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WANdisco Plc
16 March 2016
16 March 2016
WANdisco plc
Preliminary unaudited results for the year ended 31 December
2015
Operational and strategic highlights
Big Data
* New WANdisco Fusion ("Fusion") product launched
* Customer base expanded from 10 to 26
* Customer wins with integrations to both Hadoop
distributors and non-Hadoop storage platforms
including HPE and Oracle
* First six Big Data customers have gone live
* Five scale-up contract expansions
Application Lifecycle Management ("ALM")
* Refocus on Subversion open source version control
* Refocused sales and marketing focus brought improved
sales towards the end of the year
* Profitability (excluding central overheads) achieved
Financial highlights
-- Revenue $11.0m (2014: $11.2m)
-- Annualised cash overheads(1) reduced to approximately $25m by March 2016
(31 December 2014: approximately $40m)
-- Adjusted EBITDA(2) loss narrowed to $16.0m (2014: $17.9m loss)
-- Net cash $2.6m (31 December 2014: $2.5m)
(1) Operating costs, excluding cost of sales, plus capitalised product
development costs
(2) EBITDA loss excluding equity-settled share-based payment, capitalised
product development costs, acquisition-related items and exceptional
items
David Richards, WANdisco Chief Executive, comments:
Our presence in the Big Data market has taken a big step
forward, with our live customers demonstrating that our Fusion
product for Big Data, in on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments,
is highly relevant in its marketplace.
Fusion is increasingly viewed as a crucial technology enabling
customers to migrate onto our partners' emerging Cloud data
platforms. With partners such as IBM, Amazon, Google and Microsoft,
we are working increasingly closely on data migration offerings and
go to market activities.
In our ALM business, I am pleased with our improved sales
bookings towards the end of the year, responding to our increased
focus on this market. Our offering remains well suited to today's
increasingly distributed software development operations, and our
live customer base of over 200 corporations offers ample sales
opportunities.
We reduced costs progressively through the year. Whilst the
timing of contract wins remains variable, I am confident that
WANdisco enters 2016 on a strengthened operational footing and is
moving significantly closer to cash flow break-even. With a
compelling product for Big Data in the Cloud, increasing engagement
of partners and a well-established ALM product, we expect to build
momentum through the rest of this year.
Notes
An audio webcast recording of the analyst presentation will be
available on the company website after the event.
All Group announcements and news can be found at
http://www.wandisco.com
For further information please contact:
via FTI Consulting
WANdisco plc LLP
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer
Phil Branston, VP Corporate Development &
Investor Relations
FTI Consulting +44 (0)203 727 1000
Dwight Burden / Rob Mindell
Investec (Joint Broker and NOMAD) +44 (0)207 597 4000
Christopher Baird / Dominic Emery
UBS (Joint Broker)
Rahul Luthra / Sandip Dhillon +44 (0)207 567 8000
About WANdisco plc
WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop
software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations
to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and
continuous availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by
the company's patented, active-active data replication technology,
serving crucial continuous availability requirements, including
Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM),
including Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies,
including Juniper Networks, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely
on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and
availability. For additional information, please visit
www.wandisco.com.
BUSINESS REVIEW
During 2015 we directed our efforts towards three key
priorities. First, we removed costs, enabled both by the simplicity
and openness of the Fusion product and by generalised cost
disciplines across all operating functions. Second, we placed
renewed emphasis on our ALM business, providing it with sales and
marketing focus in market segments where we believe the most growth
can be captured. This focus translated into an improved financial
performance from ALM in the second half of the year. Third -
addressing the opportunity where we continue to see the greatest
potential for growth - we evolved our core Big Data offering,
achieving important breakthroughs in our strategy of becoming the
leading all-purpose data replication engine.
We brought our Big Data and ALM software products together on a
single Fusion replication platform and extended the platform to
encompass multiple types of data storage beyond its Hadoop origins.
We refocused our ALM business on our leading position in
distributed version control on the open source Subversion system,
achieving improved sales results towards the end of the year. In
the Big Data business, we added more customers, took the first six
of them into live production, and saw the first customers expand
their contracts with us. We deepened our relationships with key
data and storage platform partners.
Big Data
The Big Data marketplace evolved significantly during the year,
broadening out beyond Hadoop platforms. Data continues to grow much
faster than the budgets that enterprises can devote to storing it.
Storage vendors have brought to market new data platforms,
responding to their customers' requirements to store and process
data on combinations of Hadoop, more traditional but
Hadoop-compatible platforms, and cloud data platforms whereby the
customer does not have to own infrastructure. These new and hybrid
environments have brought with them requirements to migrate data
onto the new platforms without interruption to data processing, to
back up data, and to synchronise active data between different
locations and operations where it is being used.
To address this emerging market for mixed storage, we evolved
our product from Non-Stop Hadoop, which replicated data within
single Hadoop distributions, to Fusion, which replicates data
across multiple storage platforms. Fusion performs this mixed
replication without the need for invasive access to the host
platforms, making it easy for customers to install. We have
integrated Fusion with the on-premise and cloud storage and
analytics platforms of partners such as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon,
Google and Oracle.
Fusion ensures continuous data availability with guaranteed data
consistency between data centres, high levels of processing
performance to meet demanding service level requirements and above
all, cost savings from high utilisation of computing resource.
Amongst our Fusion customers, the majority are taking Big Data into
live operations rather than running trial projects or non-critical
operations. New enterprise features in Fusion include two features
that were granted new US patents, relating to addition and removal
of servers, without downtime, from replicated data networks. This
enables hardware and software upgrades, addition of new locations,
data migrations and rollouts of new applications - all without
interruption of service.
During the year, we added 16 new customers to reach 26 licensed
customers. All are large organisations in our key industry segments
of financial services, government agencies, consumer products and
telecommunications. Their business requirements combine regulatory
compliance, customer analysis and storage cost efficiencies.
All of our Big Data customers have intentions to scale up
significantly their WANdisco solutions once their implementations
are in live production, as they take more data into their
mission-critical applications. The first six of our Big Data
customers are now in live production. During the year we secured
five contract expansions with existing customers, some of them even
before the customer went into live usage of our product.
ALM
We continue to see strong potential in the source code
management segment of the ALM market that we focus on, as customers
continue to move off old proprietary platforms and onto modern,
agile open source platforms. Software development continues to
become more geographically and organisationally distributed,
bringing greater challenges in control and efficiency, both amongst
software publishers and in industry more generally.
Our assessment of the ALM market confirms that we have the right
products for the market at this stage in its evolution. Our product
for Subversion fits with customers' needs in replicated open source
version control. There is untapped potential in traditional
industries developing internal software, in addition to newer
software vendors developing gaming, media and mobile applications
for consumers.
We have high credibility in Subversion, a good track record and
over 200 Subversion customers, from which we consistently get high
satisfaction ratings given the quality of our support
Our core ALM product Subversion Multisite Plus has been upgraded
to incorporate improvements in performance, resource utilisation
and administration.
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We have refocused on ALM to restore an appropriate level of
emphasis on this business. Sales and marketing activities have been
reoriented to our Subversion product. We have directed sales
prospecting efforts towards traditional industry segments where
open source adoption is strong, and have renewed our focus on
up-selling and renewals for our installed base of over 200
customers. Sales were impacted while we completed the changes, but
results improved in the second half of the year and new sales
bookings in the final quarter were the highest of the year.
People
The evolution of our strategy and the sharpening of our focus on
the most attractive segment of our markets has been made possible
by the unique skills and application of our experts in sales,
marketing, business development, product development, customer
support, administration and finance. We have maintained and
developed the skilled teams developing our products and sales
channels.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
Revenue for the year ended 31 December 2015 was $11.0m (2014:
$11.2m). Despite the decline in new sales bookings ($9.0m in 2015
compared with $17.4m in 2014), revenue benefitted from deferred
revenue released from prior year bookings, many of them multi-year
contracts.
Deferred revenue (including unbilled receivables) from sales
booked during 2015 and in previous years, and not yet recognised as
revenue, was $16.2m at 31 December 2015 (31 December 2014: $19.3m.
Unbilled receivables were $6.5m (2014: $8.0m), see note 10. Our
deferred revenues represent future revenue from new and renewed
contracts, many of them spanning multiple years.
Strong cost control, with cash overheads materially below the
prior year, resulted in the adjusted EBITDA loss narrowing to
$16.0m (2014: $17.9m).
Big Data
Revenues were $1.8m (2014: $0.8m), showing growth on the prior
year and, for the first time, a consistent revenue stream from our
new and continuing contract wins.
Contract pricing was strong, particularly in those cases where
we combined with global established storage vendors such as Oracle,
demonstrating added value as part of pre-engineered stack.
Contract wins continue to exhibit variability in the timing of
their completion. An increasing number of contract wins are
resulting from scale-ups with existing customers, showing the
benefit of the growth in our customer base. New sales bookings from
initial and expanded contracts were $2.5m (2014: $2.8m).
Our implementations have accelerated, with six of our Big Data
customers now live and others in advanced deployment. We expect
these implementations to lead in due course to additional scale-up
contracts.
ALM
ALM revenue was $9.2m (2014: $10.4m), benefitting from the
rollout of deferred revenue from prior year sales bookings.
Steps were taken early in the year to sharpen our focus on the
ALM market and increase the productivity of our sales operations.
New sales bookings improved between the first and second half of
the year, and totaled $6.5m for the year (2014: $14.6m).
New customers during the year include corporations developing
applications for gaming, hospital systems and securities trading.
Add-ons for existing customers benefitted from greater sales focus,
and have included a large user expansion at a global telephony
software developer. Renewals have continued to contribute a
substantial proportion of sales, including a significant renewal
from a wireless network testing business.
Based on its operating scale, product maturity and revenue base,
we moved the business into profit (excluding central overheads) in
2015.
Operating costs
We reduced operating costs progressively throughout the year,
with cash overheads, as expected, lower in the second half than in
the first half. These reductions have resulted both from the
simplicity and openness of the Fusion product's architecture and
from generalised cost disciplines across all operating
functions.
Product development expenditure was $8.4m (2014: $9.0m). All of
this expenditure was devoted to new product features and was
capitalised.
Total cash overheads (excluding cost of sales and including
capitalised product development) of $34.6m were below the prior
year (2014: $36.0m). Cost control continued to be strong, and as a
result cash overheads were, as expected, lower in the second half
than in the first half. The ongoing benefits of this, coupled with
additional cost actions taken early in 2016, will result in a
significantly reduced cost base for 2016, with the current
annualised run rate of cash overheads at approximately $25m.
Our headcount was 143 as at 31 December 2015 (31 December 2014:
182). Headcount reductions in the year resulted from efficiencies
in IT administration, sales and marketing, and ALM product
engineering and testing. After the end of the year, the headcount
was further reduced to 130 by March 2016.
Profit and loss
The adjusted EBITDA loss for the year (excluding equity-settled
share-based payment, capitalised product development,
acquisition-related items and exceptional items) was $16.0m (2014:
$17.9m loss).
Balance sheet and cash flow
Trade and other receivables at 31 December 2015 were $6.7m (31
December 2014: $6.4m). This includes $3.5m of trade receivables (31
December 2014: $4.4m) and $3.2m related to non-trade receivables
(31 December 2014: $2.0m). In addition to this, receivables not
billed by the year end were $6.5m (31 December 2014: $8.0m) largely
from multi-year contracts.
Principally as a result of reductions in cash overheads, our net
consumption of cash was significantly reduced during the course of
the year, resulting in a net cash balance of $2.6m at the close of
the year (31 December 2014: $2.5m). This includes the benefit of
$26.1m of new equity funds (net of fees) announced on 23 January
2015. In addition, we retain a revolving credit facility with HSBC
Bank plc. The first drawings on this facility were made during the
first quarter of 2016.
With strong cash collection, benefiting from subscription
payments in advance of revenue recognition, and further cost
reductions so far in 2016, we have moved significantly closer to
cash flow break-even.
OUTLOOK
Our presence in the Big Data market has taken a big step
forward, with our live customers demonstrating that our Fusion
product for Big Data, in on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments,
is highly relevant in its marketplace.
Fusion is increasingly viewed as a crucial technology enabling
customers to migrate onto our partners' emerging Cloud data
platforms. With partners such as IBM, Amazon and Microsoft, we are
working increasingly closely on data migration offerings and go to
market activities.
In our ALM business, we are pleased with our improved sales
bookings towards the end of the year, responding to our increased
focus on this market. Our offering remains well suited to today's
increasingly distributed software development operations, and our
live customer base of over 200 corporations offers ample sales
opportunities.
We reduced costs progressively through the year. Whilst the
timing of contract wins remains variable, we are confident that
WANdisco enters 2016 on a strengthened operational footing and is
moving significantly closer to cash flow break-even. With a
compelling product for Big Data in the Cloud, increasing engagement
of partners and a well-established ALM product, we expect to build
momentum through the rest of this year.
Condensed consolidated statement of profit and loss and other
comprehensive income
for the year ended 31 December 2015
Year ended Year ended
31 December 2015 31 December 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Pre- Exceptional Pre- Exceptional
exceptional items Total exceptional items Total
Continuing
operations Note $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000
------------- ---- ---- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Revenue 3 10,994 - 10,994 11,218 - 11,218
Cost of sales (749) - (749) (2,165) - (2,165)
--------------------- ---- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Gross profit 10,245 - 10,245 9,053 - 9,053
Operating expenses 4 (40,160) (614) (40,774) (47,529) (1,441) (48,970)
--------------------- ---- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Loss from operations 5 (29,915) (614) (30,529) (38,476) (1,441) (39,917)
Finance income 59 - 59 584 - 584
Finance costs (565) - (565) (27) - (27)
--------------------- ---- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Net finance
(costs)/income 6 (506) - (506) 557 - 557
-------------------- ---- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Loss before
tax (30,421) (614) (31,035) (37,919) (1,441) (39,360)
Income tax 7 1,129 - 1,129 1,053 - 1,053
--------------------- ---- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Loss for the
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year (29,292) (614) (29,906) (36,866) (1,441) (38,307)
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Other comprehensive income
Items that are or may be
reclassified
to profit or loss:
Foreign operations - foreign
currency
translation differences 55 - 55 (444) - (444)
---------------------------- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Other comprehensive income
for
the year, net of tax 55 - 55 (444) - (444)
---------------------------- ------------ ----------- -------- ------------- ----------- --------
Total comprehensive income
for
the year (29,237) (614) (29,851) (37,310) (1,441) (38,751)
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Loss per
share
Basic and diluted
loss per
share 8 $1.04 $1.59
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The notes on pages 11 to 17 form an integral part of this
condensed consolidated financial report.
Condensed consolidated balance sheet
as at 31 December 2015
Re-presented
(Note
2)
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Note $'000 $'000
--------------------------------------- --- ---- ------------ ------------
Assets
Intangible assets 9 8,583 9,814
Property, plant and equipment 230 410
Non-current assets 8,813 10,224
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Trade and other receivables 10 6,728 6,447
Cash and cash equivalents 2,555 2,481
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Current assets 9,283 8,928
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Total assets 18,096 19,152
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Liabilities
Borrowings - finance lease liabilities - (8)
Trade and other payables (2,714) (3,195)
Deferred income 11 (6,060) (6,076)
Deferred government grant (28) (81)
Current tax liabilities - (2)
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Current liabilities (8,802) (9,362)
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Deferred income 11 (3,697) (5,188)
Deferred income tax liabilities (5) (5)
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Non-current liabilities (3,702) (5,193)
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Total liabilities (12,504) (14,555)
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Net assets 5,592 4,597
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Equity
Share capital 4,667 3,879
Share premium 81,974 56,587
Translation reserve (247) (302)
Merger reserve 1,247 1,247
Retained earnings (82,049) (56,814)
-------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Total equity 5,592 4,597
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The notes on pages 11 to 17 form an integral part of this
condensed consolidated financial report.
Condensed consolidated statement of changes in equity
for the year ended 31 December 2015
Share Share Translation Merger Retained
capital premium reserve reserve earnings Total
Year ended 31 December 2015
(Unaudited) $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000
-------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Balance at 1 January 2015 3,879 56,587 (302) 1,247 (56,814) 4,597
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Total comprehensive income
for the year
Loss for the year - - - - (29,906) (29,906)
Other comprehensive income - - 55 - - 55
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Total comprehensive income
for the year - - 55 - (29,906) (29,851)
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Transactions with owners
of the Company
Contributions and distributions
Equity-settled share-based
payment - - - - 4,671 4,671
Proceeds from share placing 737 25,341 - - - 26,078
Share options exercised 51 46 - - - 97
Total transactions with owners of the
Company 788 25,387 - - 4,671 30,846
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Balance at 31 December 2015 4,667 81,974 (247) 1,247 (82,049) 5,592
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Share Share Translation Merger Retained
capital premium reserve reserve earnings Total
Year ended 31 December 2014
(Audited) $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000
-------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Balance at 1 January 2014 3,755 53,882 142 1,247 (30,353) 28,673
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Total comprehensive income
for the year
Loss for the year - - - - (38,307) (38,307)
Other comprehensive income - - (444) - - (444)
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Total comprehensive income
for the year - - (444) - (38,307) (38,751)
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Transactions with owners
of the Company
Contributions and distributions
Shares to be issued as part
of OhmData, Inc. acquisition 47 2,317 - - (1,502) 862
Equity-settled share-based
payment - - - - 13,348 13,348
Share options exercised 77 388 - - - 465
Total transactions with owners of the
Company 124 2,705 - - 11,846 14,675
--------------------------------------- -------- -------- ----------- -------- --------- --------
Balance at 31 December 2014 3,879 56,587 (302) 1,247 (56,814) 4,597
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The notes on pages 11 to 17 form an integral part of this
condensed consolidated financial report.
Condensed consolidated statement of cash flows
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for the year ended 31 December 2015
Year ended
Year ended
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
$'000 $'000
----------------------------------------------------- --- --- ------------ -------------
Cash flows from operating activities
Loss for the year (29,906) (38,307)
Adjustments for:
* Depreciation of property, plant and equipment 270 267
* Amortisation of intangible assets 9,600 8,283
* Net finance costs/(income) 133 (31)
* Income tax (1,129) (1,053)
* Foreign exchange 42 156
* Equity-settled share-based payment 4,671 13,348
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
(16,319) (17,337)
------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Change in:
* Trade and other receivables 275 (2,938)
* Trade and other payables (432) 737
* Deferred income (1,507) 6,145
* Deferred government grant (49) (147)
Net working capital change (1,713) 3,797
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Cash used in operating activities (18,032) (13,540)
Interest paid (192) (11)
Income tax received/(paid) 552 (3)
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Net cash used in operating activities (17,672) (13,554)
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
and computer software (95) (475)
Development expenditure (8,369) (9,040)
Interest received 59 58
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Net cash used in investing activities (8,405) (9,457)
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Cash flows from financing activities
Net proceeds from share issues 26,175 465
Payment of finance lease liabilities (8) (27)
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Net cash from financing activities 26,167 438
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash
equivalents 90 (22,573)
Cash and cash equivalents at the start of
the year 2,481 25,673
Effect of movements in exchange rates on
cash and cash equivalents (16) (619)
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of
the year 2,555 2,481
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The notes on pages 11 to 17 form an integral part of this
condensed consolidated financial report.
Notes to the condensed consolidated financial report
for the year ended 31 December 2015
1. Reporting entity
WANdisco plc (the "Company") is a public limited company
incorporated and domiciled in Jersey. The Company's ordinary shares
are traded on AIM. These condensed consolidated financial
statements ("Financial statements") as at and for the year ended 31
December 2015 comprise the Company and its subsidiaries (together
referred to as the "Group"). The Group is primarily involved in the
development and provision of global collaboration software.
2. Basis of preparation
Basis of accounting
Whilst the financial information included in this preliminary
announcement has been prepared on the basis of the requirements of
International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRSs") in issue, as
adopted by the European Union ("EU") and effective at 31 December
2015, this announcement does not itself contain sufficient
information to comply with IFRS.
The Group expects to publish full Consolidated Financial
Statements in April 2015. The financial information set out in this
preliminary announcement does not constitute the Group's
Consolidated financial statements for the years ended 31 December
2015 or 31 December 2014.
The financial information for 2014 is derived from the
consolidated accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014 which has
been delivered to the registrar of companies with the Jersey
Financial Services Commission ("JFSC"). The auditor has reported on
the year ended 31 December 2014 consolidated accounts; their report
was unqualified. It did not contain statements under section 113B
(3) or (6) of the Companies (Jersey) law 1991.
The consolidated accounts for the year ended 31 December 2015
will be finalised on the basis of the financial information
presented by the directors in this preliminary announcement and
will be delivered to the registrar of companies with the JFSC in
due course.
The Consolidated financial statements have been prepared in
accordance with IFRSs as adopted for use in the EU. The Group has
applied all accounting standards and interpretations issued by the
IASB and International Financial Reporting Committee relevant to
its operations and which are effective in respect of these
Financial Statements.
The accounting policies have been applied consistently to all
periods presented in the Group financial statements.
The following new standards and amendments to standards that are
effective for the first time for the financial year beginning 1
January 2015, have been adopted, but have not had a material impact
on the Consolidated financial statements:
- Amendments to IAS 19 "Employee Benefits" - Defined Benefit Plans: Employee Contributions.
- Annual Improvements to IFRSs 2010-2012 Cycle.
- Annual Improvements to IFRSs 2011-2013 Cycle.
Going concern
As at 31 December 2015 the Group had net assets of $5.6m (31
December 2014: $4.6m), including cash of $2.6m (2014: $2.5m) as set
out in the Condensed consolidated balance sheet above and an unused
revolving credit facility of $10.0m (2014: $10.0m). In the year
ended 31 December 2015, the Group incurred a loss before tax of
$31.0m (2014: $39.4m) and net cash outflows before financing of
$26.1m (2014: $23.0m).
Contract wins continue to exhibit variability and despite the
decline in new sales bookings, i.e. signed sales contracts ($9.0m
in 2015 compared with $17.4m in 2014), revenue benefitted from
deferred revenue released from prior year bookings, many of them
multi-year contracts. At the same time, the sales pipeline is
encouraging, particularly following the release of the Fusion
product during the year. Operating costs were progressively reduced
throughout the year, with cash overheads, including development
costs, lower in the second half of the year than in the first half.
These reductions have resulted both from the simplicity and
openness of the Fusion product's architecture and from generalised
cost disciplines across all operating functions, both of which have
demonstrated the ability of the Group to be operationally agile.
Total cash overheads of $34.6m were below the prior year (2014:
$36.0m). Since then, the ongoing benefits of these operating cost
reduction measures, coupled with additional cost actions taken
early in 2016, have significantly reduced the expected cash
overhead base for 2016, to an annualised run rate of approximately
$25m.
The Directors have prepared a detailed budget and forecasts of
the Group's expected performance over a period covering at least
the next twelve months from the date of this report. As well as
modelling the realisation of the sales pipeline, these forecasts
also cover a number of scenarios and sensitivities in order for the
Board to satisfy themselves that the Group remains within its
revolving credit facility of $10m over this period (which can be
drawn down based on the Group's bookings not yet collected in
cash).
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Whilst the Directors are confident in the Group's ability to
grow bookings, the Board's sensitivity modelling shows that the
Group can remain within its facilities in the event that bookings
growth is delayed (i.e. bookings do not increase from the level
reported in 2015) for a period in excess of 12 months. The
Directors' financial forecasts and operational planning and
modelling also include the actions that the Group could take to
further significantly reduce the cost base during the coming year
in the event that longer term bookings growth was set to remain
consistent with the level reported in 2015. On the basis of this
financial and operational modelling, the Directors believe that the
Group has the capability and the operational agility to react
quickly, cut further costs from the business, and ensure that the
cost base of the business is aligned with its sales bookings, cash
revenue and funding scale.
As a consequence, the Directors have a reasonable expectation
that the Group can continue to operate and to be able to meet its
commitments and discharge is liabilities in the normal course of
business for a period not less than twelve months from the date of
this report. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern
basis in preparing the Group financial statements.
Functional and presentational currency
The financial statements are presented in US dollars, which is
also the presentational currency of the Group. Billings to the
Group's customers during the year were all made in US dollars by
WANdisco, Inc. with certain costs being incurred by WANdisco
International Limited in sterling and WANdisco, Pty Ltd in
Australian dollar. All financial information has been rounded to
the nearest thousand US dollars unless otherwise stated.
Use of judgements and estimates
The preparation of financial information in conformity with
adopted IFRSs requires management to make judgements, estimates and
assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and
the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, income and expenses.
Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The significant judgements made by management in applying the
Group's accounting policies and the key sources of estimation
uncertainty were the same as those that applied to the Group's
consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended 31
December 2014.
Prior year re-presentation
The prior year Balance sheet has been re-presented to offset
unbilled receivables (previously included in trade and other
receivables) against the deferred revenue balance. This had $nil
impact on net assets. The re-presentation was made to improve the
clarity of our statutory reporting. A reconciliation to the gross
position is shown in note 10.
3. Segmental analysis
Operating segments
The Directors consider there to be one operating segment, being
that of development and sale of licences for software and related
maintenance.
Geographical segments
The Group recognises revenue in three geographical regions based
on the location of customers, as set out in the following
table:
Year ended
31 December
Year ended
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Revenue by segment: $'000 $'000
-------------------- --- ------------ ------------
North America 7,255 9,414
Europe 2,983 1,376
Rest of the world 756 428
------------------------- ------------ ------------
Total revenue 10,994 11,218
========================= ============ ============
Management makes no allocation of costs, assets or liabilities
between these segments since all trading activities are operated as
a single business unit.
The Group has no customers representing individually over 10% of
revenue (2014: Nil).
4. Exceptional items
Year ended
31 December
Year ended
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Exceptional items comprise the following: Note $'000 $'000
------------------------------------------------------ ---- ------------ ------------
Equity-settled share-based payment charge in relation
to acquisitions
* OhmData, Inc. 12 241 492
* AltoStor, Inc. 12 249 659
* TortoiseSVN.net 12 124 290
Exceptional items 614 1,441
====================================================== ==== ============ ============
5. Reconciliation of loss from operations to adjusted earnings
before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation ("Adjusted
EBITDA")
Year ended
31 December
Year ended
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Reconciliation of loss from operations to Adjusted
EBITDA: Note $'000 $'000
---------------------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Loss from operations (30,529) (39,917)
Adjusted for:
Amortisation and depreciation 9,870 8,550
Acquisition-related items - 145
Exceptional items within operating expenses 4 614 1,441
---------------------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
EBITDA before exceptional items (20,045) (29,781)
Equity-settled share-based payment (excluding exceptional
item) 12 4,057 11,907
---------------------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Adjusted EBITDA before exceptional items (15,988) (17,874)
Development expenditure capitalised 9 (8,369) (9,040)
---------------------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Adjusted EBITDA before exceptional items including
development expenditure (24,357) (26,914)
========================================================== ==== ============ ============
6. Net finance (costs)/income
Year ended
31 December
Year ended
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
$'000 $'000
------------------------------------- --- ------------ ------------
Interest receivable - bank 59 58
Exchange gain - 526
------------------------------------------ ------------ ------------
Finance income 59 584
------------------------------------------ ------------ ------------
Unwind of discount on pledged shares (16) (16)
Exchange loss (373) -
Interest payable on bank borrowings (48) (2)
Bank charges - (9)
Amortisation of loan costs (128) -
------------------------------------------ ------------ ------------
Finance costs (565) (27)
------------------------------------------ ------------ ------------
Net finance (costs)/income (506) 557
========================================== ============ ============
7. Taxation
Year ended
31 December
Year ended
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
$'000 $'000
--------------------------- --- ------------ ------------
Current tax expense
Current year 739 478
Adjustment for prior years 390 575
-------------------------------- ------------ ------------
Income tax 1,129 1,053
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8. Loss per share
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Basic loss per share
Basic loss per share is calculated based on the loss
attributable to ordinary shareholders and the weighted average
number of ordinary shares outstanding:
Year ended
31 December
Year ended
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
$'000 $'000
-------------------------------------------------------- --- ------------ ------------
Loss for the year attributable to ordinary shareholders 29,906 38,307
============================================================= ============ ============
Number Number
of shares of shares
Weighted average number of ordinary shares '000 '000
-------------------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
At the start of the year 24,018 23,693
Effect of shares issued in the year 4,765 325
--------------------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
Weighted average number of ordinary shares during
the year 28,783 24,018
=================================================== ========== ==========
Basic loss per share $1.04 $1.59
====================== ===== =====
Adjusted loss per share
Adjusted loss per share is calculated based on the loss
attributable to ordinary shareholders before exceptional items,
acquisition-related items and the cost of equity-settled
share-based payment, and the weighted average number of ordinary
shares outstanding:
Year ended
31 December
Year ended
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Adjusted loss for the year: $'000 $'000
---------------------------------------------------------- --- ------------ ------------
Loss for the year attributable to ordinary shareholders 29,906 38,307
Add back:
Exceptional items (614) (1,441)
Acquisition-related items (16) (161)
Equity-settled share-based payment (excluding exceptional
item) (4,057) (11,907)
--------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------
Adjusted basic loss for the year 25,219 24,798
=============================================================== ============ ============
Adjusted loss per share $0.88 $1.03
========================= ===== =====
Diluted loss per share
Due to the Group having losses in all years presented, the fully
diluted loss per share for disclosure purposes, as shown in the
Condensed consolidated statement of profit and loss and other
comprehensive income, is the same as for the basic loss per
share.
9. Intangible assets
Other Intangible Development Computer
assets costs software Total
At 31 December 2015 (unaudited) $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000
--------------------------------- ---------------- ----------- --------- -----------------
Cost
At 1 January 2015 3,154 22,787 1,189 27,130
Additions - own work capitalised - 8,369 - 8,369
Disposals - - (1,000) (1,000)
At 31 December 2015 3,154 31,156 189 34,499
---------------------------------- ---------------- ----------- --------- -----------------
Amortisation
At 1 January 2015 (1,795) (14,375) (1,146) (17,316)
Amortisation charge for the
year (1,009) (8,548) (43) (9,600)
Disposals - - 1,000 1,000
At 31 December 2015 (2,804) (22,923) (189) (25,916)
---------------------------------- ---------------- ----------- --------- -----------------
Net book value - At 31 December
2015 350 8,233 - 8,583
================================== ================ =========== ========= =================
9. Intangible assets (continued)
At 31 December 2014 (Audited)
--------------------------------- ---------------- ----------- --------- -----------------
Cost
At 1 January 2014 2,308 13,747 1,030 17,085
Reclassification from property,
plant and equipment - - 30 30
Acquisitions through business
combinations 846 - - 846
Additions - externally purchased - - 103 103
Additions - own work capitalised - 9,040 - 9,040
Effect of movement in exchange
rates - - 26 26
At 31 December 2014 3,154 22,787 1,189 27,130
---------------------------------- ---------------- ----------- --------- -----------------
At 1 January 2014 (860) (7,520) (613) (8,993)
Reclassification from property,
plant and equipment - - (19) (19)
Amortisation charge for the
year (935) (6,855) (493) (8,283)
Effect of movement in exchange
rates - - (21) (21)
At 31 December 2014 (1,795) (14,375) (1,146) (17,316)
---------------------------------- ---------------- ----------- --------- -----------------
Net book value - At 31 December
2014 1,359 8,412 43 9,814
================================== ================ =========== ========= =================
The carrying amount of the intangible assets is allocated across
cash-generating units ("CGUs"). A CGU is defined as the smallest
group of assets that generate cash inflows from continuing use that
are largely independent of the cash inflows of other assets or
groups thereof. The recoverable amount of the CGUs are determined
using value in use ("VIU") calculations. As at 31 December 2015 the
Group had one CGU, the DConE CGU, which represents the Group's
patented DConE replication technology, forming the basis of
products for both the ALM and Big Data markets, including the new
Fusion platform that was launched in 2015.
Other intangible assets arose as part of the acquisitions of
OhmData, Inc. in June 2014 and AltoStor, Inc. in November 2012. The
intangibles arising as part of these acquisitions are allocated to
the DConE CGU. The recoverable amount of the DConE CGU has been
calculated on a VIU basis at both 31 December 2015 and 31 December
2014. These calculations use cash flow projections based on
financial forecasts and appropriate long-term growth rates. To
prepare VIU calculations, the cash flow forecasts are discounted
back to present value using a pre-tax discount rate of 10.0% (2014:
10.0%) and a terminal value growth rate of 2% from 2020. The
Directors have reviewed the recoverable amount of the CGU and do
not consider there to be any indication of impairment.
Development costs are predominantly capitalised staff costs
associated with new products and services. Development costs are
allocated to the DConE CGU, the recoverable amount of which has
been determined on a VIU basis as described above.
On 20 February 2015 WANdisco International Limited sold the
software to SyntevoGmbH for consideration of EUR1. This software
became fully amortised during the year ended 31 December 2014 so
there was no material profit/(loss) on disposal.
The amortisation charge on intangible assets is included in
operating expenses in the Condensed consolidated statement of
profit and loss and other comprehensive income.
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10. Trade and other receivables
Re-presented
(Note
2)
31 December
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Due within a year: $'000 $'000
------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------ ------------
Trade receivables 3,538 4,440
Other receivables
* Unbilled receivables ($2,808,000 is due in more than
one year (2014: $4,895,000)) 6,482 8,005
* Other receivables 1,061 556
Less: Unbilled receivables deferred ($2,808,000 is due
in more than one year (2014: $4,895,000)) (6,482) (8,005)
----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------
Total other receivables 1,061 556
Corporation tax 1,631 1,056
Prepayments 498 395
----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------
Total trade and other receivables 6,728 6,447
================================================================= ============ ============
11. Deferred income
Deferred income represents contracted sales for which services
to customers will be provided in future years.
Re-presented
(Note
2)
31 December
31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Deferred income which falls due: $'000 $'000
------------------------------------------------- --- ------------ ------------
Within a year 6,060 6,076
In more than a year 3,697 5,188
Unbilled receivables deferred ($2,808,000 is due
in more than one year (2014: $4,895,000)) 6,482 8,005
------------------------------------------------------ ------------ ------------
Deferred income (including unbilled receivables) 16,239 19,269
Less: Unbilled receivables deferred (6,482) (8,005)
------------------------------------------------------ ------------ ------------
Total deferred income 9,757 11,264
====================================================== ============ ============
12. Share-based payment
WANdisco plc operates share option plans for qualifying
employees of the Group. Options in the plans are settled in equity
in the Company and are normally subject to a vesting schedule but
not conditional on any performance criteria being achieved.
The terms and conditions of the share option grants are detailed
in the Group annual financial statements for the year ended 31
December 2014.
Year ended Year ended
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Analysis of equity-settled share-based payment
charge: Note $'000 $'000
--------------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Total equity-settled share-based payment charge
in relation to acquisitions 4 614 1,441
Non-exceptional equity-settled share-based payment
charge 5 4,057 11,907
--------------------------------------------------- ---- ------------ ------------
Total equity-settled share-based payment charge 4,671 13,348
=================================================== ==== ============ ============
Year ended Year ended
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Exceptional equity-settled share-based payment charge
in relation to acquisitions: $'000 $'000
------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------- ------------
OhmData, Inc. 241 492
AltoStor, Inc. 249 659
TortoiseSVN.net 124 290
----------------------------------------------------------- ------------- ------------
Total share-based payment charge 614 1,441
----------------------------------------------------------- ------------- ------------
Number of restricted shares 41,990 331,483
=========================================================== ============= ============
As part of the acquisitions of OhmData, Inc. on 27 June 2014,
AltoStor, Inc. in November 2012 and TortoiseSVN.net community
website in June 2013 restricted shares in WANdisco plc were issued
to former owners. These shares have been treated as contingent
payments and have been accounted for under IFRS 2 "Share-based
Payments" as employee benefit expenses.
Summary of share options outstanding
Year ended Year ended
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
(Unaudited) (Audited)
Number of share options outstanding: Number Number
------------------------------------- --- ------------ ------------
Balance at the start of the year 4,301,667 3,305,201
Granted 1,550,927 1,878,561
Forfeited (1,086,309) (414,100)
Exercised (328,290) (467,995)
------------------------------------------ ------------ ------------
Balance at the end of the year 4,437,995 4,301,667
Exercisable at the end of the year 1,435,100 675,631
Vested at the end of the year 1,856,870 1,081,844
========================================== ============ ============
12. Share-based payment (continued)
Weighted average exercise price for: $ $
-------------------------------------- ----- -----
Shares granted 0.69 3.25
Shares forfeited 6.75 11.06
Options exercised 0.19 0.99
--------------------------------------- ----- -----
Exercise price in the range:
From 0.15 0.16
To 18.19 20.96
======================================= ===== =====
Years Years
-------------------------------------------- ----- -----
Weighted average contractual life remaining 6.2 6.5
============================================= ===== =====
The fair value of each option grant is estimated on the date of
grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the
following weighted average assumptions:
Year ended Year ended
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
Fair value assumptions: (Unaudited) (Audited)
----------------------------------------------- --- ------------ ------------
Dividend yield 0.00% 0.00%
Risk-free interest rate 1.53% 2.28%
Stock price volatility 30% 30%
Expected life (years) 3.8 4.9
Weighted average fair value of options granted
during the year $2.76 $7.61
==================================================== ============ ============
- The dividend yield is based on the Company's forecast dividend
rate and the current market price of the underlying common stock at
the date of grant.
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