Sonata Software Limited has informed the Exchange about Investor Presentation
30th July, 2025
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 Sirs/Madam,
SUB: INVESTORS’ PRESENTATION
Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, we are enclosing Investors’ Presentation for the quarter ended 30th June, 2025.
The above said presentation is also made available on the Company’s website www.sonata-software.com.
We request you to kindly 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
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W: www.sonata-software.com E: info@sonata-software.com T: +91 80 6778 1000
Q1 FY’26
INVESTOR PRESENTATION
www.sonata-software.com
Sonata: A modernization engineering firm…
From: 80-20 run-change
To: 80-20 change-run
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Mid-caps: Business Heads / CXO’s to transform their firm
Large caps: CIO looking for AGILE partners
Digital Experience Platforms, AI/Data Platforms & Continuous Modernization
Sonata At A Glance
We are a Modernization and a Digital Engineering company powered by our unique PLATFORMATION framework.
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IT solutions provider
(SONATSOFTW)
Revenue
10 years CAGR
Engineers across US, EU, Asia & ANZ
Different Nationalities
Delivering Outcome-based Modernization Services
Cloud
AI & Data
Dynamics
Managed Services
Automation
Digital Contact Center
Digital transformation using PlatformationTM
Serving Our Global Clients with Right Talent Mix (Global & Local Talent)
Canada Toronto Vancouver
USA Redmond Atlanta, GA Fremont, CA East Brunswick, NJ Dallas
Global Delivery Center & Sales Office
Sales Office
Mexico Guadalajara
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UK & Europe London Dublin Amsterdam Frankfurt
APAC Bangalore Hyderabad Chennai Delhi Kolkata Pune Mumbai Ahmedabad Selangor (Malaysia) Singapore Shanghai Kumamoto (Japan)
Australia Brisbane Sydney Melbourne
Middle East & Africa Egypt
Key Verticals, Partners, IPs
TMT Technology, Media and Telecom
RMD Retail, Manuf., Travel and Distribution
BFSI Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
HLS Healthcare and Life Sciences
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Tech
Partnership Ecosystem
Domain
+
LISA Chatbot (Conversational AI)
Workbox.io (Archival)
Lightning Build
Sustainability Target: Net Zero Emission by 2050
Single Use Plastic Free certified
100% Tier 1 suppliers on ESG compliant and trained
UNGC Signatory
SbTi Commitment by FY26
Vision
SCALE – Key Drivers
A top-quartile growth firm
Enabling client’s modernization outcomes and empowering Sonatians to succeed.
Harvest Microsoft sell-to; Dynamics Sustain SITL momentum Retail, Manufacturing, Travel and TMT
Invest Sales, Large deals, BFSI, Healthcare Life Sciences and technical capabilities (AI)
Diversify
Clients: Build multiple large accounts
Brand: Global brand in Modernization
…evolving from Sonata Software to Sonata.AI
Our Performance Vision and aspiration for Sonata
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What’s Working Well for Us…
Large Deals 3 Large deals won during Q1FY’26
Modernization Cloud & Data pipeline is 64%
Domestic Business Steady GC growth – 16.7% CAGR over 5 yrs
AI & Fabric AI - $46M Pipeline Fabric - $ 39M pipeline
Verticals / Partnerships • MS Sell to, HLS,
BFSI, TMT • AWS and MS
Sell with
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Large Deals and Accounts
Steady increase in Large Deals
Between FY22 and to date – we have closed ‘NET NEW’ 23 deals with TCV of $456M
$73M – TMT client Cloud Modernization
$56M – Healthcare client Cloud & Infra Operations
$7M – Tech client Platform Engineering
30 large deals in the pipeline – these deals take 4-6 quarters of pursuit (on average)
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We Won Three Large Deals in Q1
Large Deals
Technology Corporation – US
Multinational Financial Corporation – US
Financial Mortgage Corporation – US
Technology Outsourcing
Cloud and Data Transformation
Cloud and Data Transformation
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Large Deal Win: AI driven Customer Experience and Support
Client Overview
A global technology leader, this company offers a broad range of software and cloud services that support digital transformation for businesses and individuals. Widely recognized for its innovative approach, it delivers platforms that enable seamless communication, collaboration, and business management across various industries.
Industry TMT
Areas in Scope
Client Overview
Client HQ US
Locations Global
Partner to provide proactive and reactive customer experience and support across products and programs
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Proactive technical product support
Reactive technical product support
Program management and operational support
• Global and multilingual support
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Large Deal Win: Data Platform(s) Support and Core Application Development
Client Overview
Customer is one of the largest commercial bank in the US by assets. Customer offers a broad range of services including retail and commercial banking, asset management, and insurance..
Industry Finance
Client Overview
Client HQ USA
Locations North America
Areas in Scope
Consolidated Data Platforms Support and Core Applications Development & QA Testing
• Data Platform(s) Support
• Data Platform(s) Optimization
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Healthy Large Deals Pipeline
Large Deals Pipeline
of Active Pipeline consists of Large Deals
of Large deals pipeline are with Fortune 500 clients
Large Deals in the pipeline
BFSI
TMT
HLS
RMD 6
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Quality of Growth – Top Client's Movement
Fortune 50
Fortune 500
Top 10 Accounts
Q1 FY 25
Q4 FY 25
Q1 FY 26
3 clients
4 clients
3 clients
4 clients
3 clients
4 clients
40% of Top 10 Accounts are Fortune 500 Companies
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Sonata Launches AgentBridge
Sonata Software is One of the First Mid-Tier Organization to Launch Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI Workflow
Advantage Strategic edge in demonstrating tangible enterprise use cases powered by AI agents.
Embedded within Sonata’s Harmoni.AI framework, AgentBridge supports a modular “Agent-as-a-Service” model, enabling rapid adoption, governance and ROI- driven transformation.
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AI Partnerships
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Modernization Success…
Our big bets on Cloud & Data has scaled… In last 3 years Cloud & Data (as a % of revenue) have scaled up from 50% to 59%.
22%
28%
50%
22%
27%
52%
17%
23%
59%
FY 23
FY 24
FY 25
Cloud & Data
Dynamics
Others
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Verticals & Geos Scale up …
HLS + BFSI continue to scale (9% to 34%). TMT is witnessing a resurge; US scales steadily
Vertical Split
9%
13%
32%
46%
FY 22
34%
5%
31%
30%
FY 25
Geo Split
17%
14%
12%
14%
69%
74%
26%
20%
54%
FY 23
FY 24
FY 25
RMD
TMT
Emerging
HLS +BFSI
USA
EU
ROW
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Key Bets for The Future….
$39 M pipeline created; Won key deals Official Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner
$46 M Pipeline created; Order Book of $8.2M
MS GTM funding AWS – Rescale Program VMWare->Cloud Migration Compete deals
Verticalization
Focused GTM
Large Deals
Large accounts
Continued focus
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Cloud Apps Modernization
Data & Analytics
Microsoft Business Apps
Service Experience Transformation
Hyper Automation
Managed Services
MSFT Market Place Partners
Our GTM’s are Aligned with Our Partners and Our Investment Focus…
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Microsoft-Sonata Partnership: 30+ Years of Jointly Driving Customer Success
Partner for RPA Migration 100
Partner for Microsoft Fabric
Sonata named again in Inner Circle for Microsoft Business Application 2024-25
AI/Gen-AI Industry Partnership
400+ Clients Across The Globe USA, Europe, Asia, India, Australia, Middle East
$650+ Million Per Annum Revenue To Microsoft
3500+ 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
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Cybersecurity Investment Partner (CSI)
Success Stories (1/4)
Unified, scalable, and intelligent data analytics platform through Microsoft Fabric implementation
Client Overview
Industry Manufacturing
Locations Serving 100+ countries from 19 international offices
A UK based global leading fragrance house
The Pressure Points
Solutions
Results
• Higher overall costs and
justification on return from technology investment.
• Slower decisions due to lack of
timely insights
• Fragmented user experience
and lack of unified view of data
• High dependency on IT team
for reports and limited automations.
• Business opportunities and
Growth was limited.
• Built unified, scalable, and intelligent data analytics platform through Microsoft Fabric implementation
• Integrates data from Dynamics 365 F&O and on-premises sources into a centralized lakehouse using the Medallion architecture.
• Support for advanced analytics
and Power BI reporting.
• Enablement self-service
analytics, AI co-pilot, and natural language processing.
• Real-time dashboard with high- level insights into key business metrics, enabling faster and informed decision-making for executives.
• 30% reduction in data silos, 40%
faster insights, and a 50% decrease in IT report requests. • Improved Predictive accuracy for sales forecasting by 25%, 20% gain in operational efficiency supported by Industry-specific data models and dimensional modelling
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Success Stories (2/4)…
IT Modernization & Transformation for optimum Global Trade and Distribution
Client Overview
Industry Energy
Locations Operations in 10 different countries in APAC
A leading Pan-Asian renewable energy company
The Pressure Points
Solutions
Results
• High dependency on SMEs
and manual oversight
• Legacy application based on outdated Dynamics AX 2009 with limited automation
• Need for SLA driven and
better governed IT operations in a Managed Service Model
• Data was managed in various excel sheets and distributed across multiple legacy applications
• No uniformity in the workflows
within the organization
• Cloudification of legacy system (AX2009) to Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.
• Streamlined trading operations for the organization through a centralized platform for trade execution, position monitoring, and risk management
• Modernization with scalable architecture through core global template and region- specific customization and localization
• Optimized business process through standardization & transformation
• Growth and business value across the enterprise via optimal standardization
• Implement the best practices in a solution to meet client’s Finance and Trading requirements and future business expansion needs • A Scalable and robust system to support business growth
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Success Stories (3/4)…
Modernization of Engineering Processes and Systems for Core Product development
Client Overview
Industry TMT
Locations Operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific
A leading American technology company specializing in HCM
The Pressure Points
Solutions
Results
• Manual, inconsistent
deployments across various environments such as DEV, QA, UAT & PROD
• Introduced end-to-end
automated deployments with environment-aware logic
• Frequent version mismatches
and rollback scenarios
• Built modular playbooks for install, upgrade, and rollback
• High dependency on SMEs
• Integrated GitHub CI/CD
and manual oversight
with GCP Secrets & centralized logging
• Enabled secure, scalable, and
traceable releases with rollback support
• Faster time to market with 60%+ reduction in deployment time • Consistent & reliable rollouts with
version traceability·
• Improved release confidence with
faster recovery from failures • Reduced SME dependency and
minimized manual errors
• Scalable framework to onboard
future modules with ease.
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Success Stories (4/4)…
Modernization of Add-in for Core Product aligning to latest standards, better user experience, and cross-platform compatibility
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Client Overview
Industry TMT
Locations Across 5 countries
A global insurance technology company providing cloud software
The Pressure Points
Solutions
Results
• Legacy COM-based Outlook
• Replaced the legacy COM-
add-in was no longer supported by Microsoft, leading to compatibility issues.
• Add-in failed to function
consistently across Outlook Desktop and Web platforms.
• Manual email download and upload process was time- consuming and inefficient.
based add-in with a modern, React-based Outlook add-in by integrated key actions within Outlook for improved productivity.
• Ensured cross-platform
compatibility (Desktop + OWA) for seamless user experience.
• Embedded functionality enabled direct email and attachment submission to the EPIC application, removal of manual steps.
• Future-proof solution aligned with Microsoft’s latest add-in standards.
• Unified experience across platforms, improving user adoption.
• Increased efficiency by saving time and eliminating manual processes.
• Enhanced productivity with
smoother communication and task handling.
• Simplified daily workflows through direct integration with the EPIC application.
Key Recognition
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Key Milestone – Unveiled new facility
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Sonata consolidated PAT grew 1.7% QoQ. International IT services revenue grew 0.6% QoQ
INR Crs.
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Revenue in $ Mn
Reported Currency
Constant Currency
0.6% QoQ
1.1% YoY
0.9% QoQ
2.4% YoY
EBITDA & PAT in $ Mn
PAT
13.5% QoQ
8.5% YoY
*$10. 3
Return on Capital
DSO
Financial Performance of International Services – Q1FY25
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Client Metrics
New Customers added
Client Contribution to Revenue
Revenue by Geography
International Services: Revenue Insights
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Headcount by Function
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Utilization
Attrition% (LTM)
International Services: Operating Parameters
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International Services: Q1’26 Revenue Composition
HLS 14% (Q4’25: 12%)
BFSI 20% (Q4’25: 23%)
Emerging 4% (Q4’25: 6%)
TMT 32% (Q4’25: 28%)
Emerging 10% (Q4’25: 9%)
Others 4% (Q4’25: 5%)
Cloud 39% (Q4’25: 39%)
Verticals Mix
GTM
Dynamic 23% (Q4’25: 24%)
Retail and Manufacturing 30% (Q4’25: 31%)
Data 24% (Q4’25: 23%)
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Domestic Business: Financial Performance Q1 FY26
Revenue (INR crs)
Gross Contribution & EBITDA (INR crs)
*$10. 3
18.6% QoQ
Cloud ~88.0% Annuity ~12.0%
GC 12.6% QoQ
EBITDA 22.1% QoQ
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Domestic Business: Additional Insight Q1 FY26
Net working Capital ÷ Gross Contribution
ROCE and RONW
Head Count
DSO
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Annexure
Details of Finance Cost, Depreciation and Other Income
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Interest on Acquisition loan increased due to an additional loan acquired during the quarter for Quant SPA payment.
• Unwinding of interest is reduced due to discounting of deferred payment after entering into an amended SPA with Quant.
• Depreciation costs rose due to new office
facilities in Hyderabad.
• Other income & Fx saw an uptick, primarily driven by higher foreign exchange gains during the quarter and return on Investment.
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