| RUTHERFORD,
N.J., April 26, 2007
/ PRNewswire-FirstCall / -- AXS-One Inc. (AMEX: AXO), a leading
provider of high performance Records Compliance Management (RCM)
software solutions, today announced its financial results for
the first quarter ended March 31, 2007.
Highlights
from the First Quarter include:
• Third
best quarter for new RCM license revenue in the company’s
history.
• An increase in new license revenue of 343 percent, compared
to the first quarter of 2006 and 157 percent improvement over
Q406 RCM license revenue.
• Compelling series of customer and partner wins around
the world, across a wide cross section of industries, including
utilities, manufacturing, banking, litigation support, transportation,
education, oil and retail.
• Significant progress with the Company’s channel
strategy, including further evidence of the successful partnership
with Sun Microsystems: new license wins were reported through
Sun Microsystems' Compliance and Content Management Solution
with a railroad, an oil company, a European banking organization
and a regional Asia-Pacific utility company.
• Additional license revenue from a number of existing
customers, confirming steady expansion of AXS-One footprint
within installed accounts.
• Announcement of a hosted offering, featuring EDS as
the company’s infrastructure provider.
• Lotus Advisor Editors’ Choice Award for Compliance
for the third consecutive year.
License revenues
from for the first quarter increased 343 percent to $1.8 million
from $0.4 million in the first quarter of 2006, and increased
157 percent when compared with the $0.7 million for the fourth
quarter of 2006. Total revenues for the first quarter were $3.7
million, an increase of $1.4 million from the first quarter
2006 revenues of $2.3 million.
Total operating
expenses for the quarter were $6.5 million, a decrease of 14.2
percent compared to the first quarter of 2006. The net loss
from continuing operations was $2.7 million for the first quarter,
down from a loss of $5.3 million in the first quarter of last
year. The Company reported a net loss after discontinued operations
of $2.7 million for the first quarter, or $(0.08) per diluted
share compared to a net loss of $2.7 million in the first quarter
of last year, or $(0.08) per diluted share.
“I
am delighted to report a strong start to 2007,” said Bill
Lyons, CEO of AXS-One. “The significant increase in license
revenue we have reported confirms our sales traction and channel
strategy. As I reported last quarter, changes in the U.S. regulatory
environment are altering how corporations deal with their regulatory
responsibilities and growing e-discovery challenges. We believe
we are already seeing the positive impact of a market in transition
reflected in our ability to close business. I remain confident
that enhancements we have made to our technology and the changes
we have executed throughout our organization will enable us
to continue to increase our win rate and take advantage of a
growing market opportunity throughout 2007.”
The Company
had $4.7 million in cash and equivalents at March 31, 2007 compared
to the $7.5 million reported at December 31, 2006. As of March
31, 2007, the Company was not in compliance with one of the
financial covenants in its line of credit and is currently in
discussions with its lender to revise this covenant.
As a result of AXS-One’s sale of its Enterprise Financials
line of business at the end of October 2006, the financial statements
classify the Enterprise Financials product line as a discontinued
operation and, unless specified, amounts reflect only the RCM
product line.
Mr. Lyons concluded, “As expected,
we saw significant sales traction in the first quarter and believe
this demonstrates a material shift in the market dynamics and
also validates the core AXS-One value position. Corporations
around the world, in almost every industry, are recognizing
the importance of managing their electronically stored information
in today’s litigious society. AXS-One has the most scalable
and high-performance RCM solutions with the best total cost
of ownership available today, with motivated, proven, high-profile
partners behind us. We expect the new Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure (FRCP) to generate additional interest among U.S.
corporations and AXS-One is prepared to meet this increased
demand.”
Conference call information
Management will conduct a conference
call to discuss these results at 5 p.m. Eastern time on April
26, 2007. Interested parties can participate in the call by
dialing 706-645-0399 or can access the webcast at www.axsone.com/investors_events.shtml.
The webcast will be archived for 30 days following the call.
Interested parties may submit questions during the conference
call by e-mail to IR@axsone.com.
Interested parties may listen to the call via a live webcast
that will be available via the company website www.axsone.com/investors_events.shtml.
Interested parties should access the webcast approximately 10-15
minutes before the scheduled start time.
About AXS-One Inc.
AXS-One (AMEX: AXO) is a leading provider of high performance
Records Compliance Management solutions. The AXS-One Compliance
Platform enables organizations to implement secure, scalable
and enforceable policies that address records management for
corporate governance, legal discovery and industry regulations
such as SEC17a-4, NASD 3010, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, The Patriot
Act and Gramm-Leach Bliley. AXS-One’s award-winning technology
has been critically acclaimed as best of class and delivers
digital archiving, business process management, electronic document
delivery and integrated records disposition and discovery for
e-mail, instant messaging, images, SAP and other corporate records.
Founded in 1978, and headquartered in Rutherford, NJ, AXS-One
has offices worldwide including in the United States, Australia,
Singapore, United Kingdom and South Africa. For further information,
visit the AXS-One website at
http://www.axsone.com.
AXS-One, the AXS-One logo, "Access
Tomorrow Today," and AXSPoint are registered trademarks
of, and AXS-One Compliance Platform, AXS-One Central, AXS-One
Retention Manager, AXS-One Rapid-AXS, AXS-Link for Desktop,
AXS-Link for SAP, AXS-Link for Lotus Notes, AXS-Link for Microsoft
Exchange, AXS-One Data Archive Translator, AXS-Link for File
System Archiving, AXS-Link for .PST Management, AXS-One Supervision,
AXS-One Case Management, "The Records Compliance Management
Company" and AXS-Link are trademarks of, AXS-One Inc.,
in the U.S. All other company and product names are trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements: A number of statements contained in this release
are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied in the applicable
statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to: our ability to improve financial and sales performance;
potential vulnerability to technological obsolescence; the risks
that its current and future products may contain errors or defects
that would be difficult and costly to detect and correct; the
failure to successfully negotiate a waiver or amendment of existing
loan agreement covenants; potential difficulties in managing
growth; dependence on key personnel; the possible impact of
competitive products and pricing; and other risks described
in more detail in AXO's most current Form 10-K and other Securities
and Exchange Commission filings.
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AXS-One Inc.
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