John Cotterell
Analyst · Bryan Bergin
Thank you, Laurence, and thank you all very much for joining us today. Mark and I are pleased to be here to provide an update on our business and financial performance for the three months ended December 31, 2019. Endava had another record quarter for Q2 fiscal year '20, with the revenue of £85.9 million, a growth of 19.6% year-on-year from £71.8 million in the same period in the prior year. Our revenue growth in constant currency was 20.5% year-on-year. If we pro forma for the revenue from the Worldpay Captive last year, our revenue growth on a constant currency basis was 24.5% year-on-year. Our strong revenue growth is driven by the expansion of our existing customers and the acquisition of new ones during the quarter. We continue to broaden our client base and ended the quarter with 367 active clients, up from 271 at the end of the same period in the prior year, a 35% year-on-year increase. The total number of clients who generated revenue over £1 million on a rolling 12 months basis was 65, an increase of 8.3% over the same period of the prior year. While Worldpay remains a very large and fast-growing client for us, in Q2, following the sale of the Captive, it was no longer our largest client. Last week, we celebrated 20 years since I founded Endava, 20 years of reimagining the relationship between people and technology, 20 years of transforming business models, reimagining user experiences and opening up new markets through the creation of technology products. We started the business in the financial services space in the city of London, but are increasingly expanding into other sectors. Today, I'd like to spend a little time on retail and CPG, which is a fast-growing segment for Endava. Customers are becoming sophisticated consumers of content, with retail and CPG organizations being forced to provide increasingly content-rich experiences in support of new purchasing and ownership models. This experience can be taken to the next level by considering the immersive experiences that can be provided through the application of virtual and augmented reality technologies. By providing truly immersive experiences, ranging from mobile-enabled augmented way finding or extended product interactions, a retail and CPG business can counter out fatigue and drive a more direct interaction with end consumers. Expectations are also quickly transcending the table stakes experiences over the last 10 years, driving digital tools into the physical world, combining environmental elements with interactive touch points, designed to enhance and delight offering a differentiator against competitors and a potential advantage as they tap into more personalized engagements. On this note, data-driven insight is a core enabler of all these enhancements. Insights gleaned from data collection around behaviors, preferences, operations and conversion form the foundation of a new iterative product strategy, of which technology is an integral component. The rapidity with which companies can capture, synthesize and take action on customer data is increasing, and the time required to recognize results and inform the next phases of product development is shrinking inversely. In addition to these gains, data is creating a deeper, more personal connection to both products and the experiences associated with them. Audience segmentation has become such a granular pursuit that the days of grouping individuals against defined criteria are behind us, and each consumer is truly an audience of one with a laser focus on gleaning as much insight on a per person basis as possible to aggregate into still more development choices and customizations. We are well positioned to deliver into this space, rethinking the consumer-technology connection and pairing innovative thinking around data applications with strategic planning against emerging technology needs. I'd like to highlight how our service solutions and product innovation offerings are helping clients in the ever-competitive and changing world of retail and CPG. Our creativity, along with our technical expertise, have been instrumental in helping clients in these fast-changing sectors. We partnered with a U.S.-based worldwide retailer in leisure equipment. We provide applications used within their retail locations to help customers in stores as well as store staff and management. We are helping in the streamlining of several key business areas, including inventory management, SEO optimization and customer experience as well as technology migration to the cloud using both AWS and Salesforce platforms. We're also working with a leader in the online and mobile prepared food ordering and delivery industry. We're involved in several of their mission-critical projects, providing expertise and engineering capacity in a modern environment. For example, we recently delivered improvements to their ratings and reviews module. Our team owned the entire delivery of the solution, design, implementation and subsequent feature improvements. The work requires a well-designed architecture, allowing for vertical and horizontal scaling. Endava was chosen by one of the world's largest beverage companies to be their IT services partner for a variety of mobile and web lead internal and external projects. These projects include helping the beverage company giant consolidate and standardize its web experience on desktop and mobile. We've also built for them a next-generation promotion platform, designed to increase efficiency and lower cost by modularizing the company's promotions globally. It is designed to be available across all consumer channels, locally adaptable, easily configured and for a small fraction of the costs traditionally associated with their running such campaigns for their beverage business. In the CPG space, we are also working with Unilever. They had bold ambitions to revolutionize the world of HR rewards by building a platform offering a unified benefits experience. They needed an innovative technology partner with the capabilities to support their vision and deliver an end-to-end solution in an agile way. After a thorough competitive tender process, Unilever partnered with us to deliver the new platform. Unilever is now going to step further by making this exciting solution available to other businesses to purchase with the launch of uFlexReward as a new company. The cloud-based platform built on Microsoft Azure is multi-tenanted, secure and fully customizable to each business user's brand, and uFlexReward will continue to work with Endavo to support and further develop the product. On December 17, we announced the purchase of Exozet, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Exozet is a leading German digital agency, delivering digital transformation from ideation to production using agile development. This acquisition should help to accelerate our European expansion. Exozet brings to Endava a list of well-known German multinationals, including Audi, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens and Europa Park as well as experience in the broadcasting sector, working with ZDF, Media Broadcast, the BBC and others. With this acquisition, we now have 156 employees based in Germany and Austria with end-to-end expertise from consulting to design, implementation and technical innovation. Exozet's key clients were very receptive to the announcement, and the acquisition is already leading to additional business, which we believe Exozet would not have won without our support. On the acquisition of Intuitus, which I highlighted last quarter, we started the integration process with several commercial wins. Currently, we are working through our combined go-to-market and the positioning of our services to PE funds. Intuitus' deep knowledge of the PE space and their flexible operating model is accelerating our PE footprint. An increasing number of PE funds for whom we've done due diligence work are coming to us to support their post-acquisition technology challenges. Our client growth continues to translate into strong employee growth. We ended the quarter with 6,267 employees, a 16.3% increase from 5,389 in the same period last year. In a continued effort to build out and invest in our U.S. growth, we recently opened 2 new close to client locations in the United States in Dallas, Texas, and Santa Monica, California. Both offices have a mix of close to client staff from our sales and delivery organizations. We expect those locations, along with those we have in New York City, New Jersey, Atlanta and Seattle, will continue to provide the basis for our U.S. expansion. Endava online community remains very active, with approximately 30 postings on technology thought leadership in the quarter ended December 31, 2019. We delivered a solid first half of fiscal year 2020. Client demand for our service offering remains strong. Mark and I and the entire team are extremely pleased with our excellent performance for Q2 and continue to have confidence in the opportunities ahead of us and, therefore, our ability to deliver value for all our stakeholders, our clients, our investors, our exceptional leadership team and, of course, our people, who are what makes Endava so special. I'll now pass the call on to Mark, who will walk you through our financial results for the quarter and provide guidance for the coming quarter and update it for the fiscal year.