Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from [Curt Kane].
[Curt Kane]
Could you give us a little more color on what actually went on in each of the business segments with respect to who the customers were, what type of projects, that sort of thing?
Charles C. Best
Yes, we can give a little flavor on that. We’ve always been pretty bullish on both segments.
The eTransactions business segment has really met the expectations that we had expected through the nine months and we do as we’ve stated before really rely on a lot of larger sale customers to drive that revenue. But on top of that for us we are also seeing some of our more software-based products in that business segment helping us in terms of margin and revenue.
We had previously announced a product called [MC] which is a product that we’re going out to companies and promoting as a software-only based product. We had a couple of larger sales with bigger customers as we’ve mentioned. That is important. We are driving just the pipeline in that business quite nicely. As Kevin mentioned, we have a very nice backlog.
We do have a couple of customers who have communicated to us that probably the fourth quarter as we had hoped would not be a time they finalize the transaction, but they certainly haven’t gone away and we expect those in the first part of 2009.
From a specialty components point of view, as you know we’re driven quite a bit from starting at the project level and bringing that up to the revenue level. Nothing really changed from our last conference call in that respect in that we have a few pretty good high volume customers that are driving our revenue. We ended up having one who’s end-of-life process was a little bit sooner than we had been communicated to earlier so that’s driving down our revenues a little bit in Q4.
[Curt Kane]
Back to the eTransactions business, you mentioned still having a nice backlog, etc. You’ve in the past I think quantified that. Could you give us a sense for where backlog stands now and when you’d actually see it show up on the revenue line?
Charles C. Best
If we have given that number out in the past, it probably was on a conference call like this and I actually don’t have that number definitively right in front of me. I can tell you that we are still very bullish on that business segment and the pipeline is very healthy.
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