2002
Another Record Year for Open Solutions
- Company Posts Record Revenue, 4th Quarter Profitability
and Year-end
Positive
Cash Flow from Operations -
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Feb. 24, 2003 - Open Solutions
Inc. (OSI), a provider of integrated enabling technologies
for community financial institutions, announced that
2002 was another record year for the company. Open
Solutions,
with services that include relational core account
data processing, business intelligence, Internet-based
online banking and cash management, financial accounting
tools, imaging and loan origination applications,
had its total annual revenue increase to $44.4 million
for the calendar year ending December 31, 2002. This
record performance represents a rate of growth of
63
percent over the previous year. In addition, Open
Solutions achieved positive net income in the fourth
quarter of 2002 and recorded positive cash
earnings from operations (EBITDA) for the year. The
company also ended the year with more than 1,650 clients
using one or more of the company's
products or services.
Open Solutions' Chairman and CEO, Louis Hernandez,
Jr. said, "Although 2002 continued to be marked
by a slowing economy, our company continues to demonstrate
impressive growth in terms of financial performance,
new clients, long term client renewals, new product
and service launches, strong contract backlog and
overall industry interest in our products and services.
Market reaction to our client-focused solutions continues
to be tremendous and to outpace industry growth. We
see that momentum continuing into 2003."
Open Solutions continues to focus strongly on bringing
the best technology and service solutions to the financial
services industry, particularly
applications designed to meet the strategic and competitive
needs of banks and credit unions. The driving force
of Open Solutions' offerings is to
enable financial institutions to serve their markets
better and more efficiently. Open Solutions' full
suite of products allows financial institutions to
add new products and services easily, serve all delivery
channels consistently and make use of real-time market
information.
The company achieved several important milestones
in 2002:
- Open Solutions continued to expand its technology
product offering through new product launches (i.e.,
integrated collections, integrated safe deposit
box, account aggregation and a disaster recovery
service offering) and the acquisition of the FTI
Financial Technologies' General Ledger, Asset Management
and Profit Vision business from HNC Software, Inc.
(now part of Fair, Isaac and Company)
- The company continued to add features to its commercial
banking product line and significantly enhance its
credit union offerings across all business lines
- Released version 3.7 of OSI's relational core
data processing software suite - the industry's
only Oracle(r)-based, relational enterprise solution.
In addition, the company also released version 4.5
of its real-time retail, commercial Internet banking
product and cash management suite and announced
a new Sound Software Commercial lending module
- Hosted its annual Client Association User Group
Conference in San Antonio, Texas with 75 percent
client participation. At this conference, OSI introduced
its product enhancement schedule, showcased new
product offerings, offered educational sessions
and provided networking opportunities
- Continued to attract talented and experienced
leaders to its senior and executive management teams
with the addition of industry veterans Carl Blandino,
former CFO at Online Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:
ORCC), as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
and Jay Singer, Former Bank Executive and KPMG Principal,
as Vice President of Professional Services
- The company celebrated its 10th year in business
marking ten years of continuous growth, exceptional
client service and providing leading edge technology
solutions
- The company signed more than 160 new agreements
across all its business units, expanded its professional
services offering and saw its Technology Outsourcing
Center continue to prosper with the addition of
clients using core and Internet-based products in
an outsourcing mode.
- The company successfully completed the conversion
of several of the largest financial institutions
in Open Solutions' history using its advanced conversion
engine technology
- Completed a highly successful benchmarking and
performance test of its relational Oracle-based
enterprise-banking system for a $40 billion model
financial institution with assumed growth to $60
billion. Using the company's "benchmarking tool
set" Open Solutions was able to demonstrate and
confirm that its processing platform could effectively
handle and support the growing needs of its client
financial institutions well into the future
- Open Solutions continued to attract the attention
of leading partners across its entire suite of products
and during 2002 added numerous partnerships including
Netkey, ASD and IBM. This complements existing strong
relationships with HP/Compaq, Oracle Corporation
and Microsoft, among others, and
- The company was honored in 2002 by receiving the
2001 Outstanding Sales Growth Award from Connecticut
Innovations Inc. (Connecticut's leading investor
in high technology companies) and was named to Deloitte
& Touche's CT Technology Fast 50 program for the
5th year in a row.
"As we review the year and look to the future,"
Hernandez said, "we are encouraged by our continuing
momentum and ability to aggressively serve our clients
and the industry with a strong commitment to providing
superior service and outstanding technology solutions.
Our open standards, flexibility and advance architecture
allow us to quickly address the needs of our market.
In the coming year, we as an organization will continue
to focus on providing ways for financial institutions
to better compete in a
challenging and ever changing environment. Our vision
remains clear -- to enable banks and credit unions
to add new products easily, create new
revenue streams and consistently serve customers or
members efficiently through all distribution points
by providing the very best in innovative technology
solutions and services.
About Open Solutions
Open Solutions Inc. offers a fully featured strategic
product platform that integrates core data processing
applications, built on a single centralized Oracle
relational database, with Internet banking, cash management,
CRM/business intelligence, imaging, financial accounting
and loan origination solutions. OSI's full suite of
products and services allows banks, savings institutions
and credit unions to better compete in today's aggressive
financial services marketplace, expand and tap their
trusted
financial relationships, client affinity, community
presence and personalized service.
For more information about Open Solutions, or its
financial product line, contact Mickey Goldwasser
at 860.652.3153, via fax at 860.652.3156, or email
mgoldwasser@opensolutions.com. Visit OSI's Internet
site at www.opensolutions.com.
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