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Allied Digital Services, Mumbai
Allied Digital Services grew at 75 percent to post a turnover of Rs 525 crore during FY 08-09. Its profits almost doubled to Rs 82 crore vis-à-vis Rs 42 crore in the previous FY.
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Peter Jesudas, Director, Sales, Kaseya Software, presenting the award to Nitin Shah, CMD, Allied Digital Services
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“Managed services contributed nearly 30 percent to the overall revenues. We added Rs 110 crore to our managed services revenues through our $30 million acquisition of the US-based infrastructure services company En Pointe Global Services. Also, our acquisition of Digicomp added Rs 15 crore to the topline,” said Nitin Shah, Managing Director, Allied Digital.
Commenting on the factors that contributed to profit growth Shah added, “We have moved the service delivery of En Pointe customers in the US to our NOC and SOC here, and this has enhanced our margins by 5 percent.”
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Performance Highlights
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• Allied Digital Services grew at 75 percent to post a turnover of Rs 525 crore during FY 08-09. Acquired En Pointe Global Services and Digicomp, which added Rs 110 crore and Rs 15 crore respectively to the topline
• Started offshoring of services to En Pointe customers which improved the bottomline by 5 percent
• Manages 1,50,000 nodes across 345 customers, with 57,000 nodes being managed for one single BFSI customer
• Added project management and inventory management modules to its SAP system
• In the process of attaining ISO 20000
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Company Snapshot
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Company: Allied Digital Services
CEO: Nitin Shah
Year of inception: 1995
Turnover 2008-09: Rs 525 crore
Turnover 2007-08: Rs 300 crore
Employees: 3,000
Certified employees: 2,085
Principals: HP, Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, Entrasys, EMC, Red Hat, Microsoft, Symantec, IBM, Dell, Acer
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Allied currently manages 1,50,000 nodes across 345 customers,with 57,000 nodes being managed for one single BFSI client. Little wonder then that the BFSI sector emerged as the largest contributor to Allied’s managed security services revenues, garnering 45 percent, while the retail sector contributed 20 percent and the remaining 35 percent came from other verticals.
During the fiscal, Allied added the inventory management and project management module to its SAP system. “The two SAP modules added last year helped us improve our inventory management and resource allocation for projects, thus enabling us to achieve higher productivity and cost efficiencies,” said Shah.
The company also implemented ISO 27001 for its NOC and SOC last year. The company is presently in the process of attaining ISO 20000 for IT services management. “As we build a stack of new integrated and blended services for our clients in coming years, it is important to have ISO 20000. It will help us effectively deliver managed services to meet the stringent SLAs of international customers,” said Shah.
In the current fiscal, Allied plans to explore managed services opportunities in Europe; this would entail expansion of its SOC and NOC capacities. It plans to increase its focus on the government, transportation and infrastructure sectors during the ongoing fiscal.
Allied Digital was ranked in Forbes Asia’s Best Under-A-Billion Companies for 2008.
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