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DATAGROUP SE: DATAGROUP Reports Strong First Quarter in the New Fiscal Year - Seite 2

"We have witnessed a strong growth in order intake and additional sales across all our market units", Chief Sales Officer Dirk Peters comments the current order situation. "There is strong demand for IT services from public authorities, but also from companies, for instance in relation with an improvement of their employees' home office situation, which is also due to Covid-19. We have also received pandemic-related special orders such as the provision and operation of the IT infrastructure of vaccination centers in Baden-Württemberg."

Almato AG, which is specialized in services in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as automation and mobilization of business processes, has received several new orders and contract renewals. Innovative AI-based services continue to gain in importance, and there has also been a good order intake in the development of software robots, e.g., for the automation of back-office processes.

Acquisitions have also developed positively in the last fiscal year. Portavis, which was acquired in March 2020, has continued to increase its profitability, making positive contributions to the comprehensive income of DATAGROUP. The minority shareholding in Cloudeteer, which was acquired in June 2020, likewise has proven to be a stroke of luck: The newly acquired specialist expertise for complex migration situations in the cloud environment enabled DATAGROUP to win interesting projects for cloud shifts.
 

CORBOX ENSURES STABLE ORDER INTAKE

In the first quarter of FY 2020/2021, DATAGROUP has acquired four new customers and was able to upsell products to six existing customers on the basis of the CORBOX. CORBOX is a modular and combinable suite of IT services covering all areas of IT operations in companies. Thanks to standardization and highest quality standards, DATAGROUP makes IT simple for its customers. The CORBOX is extended by new services on a regular basis, e.g., SAP on Azure or Robots-as-a-Service. Overall, more than 80% of the gross margin is generated by long-term contracts with terms of between three and seven years. This ensures planning certainty and sustainability for the business.