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Quantic Selects Couchbase Capella to Scale Point of Sale Platform, Delivering an Improved Developer Experience and Offline Capabilities

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 29, 2023 – Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that Quantic, a cloud-based point of sale (POS) platform company, selected Couchbase Capella™ Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) on AWS to help manage and scale the company’s growing workloads. With Capella powering its modern applications, Quantic is prepared for future business growth to deliver seamless, reliable experiences to customers.

“As our customer portfolio expanded, we quickly realized that the database we had in place before Couchbase wasn’t getting the job done. It couldn’t scale at the enterprise level and managing all of our clusters placed a huge strain on developers,” said Vigyan Kaushik, co-founder and CEO of Quantic. “Building a database in-house to support our needs was out of the question because of the required costs, time and talent. After spending time with Capella, it was easy to nail it down as our primary solution. With Capella’s impressive price performance and unique edge capabilities, our customers’ applications are able to remain synced, even during internet outages, while also providing developer teams with greater agility.”

Quantic offers a POS Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and a variety of processor-agnostic software solutions for white-label partnerships across many industries including hospitality, retail, financial services and more. Customers receive an omnichannel experience, connecting front and back ends, without binding contracts or hidden fees. Quantic’s applications are built into multiple clusters and servers based on customer locations, ensuring a high level of reliability and availability.

Quantic’s applications began to scale faster than its previous NoSQL database was capable of handling, leading to a siloed platform and making it difficult to innovate. Plus, it encountered challenges that led to uptime issues, which hindered the user experience for its customers and their end users. Quantic needed a new cloud database platform that was capable of keeping up with its growing customer base and incremental product enhancements.

After a competitive evaluation, Quantic selected Capella on AWS for increased performance, superior scalability, developer familiarity and ease of use. With Capella as the database powering its modern applications, Quantic’s development team has benefited from increased productivity and greater agility to keep innovating for its customers, while also experiencing an immediate, significant impact on indexing and developer workloads.

“Quantic is modernizing the POS industry. This requires evolving smart devices to be capable of doing far more than current aging POS systems and connecting that to a backend, which provides real-time data for an engaging customer experience,” said Ravi Mayuram, CTO, Couchbase. “Capella provides the performance, scale and flexibility of a modern database to develop services quickly in the cloud. Coupling that with the offline sync and our embedded edge database in POS smart devices, Quantic can now deliver new solutions customized to the verticals they serve.”

Most of Quantic’s customers rely on real-time data, and with Capella at its core, Quantic’s platform is able to reliably run applications to provide instant updates and a seamless end-user experience. Capella also helps Quantic achieve its mission to empower developers with a tool set that allows them to innovate quickly through its ability to scale and manage the company’s growing workloads.

Start a free trial of Capella today by visiting couchbase.com/products/capella/.

Additional Resources

  • Read more about how customers are modernizing with Couchbase here.
  • Learn more about Couchbase’s enhanced ISV Partner Program here.
  • For more information about Capella for developers, please visit this page.

About Quantic

Quantic is a cloud-based point of sale platform company that brings custom and intelligent data-driven solutions to help business owners streamline their sales operations. The platform provides options to sell in brick-and-mortar, e-commerce, self-ordering, or kiosk environments for restaurant and retail verticals. Headquartered in West Chester, PA, Quantic has international offices in the United Kingdom and Canada.

 

Lotum Selects Couchbase to Unify Gaming Experiences for Millions of Global Users

San Francisco, Calif. – March 20, 2023 – Today at the Game Developers Conference, Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, announced that Lotum, one of the world’s leading providers of mobile gaming applications, has selected Couchbase Capella™ Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) on Google Cloud to power its most popular mobile game, 4 Pics 1 Word. Capella delivers a consistent and always-on experience for Lotum game users, regardless of network connectivity. Since moving to Capella, Lotum has benefitted from increased performance and scale for its games, as well as meeting customer demand for a synchronized gaming experience across devices.

“We’re continuing to grow at a rapid pace, with 800 million downloads worldwide. We need to ensure the gaming experience is seamless, especially when traffic is unpredictable. This needs to happen regardless of the device gamers decide to use,” said Lars Schmeller, team lead at Lotum. “With Couchbase and Capella, millions of players are able to use the devices of their choice without losing profile data, and they’re able to have a consistent experience without any disruptions, even when network connectivity is unreliable. Since gamers have a low tolerance for delays or lag, these capabilities are critical for us. We have a small but mighty team and Couchbase provides us with a flexible, highly functional and low maintenance database that empowers us to do more with less.”

At the heart of any successful game is a database that maintains reliable uptime, scales in real time to handle millions of users and provides a responsive and personalized experience across all devices. In order to provide players with a great experience, Lotum selected Capella for increased application speed and scalability for its most popular game. With Capella App Services, Lotum is able to provide offline-first capabilities, meaning the gaming experience isn’t interrupted by network delays. Multiplayer games are able to synchronize data between mobile and web apps to ensure they reflect accurate stats and scores. Capella’s unique App Services automatically synchronizes data in a secure, stable and scalable way, and its embeddable database ensures apps are always available and fast, with or without internet connectivity.

Capella is uniquely suited to handle game virality and scale with user demand. Capella is a fully managed DBaaS that delivers database flexibility and offloads database management for developers while the price-performance ROI keeps improving as users scale. Millisecond responses for highly interactive and personalized applications are ensured through Couchbase’s real-time, memory-first architecture.

“The mobile gaming market continues to expand, with consumers spending $41.2B during the first half of 2022 alone. Given the hyper growth and the fierce competition in this market, it has become paramount for game developers to offer an experience that captures the attention of gamers,” said Ravi Mayuram, CTO of Couchbase. “Our differentiated architecture both on the cloud and specifically at the edge is what enables customers like Lotum to deliver a snappy gaming experience at extreme scale. We’re excited to partner with Lotum to ensure their active users around the world have an unfailing and reliable experience across all of their devices.”

To learn more about Lotum and why gaming companies choose Couchbase and Capella for their applications, please stop by Couchbase booth #S1548 at the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on March 20-24, 2023.

Additional Resources

  • Learn how Couchbase supports the virality and scale of games here.
  • Learn more about Capella and get started with a free trial here.
  • For more on Capella App Services, a fully managed and hosted service for synchronizing data between mobile, web and IoT apps that can ensure multiplayer games reflect accurate stats and scores, read this blog post.
  • Read more about how customers are modernizing with Couchbase here.

About Lotum

Founded in 2006, Lotum is one of the world’s leading providers of mobile games and apps for iOS, Android, and the Facebook Messenger platform. Lotum prides itself on being a small but mighty team of just 48 people whose creations bring joy to millions of users around the world every day.

 

Couchbase Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2023 Financial Results

Santa Clara, Calif., – March 7, 2023Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2023.

“We delivered another strong quarter of sustained growth along with substantial operational progress in fiscal 2023,” said Matt Cain, Chair, President and CEO of Couchbase. “This is a direct result of great execution across the company, which we are particularly pleased with despite this more challenging macro environment. As we begin fiscal 2024, we remain sharply focused on delivering top-line growth, increasing Capella adoption, driving further sales and marketing efficiency and improving profitability.”

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Highlights

  • Revenue: Total revenue for the quarter was $41.6 million, an increase of 19% year-over-year. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $38.1 million, an increase of 16% year-over-year.
  • Annual recurring revenue (ARR): Total ARR as of January 31, 2023 was $163.7 million, an increase of 23% year-over-year, or 24% on a constant currency basis. See the section titled “Key Business Metrics” below for details.
  • Gross margin: Gross margin for the quarter was 85.7%, compared to 88.2% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. Non-GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 86.3%, compared to 88.7% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. See the section titled “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” and the tables titled “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results” below for details.
  • Loss from operations: Loss from operations for the quarter was $18.5 million, compared to $12.7 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. Non-GAAP operating loss for the quarter was $9.9 million, compared to $9.1 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
  • Cash flow: Cash flow used in operating activities for the quarter was $10.2 million, compared to $2.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. Capital expenditures were $1.6 million during the quarter, leading to negative free cash flow of $11.8 million, compared to negative free cash flow of $2.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
  • Remaining performance obligations (RPO): RPO as of January 31, 2023 was $165.9 million, an increase of 3% year-over-year.

Full Year Fiscal 2023 Financial Highlights

  • Revenue: Total revenue for the year was $154.8 million, an increase of 25% year-over-year. Subscription revenue for the year was $142.9 million, an increase of 23% year-over-year.
  • Gross margin: Gross margin for the year was 86.9%, compared to 88.0% for fiscal 2022. Non-GAAP gross margin for the year was 87.6%, compared to 88.4% for fiscal 2022.
  • Loss from operations: Loss from operations for the year was $69.3 million, compared to $56.3 million for fiscal 2022. Non-GAAP operating loss for the year was $41.3 million, compared to $45.5 million for fiscal 2022.
  • Cash flow: Cash flows used in operating activities for the year were $41.2 million, compared to $41.6 million in fiscal 2022. Capital expenditures were $5.6 million during the year, leading to negative free cash flow of $46.8 million, compared to negative free cash flow of $42.4 million in fiscal 2022.

Recent Business Highlights

  • Announced the Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering on Azure, allowing customers to improve alignment with applications and support hybrid and multi-cloud strategies from a single platform. Microsoft Azure customers worldwide gain access to Capella to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Capella on Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.
  • Announced a newly enhanced Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner program that provides training, certifications, migration support and resources to cost-efficiently help ISVs modernize applications.
  • Recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems, December 2022.
  • Appointed Fidelma Butler as Chief People Officer to lead the people function. Butler brings a wealth of experience and leadership, with a focus on scaling SaaS teams and building award-winning company culture, and was previously a vice president at Zendesk.

Financial Outlook

For the first quarter and full year of fiscal 2024, Couchbase expects:

Q1 FY2024 Outlook FY2024 Outlook
Total Revenue $39.5-40.1 million $171.7-174.7 million
Total ARR $169.2-172.2 million $190.0-194.0 million
Non-GAAP Operating Loss $14.9-14.1 million $44.0-40.0 million

 

The guidance provided above is based on several assumptions that are subject to change and many of which are outside our control. If actual results vary from these assumptions, our expectations may change. There can be no assurance that we will achieve these results.

Couchbase is not able, at this time, to provide GAAP targets for operating loss for the first quarter or full year of fiscal 2024 because of the difficulty of estimating certain items excluded from non-GAAP operating loss that cannot be reasonably predicted, such as charges related to stock-based compensation expense. The effect of these excluded items may be significant.

Conference Call Information

Couchbase will host a live webcast at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (or 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, to discuss its financial results and business highlights. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 877-407-8029 from the United States, or +1 201-689-8029 from international locations. The live webcast and a webcast replay can be accessed from the investor relations page of Couchbase’s website at investors.couchbase.com.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, December 2022

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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to our financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, we believe certain non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance. We use certain non-GAAP financial measures, collectively, to evaluate our ongoing operations and for internal planning and forecasting purposes. We believe that non-GAAP financial measures, when taken together with the corresponding GAAP financial measures, may be helpful to investors because they provide consistency and comparability with past financial performance and meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of our business, results of operations or outlook. Non-GAAP financial measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only, have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP and may be different from similarly-titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. In addition, other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate similarly-titled non-GAAP financial measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures as tools for comparison. Investors are encouraged to review the related GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures (provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release), and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

Non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating loss, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders and non-GAAP net loss per share attributable to common stockholders: We define these non-GAAP financial measures as their respective GAAP measures, excluding expenses related to stock-based compensation expense, employer taxes on employee stock transactions and restructuring charges. We use these non-GAAP financial measures in conjunction with GAAP measures to assess our performance, including in the preparation of our annual operating budget and quarterly forecasts, to evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies and to communicate with our board of directors concerning our financial performance.

Beginning with the first quarter of fiscal 2023, we have excluded employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, which is a cash expense, from our non-GAAP results. These payroll taxes have been excluded from our non-GAAP results because they are tied to the timing and size of the exercise or vesting of the underlying equity awards, and the price of our common stock at the time of vesting or exercise may vary from period to period independent of the operating performance of our business. Prior period non-GAAP financial measures have not been adjusted to reflect this change, and the effect of this change is not material for any period previously presented.

Free cash flow: We define free cash flow as cash used in operating activities less additions of property and equipment, which includes capitalized internal-use software costs. We believe free cash flow is a useful indicator of liquidity that provides our management, board of directors and investors with information about our future ability to generate or use cash to enhance the strength of our balance sheet and further invest in our business and pursue potential strategic initiatives.

Please see the reconciliation tables at the end of this press release for the reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP results.

Key Business Metrics

We review a number of operating and financial metrics, including ARR, to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans and make strategic decisions.

We define ARR as of a given date as the annualized recurring revenue that we would contractually receive from our customers in the month ending 12 months following such date. Based on historical experience with customers, we assume all contracts will be automatically renewed at the same levels unless we receive notification of non-renewal and are no longer in negotiations prior to the measurement date. ARR also includes revenue from consumption-based cloud credits of Couchbase Capella products. ARR for Couchbase Capella products in a customer’s initial year is calculated as described above; after a customer’s initial year it is calculated by annualizing the prior 90 days of actual consumption, assuming no increases or reductions in usage. ARR excludes revenue derived from the use of cloud products only based on on-demand arrangements and services revenue. ARR should be viewed independently of revenue, and does not represent our revenue under GAAP on an annualized basis, as it is an operating metric that can be impacted by contract start and end dates and renewal dates. ARR is not intended to be a replacement for forecasts of revenue. Although we seek to increase ARR as part of our strategy of targeting large enterprise customers, this metric may fluctuate from period to period based on our ability to acquire new customers and expand within our existing customers. We believe that our ARR is an important indicator of the growth and performance of our business. We updated our definition of ARR beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 to include revenue from consumption-based cloud credits of Couchbase Capella products by annualizing the prior 90 days of actual consumption, assuming no increases or reductions in usage, and updated in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 to clarify that the 90-day actual consumption methodology is only used after a customer’s initial year. The reason for these changes is to better reflect the ARR for Couchbase Capella products following the launch of Couchbase Capella in fiscal 2022. ARR for prior periods have not been adjusted to reflect these changes as they are not material to any period previously presented.

We also attempt to represent the changes in the underlying business operations by eliminating fluctuations caused by changes in foreign currency exchange rates within the current period. We calculate constant currency growth rates by applying the applicable prior period exchange rates to current period results.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, quotations of management, the section titled “Financial Outlook” above and statements about Couchbase’s market position, strategies and potential market opportunities. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and, in some cases, can be identified by terms such as “anticipate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “potential,” “remain,” “may,” “might,” “will,” “would” or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. However, not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including factors beyond our control, which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to: our history of net losses and ability to achieve or maintain profitability in the future; our ability to continue to grow on pace with historical rates; our ability to manage our growth effectively; intense competition and our ability to compete effectively; cost-effectively acquiring new customers or obtaining renewals, upgrades or expansions from our existing customers; the market for our products and services being relatively new and evolving, and our future success depending on the growth and expansion of this market; our ability to innovate in response to changing customer needs, new technologies or other market requirements; our limited operating history, which makes it difficult to predict our future results of operations; the significant fluctuation of our future results of operations and ability to meet the expectations of analysts or investors; our significant reliance on revenue from subscriptions, which may decline and, the recognition of a significant portion of revenue from subscriptions over the term of the relevant subscription period, which means downturns or upturns in sales are not immediately reflected in full in our results of operations; and the impact of geopolitical and macroeconomic factors and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Further information on risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from forecasted results are included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that we may file from time to time, including those more fully described in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2022. Additional information will be made available in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2023 that will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which should be read in conjunction with this press release and the financial results included herein. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons if actual results differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.

Investor Contact:
Edward Parker
ICR for Couchbase
IR@couchbase.com

 

Media Contact:
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Couchbase, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Revenue:
License $4,977 $6,540 $19,885 $19,008
Support and other 33,158 26,245 123,010 97,279
Total subscription revenue 38,135 32,785 142,895 116,287
Services 3,488 2,279 11,929 7,255
Total revenue 41,623 35,064 154,824 123,542
Cost of revenue:
Subscription(1) 3,214 2,311 10,762 8,529
Services(1) 2,738 1,817 9,497 6,252
Total cost of revenue 5,952 4,128 20,259 14,781
Gross profit 35,671 30,936 134,565 108,761
Operating expenses:
Research and development(1) 15,000 13,372 57,760 51,639
Sales and marketing(1) 29,303 23,658 111,067 89,372
General and administrative(1) 8,207 6,574 33,390 24,008
Restructuring(1) 1,663 1,663
Total operating expenses 54,173 43,604 203,880 165,019
Loss from operations (18,502) (12,668) (69,315) (56,258)
Interest expense (25) (26) (101) (656)
Other income (expense), net 1,938 (256) 1,960 (300)
Loss before income taxes (16,589) (12,950) (67,456) (57,214)
Provision for income taxes 25 286 1,038 1,015
Net loss $(16,614) $(13,236) $(68,494) $(58,229)
Cumulative dividends on Series G redeemable convertible preferred stock (2,917)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(16,614) $(13,236) $(68,494) $(61,146)
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted $(0.37) $(0.30) $(1.53) $(2.37)
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted 45,281 43,688 44,787 25,777

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  • Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows:
Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Cost of revenue—subscription $144 $73 $535 $196
Cost of revenue—services 116 80 433 196
Research and development 2,046 1,119 7,937 3,343
Sales and marketing 2,563 1,447 9,426 3,968
General and administrative 1,922 868 7,390 3,047
Restructuring 65 65
Total stock-based compensation expense $6,856 $3,587 $25,786 $10,750

 

 

Couchbase, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands)
(unaudited)

As of January 31, 2023 As of January 31, 2022
Assets
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents $40,446 $95,688
Short-term investments 127,856 110,266
Accounts receivable, net 39,847 36,696
Deferred commissions 13,096 11,783
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 8,234 8,559
Total current assets 229,479 262,992
Property and equipment, net 7,430 4,288
Operating lease right-of-use assets(2) 6,940
Deferred commissions, noncurrent 7,524 8,243
Other assets 1,666 1,219
Total assets $253,039 $276,742
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities
Accounts payable $1,407 $1,923
Accrued compensation and benefits 12,641 16,143
Other accrued expenses 6,076 3,231
Operating lease liabilities(2) 3,117
Deferred revenue 71,716 69,010
Total current liabilities 94,957 90,307
Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent(2) 4,543
Deferred revenue, noncurrent 3,275 2,713
Other liabilities 507
Total liabilities 102,775 93,527
Stockholders’ equity
Preferred stock
Common stock
Additional paid-in capital 561,547 525,392
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (807) (195)
Accumulated deficit (410,476) (341,982)
Total stockholders’ equity 150,264 183,215
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $253,039 $276,742

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  • The Company adopted ASU 2016-02, “Leases” (Topic 842) using the modified retrospective method as of February 1, 2022 and elected the transition option that allows the Company not to restate the comparative periods in its financial statements in the year of adoption.

 

Couchbase, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Cash flows from operating activities
Net loss $(16,614) $(13,236) $(68,494) $(58,229)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities
Depreciation and amortization 867 710 3,171 2,824
Amortization of debt issuance costs 52
Stock-based compensation, net of amounts capitalized 6,856 3,587 25,786 10,750
Amortization of deferred commissions 4,447 3,940 16,996 13,763
Non-cash lease expense 757 2,909
Foreign currency transaction (gains) losses (774) 377 524 382
Other (593) 164 (416) 267
Changes in operating assets and liabilities
Accounts receivable (16,941) (14,289) (3,537) (730)
Deferred commissions (5,321) (8,867) (17,590) (20,495)
Prepaid expenses and other assets (850) (333) (159) (6,217)
Accounts payable (1,971) (1,604) (495) (491)
Accrued compensation and benefits 3,579 6,213 (3,497) 7,030
Accrued expenses and other liabilities 2,803 (86) 3,103 (493)
Operating lease liabilities (824) (2,754)
Deferred revenue 14,376 20,772 3,268 10,013
Net cash used in operating activities (10,203) (2,652) (41,185) (41,574)
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of short-term investments (33,976) (46,200) (144,613) (112,479)
Maturities and sales of short-term investments 45,750 1,800 126,893 21,268
Additions to property and equipment (1,553) (5) (5,646) (819)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities 10,221 (44,405) (23,366) (92,030)
Cash flows from financing activities
Payments of debt (25,000)
Proceeds from exercise of stock options 1,189 1,562 5,222 7,495
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under ESPP 4,484
Proceeds from initial public offering, net of underwriting discounts and commissions 214,854
Payment for fractional shares in reverse stock split (9)
Payments of deferred offering costs (4,930)
Net cash provided by financing activities 1,189 1,562 9,706 192,410
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash 458 (257) (397) (415)
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash 1,665 (45,752) (55,242) 58,391
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period 39,324 141,983 96,231 37,840
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period $40,989 $96,231 $40,989 $96,231
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash within the consolidated balance sheets to the amounts shown above:
Cash and cash equivalents $40,446 $95,688 $40,446 $95,688
Restricted cash included in other assets 543 543 543 543
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $40,989 $96,231 $40,989 $96,231

 

 

Couchbase, Inc.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Reconciliation of GAAP gross profit to non-GAAP gross profit:
Total revenue $41,623 $35,064 $154,824 $123,542
Gross profit $35,671 $30,936 $134,565 $108,761
Add: Stock-based compensation expense 260 153 968 392
Add: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions 5 41
Non-GAAP gross profit $35,936 $31,089 $135,574 $109,153
Gross margin 85.7 % 88.2 % 86.9 % 88.0 %
Non-GAAP gross margin 86.3 % 88.7 % 87.6 % 88.4 %
Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Reconciliation of GAAP operating expenses to non-GAAP operating expenses:
GAAP research and development $15,000 $13,372 $57,760 $51,639
Less: Stock-based compensation expense (2,046) (1,119) (7,937) (3,343)
Less: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions (27) (165)
Non-GAAP research and development $12,927 $12,253 $49,658 $48,296
GAAP sales and marketing $29,303 $23,658 $111,067 $89,372
Less: Stock-based compensation expense (2,563) (1,447) (9,426) (3,968)
Less: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions (76) (294)
Non-GAAP sales and marketing $26,664 $22,211 $101,347 $85,404
GAAP general and administrative $8,207 $6,574 $33,390 $24,008
Less: Stock-based compensation expense (1,922) (868) (7,390) (3,047)
Less: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions (8) (106)
Non-GAAP general and administrative $6,277 $5,706 $25,894 $20,961
GAAP restructuring expense $1,663 $— $1,663 $—
Less: Restructuring(3) (1,663) (1,663)
Non-GAAP restructuring $— $— $— $—
Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Reconciliation of GAAP operating loss to non-GAAP operating loss:
Total revenue $41,623 $35,064 $154,824 $123,542
Loss from operations $(18,502) $(12,668) $(69,315) $(56,258)
Add: Stock-based compensation expense 6,791 3,587 25,721 10,750
Add: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions 116 606
Add: Restructuring(3) 1,663 1,663
Non-GAAP operating loss $(9,932) $(9,081) $(41,325) $(45,508)
Operating margin (44) % (36) % (45) % (46) %
Non-GAAP operating margin (24) % (26) % (27) % (37) %
Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Reconciliation of GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders to non-GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders:
Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(16,614) $(13,236) $(68,494) $(61,146)
Add: Stock-based compensation expense 6,791 3,587 25,721 10,750
Add: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions 116 606
Add: Restructuring(3) 1,663 1,663
Non-GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders $(8,044) $(9,649) $(40,504) $(50,396)
GAAP net loss per share attributable to common stockholders $(0.37) $(0.30) $(1.53) $(2.37)
Non-GAAP net loss per share attributable to common stockholders $(0.18) $(0.22) $(0.90) $(1.96)
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted 45,281 43,688 44,787 25,777

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  • For the three months and year ended January 31, 2023, stock-based compensation expense related to restructuring charges were included in the restructuring expense line.

The following table presents a reconciliation of free cash flow to net cash used in operating activities, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, for each of the periods indicated (in thousands, unaudited):

Three Months Ended January 31, Year Ended January 31,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Net cash used in operating activities $(10,203) $(2,652) $(41,185) $(41,574)
Less: Additions to property and equipment (1,553) (5) (5,646) (819)
Free cash flow $(11,756) $(2,657) $(46,831) $(42,393)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities $10,221 $(44,405) $(23,366) $(92,030)
Net cash provided by financing activities $1,189 $1,562 $9,706 $192,410

 

 

Couchbase, Inc.

Key Business Metrics

(in millions)

(unaudited)

As of Oct. 31, Jan. 31, April 30, July 31, Oct. 31, Jan. 31,
2021 2022 2022 2022 2022 2023
Annual Recurring Revenue $122.3 $132.9 $139.7 $145.2 $151.7 $163.7

Couchbase Announces Newly Enhanced ISV Partner Program

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 28, 2023Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced an expanded ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Partner Program. The program will provide ISVs with a new Success Package that includes enhanced training, certifications and additional resources necessary to build and monetize their modern applications with ease. Complementing the Success Package is the introduction of a new ISV Program Guide with more information and resources to make it easier for ISV customers to get started with Couchbase.

“After searching the market for a cloud database platform that addresses the complexity of our customers’ broad portfolio of data, Couchbase Capella was the perfect fit,” said Simba Mupfunya, software architect at Netropolix. “Capella helped centralize and consolidate our data lake and database ecosystem, allowing us to modernize our tech stack in the cloud to better serve our customers’ diverse needs. With Capella, we’re able to seamlessly deploy apps and monitor logs, all while handling a plethora of requests to ensure everything is running smoothly.”

Developing market-leading applications that must evolve rapidly can be difficult for organizations due to complexities like database sprawl, vendor lock-in or lack of resources. ISV partners often leverage multiple disparate resources to obtain the necessary requirements for application development so they can innovate to meet demand. At the same time, staying ahead of the competition and protecting profitability are critical for these organizations.

The Couchbase Capella cloud data platform solves these problems by helping ISV partners gain the flexibility to consolidate their architecture and accelerate application development while delivering broad capabilities and a highly scalable architecture that drives down total cost of ownership (TCO). Couchbase works with ISV partners to embed or bundle its cloud database platform with the applications or other solutions offered by ISV partners to their customers. By standardizing on Couchbase, ISV partners can establish and expand their business, and improve revenue, margins and application time to market.

The Couchbase ISV Partner Program is a single resource for organizations looking for a developer-friendly solution to build modern applications with a fast, flexible, familiar and affordable cloud database platform. With these new ISV partner investments, Couchbase is making it easier for ISV partners to add modern features to their apps and increase differentiation. Couchbase ISV partners can take advantage of the capabilities in Capella and benefit from:

  • Faster release cycles and less data duplication: Capella is a JSON document and key-value database, with built-in cache, full-text search, eventing and analytics to support many use cases.
  • Familiarity for faster ramp-up: Capella uses SQL as its query language for JSON documents; teams aren’t required to learn a new query language, reducing the skills gap.
  • Always on mobile and IoT apps: Regardless of web connectivity, Capella App Services delivers offline-first data so users can query, search and analyze at the edge.
  • High availability and automation: Setup, backups, upgrades and ongoing management are automated to deliver an “always-on” service, reducing organizations’ operational efforts.

“We’re dedicated to broadening our ISV partner ecosystem to deliver unmatched speed, scalability and resilience,” said Matt McDonough, senior vice president of business development and strategy at Couchbase. “With new resources for ISVs to learn about Capella, teams can be empowered to get started on their application development journey knowing they’re backed by easy-to-use, high-performing technology that eliminates the need for ongoing database management efforts.”

To learn more about Couchbase’s enhanced ISV Partner Program, visit this ISV partner page.

Additional Resources

  • Get in touch with the Couchbase ISV team here.
  • For more information about Couchbase partners, please visit this partner page.
  • To learn more about Capella, Couchbase’s DBaaS, check out this page.

Couchbase to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

Santa Clara, Calif., February 23, 2022Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that Company management will participate in upcoming investor conferences.

Chair and CEO Matt Cain and CFO Greg Henry will present at the Morgan Stanley Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco, California. The presentation will take place on Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 1:05 p.m. PT / 4:05 p.m. ET. Couchbase management will also participate in investor meetings. A live webcast and replay will be available on the Company’s investor relations website.

Additionally, Chief Financial Officer Greg Henry will participate in the 7th Annual William Blair Tech Innovators Conference, a virtual event, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

Couchbase Announces Date of Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2023 Financial Results Conference Call

Santa Clara, Calif., February 16, 2023Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that it will report financial results for its fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 after market close.

Couchbase will host a conference call and webcast at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (or 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on the same day to discuss its financial results. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 877-407-8029 from the United States, or +1 201-689-8029 from international locations. The webcast and a webcast replay can be accessed from the investor relations page of Couchbase’s website at investors.couchbase.com.

Couchbase Appoints Fidelma Butler as Chief People Officer

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 6, 2023Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced Fidelma Butler has joined the company as chief people officer. Butler will lead the people function, aligned with the company’s values and operating objectives.

Butler brings a wealth of experience and leadership to Couchbase, with a focus on scaling SaaS teams and building award-winning company culture. She comes to Couchbase from Zendesk and was most recently vice president of the talent and organizational development team, where she led its global organization development, engagement, acquisition and learning teams. Butler began her career with Accenture’s talent management consulting practice, specializing in large-scale technology and business model transformations, and later led the people function for fintech company Realex Payments.

“We are thrilled to welcome Fidelma as Couchbase’s chief people officer,” said Matt Cain, chairperson and CEO of Couchbase. “She is an exceptional leader and has valuable experience scaling high-growth software companies as well as driving transformation across larger organizations. At Couchbase, the foundation of what we do is our world class team. We foster an environment that enables employees to do the best and most fulfilling work, within a culture we believe in and care about deeply. We are excited to have Fidelma come in and take this to new heights as we enter our next phase of growth.”

Butler will lead a global team including business partnering and operations, talent acquisition, employee experience and engagement, total rewards, workplace, and executing the talent strategy for the organization’s future. She will play a pivotal role in strengthening Couchbase’s culture for its distributed teams made up of exceptional people.

“I am excited to be joining Couchbase as I strongly believe in the company’s values and mission,” said Butler. “The database market is undergoing a once-in-a-generation shift and Couchbase has a unique opportunity to transform how organizations easily build modern applications. I look forward to supporting Couchbase’s employees and working with the executive team to further cultivate Couchbase’s fantastic, inclusive culture and impressive talent.”

Cinesite Selects Couchbase to Power its Production Pipeline for Film, TV and Streaming Projects, From Marvel to Netflix and Beyond

London – January 30, 2023Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that Cinesite, an award-winning digital entertainment studio behind blockbusters such as “Wakanda Forever” and “No Time to Die, has selected Couchbase to power its production pipeline. Using Couchbase Server, Cinesite will enable artists at its studios around the world to collaborate on large scale visual effects (VFX) and animation projects. The result will be a truly global production pipeline that can complete projects quickly, efficiently and to the highest quality.

Cinesite’s artists work on a variety of project types—from high end TV series, to blockbuster feature films, to full-length animated films. These are true collaborative artforms requiring hundreds of artists working across multiple disciplines, producing thousands of iterations and hundreds of terabytes of data, to work closely together. Each individual artist needs to be able to make changes to a shot, a character or an animation quickly, then review and update as necessary—all while ensuring every change is fully tracked at all locations, and that there is complete version control to ensure a consistent, final product. In the modern VFX and animation industries, where projects can consist of thousands of elements over tens or hundreds of thousands of frames, and changes can happen right up until release date, the ability to coordinate employees across locations to deliver work on time and at high quality is essential.

“The nature of modern VFX and animation means we have to be able to work efficiently at scale,” said Michele Sciolette, CTO of Cinesite. “Coordinating hundreds of artists across multiple studios on each project; distributing workloads so that projects are completed on time and to the highest quality require a strict version control over every element of every frame we work on. Our previous solution, originally designed a few years ago when we were all working under one roof, was no longer up to the task. We needed a replacement that could support the data requirements of modern VFX and animation and replicate data across all our studios to ensure we have a consistent view on the data that each one of our artists is creating. It also had to guarantee the scalability, performance and reliability we need, all without demanding extensive and expensive re-skilling. We considered several offerings, but Couchbase was the only one which met our full demands.”

In its 30-year history, Cinesite has worked on multiple award-winning productions: from the first digital effects in a James Bond film in “Goldeneye,” to Academy Award and BAFTA nominations and wins for “The Revenant” and “The Witcher” season two. It has also grown rapidly: since 2012 it has taken on seven new studios, and now operates across the UK, Canada, Germany, Serbia, FYR Macedonia and India.

Couchbase’s Cross-Data Center Replication (XDCR) capabilities will allow Cinesite to synchronize activity on projects regardless of size. Instead of keeping production limited to a single studio, Cinesite will be able to collaborate effectively, whether it is a large-scale collaboration between two Cinesite studios or a small-scale one with one artist contributing for a few hours to a project led in another location. Studios working on different elements of a single shot—such as character animations, background effects or lighting—can be certain that all of their hard work is combined perfectly in the final frame.

“We are delighted to support Cinesite in breathing life into filmmakers’ creations while allowing the team to work more efficiently,” said Ravi Mayuram, CTO of Couchbase. “Modern applications require always-on and near real-time availability of data across the globe for a responsive and reliable experience for the customers. Couchbase is a geo-distributed NoSQL database that addresses these modern needs yet gives our developers the familiar SQL programming language. We are looking forward to seeing Couchbase perform in an environment where it can meet the expectations of a rapidly growing, highly creative industry.”

Additional Resources

  • Read more about how customers are modernizing with Couchbase here.

  • Learn more about Couchbase XDCR here.

  • Start a free trial of Couchbase Capella here.

About Cinesite

Established in 1991, Cinesite is one of the world’s most highly respected independent digital entertainment studios, producing award-winning animation and visual effects for film, broadcast and streaming media platforms. Alongside global VFX services, its animation business works with IP creators and filmmakers to create high-end animated features and series, based out of Cinesite’s London, Montreal and Vancouver facilities. Cinesite continues to forge new partnerships and collaborations with leading studios and filmmakers to deliver stories that resonate with a global audience.

The Cinesite group is headquartered in London and has grown rapidly, since 2012 it has taken on six new studios (Assemblage, FX3X, Image Engine, L’Atelier Animation, Squeeze & Trixter) operating across the UK, Canada, Germany, Serbia, FYR Macedonia and India. Explore more of Cinesite’s work over the last three decades at www.cinesite.com/30th-anniversary/ and find out more about its remote working policy here.

Media Contact:  press@cinesite.com

Couchbase Announces Microsoft Azure Support for Industry Leading Capella Database-as-a-Service

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 18, 2023 – Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced its Couchbase Capella™ Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering on Azure. Couchbase customers will be able to take advantage of the trusted Azure cloud platform with streamlined deployment and management. 

Capella on Azure allows customers to improve alignment with applications and support hybrid and multi-cloud strategies from a single platform. In addition, it offers best-in-class price-performance when compared to other DBaaS offerings. 

”With Capella on Microsoft Azure, customers around the world can easily deploy premium-experience modern applications to run on the trusted Azure platform,” said Jake Zborowski, general manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. “We’re happy to welcome Couchbase Capella to the growing Azure ecosystem.”

Capella is a fully managed DBaaS that offloads database management, dramatically lowers total cost of ownership, delivers database flexibility for developers and enables performance at scale to build modern applications. Capella’s new user experience—inspired by popular developer-centric tools like GitHub—and the familiarity of SQL++ as the query language lowers the learning curve for developers and other users across organizations, leading to greater agility and productivity.

Couchbase Capella customer benefits include: 

  • Development flexibility. Capella is a fully managed JSON document and key-value database with SQL access and built-in full-text search, eventing and analytics to easily support many use cases for customers.
  • Cost efficiency at scale. Capella’s unique real-time, memory-first architecture ensures millisecond responses for highly interactive and personalized applications while the best-in-class price-performance keeps improving as users scale. 
  • Mobile and IoT app synchronization. With Capella App Services, users can be guaranteed that mobile and IoT apps are always on—regardless of web connectivity and speed—due to Capella’s unique sync, store, query, search and analytics capabilities at the edge.
  • High availability and automated scaling. Customers can easily add, remove or modify nodes to meet current needs with no application changes required. This means they get guaranteed global reliability of data across all regions and availability zones via native replication across geo-aware, multi-cloud clusters.
  • Multi-cloud. Customers can easily build and run applications across cloud service providers with just a few clicks.

“We are investing heavily in making Capella more accessible than ever before to give developers and organizations a cloud database platform to power their most mission-critical applications,” said Scott Anderson, senior vice president of product management and business operations at Couchbase. “Providing flexibility to go across cloud service providers is a huge advantage in today’s multi- and hybrid-cloud world. By extending Capella to Azure, we can better support our customers as they deploy innovative applications on the cloud of their choice.”

Couchbase Capella on Azure will be generally available in the first quarter of 2023. For more information about Couchbase Capella on Azure, please read this blog post.

Additional Resources

  • To find out about all the ways Couchbase can be deployed in any cloud, visit this page.
  • For more information about what’s new in Capella, including the expanded developer community initiatives, read this blog post.

Couchbase to Present at Upcoming Investor Conference

Santa Clara, Calif., January 3, 2023Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that Chief Financial Officer Greg Henry will present at the 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference in New York, New York. The presentation will take place on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. PT / 1:30 p.m. ET. Couchbase management will also participate in investor meetings. A live webcast and replay will be available on the Company’s investor relations website.

Investor Contact:
Edward Parker
ICR, Inc.
IR@couchbase.com

Media Contact:
Michelle Lazzar
Couchbase, Inc.
couchbasePR@couchbase.com

FY23 Q3 Earnings

Couchbase Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Results

Santa Clara, Calif., – December 6, 2022Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced financial results for its third quarter ended October 31, 2022.

“We are proud to have delivered third quarter results ahead of all guidance metrics,” said Matt Cain, Chairperson and CEO of Couchbase. “We saw robust bookings growth, meaningful new Capella logo additions and a rapidly growing pipeline of exciting opportunities across both new and existing customers, and all of this despite a more challenging macroeconomic environment. The investments we have made in our cloud database platform are paying off and I’m thrilled that Capella in particular is becoming an increasingly important contributor to our business.”

Third Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Highlights

  • Revenue: Total revenue for the quarter was $38.6 million, an increase of 25% year-over-year. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $35.7 million, an increase of 23% year-over-year.
  • Annual recurring revenue (ARR): Total ARR as of October 31, 2022 was $151.7 million, an increase of 24% year-over-year, or 28% on a constant currency basis. See the section titled “Key Business Metrics” below for details.
  • Gross margin: Gross margin for the quarter was 87.4%, compared to 87.9% for the third quarter of fiscal 2022. Non-GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 88.0%, compared to 88.3% for the third quarter of fiscal 2022. See the section titled “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” and the tables titled “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results” below for details.
  • Loss from operations: Loss from operations for the quarter was $16.6 million, compared to $15.5 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2022. Non-GAAP operating loss for the quarter was $9.6 million, compared to $12.1 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2022.
  • Cash flow: Cash flow used in operating activities for the quarter was $14.7 million, compared to $19.7 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2022. Capital expenditures were $1.6 million during the quarter, leading to negative free cash flow of $16.3 million, compared to negative free cash flow of $20.3 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2022.
  • Remaining performance obligations (RPO): RPO as of October 31, 2022 was $159.6 million, an increase of 28% year-over-year.

Recent Business Highlights

  • Announced a newly-designed user experience for Couchbase Capella, inspired by popular technologies that millions of developers already use to build modern applications. Because of this sense of familiarity, the new Capella experience boosts productivity so developers can more easily build next-generation applications.
  • Announced Capella has a new high-data density storage engine with compute and storage advantages that dramatically drops the total cost of ownership compared to other DBaaS offerings. This innovation means customers can optimize towards smaller, more-affordable clusters that hold and process more data with higher processing throughput power, delivering best-in-class price performance.
  • Announced enhanced security and single sign-on capabilities in Capella including successfully completing a SOC 2, Type II audit and delivering support for HIPAA-compliant applications.
  • Announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). Under this agreement, Couchbase and AWS have committed to offer customers integrated go-to-market activities, commercial incentives and technology integrations. This includes migrating workloads to Capella on AWS as well as extending Capella App Services to run on AWS edge services.
  • Named a Strong Performer in The Forrester WaveTM: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2022.

Financial Outlook

For the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2023, Couchbase expects:

Q4 FY2023 Outlook FY2023 Outlook
Total Revenue $38.2-38.4 million $151.4-151.6 million
Total ARR $160.5-162.5 million $160.5-162.5 million
Non-GAAP Operating Loss $15.0-14.8 million $46.4-46.2 million

 

The guidance provided above is based on several assumptions that are subject to change and many of which are outside our control. If actual results vary from these assumptions, our expectations may change. There can be no assurance that we will achieve these results.

Couchbase is not able, at this time, to provide GAAP targets for operating loss for the fourth quarter or full year of fiscal 2023 because of the difficulty of estimating certain items excluded from non-GAAP operating loss that cannot be reasonably predicted, such as charges related to stock-based compensation expense. The effect of these excluded items may be significant.

Conference Call Information

Couchbase will host a live webcast at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time) on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, to discuss its financial results and business highlights. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 877-407-8029 from the United States, or +1 201-689-8029 from international locations. The live webcast and a webcast replay can be accessed from the investor relations page of Couchbase’s website at investors.couchbase.com.

About Couchbase

Modern customer experiences need a flexible database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers – all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com and follow us on Twitter @couchbase.

Couchbase has used, and intends to continue using, its investor relations website and the corporate blog at www.couchbase.com/blog/ to disclose material non-public information and to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, you should monitor our investor relations website and the corporate blog in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to our financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, we believe certain non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance. We use certain non-GAAP financial measures, collectively, to evaluate our ongoing operations and for internal planning and forecasting purposes. We believe that non-GAAP financial measures, when taken together with the corresponding GAAP financial measures, may be helpful to investors because they provide consistency and comparability with past financial performance and meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of our business, results of operations or outlook. Non-GAAP financial measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only, have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP and may be different from similarly-titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. In addition, other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate similarly-titled non-GAAP financial measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures as tools for comparison. Investors are encouraged to review the related GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures (provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release), and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

Non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating loss, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders and non-GAAP net loss per share attributable to common stockholders: We define these non-GAAP financial measures as their respective GAAP measures, excluding expenses related to stock-based compensation expense and employer taxes on employee stock transactions. We use these non-GAAP financial measures in conjunction with GAAP measures to assess our performance, including in the preparation of our annual operating budget and quarterly forecasts, to evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies and to communicate with our board of directors concerning our financial performance.

Beginning with the first quarter of fiscal 2023, we have excluded employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, which is a cash expense, from our non-GAAP results. These payroll taxes have been excluded from our non-GAAP results because they are tied to the timing and size of the exercise or vesting of the underlying equity awards, and the price of our common stock at the time of vesting or exercise may vary from period to period independent of the operating performance of our business. Prior period non-GAAP financial measures have not been adjusted to reflect this change, and the effect of this change is not material for any period previously presented.

Free cash flow: We define free cash flow as cash used in operating activities less additions of property and equipment, which includes capitalized internal-use software costs. We believe free cash flow is a useful indicator of liquidity that provides our management, board of directors and investors with information about our future ability to generate or use cash to enhance the strength of our balance sheet and further invest in our business and pursue potential strategic initiatives.

Please see the reconciliation tables at the end of this press release for the reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP results.

Key Business Metrics

We review a number of operating and financial metrics, including ARR, to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans and make strategic decisions.

We define ARR as of a given date as the annualized recurring revenue that we would contractually receive from our customers in the month ending 12 months following such date. Based on historical experience with customers, we assume all contracts will be automatically renewed at the same levels unless we receive notification of non-renewal and are no longer in negotiations prior to the measurement date. ARR also includes revenue from consumption-based cloud credits of Couchbase Capella products. ARR for Couchbase Capella products in a customer’s initial year is calculated as described above; after a customer’s initial year it is calculated by annualizing the prior 90 days of actual consumption, assuming no increases or reductions in usage. ARR excludes revenue derived from the use of cloud products only based on on-demand arrangements and services revenue. ARR should be viewed independently of revenue, and does not represent our revenue under GAAP on an annualized basis, as it is an operating metric that can be impacted by contract start and end dates and renewal dates. ARR is not intended to be a replacement for forecasts of revenue. Although we seek to increase ARR as part of our strategy of targeting large enterprise customers, this metric may fluctuate from period to period based on our ability to acquire new customers and expand within our existing customers. We believe that our ARR is an important indicator of the growth and performance of our business. We updated our definition of ARR beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 to include revenue from consumption-based cloud credits of Couchbase Capella products by annualizing the prior 90 days of actual consumption, assuming no increases or reductions in usage, and updated in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 to clarify that the 90-day actual consumption methodology is only used after a customer’s initial year. The reason for these changes is to better reflect the ARR for Couchbase Capella products following the launch of Couchbase Capella in fiscal 2022. ARR for prior periods have not been adjusted to reflect these changes as they are not material to any period previously presented.

We also attempt to represent the changes in the underlying business operations by eliminating fluctuations caused by changes in foreign currency exchange rates within the current period. We calculate constant currency growth rates by applying the applicable prior period exchange rates to current period results.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, quotations of management, the section titled “Financial Outlook” above and statements about Couchbase’s market position, strategies and potential market opportunities. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and, in some cases, can be identified by terms such as “anticipate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “potential,” “remain,” “may,” “might,” “will,” “would” or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. However, not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including factors beyond our control, which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to: our history of net losses and ability to achieve or maintain profitability in the future; our ability to continue to grow on pace with historical rates; our ability to manage our growth effectively; intense competition and our ability to compete effectively; cost-effectively acquiring new customers or obtaining renewals, upgrades or expansions from our existing customers; the market for our products and services being relatively new and evolving, and our future success depending on the growth and expansion of this market; our ability to innovate in response to changing customer needs, new technologies or other market requirements; our limited operating history, which makes it difficult to predict our future results of operations; the significant fluctuation of our future results of operations and ability to meet the expectations of analysts or investors; our significant reliance on revenue from subscriptions, which may decline and, the recognition of a significant portion of revenue from subscriptions over the term of the relevant subscription period, which means downturns or upturns in sales are not immediately reflected in full in our results of operations; and the impact of geopolitical and macroeconomic factors and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Further information on risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from forecasted results are included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that we may file from time to time, including those more fully described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022. Additional information will be made available in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2022 that will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which should be read in conjunction with this press release and the financial results included herein. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons if actual results differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.

Investor Contact:

Edward Parker

ICR for Couchbase

IR@couchbase.com

Media Contact:

Michelle Lazzar

Couchbase Communications

CouchbasePR@couchbase.com

Couchbase, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Revenue:
License $3,519 $3,774 $14,908 $12,468
Support and other 32,201 25,234 89,852 71,034
Total subscription revenue 35,720 29,008 104,760 83,502
Services 2,837 1,816 8,441 4,976
Total revenue 38,557 30,824 113,201 88,478
Cost of revenue:
Subscription(1) 2,631 2,094 7,548 6,218
Services(1) 2,244 1,642 6,759 4,435
Total cost of revenue 4,875 3,736 14,307 10,653
Gross profit 33,682 27,088 98,894 77,825
Operating expenses:
Research and development(1) 13,998 13,103 42,760 38,267
Sales and marketing(1) 27,448 22,817 81,764 65,714
General and administrative(1) 8,828 6,659 25,183 17,434
Total operating expenses 50,274 42,579 149,707 121,415
Loss from operations (16,592) (15,491) (50,813) (43,590)
Interest expense (26) (133) (76) (630)
Other income (expense), net 317 (51) 22 (44)
Loss before income taxes (16,301) (15,675) (50,867) (44,264)
Provision for income taxes 376 249 1,013 729
Net loss $(16,677) $(15,924) $(51,880) $(44,993)
Cumulative dividends on Series G redeemable convertible preferred stock (2,917)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(16,677) $(15,924) $(51,880) $(47,910)
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted $(0.37) $(0.37) $(1.16) $(2.43)
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted 44,932 43,440 44,619 19,742
SBC Expense Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Cost of revenue—subscription $128 $66 $391 $123
Cost of revenue—services 106 70 317 116
Research and development 1,905 1,085 5,891 2,224
Sales and marketing 2,413 1,292 6,863 2,521
General and administrative 2,201 840 5,468 2,179
Total stock-based compensation expense $6,753 $3,353 $18,930 $7,163

Couchbase, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

As of October 31, 2022 Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021
Assets
Current assets $14,908 $12,468
Cash and cash equivalents $38,781 $95,688 89,852 71,034
Short-term investments 138,469 110,266 104,760 83,502
Accounts receivable, net 22,530 36,696 8,441 4,976
Deferred commissions 12,154 11,783 113,201 88,478
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 7,773 8,559
Total current assets 219,707 262,992 7,548 6,218
Property and equipment, net 6,731 4,288 6,759 4,435
Operating lease right-of-use assets (2) 7,021 14,307 10,653
Deferred commissions, noncurrent 7,592 8,243 98,894 77,825
Other assets 1,247 1,219
Total assets $242,298 $276,742 42,760 38,267
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity 81,764 65,714
Current liabilities 25,183 17,434
Accounts payable $3,523 $1,923 149,707 121,415
Accrued compensation and benefits 9,045 16,143 (50,813) (43,590)
Other accrued expenses 3,314 3,231 (76) (630)
Operating lease liabilities (2) 3,043 22 (44)
Deferred revenue 58,039 69,010 (50,867) (44,264)
Total current liabilities 76,964 90,307 1,013 729
Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent (2) 4,658 $(51,880) $(44,993)
Deferred revenue, noncurrent 2,577 2,713 (2,917)
Other liabilities 507 $(51,880) $(47,910)
Total liabilities 84,199 93,527 $(1.16) $(2.43)
Stockholders’ equity 44,619 19,742
Preferred stock
Common stock Nine Months Ended October 31,
Additional paid-in capital 553,336 525,392 2022 2021
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (1,375) (195) $391 $123
Accumulated deficit (393,862) (341,982) 317 116
Total stockholders’ equity 158,099 183,215 5,891 2,224
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $242,298 $276,742 6,863 2,521
General and administrative 2,201 840 5,468 2,179
Total stock-based compensation expense $6,753 $3,353 $18,930 $7,163

  • The Company adopted ASU 2016-02, “Leases” (Topic 842) using the modified retrospective method as of February 1, 2022 and elected the transition option that allows the Company not to restate the comparative periods in its financial statements in the year of adoption.

 

Couchbase, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Cash flows from operating activities
Net loss $(16,677) $(15,924) $(51,880) $(44,993)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities
Depreciation and amortization 838 708 2,304 2,114
Amortization of debt issuance costs 37 52
Stock-based compensation, net of amounts capitalized 6,753 3,353 18,930 7,163
Amortization of deferred commissions 4,139 3,497 12,549 9,823
Non-cash lease expense 752 2,152
Foreign currency transaction losses 262 1,298 5
Other (124) 35 177 103
Changes in operating assets and liabilities
Accounts receivable 6,075 (2,286) 13,404 13,559
Deferred commissions (4,563) (4,557) (12,269) (11,628)
Prepaid expenses and other assets 1,905 (36) 691 (5,884)
Accounts payable (2,067) (3,440) 1,476 1,113
Accrued compensation and benefits (1,468) 908 (7,076) 817
Accrued expenses and other liabilities (735) 1,342 300 (407)
Operating lease liabilities (819) (1,930)
Deferred revenue (8,991) (3,384) (11,108) (10,759)
Net cash used in operating activities (14,720) (19,747) (30,982) (38,922)
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of short-term investments (41,169) (59,146) (110,637) (66,279)
Maturities and sales of short-term investments 48,341 7,183 81,143 19,468
Additions to property and equipment (1,617) (564) (4,093) (814)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities 5,555 (52,527) (33,587) (47,625)
Cash flows from financing activities
Payments of debt (25,000) (25,000)
Proceeds from exercise of stock options 4,033 5,933
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under ESPP 959 4,484
Proceeds from initial public offering, net of
underwriting discounts and commissions
214,854
Payment for fractional shares in reverse stock split (9) (9)
Payments of deferred offering costs (2,135) (4,930)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities 1,625 (25,499) 8,517 190,848
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (17) (33) (855) (158)
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (7,557) (97,806) (56,907) 104,143
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period 46,881 239,789 96,231 37,840
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period $39,324 $141,983 $39,324 $141,983
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash within the consolidated balance sheets to the amounts shown above:
Cash and cash equivalents $38,781 $141,440 $38,781 $141,440
Restricted cash included in other assets 543 543 543 543
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $39,324 $141,983 $39,324 $141,983

 Couchbase, Inc.

 

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Reconciliation of GAAP gross profit to non-GAAP gross profit:
Total revenue $38,557 $30,824 $113,201 $88,478
Gross profit $33,682 $27,088 $98,894 $77,825
Add: Stock-based compensation expense 234 136 708 239
Add: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions 12 36
Non-GAAP gross profit $33,928 $27,224 $99,638 $78,064
Gross margin 87.4% 87.9% 87.4% 88.0%
Non-GAAP gross margin 88.0 % 88.3 % 88.0 % 88.2 %
Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Reconciliation of GAAP operating expenses to non-GAAP operating expenses:
GAAP research and development $13,998 $13,103 $42,760 $38,267
Less: Stock-based compensation expense (1,905) (1,085) (5,891) (2,224)
Less: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions (69) (138)
Non-GAAP research and development $12,024 $12,018 $36,731 $36,043
GAAP sales and marketing $27,448 $22,817 $81,764 $65,714
Less: Stock-based compensation expense (2,413) (1,292) (6,863) (2,521)
Less: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions (115) (218)
Non-GAAP sales and marketing $24,920 $21,525 $74,683 $63,193
GAAP general and administrative $8,828 $6,659 $25,183 $17,434
Less: Stock-based compensation expense (2,201) (840) (5,468) (2,179)
Less: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions (14) (98)
Non-GAAP general and administrative $6,613 $5,819 $19,617 $15,255
Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Reconciliation of GAAP operating loss to non-GAAP operating loss:
Total revenue $38,557 $30,824 $113,201 $88,478
Loss from operations $(16,592) $(15,491) $(50,813) $(43,590)
Add: Stock-based compensation expense 6,753 3,353 18,930 7,163
Add: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions 210 490
Non-GAAP operating loss $(9,629) $(12,138) $(31,393) $(36,427)
Operating margin (43)% (50)% (45)% (49)%
Non-GAAP operating margin (25)% (39)% (28)% (41)%
Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Reconciliation of GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders to non-GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders:
Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(16,677) $(15,924) $(51,880) $(47,910)
Add: Stock-based compensation expense 6,753 3,353 18,930 7,163
Add: Employer taxes on employee stock transactions 210 490
Non-GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders $(9,714) $(12,571) $(32,460) $(40,747)
GAAP net loss per share attributable to common stockholders $(0.37) $(0.37) $(1.16) $(2.43)
Non-GAAP net loss per share attributable to common stockholders $(0.22) $(0.29) $(0.73) $(2.06)
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted 44,932 43,440 44,619 19,742

 

The following table presents a reconciliation of free cash flow to net cash used in operating activities, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, for each of the periods indicated (in thousands, unaudited):

Three Months Ended October 31, Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022 2021 2022 2021
Net cash used in operating activities $(14,720) $(19,747) $(30,982) $(38,922)
Less: Additions to property and equipment (1,617) (564) (4,093) (814)
Free cash flow $(16,337) $(20,311) $(35,075) $(39,736)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities $5,555 $(52,527) $(33,587) $(47,625)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities $1,625 $(25,499) $8,517 $190,848

Couchbase, Inc.

Key Business Metrics

(in millions)

(unaudited)

July 31, Oct. 31, Jan. 31, April 30, July 31, Oct. 31,
2021 2021 2022 2022 2022 2022
Annual Recurring Revenue $115.2 $122.3 $132.9 $139.7 $145.2 $151.7

Couchbase Announces Strategic Collaboration With AWS

Santa Clara, Calif. – Nov. 29, 2022 – Today at AWS re:Invent 2022, Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). Under this agreement, Couchbase and AWS have committed to offer customers integrated go-to-market activities, commercial incentives and technology integrations. This includes migrating workloads to the Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering on AWS, as well as extending Capella App Services to run on AWS edge services.

Due to trends like digital transformation, there is customer demand for building enterprise applications faster, easier and more affordably across cloud and edge environments, which in turn creates a market need for cloud databases. According to Gartner®, “the database management system (DBMS) market saw strong growth of 22.3% in 2021, primarily driven by cloud database platform as a service (dbPaaS), whose share has reached nearly 50% of the overall market.”

Couchbase Capella delivers database flexibility for developers and performance at scale for modern applications, with compelling price performance that is fast and cost-efficient. Because Capella is fully managed and automated, customers can focus on development, improving their applications, delivering highly interactive and engaging experiences and reducing time to market.

As a result of this strengthened relationship, customers can easily run Capella on AWS and build modern applications that are always on and can extend anywhere—from cloud to edge and everywhere in between. The adoption of Capella helps customers build modern applications in the cloud, at the edge, and on mobile and IoT devices using the language, framework and platform of their development teams’ choice.

“GroundHog customers demand high performance, flexibility and availability,” said Satish Penmetsa, CEO of GroundHog. “With Couchbase on AWS, we can automatically scale to meet the demands of our users around the world, allowing reliable delivery of service and consistent performance to keep users engaged and connected.”

“AWS is an industry leader paving the way for cloud and edge innovation for customers,” said Matt McDonough, senior vice president of business development and strategy at Couchbase. “Couchbase and AWS are both committed to providing customers with the agility, flexibility and scale that their development teams want, and this expanded agreement will make it even more seamless for customers to start building premium experience apps with Capella on AWS. We look forward to this next chapter with AWS delivering innovative solutions that empower developers to more easily build modern distributed applications in the cloud and at the edge.”

This agreement builds on the existing relationship between the two companies of Capella on AWS, as well as deploying Couchbase on AWS infrastructure at the edge. Couchbase and AWS will work together on shared go-to-market initiatives and developer engagement activities to facilitate the adoption of Capella on AWS. The collaboration will also support Couchbase with scale and reach in its objective to further expand into key verticals.

“Since working with Couchbase, we’ve witnessed the impact that they can deliver to customers’ digital transformation efforts,” said Julia Chen, VP of partner core at AWS. “Combining AWS’ capabilities with Couchbase’s database platform helps organizations to innovate and build next-gen applications quickly without compromise. We are delighted to work with Couchbase to enhance the customer experience.”

Couchbase Capella is available now on AWS. Start a trial today by clicking here and see how easy it can be to be up and running with Capella.

Additional Resources

  • Learn more about how AWS, Verizon and Couchbase combine to deliver blazing fast applications at the edge here
  • Learn more about Couchbase on AWS Wavelength here
  • Learn more about Couchbase on AWS Local Zones here
  • Learn more about Couchbase on AWS Outposts here
  • Learn more about Couchbase in AWS Marketplace here
*Gartner, “Market Share Analysis: Database Management Systems, Worldwide, 2021”, June 10, 2022.
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Couchbase on AWS Enables Arthrex to Improve Patient Outcomes With IoT Data Collected at the Edge

Santa Clara, Calif. – Nov. 28, 2022Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that Arthrex, a global leader in minimally invasive surgical technology, selected Couchbase on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve patient outcomes. Embedded in the Arthrex Synergy product family, Couchbase is used in customer hospitals and operating rooms to manage the capture, sync and storage of patient data, surgical data and media metadata, including captured images and videos from Arthrex devices. This data powers Synergy SurgeonVault, Arthrex’s cloud-based surgeon-patient communication tool, enabling surgeons to quickly create post-operative reports for ongoing patient care.

“At Arthrex, we are dedicated to helping surgeons tap into technology to provide advanced treatment for patients and improve outcomes. That’s why hospitals rely on SurgeonVault to empower surgeons with access to patient data whenever they need it,” said Gregory St. Clair, software architect at Arthrex. “Thanks to Couchbase’s edge-ready database platform and AWS, we can support distributed infrastructures to ensure SurgeonVault always performs at unmatched speeds, regardless of sporadic network connectivity, and that it’s always available from any location and device.”

Arthrex is a global leader in orthopedics providing interconnected surgical devices for hospital operating rooms, such as endoscopic cameras, pumps, ablation devices and insufflators—–devices that surgeons use for bone and ligament surgery and reconstruction. The devices run a Linux-based application with Couchbase Lite embedded to store relevant data, allowing them to run 100% of the time regardless of internet connectivity and speed. This reduces latency and downtime for critical surgical instruments. Couchbase is then used to sync data from edge devices across the hospital network in a reliable and secure manner.

Once data is in a centralized location in the hospital, it powers Arthrex’s suite of applications that connect to surgical devices and other medical systems, including hospital electronic health record systems. For example, Synergy SurgeonVault leverages Couchbase to automatically and securely synchronize the application with data from devices, systems and infrastructure to improve surgeon-patient communication and provide quick, personalized and secure access to post-operative patient care. In addition, automatic data sharding and replication provides high availability, while Couchbase Autonomous Operator running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) automatically handles cluster management, scheduling and storage.

“We introduced an industry-first embedded document database that automatically synchronizes data across the entirety of an organization’s cloud, edge and mobile infrastructure, with or without internet connectivity,” said Wayne Carter, vice president of engineering at Couchbase. “It’s very exciting to see Arthrex leveraging our technology to harness the power of edge computing to build innovative solutions that use IoT device data to drive decisions and improve patient care. We look forward to continuing to work with Arthrex on the operating room of the future.”

Operating in a highly regulated environment, it’s imperative for Arthrex to protect sensitive information across its entire data pipeline to adhere to compliance laws, including HIPAA and GDPR. Couchbase supports compliance by providing Transport Layer Security (TLS) for transport, database encryption and the ability to define specific and dynamic access control rules across the entire ecosystem.

“Our devices operate in a mostly heterogeneous environment, with a variety of different devices and versions of devices. We want to be able to move data around the entire ecosystem, including between devices and other tiers. Anyone who has tried to do this knows it is very difficult. Couchbase gives us the flexibility of NoSQL and JSON, making it easier for us to passively pass data back and forth,” added St. Clair.

To learn more about why healthcare companies choose Couchbase for their applications, please visit this page.

Additional Resources

  • Read more about how customers are modernizing with Couchbase here.
  • Learn more about Couchbase Mobile for Edge Computing here.
  • Learn about Couchbase Capella App Services for mobile and IoT apps here.
  • Start a free trial of Couchbase Capella here.

About Arthrex

Arthrex Inc., headquartered in Naples, Florida, is a global leader in orthopedic surgical device design, research, manufacturing and medical education. Arthrex develops and releases more than 1,000 new products and procedures every year to advance minimally invasive orthopedics worldwide. For more information, visit www.arthrex.com.

83% of Developers in Financial Services Are Under Pressure to Deliver Digital Transformation

SANTA CLARA, Calif., – November 22, 2022 – With the pressure growing on financial service providers to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver enhanced customer experiences in line with their digital-first competitors, industry research from Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, reveals the key challenges faced by the sector’s development teams.

The findings show that 83% of IT leaders from banks, insurers and other financial services providers confirm there are challenges facing their development teams, including having to do too much in too little time (54%); and that deadlines and agility requirements were difficult to meet (30%). To compound this, over three-quarters (77%) of IT decision makers report obstacles in supporting their development teams.

“Amid the race to complete digital transformation projects in the sector, where developers must balance the security of sensitive customer data alongside expectations for remote access and seamless digital experiences, these barriers impacting developers jeopardize businesses’ progress,” said Perry Krug, director of shared services at Couchbase. “Firms need to recognize their reliance on developers at this time, and work to give them the right resources and support. After all, without successful digitization projects, financial services firms will fall behind the competition.”

The global survey of 650 senior IT decision makers found that despite development teams’ extensive contributions to digital transformation and innovation initiatives, a lack of resources and communication with IT leaders in the financial services sector is creating barriers for them.

Additional findings include:

  • Financial services struggles to support development teams: The key issues IT leaders face in supporting development teams include making sure they always have the right technology (33%); redeploying development teams rapidly to work on new projects when needed (29%); and investing in new technology to make developers’ jobs easier (29%). Additionally, almost one third (30%) of respondents did not know for certain whether their development teams were behind or ahead of schedule.
  • Staff commitments and project engagement: Developer teams in the sector have grown by an average of 26% in the last year. Bigger teams will aid some development challenges, but firms must focus on keeping their developers motivated and passionate about their projects to achieve success. This is a current challenge, as almost a quarter of IT leaders (22%) find it difficult to gauge whether development teams are engaged in and enthusiastic about their work, signaling waning enthusiasm or fatigue.
  • Learnings from the pandemic: In a positive step, 35% of respondents say that the pandemic has taught them how to empower development teams. For digital transformation projects to succeed at pace, it’s crucial that financial services IT leaders continue to focus on empowering these professionals.

Without the right support, development teams in the financial services sector cannot complete digital transformation as quickly as the business may need them to. Their positive impact is demonstrated by 29% of respondents confirming that pressure from developers to support agile development and innovation was a driver for digital transformation projects.

“Digital ambition will fall flat for financial services providers unless they can support development teams to build great applications,” said Krug. “And in the fast-paced financial services market, firms must be proactive in addressing these challenges to ensure success in a time of product-led growth.”

Couchbase Capella makes it faster, easier and more affordable for developers to build enterprise applications. Start a free trial today by clicking here and see how easy it is to be up and running with Couchbase in minutes.

Additional Resources

Read more about how Couchbase can help financial services companies modernize here.

Read more about Couchbase’s findings here.

Read about the findings from Couchbase’s Cloud Evolution Report here.

Read about the findings from Couchbase’s Digital Transformation Report here.

Methodology 

Vanson Bourne, an independent market research organization, conducted an online survey of 650 heads of digital transformation, such as CIOs, CDOs and CTOs, in organizations with 1,000 employees or more in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Israel, in February – April 2022 and on behalf of Couchbase. The findings in this release are based on responses from 69 senior IT decision makers in the financial services sector, as part of the wider survey.

Couchbase to Present at Upcoming Investor Conference

Santa Clara, Calif., November 21, 2022Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Matt Cain and Chief Financial Officer Greg Henry will present at the Barclays Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference in San Francisco, California. The presentation will take place on Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 3:05 p.m. PT / 6:05 p.m. ET. Couchbase management will also participate in investor meetings. A live webcast and replay will be available on the Company’s investor relations website.