Trans-Tasman IT services group, Datacom, continues on a strong growth path across the Australian and New Zealand markets, and increasingly in international markets, with revenue climbing to A$955 million (NZ$1.058 billion) for the year to the end of March.
Announcing full-year results on Thursday, Datacom’s profits after tax were A$24.5 million (NZ$27.2m), up 11.9% on the previous year.
Datacom Group chairman Craig Boyce said group profit before tax was A$37.2 million (NZ$41.2m), an increase of 16.7% on last year. “Along with the revenue growth this represents a very positive performance from the business,” Boyce said.
In Australia and Asia, Datacom delivered a revenue increase of 12.9% over the previous year, while in the New Zealand operation revenue increased by 13.1%, which Boyce said continued the trend of continuous growth over the last decade.
{loadposition peter}Datacom CEO Jonathan Ladd says the company has expanded significantly to ensure it can bring to market the benefits of new technologies, “combined with our geographic and infrastructure reach which complements our local touchpoints”.
Earlier this month, Datacom launched a new national network connecting all of its data centres across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
The move, which Datacom described as a “game changer” in the national data centre market, interconnects Datacom’s nine data centres, providing a private, secure, carrier diverse network for accessing digital assets and public cloud resources.
Over the financial year, Datacom opened four new offices and now operates from 29 locations across New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, the UK and the USA.
Ladd says Australia Systems delivered growth driven by customer demand for hybrid cloud services and new software offerings, and “by a number of significant wins with medium to large enterprises and across State and Federal Government”.
And, he says third-party products sales have continued to perform well over the year.
The company also reports that the push of its software development operations into the Australian market continues, with increased delivery capabilities in both Melbourne and Sydney – producing a number of new customer wins and providing “real growth opportunities in the wider Australian market”.
“IT is in a phase of hyper-change. Any success is built via agility, and for Datacom this means utilising the deep infrastructure management expertise of our people coupled with our unique ability to be able to deploy a near thousand-strong software development workforce to enhance any environment,” Ladd notes.
Ladd says expanding expertise in the transformational digital practices, data analytics, enterprise, and industrial mobility offerings are also driving multiple new consultancy engagements across Australia and New Zealand for Datacom.
“We’re also seeing sharp growth for cloud applications transformation services and demand for WAN, LAN and wireless networks,” Ladd says.
“The uplift within the cyber security market is significant, with Datacom’s specialist cyber practice delivering excellent growth on the back of its investment in a purpose-built Cyber Security Incident Response Centre (CSIRC) located in Canberra.
“Datacom’s network of 12 data centres across Australasia continues to perform to an exceptional standard. In March, Datacom installed its 1460th rack into its New Zealand network, more than tripling the number of racks the company had when the Orbit Data Centre in Auckland opened in 2009.”
Internationally, Datacom reports that its Kuala Lumpur and Manila operations had solid results for the year delivering “multilingual managed services, complex cloud platform management and a wide range of project services to both global and Asian organisations”.