Upland Software Reports Third Quarter 2015 Results and Announces Acquisition of Ultriva

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Upland Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPLD), a leader in cloud-based Enterprise Work Management applications, today reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015. Upland also announced the acquisition of Ultriva, Inc. Ultriva offers a suite of cloud-based applications that allow manufacturing companies to collaborate with their customers, plants, and suppliers to streamline and optimize material flows.

Third Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $17.1 million, an increase of 5% from total revenue of $16.3 million in the third quarter of 2014. Total revenue was $17.4 million on a constant currency basis with the second quarter of 2015, and total revenue was $18.1 million on a constant currency basis with the third quarter of 2014 representing year-over-year growth of 11%.
• Subscription and support revenue was $14.1 million, an increase of 14% from subscription and support revenue of $12.4 million in the third quarter of 2014. Subscription and support revenue was $14.4 million on a constant currency basis with the second quarter of 2015, and subscription and support revenue was $14.9 million on a constant currency basis with the third quarter of 2014, representing year-over-year growth of 20%.
• GAAP net loss was $2.3 million, or a loss of $0.16 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net loss of $3.3 million, or a loss of $0.22 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2015, and compared to GAAP net loss of $2.4 million, or a loss of $0.80 per diluted share, with the third quarter of 2014.
• Non-GAAP net income was $0.0 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net loss of $0.9 million, or a loss of $0.25 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2014.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $1.1 million, compared to $0.7 million in the second quarter of 2015, representing quarterly sequential growth of 58%, and compared to $0.5 million in the third quarter of 2014, representing year-over-year growth of 94%.
• Cash on hand as of the end of the third quarter was $28.7 million.

"We are pleased to announce strong Q3 results, including record quarterly Adjusted EBITDA since becoming a public company, and to welcome Ultriva to the Upland family of products," said Jack McDonald, chairman and CEO of Upland Software. "With our healthy capital resources and robust acquisition pipeline, we remain committed to growing through strategic acquisitions and expanding our Adjusted EBITDA margins."

"Our Q3 results demonstrate that we have more than tripled Adjusted EBITDA since Q1, which was our first full quarter as a public company," said Mike Hill, CFO of Upland Software. "Moreover, we have guided to record Adjusted EBITDA in Q4 at the midpoint."

Acquisition of Ultriva and Recent Business Highlights

With the acquisition of Ultriva, Upland's ninth in four years, Upland broadens its Enterprise Work Management offerings by adding a suite of cloud-based applications that allow manufacturing companies to collaborate with their customers, plants, and suppliers to streamline and optimize material flows. Ultriva Lean Suite is a single source for supply chain communication, providing a basis for multi-enterprise, multi-tier, end-to-end supply chain collaboration. It includes four modules: Collaborative Supply Portal, Lean Factory Management, Collaborative Demand Portal, and the Inventory Optimization Tool. Ultriva Lean Suite can be deployed individually or as a fully integrated solution that provides end-to-end supply chain visibility, collaboration, and execution tools.

"Ultriva adds an exceptional built-for-purpose suite of products to our family of cloud-based Enterprise Work Management applications and represents the latest step in our commitment as a global leader in this category," said Tim Mattox, president and COO of Upland Software. "We look forward to enhancing the already impressive outcomes that the Ultriva team delivers to its enterprise customers."

"This is a very important milestone for our product and technology vision," said Narayan Laksham, founder and CEO of Ultriva. "In combining Upland's enterprise level capabilities and the passion for customer experience that both companies share, we see significant value in this acquisition for our customers, prospects, and team members."

In other recent highlights, Upland entered into a strategic partnership with Dell Boomi to significantly expand and enhance the integration capabilities of the Upland family of products to one another and to third party products. For more information about Upland's partnership with Dell Boomi, visit: http://uplandsoftware.com/press-releases/.

Business Outlook

For the quarter ending December 31, 2015, Upland's year-over-year constant currency total revenue guidance is in the range of $17.6 million to $18.6 million, or growth of 10% at the mid-point over the quarter ended December 31, 2014, and reported total revenue guidance is in the range of $16.6 million to $17.6 million, or growth of 4% at the mid-point over the quarter ended December 31, 2014, based on third quarter 2015 foreign currency exchange rates. Adjusted EBITDA guidance is in the range of $1.4 million to $2.0 million, or Adjusted EBITDA margin of 10% of total revenue at the mid-point for the same period.

For the full year ending December 31, 2015, Upland's constant currency total revenue guidance is in the range of $72.1 million to $73.1 million, or growth of 12% at the mid-point over the full year ended December 31, 2014, and reported total revenue guidance is in the range of $68.9 million to $69.9 million, or growth of 7% at the mid-point over the full year ended December 31, 2014. For the full year ending December 31, 2015, Upland's Adjusted EBITDA guidance to be in the range of $3.5 million to $4.1 million, or Adjusted EBITDA margin of 5% of total revenue at the mid-point for the same period.

Conference Call Details

Upland's executive team will host a live conference call and webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time today to review the financial results and outlook for the business. The conference call may be accessed within North America by dialing 1.888.684.7501 and outside of North America by dialing 1.925.418.7884, referencing conference code 77235695. The conference call will be simultaneously webcast on Upland's investor relations website, which can be accessed at investor.uplandsoftware.com. This webcast will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding Upland's financial and operating results. Accordingly, we draw your attention to our advisory regarding forward-looking statements below and as presented at the outset of the conference call.

Following completion of the live call, a recorded replay of the webcast will be available on Upland's website at investor.uplandsoftware.com. A replay of the conference call will be available as of 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on November 16, 2015 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 1, 2015 at investor.uplandsoftware.com.

About Upland Software

Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) is a leading provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Management software. Our family of applications connects people through technology, automates the flow of work and brings visibility to all aspects of organizations. With more than 1,600 customers and over 225,000 users around the world at the beginning of 2015, Upland Software solutions help teams in IT, marketing, finance, professional services, manufacturing, and process excellence run their operations smoothly, adapt to change quickly, and achieve better results every day. To learn more, visit www.uplandsoftware.com.

About Ultriva

Ultriva's cloud-based platform seamlessly integrates with leading ERP and MRP systems, to deliver an end-to-end pull-based replenishment solution. Based in Cupertino, CA, Ultriva implements a global demand-driven manufacturing model by providing full visibility, scheduling, and production sequencing of customer orders. Ultriva was named one of the Great Supply Chain Projects of 2014 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine and its blog was recently named one of 50 Best Supply Chain Blogs of 2014 by SupplyChainOpz. To learn more, visit www.ultriva.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we use the following non-GAAP financial measures: Adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP net income (loss) per share, and constant currency revenue.

We use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision-making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures that may not be indicative of our recurring core business operating results, such as our revenues excluding the impact for foreign currency fluctuations or our operating performance excluding not only non-cash charges, but also discrete cash charges that are infrequent in nature. We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing our performance and when planning, forecasting, and analyzing future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal comparisons to our historical performance and liquidity as well as comparisons to our competitors' operating results. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors both because they allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in its financial and operational decision-making and they are used by our institutional investors and the analyst community to help them analyze the health of our business. For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, see the tables provided below in this release.

Upland defines Adjusted EBITDA as net loss, calculated in accordance with GAAP, plus discontinued operations, depreciation and amortization expense, interest expense, net, other expense (income), net, provision for income taxes, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related expenses, and non-recurring litigation expenses.

Upland defines non-GAAP net income (loss) as its net income (loss), plus the impact of amortization of purchased intangible assets, amortization debt discount, adjustments to original acquisition-based purchase accounting, stock-based compensation expenses, third party acquisition-related costs, non-recurring litigation expenses, and the related tax effect of the adjustments above.

Upland defines constant currency revenue as reported revenue adjusted for foreign currency exchange rates. In order to compute constant currency revenue, Upland converts the current period's local currency revenue using the average exchange rates from the equivalent prior period to arrive at constant currency revenue. The foreign exchange impact equals the difference between the current period revenue in U.S. dollars and the current period revenue in constant currency.

Upland's revenue guidance excludes the impact of reductions due to deferred revenue discounts as a result of GAAP purchase accounting adjustments related to the acquisition of Ultriva, Inc. in the fourth quarter of 2015. Upland estimates the total amount of any such adjustments in the fourth quarter of 2015 to be less than $200 thousand.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements which are subject to substantial risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact and often include words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "seek," "will," "may" or similar expressions. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: our financial performance and our ability to achieve, sustain or increase profitability or predict financial results; our ability to attract and retain customers; our ability to deliver high-quality customer service; lack of demand growth for Enterprise Work Management applications; our ability to effectively manage our growth; our ability to consummate and integrate acquisitions and mergers; maintaining our senior management and key personnel; our ability to maintain and expand our direct sales organization; the performance of our resellers; our ability to adapt to changing market conditions and competition; our ability to successfully enter new markets and manage our international expansion; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; the operation and reliability of our third-party data centers and other service providers; and factors that could affect our business and financial results identified in Upland's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including Upland's most recent 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 31, 2015, and our recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 14, 2015. Additional information will also be set forth in Upland's future quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, annual reports on Form 10-K and other filings that Upland makes with the SEC. The forward-looking statements herein represent Upland's views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while Upland may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Upland specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the views of Upland as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.

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