Unify Newsletter December 2008


Unify Newsletter December 2008
Holiday Message from the CEO I would like to personally wish each of you a Wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year. I thoroughly enjoy this time of year, having the opportunity to celebrate with family and friends, and preparing for what I expect to be a year of hope and possibilities ahead. Here at Unify, we are very grateful for you, our exemplary customers and as we head into 2009. I assure you that focusing on your needs will remain our top priority - even more so during these challenging times. Whether it’s helping you modernize or update your applications at a fraction of the cost of other alternatives, or supporting your existing applications with new features and functionalities, we will strive to provide you with the superior products and services you need. On behalf of the employees of Unify, I wish you a happy holiday, full of love, family and friends as well as time to unwind, recharge and prepare for a promising year ahead. Sincerely, Todd Wille, President & CEO	In this issue: Holiday Message from the CEO SQLBase 11.5 TD 5.1 SP5 and TD 5.2 Q is Coming Back Unify Reports Second Quarter Results CeBIT 2009 Announcement Latin America DevCons Coming in March 2009 Unify Resources SQLBase 11.5 Downloads Team Developer 5.2 Preview Team Developer Downloads Composer for Lotus Notes Sabertooth Resources Unify News Unify Webinars Unify Events In keeping with a long standing tradition, Unify will be closed during the holidays from December 24, 2008 to January 4, 2009. Closing for this period allows our employees to fully enjoy a vacation during the holidays, and rest and recharge for the new year. As a result, there will be no sales or support services available. We will have extremely limited Technical Support resources available for responding only to severe emergencies. We look forward to seeing you in the new year.
SQLBase 11.5 Many customers are already using SQLBase 11.5 and are excited about the multiprocessing performance and the new SQLBase Command Center database administration tool. Customers gain up to 35% higher performance and higher scalability for SQLBase servers. SQLBase 11.5 automatically takes advantage of multi-processor and multi-core systems. The new SQLBase 11.5 Command Center brings immediate power to database administrators. The new rich and modern GUI allows managing SQLBase 11.5 with a few mouse clicks. From visual check database to automated backups, SQLBase Command Center covers every task a database administrator would need to be able to do – without the DBA. Manage manual maintenance tasks like check database, install and uninstall database etc. Database object editing including automatic change script Powerful Stored Procedure editor with full debugger New SQLTalk featuring color coded editor and grid output Automated database tasks like backups, executed by a service, including notification emails Watch the SQLBase 11.5 Command Center Video demonstrating the key features and benefits this highly intuitive and easy to use tool brings to SQLBase database administration. Download SQLBase 11.5 Test Drive! See what’s New in SQLBase 11.5.

Team Developer 5.1 SP5 and Team Developer 5.2

We hear you! During the recent DevCons in Europe and North America, most of the Team Developer users told us they preferred to have another TD 5.1 Service Pack before finalizing Team Developer 5.2. The new Team Developer schedule will provide customers with a TD 5.1 service pack – SP5 – in early 2009, followed by Team Developer 5.2 currently scheduled for release in early Spring.

Also, we will launch the Team Developer 5.2 beta program during Q1 2009. More information regarding how to participate will be forthcoming.

Q is Coming Back

"Q is back" was one of the most highly attended session at the worldwide DevCons. Q is Unify’s modern interpretation of a successful tool named Quest. Q brings back powerful end-user data management, queries and reporting in a modern looking Office 2007 style application. Define a complex query with just a few mouse clicks; export the query results to csv, xml, Excel or tab delimited files. Load the exported data into other systems. Share the data with your colleagues and service agencies. Load csv, xml, Excel or text files into new or existing tables. Create new tables based on a query, fully fledged reporting and more. Stay tuned for more information about Q.

Unify Reports Second Quarter Results

Unify reported its second quarter fiscal 2009 results on Nov. 20, 2008. The Company announced another solid quarter of revenue growth and profitability. Highlights for the quarter included:

Revenues for the quarter were up 17% to $5.8 million.
Net income was $725,000 or $0.10 per fully diluted share, compared to net income of $692,000 or $0.10 per fully diluted share in the second quarter of last year.
Non-GAAP net income was $1.1 million or $0.14 per fully diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $1.0 million or $0.15 per fully diluted share in the same quarter of last year.
Income from operations of $1 million
Cash flow from operations of $249,000
$1.4 million in Composer bookings
26 new customers

During his quarterly call, Unify CEO Todd Wille stated, “We are delighted with the performance of our database and development software business – achieving 5% revenue growth and 8% bookings growth during the quarter. We believe this growth was driven by customers who are looking to maintain and upgrade their current applications instead of investing in new software packages or major application re-writes. We remain cautiously optimistic that the trends we are seeing will continue through the remainder of fiscal 2009.

“As part of this growth, we added 26 new software customers worldwide. The revenue generated from these new customers was approximately $88,000, with these new customers purchasing our Team Developer, SQLBase and NXJ products.

“During the quarter, we also held three successful user group conferences in Sacramento, Munich and Stockholm. The feedback we received indicated that customers are excited about the capabilities that will be available in new versions of our products to be released shortly. Our hard work to provide our customers with the updated products and services they require continues to pay dividends. “We also showcased our Team Developer, SQLBase and NXJ products to over 200 prospective customers during two weeks of seminars and tradeshows in Brazil in late October. We are seeing significant momentum in Latin America for Unify software and with our strong distributor partner in Brazil, we look forward to continued growth in this region.”

Read the full press release.

CeBIT 2009 Announcement

More rapid innovation cycles, increasing use of automation, growing competitive pressures – the major display category “Business Processes” at CeBIT provides a unique source of detailed information about leaner, more efficient processes for professionals working in business and administration. Unify’s products are a perfect fit into those key areas.

Some weeks ago it was announced that California will be Partner State in 2009 at CeBIT, a role previously reserved only for nations. This is the perfect opportunity for Californian companies to promote their products and innovations in the global marketplace.

With the new CeBIT hall set-up Unify is now located in Hall 6, stand F34, close to the Central Californian Pavilion.

So come and join Unify in 2009 at CeBIT in Hannover/Germany again!

Latin America DevCons Coming in March 2009

Unify has announced the dates and cities for the four DevCon events to be held in Latin and South America during March 2009:

        Mexico City, Mexico           Tuesday, March 10
        Lima, Peru                         Thursday March 12
        Buenos Aires, Argentina    Tuesday, March 17
        Sao Paulo, Brazil               Thursday, March 19

Building on the success of the Europe and North America developers’ conferences, the Latin America DevCons will showcase the latest on SQLBase 11.5, NXJ, Team Developer 5.2 Q, DataServer and more; provide you roadmap information on all Unify products; and give you opportunities to network with peers and our Development and Support Teams. Further details willl be available on the Unify website in January.

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