{"id":8923,"date":"2010-10-12T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/interactive_intelligence_announces_positive_preliminary_earnings.html"},"modified":"2010-10-12T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:54:43","slug":"interactive-intelligence-announces-positive-preliminary-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/interactive-intelligence-announces-positive-preliminary-earnings.html","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Intelligence Announces Positive Preliminary Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few things I wish for regarding earnings in the tech space.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wish I had time to give my thoughts on every announcement<\/li>\n<li>I wish they were all as good as what Interactive Intelligence just accomplished<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short the company just <a href=\"http:\/\/callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com\/analysis\/articles\/108141-preliminary-third-quarter-results-shows-revenue-growth-interactive.htm\">released<\/a> preliminary third-quarter numbers and said they had nine orders over $1 million with two of them being larger than $2M. I am not sure how this compares with past quarters but regardless, these are significant customer sizes in an era of price compression.<\/p>\n<p>The company says its cloud offering is doing well and you may recall  company CMO Joe Staples spent some time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/videos\/default.aspx?vid=2456&amp;title=Interactive+Intelligence+Enhances+its+CaaS+Offering\">recently<\/a> (video) in the TMC Newsroom  giving me details of the launch.<\/p>\n<p>ININ expects total revenue to be between $41-$42 million with GAAP net income between $3.3-$3.9M. Last year the number was $2.8M meaning an increase of at least 17% over last year&#8217;s sales.<\/p>\n<p>According to founder and CEO Dr. Don Brown, the size of the deals gives the company increased operating leverage and revenue growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ININ CMO Joe Staples addresses a standing-room-only crowd last week at the first ever TMC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/social-crm\/\">Social CRM Expo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/social-crm-expo-joe-staples.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/social-crm-expo-joe-staples-thumb-500x375-8175.jpg\" alt=\"social-crm-expo-joe-staples.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/social-crm-expo-joe-staples1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/social-crm-expo-joe-staples1-thumb-500x375-8177.jpg\" alt=\"social-crm-expo-joe-staples1.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are additional details regarding the company&#8217;s earnings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Interactive Intelligence plans to issue a press release announcing its final 2010 third-quarter results Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. Eastern daylight time. It will host a conference call Nov. 1 at 4:30 p.m. EDT, featuring Dr. Brown and the company&rsquo;s CFO, Stephen R. Head. A live Q&amp;A session will follow opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To access the teleconference, please dial 1.877.324.1969 at least five minutes prior to the start of the call. Ask for the teleconference by the following name: &#8220;Interactive Intelligence third-quarter earnings call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The teleconference will also be broadcast live on the <a href=\"http:\/\/investors.inin.com\">company&#8217;s investor relations&#8217; page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, TMC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/columnists\/columnist.aspx?id=100044\">Patrick Barnard<\/a> has been live blogging the Interactive Intelligence Partner Event from this past weekend. Here are his posts to date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/makingcontact\/2010\/10\/interactive-intelligence-to-unveil-cic-version-40-at-partner-event.asp\">Interactive Intelligence to Unveil CIC Version 4.0 at Partner Event<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/makingcontact\/2010\/10\/a-review-of-interactive-intelligences-caas-offering.asp\">A Review of Interactive Intelligence&#8217;s CaaS Offering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/makingcontact\/2010\/10\/contact-center-market-update-2010.asp\">Contact Center Market Update 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are recent video interviews with the company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/videos\/default.aspx?vid=3154&amp;title=Interview+with+Interactive+Intelligence\">Interview with Interactive Intelligence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/videos\/default.aspx?vid=2456&amp;title=Interactive+Intelligence+Enhances+its+CaaS+Offering\">Interactive Intelligence Enhances its CaaS Offering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/videos\/default.aspx?vid=2453&amp;title=Interactive+Intelligence+Capitalizes+on+the+Cloud+Computing+Trend\">Interactive Intelligence Capitalizes on the Cloud Computing Trend<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=12aa87b4-8bc0-4e8e-b7a6-9fdf3b7c7f19\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few things I wish for regarding earnings in the tech space. I wish I had time to give my thoughts on every announcement I wish they were all as good as what Interactive Intelligence just accomplished In short the company just released preliminary third-quarter numbers and said they had nine orders over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,215,199,197,188,189,206,211,118,1109,177,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}