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Q3 FY2014 · Earnings Call TranscriptNovember 17, 2014

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Executives

Jim Miller - Chairman and CEO David Harding - CTO Wayne Wetherell - SVP of Administration and CFO

Analysts

Jaeson Schmidt - Lake Street Capital Markets Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Operator

Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for participating in ImageWare Systems’ Corporate Update Call to highlight their progress since its last update on August 11th, 2014. Joining us today, are ImageWare Systems’ Chairman and CEO, Mr.

Jim Miller; and the company's CFO, Mr. Wayne Wetherell, as well as David Harding, CTO.

Following their remarks, we’ll open the call for your questions. Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S.

Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as anticipate, believe, estimate, expect, forecast, intend, may, plan, project, predict, if, should and will and similar expressions as they relate to ImageWare Systems Inc.

are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. ImageWare may from time to time update these publicly announced projections, but it is not obligated to do so.

Any projections of future results of operations should not be construed in any manner as a guarantee that such results will in fact occur. These projections are subject to change and could differ materially from final reported results.

For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, see Risk Factors in ImageWare’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2013, its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30th, 2014 and its other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities 3 Exchange Act of 1934 as amended. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the dates on which they are made.

I would like to remind everyone that this call will be available for replay through December 17th, 2014 starting at 8:00 PM Eastern Time tonight. A webcast replay will also be available via the link provided in today’s press release, as well as available on the company’s website at www.iwsinc.com.

Any redistribution, retransmission or rebroadcast of this call in any way without the expressed written consent of ImageWare Systems, Incorporated is strictly prohibited. I would now like to turn the call over to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ImageWare Systems, Mr.

Jim Miller. Sir, please go ahead.

Jim Miller

Thank you, Amber, and good afternoon everyone. As you saw at the close of the market today, we reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014.

I'd like to begin today's call by speaking first about some specific financial results for the quarter and afterwards, I'll walk you through some of the recent developments and the progress we're making at ImageWare. In the third quarter of 2014, total revenue was $919,000 versus $2.5 million in the third quarter of 2013.

As you may recall, in the third quarter of 2013, we recognized a large non-recurring $1.5 million payment from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with software licenses. The absence of this revenue in the third quarter of this year weighed heavily on a year-to-year comparison.

Gross margin in the third quarter of 2014 were 73% compared to 88% in the year-ago quarter, the decrease again primarily due to the VA contract. Net loss in the third quarter of 2014 was $2.1 million or minus $0.02 per basic share, compared to net income of $326,000 or even based on a basic share basis in the third quarter of 2013.

At September 30, 2014, cash and cash equivalents totaled $488,000 and we carried no debt. Subsequent to the quarter, in October and November, we borrowed a total of $1 million under our existing line of credit for working capital purposes.

We have remaining capacity underlying totaling $2.5 million and have accounts receivable currently of approximately $1 million, all of which we expect to collect in the fourth quarter. Now, moving on to operational and strategic discussions of our business.

The third quarter was a transition period for our organization and several of our partners and new agreements remain in the testing and implementation process. While we certainly expected some of these agreements to be producing revenues today, it's important to note that we’re dealing with large organizations that are thoughtful and methodical on the rollout of our potentially game-changing software.

Let me provide an update on agreements. Let's start first with T-Systems.

In March of this year, we announced our partnership with T-Systems, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom in Germany. With almost 200 million customers, Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading telecommunications and information technology service companies, represented in approximately 50 countries around the world.

T-Systems will enable us to enter untapped markets such as Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. We're making excellent progress with our partners at Deutsche Telekom and as discussed earlier this year, Deutsche Telekom has identified our first joint customer in the German national railroad, or Deutsche Bahn.

This project has moved towards implementation, but in addition to the always present technical challenge inherent in any project, there is some political challenges in these projects as well. This is due to the concern on the part of the German administration over the use of U.S.

software, part of the fallout from their well-published events regarding the NSA, which we're sure all of you have read or seen. We continue, however, to work to provide biometric security for mobile devices on this project through T-Systems and its German affiliates, who will under agreement with us ensure that the product meets local requirements.

The implementation of this will provide around 12,000 mobile devices with IWS GoMobile product and will be on a monthly service basis under a multi-year contract. Our partners are still advising us that we will start implementation in December on this year.

We're moving forward with T-Systems and its partners on a solution to increase security of patient medical records in the German healthcare systems. The initial paid pilot will kick-off in two regions in Germany, prior to year end 2014.

Going from beta to production, our partnership program with IBM has now officially gone live and they’ve dedicated co-marketing funds to us as part of their BlueMix program. As a reminder, IBM's BlueMix is similar to an enterprise app store, allowing IBM cloud customers to choose among a collection of either IBM software and services or those from a variety of vendors such as ImageWare.

BlueMix customers will now be able to leverage ImageWare's identity as a service, a cloud-based multi-mobile biometric identity management and user authentication platform to easily provide user authentication solutions that meet their customers' specific business needs. We have not yet recognized revenues from the contract and while we are IBM's only biometric partner and cannot control the sales of our product on their platform, we continue to be very supportive of the partnership and remain optimistic about the long-term prospects of the agreement.

We always caution our investors regarding the process and timing of transactions, particularly those involving large multi-national corporation. While there were timing delays associated with the launch of our major international retailer agreement, the project is well under way and is currently in the hardware implementation process.

Our partner has communicated that the enrollment of identities will begin in December with revenues to begin in our first quarter. As a reminder, under that agreement, our CloudID product suite will use finger, face, iris and voice and run on top of the Fujitsu Trusted S5 Cloud Platform.

The biometric product has been licensed on the service fee model, generating revenue from the initial license fee per person and a recurring monthly license fee per person thereafter. Our other Mexican contracts with the State of Baja California for production of its driver's license went operational in October and is generating revenue.

Under the terms of this agreement, ImageWare received an upfront license fee and will continue to receive recurring monthly revenues from each license produced. We expect this to generate approximately $30,000 to $40,000 per month as it ramps up.

As a reminder, our software will help generate million and a half licenses between now and January of 2017. We expect this contract all in will generate more than $1.5 million in revenues over flat [ph].

As you know, we've partnered with mobile wireless providers as it presents an attractive opportunity and allows to showcase our plug-in approach to identity management authentication. The two partners we've announced in this area, Maxie Mobile and Global Payout became one.

During the quarter Global Payout acquired Maxie Mobile. Given the acquisition and the timing of their software updates, the rollout has taken longer than the company has communicated.

However, that now since they’ve officially rolled out earlier this month, we are expecting to recognize revenue as soon as our products are cleared for distribution by the App Stores at Google and Apple. This is how Global and its customers will load the application.

We believe that will occur in this quarter. We were unable to recognize the expected million in revenue from the Los Angeles World Airport during the quarter, as the launch of the product shifted to early October.

While we've received over, say, two-thirds of the billings already and expect to receive the reminder in the fourth quarter. We are a small part of a much larger implementation and can only conclude this project when the work tasked to our partners is complete.

Entire system went live in October and we expect to recognize revenue on this project in the first quarter of 2015. Now, moving on to our new product introductions as well as new partners and transactions associated with these products in the third quarter.

Our turn-key GoVerifyID solution provides out-of-band verification, using multi-modal biometrics with a mobile device. It requires no fort-end coding and can be integrated into existing enterprise applications available via license or subscription as part of our Identity-as-a-Services offering: GoCloudID.

Therefore, you do not have to alter your workflow process to incorporate biometric identity management. This new solution was unveiled at the CTIA 'Super Mobility Week' Trade Show in September, running our GoMobile interactive platform.

We are very proud that GoMobile is named the best mobile payment software by CTIA at that show. Within two months of introduction, we entered into a partnership with TransUnion to integrate their ID Manger solution with our GoVerifyID product, allowing ImageWare to deliver advanced fraud prevention capabilities to organizations.

We truly believe this relationship will help accelerate consumer adoption of biometric authentication. Biometric authentications which include voice, eye, signature, finger print and facial recognition, provide an additional layer of fraud defense to TransUnion and ImageWare's customers.

Through the relationship consumer identities will be thoroughly analyzed using both biometric signatures and the TransUnion's ID Manager Platform. Both TransUnion and ImageWare customers will benefit from new seamless access to these fraud prevention tools.

Customer using this solution will pre-register the biometrics which will then be used for authentication when the customer subsequently logs in. We expect this solution to go live in the first quarter of 2015.

As many of you know TransUnion is the world's -- one of the world's largest credit reporting companies, serving over 500 million consumers in 30 countries. As they are in the business of data collection and the secured use of that data, they are a natural implementer of the ImageWare technology.

Our ability to use parts of their ID Manager technology will also add incredible strength and credibility to our offerings and as our agreement calls for joint sales and marketing, we are really looking forward to working with them to move our combined products adding to the world. Later this week, we will also be presenting GoVerifyID at the Fujitsu Forum in Munich, which will be shown as is integrated into the new FUJITSU Market Place point-of-sale product, their first new point-of-sale product in several years.

FUJITSU Market Place breaks down the barrier between orders and in-store shopping by combining both in a single transaction. For customers this means consistent pricing, promotions and customer experience whether online, in-store or ordering using a mobile device.

Sales associates can transact with customers through a single application rather than switching between point-of-sale and online order fulfillment. This makes the operation quicker and easier to learn with greater accuracy.

To address the challenges of improving customer service and enterprise efficiency, FUJITSU Market Place works across the entire enterprise, fulfilling all channels and offering a range of deployment models to meet each retailer's different needs and budgets, not to mention business and timing priorities. The FUJITSU Market Place enables retailers to simplify and improve customer shopping experiences as well.

The solution helps retailers build long-term personal relationships that customers value. Whether browsing online, asking questions at a call center, confirming choices by smartphone, or ordering in-store on a tablet PC, the platform delivers continuity across the channel.

The solution also helps sales associates quickly access on a consistent basis real-time data. Combined with the ImageWare Identity Authentication Solution, retailers and customers can be more secure in transaction processing, significantly reducing the risk of fraud.

ImageWare's GoVerifyID will also be the centerpiece of Fujitsu's presence at the National Retail Federation Event to be held in New York City in early January. Its Fujitsu's plan to bring this product to market in 2015 and we believe it provides the marketplace with a seamless way to incorporate biometrics into the point-of-sale process in the retail market.

Our contract with Fujitsu to jointly market a cloud-based multi-modal biometric identity management solution continues to progress. As we discussed on our last call, Fujitsu established a dedicated sales team to sell our products and services in the Americas and accelerate the launch of the partnership product offerings to Fujitsu's global clients.

The global rollout has begun. Fujitsu Japan commenced sales shortly after Labor Day and is already committed to bring additional sales personnel on being trained in Japan to tackle the Asian market.

Many people ask us how the process will work and actual use by customers of TransUnion or Fujitsu and for that matter by any of our other clients. So today we thought it might be instructive for you all to have us walk you through it and for that I will turn it over to our CTO, David Harding, who will show you just how easy this technology is to use.

Dave?

David Harding

Thank you, Jim. Out-of-band identity verification which is one of the key services that both Fujitsu and TransUnion are partnering with us to provide to their customers, is a quick and easy way for users to be able to verify their identity using one of our biometrics such as voice, face and fingerprint, using nothing more than their mobile device, such as an iPhone, an iPad or even an Android.

For example, as one of the world's foremost provider of point-of-sale systems, Fujitsu has integrated and will be demonstrating biometric verification using our patented GoVerifyID out-of-band biometric identity verification service. In this case Fujitsu’s point-of-sale system will initiate an out-of-band identity verification message using GoMobile Interactive.

This message will be interactive and it’s pushed to the mobile device of the person making the purchase. The purchaser will provide one or more biometric such as their pass [word] [ph], take a picture of their face or lay their fingerprint on the phone which is matched securely in the cloud.

Now, once this identity has been biometrically verified, the purchase can then be approved and the rest of the Fujitsu point-of-sale workflow can continue. This entire process takes seconds.

It's easy to use. It's intuitive and most of all it’s secure.

As a point of note, it took the Fujitsu developer team less than two weeks to completely implement GoVerify into their point-of-sale demo and test it. As a leader in multi-modal biometric security we already support biometric modalities that are not yet supported by standard mobile devices.

However, new and exciting mobile products are being released into the market worldwide that support the capture of our biometric modalities such as iris, palm vein and more. ImageWare already support these modalities in the cloud and several more and is ready to take advantage of these as the hardware becomes available with no change to the idea of being able to push an interactive message to the device and capture that biometric.

Now, other applications for this service include the replacement of passwords, verification of online and offline purchases and much more. We, along with our partners, believe that our GoVerifyID biometric identity verification service is a game changer.

Some of our partners are integrating this service directly into their own mobile applications, while others plan to use our turn-key GoVerifyID application. Either way, this service works exactly the same.

With that I will turn it back over to Jim.

Jim Miller

Thanks, Dave. Seeing really helps understanding, so we will be working with our IR firm at Liolios to setup a webinar so that you all can exactly see what Dave was talking about and then witness a live demonstration.

We are pretty excited about the program and the product and we know once you see it you will be too. As we move forward, we continue to view intellectual property as a key component to our overall strategy.

Currently have 14 patent applications pending to augment the nine we hold in United States around our biometric and mobile technology. In addition to our strong U.S.

patent portfolio, we've been awarded patents on our multi-modal biometric engine technology in Canada, Australia, in China and have applications pending in Europe and Mexico. We are proud to share that we recently been advised by the U.S.

Patent and Trademark Office that they are going to issue ImageWare a patent for Anonymous Biometric Matching. The issuance of this patent is very significant as it patents technology we developed, separating biometric and biographic data in the matching process.

This provides our users with both enhanced security and privacy. We firmly believe the advancements of our products and partnerships over the last several quarters are positioning the company to capitalize the fast-growing biometric market.

However, this quarter is indicative on the following point. Disruptive technology and make no mistakes that’s exactly what we are offering, represents an opportunity to change the way the world does thinks.

Just is in our personal lives breaking the path is not a casual leap and it's not made without a very thoughtful process. It's no different in business.

We communicate the time element of our expected product launches to our shareholders based upon what our large partners communicate to us. Given the disruptive nature of our technology and the size of the partners we are doing business with, some of whom span multiple countries, it's understandable that expected product launches can be delayed or slip a quarter or even two.

However, we can we absolutely crystal clear about this, we are in the process either directly or through our partners with a number of very significant companies around the world and we say they are with us, as you will see the results of these efforts. We have a number of additional deals in process and we remain incredibly excited about our future.

And now I would like to open the call up to your questions.

Operator

Thank you, sir. [Operator Instructions] And we will take our first question from Jaeson Schmidt with Lake Street Capital Markets.

Jaeson Schmidt - Lake Street Capital Markets

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions.

Jim Miller

You bet.

Jaeson Schmidt - Lake Street Capital Markets

Jim, just want to hear thoughts if you think the political concerns from the German government could potentially lessen the size and scope of some of your opportunities in this country or if it's just a matter of delaying these opportunities out of the gate?

Jim Miller

Yeah, it was, I think the latter. Thank you, very good question.

Obviously, as I referred to in the remarks, there is been a lot of publicity over this situation in Germany. We've -- with Deutsche Telekom we have been working with some of their affiliates and partners so that they can ensure that the product fits the requirements of the local market.

That’s taken a little extra time, but it will not change the scope or the size of the opportunities we have going forward at all.

Jaeson Schmidt - Lake Street Capital Markets

Okay, thanks. And then looking at the German healthcare system, I know you mentioned two pilots by year-end.

But how should we view the potential rollout after that?

Jim Miller

Yeah, so there are 81 million participants in the German healthcare system. It’s a single payer system that is provided by the government to all citizens of the country.

The rollout is scheduled to begin in two states next month and it will run there as it expands. We always struggle with exactly the proper characterization of these things, a pilot, but a paid pilot, so we should understand that about it.

It is for revenue, it not a test without that. And it is more of a let’s start out and then we will control the ramp up.

The goal on all of the partners and on the country is to have this implemented countrywide.

Jaeson Schmidt - Lake Street Capital Markets

Okay. And then the last one for me.

Looking at OpEx in 2015, do you think you’ll need to add significant headcount to address all your opportunities?

Jim Miller

We will need to add some headcount in Dave's group in engineering and I think maybe a couple of folks in sales and marketing. But those are pretty much the areas that we have.

We have, as you saw the addition of TransUnion and the new work with Fujitsu that we are doing, it's just really a start of kind of things we think we can accomplish with each other. And as you know in software, it's always a question of continuing to make sure that you have the sharpest, best product out there.

So we will have to add a few folks there. But other than that, that’s it.

Jaeson Schmidt - Lake Street Capital Markets

All right. Thanks.

I will jump back in queue.

Jim Miller

Okay.

Operator

And we will go next to Mike Malouf with Craig-Hallum Capital Group.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Great. Thanks guys for taking my question.

Jim Miller

You bet.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Just following up a little bit on Jason's question with regards to the German healthcare system. The two states that you are starting out, are those pilots going to be the entire two states or they're just minor rollouts within those states?

Jim Miller

No, what has been -- there's been identified several hundred physicians in a couple of dozen hospitals that are part of the rollout. And this is patient security and a couple of other things that are part of this upgrade to the healthcare system.

So, again, Deutsche Telekom has a contract for this already, so it's -- that part is already done. This is the implementation now of that contract award, and patient security records is part of that.

And so we are bringing biometrics in to authenticate patient security – or, excuse me, authenticate patient records to enhance the security in the system. But it's not…

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

So the several…

Jim Miller

Yes -- and the intention is to roll this out countrywide, because as I said, Telekom already holds the contract for the work.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Right. Okay.

So just to clarify, the several hundred docs, it's for their patients within those docs, is that what you were talking about?

Jim Miller

Yeah, so that’s how they want to start the rollout. They are going to start it in certain hospitals and then certain people on the staffs of those hospitals.

That will be the core of the rollout, which I think is the…

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

How long do you think the pilot will take?

Jim Miller

I don’t really know exactly how long, Mike, but we were talking about running it 90 to 120 days, but it will expand while it's operating.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Yeah, okay.

Jim Miller

It's not a static group. As I said, sometimes pilot might need not be the right word to describe it.

But it is not the kind of classic pilot that we often think about when we use that word here in U.S. market.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Okay, great. And then the retail -- the large retailer that you talked about, is that now back on track.

It looks like it was maybe a couple of months delayed.

Jim Miller

Yeah, just big companies, I think, as I said, in the remarks. This is a multi-national.

There is a lot people that are involved in this. As these big companies do they will move people around, so you have to navigate through that.

But, yeah, it's back on track. They are implementing the hardware and they are firing up the system in December which means as soon as they start putting people in the database we will start generating revenue.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Sounds great. And it's still the same, roughly the same size and scope of contracts that that’s…

Jim Miller

Nothing, not one thing has changed. No, not one thing.

That’s absolutely the same, yeah.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Perfect. And then if I could just ask one more question.

With regards to TransUnion, is this an optional offering for the customers? How does it actually work within the customer base of TransUnion…?

Jim Miller

Well, they are going to do - this is an additional layer of authentication security. They have a pretty, as you might imagine, because they are in the business of fraud detection and protection of financial data, they have a very, very sophisticated system that’s already in place.

This adds on to that system, so kind of a third leg of the stool, if you will, to provide biometric authentication. And the intention here is to roll it out to people that are capable of taking it and by that I simply mean that I think roughly 300 and some million of the 500 million are using mobile devices or somehow have devices that are capable of taking the technology today.

This is something we see as we look at all the projects. There are some people who still have feature phones from the old days.

They will not give them up. But they are becoming fewer and fewer and fewer, so you will see as the demographics move, people in different demographic groups have a 100% smartphones or smart devices, and that’s the reason for when I say several hundred million versus 500 million.

That’s the reason for that difference.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Yes. Totally makes now.

But within the group that they are targeting, who actually pays for the services? Is it the consumer or is it TransUnion?

Jim Miller

Yeah. The actual consumer, which could be an individual or it could be a bank or some financial institution that's processing some kind of a transaction, a loan transaction, moving money, some financial transaction.

And what they are seeing is even -- what they are seeing which is fascinating is even though we’re moving to a Chip & Pin technology in things like credit card. Bad guy see that coming as well.

So, what they are doing is they are now moving to the application piece of the process. So, rather than defrauding at the point of sale, they are moving their attack to a way where if I can take your identity, then I can open up a new account on you.

I get a new card issued to a new address and I'm off and running before -- and you would have almost no way of knowing that if your address is successfully changed. That's why when Dave was explaining the technology, things like password resetting, those things are really big, very, very uses for the biometric authentication because you won't be able to change your password unless we can ascertain.

It's really the you that we know from our own existing records. And it’s a very, very easy simple way to use it and a very, very easy way to enroll in it.

So, it literally takes -- match a seconds and one-time enrolment, as we said before, two minute.

Mike Malouf - Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Okay. Thanks a lot for the color.

Jim Miller

You bet.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And we will go next to Robert Clutterbuck Sr. with Clutterbuck Capital Management.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

Hey Jim, how are you?

Jim Miller

Hey, Bob. Good.

Thanks.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

Before I get to the goodies because it sounds, by the congratulations, particularly on the TransUnion and Fujitsu, sounds like we have progress in store. Let me address one potential concern, our cash position you mentioned immense in the cash, do you see any possibility that we're going to need to raise additional capital through an equity offering and what have not?

And also if you can, I know you don't like to give forward guidance, can you talk about 2015 interest paid cash flow?

Jim Miller

Yeah. Absolutely.

Well, in the order you ask the question, as we've said pretty consistently throughout the last, I don't know, half dozen calls or maybe even beyond that, we take a look at the balance sheet and the issues around the balance sheet constantly. We review them here internally surprise, we also review them with the Board.

As we sit here today, we believe we have sufficient cash; we have the line of credit. We have been talking about extending that line and the -- Neal Goldman who is the shareholder who provides that line has agreed to extend it.

So, we believe we have enough cash and equivalence to get us where we need to go. That said I said just a minute before that, we're always looking at this.

The important thing to make sure obviously is that you have a really strong balance sheet, we have a lot of things in the works and we would not want to be in a situation where people would be hesitant to pull the trigger on partnership or transaction with us because of balance sheet issues. Going forward, what you're seeing now is you're seeing a transition and it’s a difficult one.

It’s a heavy lift to move a -- what was a government sub-contractor to a software a service model. Very easy to say, pretty hard stuff to do.

But you are actually seeing it happen now. As that happens, the cash flow generated by the implementation in that model is nothing short of phenomenal.

I mean the -- we expect to really ramp-up the run rate as these software as a service deals ramp-up and hit their strides. Right, Bob, we haven’t given guidance yet on that.

Its new territory for us and it's difficult to say with any clarity what that would be. But I think you will see a pretty significant ability to generate cash as these models come online.

And as I said, they are coming online. I mean the TransUnion is a software as a service, Fujitsu is software as a service.

We've got a number of other things that are pending which is software as a service and you'll see the preponderance of our business go to that. We'll continue to do some government work, of course, but very situational now, and only where there are cost products involved that we can handle a government project quickly as we did in Baja California where we set the project up in a couple of months.

So, I think that 2015 will be a terrific year from metrics of generating cash in this business. And we do not, given our structure; we're not a company that it takes a lot to breakeven and generate a profit.

That bar is still pretty low.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

Okay. Jim, can you talk -- I know you can't give specifics, but in 2013, one of the major areas obviously, we already have credit card -- I'm sorry, credit reporting in healthcare.

What are the three or four major areas as you see potential new clients? Can you comment on that whether its retail or other finance, what it might be?

Jim Miller

Sure. Yeah.

I mean we continue to believe with our partners that retail, financial services, and healthcare are three primary vertical markets that we're attacking. And so you see that we choose partners on a very set criteria.

It isn’t by hap and sense, but people that can have big impacts and already have big presences in those vertical markets. We're seeing some interest, not just the German railroad but beyond for people in the transportation sector, for security of -- and biometric authentication in their IT systems.

Again, lots of people in the world, just like you and me, are very, very concerned with the security of their data. So, people who have not historically thought about using biometrics are now willing to think -- not only think about it.

And as they see how easy to use the products are and how they fit into packages that are readily available, cellphones, laptops, even desktops now come with cameras and microphones in them. We're seeing some interest in the transportation side as well.

Undoubtedly, Bob, there will be some more. We've had quite a bit of interest.

Part of the exercise we go through is just to make sure that these are serious people embarked on a serious intention to create revenue in a vertical not just people who are taking flyers. But I think financial service, retail, transportation, healthcare would be the four I would name for 2015 to watch from us.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

And I just have a couple more. I don't mean to hog this, and I'll get back in the queue.

And cut me off if I'm taking too much time. Would you anticipate over the next three to six months, any additional platforms?

Jim Miller

I'm sorry, any additional platforms?

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

Platforms. IBM, Fujitsu, T-System?

Jim Miller

Partners? Yes, absolutely.

Yeah, we've got a number in progress. And as I said, it -- these are big guys that they take a while to conclude paper work and discussions.

But yes, we're confident; you will see more of these partnerships, absolutely.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

All right. And three more, just real quick ones.

Patent infringement, we have any problems with it or we have any rewards from it? Or we're under attack all the time, because our IP is so good, what's the situation there?

Jim Miller

Well, we filed three suites against patent infringers, relatively small ones, because they were companies that looks to be infringing and we have -- we settled one that was -- I think about six months ago now. We’re in the process of settling and settlement means favorable to us.

We have not concluded a settlement with second one. The third one is still outstanding and I believe we will settle that one favorably to us as well.

We're looking at folks -- there's a lot of noise in this market and so there is a lot of folks who sometimes look and act and sound like they use the exact products that we have. But when you get in and look, they actually don't.

They use an inferior system and they do it in a very old-fashioned way and therefore do not run a file of our patents. But rest assured, we're out there watching and as we see people pop up, we take a good hard look at them.

We're very proud of the IT position we have and we think it is truly foundational and you can look that up at the Patent and Trademark Office. And -- but its only good as you are vigilant in terms of making sure that it's here to by [ph] folks.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

And can you get -- thank you by the way, can you give me a quick update -- all of us a quick update on the pillphone.

Jim Miller

Yeah. Actually the pillphone just about wrapped-up.

It is -- we are concluding some last minute work on the -- just completed in the Android version. We're continuing last minute work on iOS version.

We are out talking to large pharmaceutical companies, large medical service providers and institutions for use in things like clinical trials, which we believe will be a fertile area for the pillphone. It’s a natural for that.

As well as it is for medical adherence, reordering prescriptions, and doing a whole host of other things. But there has been a lot of interest and as soon as we wrap it up, I think you'll be seeing a lot and by the way, wrapping it up means like literally in the next couple of weeks, you'll be seeing a lot from us on pillphone.

It’s a pretty exciting product. There's a lot of interest from a lot of big folks in the healthcare space line.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

Very good. Terrific.

And last but least, a quick and I'll get back in the queue. A quick NASDAQ update here as well?

Jim Miller

Yeah. We -- as we said, we're committed to uplifting the company on NASDAQ.

No if's and but's about it. We have started the listing process by filing our application with NASDAQ and so we're working that process through.

And believe me, we're absolutely committed to move that as quickly as we can, because we think that's an important step for the company and also very beneficial to the shareholders.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

Jim, have they given an indication on the timing there and--

Jim Miller

They have not yet, no.

Robert Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Capital Management

Okay. And thanks.

Keep the great momentum going. And I'll hop in the queue.

Thank you.

Jim Miller

Thanks very much. Appreciate it.

Operator

And we will go to Bob Evans with Pennington Capital.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Good afternoon, and thanks for taking the questions.

Jim Miller

Sure.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

First just want to -- there's not a cash statement that I had seen yet, and can you let me know what I see operating couple of million bucks, what was CapEx or capitalized expense for the quarter? Just wondering what cash used was this quarter.

Wayne Wetherell

Let's get that up here.

Jim Miller

Yeah. Let's get that for you.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

And while you're looking that up, is there any SaaS for deferred revenue in this quarter?

Wayne Wetherell

No. In this quarter, no.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay.

Wayne Wetherell

Not for SaaS. We do have deferred revenue related to our LAWA project, which is the Los Angeles World Airport.

We've received a number -- as Jim mentioned, we've received a good amount of the payments for that. However, we can't recognize revenue until such time as the project is completed and accepted.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay.

Wayne Wetherell

Okay. And you asked about the capital expenditures.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Correct.

Wayne Wetherell

Capital expenditures for the nine months ended September 30 were approximately $100,000.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay.

Wayne Wetherell

We're not a capital-intensive company.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

How about capitalized software research expense or do you--

Wayne Wetherell

We don't capitalize software research.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay. So, cash usage this quarter was roughly a little over $2 million, is that right?

Wayne Wetherell

Yeah, cash usage burn rate right now is approximately $2 million a quarter. It's been consistently that last three quarters.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay. Okay.

And again to the earlier question, SaaS revenue, when do we -- is there a time next year where you would expect SaaS revenue to get to be -- because there's good news and bad news about SaaS revenue as it recurs, but it takes time to evolve.

Wayne Wetherell

Yeah. As Jim mentioned, we’re going to start enrolling identities in December of this year -- in this quarter.

We will likely be able to recognize the revenue on those identities starting very first month of next year. So, we expect to start the ramp of SaaS revenue in the first quarter of next year.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

What are payment terms? How quickly have you paid it, typically 90 days?

Jim Miller

No, no.

Wayne Wetherell

We had a number of different types of customers that we're talking to on the SaaS, but generally we're anticipating we pay within 30 to 40 -- 45 days of the billing. And the billing will go out within a week or so after the end of each month.

This will be a monthly reported item.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay. And your current credit line of $3.5 million, what -- remind us are the terms of that?

Wayne Wetherell

The current line of credit, it expires at the end of the first quarter this next year. As Jim mentioned, we've talked to the Neal Goldman, who provides the line of credit and he is willing to extend it.

So, we will likely be announcing shortly an extension on that to $3.5 million line of credit of which there is $2.5 million outstanding at this time. It is convertible.

So, the outstanding amount at point in time, until such time is paid back, can be converted into common stock.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

And at what conversion price?

Wayne Wetherell

The conversion price -- there's two different conversion price. I believe one of the prices is a little over $2 and the other one is slightly below $1.

So, I would say $2.5 million is slightly below $1 and then $1 million is slightly above $2 million.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

The current amount is slightly below. I got it, okay.

Wayne Wetherell

Correct.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

And what are you fully diluted shares outstanding? I know you reported loss, that's $93 million.

Wayne Wetherell

Fully diluted is $98.5 million.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay. So--

Wayne Wetherell

Shares outstanding is $93.4 million.

Bob Evans - Pennington Capital

Okay. So, roughly a $230 million in the price value.

Okay. Okay.

Thank you.

Jim Miller

Thank you.

Operator

At this time, this concludes our question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the call back over to Mr.

Miller for closing remarks.

Jim Miller

Thanks Amber. Just like everything in life, the road of success is not straight, smooth, or quick, for ImageWare, this much is clear, we're in the process of an ambitious makeover of our company and we're making considerable progress with adoption by some of the world's largest companies.

For those of you, who may wonder about the commitment of our partners? Take a moment when you have one and go to the Fujitsu website for example, and type in biometrics.

You will see their commitment to our partnership and to this market in a big way. Our continued progress with new and existing partners leads to only one conclusion.

We're laying a very strong foundation and the other metrics of success that follow from the establishment of that foundation are close at hand. We thank you as always for participating in today's call.

And we'll look forward to speaking with you again at the end of the next quarter.

Operator

That does conclude our conference. Thank you for your participation.