of others. As a result of disclosure of information in filings required of a

 

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public company, our business and financial condition will become more visible, which we believe may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. Any claims or litigation could cause us to incur significant expenses and, if successfully asserted against us, could require that we pay substantial damages or ongoing royalty payments, prevent us from offering our solutions, or require that we comply with other unfavorable terms. Even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and harm our business and operating results. As most of our customer and partner agreements obligate us to provide indemnification in connection with any such litigation and to obtain licenses, modify our platform, or refund fees, we have in the past been, and may in the future be, requested to indemnify our customers and business partners which could expose us to significant legal and financial liability. We expect that the occurrence of infringement claims is likely to grow as the market for enterprise collaboration software grows. Accordingly, our exposure to damages resulting from infringement claims could be increased and this could further exhaust our financial and management resources.

The outcome of any litigation, regardless of its merits, is inherently uncertain. Any intellectual property claim or lawsuit could be time-consuming and expensive to resolve, divert management attention from executing our business plan and require us to change our technology, change our business practices and/or pay monetary damages or enter into short- or long-term royalty or licensing agreements. In addition, in certain circumstances, such as those in which the opposing parties are large and well-funded companies, we may face a more expensive and protracted path to resolution of such claims or lawsuits.

Any failure to protect our intellectual property rights could impair our ability to protect our proprietary technology and our brand.

Our success and ability to compete depend in part upon our intellectual property. We primarily rely on a combination of copyright, trade secret and trademark laws, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual restrictions with our employees, customers, partners and others to establish and protect our intellectual property rights. However, the steps we take to protect our intellectual property rights may be inadequate or we may be unable to secure intellectual property protection for all of our solutions. In particular, we have only recently begun to implement a strategy to seek patent protection for our technology.

Moreover, others may independently develop technologies that are competitive to ours or infringe our intellectual property. The enforcement of our intellectual property rights also depends on our legal actions against these infringers being successful, but we cannot be sure these actions will be successful, even when our rights have been infringed. If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitors might gain access to our technology, and our business and operating results might be harmed. In addition, defending our intellectual property rights might entail significant expense and the diversion of management resources. Any of our intellectual property rights may be challenged by others or invalidated through administrative process or litigation. Any patents issued in the future may not provide us with competitive advantages, or may be successfully challenged by third parties.

Furthermore, legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain. Effective protection of our intellectual property may not be available to us in every country in which our solutions are available. The laws of some foreign countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States, and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon or misappropriating our intellectual property.

Additionally, in the United States, the central provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) became effective on March 16, 2013. Among other things, this law has switched U.S. patent rights from prior “first-to-invent” system to the present “first inventor-to-file” system. This may result in inventors and companies having to file patent applications more frequently to preserve rights in their inventions. This may favor larger competitors that have the resources to file more patent applications.

 

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We might be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights, and our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights. Litigation to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming and distracting to management, whether or not it is resolved in our favor, and could ultimately result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property.

Adverse economic conditions or reduced information technology spending may adversely impact our business and operating results.

Our business depends on the overall demand for information technology. In addition, the purchase of our products is often discretionary and may involve a significant commitment of capital and other resources. Weak global economic conditions, or a reduction in information technology spending even if economic conditions improve, could adversely impact our business, financial condition and operating results. As global economic conditions continue to be volatile or economic uncertainty remains, trends in information technology spending also remain unpredictable and subject to reductions due to credit constraints and uncertainties about the future. Unfavorable economic conditions could adversely affect, our customers’ ability or willingness to purchase our enterprise collaboration software platform, and could delay prospective customers’ purchasing decisions, reduce the value or duration of their subscriptions, or affect renewal rates, all of which could adversely affect our operating results. Our sensitivity to economic cycles and any related fluctuation in demand may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

Catastrophic events may disrupt our business.

Our corporate headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California, a high portion of our technology and services personnel are located in our Portland, Oregon office. The west coast, and California in particular, are active earthquake zones. Additionally, we rely on our network and third-party infrastructure and enterprise applications, internal technology systems and our website for our development, marketing, operational, support, hosted services and sales activities. In the event of a major earthquake or catastrophic event such as fire, power loss, telecommunications failure, cyber attack, war or terrorist attack, we may be unable to continue our corporate operations and may endure system interruptions, reputational harm, loss of intellectual property, contractual and financial liabilities, delays in our product development, lengthy interruptions in our services, breaches of data security and loss of critical data, all of which could harm our future operating results.

Although we back up customer data stored on our systems at least daily to a geographically distinct location, the data is not mirrored in real-time to this site. Thus, in the event of a physical disaster, or certain other failures of our computing infrastructure, customer data from very recent transactions may be permanently lost. Further, our full production infrastructure is not mirrored to a geographically distinct location and thus in the event of a disaster, production capacity may be impacted for an extended amount of time while the infrastructure is procured and rebuilt and data is restored.

We might require additional capital to support business growth, and this capital might not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.

We intend to continue to make investments to support our business growth and may require additional funds to respond to business challenges, including the need to develop new solutions or enhance our existing solutions, enhance our operating infrastructure and acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences and privileges superior to those of holders of our common stock. Any debt financing secured by us in the future could involve restrictive covenants relating to our capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. In addition, we may not be able to

 

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obtain additional financing on terms favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us, when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited, and our business, operating results, financial condition and prospects could be adversely affected.

The forecasts of market growth included in this document may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the markets in which we compete achieve the forecasted growth, we cannot assure you our business will grow at similar rates, if at all.

Growth forecasts are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates which may not prove to be accurate. Forecasts relating to the expected growth in the enterprise collaboration software market and other markets may prove to be inaccurate. Even if these markets experience the forecasted growth, we may not grow our business at similar rates, or at all. Our growth is subject to many factors, including our success in implementing our business strategy, which is subject to many risks and uncertainties.

There are limitations on the effectiveness of controls and the failure of our control systems may materially and adversely impact us.

We do not expect that disclosure controls or internal controls over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. Failure of our control systems to prevent error or fraud could materially and adversely impact us.

The intended operational and tax benefits of our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements depend on the application of the tax laws of various jurisdictions and how we operate our business, and may be challenged by tax authorities.

Our corporate structure and intercompany agreements with our foreign subsidiaries are intended to optimize our operating structure and our worldwide effective tax rate, including the manner in which we develop and use our intellectual property, manage our cash flow, and the pricing of our intercompany transactions. Our foreign subsidiaries operate under cost plus transfer pricing agreements with us. These agreements provide for sales, support and development activities for our benefit. The taxing authorities of the jurisdictions in which we operate may challenge our methodologies for valuing technology or our transfer pricing arrangements, or determine that the manner in which we operate our business does not achieve the intended tax objectives, which could increase our international tax exposure and harm our operating results. For example, from May 2012 through June 30, 2013, we were under a U.S. federal tax examination for the tax years ending December 31, 2010 and 2011. Such examinations ended on June 13, 2013 and did not have a material financial impact. Further, from August 2014 through December 2014, we were under examination in Israel for the years ending December 31, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The examination officially concluded as of December 26, 2014 and did not have a material financial impact.

Our business could be negatively affected as a result of actions of activist shareholders.

If a proxy contest with respect to election of our directors is initiated in the future by any activist stockholder, or if other activist stockholder activities occur, our business could be adversely affected because:

 

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    perceived uncertainties as to our future direction caused by activist activities may result in the loss of potential business opportunities, and may make it more difficult to attract and retain qualified personnel and business partners; and

 

    if individuals are elected to our board of directors with a specific agenda, it may adversely affect our ability to effectively and timely implement our strategic plans.

The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention and affect our ability to attract and retain qualified board members.

As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the listing requirements of the Nasdaq Global Market on which our common stock trades and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Compliance with these rules and regulations has increased our legal and financial compliance costs, made some activities more difficult, time-consuming or costly and increased demand on our systems and resources. The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business and operating results and maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. In order to maintain and, if required, improve our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting to meet this standard, significant resources and management oversight may be required. As a result, management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could harm our business and operating results. Although we have hired additional employees to comply with these requirements, we may need to hire more employees in the future, which will increase our costs and expenses.

We are subject to the independent auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enhanced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. While we were able to determine in our management’s report for fiscal 2014 that our internal control over financial reporting was effective, as well as provide an unqualified attestation report from our independent registered public accounting firm to that effect, we have and will continue to consume management resources and incur significant expenses for Section 404 compliance on an ongoing basis. In the event that our chief executive officer, chief financial officer, or independent registered public accounting firm determines in the future that our internal control over financial reporting is not effective as defined under Section 404, we could be subject to one or more investigations or enforcement actions by state or federal regulatory agencies, stockholder lawsuits or other adverse actions requiring us to incur defense costs, pay fines, settlements or judgments and causing investor perceptions to be adversely affected and potentially resulting in a decline in the market price of our stock.

In addition, changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs and making some activities more time consuming. These laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We intend to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business may be harmed.

We also expect that the combination of being a public company and the existence of these new rules and regulations could make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified executive officers as well as qualified members of our board of directors, particularly to serve on our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.

 

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We may acquire or invest in other companies or technologies in the future, which could divert management’s attention, result in additional dilution to our stockholders, increase expenses, disrupt our operations and harm our operating results.

We have in the past, and may in the future, acquire or invest in other businesses, products or technologies that we believe could complement or expand our platform, enhance our technical capabilities or otherwise offer growth opportunities. We cannot assure you that we will realize the anticipated benefits of our past acquisitions or any future acquisition. The pursuit of potential acquisitions may divert the attention of management and cause us to incur various expenses related to identifying, investigating and pursuing suitable acquisitions, whether or not they are consummated.

There are inherent risks in integrating and managing acquisitions. If we acquire additional businesses, we may not be able to assimilate or integrate the acquired personnel, operations and technologies successfully or effectively manage the combined business following the acquisition. We also may not achieve the anticipated benefits from the acquired business due to a number of factors, including:

 

    unanticipated costs or liabilities associated with the acquisition;

 

    incurrence of acquisition-related costs, which would be recognized as a current period expense;

 

    inability to generate sufficient revenues to offset acquisition or investment costs;

 

    the inability to maintain relationships with customers and partners of the acquired business;

 

    the difficulty of incorporating acquired technology and rights into our platform and of maintaining quality standards consistent with our brand;

 

    difficulty in incorporating new people;

 

    delays in customer purchases due to uncertainty related to any acquisition;

 

    the need to implement additional controls, procedures and policies;

 

    in the case of foreign acquisitions, the challenges associated with currency and regulatory risks;

 

    challenges caused by distance, language and cultural differences;

 

    harm to our existing business relationships with business partners and customers as a result of the acquisition;

 

    the potential loss of key employees;

 

    use of resources that are needed in other parts of our business;

 

    the inability to recognize acquired revenues in accordance with our revenue recognition policies, and the loss of acquired deferred revenue; and

 

    use of substantial portions of our available cash or the incurrence of debt to consummate the acquisition.

In addition, a significant portion of the purchase price of companies we acquire may be allocated to goodwill and other intangible assets, which must be assessed for impairment at least annually. Also, contingent considerations related to acquisitions will be remeasured to fair value at each reporting period, with any changes in the value recorded as income or expense. In the future, if our acquisitions do not yield expected returns, we may be required to take charges to our operating results based on the impairment assessment process, which could harm our results of operations.

Acquisitions could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, which could adversely affect our operating results. In addition, if an acquired business fails to meet our expectations, our operating results, business and financial condition may suffer.

If we are unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in the future, investors may lose confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our common stock may be adversely affected.

We are subject to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires us to maintain internal controls over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal controls. We have consumed and will continue to consume management resources and incur expenses for this compliance on an ongoing basis. Additionally, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control

 

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over financial reporting, we may be unable to assert that our internal controls are effective. If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our auditors are unable to attest to management’s report on the effectiveness of our internal controls, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would have a material adverse effect on the price of our common stock.

Risk Related to Ownership of our Common Stock

The market price of our common stock is likely to be volatile and could subject us to litigation.

The trading prices of the securities of technology companies have been highly volatile. Accordingly, the market price of our common stock has been, and is likely to continue to be, subject to wide fluctuations. Factors affecting the market price of our common stock include:

 

    variations in our billings, renewal rates, operating results, cash flow, loss per share and how these results compare to analyst expectations;

 

    the net increase in the number of customers acquired, either independently or as compared with published expectations of analysts that cover us;

 

    forward looking guidance on billings, revenues, cash flows and loss per share;

 

    announcements of technological innovations, new products or services, strategic alliances or significant agreements by us or by our competitors;

 

    disruptions in our public cloud service;

 

    changes in the executive management team;

 

    the economy as a whole, market conditions in our industry, and the industries of our customers; and

 

    any other factors discussed herein.

In addition, if the market for technology stocks, especially social media related stocks, or the stock market in general experiences uneven investor confidence, the market price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, operating results or financial condition. The market price for our stock might also decline in reaction to events that affect other companies within, or outside, our industry, even if these events do not directly affect us. Some companies that have experienced volatility in the trading price of their stock have been subject of securities litigation. If we are the subject of such litigation, it could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources.

Our charter documents and Delaware law could discourage takeover attempts and lead to management entrenchment.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control of our company. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to elect directors that are not nominated by the current members of our board of directors or take other corporate actions, including effecting changes in our management. These provisions include:

 

    a classified board of directors with three-year staggered terms, which could delay the ability of stockholders to change the membership of a majority of our board of directors;

 

    the ability of our board of directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquiror;

 

    the exclusive right of our board of directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director, which prevents stockholders from being able to fill vacancies on our board of directors;

 

    a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, which forces stockholder action to be taken at an annual or special meeting of our stockholders;

 

   

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board of directors, our president, our secretary, or a majority vote of our board of directors, which could delay the ability of our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors;

 

    the requirement for the affirmative vote of holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of the voting stock, voting together as a single class, to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation relating to the issuance of preferred stock and management of our business or our amended and restated bylaws, which may inhibit the ability of an acquiror to affect such amendments to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt;

 

    the ability of our board of directors, by majority vote, to amend the bylaws, which may allow our board of directors to take additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquiror to amend the bylaws to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt; and

 

    advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which may discourage or deter a potential acquiror from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquiror’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us.

In addition, as a Delaware corporation, we are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. These provisions may prohibit large stockholders, in particular those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from merging or combining with us for a certain period of time.

 

Item 5. Other Information

Departure of Director and Appointment of Director

On November 5, 2015, Jonathan Heiliger resigned as a member of our board of directors, effective immediately.

On November 6, 2015, our board of directors appointed Gabrielle Toledano to the board of directors to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Heiliger’s resignation from the board of directors. Ms. Toledano will serve as a Class I director, with a term expiring at the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of stockholders. In connection with her appointment to our board of directors, Ms. Toledano was also appointed to serve as a member of each of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee of our board of directors.

Since February 2006, Ms. Toledano, has served as the Chief Talent Officer at Electronic Arts Inc., an interactive entertainment software company. Prior to Electronic Arts, from 2002 to 2006 Ms. Toledano served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Siebel Systems, Inc., a supplier of customer software solutions and services. From 1996 to 2002, Ms. Toledano served in various human resources positions at Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Toledano currently serves on the board of directors of two privately held companies. Ms. Toledano holds a B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature and an M.A. in Education from Stanford University. We believe that Ms. Toledano’s experience as a human resources executive at a number of large and established public companies in the software and technology sector qualify her to serve as a member of our board of directors.

Ms. Toledano will participate in the non-employee director compensation arrangements described in our 2015 annual proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 10, 2015. Pursuant to those arrangements, Ms. Toledano will receive, the following initial equity awards in connection with her appointment to our board of directors:

 

    An initial restricted stock unit (“RSU”) grant on November 12, 2015, with a fair value on the date of grant equal to $200,000; 25% of the RSU grant will vest on the first anniversary of the grant date with the remaining portion of her grant vesting quarterly over the next eight quarters, subject to her continued service on our board of directors through each such vesting date; and

 

    An initial option grant on November 12, 2015, with a fair value (based on Black-Scholes) on the date of grant equal to $200,000; the option grant will vest 25% of the underlying shares on the first anniversary of the grant date with the remaining shares underlying her option grant vesting quarterly over the next eight quarters, subject to her continued service on our board of directors through each such vesting date.

In connection with her appointment, Ms. Toledano will also enter into the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which has been filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-176483) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 30, 2011.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Toledano and any other persons pursuant to which Ms. Toledano was elected as a director. In addition, Ms. Toledano has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction or proposed transaction required to be reported under Section 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

 

Item 6. Exhibits

The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference hereto and this list is intended to constitute the exhibit index:

 

    3.1    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.(1)
    3.2    Amended and Restated Bylaws.(2)
  10.1    Offer Letter, between Jive Software, Inc. and Jeffrey Lautenbach, dated August 3, 2015.
  10.2    Offer Letter, between Jive Software, Inc. and David Puglia, dated September 9, 2015.
  31.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
  31.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
  32.1*    Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
  32.2*    Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.INS    XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.DEF    Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
101.LAB    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
101.PRE    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

 

* The certifications attached as Exhibit 32.1 and 32.2 that accompany this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are not deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of Jive Software, Inc. under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filing.
(1) Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Form S-1 file number 333-176483 as declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2011.
(2) Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to Form S-1 file number 333-176483 as declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2011.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

  JIVE SOFTWARE, INC.
Dated: November 9, 2015  

/s/ ELISA STEELE

  Elisa Steele
  President and Chief Executive Officer
  (Principal Executive Officer)
 

/s/ BRYAN LEBLANC

  Bryan LeBlanc
  EVP and Chief Financial Officer
  (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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