Dear Shareholders,
It is with great pride that we are reporting the best financial year we
have ever had by almost all metrics. Your company has consistently
achieved its highest ever quarters of revenue and profit throughout the
year, with all guns (services) blazing.
Your Company has ended this year with record revenues and record
profits. We are pleased to report consolidated revenue of Rs. 304
crores an increase of 56% from Rs. 195 cr in the previous year. Our
Profit After Tax has grown by 83 % from Rs. 11.5 cr last year to Rs.
21.1 cr in FY 10-11.
What makes this growth even sweeter is that we have achieved this with
a limited contribution to revenue from cloud services, our hottest
selling service in terms of orders for the last 2 quarters. We are also
yet to get on stream our additional Data Centre capacity, where
construction is currently in full swing and we hope to be ready for
customer occupation by the last quarter of FY 11-12. Needless to say,
these two areas will be significant growth drivers of the Company''s
revenues in future.
Your company launched beta Cloud services – PAAS (Platform as a
Service) in September and in spite of only doing limited advertising
for the product, once fully tested, we managed to attain a customer
base of 500 and above. This was also the only fully automated cloud
platform provisioning system in India at the time, enabling your
company to position itself as a world class Cloud service provider in
India.
As in the last few years, we have invested in upgrading our existing
infrastructure and Research & Development. We have had to hold back our
plans for entering into IP/MPLS/ VPN services on account of the
significant uncertainty surrounding the telecom licensing and policy
environment. The new National Telecom Policy ought to make things a lot
clearer and we shall proceed with these plans when there is adequate
clarity.
In the coming year, we will venture into select International markets
for our web services. Given our current scale, technology platforms and
future applications in the pipeline, we believe the time is right for
us to spread our wings. We shall, however, remain true to our style -
Sales Led Build when it comes to investing in infrastructure.
Although we are very confident of considerable growth over the coming
years, in this last year we have raised the bar ourselves by our
outstanding performance. We are acutely aware of the expectations of
high growth rates and are working even more tirelessly to try and
achieve it. We shall also look towards inorganic growth in the very
near future to keep up this pace.
Sincerely,
Jasjit Singh Sawhney
Chairman and Managing Director
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