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COMMS GROUP LTD — Investor Presentation 2018
Aug 29, 2018
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CommsChoice Group August 2018
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Disclaimer
The material in this presentation is a summary of Commschoice Group’s (CCG) activities and results, and is current at the date of preparation, 29 August 2018. Further details are provided in the Company’s full year accounts and results announcement released on 29 August 2018.
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| Agenda | ||
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| Business overview | 4 | |
| Business performance | 8 | |
| Market conditions | 12 | |
| Integration | 13 | |
| Outlook and guidance | 14 | |
| Appendices | 15 | |
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Introduction
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5 ICT providers come together in 2017 to become Comms Choice Group (ASX:CCG)
Compelling market opportunity – Technology, Cloud, NBN
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Strong complementary skills and capabilities with well articulated value proposition
Sound platform for continued growth
VOICE MANAGED
DATA
NETWORK
NETWORK
SERVICES
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Replace legacy • Design ISDN & PABX • Deliver
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Multi-carrier
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Simplify networks
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Connect to the • Hosted voice cloud • Collaboration
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Support
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• Collaboration functionality
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Business Overview
Value Proposition
CommsChoice provides a fresh approach to innovative, vendor neutral managed network services and hosted voice for ANZ businesses to optimize costs and improve performance.
Our proven onboarding capability, experience and service delivery sets us apart.
Listed Headquarters 2017 MELB
We simplify your journey to the cloud
Employees Revenue 65 $21M
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Company History
In December 2017, CommsChoice Group brought together 5 complementary ICT businesses to solve the problems commonly experienced with traditional ICT providers.
2005
2008 2008
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2009
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FY18 Highlights
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Successful listing on ASX in December 2017
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Integration of 5 business well underway
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Best of breed capability brought together
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Strong value proposition
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Building strong pipeline of work
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Business Overview
Core Offerings
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Mobility
Hosted Voice
Internet & NBN
Cost effective, vendor neutral network access across the country
No Hardware. No Managed mobility to Software. Just Cloud secure your data and PABX. control costs.
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Collaboration
Managed Services
SD-WAN
Next generation WAN. Connect your teams to Focus on your core Ditch those dedicated improve productivity and business – let us manage private links. reduce travel cost. your network.
Core Competencies. Why CCG?
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Deployment
Customer Service
Our onboarding and project 24/7 professional support managers ensure deployed as keeps you operating. planned.
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Single Bill
Training
We make sure that you can Just plain convenient. And we use operate the things we deliver. check your first invoice with you to confirm accuracy.
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Financial Performance
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Market Guidance FY18
Managed
(May 2018)
10%
Revenue 20.4 20.7 Data
14%
Revenue
Cost of Sales 11.1 11.7
streams
Voice
Gross Margin 9.3 9.0 76%
Opex 7.5 7.2
EBITDA 1.8 1.8
Managed Data Voice
EBITDA % 8.8% 8.7%
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Revenue streams for the period since list are:
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Managed services income $2.0m (annualised) .
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Proforma revenue ahead trading update.
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EBITDA of $1.8m in line with trading update.
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Data Networks $2.8m (annualised) .
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Voice networks $15.7m (annualised)
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Cash Flow
| $m Group | H2 2018 |
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| Reported | |
| Operating cash flow | (1.0) |
| Investing cash flow | (4.3) |
| Financing cash flow | 6.9 |
| Net cash flow | 1.6 |
| Cash at 31 December | 1.7 |
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Operating cash outflow reflects the initial working capital needs of the business following the acquisitions.
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Investing cash flows represent the cash element of the acquisition consideration together with the investment in ACaaS.
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Balance Sheet
| $m Group | At 31/12/17 | At 30/6/18 |
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| Cash Total assets |
3.7 36.5 |
1.7 34.9 |
| Borrrowings | (0.1) | - |
| Total liabilities | (6.8) | (6.4) |
| Net assets | 29.6 | 28.5 |
| Equity attributable to members of the | 29.6 | 28.5 |
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Net cash of $1.7m
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Debt free
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Strong balance sheet
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Investor Metrics
| Metric | Value |
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| Number of shares | 108.7m |
| Share Price 29 August 2018 | $0.15 |
| Market Capitalisation | $16.3m |
| Net (debt)/cash | $ 1.7m |
| Enterprise Value | $14.6m |
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Favorable Market Conditions
CCG Capability
Customers needing data networks to connect all offices securely and reliable to the cloud
Legacy customer PABX need replacement, customers looking for opex models
NBN replacing ISDN creates an opportunity for CCG
CCG ready to capitalise on NBN availability
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Data Managed
Voice Managed
Data Voice
Data
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Public Cloud
Providers
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Integration Update
Mar 18
Sep 18
Mar 19
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New customers added to single billing system (Octane)
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Org structure and team creation
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Internal business systems implemented
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Oracle/Telaustralia/2Easy/Woffle • Support and back office in Manila integrated for billing (Octane)
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Integration of CRM, ERP and billing (Celigo)
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Common service delivery/project management (netSuite)
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2018 March June September December March 2019
2018
Jun 18 Dec 18
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Common CRM (SalesForce)
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Common ERP (NetSuite)
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• Company intranet and collaboration
tools (Office365)
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- Telegate integrated for billing
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Outlook & Guidance
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Integration of CCG businesses continues with uniform operations and improving customer experience Strong financial position to pursue both organic and inorganic growth CCG is well position to take advantage of favourable market conditions Aiming for double digit growth in FY19
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Appendices
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Appendix 1 - Product Overview
| Customer Challenge | Customer Challenge | CCG Core Competencies | Benefits to Customer |
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| Data | Single-sourcing of data network limits capability and reach and quality |
SD-WAN is to lower WAN costs using more affordable and commercially available data services |
Cost savings vs MPLS |
| Managing a global networks not possible with one carrier |
Connecting customers to the cloud | One supplier | |
| Costly and complex carrier MPLS/IPWAN network and leverage transition to NBN |
Multi-sourcing Internet and Network Access from many suppliers globally |
Enable shift to cloud applications | |
| Voice | Inconsistent user experience across global sites with mix of technology/legacy equipment |
Hosted voice platform | Location flexibility, one number any device Scalability and standard feature set globally |
| Multiple suppliers - video/voice conferencing, messaging, etc |
SIP (Replace legacy ISDN) | Presence, integrated messaging, video complement voice and improve internal communications and productivity |
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| Internally managing ageing, costly on-premises PABX network. Limited capability and scalability. |
Wholesale Voice | Transition to SIP as a first step to hosted voice as ISDN/PSTN becomes obsolete |
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| Network cost & complexity (small IT Teams) | Managed Services (light) | Focus on core business (CCG manage communications and keep your business online) |
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| Manage | Managing multiple global providers is a challenge. |
Architecture (Professional Service) | One contract, once number to call, one invoice |
| Service level inconsistency | Delivery (project management) | Access to experts when you need them, no need to keep on team |
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Appendix 2 – SD WAN SCHEMATIC
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Connect
Cloud Firewall
Hosted Voice
Cloud Orchestrator
Dynamic Multi-Path Cloud
Optimization Gateways
SaaS
INTERNET
Intelligent Bonding
Private /
MPLS
Branch Offices
Intelligent
Bonding Enterprise Data
Centre
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Leverage simple, ubiquitous, competitive internet for rapid deployment
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Deploy carrier redundancy for high availability
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Intelligent traffic management ensures voice and video are prioritised over less important workloads
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Eliminate unnecessary hardware and support contracts
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