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spk04: Good afternoon, and welcome to AWARE's fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings conference call. Joining us today is the company's CEO and President, Robert Eckel, CFO, David Barcelo, and CRO, Craig Herman. Following their remarks, we'll open the call for questions. If you'd like to submit a question, you can do so at any time using the built-in Ask a Question feature in the webcast player. Before we begin today's call, I'd like to remind everyone that the presentation contains forward-looking statements that are based on the current expectations of a worst management and involve inherent risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. Listeners should take note of the Safe Harbor paragraph that is included at the end of today's press release. This paragraph emphasizes the major uncertainties and risks inherent in forward-looking statements that management will be making today. AWARE wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. These risks and uncertainties are also outlined in the company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Any forward-looking statements should be considered in light of these factors. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statement, which speak only as of the date made. Although it may voluntarily do so from time to time, AWARE undertakes no commitment to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities law. Additionally, the call contains certain non-GAAP financial measures, as the term is defined by the SEC in Regulation G. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information presented in compliance with GAAP. Accordingly, AWARE has provided reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in the company's earnings release issued today. This presentation will be recorded and made available for replay via a link in the investor relations section of the company's website. Now I'd like to turn the call over to AWARE's CEO and President, Bob Echol. Bob.
spk02: Thanks, Matt. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. After the market closed, we issued a press release with our results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. A copy of the press release is available in the investor relations section of our website. On today's call, I will begin by discussing our financial and operational performance for the fourth quarter in the full year 2022. Then I'll review the progress we've made positioning our company to realize greater scale and sustainable growth. Afterwards, our CFO, Dave Barcelo, will provide additional details on our fourth quarter and full year 2022 performance. Next, our CRO, Craig Herman, will discuss our strategic initiatives to bolster sales and advance our go-to-market efforts. Finally, I'll review our key business drivers and 2023 outlook before opening the call to questions. For those of you who may be new to our company, Let me step back for a moment and provide a brief overview of who we are and what we do. Aware is an identity platform partner working to enhance trust in an increasingly connected world. Our mission is to balance security and user experience through technology for the few and at scale. We reduce fraud and enable compliance and security needs, as well as improve business efficiencies through offerings that address identity challenges of today while preparing for identity challenges in the future. These offerings facilitate digital onboarding, authentication, and lifecycle management of the user's biometric identity through proven and trusted multimodal adaptive biometrics. Adaptive meaning configured, sometimes preconfigured. It's based on the customer's technical capability as well as the use case and the end user's risk profile. 2023 marks our 30th anniversary and has given me pause to reflect on both the old and the new. For 30 years, we've led with deep rooted systems level technical expertise and algorithms trained on the most diverse operational data sets in the world. Our reputation in the biometric industry has earned us trusted spots with many governments. And today our technology can be found in all three branches of the US federal government. More than 80 government agencies, and over 300 law enforcement agencies worldwide. And while we cherish our roots and work hard to maintain our loyal customer base, we have actively shifted the company over the last three years. Our business model has changed, our culture has changed, our infrastructure has changed, and our target customers now include a growing portion of commercial clients which contribute to over a quarter of our revenue. We focused our technology to provide enterprise solutions, digital onboarding and authentication across verticals and to maximize business efficiencies those of you following our story for the past couple years now know that this transformation has been accomplished with a significant shift towards recurring revenue which hit approximately 10 million in 2022. now that you understand more about who we are and what we do i'd like to shift gears to discuss our operational and financial accomplishments during 2022. At high level, 2022 can be best characterized as an impactful transition year for AWARE, where we further solidified and strengthened our organization and our technology offerings, as well as positioning AWARE for greater scale and profitable growth in years to come. During 2022, we applied a deep focus on advancing and solidifying our solutions, product infrastructure, fulfillment mechanisms, and processes, as well as accelerating recurring customer growth. The changes we made over the last several months, including enhancing our sales team, refining our go-to-market execution, and establishing a customer success team, have positioned us to grow and expand our market share with our Nomi and BioSP offerings, as well as capitalize on AwareID, our new cloud-based SaaS solution. Our customer success team has already made a noticeable impact on our organization and sales effort. Established over the course of Q4, the team focused on accelerating customer onboarding, retaining and expanding existing customers through improved customer satisfaction and personal attention, and driving overall success in using AWARE's technology. In fact, already this quarter, our customer success team was instrumental in bringing a key new customer live, as well as enabling several customer renewals. Additionally, the customer success team is central to reducing the onboarding time for integrated resellers while allowing the sales team to focus on selling. Our partner reseller strategy is a key component to our go-to-market strategy, and we are encouraged by the success we have built in this area. During 2022, we added seven new Nomi resellers across multiple geographies, including Latin America, the UK, Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan. In addition to reinvigorating our sales teams and go-to-market strategies, we expanded and filled out our product portfolio. We launched AwareID back in October and have been working diligently to advance customer adoption of our cloud platform that can be provided as a SaaS or controlled and deployed in the customer environment. Furthermore, we leverage customer feedback to develop pre-bundled high-demand configurations of BioSP to accelerate deployments and extend product reach to customers who previously didn't have the time or resources to integrate or configure BioSP. The BioSP product line realized increased market acceptance in 2022, and these pre-bundled configurations are expected to further expand accessibility of this foundational offering. In Q4, we also completed the full integration of FortressID's technology, a highly complimentary business we acquired in December of 2021. This expanded our offerings around identity proofing to directly address financial compliance requirements, enable organizations to mitigate risk and curtail fraud. Lastly, throughout 2022, we focused on optimizing our organizational resources to best position a company for success in 2023 and beyond. As part of this effort, we relocated our corporate headquarters to Burlington, Massachusetts, to a smaller, more modernized facility that better meets our needs. Before continuing with our initiatives for 2023, I'll turn the call over to Dave. He will walk you through our financial results for the fourth quarter in the full year. Dave, over to you.
spk03: Thank you, Bob. Good afternoon to everyone on the call. Turning to our financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31st, 2022, our total revenue in the fourth quarter was $4.1 million, up 35% sequentially and up 2% from the $4 million in the same year-ago period. The sequential improvement in revenue was largely driven by increases in revenue attributed to NOMI and BioSP. For the 12 months ended December 31, 2022, total revenue was $16 million, compared to $16.9 million in the same year-ago period. The decrease in revenue was primarily the result of lower revenue from perpetual software licenses and services, which was partially offset by increases in software maintenance revenue and revenue from subscription-based licenses. As such, recurring revenue grew 7% to a record $9.7 million in 2022 as we progress further on our business model transformation. Now looking at our operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2022, our operating expenses increased to $6.1 million compared to $5.5 million in Q4 of last year. The operating expenses for the 12 months in December 31st, 2022 were $18.2 million down from $23 million in 2021. which included the favorable impact of a $5.7 million gain in 2022 on the sale of our former corporate office. With regards to our profitability measures, operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2022 was $2 million, which compares to an operating loss of $1.5 million in the same year-ago period. For the full year, operating loss was $2.2 million, compared to an operating loss of $6.1 million in 2021. The improvement in operating loss in 2022 was primarily due to the gain we recorded related to the sale of our corporate office, which was offset by a decrease in revenue, increase in sales marketing expenses, as well as increase in G&A expenses. For the fourth quarter of 2022, GAAP net loss totaled $1.8 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, compared to a gap net loss of $1.3 million, or $0.06 per diluted share in the same year-ago period. For the full year of 2022, gap net loss totaled $1.7 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, compared to a gap net loss of $5.8 million, or $0.27 per diluted share in 2021. Adjusted EBITDA loss for the fourth quarter which we reconciled the gap net income in our earnings release, totaled $1.5 million, which compares to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.9 million in the same year-ago period. For the 12 months ended December 31, 2022, adjusted EBITDA loss totaled $5.4 million, compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $3.8 million in the prior year period. Switching gears to our balance sheet, we had $29 million in cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities at the end of the quarter, compared to $31 million at the end of the prior quarter. We utilized $1.2 million of our cash to repurchase 628,000 shares of our common stock at an average price of $1.83 per share in the fourth quarter of 2022, bringing the total amount of common shares repurchased in 2022 to 705,000, reducing outstanding shares by over 3% as we continue to be strategic in our stock buyback program and increase value for our existing shareholders. Our balance sheet remains robust and provides us with the flexibility to allocate capital to opportunities with high ROI potential that align with our long-term expansion and product roadmaps. Along that line, we continue to evaluate strategic opportunities that would enable us to generate sustainable and predictable growth for 2023 and beyond. This concludes my financial summary. Now, our CRO, Craig Herman, will discuss our sales strategy. Craig?
spk01: Thank you, Dave. It's a pleasure to be here with you today. Shifting to our sales and go-to-market initiatives, Bob touched on a few of the key customer wins that were a direct result of our customer success team and new product offerings. In particular, aware ID opportunities have started gaining momentum, and we are exploring several new marketplaces to expand our reach. In support of our customers, our SaaS offering rounds out our portfolio to ensure deployment flexibility that meets our customers' needs. We are still in the transitionary phase with select customers, especially those in the financial services space, prefer to have our solutions deployed on-prem or in their cloud instance to be controlled and managed by them. Nevertheless, we are still onboarding new Aware ID customers and working diligently to ramp customer adoption, whether as managed services and therefore SaaS or a licensed subscription. In parallel, with expanding Aware ID's reach, we are also realizing increased traction with KnowMe. our mobile biometric authentication framework. Recently, we extended our contract and scope of work with one of the largest banking institutions in Latin America, which have been leveraging Nomi to prevent bank fraud among its more than 50 million customers globally. In terms of our enterprise sales strategy, this year we are applying intentional focus to three critical areas. First, We are centering efforts around gaining momentum in the fintech market. Aware is a leader in banking fraud prevention, which is why we are trusted by some of the largest financial institutions around the world. With our reinvigorated sales process and newly introduced customer success team, we are poised to gain a meaningful share of the financial services market. Our second initiative is to continue evolving and strengthening our partnership programs. Aware's technology is modular and agnostic. features that are ideal for partners and which allow us to sell solutions rather than just products. Renewed emphasis on partners will help us gain more traction globally without the need for significant expansion of regional resources. Lastly, we are working towards expanding our footprint in the U.S. commercial market. Aware is a track record of success in the government space, with our technology being trusted by governments across the globe. Our customers are extremely sticky, boasting a 93% retention rate over 2022. and some of our relationships with major U.S. federal agencies span over 20 years. Additionally, our technology features adaptable connectors for compliance, making it able to be integrated in any setting. Despite this recognition globally, our progress has moved slowly with respect to breaking into the U.S. commercial market. However, with the success we've had amongst U.S. federal agencies and global penetration of our platforms, we are well positioned to capitalize on this market opportunity. In summary, our optimized enterprise sales and partner strategy is gaining momentum, validated by the growing number of integrated reseller partners and customer wins, as well as the expanding reach of our technology into new markets. With the continued efforts of our customer success team, coupled with the building demand for our solutions across key markets, I am confident in our ability to scale our business and drive sales in the years ahead. Now I would like to turn the call back to Bob for additional insights on our priorities and outlook for 2023. Bob?
spk02: Thanks, Greg. In 2022, we entered the final stage of our business model transition to a platform company with robust recurring revenue and unveiled our highly anticipated SaaS offering, AwareID. This past year, we also generated significant momentum for our brand awareness and authentication solutions. These efforts have positioned us to enter the new year with an exciting pipeline of opportunities that are starting to convert at an encouraging pace. Our recurring revenue has essentially doubled over the last three years as we retooled our business processes to enable transactional or term contracts or per user subscription offerings. At the same time, we upgraded our products to ensure that they supported the new business model and could be deployed and delivered across all customer installations from single-tenant cloud and multi-tenant shared cloud services to customer-controlled on-premise or cloud infrastructure as determined and driven by the customer's security, business rules, and processes. This capability both from a business and product perspective didn't exist at this level until October of 2022. Our current recurring revenue ending 2022, is not far off from the total revenue achieved in 2019 or 2020, where the ratio of our recurring revenue to total revenue was around 50%. We finished 2022 at $9.7 million in recurring revenue, which is a 61% ratio to total revenue. Said another way, we set a company record this past year by achieving almost $10 million in recurring revenue. When I came aboard a few years ago, I outlined the need for the company to transition the business and technology models to improve the quality and repeatability of revenue versus the one-time program and project wins. I'm excited for the progress to date and confident we'll continue in this direction. In 2023, we're continuing to focus on driving recurring revenue and increase our percentage of recurring to total revenue, enabling us to focus on new logos while improving our leverage and efficiencies. The focus on ARR will continue to have varying degrees of maintenance, subscription, and SaaS makeup as AWARE is able to provide the fulfillment model of choice for our customers, a flexibility that sets us apart from the competition. That said, for 2023, we have three strategic goals. To drive growth by focusing on scalability through partners and marketplaces, to protect the base by retaining and expanding core customers and business areas, and to confirm and establish AwareID's product market fit through targeting adoption in select industry verticals. As you heard, the revenue team is working diligently to boost our partner program and improve and accelerate customer onboarding to allow us to enter new markets faster, thereby reducing the time to revenue. Furthermore, having team members with a dedicated focus on retention and expansion within our core base of customers will also contribute to our continued transformative progress while other members of the team focus on new logos. It's not all on Craig's team, though. The entire organization is unified and aligned behind these goals and is leveraging the optimized organizational resources I mentioned earlier to ensure collective success. We expect that our success on our strategic goals will translate to a 15 percent growth in annually recurring revenue, or ARR, in 2023. We also anticipate that the measures we took last year to optimize our organization and resources when combined with this growth will allow us to achieve positive operating cash flow exiting 2023. Looking ahead, we are gaining strong operational momentum and are focused on the execution of our strategic roadmap to scale aware for sustainable future growth. We remain confident in our ability to deliver promising results in 2023 and beyond. We appreciate your continued support and are excited for what lies ahead for our company and the industry. With that, we are ready to open the call to questions. Matt, please provide the appropriate instructions.
spk05: Thank you, Bob. As a reminder, you can submit a question using the built-in Ask a Question feature in the webcast player.
spk04: Please hold while we populate the questions. The first question is for Bob. You mentioned a healthy pipeline. Can you provide some color on any contract or product wins?
spk02: Yeah, thanks, Matt. As we mentioned in the earnings release, we signed seven new Nomi partners in 2022, and that's with coverage throughout the world. I'd have to say that our Nomi product line is gaining momentum and will be a cornerstone of our growth in 2023, and that further fuels our confidence to increase our ARR by at least 15%. Already this year, we've extended one of our largest NOMI customers for an additional three years and more use cases. We're also working closely with our partner Intercede on some interesting deals in the federal government. And lastly, I expect us to be announcing our first Cloud Avis award in U.S. law enforcement in the near future along with other exciting firsts.
spk05: Thanks, Bob. What are the company's capital allocation plans for 2023? Hey, thanks, Matt.
spk03: Yeah, as you probably saw in the earnings release, we had $29 million of cash in marketable securities at the end of the quarter. At the end of Q3 and into Q4, we took advantage of the higher interest rates in the overall market and invested a large portion of our cash in highly liquid marketable securities. More broadly, the leadership team and I and the board, we continually evaluate opportunities that will provide the most attractive risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders. That includes repurchasing our stock, investing in internal growth opportunities, and evaluating M&A and some strategic partnership opportunities that would drive our scale and accelerate our growth strategy.
spk05: Thanks, Dave. Our next question, when do you anticipate Aware ID contributing to top-line revenue? Yeah, thanks for the question.
spk02: Aware ID nominally contributed to our top-line in Q4, but I'd say it's important to note that the focus is on ARR, so that's not exclusive to Aware ID in its deployment of SAS. So ARR will continue to have varying degrees of maintenance, subscription, and SAS make-up, as we provide the fulfillment model that's of choice to our customers. So in this flexibility is central to how we stand out from the others in the space. So we offer a full portfolio of solutions and however they want it to be deployed, you know, in several ways that best meets their man. You know, so it's important to know that we're looking at the ARR in particular over across the deployment methods.
spk05: Thanks, Bob. What was the number of NOMI transactions in Q4 as well as in 2022?
spk03: Yeah, I can take that. So this question has popped up a couple times. And while our NOMI transactions continue to grow each year, we believe that recurring revenue is the best metric to track the continued adoption of NOMI. and our overall companies transition into a subscription-based platform company. Because now we're selling a mix of transaction-based, user-based, and device-based subscriptions. So the transaction count would minimize our overall Nomi momentum. It's all encapsulated in recurring revenue. And in 2022, our recurring revenue totaled nearly $10 million. or more than 60% of our total revenue for the year, which is an 80% increase from 2019 after which we started this transformation.
spk05: Thanks, Dave. Next question. Is AWARE working on software for the AI market? If not, do you plan to in the future?
spk02: Yeah, I'll take that one, Matt. AWARE's artificial intelligence or AI and deep learning are part and package to our advanced software solutions. And those are the ones we take to the market through offerings that can be on-prem or in the cloud. And AWARE has and will continue to invest significantly in deep learning and with our team of in-house PhD scientists and engineers. So our extensive portfolio of platforms, frameworks, and associated AI is used to vet and prove identities and then protect them against known and emerging attack vectors. With extension... extensive access to operational data to train and optimize our portfolio. Aware is going to continue to use AI to improve performance of our offerings, as well as introducing new features to respond to fast-changing security needs. This will enable organizations to take advantage of Aware's innovations in an extremely timely manner.
spk05: Thanks, Bob. Another one for you.
spk04: Please comment on your assessment of company performance. And over the next three and a half years, what circumstances influence your expectations of the future? And would the company consider a merger or sale if suboptimal performance persists?
spk02: Thanks for the question. When I took over as CEO in September of 2019, the company was doing approximately $12 million of revenue, and recurring revenue was around 50% of that total. The operating stage of the business when I assumed the CEO position was far more challenged than expected and required significant restructuring to position the company for growth and profitability. Part of that initial challenge was that the company was a strong innovator, but did not have a product suite. It had integral hardened and proven components that made the sales process overly complicated. And on top of this, the company did not have a proven go-to-market strategy for subscription, and it was not properly equipped to sell. So if we fast forward three years, Aware has grown its top line by nearly a third, while simultaneously grown our recurring revenue by two-thirds. So to put that in perspective, our annual recurring revenue at the end of 2022 was approximately $10 million, or approximately 80% of the company's total revenue in 2019. And we are able to achieve this business and technology transformation despite a global pandemic, which everybody knew about or knows about. And today we have the right products, the right team, right strategy to scale our business to greater heights. And now that we have the foundation, our attention is turned to executing in sustainable ways that drive scale and improve profitability. While we're all encouraged by our operational progress and business momentum, the board continually evaluates all strategic options that will produce the greatest long-term value for our shareholders.
spk05: Thanks. Our next question, what is the average deal size?
spk02: This could be a complicated question, but I'll just give a quick, simple view of it. So our deal size varies across product lines and business models, and there isn't such a metric that we view at a company level. But what I can say is our average NOMI customer contributed about $100,000 in 2022 revenues, and our average BioSP customer, which is a mixture of maintenance and service and licenses, contributed to about $140,000 in 2022.
spk05: David, the next question is for you. How do you anticipate OPEX trending in 2023?
spk03: Yeah, so Matt, we're very comfortable with our current cost structure. We're running at about $5.5 to $6 million per quarter, and we don't anticipate adding any significant OPEX in 2023. Thanks, Dave.
spk05: Craig, this next one's for you.
spk04: Please list and describe your repeatable sales activities. What are you doing to sell your products and services, not just show them at a trade show or list them with a reseller? How much did you actually go out and pitch new business in Q4 2022 and so far in Q1 2023?
spk01: Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, for a refined sales strategy, you know, that's a pretty big topic. If I drill down into it, first, we are constantly going out and connecting directly with customers, supporting our partners in the sales process, whether it's new logos or expansion. But, you know, from a sales strategy or a sales process standpoint, The first piece is specialization. So by building out a customer success team that is focused on upsells, renewals, expansion, we have an AE team that is focused on new logo growth specifically, as well as partner managers that are working and supporting our partners. We also added BDRs that are very focused on the leads that are coming in and then the follow-up. The second piece is territory product vertical development. focus and making sure that our messaging and our differentiation is unique for each one of those areas. So having the right message for the right vertical, the right product against the competition. And the third is a defined process. How do we qualify opportunities? How do we follow up on opportunities? Again, what is our messaging? We've instituted some sales technology that helps us do this more efficiently and more effectively. So, again, the sales strategy is encompassing a lot of different pieces, but those are some of the things we've instituted just in the last few months.
spk05: Thanks, Craig. Craig, another one for you. What is your refined sales strategy?
spk01: So, yeah, I think I kind of went through that. But basically, again, the focus is on making sure that the message that we are going out with based on the product, the solution that's needed, the problems that our customers and prospects are facing that aligns with both our product and our skill sets here.
spk05: Thanks, Craig. Dave, of the $2.6 million recurring revenue in Q4, how much was subscription and how much was maintenance?
spk03: Thanks, Matt. That's an easy one. We had 1.7 million of maintenance in Q4 and about 800,000 of subscription in 2022. Those numbers are about 6.7 million of maintenance, 3.1 of subscription.
spk05: Great, thanks. Our next question, please explain the new CloudAvis contract coming soon.
spk01: Yeah, so we're extremely excited. We're not at a point... Sorry, we're not at a point where we can actually announce the name, but, you know, ABIS is, again, a large-scale biometric ID and duplication service, a deduplication service. We are one of the few companies globally that can offer this in the cloud and hosted. Most of them are on-premise. This obviously... has an impact on recurring revenue and is very focused for people to be able to get into this product at an easier price point and can get stood up and running faster and more efficiently. So we're extremely excited as being one of the leaders in this market. And, you know, we're looking forward to the announcement pretty soon.
spk05: Thanks, Greg. Next question, can you address the stated sales from Q3 2022 that were delayed slash pushed to Q4?
spk03: Yeah, I can take that, Matt. So, yeah, as you know, our Q3, we faced some headwinds, as we talked about last quarter. We had a number of government customers that we were expecting to go live. They were delayed. They have materialized here in Q1, actually. So not much that pushed into Q4, but Q1, we've got the launch of a couple of great government projects and some other revenue that shifted over to the right. So we're happy to see that.
spk05: Our next question, what is the size of your current share repurchase plan, and do you plan to continue to buy back stocks?
spk03: Yeah, thanks, Matt. Our published plan is $10 million, so we can buy up to $10 million of stock. And at this point in time, we plan on continuing that stock buyback plan. If that changes, if we were to cancel the plan, we would publish that decision.
spk05: Thanks, Dave. Next question, what range of total revenue do you expect in 2023?
spk02: Yeah, I'll take that. I mean, we're looking at, as I said earlier in the script, but then even earlier than that, we're looking at a 15% annual recurring revenue increase, and we're looking at the same amount at the total top. So that gives you the ranges.
spk05: When you multiply it out, we finished at $16 million for this year. Great. Thanks, Bob. Does AWARE expect to burn cash in 2023? And if so, how much?
spk03: Yeah, I'll take that, Matt. So AWARE is currently a cash user. Our goal, of course, is to become profitable. We believe that as we hit the end of the year, we plan on exiting the year as cash neutral to cash positive. In the meantime, our usage will continue much the same, or I should specify our operating cash usage should continue much the same as it has for the last few quarters. There are cycles to it. Q1, we typically use more cash than we do the other quarters. You can look at our track record in 2022, and we are incrementally improving each quarter until we get to that cash flow break-even.
spk05: Bob, can you talk about the competitive environment?
spk02: Yeah, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to have Craig put a little color on this as he's been talking to, he's been out in the field. So let me give a new perspective on it, Craig.
spk01: Yeah, sure. You know, again, this tracks back a little bit to the sales strategy. You know, depending on the product that we're running, you know, the solution that we're talking about, the geography that we're in, the competitive differentiation shifts. You know, what I will say is, you know, we face pressures from, On price, we face pressures on functionality, but in the end, where we are kind of standing out from a differentiation standpoint when it comes to competition is the fact that we are a platform that can be delivered in a variety of ways, specifically in the cloud or on-premise are two of the big ones that we see right now. Typically, we're running against competition that does it one way or the other. And then the other piece is the customization that can be done with NOMI, which is the on-premise, leveraging our partner network. So, again, our partners are able to take this tool and solve customer problems that are very unique and custom using our workflow tools in NOMI.
spk05: Thanks, Craig. At this time, this concludes our question and answer session.
spk04: If your question wasn't answered, please email AWARE's IR team at awre at gatewayir.com. And I'd like to turn the call back over to Bob for closing remarks.
spk02: Yeah, I'd just like to say thanks, all of you, for joining us on today's call. And I want to thank our employees, partners, and our investors for your continued support. And if anyone would like to learn more about our strategy, please keep an eye out for an updated investor presentation. We're going to make that available on our website in Q2. And as the final stage of our multi-year transformation continues, we're energized by our progress to date, our strong momentum kicking off 2023, and we're confident in a bright future that lies ahead. We look forward to updating you on AWARE's progress on our next call. So, Matt?
spk04: Thanks, Bob. As a reminder, a recording of today's call will be available for replay via link in the investor section of the company's website. Thank you for joining us today for Aware's fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings conference call. You may now disconnect.
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