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Sify Reports Revenues Of INR 5807 Million For Second Quarter Of FY 2019-20

Posted by Sify Technologies

Performance Highlights:

• Revenue for the quarter was INR 5807 Million, an increase of 5% over the same quarter last year.
• EBITDA for the quarter was INR 1061 Million, an increase of 38% over the same quarter last year. Considering IFRS16 leases adoption from April 1, 2019 the increase is 24% on comparable basis.
• Profit before tax for the quarter was INR 280 Million, an increase of 11% over the same quarter last year.
• Profit after tax for the quarter was INR 191 Million, a decrease of 25% over the same quarter last year due to tax expense during the current quarter.
• CapEx during the quarter was INR 983 Million.
• Cash balance at the end of the quarter was INR 1375 Million.

Management Commentary

Raju Vegesna, Chairman, said, “With the rapid adoption of digital technology across India, Global Enterprises and domestic players now see a market of 1.3 billion people who have to be quickly transitioned to the reality of a digital economy. In their pursuit to do so, they will draw upon the strength of local IT enablers who have the capability and local knowledge to execute”.

That is the opportunity in front of Sify today.”

Kamal Nath, CEO, said, “We continue to see increasing Cloud adoption in Enterprises as well as Government clients. Our investments, skills and partnerships are attracting clients who are renewing their erstwhile on-prem outsourcing, people heavy contracts and looking for hybrid or multi-cloud flavoured models. We are also able to bring in benefits to clients with our hyperscale network services which enables cloud adoption. The true value of Sify’s ICT services is being unleashed in Cloud transformation projects”.

M P Vijay Kumar, CFO, said, “With the focus on digital transformation, Enterprises are actively engaging for multiple ICT services for the operational benefits of our comprehensive set of services. We are seeing our managed services on top of the DC and Cloud as having the most traction among them. While we expand our capacity, both data centers and network infrastructure, we continue to exercise prudence in our capital investments.

This financial year, the increase in depreciation and interest is partly due to IFRS 16 becoming applicable for leases and the tax expense is due to company being subject to income tax as the benefit of past losses has been utilized in full until last year.

Our cash balance at the end of the quarter stands at INR 1375 Million”.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue from Data Center centric IT Services fell by 4% over the same quarter last year.
• Segment-wise, revenue from Data Center Services and Cloud and Managed Services grew by 18% and 30% respectively, while those from Technology Integration Services and Application Integration Services fell by 32% and 3% respectively.

Revenue from Telecom centric services grew by 16% over the same quarter last year.
• Segment-wise, revenue from Data and Managed Services grew 15% while revenue from the Voice business grew by 17%.

Business Highlights

Growth Drivers

The primary growth driver in the market continues to be cloud adoption, led by digital initiatives and transformation. This trend is triggering movement of workloads from on-premise Data Centers to hyperscale Public Cloud and hosted Private Cloud in varied degrees, based on the digital objectives of the Enterprises. This results in transformation of the traditional network architecture, and transformation at the edge which connects the end user. The need for digital services like analytics, data lakes, IoT, etc are shifting the balance to adoption of hyperscale Public Cloud vs Private Cloud. Collectively, these trends are generating opportunities for full scale Cloud, DC and Network service providers with digital services skills.

Key Wins

Highlights of our major wins in the quarter include:

• Customers choosing Sify for migration of their on-premise data center to multi-cloud platforms like Cloudinfinit, AWS and Azure. They also entrusted Sify with management and security.
• Customers choosing Sify as their DC Hosting partner as they embrace hybrid cloud strategy.
• Customers choosing Sify as their Digital services partner.
• Customers choosing Sify as their Network Transformation and Management partner as they migrate to Cloud-ready network.

A consolidated summary of the key highlights during the quarter is noted below:

Data Center Centric IT Services highlights include:

  • 11 customers contracted to have their workload migrated from their on-premise DC to multiple clouds. These cover key verticals such as Banking, ITeS, Manufacturing, Agri-sciences and Logistics.
  • 4 customers contracted with Sify for greenfield Cloud implementation from verticals such as a PSU, Logistics, Media and IT.
  • 18 new customers contracted for services like DRaaS, PaaS and IaaS on public Cloud and Cloudinfinit platform.
  • 4 customers, including one of India’s largest private banks, moved their IT infrastructure from competitor DC to Sify DC, while 3 customers migrated from their on-premise DC to Sify DC. These were across verticals such as Banking and Financial services, Heavy Industry, Manufacturing and a Commodities exchange platform.
  • One of India’s largest MNCs contracted Sify to modernize their Data center.
  • One of India’s largest private banks contracted for the design, supply and deployment of their on-premise DC.
  • 18 customers contracted for Cloud managed services.
  • A public sector bank contracted for a multi-year deployment and management of their Security Operations center.
  • 24 customers contracted for a complete technology refresh of their security services.
  • Telecom Centric Services added 144 new customers in the quarter.
  • A global technology corporation contracted with Sify for interconnects to the Cloud.
  • A public sector Insurance company contracted for a complete network transformation that includes a secondary network, SD-WAN and Managed services.
  • A public sector industry major, a private bank and a financial company contracted for managed and secure SD-WAN services.
  • Another public sector insurance company signed up for integrated network transformation project.
  • 20 customers contracted for collaboration services from across verticals like technology, insurance, banking, manufacturing and the government.
  • Sify launched Carrier Ethernet during the quarter.―CT Bureau
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