UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
| x | Annual report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
For the year ended December 31, 2003
OR
| ¨ | Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
Commission File Number: 0-30925
BLUE MARTINI SOFTWARE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 94-3319751 | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
2600 Campus Drive
San Mateo, California 94403
(Address of principal executive offices)
Telephone Number (650) 356-4000
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Common Stock
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 if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrants knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. x
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).
Yes ¨ No x
The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant, based on the closing sale price of the Common Stock on June 30, 2003 as reported on the Nasdaq National Market was approximately $22,596,000. Shares of Common Stock held by each current executive officer and director and by each person who is known by the registrant to own 5% or more of the outstanding Common Stock have been excluded from this computation in that such persons may be deemed to be affiliates of the registrant. Share ownership information of certain persons known by the registrant to own greater than 5% of the outstanding common stock for purposes of the preceding calculation is based solely on information on Schedule 13G filed with the Commission and is as of June 30, 2003. This determination of affiliate status is not a conclusive determination for other purposes.
The number of shares outstanding of the registrants Common Stock as of February 25, 2004 was approximately 11,897,000.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Parts of the Proxy Statement for the registrants 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K Report.
ANNUAL REPORT
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In addition to historical information, this annual report on Form 10-K 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, including statements using terminology such as can, may, believe, designed to, will, expect, plan, anticipate, estimate, potential, or continue, or the negative thereof or other comparable terminology regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements and risk factors included in this document are made as of the date hereof, based on information available to Blue Martini Software, Inc. (the Company, Blue Martini, or we) as of the date thereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or risk factors.
| ITEM 1. | BUSINESS |
Overview
Blue Martini LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, was founded in June 1998 and was succeeded in January 1999 by Blue Martini Software, Inc.
Blue Martini provides software designed to help companies increase revenues by proactively guiding sales people, partners, and customers through sales interactions. Companies can incorporate their specific sales and marketing expertise into our application software. The combination of this expertise along with the intelligence embedded in our applications - our intelligent selling systems - allows our customers to automate important sales and marketing processes that otherwise would require significant time and effort from their product, marketing and sales experts. Our applications are designed to allow companies to extend their selling expertise throughout their entire sales force as well as to their partners and end customers.
Our software applications can help our customers:
| | Increase sales by proactively recommending to sales people when they should contact customers, what products they should suggest, and what they should say; |
| | Increase sales and customer satisfaction by proactively and naturally guiding sales people, partners, and customers to the best solutions to meet their needs; |
| | Increase customer satisfaction by providing customers with a unified customer experience across multiple channels including the website, call center, e-mail campaigns, and in the store; |
| | Reduce costs to serve by providing customers with web-based self-service; and |
| | Improve marketing efficiency by enabling marketers to easily define multi-step, multi-channel customer interactions and by providing marketers with analytical tools for better targeting. |
Leading companies throughout the world have implemented our software, including AOL, Carrefour, Debenhams, DuPont, Harrahs, Kohls, Lanier, Saks Fifth Avenue and Sprint.
Products
Our software offerings include products for sales, marketing, and commerce.
Blue Martini Sales. We provide sales applications for both commercial and consumer sales. For the commercial portion of our business, we offer web-based applications that guide sales people, partners, and end customers to the best solutions to meet their needs. Our software defines solutions, calculates pricing based on pre-defined parameters and customer input, supports interactive quoting, and quickly generates proposals and proposal revisions. Our applications are intuitive and easy to use, and provide significant deployment flexibility. Our software also supports mobile, disconnected users (e.g., a mobile salesperson not connected to a computer network) for some applications.
For the consumer portion of our business, our applications recommend to sales people which prospective customers they should contact and what they should communicate. Our applications also provide sales people with information that can help them sell more effectively, such as specific customer preferences and buying history. Sales people can access our applications in the store, online, at the point-of-sale, or via wireless devices.
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Blue Martini Marketing. Blue Martini Marketing includes customer analytic and messaging applications. Our analytics applications allow companies to analyze multi-channel customer information and make informed decisions about how to target and interact with customers. Our analytics applications allow business users to do reporting, data mining, and online analytical processing (OLAP). Our messaging applications enable marketers to define multi-step, multi-channel interactions with customers, such as a new product introduction comprised of e-mails, calls, and personalized website content.
Blue Martini Commerce. Blue Martini Commerce enables companies to deploy complex consumer or commercial websites. Blue Martini Commerce provides massive scalability, is highly extensible and supports all languages, currencies and virtually any payment methodology. Business users work within an intuitive environment to manage their websites and can leverage powerful merchandising, catalog and content management, and integrated analytics capabilities to provide customers with compelling interactions. We also offer an integrated contact center with Commerce.
Solution Benefits and Differentiating Factors
Our solutions are designed to deliver unique competitive advantages and benefits to our customers:
Intelligence. Our intelligent selling systems are powered by a suite of intelligent engines that uniquely differentiate us from traditional database applications. Where database applications are useful in tracking and presenting information, our intelligent engines enable companies to automate key sales and marketing processes to reduce sales cycles and sell more effectively by gathering and collecting information from the customers internal experts. Our intelligent engines include:
| | an analytics engine that employs machine learning to segment customers and discover patterns of customer behavior; |
| | a constraint engine that can model complex needs analysis, configuration, and pricing knowledge; and |
| | a process-modeling engine that can interact intelligently with a customer over time and across multiple channels (e.g., email, a website, and a retail store). |
We believe that the breadth and depth of the intelligent systems embedded in our applications provides Blue Martini with a unique competitive advantage. By continuing to focus research and development on extending these core intelligent systems, as well as the applications that leverage this intelligence, we hope to be able to compete effectively in the marketplace against larger vendors that offer more basic customer-tracking functionality.
Flexible Architecture. Our J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) architecture is modular, allowing customers to implement point solutions today to solve critical business issues, and later easily add other modules without extensive time-consuming integration. With our focus on enabling business users to operate applications, companies can easily and rapidly customize our applications to fit their particular business needs, rather than forcing changing their business processes to suit the software.
Easy Deployment and Integration. Our applications are designed to be implemented quickly and efficiently and to fit easily within existing IT environments. Our applications can work stand-alone, as integrated into a disparate applications environment, or as extensions of existing customer relationship management (CRM) applications, such as sales force automation and campaign management.
Scalable Operations. Our application suite architecture is designed to support a large number of concurrent users, and our performance has undergone benchmark tests with excellent results. Our applications can be installed across any number of web and application servers, making it possible to support large amounts of content, products and concurrent users.
Vertical Expertise. Blue Martini has deployed solutions for leading manufacturers and retailers worldwide. Designed by industry experts in collaboration with customers, Blue Martini industry solutions for retail and manufacturing are modular point solutions that include industry-specific functionality, starter templates, and best
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practices. Applications can be deployed individually or as a complete package, so companies have the flexibility to address their most pressing issues quickly, with a roadmap to a future integrated solution. Blue Martini industry solutions are tailored to meet the unique competitive requirements inherent in each industry.
Services
While our business model focuses on the development and licensing of software, we also offer a comprehensive selection of services to our customers, including professional, technical support and training services, as well as value-added data analysis services. In 2003, 2002 and 2001, revenues derived from these services accounted for 65%, 82% and 66% of our total revenues, respectively.
Blue Martini Consulting. We offer professional services to our customers for the deployment of our application suite and its integration with third-party software such as traditional call centers, sales force automation, merchandising, enterprise resource planning and supply chain management systems. Our service professionals work directly with our customers as well as with third-party systems integrators and regional consulting organizations.
Blue Martini Support. We offer comprehensive technical support, designed to allow companies to quickly and effectively address technical issues as they arise and to provide updates and upgrades to our customers.
Blue Martini Training. We offer a comprehensive training curriculum designed for systems integrators and customers. Our courses not only train professionals in the use and implementation of our application suite but also educate business users on key concepts such as personalization and data mining. We have training facilities in San Mateo, California and also conduct training in multiple locations in Europe and Asia.
Blue Martini Analytic Services. We offer our customers value-added data analysis services on both a subscription and time and material basis. Our Blue Martini Analytic Services process and analyze transaction, clickstream, customer and product data to produce insights that help our clients understand, target and interact with their customers. Our dedicated Analytic Services consultants apply state-of-the-art analysis tools, such as data mining and visualization, based on their extensive experience with industry best practices, information design, target marketing and merchandising. Our analytic service investigations use the data mining and analytics, visualization, targeting and campaign management capabilities of our application suite.
Alliances
Blue Martini maintains alliances with consulting and system integrator firms, independent software vendors, and platform and infrastructure providers. Many of these alliances can be terminated by either party upon thirty days notice .
Consulting and System Integrators (CSI). CSI alliance members typically manage the integration projects at our customer sites. We offer CSI alliance members partner program benefits such as discounted training fees, participation in joint marketing activities, access to our software, and the opportunity to participate in joint development projects within related industries. In addition, we have active customer referral programs. Our CSI alliance members help us develop customer relationships, and similarly we recommend our CSI alliance members to our customers. Our customers pay us directly for our application suite and pay our CSI alliance members directly for their services. By recruiting, training, and managing personnel deploying our software, CSI alliance members permit us to focus on our core competencies, such as developing and distributing our software application suite and on providing additional product-specific technical expertise during consulting service engagements. Our CSI alliance members include Accenture, AKQA, Axion Solutions, Acquity, eLogic Group, Enabler, Good Technology, IBM Global Services, Plaut Consulting, and Syntegra.
Independent Software Vendors (ISV). Our ISV alliance members deliver software products that complement our application suite. Their offerings include fulfillment, transportation management, content enhancement, enterprise application integration, marketplace infrastructure and CRM. In addition, we partner with ISVs focused on specific market segments to enhance our market penetration opportunities in the retail and manufacturing markets. Our ISV alliance members help us to develop customer relationships, and similarly we recommend our ISV alliance members to our customers. Our customers pay directly for our application suite and typically pay our ISV alliance members
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directly for their products; however, we pay royalties to some alliance members where their technology is embedded in or bundled with our solutions. Our ISV program facilitates the delivery of our pre-packaged adapters that connect the Blue Martini application suite to our alliance members software, or competitor software in place. Delivery of packaged adapters requires software development at the outset as well as validation of the packaged software for each release of our application suite. Our ISV alliance members include Ariba, CyberSource, Equilibrium, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Informatica, Macromedia, and SAS Institute.
Platform and Infrastructure (PI). Our PI alliance members provide our customers with the hardware and software infrastructure used for the deployment of our application suite. Our PI alliance members sell hardware, operating systems, database products, and software services. We perform the software development work necessary to ensure that our software supports the platforms of our PI alliance members. Our customers pay us directly for our software application suite and pay our PI alliance members directly for their products and services; however, we pay royalties to some alliance members where their technology is embedded in or bundled with our solutions. Our PI alliance members include Acxiom, BEA, IBM, Symbol Technologies, and TIBCO Software.
Technology
Our software application suite is built upon a three-tiered architecture designed to deliver consistent, high performance operation in an uncertain environment where demand imbalances and hardware failures are common. Website requests are handled by a layer of web servers. These web servers return and cache static content, but forward dynamic web requests to a layer of application servers. These application servers execute business logic that typically requires access to data stored in read-only catalog databases. To improve performance, our architecture automatically caches catalog and session data in memory to avoid slow database access. These catalog databases can also be replicated to further improve support for large numbers of customers without interruption. Customers can easily handle increased website volume by adding any combination of web, application or database servers. Read-write transaction databases record customer transactions as well as updates to end-customer profiles. Optionally, business logic for some functions can be executed as Java applets on the client to further enhance performance and scalability.
Our software is developed in the Java programming language to take advantage of the graphical user interface and functional libraries available in Java, as well as the speed of development made possible by other Java features such as pointer-less references and automatic memory management.
Our application suite incorporates technologies including a Java application server, full-text retrieval software, constraint engine, UI generation software, rules induction software, rules execution software, a workflow system, data transformation software, and visualization libraries. Our application suite provides integrated data analysis, visualization, personalization, product configurations, solution design, and workflow.
Research and development expenses totaled $9.7 million, $13.4 million and $18.6 million for 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
Sales Capabilities
We currently have sales offices in France, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our sales and marketing headcount is 56 at December 31, 2003. For 2003, two customers each accounted for more than 10% of our total revenues. Masco Corporation and America Online, Inc. accounted for $4.3 million and $4.2 million, respectively, of revenues. In 2002 and 2001, no individual customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenues. Our total revenues were $32.6 million, $33.6 million, and $59.9 million for 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. International revenues for 2003, 2002 and 2001 were $7.6 million, $7.7 million and $14.4 million, respectively, representing 23% in 2003 and 2002 and 24% in 2001 of total revenues, respectively.
Acquisitions
In April 2002, we acquired The Cybrant Corporation (Cybrant) through the merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Martini with and into Cybrant, with Cybrant surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Martini (the Merger). The Cybrant products enable customers to sell complex products and services.
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Competition
The market for our product is intensely competitive, rapidly evolving, and subject to rapid technological change. Increased competition is likely to result in price reductions, reduced gross margins and loss of market share, any one of which could reduce our future revenues or earnings. We expect the intensity of competition to increase in the future. We face competition primarily from the following:
| | Internally Developed Systems. Information technology, or IT, departments of potential customers have developed or may develop systems that provide for some or all of the functionality of our product. We expect that internally developed application integration and process automation efforts will continue to be a principal source of competition for the foreseeable future. In particular, it can be difficult to license our product to a potential customer whose internal development group has already invested substantially in, and made progress towards completion of, the systems that our product is intended to replace. |
| | Point Applications. Our products compete with stand-alone point solutions offered by providers such as BroadVision, Inc., Firepond, Inc., Selectica, Inc., Trilogy Software, Inc., Unica Corporation, and Vignette Corporation. |
| | Components. Our products compete with components offered by vendors such as Art Technology Group, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation. |
| | Traditional CRM Software. Our products compete with CRM products offered by vendors such as E.piphany, Inc., Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft, Inc., SAP AG and Siebel Systems, Inc. |
Many of our competitors have greater resources and broader alliance and customer relationships than we do. In addition, many of these competitors have extensive knowledge of our industry. Current and potential competitors have established, or may establish, cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to offer a single solution and increase the ability of their products to address customer needs. Furthermore, our competitors may combine with each other and other companies may enter our markets by acquiring or entering into strategic relationships with our competitors.
We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting our market include:
| | vertical domain expertise; |
| | product functionality and features; |
| | product architecture and technology; |
| | incumbency of vendors; |
| | availability of global support; |
| | relationship with system integrators; |
| | coverage of direct sales force; |
| | ease and speed of product implementation; |
| | vendor and product reputation; |
| | financial condition of similar vendors; |
| | ability of products to support large numbers of concurrent users; and |
| | price. |
We believe that our primary competitive advantages are our vertical domain expertise, the breadth and depth of our products functionality and features, and our product architecture and technology. We may not be able to compete effectively against current and potential competitors, especially those with greater financial, sales, marketing, professional services, technical support, training and other resources.
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Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights
Our success depends in part on the development and protection of the proprietary aspects of our technology as well as our ability to operate without infringing on the proprietary rights of others. To protect our proprietary technology, we rely primarily on a combination of trade secret, copyright, trademark and patent laws, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual restrictions.
We license technologies from several software providers that are incorporated in our product. We anticipate that we will continue to license technology from third parties in the future. In particular, we license application server technology from BEA Systems, Inc. and IBM Corporation, we license a rules engine from Blaze Software Inc. that automates the execution of business processes according to criteria set by our customers, and we license configuration technology from Array Technologies that is incorporated in our interactive selling applications. The arrangement with IBM is comprised of a marketing agreement that expires December 2006, and an OEM license for IBMs WebSphere server that expires in December 2005. The license agreement with Blaze expires in June 2007, the license agreement with BEA expires in July 2007, and the license agreement with Array Technologies is indefinite in term. We may not be able to renew our licenses for these technologies on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. The loss of these technologies or other technologies that we license could prevent sales of our product and increase our costs until substitute technologies, if available, are developed or identified, licensed and successfully integrated into our product. Even if substitute technologies are available, there can be no guarantee that we will be able to license these technologies on commercially reasonable terms, if at all.
We license the modules of our application suite and require our customers to enter into license agreements that impose restrictions on their ability to reproduce, distribute and utilize the modules. In addition, we seek to avoid disclosure of our trade secrets through a number of means, including but not limited to, generally restricting access to our source code and object code and requiring those entities and persons with access to our proprietary information to agree to confidentiality terms which restrict their use and disclosure. We seek to protect our software, documentation and other written materials under trade secret and copyright laws, which afford only limited protection. We cannot assure that any of our proprietary rights with respect to our applications will be viable, or of value, in the future since the validity, enforceability and type of protection of proprietary rights in Internet-related industries are uncertain and still evolving.
We have one issued patent relating to our configuration products, issued on June 11, 2002, and have several United States patent applications pending. It is possible that some or all of the patents that we have applied for will not be issued, and even if issued, that some or all may be successfully defended. It is also possible that we may not develop proprietary products or technologies that are patentable, that any patent issued to us may not provide us with any competitive advantages or that the patents of others will harm our ability to do business.
Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights and technology, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or obtain the source code to our software or use other information that we regard as proprietary or could develop software competitive to ours. Policing unauthorized use of our products is difficult, and while we are unable to determine the extent to which piracy of our software exists, software piracy may be or become a problem. Our means of protecting our proprietary rights may not be adequate, and our competitors may independently develop similar technology or duplicate our product. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Any such resulting litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources that could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
In the future, a third party may bring suit claiming that we or our current or future products infringe their patents, trade secrets or copyrights. Any claims, with or without merit, could be costly and time-consuming to defend, divert our managements attention or cause product delays. We may not have patents that we could use defensively against a company bringing such a claim. If our product was found to infringe a third partys proprietary rights, we could be required to enter into royalty or licensing agreements to be able to sell our product. Royalty and licensing agreements, if required, may not be available on terms acceptable to us, if at all, which could harm our business.
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Employees
As of December 31, 2003, we had 210 employees, 171 of whom were based in North America, 27 were based in Europe, and 12 were based in Asia. Of these employees, 56 were in sales and marketing, 59 were in product development, 67 were in professional services, technical support and training and 28 were in finance, human resources, legal, information systems and administrative functions. Our employees are not represented by any collective bargaining agreements and we have never experienced a work stoppage. We believe our employee relations are good.
Availability of this Report
Our annual report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available free of charge on our web site at www.bluemartini.com shortly after we electronically file such material with the SEC. The public may read and copy any materials we file with the SEC at the SECs Public Reference Room at 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains a web site at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy, and information statements, and other information regarding issues that file electronically. We assume no obligation to update or revise any forward looking statement in this annual report, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless it is required to do so by law.
| ITEM 2. | PROPERTIES |
Our principal administrative, research and development, sales, consulting and marketing activities are conducted in 31,000 square feet of leased space in San Mateo, California. Leases covering approximately 12,000 square feet of this leased space expire in 2005, with the balance expiring in 2006. In addition, we have a lease covering approximately 7,000 square feet in Boca Raton, Florida that expires in 2006. Our European headquarters located in Bracknell, United Kingdom includes 7,800 square feet, and the lease expires in 2004. We also lease satellite offices in cities elsewhere in the United States and in France, Japan, and the Netherlands, to support our worldwide sales and professional services organizations.
| ITEM 3. | LEGAL PROCEEDINGS |
Beginning in July 2001, Blue Martini, Monte Zweben, William Zuendt, Andrew Verhalen, certain of our former officers and directors and Goldman Sachs and the other underwriters of our initial public offering, or IPO, were named as defendants in several class action shareholder complaints filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, consolidated under the title In re Blue Martini Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. Plaintiffs claim that the defendants violated the federal securities laws because our IPO registration statement and prospectus allegedly contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted material facts regarding the compensation to be received by, and the stock allocation practices of, the IPO underwriters. The plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary damages and other relief. Similar complaints were filed in the same Court against hundreds of other public companies that conducted IPOs of their common stock since the mid-1990s. On August 8, 2001, all IPO-related lawsuits were consolidated for pretrial purposes before United States Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York. In accordance with Judge Scheindlins orders, we did not answer the complaint, and no discovery was served. Also in accordance with Judge Scheindlins orders, plaintiffs filed amended consolidated complaints on April 19, 2002. We joined in a global motion to dismiss the IPO Lawsuits on July 15, 2002. On or about October 9, 2002, our directors and officers were dismissed without prejudice pursuant to a stipulated dismissal and tolling agreement between the plaintiffs and certain individual defendants. On November 1, Judge Scheindlin presided over an all-day hearing on the global motions to dismiss. On February 19, 2003, Judge Scheindlin issued a ruling on the global motion to dismiss; with respect to us, the motion was granted in part and denied in part. In June 2003, we joined in a tentative global settlement that would, among other things, result in the dismissal with prejudice of all claims against all issuers and their officers and directors in the IPO-related lawsuits, and the assignment to plaintiffs of certain potential claims that the issuers may have against their IPO underwriters. The tentative settlement provides that, in the event that the plaintiffs ultimately recover less than $1 billion in settlement
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or judgment against the underwriter defendants in the IPO-related lawsuits, the plaintiffs would be entitled to payment by each participating Issuers insurer of a pro rata share of any shortfall in the plaintiffs guaranteed recovery. The tentative settlement does not involve any payment or admission of wrongdoing by us. In July 2003, pursuant to the authorization of a special litigation committee of the our Board of Directors, we entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding reflecting the settlement terms described above. In September 2003, in connection with the possible settlement, our officers and directors described above who had entered tolling agreements with plaintiffs agreed to extend those agreements so that they would not expire prior to any settlement being finalized. Although Blue Martini has approved this settlement proposal in principle, it remains subject to a number of procedural conditions, as well as formal approval by the court.
In May 2002, a shareholders derivative complaint was filed in Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Mateo, entitled Richard D. Yager, derivatively on behalf of Blue Martini Software, Inc., v. Zweben et al. The complaint purported to be filed on behalf of Blue Martini, and named us as a nominal defendant, along with Mr. Zweben, Mr. Verhalen Mr. Zuendt, certain of our former officers and directors and Goldman Sachs, the managing underwriter of our IPO. The complaint alleged that the defendants breached fiduciary and other duties, were negligent, and were unjustly enriched because the IPO price of our stock allegedly was set too low. The plaintiff sought unspecified monetary damages and other relief. The case was subsequently removed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. We filed a motion to dismiss incorporating the motion for judgment on the pleading filed by co-defendant Goldman Sachs. In October 2002, the Court granted the motions to dismiss and motion for judgment on the pleadings without leave to amend and entered a judgment dismissing the complaint. In December 2002, the plaintiff filed a notice of appeal. In June 2003, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the appeal.
On or about July 24, 2002, a complaint was filed against Blue Martini in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Queens. The complaint, captioned Fresh Direct, Inc. v. Blue Martini Software, Inc., was filed by a customer that had licensed our products and engaged us to perform related services. The complaint was amended on or about August 26, 2002, to change the plaintiff to Fresh Direct, LLC as successor to Fresh Direct, Inc.. The amended complaint asserts claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, and unjust enrichment. On or about September 18, 2002, we filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint. On or about October 23, 2002, Fresh Direct opposed the motion to dismiss and filed a cross-motion for leave to file a second amended complaint, which we subsequently opposed. On or about March 24, 2003, the Court issued an order which granted in part and denied in part our motion to dismiss and granted Fresh Directs motion for leave to file the second amended complaint. In April 2003, we appealed the denial of the motion to dismiss, and in May 2003, we filed its answer to the second amended complaint and counterclaims for breach of contract and fraud. In January 2004, argument was heard on the Companys appeal of the denial of the motion to dismiss. We believe that we have meritorious defenses and counterclaims against this lawsuit and intend to pursue them vigorously. We believe that the ultimate outcome of this action will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.
In addition, we may be subject to additional legal proceedings and claims, asserted or unasserted, that are in the ordinary course of business. We cannot predict the outcome of these proceedings and claims or their possible impact Blue Martini.
| ITEM 4. | SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS |
No matters were submitted to a vote of our security holders during the fourth quarter of 2003.
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| ITEM 5. | MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANTS COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES |
(a) Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol BLUE. The following high and low sales prices were reported by Nasdaq in each quarter during the last two years. All amounts have been adjusted to reflect our one-for-seven reverse stock split of our outstanding shares of common stock, which was effective on November 13, 2002.
| High |
Low | |||||
| Year Ended December 31, 2003: |
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| Fourth quarter |
$ | 6.05 | $ | 4.34 | ||
| Third quarter |
$ | 5.48 | $ | 3.50 | ||
| Second quarter |
$ | 4.00 | $ | 2.56 | ||
| First quarter |
$ | 3.14 | $ | 2.66 | ||
| Year Ended December 31, 2002: |
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| Fourth quarter |
$ | 4.27 | $ | 2.24 | ||
| Third quarter |
$ | 8.33 | $ | 3.71 | ||
| Second quarter |
$ | 11.83 | $ | 4.55 | ||
| First quarter |
$ | 22.11 | $ | 9.10 | ||
The reported last sale price of our common stock on the Nasdaq National Market on February 23, 2004 was $5.36. The approximate number of holders of record of the shares of our common stock was 315 as of February 23, 2004. This number does not include stockholders whose shares are held in trust by other entities. The actual number of stockholders is greater than this number of holders of record. We estimate that the number of beneficial stockholders of the shares of our common stock as of February 23, 2004 was approximately 11,300.
We have sold and issued no unregistered securities during the period covered by this report. We have not paid any cash dividends on our capital stock during the years 2003 and 2002. For the foreseeable future, we intend to retain our earnings to fund the development and growth of our business and, therefore, do not anticipate paying any cash dividends. See Item 7, Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsLiquidity and Capital Resources.
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Equity Compensation Plan Information
The number of shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options, the weighted-average exercise price of the outstanding options, and the number of stock options remaining for future issuance for each of our plans are summarized in the following table as of December 31, 2003. All amounts set forth below have been adjusted to reflect our one-for-seven reverse split of our outstanding shares of our common stock, which was effective on November 13, 2002.
| Plan Category |
Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights |
Weighted average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights |
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance | ||||
| Equity compensation plans approved by security holders |
3,300,000 | $ | 5.14 | 5,437,000 | |||
| Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders (warrants to non-employees) |
477,400 | $ | 8.45 | | |||
| Total |
3,777,400 | $ | 5.56 | 5,437,000 | |||
See Note 10 of the Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this annual report for more detailed information on the stock options and warrants.
| ITEM 6. | SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA |
The following selected consolidated financial data is derived from our consolidated financial statements. This data should be read in conjunction with Item 7, Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the consolidated financial statements of Blue Martini Software, Inc. and the notes to consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this annual report. The consolidated statement of operations data set forth below for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2003 and the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, are derived from, and qualified by reference to, the audited financial statements appearing elsewhere in this annual report. The statement of operations data for the periods ended December 31, 2000 and 1999, and the balance sheet data as of December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999, are derived from audited financial statements not included herein. All references to earnings per share and the number of common shares reflect the one-for-seven reverse stock split of our outstanding shares of common stock, effected on November 13, 2002.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 |
2002 |
2001 |
2000 |
1999 | |||||||||||
| (in thousands, except per share data) | |||||||||||||||
| Consolidated Statement of Operations Data: |
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| Revenues: |
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| License |
$ | 11,479 | $ | 5,915 | $ | 20,438 | $ | 42,650 | $ | 7,205 | |||||
| Service |
21,116 | 27,708 | 39,476 | 31,601 | 4,027 | ||||||||||
| Total revenues |
32,595 | 33,623 | 59,914 | 74,251 | 11,232 | ||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: |
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| License |
1,607 | 3,812 | 4,122 | 3,754 | 719 | ||||||||||
| Service |
13,685 | 20,164 | 37,359 | 34,676 | 5,480 | ||||||||||
| Total cost of revenues |
15,292 | 23,976 | 41,481 | 38,430 | 6,199 | ||||||||||
| Gross profit |
17,303 | 9,647 | 18,433 | 35,821 | 5,033 | ||||||||||
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| Operating expenses: |
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| Sales and marketing |
18,732 | 26,920 | 46,661 | 45,962 | 7,736 | |||||||||||||||
| Research and development |
9,713 | 13,380 | 18,623 | 14,671 | 7,076 | |||||||||||||||
| General and administrative |
6,786 | 7,590 | 10,900 | 11,449 | 1,348 | |||||||||||||||
| Amortization of deferred stock compensation |