Sonata Software Limited has informed the Exchange about Investor Presentation
29th July, 2023
National Stock Exchange of India Limited Exchange Plaza, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Kind Attn: Manager, Listing Department Stock Code – SONATSOFTW
BSE Limited P.J. Towers, Dalal Street, Mumbai Kind Attn: Manager, Listing Department Stock Code - 532221
Dear Sir/Madam,
SUB: INVESTORS’ PRESENTATION - REVISED
Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, we are enclosing revised Investors’ Presentation for the quarter ended 30th June, 2023.
The above said presentation is also made available on the Company’s website www.sonata-software.com.
Please take the same on record.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully, For Sonata Software Limited
Mangal Kulkarni Company Secretary, Compliance Officer and Head Legal
Encl.: As above
Sonata Software Limited - SSL Registered Office: 208, T V Industrial Estate, 2nd Floor, S K Ahire Marg, Worli, Mumbai – 400 030 Corporate Office: APS Trust Building, Bull Temple Road, N. R. Colony, Bangalore - 560 004, India Tel: +91 80 6778 1996 | Fax: +91 80 2661 0972 | CIN: L72200MH1994PLC082110
Website: www.sonata-software.com email: info@sonata-software.com
Investor Presentation
Q1 FY’24
Sonata at a glance
We are a Modernization and a Digital Engineering company powered by our unique PLATFORMATION™ framework.
The Company
35 YEARS IT Solutions Provider
$950+M Revenue 15.3% CAGR across 10 years
Listed (SONATSOFTW) Market Cap $ 1.7B
6500+ Employees Across US, EU, Asia & ANZ Powered by Unified Engineer Program (UEP)
Delivering Outcome-based Modernization Services
Cloud
Managed Services
Data
Dynamics
Automation
Digital Contact Center
Digital Transformation Using PlatformationTM
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Serving our Global clients with right Talent mix (Global & Local Talent)
Canada Offices: Toronto Richmond
Europe Netherlands Denmark Germany
Eastern Europe
APAC China Japan Singapore Malaysia Korea Philippines Thailand Vietnam
UK (London) & Ireland (Dublin)
Indonesia and Phillipines
North America Development Center: Redmond
Offices: Atlanta, GA Fremont, CA Bridgewater, NJ East Brunswick, NJ Florida Dallas Minneapolis Warren, PA Minnesota
Costa Rica
Mexico
Middle East & Africa Qatar
Development Centers & Sales Offices - 27
Partners - 4
Global Delivery centers recent/InProgress - 6
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India Development Centers: Bangalore (3) Hyderabad (2) Chennai
Offices: Bangalore Chennai Delhi Hyderabad Kolkata Pune Mumbai
Australia Brisbane Sydney Melbourne
Key Verticals, Partners, IPs
Industries
TMT
Ecosystem: Partnerships Tech + Domain
Retail, Travel & Mfg.
BFSI
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Emerging
Innovative IPs
LISA Chatbot (Conversational AI)
Workbox.io (Archival)
Lightning Build
Sustainability Target: Carbon Neutrality by 2030
Single Use Plastic Free certified by FY 24
Aim for 100% Tier 1 suppliers on ESG compliance and training by FY 24
UNGC Signatory by FY2024
SbTi Commitment by FY4
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Our Objective and Goal
Objective:
Be the fastest-growing Modernization Engineering company, powered by its unique PlatformationTM framework
Goal: Revenue of $ 1.5B by FY 26 end @ EBITDA of early 20’s
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Our Performance Vision For Sonata
Revenue Growth (In $M)
SCALE – Key Drivers
~$1.5B
+$580M
$0.92B
Microsoft sell-to; Dynamics
Harvest
Sustain SITL momentum
Retail, Manufacturing, Travel and TMT
Invest
Sales, Large deals, BFSI, Healthcare Life Sciences and technical capabilities
FY23
3-4 Years
Diversify
Clients: Build multiple large accounts.
Brand: Global brand in Modernization
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In Q1 we crossed $300M annual run rate for the International Business
Intl. Services $M
SITL GC INR Crs
53.4
55.7
49.4
56.8
57.8
60.5
77.3
65.8
80
60
40
20
0
56.7
58.1
61.8
50.8
53.6
45.1
47.4
39.9
70
60 50
40 30 20
10 0
Q2'22 Q3'22 Q4'22 Q1'23 Q2'23 Q3'23 Q4'23 Q1'24
Q2'22 Q3'22 Q4'22 Q1'23 Q2'23 Q3'23 Q4'23 Q1'24
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Big moves are being enabled by firm incremental steps
Large Deals
M&A - Quant
BFSI & HLS launched
5 Geo
NA, UK, Nordics, India, Australia
Modernization Focused GTMs
Partners ecosystem
RMD/TMT Radiation
10 Mega Accounts
RMD – Retail, Manufacturing & Distribution TMT – Tech, Media & Telecom BFSI – Banking, Financial Services & Insurance HLS – Healthcare and Life Sciences
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What’s working well for us…
Large deals Wins 7 large deals in flight
Quant accelerated synergy growth.
Modernization – Cloud & Data pipeline is 40%
New invest verticals growing (HLS, BFSI). Partnerships (MS, AWS)
SITL – steady GC growth
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Large Deal Win#1 - ERP transformation by implementing MS Dynamics 365
Client Overview
The Client provides advanced and high-quality belting solutions for 20 different industries including global logistics, food production, fitness equipment, household appliances and energy production.
Industry Manufacturing
Areas in Scope
This cover ERP transformation by implementing MS Dynamics 365 across all the lines of business in 49 legal entities
Client Overview
Revenue $1.4 B
Finance
Supply Chain Management
Production
Locations >40
Integration with 30+ distinct systems
Application Support
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Large Deals Win #2 - Build and Maintain Digital Hub to enhance customer experience and improve operational efficiency
Client Overview
The client, Europe’s largest multinational leisure, travel, and tourism company, operates over 150 aircraft, 16 cruise ships, and 381 hotels.
Areas in Scope
Industry Industry Travel Travel
Build and Maintain digital hub for client to enhance customer experience and improve operational efficiency.
Client Client Overview Overview
Revenue $18.5 B
Cloud and Data Modernisation
Application Modernisation
Strategy definition and implementation of transformation programs
LOB 6
E2E Delivery of business as usual
Innovation through Sonata’s Solution and Innovation hubs
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…Aligned with our Partners to drive our Joint GTM Strategy
Cloud Apps Modernization
Data & Analytics
Microsoft Business Apps
Service Experience Transformation
Hyper Automation
Managed Services
MSFT Market Place Partners
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Microsoft Relationship – Jointly driving Customer Success
Sonata is now a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Partner
30+ Years Microsoft Partnership
400+ Clients Across The Globe USA, Europe, Asia, India, Australia, Middle East
$650+ Million Per Annum Revenue To Microsoft
Partner for RPA Migration 100
Partner for Microsoft Fabric
2500+ Team On Microsoft Technologies
Microsoft Cloud Solution Partner - Azure Expert MSP Competencies. 10 Advanced Specialization in Dynamics 365, Data Analytics, Teams, CAF, M365, Azure
Joint Execution Microsoft Fasttrack, Global Delivery, Microsoft Consulting Services
Catalyst Led Sales Process Industry Point Of View, Business Value Assessment, Envisioning Workshops, Design Thinking
Industry Clouds Go To Market Healthcare, Retail, Sustainability, Manufacturing
Industry Digital Transformation Retail, CPG, Manufacturing, Telecom, Healthcare, Hi-tech, BFSI
Launch Partner for Microsoft Fabric
Winner “Technology Partner of the Year - BizApps” - 2021
Winner “Microsoft US Eagle Award” For new D365 customers
GTM with MS for D365 Modernization, SFDC Migration, RPA Migration, Fabric, Gen AI & Contact Center Migrations
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What are the key bets we are making for the future?
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Microsoft Fabric: Overcoming Data Silos and Dark Data
AI & Gen AI
Modernization
Verticalization
Focused GTM
Large Deals
10 Mega accounts
Continued focus
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Sonata is the only Indian SI launch partner for MS Fabric
Sonata Advantage
1) Early Mover with Microsoft.
2)
Implemented the solution within Sonata for trial/testing.
3) Strong relationships with CVP, Data @ Microsoft
Prelaunch product right now. Formal launch in Nov’ 2023
40+ customers in 6-7 weeks
300 Engineers
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Sonata’s Responsible-first AI offering for Enterprise scale – Harmoni.AI
17 Use Cases built
Harmoni.AI Platform for Responsible AI
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04
Active Conversations at 16 accounts
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Offerings and methodology published
Harmoni.AI
Core team built; training created
01
06
All functions identifying & implementing Gen AI
‘Responsible by design’ approach. Initial use cases:
• Process (regulatory, clinical trials) • Contact Center – cross-sell and upsell • Productivity of engineer, support teams
Reaching ~ $ 60B TAM Gen AI is expected to achieve ~ 30% share of overall AI market by 2025
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Success Stories (1/2)… Leveraging cutting edge LLMs
Client Overview
Industry Technology
Revenue > $190 B
Fortune 25
Employees > 220,000
The Pressure Points
Solutions
Results
• Accelerate the ability to bring new
products and features to the market
• High quality - Right first time in a complex engineering ecosystem
• EPICS (Engineering Pipeline Infrastructure and Cloud Services) BOT helps Client Dataverse Engineering teams to get info on several technical topics like how to access or provision VMs.
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Integrate BOT with Azure OpenAI.
• A centralized index of around 14000 wiki articles is being created using Azure Cognitive Search
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Success Stories (2/2)… Unique Customer Identification using AI/ML
Client Overview
Industry Fintech
Revenue $5.5 B
Fortune 500
Presence +180
The Pressure Points
Solutions
Results
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Limited ability to recognise customers – fragmented data across channels
• Developed modern using AI/ML - to
create One consistent customer profile and customer identification process f
• 50% reduction in customer
complaints
Risk and Compliance decisioning not optimized due to lack of single customer view
• Developed master platform - stores and manages all customer records, profile data, and IDs across the enterprise
• 75% decrease in transaction time that required KYC and AML checks
Increasing cost of verification due to volume of transaction and duplication
• Integrating business and transactional systems with Master Party to create a customer 360 view across the enterprise
• 100% Infrastructure availability and on AWS cloud platform
• Identified and merged close to 15% (around 200 million) of customer profiles
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Key Recognitions!
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Key Partnerships unlocked !
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People – Strength Of Sonata
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Financial Management
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2
3
4
High Revenue growth with Industry Leading margins
Strong Cash Position & Balance Sheet
Superlative returns for Shareholders
Sound Capital Allocation
Focus on high revenue rate realization and high margins business
Very strong positive cash generation and cash position
Industry leading ROCE and ROE & Bonus share issue
Sound capital allocation
EPS : ₹33*# / Share
Liquidity of ~ ₹800+Crs
ROCE > ~35%#
Dividend : ₹15.75* / share
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#Trailing 12 months
*Bonus issue 1:3, record date - Sep 10, 2022
Consistent Growth over last 10 years
Consolidated Revenue & profitability ($Mn)
Revenue
EBITDA*
PAT
926
745
570
528
436
354
381
254
270
288
37
27
29
29
17
75
66
53
51
50
56
51
39
37
33
30
23
23
21
13
FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19 FY 20 FY 21 FY 22 FY 23
FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19 FY 20 FY 21 FY 22 FY 23
FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19 FY 20 FY 21 FY 22 FY 23
CAGR 15%
CAGR 18%
CAGR 18%
Predictable and resilient growth trajectory
*Before OI and FX
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30.0%
25.0%
21.1% QoQ
20.0%
22.1% YoY
12.6%
15.0%
5.7% QoQ
10.0%
-1.4% YoY
5.0%
0.0%
Financial Performance of International Services – Q1 FY24 Industry leading QoQ growth in Revenue and EBIDTA; Process improvements result in Collection rigour
$20.0
$90.0
$80.0
$70.0
$60.0
$50.0
$40.0
$30.0
$20.0
$10.0
$-
$56.8
$65.8
$77.3
17.5% QoQ
36.1% YoY
1.2
Constant Currency
17.4% QoQ 36.4% YoY
Q1 FY23
Q4 FY23
Q1 FY24
Revenue
Book to Bill
39.2%
38.3%
36.1%
33.6%
38.2%
37.6%
34.4%
34.9% without Acq. Loan
34.3%
32.5%
31.5%
FY 20
FY 21
FY 22
ROCE
Q1 24
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FY 23
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48
46
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24.4%
20.7%
17.4%
14.0%
21.1%
$16.3
$13.9
$13.6
$9.9
$9.2
$9.7
Q1 FY23
Q4 FY23
Q1 FY24
EBITDA excl OI & Fx
PAT
49
46
45
46
41
Q1 23
Q2 23
Q3 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
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International Business: Revenue Drivers Profile of Customer improving, with higher share from our focussed market -US
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Q4 23
Q1 24
1-3 Mn
3-5 Mn
5+ Mn
72%
62%
66%
54%
69%
58%
d e d d a s r e m o t s u C w e N
y h p a r g o e G y b e u n e v e R
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Q4 23
Q1 24
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Top 10 Customer
Top 20 Customer
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15
12
10
Q2 23
Q3 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
22%
21%
57%
28%
20%
52%
20%
16%
64%
Q1 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
*
USA
Europe
Rest of World
International Business: Operational Performance Performance has been based on significant scale up of Team Sonata
82.0%
82.7%
86.4%
6,500
6,000
5,500
5,000
4,500
6,055
323
104
6,267
361
109
4% QoQ
37% YoY
4,569
267
99
5,628
5,797
Q1 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
3,500
4,000
4,470
Utilization
Q1 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
Delivery
S&M G&A
Total
Headcount by Function
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International Business: Revenue by Verticals Mix Invest verticals: Healthcare & BFSI have grown according to our strategy
FY 23
Q1 FY 24
Healthcare 11%
TMT 33%
BFSI 8%
Emerging 9%
Revenue Share
Healthcare 14%
TMT 26%
BFSI 18%
Emerging 6%
Revenue Share
Retail and Manufacturing 39%
Retail and Manufacturing 37%
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International Business: Revenue by Top GTMs Significant growth in Cloud and Data as revenue increase by more than 50%
FY 23
Q1 FY 24
Others 2%
Emerging Tech 13%
Others 6%
Emerging Tech 10%
Cloud 36%
Revenue Share
Cloud 38%
Revenue Share
Dynamics 37%
Data 12%
Dynamics 26%
Data 20%
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Domestic Business: Delivering consistently strong Growth with Industry leading ROCE
EBITDA 28.2% YoY
3.6% YoY
1,343
1,350
Cloud ~78.8% Annuity ~75.9%
1,392
Q1 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
399
372
374
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GC 21.8% YoY
58
54
62
56
51
44
Q1 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
EBITDA
GC
47.2%
44.6%
35.5%
32.2%
28.2%
1.00
0.90
0.80
0.70
0.60
0.50
0.40
0.30
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n o i t u b i r t n o C
O S D
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0.80
0.78
Q1 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
38
37
38
35
36
Q1 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
FY 20
FY 21
FY 22
FY 23
Q1 FY 24
Q1 23
Q2 23
Q3 23
Q4 23
Q1 24
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