Achieves Breakeven Profitability and Cash Flow
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Southborough, Mass. - October 28, 2003 - ViryaNet (NasdaqSC: VRYA), a leading provider of integrated mobile and Web-based software applications for workforce management and the automation of field service delivery, today announced financial results of its third fiscal quarter of 2003.
Total revenues for the third quarter, ended September 30, 2003, were $3.4M, a 102% increase from $1.7M recorded for the third quarter of 2002, and a 26% increase from $2.7M recorded for the second quarter of 2003.
For the third quarter of 2003, the Company reported a net profit of $24,000, or $0.01 per basic and diluted share, compared to a net loss of $4.1M or $1.54 per basic and diluted share for the third quarter of 2002, and compared to a net loss of $1.0M or $0.39 per basic and diluted share for the second quarter of 2003.
Software license revenues for the third quarter of 2003 grew to $1.2M, a 62% increase from $0.8M recorded for the second quarter of 2003. Software license revenues comprised 36% of total revenue in the third quarter of 2003, compared to 28% in the second quarter of 2003.
The Company reported gross margins of 57% for the third quarter of 2003, compared to 33% for the third quarter of 2002, and 51% for the second quarter of 2003. The increase in gross margins from the previous quarter was due primarily to the increased volume of high-margin license revenues.
Operating expenses for the third quarter of 2003 were $1.9M, compared to $4.6M for the third quarter of 2002, and compared to $2.3M for the second quarter of 2003.
The Company's cash position on September 30, 2003 was approximately $2.7M, $92,000 greater than the Company's cash position on June 30, 2003. Short-term bank credit amounting to $0.9M was repaid during the third quarter of 2003, reducing short-term bank credit from $1.7M on June 30, 2003 to $0.8M on September 30, 2003. As previously disclosed, the Company received a strategic equity investment from
Telvent on August 4, 2003 in the amount of $1.0M in exchange for Ordinary Shares of ViryaNet. "Q3 was the third consecutive quarter of growth in revenues, the second consecutive quarter of breakeven cash flow, and the first quarter ever that ViryaNet has announced a net profit," stated Win Burke, president and CEO, ViryaNet. "These positive achievements over the past three quarters are the result of hard work by the ViryaNet team, the increasing acceptance of our products by our
customers and prospects, and a slow but steady improvement in general economic conditions affecting our targeted market segments."
Q3 Activities Summary
During the third quarter of 2003, the Company:
· Gained three new customers
· Sold additional software licenses to an existing customer
· Completed successful implementation milestones
· Continued enhancing ViryaNet Service Hub with new functionality
Customer Sales through the Direct Sales Channel - News America Marketing, a News Corporation company, chose ViryaNet Service Hub to automate activities performed by its retail field workforce. Headquartered in New York City, News America Marketing is the nation's leading single-source marketing services company, whose home delivered and in-store media is united under the SmartSource® brand. ViryaNet Service Hub will dispatch thousands of News America Marketing's field
personnel with the right product and store information; track and manage equipment and parts; collect labor information; and monitor and measure key performance indicators and on-line reporting in real-time field activity.
Customer Sales Through Partner Channels - ViryaNet's reseller partner, GE Network Solutions, successfully closed its first sale of a ViryaNet Service Hub license to AltaGas, a gas utility headquartered in Leduc, Alberta, Canada. AltaGas, which delivers natural gas to customers in Alberta and the Northwest Territories, intends to automate the dispatch management and field activity reporting of its field workforce using ViryaNet Service Hub for Utilities.
ViryaNet's partner Telvent sold ViryaNet Service Hub software to Canal de Isabel II, a water utility company located in Madrid, Spain. Telvent markets, sells, implements, and supports the ViryaNet solutions in the utilities, oil & gas, and telecommunications markets in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, and is also a strategic investor in ViryaNet. Canal de Isabel II, one of the biggest water
utilities in Spain, will use the wireless, Internet, and integration capabilities of ViryaNet Service Hub to provide mobile capabilities to a legacy work order management application.
Aspective, ViryaNet's European partner, continued its successful activities in Europe by selling additional software licenses for mapping in the third quarter to one of its customers.
Professional Services - ViryaNet's professional services organization successfully completed the first phase go-live of the XO Communications deployment during a two-month rapid implementation project.
Product Development - The Company continued to invest in product development, as demonstrated by the release of ViryaNet Service Hub 8.1 and 8.2 during the quarter. These releases introduced significant new functionality, including ASP support for multiple companies on a single instance, as well as enhancements to workflow, query, and user-customization capabilities.
About ViryaNet
ViryaNet is a provider of software applications that improve the quality and efficiency of an organization's service operations. ViryaNet's flagship product - the award-winning ViryaNet Service Hub - combines the power of the Internet, the freedom of wireless technologies, and the resources of ViryaNet's deep service expertise to help companies improve workforce scheduling, dispatching, and
activity reporting; customer contract and entitlement automation; and asset, logistics, and depot repair management. Customers in the utility, telecommunications, grocery and retail, high-technology manufacturing, HVAC, and other industries use ViryaNet Service Hub to transition complex service business processes into a manageable, scalable Internet operation, with the goal of increasing service revenues, decreasing service costs, and maximizing customer satisfaction.
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products, its relationships with its customers, its customer purchases, its future operational plans and objectives including integration of other businesses, its future business prospects, its future financial performance, its future cash position, and its future prospects for profitability. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to ViryaNet Ltd. as of the date hereof, and ViryaNet Ltd. assumes no obligation to update any such
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to ViryaNet's business include market acceptance of and demand for the Company's products, risks associated with a slow-down in the economy, risks associated with the financial condition of the company's customers, risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, risks
associated with increases in costs and operating expenses, risks in technology development and commercialization, the risk of operating losses, risks in product development, risks associated with international sales, and other risks that are set forth in ViryaNet's Form 20-F, dated July 15, 2003, and the other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. You should not place undue
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