424B3 1 d424b3.htm PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT Prospectus Supplement
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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
Registration No. 333-162309

The information contained in this preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus is not complete and may be changed. A registration statement relating to these securities has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are not an offer to sell these securities and are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Prospectus Supplement

(to Prospectus dated November 4, 2009)

4,693,848 Shares

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Common Stock

We are offering 3,500,000 shares of our common stock and the selling stockholders identified in this prospectus are offering 1,193,848 shares of our common stock. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. Our common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “RADS.” On September 3, 2010, the last reported sale price of our common stock was $19.19 per share.

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. Please read “Risk Factors” beginning on page S-10 of this prospectus supplement and in the documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

 

     PER SHARE    TOTAL

Public Offering Price

   $                         $                     

Underwriting Discounts and Commissions

   $      $  

Proceeds to Radiant Systems, Inc. (Before Expenses)

   $      $  

Proceeds to Selling Stockholders (Before Expenses)

   $      $  

 

 

Delivery of the shares of common stock is expected to be made on or about September 15, 2010. We and certain of the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters an option for a period of 30 days to purchase up to an additional 704,077 shares of our common stock to cover over-allotments. If the underwriters exercise the option in full, the total underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us will be $             and the total proceeds to us, before expenses, will be $            . Discounts, commissions and proceeds will be prorated between us and the selling stockholders.

Joint Book-Running Managers

 

Jefferies & Company   SunTrust Robinson Humphrey

Co-Lead Manager

Raymond James

Co-Managers

 

Needham & Company, LLC    Wedbush Securities

Northland Capital Markets

Prospectus Supplement dated September     , 2010

 


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About This Prospectus Supplement

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Prospectus Supplement Summary

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Risk Factors

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Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

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Use Of Proceeds

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Price Range Of Common Stock

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Dividend Policy

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Capitalization

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Selling Stockholders

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Underwriting

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Notice To Investors

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Legal Matters

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Experts

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Where You Can Find More Information

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Information Incorporated By Reference

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Prospectus   

About this Prospectus

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The Company

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Risk Factors

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Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

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Use of Proceeds

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Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges

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Description of Our Capital Stock

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Description of the Warrants

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Description of the Units

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Selling Securityholders

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Plan of Distribution

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Legal Matters

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Experts

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Where You Can Find More Information

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Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

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You should rely only on the information contained in, or incorporated by reference into, this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus and any free writing prospectus that we authorize to be distributed to you. You may obtain the information incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement without charge by following the instructions under “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Information Incorporated by Reference” below. We have not, and the underwriter has not, authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not and the underwriter is not making an offer to sell these securities or soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus and any free writing prospectus is accurate only as of the dates of those documents. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since such respective dates.


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About This Prospectus Supplement

This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are part of a registration statement that we have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, using a “shelf” registration. This document contains two parts. The first part is the prospectus supplement, which describes the specific details regarding this offering, including the price, amount of common stock being offered, the risks of investing in our common stock and other items. The second part is the accompanying prospectus, which provides more general information about the securities we may offer from time to time under the shelf registration statement, some of which may not apply to the common stock offered by this prospectus supplement. If there is a conflict between the information contained in this prospectus supplement, on the one hand, and the information contained in the accompanying prospectus, on the other hand, the information in this prospectus supplement will control. You should read both this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus together with the additional information described in “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Information Incorporated by Reference” before you decide whether to invest in the securities.

This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus summarize certain documents and other information, and we refer you to them for a more complete understanding of what we discuss in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. In making an investment decision, you must rely on your own examination of our company and the terms of this offering and the common stock, including the merits and risks involved.

We are not making any representation to any purchaser of the common stock regarding the legality of an investment in the common stock by such purchaser. You should not consider any information in this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus to be legal, business or tax advice. You should consult your own attorney, business advisor or tax advisor for legal, business and tax advice regarding an investment in the common stock.

All references in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus to “Radiant,” the “Company,” “our,” “us” and “we” refer to Radiant Systems, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, except where the context otherwise requires or as otherwise indicated.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This prospectus supplement contains some financial information that was not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. In addition to the results that we present that are in compliance with GAAP, we disclose adjusted operating income and adjusted operating margin, referred to respectively as “adjusted non-GAAP operating income” and “adjusted non-GAAP operating margin,” and we disclose adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted share, referred to respectively as “adjusted non-GAAP net income” and “adjusted non-GAAP net income per diluted share.” These items, which are collectively referred to as “non-GAAP measures,” exclude the impact of non cash stock-based compensation, the amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets and other specific charges and gains identified by us that we believe are unlikely to recur in the normal course of business and which we specifically identify each time we present these non-GAAP measures. See “Prospectus Supplement Summary — Summary Historical Consolidated Financial and Other Data.”

We consider our core operating performance to be based on the revenues recorded in a particular period and the expenses incurred within that period that management has the capability of directly affecting in order to drive operating income. We exclude non-cash stock-based compensation, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets and other charges and gains that we believe are unlikely to recur in the normal course of business from our non-GAAP presentation because the decisions that gave rise to these expenses were not made to drive revenue in a particular period, but rather were made for our long-term benefit over multiple periods. While strategic decisions, such as the decision to issue stock-based compensation, are made to further our long-term strategic objectives and do impact our income statement under GAAP, such items may affect multiple periods and management is not able to change or affect these items within any particular period. As such, supplementing GAAP disclosure with non-GAAP disclosure using the non-GAAP measures provides management with an additional view of our core operational performance by excluding expenses that are not directly related to performance in a particular period.

 

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We also use non-GAAP measures to manage and monitor our business because the excluded expenses are not under the control of, and accordingly are not used in evaluating the performance of, operations personnel within their respective areas of responsibility. In the case of stock-based compensation expense, the awarding of stock options is governed by the compensation committee of our Board of Directors and, in the case of acquisition-related intangible assets, acquisitions arise from strategic decisions that are not the responsibility of most levels of operational management. Charges and gains that are unlikely to recur in the normal course of business like our stock-based compensation charges and amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, are excluded in management’s internal evaluations of our operating results and are not considered for management compensation purposes.

For a reconciliation of adjusted non-GAAP operating income to GAAP operating income and adjusted non-GAAP net income to GAAP net income, see “Prospectus Supplement Summary — Summary Historical Consolidated Financial and Other Data.”

Market and Industry Data

The data included in this prospectus supplement regarding our industry, markets and ranking, including the size of certain markets and our position and the position of our competitors within these markets, are based on independent industry publications, other publicly available information and our own estimates. Our estimates are based on information obtained from our customers, distributors, suppliers, trade and business organizations and other contacts in the markets in which we operate and our management’s knowledge and experience. We believe these estimates to be accurate as of the date of this prospectus supplement. However, this information may prove to be inaccurate because of the methods by which we obtained some of the data for our estimates or because this information cannot always be verified with complete certainty due to the limits on availability and reliability of raw data, the voluntary nature of the data gathering process and other limitations and uncertainties inherent in a survey of market size. In addition, although we believe that the independent industry publications and other publicly available information are reliable, we have not independently verified and do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of this information.

 

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Prospectus Supplement Summary

This summary contains basic information about us, our common stock and this offering. It highlights certain information contained in or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus and other information about our business. Because this is a summary, it does not contain all of the information that you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should read this entire prospectus supplement, including the section entitled “Risk Factors,” the accompanying prospectus and our financial statements and the accompanying notes to the financial statements and the other documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus before making an investment decision.

Overview

We are a leading provider of technology solutions for managing site operations in the hospitality and retail industries. With more than 100,000 installations worldwide, our customers include leading brands and venues in the restaurant and food service, sports and entertainment, petroleum and convenience, and specialty retail markets. Our solutions allow our customers to improve customer service and loyalty, improve speed of service, increase revenue per transaction through suggestive selling, loyalty programs and point of purchase promotion displays, and optimize labor and inventory resources. At the core of our solution portfolio is a robust point-of-sale, or POS, solution, consisting of software and hardware that can be deployed as a touch-screen terminal, self-service kiosk or wireless handheld device. We also provide a range of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, offerings to our customers, including online ordering, loyalty promotion, gift card management, theft and fraud prevention, and store and enterprise analytics. The growth of our SaaS offerings, which are sold on a subscription basis, has allowed us to increase the value we provide to our customers and to increase our recurring revenue, which we define as maintenance, subscription and transaction services revenue, from $82.2 million, or 32.5% of total revenue, for the year ended December 31, 2007 to $132.3 million, or 46.0% of total revenue, for the year ended December 31, 2009.

We seek to differentiate our products and services by providing retailers and foodservice operators with technology designed to allow them to provide exceptional service at the critical point of consumer interaction. We do this by developing and selling hardware, software and services that address the unique requirements of the highly specialized store environments in which our customers operate. We support our technology solutions with services such as software and hardware support, installation, training and solutions consulting.

We sell our products and services directly through our sales force and indirectly through resellers, which we refer to as our channel partners, both in the United States and internationally. Our direct sales personnel focus on selling our technology solutions to larger customers, typically those with more than 50 locations. We believe that a majority of the sites in the markets we serve are owned or operated by small and medium-sized businesses. Our channel partners, many of whom are dedicated resellers of Radiant solutions, are able to serve the needs of our customers with local services and relationships backed up by our technology solutions. In both of our sales channels, we promote a consultative approach to working with customers, which is consistent with our philosophy of modular architecture and the ability for customers to integrate our solutions with existing technology, and promotes our ability to cross-sell services over time. For the six months ended June 30, 2010, our direct sales force was responsible for 63.5% of our revenues and our channel partners were responsible for 36.5%.

Our total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2010 grew by 20.1% to $166.6 million from $138.7 million in the same period last year. Our GAAP net income for the six months ended June 30, 2010 was $8.4 million, up 98.7% from $4.2 million in the same period of 2009. Our adjusted non-GAAP net income for the six months ended June 30, 2010 was $15.1 million, up 39.8% from $10.8 million in the same period of 2009. Our technology is used at over 100,000 customer sites in more than 75 countries worldwide, including market-leading restaurants, retail stores, stadiums, parks, arenas, cinemas, convenience stores and fuel centers. Radiant was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. We currently have over 1,300 employees across 11 offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.

 

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Our Solutions

We provide the global retail and hospitality industries with technology solutions that address the needs of managing businesses that range from a single store or restaurant to global chains and the world’s largest sports stadiums. Our strategy is to provide targeted solutions for each market, with the common goal of enabling our customers to provide exceptional service at the critical point of consumer interaction.

Point-of-Sale Systems. Our POS hardware and software solutions are designed to increase speed and quality of service, minimize training and provide enhanced reliability while delivering secure and personalized service to the consumer. These systems consist of touch screen terminals, servers, handheld devices and peripherals, including printers, customer displays and cash drawers, as well as POS and back-office software that can be integrated with third-party solutions. Our POS software runs on multiple open hardware platforms as well as our own hardware.

Software-as-a-Service, Maintenance and Customer Support and Transaction Processing. Our SaaS solutions have become a significant enhancement to our value proposition and flexibility in supporting our customers. The SaaS model allows customers to implement our software solutions without requiring them to use their own hardware capacity or maintain the software application on their own systems and is available on a monthly fee basis. Our SaaS solutions are designed to give our customers the tools they need to effectively capitalize on revenue opportunities and minimize costs and losses.

We also offer customer support on a 24-hour basis, a service that historically has been purchased by a majority of our customers. We focus on providing quality service and ensuring a first time fix for any technical issue with our hardware. Our hardware and software maintenance programs provide flexible solutions that can be customized to meet specific customer needs and enhancements to our products, including product updates. We also offer electronic payment processing services, which provide an integrated, turnkey solution for a wide variety of payment methods, including credit, debit and gift card payments.

Professional Services. We believe our professional services play a critical role in the successful design, implementation, application, installation and integration of our solutions. Additionally, we can remotely access customers’ systems in order to perform quick diagnostics and provide on-line assistance.

Our Markets and Customers

We believe that the global market for technology solutions like ours is large and generally under-addressed. The number of global sites that we estimate can utilize our advanced technology solutions currently exceeds 4.9 million, with much of the existing information systems in the hospitality and retail industries consisting of stand-alone devices, such as cash registers or other POS systems.

Further, we believe that hospitality and retail consumer preferences for value and convenience have created a greater need for timely data about consumer buying patterns and preferences, particularly among small and medium-size businesses. We believe that this has resulted in increased demand for systems that capture detailed consumer activity data at the point-of-sale, and store and transport that data in an easy-to-access manner.

Lastly, attention towards security issues, such as identity theft and operating safeguards, and the resulting requirements imposed by credit and debit card associations have encouraged hospitality and retail operators to replace or upgrade existing systems to comply with these requirements.

Hospitality Market

The hospitality market for our technology solutions includes food service operators, including quick service, table service and fast casual restaurants. According to NPD ReCount, an independent industry analysis firm, the scale of the hospitality restaurant market is significant, with over 579,000 sites in the United States alone.

 

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Within the global food service market, operators face an increasingly competitive and challenging environment as consumers demand high levels of convenience and service while having an increasing number of dining options available. To meet these challenges, operators have begun to seek innovative technology solutions that enable them to improve their operations while reducing the total cost of ownership for future investments. We believe that almost half of the sites in the United States hospitality market are operating on aged or proprietary systems.

Customers who have licensed or purchased our hospitality products and services include Benihana, Brinker International, Bruegger’s Enterprises, Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, Burger King, California Pizza Kitchen, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Choice Hotels International, Del Taco, Denny’s, Dunkin’ Brands, Fatburger, Focus Brands, Jamba Juice, Jason’s Deli, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, Landry’s Restaurants, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Morton’s of Chicago, Nordstrom, Papa Murphy’s, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Red Robin, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, Sbarro, Sizzler, Texas Roadhouse and Wendy’s/Arby’s Group.

Retail Market

The retail market we serve consists of diverse businesses, including specialized retailers, multinational convenience store chains and operators of entertainment venues such as stadiums, arenas and cinemas. The retail market remains highly fragmented, with more than 1 million retailers and many competing solutions consisting largely of a combination of off-the shelf offerings from large software companies and small niche players.

As consumer preferences shift towards value and convenience, retail businesses have begun focusing more on relevant customer spending patterns and preferences. We believe that through the use of more fully integrated systems, retail businesses are able to improve operational efficiencies through better inventory management, purchasing, merchandising, pricing, promotions and shrinkage control. Similarly, as high-volume retailers such as grocery stores, mass-merchants, warehouse clubs and others continue to add fuel, made-to-order food and other full service goods to their offerings, we believe there continues to be increased demand for fully integrated, feature-rich automation systems that are capable of effectively managing the entire retail operation.

Customers who have licensed or purchased our retail products and services include 7-Eleven Australia, Alimentation Couche-Tard, Archiver’s, AT&T Park, Batteries Plus, CircleK, Clearview Cinemas, Cobb Theatres, Conseco Fieldhouse, Cowboys, Dolphins Stadium, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Family Express, Golf USA, Harbor Freight Tools USA, Hess Corporation, High’s of Baltimore, Holiday Stationstores, Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville, Kroger Corporation, Live Nation, Lucas Oil Stadium, Mahoney’s Garden Center, Maverik Country Stores, Marcus Theatres, National Park, Nintendo, Pro Football Hall of Fame, QuikTrip, Relax the Back Corporation, Repsol, Royal Dutch Shell, Reading Cinema, Rutter’s Farm Stores, Sheetz, Shell Canada, Showcase Cinemas, Speedway Superamerica, The Athlete’s Foot, The Field Museum, Wawa, Wrigley Field (home of the Chicago Cubs), xpedex paper store and Yankee Stadium.

Our Competitive Strengths

Flexible and Powerful Technology Solutions. Our solutions provide extensive functionality and can be integrated with a variety of third-party back-office systems, while giving our customers the ability over time to add solutions and services that are tailored to their needs. By designing our technology solutions specifically for our customers’ specialized environments, we believe our products and services improve efficiency, offer a timely return on investment and create a high cost of switching to competitors’ technology offerings.

Established Provider in Target Markets. We are a key vendor for POS solutions in the retail and hospitality industries. We provide an integrated technology solution and we are focused on our target markets in hospitality and retail, which we believe distinguishes us from other POS vendors and offers our customers a superior value proposition. We also provide support services that are tailored to our customers’ needs and specialized technology that helps them create value and enhance their business. We have grown our installed base from approximately 50,000 active sites at December 31, 2004 to more than 100,000 active sites at December 31, 2009.

 

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Diverse Sales Strategy. We serve the technology needs of both large operators and small and medium-sized customers through a combination of direct sales and our reseller channel. Our direct sales personnel focus on selling our technology solutions to larger customers, typically those with more than 50 locations, both domestically and internationally. In order to reach smaller customers, we have focused on developing our reseller channel and supporting it with strong operational tools. We believe that our strategy to deliver a rich set of products that are easy to implement and support makes us an attractive vendor to our channel partners.

Strong Customer Relationships. By delivering value-added services and products to our customers, we typically become an integral and important part of their businesses. We believe that by providing an integrated solution we increase the value of our offering and limit our customers’ desire and ability to change providers without incurring substantial switching costs. We seek to build long-term relationships with our customers.

Investment in New Technologies. Our markets are subject to rapid and continual technological change. We believe that in order to compete effectively in our markets, we must provide compatible systems incorporating new technologies at competitive prices. For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and the six month ended June 30, 2010, we incurred approximately $26.2 million, $28.9 million, $26.3 million and $13.9 million, respectively, in product development costs, including capitalized software, or approximately 10.3%, 9.6%, 9.2% and 8.3% of our revenues respectively. We intend to continue to invest in our solutions and design them in a manner that allows us to achieve compatibility between our products and products that are, or that we believe will become, popular and widely adopted among our current and future customers.

Experienced Management Team. Our management team has significant experience both in technology solutions and at our company. Our team is led by John Heyman, who has over 16 years of experience with our company, including the past eight as chief executive officer. Our management team has augmented the organic growth of our business by successfully identifying and integrating a number of acquired businesses, both in the United States and internationally, that have expanded both the products and services we offer and the sales channels through which we offer them. Our founder and chief technology officer, Alon Goren, has led our technology development efforts and driven the evolution of our technology solutions since the founding of our company in 1985. We believe the strength and expertise of our management team helps us attract new customers and channel partners and makes us an attractive buyer for potential acquisition candidates, thereby contributing significantly to our growth.

Our Growth Strategy

Our growth strategy is to expand and enhance our position as a leading provider of technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries in the United States and internationally. The elements of our strategy include:

Increase Our Site Penetration. We believe our markets have a total of more than 4.9 million sites. We believe our existing customers represent approximately 2.0% of these sites as of December 31, 2009. In the absence of an integrated technology solution, operators in these markets typically rely on manual reporting to capture data on-site and disseminate it to different levels of management. Basic information on consumers, such as who they are, when they visit and what they buy, is not captured in sufficient detail, at the right time or in a manner that can be communicated easily to others in the organization. Similarly, information such as price changes does not flow from headquarters to individual sites in a timely manner. In addition, communication with suppliers and other vendors often remains manual, involving paperwork, delays and other process-related problems. We believe that our technology solutions, which are highly functional, scalable and easy to deploy, are well suited for increased penetration in these markets.

Capture an Increasing Share of Technology Spend of our Existing or New Customers. Our products and services are flexible and modular, allowing operators to purchase components of our solutions independently or as a suite of integrated products to address specific business needs. We invest in new products and services to ensure that our evolving technology solution creates value for our customers and delivers a return on investment in a timely manner. We believe we are well-positioned with our existing customers to supply additional products and services as their business needs and complexity grow. We believe each added module delivers incremental value for our customers. In

 

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addition, we intend to grow our customer base by selling portions of our solution, in particular our products and services that we sell as a service offering, to customers that may currently utilize competitors’ POS systems, but that need or want a portion of our solutions, such as loyalty and gift card services, e-commerce and payments applications or fraud and theft prevention.

Increase Recurring Revenue as a Percentage of Total Revenue. Recurring revenue represented 46.0% and 43.1% of our total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2009 and the six months ended June 30, 2010, respectively. Recurring revenue has grown from $51.3 million in 2005 to $132.3 million in 2009, a compounded annual growth rate of 27%. A greater proportion of recurring revenue benefits us because it increases our visibility into future financial performance and typically has a higher gross margin than other revenues. Instrumental to our growth of recurring revenue has been the development of our SaaS offerings. For the year ended December 31, 2009 and the six months ended June 30, 2010, our SaaS offerings represented 21% and 51% of our growth in recurring revenue from the prior year’s comparable period and 30% and 86% of recurring revenue gross profit growth for such comparable periods, respectively. We plan to introduce new services to support customer loyalty and feedback as well as enhanced security and analytical tools that can be sold as SaaS offering to complement our integrated technology solution in order to increase the revenue opportunity with our existing and prospective customer base.

Develop our Sales Channels. We focus on developing our sales channels within each of our targeted markets. We enhance our direct sales model by increasing customer awareness of our technology solutions and generating sales leads. We facilitate this by attending industry trade shows, conducting direct marketing programs and selectively advertising in industry publications. We intend to increase our investment in direct sales to increase the growth of our installed active sites and maintain our position as a leading provider to our customers in our target markets. We also intend to continue to build out and support our channel partner relationships to distribute our products and solutions to small and medium-sized operators.

Pursue International Growth Opportunities. Our total revenues from international operations for the six months ended June 30, 2010 grew by 19.2% to $24.2 million from $20.3 million in the same period last year. We believe there are substantial growth opportunities abroad as many regions, including parts of Europe, Asia and Latin America, are underserved and maintain systems that are outdated and less secure than technologies currently available. As part of our European growth strategy, we believe we have an opportunity to better leverage our existing channel partners to carry a broader set of products and increase our market reach and revenue per customer. We have also established regional offices in London, Prague, Salzburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Adelaide and Geelong and we now have active installed systems in over 75 different countries.

Acquire Complementary Businesses. We believe our markets are highly fragmented. Many small and medium-sized businesses have utilized POS hardware or combined software and hardware solutions from smaller competitors over time that we believe provide less functionality than our solutions. We believe that an opportunity exists to acquire some of these smaller competitors and other businesses that provide complementary or adjacent technologies to sites within the hospitality and retail markets and facilitate the migration of their customer base over time to our technology solutions. We believe that we have demonstrated an ability to acquire and integrate complementary acquisitions in the past and we consider this to be a strength of our management team. Since 2005, we have completed acquisitions of six businesses.

Other Data About our Company

In addition to recurring revenue and non-GAAP measures, our management uses other data to manage and monitor the performance of our business. These measurements include:

 

   

Revenue and profit contribution of our SaaS offerings. Revenue attributable to our SaaS offerings grew from $9.3 million in 2005 to $32.5 million in 2009 and was $19.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2010.

 

   

Recurring revenue on a site basis. Approximately 66,000 of our active customer sites generate recurring revenue for us through maintenance, subscription and/or transaction services.

 

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The Offering

 

Common stock offered by us

3,500,000 shares

 

Common stock offered by the selling stockholders

1,193,848 shares

 

Common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering

38,581,843 shares (or 38,700,920 shares if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full)

Use of Proceeds

We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this offering will be approximately $63.6 million, based on an assumed offering price of $19.19 per share in this offering, which was the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on September 3, 2010, and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We intend to use the net proceeds from the offering to pay down the outstanding balance under the revolving portion of our credit facility, to fund working capital requirements and for general corporate purposes including potential acquisitions. We currently have no agreements or arrangements with respect to any acquisitions. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. An affiliate of one of the underwriters serves as lender under our credit facility and thereby may receive proceeds from this offering that are used to pay down borrowings under our credit facility. See “Use of Proceeds.”

Risk Factors

You should carefully read and consider the information set forth under “Risk Factors,” together with all of the other information set forth or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, before deciding to invest in our common stock.

NASDAQ Global Select Market Listing

Our common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “RADS.”

Outstanding Shares

The number of shares of our common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering is based on 34,912,995 shares outstanding as of September 3, 2010 and excludes as of that date:

 

   

4,821,366 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options outstanding as of that date, at a weighted average exercise price of $10.19;

 

   

1,676,828 shares of our common stock available as of that date for future grant or issuance pursuant to our stock plans; and

 

   

924,308 shares of our common stock available as of that date for future issuance pursuant to our employee stock purchase plan.

Except as otherwise indicated, all information in this prospectus supplement assumes no exercise by the underwriters of their overallotment option.

 

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Summary Historical Consolidated Financial and Other Data

The following table reflects selected historical consolidated financial data derived from the consolidated financial statements of, and other operating data of, Radiant Systems, Inc. and subsidiaries as of and for each of the five fiscal years ended 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The statement of operations and balance sheet data for the six months ended June 30, 2009 and June 30, 2010 has been derived from the interim consolidated financial statements of Radiant Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries. This data should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements, including the accompanying notes and other financial information incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.

 

 

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Six Months Ended June 30,  
     2005     2006     2007     2008     2009          2009               2010       
     (Dollars in thousands except per share amounts)  

Statement of Operations Data:

              

Revenues

   $ 172,042      $ 222,310      $ 253,198      $ 301,576      $ 287,468      $ 138,735      $ 166,575   

Cost of revenues

     102,292        124,451        141,061        172,514        151,949        72,365        90,365   

Gross profit

     69,750        97,859        112,137        129,062        135,519        66,370        76,210   

Net income (loss)

     5,562        18,357  (1)      11,843        11,028        (9,398 ) (2)      4,207        8,359   

Basic net income (loss) per share

     0.19        0.59        0.38        0.34        (0.29     0.13        0.25   

Diluted net income (loss) per share

     0.18        0.56        0.36        0.33        (0.29     0.13        0.24   

Other Operating Data:

              

Recurring revenue (3)

   $ 51,304      $ 70,661      $ 82,225      $ 108,940      $ 132,281      $ 63,280      $ 71,776   

Recurring revenue as a % of total revenues

     30     32     32     36     46     46     43

Adjusted non-GAAP
operating income (4)

   $ 14,918      $ 24,166      $ 31,439      $ 36,281      $ 35,455      $ 16,233      $ 21,318   

Adjusted non-GAAP
operating margin (5)

     9     11     12     12     12     12     13

Adjusted non-GAAP net income (4)

   $ 12,633      $ 19,029      $ 25,888      $ 24,530      $ 25,568      $ 10,809      $ 15,106   

Adjusted non-GAAP net income per diluted share (4)

   $ 0.40      $ 0.58      $ 0.78      $ 0.73      $ 0.76      $ 0.33      $ 0.43   

Balance Sheet Data (end of period):

              

Working capital

   $ 22,822      $ 29,656      $ 51,720      $ 41,578      $ 28,790      $ 34,029      $ 37,053   

Total assets

     142,505        198,655        221,959        303,542        288,597        304,902        310,549   

Long-term debt, including current portion

     18,383        34,194        20,467        98,466        62,626        80,465        50,933   

Shareholders’ equity

     84,433        115,971        141,956        140,331        153,343        156,496        165,027   

 

(1) The year ended December 31, 2006 includes a $10.3 million income tax benefit resulting from the reversal of a portion of the valuation allowance against tax deferrals.
(2) The year ended December 31, 2009 includes a non-cash impairment charge of $20.9 million related to the goodwill and certain intangible assets associated with our Quest acquisition.

 

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(3) Recurring revenue consists of maintenance, subscription and transaction services revenue.
(4) Excludes the impact of non-cash stock-based compensation and the amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets. Also excludes other specific charges and gains identified by us that we believe are unlikely to recur in the normal course of business, as further described in footnote (1) of the following table.
(5) Adjusted non-GAAP operating income expressed as a percentage of total revenues.

 

 

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Six Months Ended June 30,  
     2005     2006     2007    2008     2009          2009               2010       
     (in thousands)  

Reconciliation of Adjusted Non-GAAP Operating Income:

               

Reported operating income (loss)

   $ 7,601      $ 11,053      $ 23,276    $ 22,314      $ (328   $ 7,902      $ 14,623   

Amortization of purchased intangibles

     5,317        8,190        4,301      7,688  (2)      9,265        4,589        4,352   

Share-based compensation expense

            3,260        3,795      4,646        4,466        2,589        2,656   

Other charges and income, net (1)

     2,000        1,663        67      1,633        5,044        1,153          

Impairment of goodwill

                               17,008               (313
                                                       

Adjusted non-GAAP operating income

   $ 14,918      $ 24,166      $ 31,439    $ 36,281      $ 35,455      $ 16,233      $ 21,318   
                                                       

Reconciliation of Adjusted Non-GAAP Net Income:

               

Reported net income (loss)

   $ 5,562      $ 18,357      $ 11,843    $ 11,028      $ (9,398   $ 4,207      $ 8,359   

Amortization of purchased intangibles

     5,317        8,190        4,301      7,688  (2)      9,265        4,589        4,352   

Share-based compensation expense

            3,260        3,795      4,646        4,466        2,589        2,656   

Other charges and income, net (1)

     2,000        1,663        67      1,633        5,044        1,153     

Impairment of goodwill

                          17,008               (313

Tax effect of adjusting items, difference between the Company’s effective tax rate and cash tax rate

     (246     (12,441     5,882      (465     (817     (1,729     52   
                                                       

Adjusted non-GAAP net income

   $ 12,633      $ 19,029      $ 25,888    $ 24,530      $ 25,568      $ 10,809      $ 15,106   
                                                       

 

(1)

Other charges and income are comprised of the following items. For the year ended December 31, 2005, we recorded (i) a charge of $1,450 related to lease restructuring expenses and the write-off of related leasehold improvements and (ii) a charge of $550 to write off certain software that was deemed to be impaired. For the year ended December 31, 2006, we recorded a charge of $1,663 related to lease restructuring expenses. For the year ended December 31, 2007, we recorded (i) a gain of $300 related to the adjustment of certain lease restructuring reserves, (ii) a charge of $1,207 related to pre-acquisition costs for acquisitions that we decided not to pursue, and (iii) a gain of $840 on a forward exchange contract that we entered into in association with the acquisition of Quest Retail Technology Pty Ltd, or Quest. For the year ended December 31, 2008, we recorded (i) a charge of $343 related to the early termination of our previous credit facility, (ii) a charge of $2,075 related to lease restructuring expenses, (iii) a gain of $799 on forward exchange contracts associated with the acquisitions

 

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of Orderman GmbH and Quest, (iv) a gain of $1,444 associated with the sale of land near our corporate headquarters, (v) a charge of $438 related to severance and restructuring of the organization, and (vi) a charge of $1,020 related to the impairment of certain internally-developed software. For the year ended December 31, 2009, we recorded (i) a charge of $500 related to the write-off of certain third party software licenses that were deemed unusable, (ii) a gain of $47 on the sale of a building, (iii) a charge of $700 related to severance and restructuring of the organization, and (iv) a charge of $3,891 related to the write down of certain intangible assets associated with Quest as part of our annual goodwill impairment analysis. For the six months ended June 30, 2009, we recorded (i) a charge of $500 related to the write-off of certain third party software licenses that were deemed unusable, (ii) a gain of $47 on the sale of a building, and (iii) a charge of $700 related to severance and restructuring of the organization.

(2) Total amortization expense for the year ended December 31, 2008 was $7,902. Excluded from this total was $214 related to ongoing operations.

 

 

The following consolidated balance sheet data shows data from our balance sheet as of June 30, 2010 and such data adjusted to reflect the receipt by us of the estimated net proceeds of approximately $63.6 million from the sale of shares of common stock by us in this offering at an assumed public offering price of $19.19 per share, the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on September 3, 2010, and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us and the application of a portion of the estimated net proceeds from the offering to pay down the outstanding balance under the revolving portion of our credit facility. See “Capitalization” and “Use of Proceeds.”

 

     June 30, 2010
     Actual    As Adjusted
     (in thousands)

Balance Sheet Data:

     

Working capital ..

   $ 37,053    $ 67,298

Total assets

     310,549      340,794

Long-term debt, including current portion

     50,933      17,533

Shareholders’ equity

     165,027      228,672

 

 

 

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Risk Factors

Investing in our common stock involves risk. You should carefully consider the risk factors discussed below and those contained in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 25, 2010, which are incorporated by reference herein, and the other information contained in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, before you make an investment decision regarding our common stock.

The risks and uncertainties discussed below and in the documents incorporated by reference herein are not the only risks we face. Additional risks not currently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also harm our business. Our business, financial condition, or results of operations could be materially adversely affected by any of these risks and cause the value of our securities, including our common stock, to decline. The trading price of the securities, including our common stock, could decline due to any of these risks, and you may lose all or part of your investment.

Risks Relating to Our Common Stock and this Offering

Management will have broad discretion as to the use of the proceeds from this offering, and we may not use the proceeds effectively.

Our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds from this offering. We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering to pay outstanding indebtedness and for working capital and general corporate purposes, including potential acquisitions. You will be relying on the judgment of our management and board of directors with regard to the use of these proceeds, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the proceeds are being used effectively. Our failure to apply these funds effectively could have a material adverse effect on our business and cause the price of our common stock to decline.

Our stock price has been volatile historically and may continue to be volatile. The price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly, and you could lose all or a part of your investment as a result.

The trading price of our common stock has been and may continue to be subject to wide fluctuations. In the fifty-two week period ended September 3, 2010, the sale price of our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market ranged from $9.00 to $19.32 per share, and the last reported sale price of our common stock on September 3, 2010 was $19.19 per share.

The price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly as a result of many factors in addition to the factors discussed in these risk factors. These factors, most of which are beyond our control, include:

 

   

fluctuations in our quarterly operating results;

 

   

changes in expectations as to our future financial performance or changes in financial estimates of securities analysts;

 

   

success of our operating and growth strategies;

 

   

investor anticipation of competitive and industry threats, whether or not warranted by actual events;

 

   

operating and stock price performance of other comparable companies or companies investors may deem comparable to us;

 

   

news reports relating to trends in our industry or general economic conditions; and

 

   

realization of any of the risks described in these risk factors.

In addition, the stock market in general has experienced, and in the future may experience, extreme volatility. Such volatility may reflect fluctuations that are unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of particular companies. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock, regardless of

 

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our actual operating performance, which could cause purchasers of our common stock to incur substantial losses.

Investors in our common stock may experience future dilution.

In order to raise additional capital, we may in the future offer additional shares of our common stock, or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock, in transactions that may be dilutive to existing holders of our common stock. The sale of such shares also has potential to cause significant downward pressure on the price of our common stock. This is particularly the case if the shares being placed into the market exceed the market’s ability to absorb the increased outstanding stock. Such an event could place further downward pressure on the price of our common stock. This could present an opportunity for short sellers to contribute to a further decline of our stock price. If there are significant short sales of our stock, the price decline that would result from such activity likely would cause the share price to decline, which, in turn, may cause persons who actually hold our stock to sell their shares, thereby contributing to a further share price decline of our common stock in the market.

Sales of a significant number of shares of our common stock in the public markets, or the perception of such sales, could depress the market price of our common stock.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock or other equity-related securities in the public markets, including in an offering of our common stock, could depress the market price of our common stock and impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity or equity-linked securities. We cannot predict the effect that future sales of our common stock or other equity-related securities would have on the market price of our common stock.

In connection with this offering, all of our executive officers and directors have entered into lock-up agreements with the underwriters for this offering. As a result of these lock-up agreements, approximately 5,368,541 million shares are subject to a contractual restriction on resale through the date that is 90 days after the date of this prospectus supplement. The market price for shares of our common stock may decline if stockholders not subject to lock-up agreements sell a substantial number of shares, if stockholders subject to the lock-up agreements sell a substantial number of shares when the restrictions on resale lapse, or if the underwriters waive the lock-up agreements and allow such stockholders to sell some or all of their shares.

None of our other existing shareholders have entered into lock-up agreements with the underwriters for this offering. Substantially all of the shares of common stock held by such stockholders are freely tradable or tradable under Rule 144. If our existing stockholders sell a large number of shares of our common stock or the public market perceives that existing stockholders might sell shares of common stock, the market price of our common stock could decline significantly.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. We are including the following cautionary statement in this prospectus to make applicable and take advantage of the safe harbor provisions established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. We and our representatives may from time to time make written or oral statements that are “forward-looking,” including statements contained in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement to this prospectus, other filings with the SEC, reports to our stockholders and news releases. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements which are other than statements of historical facts. In addition, other written or oral statements which constitute forward-looking statements may be made by us or on our behalf. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “potential,” and “predicts,” as well as variations of such words and similar expressions, are intended to identify such

 

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forward-looking statements. Certain statements contained herein are forward-looking statements and accordingly involve risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in good faith, forward-looking statements. Please see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement, or in our periodic reports filed with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act, for risks that could adversely impact our business and financial performance. Our expectations, beliefs and projections are expressed in good faith and are believed by us to have a reasonable basis, including, without limitation, management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from third parties, but there can be no assurance that management’s expectations, beliefs or projections will result or be achieved or accomplished. Accordingly, these statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict. Any forward-looking statement contained in this prospectus speaks only as of the date on which the statement is made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

 

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Use Of Proceeds

We estimate the net proceeds from the sale of common stock by us in this offering will be approximately $63.6 million (or approximately $63.7 million if the underwriters’ overallotment option is exercised in full), after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses payable by us, assuming a public offering price of $19.19 per share, which was the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on September 3, 2010. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of our common stock by the selling stockholders in this offering.

A $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed public offering price of $19.19 per share would increase or decrease the net proceeds to us from this offering by $3.3 million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement, remains the same and after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses related to this offering payable by us.

We may also increase or decrease the number of shares we are offering. Each increase or decrease of 1,000,000 shares in the number of shares offered by us would increase or decrease the net proceeds to us from this offering by approximately $18.2 million, assuming that the assumed public offering price remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We do not expect that a change in the offering price or the number of shares by these amounts would have a material effect on our uses of the proceeds from this offering.

We intend to use the net proceeds from the offering to pay down the outstanding balance under the revolving portion of our credit facility, which is approximately $26.0 million as of September 3, 2010 and accrues interest at a weighted-average rate of 1.9% per annum, to fund working capital requirements and for general corporate purposes, including potential acquisitions. We currently have no agreements or arrangements with respect to any acquisitions. An affiliate of one of the underwriters serves as a lender under our credit facility and thereby may receive proceeds from this offering that are used for such paydown.

Our management will have broad discretion as to the use and application of the offering proceeds. We have not determined the amounts we plan to spend on any of the areas listed above, other than the paydown of indebtedness, or the timing of these expenditures. As a result, our management will have broad discretion to allocate the net proceeds of an offering by us for any purpose. Pending the uses described above, we intend to invest the net proceeds in short-term, interest-bearing instruments such as U.S. treasury bills and/or certificates of deposit with a domestic commercial bank.

 

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Price Range Of Common Stock

As of September 3, 2010, 34,912,995 shares of our common stock were outstanding, held by approximately 222 shareholders of record.

Our common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the trading symbol “RADS.” The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices of our common stock for the periods indicated as reported by the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

 

 

 

     Common Stock
Price
     High    Low

Year ended December 31, 2010:

     

First Quarter

   $ 14.36    $ 10.31

Second Quarter

   $ 15.73    $ 13.08

Third Quarter through September 3, 2010

   $ 19.32    $ 13.06

Year ended December 31, 2009:

     

First Quarter

   $ 5.50    $ 2.19

Second Quarter

   $ 8.59    $ 4.37

Third Quarter

   $ 11.51    $ 8.14

Fourth Quarter

   $ 11.20    $ 9.00

Year ended December 31, 2008:

     

First Quarter

   $ 17.70    $ 11.83

Second Quarter

   $ 14.60    $ 10.50

Third Quarter

   $ 12.55    $ 8.23

Fourth Quarter

   $ 8.89    $ 2.80

 

 

The last reported sales price for our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on September 3, 2010 was $19.19 per share.

Dividend Policy

We currently anticipate that all of our earnings will be retained for development of our business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Additionally, our credit agreement with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A contains limitations on our ability to declare and pay cash dividends.

 

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Capitalization

The following table shows our cash, cash equivalents and capitalization at June 30, 2010:

 

   

on an actual basis; and

 

   

on an as adjusted basis to reflect our sale of 3,500,000 shares of common stock in this offering, our receipt of the estimated proceeds therefrom after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses payable by us, assuming a public offering price of $19.19 per share, which was the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on September 3, 2010, and our use of a portion of the proceeds to pay down the outstanding balance under the revolving portion of our credit facility, as described under “Use Of Proceeds,” and assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option to purchase additional shares.

 

 

 

     June 30, 2010  
     (in thousands)  
     Actual     As
Adjusted
 

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 17,232      $ 47,477   
                

Short-term obligations:

    

Current portion of long-term debt

   $ 6,000      $ 6,000   

Current portion of capital lease payments

     653        653   

Long-term obligations:

    

Capital lease payments, net of current portion

     323        323   

Long-term debt, net of current portion

     44,933        11,533   

Shareholders’ equity:

    

Preferred Stock, no par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; none issued or outstanding

              

Common Stock, no par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 34,349,765 issued and outstanding on an actual basis and 37,849,765 issued and outstanding on an as adjusted basis (1)

              

Additional paid in capital

     175,347        238,992   

Accumulated deficit

     (722     (722

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

     (9,598     (9,598

Total shareholders’ equity

     165,027        228,672   
                

Total capitalization

   $ 310,549      $ 340,794   
                

 

(1) Excludes, as of September 3, 2010, 4,821,366 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options.

 

 

 

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Selling Stockholders

The following table sets forth certain information regarding the shares beneficially owned by the stockholders who are selling shares of our common stock in this offering. The information is presented as of September 3, 2010, and as adjusted to reflect the sale by them and us of our common stock in this offering.

We have determined beneficial ownership in accordance with the rules of the SEC. Except as indicated in the footnotes to the following table, the selling stockholders have sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares set forth below. The percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 34,912,995 shares of common stock outstanding on September 3, 2010. The percentage of beneficial ownership after the offering and if the overallotment option is exercised in full is based on 3,500,000 shares offered by us, 1,193,848 shares offered by the selling stockholders and an additional 2,062 shares offered by us and 702,015 shares offered by the selling stockholders if the overallotment option is exercised in full.

 

 

 

Name of Selling Stockholder

   Shares Beneficially Owned
Prior to this Offering
   Shares Being
Sold in this
Offering
   Shares Beneficially
Owned After this
Offering
   Shares Being
Sold if
Overallotment
is Exercised in
Full
   Shares Beneficially
Owned After this
Offering if
Overallotment is
Exercised in Full
   Number(1)    Percent       Number    Percent       Number    Percent

Alon Goren

Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer

   4,426,594    12.6    1,000,000    3,426,594    8.9    1,500,000    2,926,594    7.5

John H. Heyman

Chief Executive Officer and Director

   848,070    2.4    128,540    719,530    1.8    220,322    627,748    1.6

Andrew S. Heyman

Chief Operating Officer

   413,511    1.2    35,308    378,203    1.0    63,732    349,779    0.9

Mark E Haidet

Chief Financial Officer

   116,584    0.3    —      116,584    0.3    25,000    91,584    0.2

Carlyle M. Taylor

President – Hardware Division

   240,665    0.7    —      240,655    0.6    56,809    183,856    0.6

James S. Balloun

Director

   135,753    0.4    5,000    130,753    0.3    30,000    105,753    0.3

 

(1) Includes shares subject to outstanding options (presently exercisable or exercisable within the next 60 days) as follows: Alon Goren – 124,163; John H. Heyman – 641,577; Andrew S. Heyman – 378,848; Mark E. Haidet – 57,696; Carlyle M. Taylor – 166,955; James S. Balloun – 89,436.

 

 

 

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Underwriting

Under the terms and subject to the conditions contained in an underwriting agreement dated September   , 2010, by and among the company, the selling stockholders and the underwriters named below, for whom Jefferies & Company, Inc. is acting as the representative, the underwriters have agreed to purchase, and we and the selling stockholders have agreed to sell to them, the number of shares of common stock indicated below, of which 3,500,000 shares will be sold by us and 1,193,848 shares will be sold by the selling stockholders:

 

 

 

Name

   Number of
Shares

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

  

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

  

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

  

Needham & Company, LLC

  

Wedbush Securities Inc.

  

Northland Capital Markets

  

Total

   4,693,848

 

 

The underwriters are offering the common stock subject to their acceptance of the shares from us and the selling stockholders and subject to prior sale. The underwriting agreement provides that the obligations of the underwriters to pay for and accept delivery of the common stock offered by this prospectus supplement are subject to the approval of certain legal matters by their counsel and to certain other conditions. The underwriting agreement provides that the underwriters are obligated to take and pay for all of the common stock if any such shares are purchased, other than those shares covered by the overallotment option described below. Northland Capital Markets is the trade name for certain capital markets and investment banking services of Northland Securities Inc., member FINRA/SIPC.

Commissions and Expenses

The underwriters have advised us and the selling stockholders that they propose to offer the shares to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement and to certain dealers at that price less a concession not in excess of $             per share. After the offering, the public offering price and concession to dealers may be reduced by the underwriters. No such reduction shall change the amount of proceeds to be received by us and the selling stockholders as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement. The shares are offered by the underwriters as stated herein, subject to receipt and acceptance by them and subject to their right to reject any order in whole or in part.

The following table shows the public offering price, the underwriting discounts and commissions payable to the underwriters by us and the selling stockholders and the proceeds, before expenses, to us and the selling stockholders.

 

 

 

     Per Share    Total

Public offering price

   $                 $             

Underwriting discounts and commissions paid by us

   $      $  

Proceeds to us (before expenses)

   $      $  

Underwriting discounts and commissions paid by the selling stockholders

   $      $  

Proceeds to the selling stockholders (before expenses)

   $      $  

 

 

We estimate expenses payable by us in connection with the offering of common stock, other than the underwriting discounts and commissions referred to above, will be approximately $300,000.

 

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Option to Purchase Additional Shares

We and certain of the selling stockholders have granted to the underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days from the date of this prospectus supplement, to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,062 additional shares from us and 702,015 shares from certain of the selling stockholders at the same price they are paying for the shares shown in the table above. The underwriters may exercise this option at any time and from time to time, in whole or in part, within 30 days after the date of this prospectus supplement. If the underwriters exercise the option in full, the total underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us will be $            , or $             per share, the total underwriting discounts and commissions payable by the selling stockholders will be $            , or $             per share, and the total proceeds to each of us and the selling stockholders, before expenses, will be $             and $            , respectively.

Indemnification

We and the selling stockholders have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. We and the selling stockholders have also agreed to contribute to payments that the underwriters may be required to make in respect of those liabilities.

Lock-up Agreements

Our officers and directors and the selling stockholders have agreed, subject to specified exceptions, not to directly or indirectly sell, offer, contract or grant any option to sell (including without limitation any short sale), pledge, transfer, establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(h) under the Exchange Act or otherwise dispose of any shares of our common stock, options or warrants to acquire shares of our common stock, or securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into shares of our common stock currently or hereafter owned either of record or beneficially (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such person, or publicly announce an intention to do any of the foregoing. We have also agreed, subject to specified exceptions, not to directly or indirectly sell (including, without limitation, any short sale), offer, contract or grant any option to sell, pledge, transfer or establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(h) under the Exchange Act, or otherwise dispose of or transfer, or announce the offering of, or file any registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of, any shares of our common stock, options, rights or warrants to acquire shares of our common stock, or securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into shares of common stock, or publicly announce the intention to do any of the foregoing.

These restrictions terminate as to us, our officers, our directors and the selling stockholders after the close of trading of the shares on and including the 90th day after the date of this prospectus supplement. Jefferies & Company, Inc. may, in its sole discretion and at any time or from time to time before the termination of the 90-day period, without notice, release all or any portion of the securities subject to lock-up agreements. However, subject to specified exceptions, if (i) during the last 17 days of the 90-day period, the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs or (ii) prior to the expiration of the 90-day period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 90-day period, then in each case the 90-day period will be extended until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event, as applicable, unless Jefferies & Company, Inc. waives, in writing, such extension.

Electronic Distribution

This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus in electronic format may be made available on websites or through other online services maintained by the underwriters of the offering, or by their affiliates. Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on the underwriters’ websites and any information contained in any other website maintained by the underwriters is not part of the prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus supplement forms a part, has not been approved and/or endorsed by us, the selling stockholders or the underwriters in their capacity as underwriters and should not be relied upon by investors.

 

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Price Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids

Until the distribution of the shares of common stock is completed, SEC rules may limit the underwriters from bidding for and purchasing shares of our common stock.

In connection with this offering, the underwriters may engage in transactions that stabilize, maintain or make short sales of our common stock and may purchase our common stock on the open market to cover positions created by short sales.

Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than they are required to purchase in this offering. The underwriters may close out any short position by purchasing shares in the open market or by exercising their overallotment option.

A short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the shares in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in this offering. A “stabilizing bid” is a bid for or the purchase of common stock on behalf of the underwriters in the open market prior to the completion of this offering for the purpose of fixing or maintaining the price of the shares of common stock. A “syndicate covering transaction” is the bid for or purchase of common stock on behalf of the underwriters to reduce a short position incurred by the underwriters in connection with the offering.

Similar to other purchase transactions, the underwriters’ purchases to cover the syndicate short sales may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market price of our shares or preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of our shares. As a result, the price of our shares may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market.

In connection with this offering, the underwriters may also engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market in accordance with Rule 103 of Regulation M during a period before the commencement of offers or sales of shares of our common stock in this offering and extending through the completion of distribution. A passive market maker must display its bid at a price not in excess of the highest independent bid of that security. However, if all independent bids are lowered below the passive market maker’s bid, that bid must then be lowered when specified purchase limits are exceeded.

Neither we, the selling stockholders or the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. In addition, neither we, the selling stockholders or the underwriters make any representation that the underwriters will engage in these transactions or that any transaction, if commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.

Affiliations

An affiliate of one of the underwriters serve as a lender under our credit facility and may receive part of the proceeds of the offering by reason of the repayment of certain amounts outstanding under our credit facility.

In the future, the underwriters and their affiliates may provide various investment banking, commercial banking, financial advisory and other services to us and our affiliates for which services they have received, and may in the future receive, customary fees. In the course of their businesses, the underwriters and their affiliates may actively trade our securities or loans for their own accounts or for the accounts of customers, and, accordingly, the underwriters and their affiliates may at any time hold long or short positions in such securities or loans.

 

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Notice To Investors

European Economic Area

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (as defined below) (each, a Relevant Member State), with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State, or the Relevant Implementation Date, an offer of our common stock to the public may not be made in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to our common stock which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that an offer to the public in that Relevant Member State of any shares of our common stock may be made at any time under the following exemptions under the Prospectus Directive if they have been implemented in the Relevant Member State:

 

  (a) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;

 

  (b) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than €43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts;

 

  (c) to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons per Relevant Member State (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive); or

 

  (d) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive,

provided that no such offer of our common stock shall result in a requirement for the publication by us or any underwriter of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of our common stock to the public” in relation to any shares of our common stock in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and our common stock to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe our common stock, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

United Kingdom

Shares of our common stock may not be offered or sold and will not be offered or sold to any persons in the United Kingdom other than to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or as agent) for the purposes of their businesses or otherwise in circumstances which have not resulted or will not result in an offer to the public in the United Kingdom within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, or the FSMA.

In addition, any invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the FSMA) in connection with the issue or sale of shares of our common stock may only be communicated or caused to be communicated in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to us. Without limitation to the other restrictions referred to herein, this prospectus supplement is directed only at (1) persons outside the United Kingdom or (2) persons who:

 

  (a) are qualified investors as defined in section 86(7) of FSMA, being persons falling within the meaning of article 2.1(e)(i), (ii) or (iii) of the Prospectus Directive; and

 

  (b) are either persons who fall within article 19(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended, or Order, or are persons who fall within article 49(2)(a) to (d) (“high net worth companies, unincorporated associations, etc.”) of the Order; or

 

  (c) to whom it may otherwise lawfully be communicated in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply.

 

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Without limitation to the other restrictions referred to herein, any investment or investment activity to which this offering circular relates is available only to, and will be engaged in only with, such persons, and persons within the United Kingdom who receive this communication (other than persons who fall within (2) above) should not rely or act upon this communication.

Germany

Any offer or solicitation of securities within Germany must be in full compliance with the German Securities Prospectus Act (Wertpapierprospektgesetz – WpPG). The offer and solicitation of securities to the public in Germany requires the publication of a prospectus that has to be filed with and approved by the German Federal Financial Services Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht — BaFin). This prospectus supplement has not been and will not be submitted for filing and approval to the BaFin and, consequently, will not be published. Therefore, this prospectus supplement does not constitute a public offer under the German Securities Prospectus Act (Wertpapierprospektgesetz). This prospectus supplement and any other document relating to our common stock, as well as any information contained therein, must therefore not be supplied to the public in Germany or used in connection with any offer for subscription of our common stock to the public in Germany, any public marketing of our common stock or any public solicitation for offers to subscribe for or otherwise acquire our common stock. This prospectus supplement and other offering materials relating to the offer of our common stock are strictly confidential and may not be distributed to any person or entity other than the designated recipients hereof.

France

This prospectus has not been prepared in the context of a public offering of financial securities in France within the meaning of Article L.411-1 of the French Code Monétaire et Financier and Title I of Book II of the Règlement Général of the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) and therefore has not been and will not be filed with the AMF for prior approval or submitted for clearance to the AMF. Consequently, the shares of our common stock may not be, directly or indirectly, offered or sold to the public in France and offers and sales of the shares of our common stock may only be made in France to qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés) acting for their own, as defined in and in accordance with Articles L.411-2 and D.411-1 to D.411-4, D.734-1, D.744-1, D.754-1 and D.764-1 of the French Code Monétaire et Financier. Neither this prospectus nor any other offering material may be released, issued or distributed to the public in France or used in connection with any offer for subscription on sale of the shares of our common stock to the public in France. The subsequent direct or indirect retransfer of the shares of our common stock to the public in France may only be made in compliance with Articles L.411-1, L.411-2, L.412-1 and L.621-8 through L.621-8-3 of the French Code Monétaire et Financier.

Sweden

This is not a prospectus under, and has not been prepared in accordance with the prospectus requirements provided for in, the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act [lagen (1991:980) om handel med finasiella instrument] nor any other Swedish enactment. Neither the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority nor any other Swedish public body has examined, approved, or registered this document.

 

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Legal Matters

The validity of the securities being offered by this prospectus supplement has been passed upon for us by Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. Certain legal matters in connection with this offering are being passed upon for the underwriters by Cooley LLP.

Experts

The consolidated financial statements, financial statement schedule and the effectiveness of Radiant Systems Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report incorporated in this prospectus supplement by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 (as updated and superseded by the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 25, 2010) (which reports (1) express an unqualified opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedule and includes an explanatory paragraph referring to the change in the composition of reportable segments and (2) express an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting). Such financial statements and financial statement schedule have been so incorporated in reliance upon the reports of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

Where You Can Find More Information

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-3, of which this prospectus supplement is a part. This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus do not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and exhibits and schedules to the registration statement. For further information with respect to us and the securities registered hereby, reference is made to the registration statement, including the exhibits and schedules to the registration statement. Statements contained in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus as to the contents of any contract or other document referred to in, or incorporated by reference in, this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are not necessarily complete and, where that contract or other document is an exhibit to the registration statement, each statement is qualified in all respects by the exhibit to which the reference relates.

We file annual, quarterly, special reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. These documents contain specific information regarding us. These documents, including exhibits and schedules thereto, may be inspected without charge at the SEC’s principal office in Washington, D.C., and copies of all or any part thereof may be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the SEC, 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Section may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains a website which provides online access to reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC at the address http://www.sec.gov.

We make our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and all amendments to these reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act available (free of charge) on or through our Internet website located at http://www.radiantsystems.com. We maintain a website with the address www.radiantsystems.com. We are not including the information contained on our website as part of, or incorporating it by reference into, this prospectus supplement.

Our common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “RADS.” Our reports, proxy statements, and other information are also available at the following NASDAQ address: NASDAQ Operations, 1735 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.

 

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Information Incorporated By Reference

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” the information we file with them, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. These documents contain important information about us and our financial condition. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus supplement.

Information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference the documents listed below, except for information furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K which is neither deemed filed nor incorporated by reference herein:

 

   

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009;

 

   

Our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2010 and June 30, 2010;

 

   

Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on October 30, 2009, February 23, 2010, March 31, 2010, May 7, 2010, June 1, 2010, June 25, 2010, August 6, 2010 and September 7, 2010;

 

   

The information identified as incorporated by reference under Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Part III of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 from our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders filed April 16, 2010; and

 

   

The description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on Form 8-A, as filed with the SEC on January 27, 1997; and

 

   

Any future filings we make under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, including any filings after the date of this prospectus supplement until we terminate this offering.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein may be modified or superseded in the future. Any such statement so modified will not be deemed to constitute a part of this prospectus supplement except as so modified and any statement so superseded will not be deemed to constitute a part of this prospectus supplement.

We will provide to you without charge, upon receipt of your written or oral request, a copy of any or all of the documents that are incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement, other than exhibits that are not specifically incorporated by reference in such documents. You should direct written or telephone requests to Investor Relations Department, Radiant Systems, Inc., 3925 Brookside Parkway, Alpharetta, Georgia 30022, telephone (770) 576-6000.

You should rely only upon the information provided in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. You should not assume that the information in this prospectus supplement is accurate as of any date other than the date of this prospectus supplement.

 

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RADIANT SYSTEMS, INC.

$135,000,000

of

Common Stock

Preferred Stock

Warrants to Purchase Common Stock

Warrants to Purchase Preferred Stock

Units

$15,000,000

of

Common Stock

Offered by Selling Securityholders

 

 

We may from time to time offer an indeterminate number of shares of common stock, shares of preferred stock, warrants to purchase shares of common stock or preferred stock, and units consisting of any combination of the foregoing securities. This prospectus provides a general description of the securities we may offer. In addition, certain selling securityholders to be identified in a prospectus supplement may offer and sell these securities from time to time, in amounts, at prices and on terms that will be determined at the time the securities are offered. We will describe in a prospectus supplement the securities we are offering and selling, as well as the specifications of the securities. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement, as well as the documents incorporated by reference or deemed incorporated by reference into this prospectus, carefully before you invest in any securities. This prospectus may not be used to complete sales of securities offered by this prospectus unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement.

We may offer these securities in amounts, at prices and on terms determined at the time of offering. We may sell the securities directly to you, through agents, or through underwriters or dealers. If we use agents, underwriters or dealers to sell the securities, we will name and describe their compensation in a prospectus supplement. For additional information on the methods of sale, you should refer to the section entitled “Plan of Distribution.”

Our common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol “RADS.” On November 3, 2009, the last reported sale price for our common stock on the NASDAQ Stock Market was $10.47. We will apply to list any shares of common stock sold under this prospectus and any prospectus supplement on the NASDAQ Stock Market. There is no market for any of the securities we may offer other than our common stock.

 

 

Investing in these securities involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 13 of this prospectus and in any accompanying prospectus supplement for a discussion of factors that you should consider before purchasing these securities.

 

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

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THE COMPANY

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RISK FACTORS

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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USE OF PROCEEDS

   23

RATIO OF EARNINGS TO COMBINED FIXED CHARGES

   24

DESCRIPTION OF OUR CAPITAL STOCK

   24

DESCRIPTION OF THE WARRANTS

   26

DESCRIPTION OF THE UNITS

   28

SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS

   28

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

   30

LEGAL MATTERS

   33

EXPERTS

   34

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

   34

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

   34

You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement. We have not authorized anyone else to provide you with different information. We are offering these securities only in states where the offer is permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time we deliver this prospectus or issue any of the securities this prospectus covers.

 

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) utilizing a “shelf” registration process. Under this shelf registration process, we or a selling securityholder may from time to time sell any combination of the securities that we describe in this prospectus in one or more offerings up to a total dollar amount of $150,000,000.

This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer. It does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement as permitted by the rules and regulations of the SEC. Each time we sell additional securities under this shelf registration, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering. For additional information regarding us and the offered securities, please refer to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. You should read both this prospectus and any prospectus supplement, together with the additional information described under the headings “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.”

We have not authorized any dealer, salesman or other person to give any information or to make any representation other than those contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and any accompanying supplement to this prospectus. You must not rely on any information or representation not contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any accompanying prospectus supplement. This prospectus and any accompanying supplement to this prospectus do not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities other than the registered securities to which they relate, nor does this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in any jurisdiction to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer to or solicitation in such jurisdiction. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. However, any fundamental changes to the terms of the offerings will be set forth in a post-effective amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

In this prospectus, the term “Radiant,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer to Radiant Systems, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, unless we state otherwise or the context indicates otherwise.

THE COMPANY

General

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we are a leading provider of innovative technology focused on the development, installation and delivery of solutions for managing site operations in the hospitality and retail industries. Our principal executive office is located at 3925 Brookside Parkway, Alpharetta, Georgia 30022 and our telephone number is (770) 576-6000.

We focus on delivering site systems, including point-of-sale, or POS, self-service kiosks, mobile ordering and payment devices, back-office systems, site management technology and business services such as customer loyalty programs, electronic gift card management, comprehensive reporting systems management, payment processing and centralized data management designed specifically for our two reportable segments: (i) Hospitality and (ii) Retail. For selected financial information about our business segments, see Note 14 to the consolidated financial statements contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008. Our offerings include software products, site hardware, professional services and support services. Each product can be purchased independently or as a suite of integrated products to address the customer’s specific business needs. We believe these products and services enable our customers to drive top-line growth and improve bottom-line performance.

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costs. Our solutions provide visibility and control at the site, field and headquarters levels. Additionally, we focus on addressing the unique requirements of the highly specialized environments in which our customers operate. These environments require a high degree of reliability, specialized functionality and peripheral compatibility. Using our point-of-sale, customer self-service, back-office technology and business services, we believe our customers are able to improve customer service and loyalty, improve speed of service, increase revenue per transaction, and reduce fraud and shrink. Our full line of open, standards-based hardware allows operators to deploy advanced technology built specifically for the environment in which they operate.

We believe our current generation of point-of-sale, customer self-service and hand-held ordering and payment devices, which utilize Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows XP Embedded and Windows CE operating systems, represents an innovative platform based on an open, modular software and hardware architecture that offers increased functionality and stability compared to other systems in the marketplace.

In January 2006, we extended our reach into the specialty retail industry by acquiring substantially all of the assets of Synchronics, Inc., a leading provider of business management and point-of-sale software for the specialty retail market. Synchronics had an experienced team which had developed a set of products that are distributed through a national network of dealers. Through the combination of our product lines and Synchronics product lines and services, we believe we bring tightly integrated, high value product and service offerings to the marketplace. The results of these operations are reported under our Retail segment.

In January 2008, we acquired Quest Retail Technology Pty Ltd., a global provider of point-of-sale and back office solutions to stadiums, arenas, convention centers, race courses, theme parks, restaurants, bars and clubs. The acquisition of Quest enables us to strengthen our presence in the stadium, park and arena marketplace, while expanding our installed terminal base both domestically and internationally. The results of these operations are reported under our Hospitality segment.

In April 2008, we acquired Hospitality EPoS Systems Ltd., a leading technology supplier to the U.K. hospitality market. Hospitality EPoS provided substantial capabilities for sales, implementation and support services and represented our suite of hospitality products including Aloha point-of-sale software, above-store reporting, gift card and loyalty programs, MenuLink back office and our hardware. The results of these operations are reported under our Hospitality segment.

In May 2008, we acquired substantially all of the assets of Jadeon, Inc., one of our resellers in California. Jadeon has been delivering and supporting our hospitality point-of-sale solutions since 2001. Jadeon offers a full range of technology systems and implementation and support services throughout the West coast. The results of these operations are reported under our Hospitality segment.

In July 2008, we acquired Orderman GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of wireless handheld ordering and payment devices for the hospitality industry. Orderman has provided innovative mobile solutions since 1994, and distributes its solutions through a reseller network of partners that have deployed their handheld devices predominately in Europe. The acquisition enables us to accelerate the adoption of mobile devices in the global hospitality sector. The results of these operations are reported under our Hospitality segment.

To the extent that we believe acquisitions, joint ventures and business partnerships can better position us to serve our current segments, we will continue to pursue such opportunities in the future.

Hospitality

We provide integrated technology solutions which meet the needs of a wide variety of hospitality businesses throughout the world. The industry segments in which these solutions are highly competitive include quick service restaurants, fast casual restaurants, table service restaurants, stadiums, arenas and certain entertainment venues. Our hospitality solutions are comprehensive, including store systems, corporate systems and supporting

 

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services. The store systems offering is comprised of innovative hardware, advanced point-of-sale software and related modules for automating store operations. These modules include applications for processing payments, serving takeout and delivery customers, improving kitchen production, enhancing guest management and enabling self-service kiosks and handheld ordering and payment devices. Our hospitality solutions for corporate systems include world-class data center hosting capabilities and software platforms. These provide enterprise-wide reporting and alerting, management of labor and inventory costs, loss prevention, store systems management, stored value and loyalty applications. When combined, the store systems and corporate systems provide integrated functionality. The resulting capabilities allow operators of all sizes around the world to achieve what we believe to be superior operational performance, while delivering exceptional consumer experiences. In addition to being tightly integrated, the components of our hospitality solution are also modular and open, allowing operators to purchase components in stages, incorporating them into existing systems. This maximizes both customer choice and our opportunities to engage new customers. We believe this approach allows us to win the business of more customers and increase our share of their technology spending over time.

Support services for the solution include custom software development, consulting, help desk support and field services. Some combination of these services is utilized by virtually every one of our customers in the hospitality industry, assisting in the development of long-term relationships with highly satisfied customers. We sell our hospitality solution directly to large multi-unit operations with sophisticated requirements for corporate support. Smaller operators are served by our global network of resellers – valuable business partners who best understand and serve the needs of local entrepreneurs.

Food service operators of all sizes throughout the world face a highly competitive and challenging environment in which consumers demand convenience and great service while having an increasing number of dining options at their disposal. To meet these challenges, they require new technology that enables them to improve their operations while reducing the total cost of ownership for their technology solution. We believe our hospitality technology fills precisely this need, providing the hospitality industry the most compelling and competitive solution offering to date.

Our back-office solutions are known as some of the industry’s easiest systems for customers to use. The combination of our back-office applications and the Aloha suite of products, including Aloha Quick Service POS and Aloha Table Service POS, Aloha Insight, Aloha Stored Value and Aloha Loyalty, create an end-to-end solution designed to help operators minimize operational costs and maximize profits. We have enhanced our back-office offerings in recent years through the products obtained in the acquisitions of MenuLink and Quest.

We believe that the international hospitality market represents a continued growth opportunity in future years. To service this market, we have expanded our European presence through adding resellers and direct customers. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, approximately 13%, 10%, 6% and 6%, respectively, of our Hospitality segment revenues were from international customers.

We believe we have a proven track record of delivering enhanced value for cinema operators, including offerings such as expanded concessions and foodservice, self-service ticketing and concessions, film management and gift card programs. With over 36,000 cinema screens at more than 6,100 sites in the United States, cinema operators are focused on implementing cost controls from headquarters. We believe that cinema operators can improve customer service and profitability by implementing integrated site and film management systems that enable them to speed customer transactions, reduce lines, manage inventory, and schedule labor to meet variations in traffic. Due to the lack of end user market growth and our high penetration in this market, we do not expect growth to occur in the cinema operator market over the near term, but believe this market has synergies with the stadium, park and arena marketplace.

Customers who have licensed or purchased our Hospitality products and services include Back Yard Burgers, Benihana, Bruegger’s Enterprises, Burger King Corporation, Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, California Pizza

 

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Kitchen, CEC Entertainment, Checker’s Drive-In Restaurants, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Choice Hotels International, Church’s Chicken, Clearview Cinemas, Clubcorp Financial Management Company, Coors Field (home of the Colorado Rockies), Cosi, Cowboys Stadium, Del Taco, Denny’s, Diedrich Coffee, Dolphins Stadium, Don Pablo’s, Dunkin’ Brands, Fatburger Corporation, FedEx Field (home of the Washington Redskins), Focus Brands, Harkins Theatres, Hillstone Restaurant Group, Huddle House, Invesco Field (home of the Denver Broncos), Jamba Juice Company, Jason’s Deli, Joe’s Crab Shack Holdings, Johnny Rockets International, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, Landry’s Restaurants, Larry H Miller Megaplex Theatres, Live Nation, Morton’s of Chicago, New World Restaurant Group, Noodles & Company, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Reading International, Red Robin International, Rock Bottom Restaurants, Sbarro, Showcase Cinemas, Sizzler USA Restaurants, Staples Center (home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers), Ted’s Montana Grill, Texas Roadhouse, The Krystal Company, The Marcus Corporation, United Center (home of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks), Which Wich, Wrigley Field (home of the Chicago Cubs), Yankee Stadium and Yoshinoya America.

Retail Segment

Our Retail segment provides store and office-oriented technologies for the automation of retail businesses spanning from small stores to global chains. Solutions provided include software, hardware and services, either as complete turn-key solutions or as point-solutions in a best-of-breed configuration. Our retail solutions encompass point-of-sale systems, integrated back-office systems, fuel controllers, self-service kiosks, site management technology, payment processing, systems management, and centralized data management.

In January 2006, we acquired substantially all of the assets of Synchronics, Inc., including the CounterPoint product line. Our resellers deliver our hardware platforms in conjunction with the CounterPoint software, which has been adapted to over 20 different retail concepts ranging from home and garden warehouses to shoe stores. In addition to a full solution for the traditional management of retail sites, CounterPoint also includes a substantial recurring revenue business based on service fees for credit card processing as well as internet retailing. CPGateway provides retailers with advanced high-speed credit processing while CPOnline enables a retailer to quickly augment brick-and-mortar sales with online operations.

Our technology for petroleum and convenience retailers is built to enable fuel operations, merchandise sales, foodservice, electronic payments and customer loyalty programs. Our solutions are designed to enhance speed of service in an easy-to-use, reliable format. Specialized software and hardware offerings such as payment terminals and fuel controllers differentiate our product line in the petroleum retail market. Self-service is an area of great interest for our customers, ranging from touch-screen food ordering stations in the United States, to highly secured credit card payment terminals for self-service fueling worldwide. We believe our fourth generation fuel control technology is helping retailers extend the viable life of their fuel dispensing equipment while delivering high performance for their customers. Our software uses industry standards to interface with leading third party back-office and headquarters solutions.

In response to gross margin pressure on traditional categories, including fuel and tobacco, and enhanced competition for the convenience dollar from non-traditional sources, convenience retailers are changing business models and pursuing new revenue channels, including made-to-order food, specialty coffee programs and expanded services offerings. These changes have resulted in new growth opportunities for us as implementation of these programs requires additional automation for effective management.

High-volume retailers such as grocery stores, mass-merchants, warehouse clubs and others are also adding fuel and made-to-order food to their offerings and represent additional growth opportunities for us. As a result of the changes in the retail market, we believe that there will continue to be demand for the foreseeable future for our technology solutions. We also believe that, based on the success of technology in recent years and the positive return on investment seen by our customers, demand for new technology will continue from both new and existing customers.

 

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We believe that the international retail market represents an additional growth opportunity. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007, and 2006, approximately 20%, 25%, 25% and 33%, respectively, of our Retail segment revenues were derived from international customers.

Our Retail segment serves over 6,600 customers worldwide. Customers who have licensed or purchased our Retail products and services include 7-Eleven Australia, Alimentation Couche-Tard, Archiver’s, Batteries Plus, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Family Express, Harbor Freight Tools USA, Hess Corporation, High’s of Baltimore, Holiday Stationstores, Kroger Corporation, Mahoney’s Garden Center, Maverik Country Stores, Relax the Back Corporation, Repsol, Royal Dutch Shell, Rutter’s Farm Stores, Sheetz, Shell Canada, Speedway SuperAmerica, The Athlete’s Foot, The Field Museum and Wawa.

Products and Services

We serve the global retail and hospitality industries with technology solutions that address their greatest automation needs. Managing businesses that range from a single store or restaurant, all the way to expansive global chains and the world’s largest sports stadiums, we provide software, hardware and services through a variety of channels and products. The strategy is to provide targeted solutions for each market, with the common goal of assisting our customers’ efforts to increase revenue through more frequent consumer visits, greater revenues per visit, higher margins on each sale, faster transactions and more efficient site operations.

Point-of-Sale

We believe our point-of-sale systems increase speed and quality of service, minimize user training, and provide mission-critical reliability while delivering secure and personalized service to the consumer. The point-of-sale systems can be integrated with our back-office products or third party solutions. Our point-of-sale software runs on multiple open hardware platforms including IBM, NCR, PAR, WincorNixdorf, and our hardware. Additionally, our point-of-sale hardware supports our point-of-sale software and third-party point-of-sale software products that adhere to open standards. Our point-of-sale terminals offer an open architecture, retail-hardened design, comprehensive support and return-to-service programs, and run on Windows CE, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows POS Ready. Quest Back Office is based on Microsoft SQL and operates on Windows Server products. However, the Quest POS terminals do not rely on commercial operating systems. This secure environment creates a simple, effective POS platform while reducing management and maintenance costs.

In the retail market, our point-of-sale solution has been adapted by resale partners for use in a wide variety of business formats, enabling a tighter fit to each retailer’s specific needs while expanding the possible market of buyers for our solution. In addition, this segment delivers value to retailers through an online store offering as well as a card payment processing service. Specifically for petroleum retail, our point-of-sale products are adapted to the needs of global multi-nationals, enabling them to deploy best practices in their worldwide operations.

We believe the hospitality market point-of-sale solutions for table service restaurants, quick service restaurants, stadiums, arenas, and cinema/entertainment venues each offer distinct value to our customers and resale partners. Speed and accuracy of orders are paramount in restaurant formats, as are labor and food production integration. Consumer preferences are driving automation for a broad range of service models, from drive-thru to curb-side pickup, counter service, and more. Consumer loyalty and gift cards are just two of the significant enhancements offered to our customers in recent years. In addition to foodservice requirements, the cinema segment has specialized needs related to theater systems, from management of internet ticket sales to reserved seating.

 

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Customer Self-Service

Within many markets of the hospitality and retail industries, customer self-service has emerged as a preferred ordering and transaction method. Traditional capabilities such as online shopping and pay-at-pump are distinct value propositions delivered by our products. We have easy to use, consumer-activated touch screen systems that allow consumers to purchase tickets, place a food order, pay with a credit or debit card, redeem loyalty rewards, make product inquiries, and view promotions. Software development and consumer experience authoring tools integrate graphic media into a consumer-friendly application.

We believe consumer self-service kiosks allow hospitality and retail operators to accelerate speed of service, increase revenues through suggestive up-selling, increase order accuracy, capture consumer information at the point-of-sale, increase labor productivity, and respond quickly to changing consumer preferences. We believe our customer self-service products help operators create a uniform and repeatable approach to customer service while improving revenue.

Site-Management Systems

Operators in both of our segments have varying requirements for site-management systems, from the most basic site-based technology to the most advanced centralized back-office system. Our products are differentiated based on the needs of the different operating models of our customers and integrated into other components of the enterprise operation.

We believe that MenuLink and Quest Enterprise Manager back office solutions help operators run a more profitable hospitality business through the delivery of tools and critical information needed to help reduce food and labor costs, and improve customer service and management efficiency. Our enterprise site-management products offer comprehensive back office functionality that includes inventory and recipe management, purchasing, labor management, cash management and reporting.

In the retail segment, products such as Radiant Site Manager and CounterPoint SQL focus on specific retailer needs such as multi-site inventory management or fuel reconciliation, while leveraging open standards for integration to other components of the retailer enterprise.

Software Services

The delivery of software as a subscribed service with a recurring fee has become a significant enhancement to our value proposition and business flexibility in support of our customers. One instance is our Hosted Solutions product suite, which is designed to give restaurant operators tools to capitalize on revenue opportunities and prevent unnecessary costs or losses. Hosted Solutions is comprised of the following products and services: Radiant Payment Services, Aloha Insight, Aloha Restaurant Guard, Aloha Command Center, Aloha Stored Value, Aloha Loyalty and Aloha Online Ordering.

We also offer our software through an application service provider, or ASP, model. The ASP model allows customers to use our software without requiring them to use their own hardware system capacity or maintain the software application on their own servers. This offering is available on a monthly fee basis.

The following are brief descriptions of existing Hosted Solutions products and services:

We expanded our business services in 2008 with the launch of Radiant Payment Services, or RPS, a business aimed at selling and servicing electronic payment processing. RPS enhances our current solutions by providing an integrated, turnkey payment processing solution for a wide variety of payment methods including credit, debit and gift card payments. The objective of RPS is to raise the level of customer service that is provided to business owners and operators by providing competitive and transparent pricing, increased accountability from a single vendor and the highest level of security for customer data and credit card transactions.

 

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Electronic payment services are also successful service-based software delivery offerings. The Retail segment of our markets typically utilizes a high-speed credit card processing service, while our Hospitality segment has a large base of customers for our proprietary gift card branding program, Aloha Stored Value. The integrated card-based loyalty solution, Aloha Loyalty, is also offered to customers in the Hospitality segment on a recurring fee basis.

Aloha Insight is an intelligent above-store application that offers multi-unit consolidated reporting for restaurants, including business alerts, drill-down capabilities, as well as accounting and payroll interfaces. It specifically increases visibility and control of a restaurant’s operations from anywhere at any time.

Building upon the intelligence of Aloha Insight, Aloha Restaurant Guard was created in 2009 as a one-of-a-kind application designed to deter employee theft. The product imports and analyzes a restaurant’s transaction data on a daily basis and identifies potential theft by finding known scam patterns and statistical variances. We believe Aloha Restaurant Guard greatly improves upon a restaurant’s operational intelligence and security.

Aloha Command Center is considered the backbone for many new Radiant products, as it provides real-time connection to all stores for support and deployment services. This powerful tool provides proactive alerts to solve many operational issues faster. It also allows businesses to deploy new software versions rapidly and automatically.

Aloha Online Ordering is a new integrated web ordering application for restaurants. Consumers can place restaurant orders remotely in real-time, ensuring convenience and security and ultimately improving guest satisfaction.

In the Retail segment, the CPOnline product enables a retailer to move from bricks-and-mortar to being a full-featured online retailer through a simple managed service.

Professional Services

Professional services are an essential component of our solution; our service offerings include consulting, customization, training, installation and integration. Our professional services play a critical role in the successful design, implementation, application, installation and integration of our solutions.

The market for our professional services is intensely competitive. We believe that we excel in the principal competitive factors including product quality, reliability, performance, price, vendor and product reputation, financial stability, features and functions, ease of use, quality of support, and degree of integration effort as compared with competitor systems.

Maintenance and Customer Support

We offer customer support on a 24-hour basis, a service that historically has been purchased by a majority of our customers and which also entitles the customer to product upgrades. We can remotely access customers’ systems in order to perform quick diagnostics and provide on-line assistance. Additionally, we offer customers hardware and software maintenance and unspecified software enhancements. In some cases, hardware support is provided by third parties. We focus on providing quality service and ensuring a first-time fix for any technical issue with our hardware. Our hardware maintenance program also provides flexible solutions and can be customized to meet specific customer needs. Our software maintenance program offers modifications and enhancements to our software products, including updates and corrections. We have historically had a high rate of renewal on these maintenance and support contracts.

 

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Sales and Marketing

Through a focused and dedicated sales effort designed to address the requirements of both business segments, we believe our sales force is positioned to understand our customers’ businesses, trends in the marketplace, competitive products and opportunities for new product development. This allows us to take a consultative approach to working with customers.

Our sales personnel focus on selling our technology solutions to major customers, typically those with more than 50 locations or sites with more than 50 POS terminals, both domestically and internationally. All sales personnel are compensated with a base salary and commission based on revenue quotas, gross margins and/or other profitability measures.

Over the last several years, we have seen an increase in the portion of revenues derived from small businesses within both segments. This increase is due to our increased investments in developing relationships with third-party resellers to distribute our products to small to medium-sized operators. We accelerated the development of these relationships through acquisitions in both segments.

While serving and meeting the expectations of large operators remains a top priority, we intend to serve the needs of all operators within our segments. To better serve the small to medium-sized customer, we will continue to develop the reseller channel and package solutions in a manner that is easy for operators to afford, implement and support. Our strategy is to deliver rich products that are easy to implement and support, establish a strong presence within critical franchised brands, and support resellers with strong operational tools.

During the six months ended June 30, 2009 and the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, our international revenues accounted for approximately 15%, 14%, 13% and 17%, respectively, of total revenues. We believe that this percentage can be increased substantially in the coming years. The growing number of large, multi-national companies which are among our major North American customers, together with our successful record of implementing solutions with retailers in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia, position us to make additional progress internationally in the future. Additionally, the majority of our current business outside the United States has been in the retail market. We believe there is opportunity for significant growth in the hospitality and retail markets outside the United States. Currently, we have a total of 230 employees in Europe, Asia and Australia. We have previously executed international projects in Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom. We currently have offices in Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom and representation in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Asia Pacific (including Australia), Europe and the Middle East.

To date, our primary marketing objectives have been to increase awareness of our technology solutions and generate sales leads. To this end, we attend industry trade shows, conduct direct marketing programs, and selectively advertise in industry publications. We intend to increase our sales and marketing activities both domestically and internationally. Additionally, we intend to continue expanding an independent distribution network to sell and service our products to certain segments of the domestic and international markets.

Our business is usually seasonal and cyclical in nature, based on the capital equipment investment patterns of our customers. These expenditure patterns are based on many factors, including customer capital expenditure budget constraints, the development of new technologies, global and regional economic conditions, changes in the pricing and promotion policies of us and our competitors, and domestic and international holidays.

During the six months ended June 30, 2009 and the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, no one customer made up 10% or more of our revenues. We are party to certain contracts with the U.S. Government, which contain standard termination for convenience clauses. We do not anticipate any material adverse financial impact if the U.S. Government elects to exercise its rights under these termination clauses.

 

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Product Development

The products sold by us are subject to rapid and continual technological change. Products available from us, as well as from our competitors, have increasingly offered a wider range of features and capabilities. We believe that in order to compete effectively in our selected markets, we must provide compatible systems incorporating new technologies at competitive prices. In order to achieve this, we have made a substantial ongoing commitment to research and development. During the six months ended June 30, 2009 and the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, we incurred approximately $12.9 million, $28.9 million, $26.2 million and $25.0 million, respectively, in product development costs, which includes software costs that were capitalizable in nature.

Our product development strategy is focused on creating common technology elements that can be leveraged in applications across our core markets. Our software architecture is based on open platforms and is modular, thereby allowing it to be phased into a customer’s operations. We have developed numerous applications running on Microsoft Windows-based platforms, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows CE. The software architecture incorporates Microsoft’s Component Object Model, providing an efficient environment for application development.

In order to remain competitive, we are currently designing, coding and testing a number of new products and developing expanded functionality of our current products. In addition, we strive to achieve compatibility between our products and products that are, or that we believe will become, popular and widely adopted.

Manufacturing, Raw Materials and Supplies

Our manufacturing activities consist primarily of assembling various commercial and proprietary components into finished systems in Georgia, Austria and Australia. Manufacturing requires some raw materials, including a wide variety of mechanical and electrical components, to be manufactured to our specifications. We use numerous companies to supply parts, components and subassemblies for the manufacture and support of our products. Although we strive to assure that parts are available from multiple qualified suppliers, this is not always possible. Accordingly, some key parts may be obtained only from a single supplier or a limited group of suppliers. We have sought, and will continue to seek, to minimize the risk of production and service interruptions and/or shortages of key parts by: (1) qualifying and selecting alternate suppliers for key parts; (2) monitoring the financial condition of key suppliers; (3) maintaining appropriate inventories of key parts; and (4) qualifying new parts on a timely basis.

Market Background and Trends

Successful hospitality and retail operators increasingly require information systems that capture detailed consumer activity data at the point-of-sale, and store and transport that data in an easy-to-access fashion. Early technology innovators in the hospitality and retail industries deployed robust, integrated information systems at the point-of-sale and used the information to react quickly to changing consumer preferences, ultimately gaining market share in the process. In addition, integrated information systems helped these early innovators achieve operational efficiencies. Many large national hospitality and retail companies have followed suit by investing in proprietary information systems.

For many types of hospitality and retail operators, however, this type of information system does not make economic or business sense. In particular, merchants with a large number of relatively small sites, such as convenience stores, petroleum retail sites, restaurants and entertainment venues, generally have not been able to develop and deploy sophisticated, enterprise-wide information systems on a cost effective basis. Economic and standardization problems for these businesses are exacerbated by the fact that many sites operate as franchises, dealerships or under other decentralized ownership and control structures. Without an investment in technology, these operators continue to depend on labor and paper to process transactions. We believe that high labor costs, lack of centralized management control of distributed sites, and inadequate informational reporting, together with

 

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emerging technology trends, have caused many of these hospitality and retail businesses to reexamine how technology solutions can benefit their operations.

Typically, the existing information systems in these industries consist of stand-alone devices such as cash registers or other point-of-sale systems with little or no integration with either the back-office of the site or an enterprise-wide information system. Implementation of information systems providing this functionality typically involves multiple vendors and an independent systems integration firm. The resulting proprietary solutions are often difficult to support and have inherently high risks associated with implementation. We believe that technology solutions that are highly functional and scalable, and relatively inexpensive and easy to deploy, are critical for successful penetration in these markets.

In the absence of an integrated solution, operators in these markets typically rely on manual reporting to capture data on site activity and disseminate it to different levels of management. Basic information on consumers (i.e., who they are, when they visit and what they buy) is not captured in sufficient detail, at the right time, or in a manner that can be communicated easily to others in the organization. Similarly, information such as price changes does not flow from headquarters to individual sites in a timely manner. In addition, communications with vendors often remain manual, involving paperwork, delays and other process-related problems.

Recent trends in the hospitality and retail industries have accelerated the need for timely information and have heightened demand for feature-rich operational systems. Based in part upon industry association reports and other studies, as well as our experience in marketing our products, we believe consumer preferences have shifted away from brand loyalty toward value and convenience, creating a greater need for timely data concerning consumer buying patterns and preferences. We also believe that convenient consumer-activated ordering and payment systems, such as automated kiosks, ATMs, voice response units and “pay at the pump” systems have become important to retailers, food service providers, and cinema operators that wish to retain and build a customer base. Additionally, through the use of integrated systems, we believe hospitality and retail businesses can improve operational efficiencies through better management of inventory, purchasing, merchandising, pricing, promotions and shrinkage control. We believe that the ability to provide tight system integration to a variety of industry standard back-office solutions can enable customers to improve control and enforce best practices across operational sites. Furthermore, we believe that the constant flow of information among the point-of-sale, back-office, headquarters and supply chain has become a key competitive advantage in the hospitality and retail industries, resulting in operators demanding more sophisticated and easily integrated solutions from their systems vendors. In a parallel development, technological advances have improved the capability of information systems that are available. With the price of computing power declining, technology investments have become economically feasible for many hospitality and retail businesses. Furthermore, computing power has become increasingly flexible and distributable, facilitating data capture and processing by applications located at the point-of-sale. Also, front-end graphical user interfaces have made systems easier to use, which reduces training time and transaction costs and facilitates more types of consumer-activated applications.

The demand drivers for our products and services include new store openings, change in store ownership and the upgrade of existing technology in existing locations. Changes in the economic climate have historically impacted these demand drivers. For instance, the current economic environment has resulted in fewer new store openings and therefore demand has declined in this area. In contrast, a greater emphasis on increasing performance of existing locations through revenue growth and cost management has led to demand for technology replacement and for add-on sales of solutions to existing customers. In addition to the above demand factors, the availability of financing has become an important factor for many potential customers. The tightened credit markets have made it more difficult for certain operators to invest in technology and could result in reduced demand until the credit markets recover.

 

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Competition

The markets in which we operate are intensely competitive. We believe the principal competitive factors include product quality, reliability, performance, price, vendor and product reputation, financial stability, features and functions, ease of use, quality of support and degree of integration effort required with competitor systems.

We believe we are uniquely positioned with our exclusive focus on providing site management systems for hospitality and retail businesses. Further, we believe our ability to commercialize our technology and continually improve our products, processes and services, as well as our ability to develop new products, enable us to meet continually evolving customer requirements. Our competitors include International Business Machines, Corp., NCR Corporation, Casio, Dell, VeriFone, Inc., Dresser, Inc., Retalix, Ltd., Pacer/CATS (owned by Clarity Commerce Solutions plc), Micros Systems, Inc., Par Technology Corporation, POSitouch, Panasonic, The Pinnacle Corporation, Agilysys, RetailPro, JDA Software, Epicore and others that provide point-of-sale and site management systems with varying degrees of functionality.

We could also be faced with new market entrants attempting to develop fully integrated systems targeting the retail industry. We believe the risk of this happening is small due to the significant amount of time and effort required to create point-of-sale and back-office headquarters-based management systems, and due to the detailed knowledge required of a retailer’s operations at local sites and headquarters in order to duplicate the functionality of these products.

In the market for consulting services, we compete with various companies. Many of our existing competitors, as well as a number of potential new competitors, have significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than us.

Proprietary Rights

Our success and ability to compete is dependent in part upon our proprietary technology, including our software source code. To protect our proprietary technology, we rely on a combination of trade secret, nondisclosure, copyright and patent law, which may afford only limited protection. In addition, effective copyright and trade secret protection may be unavailable or limited in certain foreign countries. Although we rely on the limited protection afforded by such intellectual property laws, we also believe that factors such as the technological and creative skills of our personnel, new product developments, frequent product enhancements, name recognition and reliable maintenance are essential to establishing and maintaining a technology leadership position. We presently have five patents and six patents pending. The source code for our various proprietary software products is protected both as a trade secret and as a copyrighted work. We generally enter into confidentiality or license agreements with our employees, consultants and customers, and generally control access to, and distribution of, our documentation and other proprietary information. Although we restrict customers’ use of our software and do not permit the unauthorized resale, sublicense or other transfer of such software, there can be no assurance that unauthorized use of our technology will not occur.

Despite the measures taken by us to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to reverse engineer or copy aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. Policing unauthorized use of our products is difficult. In addition, litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, such as our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of our or others’ proprietary rights, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Certain technology used in conjunction with our products is licensed from third parties, generally on a non-exclusive basis. These licenses usually require us to pay royalties and fulfill confidentiality obligations. We believe that there are alternative sources for each of the material components of technology licensed by us from third parties. However, the termination of any of these licenses, or the failure of the third-party licensors to

 

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adequately maintain or update their products, could result in a delay in our ability to ship certain of our products while we seek to implement technology offered by alternative sources. Any required alternative licenses could prove costly. Also, any such delay, to the extent it becomes extended or occurs at or near the end of a fiscal quarter, could result in a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. While it may be necessary or desirable in the future to obtain other licenses relating to one or more of our products or relating to current or future technologies, there can be no assurance that we will be able to do so on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

There can be no assurance that we will not become the subject of infringement claims or legal proceedings by third parties with respect to our current or future products. Defending against any such claim could be time-consuming, result in costly litigation, cause product shipment delays or force us to enter into royalty or license agreements rather than dispute the merits of such claims. Moreover, an adverse outcome in litigation or similar adversarial proceeding could subject us to significant liabilities to third parties, require the expenditure of significant resources to develop non-infringing technology, require disputed rights to be licensed from others or require us to cease the marketing or use of certain products, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. To the extent we desire or are required to obtain licenses to patents or proprietary rights of others, there can be no assurance that any such licenses will be made available on terms acceptable to us, if at all. As the number of software products in the industry increases and the functionality of these products further overlaps, we believe that software developers may become increasingly subject to infringement claims. Any such claims against us, with or without merit, as well as claims initiated by us against third parties, could be time consuming and expensive to defend, prosecute or resolve.

Employees

As of September 30, 2009, we employed 1,316 people. None of our employees is represented by a collective bargaining agreement nor have we experienced any work stoppages. We consider our relations with our employees to be good.

Our future operating results depend in significant part upon the continued service of our key technical, consulting and senior management personnel and our continuing ability to attract and retain highly qualified technical and managerial personnel. Competition for such personnel is intense, and there can be no assurance that we will retain our key managerial or technical personnel or attract such personnel in the future. We have at times experienced and continue to experience difficulty recruiting qualified personnel, and there can be no assurance that we will not experience such difficulties in the future. We, either directly or through personnel search firms, actively recruit qualified product development, consulting, sales and marketing, and administrative personnel. If we are unable to hire and retain qualified personnel in the future, such inability could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Foreign Operations

For information regarding sales and long-lived assets attributable to domestic and foreign operations, please refer to the information presented in Note 14—Segment Reporting Data in the notes to our consolidated financial statements presented in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.

Environmental Matters

We believe that we are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable environmental laws and presently do not anticipate that such compliance will have a material effect on our future capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position with respect to any of our operations.

 

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RISK FACTORS

You should carefully consider the following risks before making an investment decision. These and other risks could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results or financial condition. You should also refer to the other information contained in any of our filings with the SEC incorporated by reference in this prospectus before making an investment decision. Risk factors applicable to a particular security offered by this prospectus or applicable to a particular offering will be discussed in the applicable prospectus supplement.

In addition to the other information contained in this prospectus, the following risks should be considered carefully in evaluating us and our business.

Risks Related to our Business

Global economic and market conditions could cause decreases in demand for our products and related services.

Our revenue and profitability depend on the overall demand for our products and related services. We are impacted both directly and indirectly by declining global economic conditions. The retail and hospitality industries are cautious of investments in information technology during difficult economic times, which often results in reduced budgets and spending. This impacts us through reduced revenues, elongated selling cycles, delays in product implementation and increased competitive margin pressure. The severe downturn in global economic and market conditions since late 2007 resulted in decreases in demand for certain of our products and related services as the tightening of credit in financial markets adversely affects the ability of our customers to obtain financing for significant purchases and operations. We are unable to predict with certainty the future impact which the most recent global economic conditions will have on the demand for our products and related services.

Volatility and disruption of the capital and credit markets, and adverse changes in the global economy, could have a negative impact on our ability to access the credit markets in the future and/or obtain credit on favorable terms.

The capital and credit markets have become increasingly tight as a result of adverse economic conditions that have caused the failure and near failure of a number of large financial services companies. There can be no assurance that there will not be a further deterioration in the financial markets. If the capital and credit markets continue to experience crises and the availability of funds remains low, it is possible that our ability to access the capital and credit markets may be limited or available on less favorable terms at a time when we would like, or need, to do so, which could have an impact on our ability to refinance maturing debt, pursue acquisitions and/or react to changing economic and business conditions. In addition, if recessionary global economic conditions persist for an extended period of time or worsen substantially, our business may suffer in a manner which could cause us to fail to satisfy the financial and other restrictive covenants to which we are subject under our existing indebtedness.

Fluctuations in currency exchange rates may adversely impact our cash flows and earnings.

Due to our global operations, our cash flow and earnings are exposed to currency exchange rate fluctuations. Exchange rate fluctuations may also affect the cost of goods and services that we purchase. The recent volatility in the global capital and credit markets has increased the frequency and severity of exchange rate fluctuations. Changes from our expectations for currency exchange rates can have a material impact on our financial results. When appropriate, we may attempt to limit our exposure to exchange rate changes by entering into short-term currency exchange contracts. There is no assurance that we will hedge or will be able to hedge such foreign currency exchange risk or that our hedges will be successful.

 

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Our currency exchange gains or losses (net of hedges) may materially and adversely impact our cash flows and earnings. Additionally, adverse movements in currency exchange rates could result in increases in our cost of goods sold or reduction in growth in international orders, materially impacting our cash flows and earnings.

An increase in customer bankruptcies, due to weak economic conditions, could harm our business.

During weak economic times, there is an increased risk that certain of our customers will file bankruptcy. If a customer files bankruptcy, we may be required to forego collection of pre-petition amounts owed and to repay amounts remitted to us during the 90-day preference period preceding the filing. The bankruptcy laws, as well as specific circumstances of each bankruptcy, may limit our ability to collect pre-petition amounts. We also face risk from international customers that file for bankruptcy protection in foreign jurisdictions, in that the application of foreign bankruptcy laws may be more difficult to predict. Although we believe that we have sufficient reserves to cover anticipated customer bankruptcies, we can provide no assurance that such reserves will be adequate, and if they are not adequate, our business, operating results and financial condition would be adversely affected.

Our revenues are significantly concentrated in the hospitality and retail markets and the demand for our products and services in these markets could be disproportionately affected by instability or a downturn in either market.

For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and the fiscal years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, approximately 76%, 75%, 68% and 64%, respectively, of our total revenues were attributable to the hospitality segment and approximately 23%, 24%, 31% and 35%, respectively, were attributable to the retail segment. The hospitality and retail markets are affected by a variety of factors, including global and regional instability, governmental policy and regulation, political instability, natural disasters, environmental and health disasters, consumer buying habits, consolidation in the petroleum industry, war, terrorism and general economic conditions. Adverse developments in either market could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition. In addition, we believe the purchase of our products is relatively discretionary and generally involves a significant commitment of capital, because purchases of our products are often accompanied by large scale hardware purchases. As a result, demand for our products and services could be disproportionately affected by instability or downturns in the hospitality and retail markets which may cause customers to exit the industry or delay, cancel or reduce planned-for information management systems and software products.

We may be required to defer recognition of revenues on our software products, which may have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

We may be required to defer recognition of revenues for a significant period of time after entering into a license agreement for a variety of factors, including the following:

 

   

transactions that include both currently deliverable software products and arrangements that include specified upgrades for which we have not established vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of fair value;

 

   

transactions where the customer demands services that include significant modifications, customizations or complex interfaces that could delay product delivery or acceptance; and

 

   

transactions that involve acceptance criteria that may preclude revenue recognition or if there are identified product-related issues, such as performance issues.

Because of the factors listed above and other specific requirements under generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, for software revenue recognition, we must have very precise terms in our license agreements in order to recognize revenue when we initially deliver software or perform services. Although we have a standard form of license agreement that meets the criteria under GAAP for current revenue recognition on

 

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delivered elements, we negotiate and revise these terms and conditions in some transactions. Negotiation of mutually acceptable terms and conditions can extend the sales cycle, and sometimes result in deferred revenue recognition well after the time of delivery or project completion.

Our revenues and results of operations are difficult to predict and may fluctuate substantially from quarter to quarter, which could adversely affect our business and the market price of our common stock.

Our revenues and results of operations are difficult to predict and may fluctuate substantially from quarter to quarter. These fluctuations can adversely affect our business and the market price of our common stock. License revenues in any quarter depend substantially upon our total contracting activity and our ability to recognize revenues in that quarter in accordance with our revenue recognition policies. Our contracting activity is difficult to forecast for a variety of reasons, including the following:

 

   

our sales cycle is relatively long and varies as a result of us expanding our product line and broadening our software product applications to cover a customer’s overall business;

 

   

the size of license transactions can vary significantly;

 

   

economic downturns are often characterized by decreased product demand, price erosion, technological shifts, work slowdowns and layoffs, which can substantially reduce contracting activity;

 

   

customers may unexpectedly postpone or cancel anticipated system replacements or new system evaluations due to changes in their strategic priorities, project objectives, budgetary constraints or management;

 

   

customer evaluations and purchasing processes vary significantly from company to company, and a customer’s internal approval and expenditure authorization process can be difficult and time consuming, even after selection of a vendor;

 

   

changes in our pricing policies and discount plans may affect customer purchasing patterns;

 

   

the number, timing and significance of our and our competitors’ software product enhancements and new software product announcements may affect purchasing decisions;

 

   

the introduction of new research and development projects requires us to significantly increase our operating expenses to fund greater levels of product development and to develop and commercialize additional products and services;

 

   

certain expenses, including those over which we exercise little or no control, such as health costs, compliance with new legislation, and property and liability insurance, may be difficult to manage; and

 

   

fluctuations in the value of foreign currency exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar or weakening of the U.S. dollar may adversely impact our ability to purchase materials at a competitive price.

In addition, our expense levels, operating costs and hiring plans are based on projections of future revenues and are relatively fixed. If our actual revenues fall below expectations, our net income is likely to be disproportionately adversely affected.

Due to all of the foregoing factors, in some future quarters our operating results may fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors. In such event, the market price of our common stock would likely decrease.

 

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Our gross margins may vary significantly or decline.

Since the gross margins on product revenues are significantly greater than the gross margins on services revenues, our combined gross margin has fluctuated from quarter to quarter and it may continue to fluctuate significantly based on revenue mix.

Our success will depend on our ability to develop new products and to adapt to rapid technological change.

The types of products sold by us are subject to rapid and continual technological change. Products available from us, as well as from our competitors, have increasingly offered a wider range of features and capabilities. We believe that in order to compete effectively in selected vertical markets, we must provide compatible systems incorporating new technologies at competitive prices. To the extent we determine that new software and hardware technologies are required to remain competitive or our customers demand more advanced offerings, the development, acquisition and implementation of these technologies are likely to require significant capital investments by us. To the extent that such expenses precede or are not subsequently followed by increased revenues, our business, operating results and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected.

We can provide no assurance that we will be able to continue funding research and development at levels sufficient to enhance our current product offerings or be able to develop and introduce on a timely basis new products that keep pace with technological developments and emerging industry standards and address the evolving needs of customers. There can also be no assurance that we will not experience difficulties that will result in delaying or preventing the successful development, introduction and marketing of new products in our existing markets or that our new products and product enhancements will adequately meet the requirements of the marketplace or achieve any significant degree of market acceptance. Likewise, there can be no assurance as to the acceptance of our products in new markets, nor can there be any assurance as to the success of our penetration of these markets, or to the revenue levels or profit margins with respect to these products. Our inability, for any reason, to develop and introduce new products and product enhancements in a timely manner in response to changing market conditions or customer requirements could materially adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

In addition, we strive to achieve compatibility between our products and retail systems that we believe are or will become popular and widely adopted. We invest substantial resources in development efforts aimed at achieving such compatibility. Any failure by us to anticipate or respond adequately to technology or market developments could materially adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

We may have difficulty implementing our products, which could damage our reputation and our ability to generate new business.

Implementation of our software products can be a lengthy process, and commitment of resources by our customers is subject to a number of significant risks over which we have little or no control. Delays in the implementations of any of our software products, whether by our business partners or us, may result in customer dissatisfaction, disputes with customers, or damage to our reputation. Significant problems implementing our software can cause delays or prevent us from collecting fees for our software and can damage our ability to generate new business.

Errors or defects in our software products could diminish demand for our products, injure our reputation and reduce our operating results.

Our software products are complex and may contain errors that could be detected at any point in the life of the product. We can provide no assurances that errors will not be found in new products or releases after shipment. Such errors could result in diminished demand for our products, delays in market acceptance and sales, diversion of development resources, injury to our reputation or increased service and warranty costs. If any of these were to occur, our operating results could be adversely affected.

 

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Our failure to manage our growth effectively could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

The growth in the size and complexity of our business and the expansion of our product lines and customer base may place a significant strain on our management and operations. An increase in the demand for our products could strain our resources or result in delivery problems, delayed software releases, slow response time, or insufficient resources for assisting customers with implementation of our products and services, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. We anticipate that continued growth, if any, will require us to recruit, hire and assimilate a substantial number of new employees, including consulting, product development, sales and marketing, and administrative personnel.

Our ability to compete effectively and to manage future growth, if any, will also depend on our ability to continue to implement and improve operational, financial and management information systems on a timely basis and to expand, train, motivate and manage our work force, particularly our direct sales force and consulting services organization. We can provide no assurance that we will be able to manage any future growth, and any failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our acquisition of existing businesses and our failure to successfully integrate these businesses could disrupt our business, dilute our common stock and harm our operating results and financial condition.

As part of our operating history and growth strategy, we have acquired other businesses. In the future, we may continue to seek acquisition candidates in selected markets and from time to time engage in exploratory discussions with suitable candidates. We can provide no assurance that we will be able to identify and acquire targeted businesses or obtain financing for such acquisitions on satisfactory terms. The process of integrating acquired businesses into our operations may result in unforeseen difficulties and may require a disproportionate amount of resources and management attention. In particular, the integration of acquired technologies with our existing products could cause delays in the introduction of new products. In connection with future acquisitions, we may incur significant charges to earnings as a result of, among other things, the write-off of purchased research and development.

Future acquisitions may be financed through the issuance of common stock, which may dilute the ownership of our shareholders, or through the incurrence of additional indebtedness. Furthermore, we can provide no assurance that competition for acquisition candidates will not escalate, thereby increasing the costs of making acquisitions or making suitable acquisitions unattainable. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, including the following:

 

   

problems combining the acquired operations, technologies or products;

 

   

unanticipated costs or liabilities;

 

   

diversion of management’s attention;

 

   

adverse effects on existing business relationships with suppliers and customers;

 

   

risks associated with entering markets in which we have limited or no prior experience; and

 

   

potential loss of key employees, particularly those of the acquired organizations.

For example, until we actually assume operating control of the business assets and operations, it is difficult to ascertain with precision the actual value or the potential liabilities of our acquisitions. We may not be able to integrate successfully any business, technologies or personnel that we have acquired or that we might acquire in the future, and this could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

Damage to our manufacturing site could limit our ability to operate our business.

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similar events could cause interruptions or delays in our manufacturing process or render us unable to accept and fulfill customer orders. We have not established a formal disaster recovery plan and our business interruption insurance may not be adequate to compensate us for any losses we may suffer.

The loss of our key personnel could have a material adverse effect on us.

Our future success depends in part on the performance of our executive officers and key employees. We do not have employment agreements with any of our executive officers. The loss of the services of any of our executive officers or other key employees could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our inability to attract, hire or retain the necessary technical and managerial personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

We are heavily dependent upon our ability to attract, retain and motivate skilled technical and managerial personnel, especially highly skilled engineers involved in ongoing product development and consulting personnel who assist in the development and implementation of our total business solutions. The market for such individuals is intensely competitive. Due to the critical role of our product development and consulting staffs, the inability to recruit successfully or the loss of a significant part of our product development or consulting staffs could have a material adverse effect on us. The software industry is characterized by a high level of employee mobility and aggressive recruiting of skilled personnel. We can provide no assurance that we will be able to retain our current personnel, or that we will be able to attract, assimilate or retain other highly qualified technical and managerial personnel in the future. The inability to attract, hire or retain the necessary technical and managerial personnel could have a material adverse effect upon our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our success and ability to compete are dependent upon our ability to protect our proprietary technology.

Our success and ability to compete are dependent in part upon our ability to protect our proprietary technology. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright and trade secret laws and non-disclosure agreements to protect this proprietary technology. We enter into confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements with our employees and license agreements with our customers and potential customers, which limit access to and distribution of our software, documentation and other proprietary information. We can provide no assurance that the steps taken by us to protect our proprietary rights will be adequate to prevent misappropriation of our technology or that our competitors will not independently develop technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our technology. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States.

Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, such as our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of our or others’ proprietary rights, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Certain technology used in conjunction with our products is licensed from third parties, generally on a non-exclusive basis. The termination of any of these licenses, or the failure of the third-party licensors to maintain or update their products adequately, could result in delay in our ability to ship certain of our products while we seek to implement technology offered by alternative sources, and any required replacement licenses could prove costly. While it may be necessary or desirable in the future to obtain other licenses relating to one or more of our products or relating to current or future technologies, we can provide no assurance that we will be able to do so on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

 

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If we become subject to adverse claims alleging infringement of third-party proprietary rights, we may incur substantial unanticipated costs and our competitive position may suffer.

There has been a substantial amount of litigation in the software industry regarding intellectual property rights. It is possible that in the future third parties may claim that our current or potential future software solutions infringe on their intellectual property. We anticipate that software product developers will increasingly be subject to infringement claims as the number of products and competitors in our industry grows. We can provide no assurance that we will not be subject to such third-party claims, litigation or indemnity demands or that these claims will not be successful. If a claim or indemnity demand were to be brought against us, it could result in costly litigation or product shipment delays, or force us to stop selling or providing services or enter into costly royalty or license agreements.

We operate in a highly competitive market and can give no assurance that we will be able to compete successfully against our current or future competitors.

The market for retail information systems is intensely competitive. We believe the principal competitive factors are product quality, reliability, performance and price, vendor and product reputation, financial stability, features and functions, ease of use, quality of support, and degree of integration effort required with other systems. A number of companies offer competitive products addressing certain of our target markets. In addition, we believe that new market entrants may attempt to develop fully integrated systems targeting the retail industry. In the market for consulting services, we compete with various systems integrators. Many of our existing competitors, as well as a number of potential new competitors, have significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we have. We can provide no assurance that we will be able to compete successfully against our current or future competitors or that competition will not have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Additionally, we compete with a variety of hardware and software vendors. Some of our competitors may have advantages over us due to their significant worldwide presence, longer operating and product development history, and substantially greater financial, technical and marketing resources. If competitors offer more favorable payment terms and/or more favorable contractual implementation terms or guarantees, we may need to lower prices or offer other favorable terms in order to compete successfully. Any such changes would likely reduce our margins.

Our increased investment in the international market could expose us to risks in addition to those experienced in the United States.

Our international revenues represented approximately $20.4 million, $42.5 million, $33.5 million and $38.4 million, or 15%, 14%, 13% and 17%, respectively, of our total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2009 and the fiscal years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively. We will continue to invest in expanding our international operations. The global reach of our business could cause us to be subject to unexpected, uncontrollable and rapidly changing events and circumstances in addition to those experienced in domestic locations. The following factors, among others, present risks that could have an adverse impact on our business, operating results and financial condition:

 

   

weaker protection of intellectual property rights;

 

   

an inability to replicate previous international revenues;

 

   

currency controls and fluctuations in currency exchange rates and the potential inability to hedge the currency risk in some transactions because of uncertainty or the inability to reasonably estimate our foreign exchange exposure;

 

   

possible increased costs and development time to adapt our products to local markets;

 

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potential lack of experience in a particular geographic market;

 

   

legal, regulatory, social, political, labor or economic conditions in a specific country or region, including loss or modification of exemptions for taxes and tariffs, and import and export license requirements which may have a negative impact on us;

 

   

higher operating costs in many foreign countries;

 

   

anti-American sentiment due to American policies that may be unpopular in certain regions; and

 

   

challenges of finding qualified personnel for our international operations.

Our products and services could be vulnerable to unauthorized access and hacking.

Credit card issuers have promulgated credit card security guidelines as part of their ongoing effort to battle identity theft and credit card fraud. We continue to work with credit card issuers to assure that our products and services comply with the credit card associations’ security regulations and best practices applicable to our products and services. There can be no assurances, however, that our products and services are invulnerable to unauthorized access or hacking. Additionally, there can be no guarantee that our customers will implement all of the credit card security features that we introduce or all of the protections and procedures required by the credit card issuers, or that our customers will establish and maintain appropriate levels of firewall protection and other security measures. When there is unauthorized access to credit card data that results in financial loss, there is a potential that parties could seek damages from us. Additionally, changes in the security guidelines could require significant and unanticipated development efforts.

We may be subject to additional tax liabilities.

We are subject to income and sales taxes in the United States and all of the other countries in which we conduct business. Additionally, we may be subject to certain tariffs imposed by the World Trade Organization and other governing bodies designed to tax U.S. imports. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes. This determination is highly complex and requires detailed analysis of the available information and applicable statutes and regulatory materials. In the ordinary course of our business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. We are regularly under audit by tax authorities. Although we believe our tax estimates are reasonable, the final determination of tax audits and any related litigation could be materially different from our historical income tax provisions and accruals. If we receive an adverse ruling during an audit, or we unilaterally determine that we have misinterpreted provisions of the myriad tax regulations to which we are subject, there could be a material adverse effect on our income tax provision, net income or cash flows in the period or periods for which that determination is made.

Our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets may become impaired.

If our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets become impaired, we may be required to record a non-cash charge to earnings. Under GAAP, we review our amortizable intangible assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. Goodwill is required to be tested for impairment at least annually. Factors that may be considered a change in circumstances indicating that the carrying value of our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets may not be recoverable, and therefore need to be reduced or written off altogether, include a decline in stock price and market capitalization, reduced future revenues, cash flows or growth estimates, failure to meet earnings forecasts and a reduction in use or discontinuation of the purchased products. If we determine that an impairment has occurred, we are required to record a charge to earnings in our financial statements during the period in which any impairment of our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets is determined. This charge will correspondingly reduce our results of operations, perhaps materially.

 

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Risks Related to an Investment in Our Common Stock

Investment in our common stock involves risk and we do not expect to pay dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.

The market price for our common stock has in the past experienced substantial price volatility and such volatility may occur in the future. Our quarterly operating results, the results of other companies participating in the computer-based products and services industry, changes in conditions in the economy or the financial markets of the computer products and services industries, natural disasters or other developments affecting us or our competitors, could cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate substantially. In addition, the stock market has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market price of many technology stocks and have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. For the foreseeable future, it is expected that earnings, if any, generated from our operations will be used to finance the growth of our business, and that no dividends will be paid to holders of our common stock.

Our executive officers own a significant amount of our common stock and will be able to exercise significant influence on matters requiring shareholder approval.

Our executive officers collectively owned approximately 15% of our outstanding common stock as of September 30, 2009. Consequently, together they continue to be able to exert significant influence over the election of our directors, the outcome of most corporate actions requiring shareholder approval and our business.

Our articles of incorporation and bylaws contain anti-takeover provisions which could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire control of us.

Our articles of incorporation authorize our board of directors to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, of the preferred stock without further vote or action by our shareholders. The rights of the holders of our common stock will be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued in the future. The issuance of any shares of preferred stock, while providing desired flexibility in connection with possible acquisitions and other corporate actions, could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our outstanding voting stock. For example, an issuance of preferred stock could:

 

   

adversely affect the voting power of the stockholders of our common stock;

 

   

make it more difficult for a third party to gain control of us;

 

   

discourage bids for our common stock at a premium;

 

   

limit or eliminate any payments that the stockholders of our common stock could expect to receive upon our liquidation; or

 

   

otherwise adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

In addition, our articles of incorporation divide our board of directors into three classes of directors, with each class serving a staggered three-year term. Since the classification of the board of directors generally increases the difficulty of replacing a majority of the board of directors, it is likely to discourage a third party from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us. Our articles of incorporation and bylaws also provide that the provisions of our articles of incorporation and bylaws can only be amended by a supermajority vote (at least 75%) of shareholders. In addition, our bylaws prohibit us from engaging in certain business combinations, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner.

 

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Because our management will have broad discretion over the use of the net proceeds from any authorized offering, you may not agree with how we use the proceeds and the proceeds may not be invested successfully.

As described under the caption “Use of Proceeds,” we intend to use the net proceeds from any authorized offering for general corporate purposes, including the funding of acquisitions. Therefore, our management will have broad discretion as to the use of the offering proceeds. Accordingly, you will be relying on the judgment of our management with regard to the use of these net proceeds, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the proceeds are being used appropriately. It is possible that the proceeds will be invested in a way that does not yield a favorable, or any, return for us.

 

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. We are including the following cautionary statement in this prospectus to make applicable and take advantage of the safe harbor provisions established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. We and our representatives may from time to time make written or oral statements that are “forward-looking,” including statements contained in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement to this prospectus, other filings with the SEC, reports to our stockholders and news releases. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements which are other than statements of historical facts. In addition, other written or oral statements which constitute forward-looking statements may be made by us or on our behalf. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “potential,” and “predicts,” as well as variations of such words and similar expressions, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Certain statements contained herein are forward-looking statements and accordingly involve risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in good faith, forward-looking statements. Please see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement, or in our periodic reports filed with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act, for risks that could adversely impact our business and financial performance. Our expectations, beliefs and projections are expressed in good faith and are believed by us to have a reasonable basis, including, without limitation, management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from third parties, but there can be no assurance that management’s expectations, beliefs or projections will result or be achieved or accomplished. Accordingly, these statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict. Any forward-looking statement contained in this prospectus speaks only as of the date on which the statement is made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

USE OF PROCEEDS

Unless otherwise set forth in any applicable prospectus supplement, we intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of the securities described in this prospectus for general corporate purposes, including the possible funding of acquisitions of complementary technologies or businesses. Pending such uses, we may invest the net proceeds in short-term, investment grade, interest-bearing securities or guaranteed obligations of the United States government or other securities. Accordingly, our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds, if any. Any specific allocation of the proceeds to a particular purpose that has been decided at the date of any prospectus supplement will be described in that supplement.

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RATIO OF EARNINGS TO COMBINED FIXED CHARGES

The ratio of earnings to combined fixed charges should be read together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contained in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and any other documents filed under the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference herein. The ratio of earnings to combined fixed charges for each of our last five fiscal years and the six months ended June 30, 2009 appears below. We computed the ratio of earnings to combined fixed charges by dividing earnings by fixed charges. Earnings consist of income from continuing operations before income taxes, plus combined fixed charges. Fixed charges consist of interest expense on all indebtedness, amortization of debt issuance expense and the portion of rental expense representative of interest.

The following table sets forth our consolidated ratio of earnings to combined fixed charges for the periods indicated.

 

     Six Months
Ended
June 30,
   Year Ended December 31,
     2009    2008    2007    2006    2005    2004

Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

   4.13    3.57    5.81    2.55    3.17    1.53

DESCRIPTION OF OUR CAPITAL STOCK

The following is a summary of certain provisions of our articles of incorporation and bylaws, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to those documents. Because this summary is not complete, you should refer to our articles of incorporation and bylaws for complete information regarding their respective provisions. A copy of each of these documents is filed with or incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

Authorized and Outstanding Capital Stock

Pursuant to our articles of incorporation, our authorized capital stock is 105,000,000 shares, consisting of:

 

   

100,000,000 shares of common stock, no par value per share, and

 

   

5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, no par value per share.

As of September 30, 2009, we had 33,100,912 issued and outstanding shares of common stock. As of September 30, 2009, 6,454,638 shares of our common stock were reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding options and warrants. After taking into account these reserved shares, the number of authorized shares of our common stock available for other corporate purposes as of September 30, 2009 was 60,444,450.

We have not issued any shares of preferred stock.

Common Stock

General.    Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the trading symbol “RADS.”

Voting and Other Rights.    The holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote per share, and, in general, a majority of votes cast with respect to a matter is sufficient to authorize action upon routine matters. Directors are divided into three classes and are elected to three year terms by a plurality of the votes cast at such election, and each shareholder entitled to vote in such election is entitled to vote each share of stock for as many persons as there are directors to be elected. In elections of directors, shareholders do not have the right to cumulate their votes.

 

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In the event of liquidation, holders of our common stock would be entitled to receive pro rata any assets legally available for distribution to shareholders with respect to shares held by them, subject to any prior rights of the holders of any shares of our preferred stock then outstanding.

Distributions.    The holders of shares of our common stock are entitled to receive such dividends or distributions as our board of directors may declare out of funds legally available for such payments. The payment of distributions by us is subject to the restrictions of Georgia law applicable to the declaration of distributions by a business corporation. A corporation generally may not authorize and make distributions if, after giving effect thereto, it would be unable to meet its debts as they become due in the usual course of business or if the corporation’s total assets would be less than the sum of its total liabilities plus the amount that would be needed, if it were to be dissolved at the time of distribution, to satisfy claims upon dissolution of shareholders who have preferential rights superior to the rights of the holders of its common stock. In addition, the payment of distributions to shareholders is subject to any prior rights of holders of our outstanding preferred stock, if any. Stock dividends, if any are declared, may be paid from authorized but unissued shares.

Miscellaneous.    Our common stock is not convertible into, or exchangeable for, any other class or series of our capital stock. Holders of our common stock have no preemptive or other rights to subscribe for or purchase any of our additional securities. Shares of our common stock are not subject to calls or assessments. All of the outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and nonassessable.

Preferred Stock

Our board of directors has the authority to issue preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the dividend rights, dividend rate, liquidation preference, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), and the number of shares constituting any such series, without any further action by the shareholders unless such action is required by applicable rules or regulations or by the terms of other outstanding series of our preferred stock. Any shares of our preferred stock that may be issued may rank senior to shares of our common stock as to payment of dividends and upon liquidation.

Transfer Agent and Registrar

Computershare Investor Services, LLC serves as the transfer agent and registrar for our common stock. We will select the transfer agent and registrar for a series of preferred stock, and each one will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF THE WARRANTS

General

We may issue warrants for the purchase of common stock and warrants for the purchase of preferred stock. The following description sets forth certain general terms and provisions of the warrants that we may offer pursuant to this prospectus. The particular terms of the warrants and the extent, if any, to which the general terms and provisions may apply to the warrants so offered will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Warrants may be issued independently or together with other securities, and may be attached to or separate from any offered securities. Each series of warrants will be issued under a separate warrant agreement to be entered into between us and a bank or trust company, as warrant agent. The warrant agent will act solely as our agent in connection with the warrants and will not have any obligation or relationship of agency or trust with any holders or beneficial owners of warrants.

A copy of the forms of the warrant agreement and the warrant certificate relating to any particular issue of warrants will be filed with the SEC each time we issue warrants, and you should read those documents for provisions that may be important to you. For more information on how you can obtain copies of the forms of the warrant agreement and the related warrant certificate, see “Where You Can Find More Information.”

The prospectus supplement relating to a particular issue of warrants to issue common stock or preferred stock will describe the terms of the warrants, including the following:

 

   

the title of the warrants;

 

   

the offering price for the warrants, if any;

 

   

the aggregate number of the warrants;

 

   

the designation and terms of the common stock or preferred stock that may be purchased upon exercise of the warrants;

 

   

if applicable, the designation and terms of the securities that the warrants are issued with and the number of warrants issued with each security;

 

   

if applicable, the date from and after which the warrants and any securities issued with the warrants will be separately transferable;

 

   

the number of shares of common stock or preferred stock that may be purchased upon exercise of a warrant and the price at which the shares may be purchased;

 

   

the dates on which the right to exercise the warrants commence and expire;

 

   

if applicable, the minimum and maximum amount of the warrants that may be exercised at any one time;

 

   

the currency or currency units in which the offering price, if any, and the exercise price are payable;

 

   

if applicable, a discussion of material United States federal income tax considerations;

 

   

anti-dilution provisions of the warrants, if any;

 

   

redemption or call provisions, if any, applicable to the warrants;

 

   

any additional terms of the warrants, including terms, procedures and limitations relating to the exchange and exercise of the warrants; and

 

   

any other information we think is material about the warrants.

 

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Exercise of Warrants

Each warrant will entitle the holder to purchase for cash such securities, at such exercise price, as shall in each case be set forth in, or be determinable as set forth in, the prospectus supplement relating to the warrants offered thereby. Warrants may be exercised at any time up to the close of business on the expiration date set forth in the prospectus supplement relating to the warrants offered thereby. After the close of business on the expiration date, unexercised warrants will become void. The warrants may be exercised as set forth in the prospectus supplement relating to the warrants offered. Upon receipt of payment and the warrant certificate properly completed and duly executed at the corporate trust office of the warrant agent or any other office indicated in the prospectus supplement, we will, as soon as practicable, direct the issuance of the shares of our common stock or preferred stock purchasable upon such exercise. If less than all of the warrants represented by such warrant certificate are exercised, a new warrant certificate will be issued for the remaining warrants.

Warrants will be considered to have been exercised when the warrant agent receives payment of the exercise price, subject to the transfer books for the securities issuable upon exercise of the warrant not being closed on such date and compliance with other procedures for the proper exercise of such warrants as described in the prospectus supplement and the applicable warrant agreement. After you have completed those procedures and subject to the foregoing, we will, as soon as practicable, issue and deliver to you the common stock or preferred stock that you purchased upon exercise. Holders of warrants will be required to pay any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with transferring the underlying shares in connection with the exercise of the warrants.

Until a holder exercises the warrants to purchase common stock or preferred stock, the holder will not have any rights as a holder of our common stock or preferred stock, as the case may be, by virtue of ownership of any warrants.

Warrant Adjustments

Unless the applicable prospectus supplement states otherwise, the exercise price of, and the number of shares covered by, a warrant will be adjusted proportionately if we subdivide or combine our common stock or preferred stock, as applicable. In addition, the prospectus supplement will describe any other provisions that may be included in the warrants we may issue that would result in an adjustment to the number of shares a holder will be entitled to receive upon exercise and/or in the exercise price of such warrant.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF THE UNITS

We may issue units comprised of one or more of the other securities described in this prospectus in any combination. Each unit will be issued so that the holder of the unit is also the holder of each security included in the unit. Therefore, the holder of a unit will have the rights and obligations of a holder of each included security. The prospectus supplement will describe:

 

   

the designation and terms of the units and of securities comprising the units, including whether and under what circumstances the securities comprising units may be held or transferred separately;

 

   

a description of the terms of any unit agreement governing the units;

 

   

a description of the provisions for the payment, settlement, transfer or exchange of the units; and

 

   

a discussion of material federal income tax considerations, if applicable.

The descriptions of the units in this prospectus and in any prospectus supplement are summaries of the material provisions of the applicable agreements. These descriptions do not restate those agreements in their entirety and may not contain all of the information that you may find useful. We urge you to read the applicable agreement because they, and not the summaries, define your rights as holders of the units. For more information, please review the form of the relevant agreements, which will be filed with the SEC promptly after the offering of units and will be available as described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information.”

SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS

This prospectus also relates to the possible resale of up to $15,000,000 aggregate dollar amount of shares of our common stock that were issued and outstanding prior to the original date of filing of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part as follows:

 

   

shares acquired by certain shareholders through private placements completed by us prior to our initial public offering in 1997;

 

   

shares issued to founders in private placements prior to our initial public offering; and

 

   

shares issued to our officers, directors and employees pursuant to our equity incentive compensation plans.

Information about selling securityholders, where applicable, will be set forth in a prospectus supplement, in a post-effective amendment, or in filings we make with the SEC under the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference into this prospectus. Selling securityholders named in a prospectus supplement may use this prospectus in connection with the resale of shares of common stock acquired by the selling securityholders. The selling securityholders may be our directors, executive officers, former directors, employees, former employees or other holders of our common stock. The prospectus supplement for any offering of common stock by selling securityholders will include the following information:

 

   

the names of the selling securityholders;

 

   

the nature of any position, office or other material relationship each selling securityholder has had within the last three fiscal years with us;

 

   

the number of shares held by each of the selling securityholders before and after the offering;

 

   

the percentage of common stock held by each of the selling securityholders before and after the offering; and

 

   

the number of shares of common stock offered by each of the selling securityholders.

 

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Selling securityholders shall not sell any shares of our common stock pursuant to this prospectus until we have identified such selling securityholders and the shares being offered for resale by such selling securityholders in a subsequent prospectus supplement. However, the selling securityholders may sell or transfer all or a portion of their shares of our common stock pursuant to any available exemption from registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We may sell the securities covered by this prospectus from time to time. However, registration of the securities covered by this prospectus does not mean that those securities will necessarily be offered or sold.

We may sell the securities:

 

   

to or through one or more underwriters or dealers;

 

   

in short or long transactions;

 

   

directly to investors; or

 

   

through agents.

We may sell securities from time to time:

 

   

in privately negotiated transactions;

 

   

in one or more transactions at a fixed price or prices, which may be changed from time to time;

 

   

in “at the market offerings,” within the meaning of Rule 415(a)(4) of the Securities Act, to or through a market maker or into an existing trading market, on an exchange or otherwise;

 

   

at prices related to such prevailing market prices; or

 

   

at negotiated prices.

In addition, selling securityholders may use this prospectus to offer securities.

We and our underwriters, dealers or agents, reserve the right to accept or reject all or part of any proposed purchase of the securities. We will set forth in a prospectus supplement the terms of the offering of securities, including:

 

   

the names of any underwriters, dealers or agents;

 

   

any agency fees or underwriting discounts or commissions and other items constituting agents’ or underwriters’ compensation;

 

   

any discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers;

 

   

details regarding over-allotment options under which underwriters may purchase additional securities from us, if any;

 

   

the purchase price of the securities being offered and the proceeds we will receive from the sale;

 

   

the public offering price; and

 

   

the securities exchanges on which such securities may be listed, if any.

We may enter into derivative transactions with third parties, or sell securities not covered by this prospectus to third parties in privately negotiated transactions from time to time. If the applicable prospectus supplement so indicates, in connection with those derivative transactions, such third parties (or affiliates of third parties) may sell securities covered by this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement, including in short sale transactions. If so, such third parties (or affiliates of third parties) may use securities pledged by us or borrowed from us or others to settle those sales or to close out any related open borrowings of securities, and may use securities received from us in settlement of those derivatives to close out any related open borrowings of securities. The third parties (or affiliates of such third parties) in such sales transactions will be underwriters and will be identified in an applicable prospectus supplement or a post-effective amendment.

We may loan or pledge securities to a financial institution or other third party that in turn may sell the securities using this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement. Such financial institution or third party may transfer its economic short position to investors in our offered securities or in connection with a simultaneous offering of other securities offered by this prospectus.

 

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Underwriters, Agents or Dealers

If underwriters are used in the sale of our securities, the securities will be acquired by the underwriters for their own account and may be resold from time to time in one or more transactions described above. The securities may be offered to the public through underwriting syndicates represented by managing underwriters or directly by underwriters. Generally, the underwriters’ obligations to purchase the securities will be subject to conditions precedent and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all of the securities if they purchase any of the securities. We may use underwriters with whom we have a material relationship. We will describe in the prospectus supplement, naming the underwriter, the nature of any such relationship.

We may sell securities through agents from time to time. The prospectus supplement will name any agent involved in the offer or sale of the securities and any commissions we pay them. Generally, any agent will be acting on a best efforts basis for the period of its appointment.

We may authorize underwriters, dealers or agents to solicit offers by certain purchasers to purchase the securities from us at the public offering price set forth in the prospectus supplement pursuant to delayed delivery contracts providing for payment and delivery on a specified date in the future. The contracts will be subject only to those conditions set forth in the prospectus supplement, and the prospectus supplement will set forth any commissions we pay for solicitation of these contracts.

Underwriters, dealers and agents may contract for or otherwise be entitled to indemnification by us against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribution with respect to payments made by the underwriters, dealers or agents under agreements between us and the underwriters, dealers and agents.

We may grant underwriters that participate in the distribution of securities an option to purchase additional securities to cover over-allotments, if any, in connection with the distribution.

Underwriters, dealers or agents may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions from us or our purchasers, as their agents in connection with the sale of securities. These underwriters, dealers or agents may be considered to be underwriters under the Securities Act. As a result, discounts, commissions or profits on resale received by the underwriters, dealers or agents may be treated as underwriting discounts and commissions. The prospectus supplement will identify any such underwriter, dealer or agent and describe any compensation received by them from us. Any public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed, or paid to dealers, may be changed from time to time.

In compliance with the guidelines of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, the maximum consideration or discount to be received by any FINRA member or independent broker dealer may not exceed 8% of the aggregate amount of securities offered pursuant to this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement.

Any underwriter may engage in over-allotment transactions, stabilizing transactions, short-covering transactions and penalty bids in accordance with Regulation M under the Exchange Act. These transactions may include short sales, stabilizing transactions and purchases to cover positions created by short sales. Short sales involve the sale by underwriters of a greater number of securities than they are required to purchase in the offering. “Covered” short sales are sales made in an amount not greater than the underwriters’ option to purchase additional securities from us in the offering, if any. If the underwriters have an over-allotment option to purchase additional securities from us, the underwriters may consider, among other things, the price of securities available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase securities through the over-allotment option. “Naked” short sales are any sales in excess of such option or where the underwriters do not have an over-allotment option. The underwriters must close out any naked short sale position by purchasing securities in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the securities in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.

 

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Accordingly, in order to cover these short sale positions, or to otherwise stabilize or maintain the price of the securities, the underwriters may bid for or purchase securities in the open market and may impose penalty bids. If penalty bids are imposed, selling concessions allowed to syndicate members or other broker-dealers participating in the offering are reclaimed if securities previously distributed in the offering are repurchased, whether in connection with stabilization transactions or otherwise. The effect of these transactions may be to stabilize or maintain the market price of the securities at a level above that which might otherwise prevail in the open market. The imposition of a penalty bid may also affect the price of the securities to the extent that it discourages resale of the securities. The magnitude or effect of any stabilization or other transactions is uncertain.

Underwriters, broker-dealers or agents that may become involved in the sale of our securities may engage in transactions with and perform other services for us for which they receive compensation.

Direct Sales

We may also sell securities directly to one or more purchasers without using underwriters or agents. In this case, no agents, underwriters or dealers would be involved. We may sell securities directly to institutional investors or others who may be deemed to be underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act with respect to any sale of those securities.

Electronic Auctions

We may also make sales through the Internet or through electronic means. Since we may from time to time elect to offer securities directly to the public, with or without the involvement of agents, underwriters or dealers, utilizing the Internet or other forms of electronic bidding or ordering systems for the pricing and allocation of such securities, you will want to pay particular attention to the description of that system we will provide in a prospectus supplement.

Such electronic system may allow bidders to directly participate, through electronic access to an auction site, by submitting conditional offers to buy that are subject to acceptance by us, and which may directly affect the price or other terms and conditions at which such securities are sold. These bidding or ordering systems may present to each bidder, on a so-called “real-time” basis, relevant information to assist in making a bid, such as the clearing spread at which the offering would be sold, based on the bids submitted, and whether a bidder’s individual bids would be accepted, prorated or rejected.

Upon completion of such an electronic auction process, securities will be allocated on prices bid, terms of bid or other factors. The final offering price at which securities would be sold and the allocation of securities among bidders would be based in whole or in part on the results of the Internet or other electronic bidding process or auction.

Trading Markets and Listing of Common Stock

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, each class or series of securities will be a new issue with no established trading market, other than our common stock, which is quoted on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the trading symbol “RADS.” We may elect to list any other class or series of securities on any exchange, but we are not obligated to do so. It is possible that one or more underwriters may make a market in a class or series of securities, but the underwriters will not be obligated to do so and may discontinue any market making at any time without notice. We cannot give you any assurances as to the liquidity of the trading market for any of the securities.

 

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LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of any securities offered by us in the applicable prospectus supplement will be passed upon for us by Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. The validity of any securities offered in the applicable prospectus supplement will be passed upon for any selling securityholder, underwriters or agents by counsel to be named in the applicable prospectus supplement.

 

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EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements, and the related financial statement schedule, incorporated in this prospectus by reference from our Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the effectiveness of Radiant Systems Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their reports, which are incorporated herein by reference. Such financial statements and financial statement schedule have been so incorporated in reliance upon the reports of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

General

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act with respect to the common stock, preferred stock, warrants and units offered by this prospectus. This prospectus, filed as part of the registration statement, does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and its exhibits, portions of which have been omitted as permitted by the rules and regulations of the SEC. For further information about us and the securities, we refer you to the registration statement and to its exhibits. Statements in this prospectus about the contents of any contract, agreement or other document are not necessarily complete and, in each instance, we refer you to the copy of such contract, agreement or document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, with each such statement being qualified in all respects by reference to the document to which it refers. Anyone may inspect the registration statement and its exhibits without charge at the public reference facilities the SEC maintains at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain copies of all or any part of these materials from the SEC upon the payment of certain fees prescribed by the SEC. You may obtain further information about the operation of the SEC’s Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. You may also inspect these reports and other information without charge at a website maintained by the SEC. The address of this site is http://www.sec.gov.

We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act. Accordingly, we file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may inspect and copy these reports, proxy statements and other information at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at the address noted above. You also may obtain copies of this material from the Public Reference Room of the SEC as described above, or inspect them without charge at the SEC’s website or at our website, the address of which is http://www.radiantsystems.com. We also furnish our shareholders with annual reports containing consolidated financial statements audited by an independent accounting firm. Our website is not incorporated into or otherwise a part of this prospectus.

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is an important part of this prospectus. Any statement contained in a document which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus is automatically updated and superseded if information contained in this prospectus, or information that we later file with the SEC, modifies or replaces this information. We incorporate by reference the following previously filed documents:

 

   

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008;

 

   

Our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2009 and June 30, 2009;

 

   

Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on March 3, 2009 and March 30, 2009;

 

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Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed April 24, 2009; and

 

   

The description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on January 27, 1997 under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including all amendments and reports updating that description.

We incorporate by reference any additional documents that we may file with the SEC under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than portions of those made pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K or other information “furnished” to the SEC) between the date we filed the registration statement to which this prospectus relates and the termination of the offering of the securities. These documents may include periodic reports, like annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, as well as proxy statements. Any material that we subsequently file with the SEC will automatically update and replace the information previously filed with the SEC.

For purposes of the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document, which also is or is deemed to be incorporated herein by reference, modifies or supersedes such statement in such document. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

We will provide without charge to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom a prospectus is delivered, upon written or oral request of such person, a copy of any and all of the information that has been incorporated by reference in this prospectus (excluding exhibits unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference into such documents). Please direct such requests to Radiant Systems, Inc., Attention: Investor Relations, 3925 Brookside Parkway, Alpharetta, Georgia 30022, telephone number (770) 576-6000.

 

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4,693,848 Shares

LOGO

Common Stock

 

 

Prospectus Supplement

 

 

Joint Book-Running Managers

 

Jefferies & Company   SunTrust Robinson Humphrey

Co-Lead Manager

Raymond James

Co-Managers

 

Needham & Company, LLC    Wedbush Securities

Northland Capital Markets

September     , 2010