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Itera

Investor Presentation Oct 27, 2021

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    1. Highlights of the Quarter
    1. Business Review
    1. Financial Review
    1. Outlook
    1. Q & A

Arne Mjøs CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Bent Hammer CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Q3 in brief

Key figures core digital business

02 Business review

Specialist in creating sustainable digital business

We are following our customers around the world

We help international customers and partners across borders through our Delivery Factory at Scale and Cloud Centre of Excellence to transform into sustainable business.

The Nordics is often positioned as a digital and sustainable front-runner, showing the way globally.

Our Delivery Factory at Scale with crossfunctional teams across borders was recognised as best in the world by Global Sourcing Association in 2018.

Delivery Factory at Scale for data-driven businesses

Innovation Faster business innovation
through autonomous teams and
adoption of cloud services
CUSTOMER BUSINESS & DIGITAL STRATEGY
Speed/Agility Business agility and reduced
time-to-market through efficient
DevSecOps
teams
CLOUD
MIGRATION
WORKLOADS
CUSTOMER
PRODUCT
WORKLOADS
ANALYTICS &
DATAOPS
WORKLOADS
PARTNERS
Costs Efficient use of distributed delivery
across borders and public cloud
scale
DELIVERY FACTORY AT SCALE Microsoft
IBM Red Hat
Cognite
Sales force
Confluent
Others
Control Secure, predictable and flexible
service delivery and operations
capability end to end
CLOUD CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE (CCoE)

Go-to-market model for main segments

B2C B2B

BANKING, FINANCE & INSURANCE HEAVY ASSETS & PROCESS INDUSTRIES

ENABLEMENT TRANSFORMATION
CLOUD TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK

DELIVERY FACTORY AT SCALE CLOUD CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

Creating full end-to-end understanding for value creation

Industry Focus Business Agenda
Conversations
Business & Product Agenda We operate here!
Business Outcome
& Potential
Digital Agenda
Conversations
Digital Agenda
Disruption Focus Initiative
Conversations
Digital Initiative
Digital Initiative
Digital Initiative Digital Initiative
Technology Focus Solution
Conversations
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Partnership-led
Discussions
Cloud Platform
Conversations
Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud

Itera and Aize join forces towards the 4th industrial revolution

Itera was gold sponsor at Ignite 2021

Ignite is the world's leading industrial conference hosted by Cognite with more than 10.000 participants.

Itera played an important role in the conference and had, among other contributions, two speakers on stage.

The conference gathers leaders from all over the world to present and discuss the most challenging issues that various industries face to become sustainable towards 2050, with a special focus on the energy sector.

Data-driven business report: using data as a strategic asset

Itera launched a report where we examined how Norwegian organisations use data as a strategic asset, which practices hallmark those who succeed and how to practically enable data-driven business at scale.

Our findings show that many businesses are working diligently towards a data-driven transformation.

Still, the difficulty of scaling data initiatives beyond "proof of concepts" and integrating fact-based decision making into the organisation's strategy, culture, and business models remain a key challenge for most organisations.

Market report for the Norwegian energy market

Every six months, Itera prepares a comprehensive report covering the Norwegian energy market together with Thema Consulting.

The report covers the most essential parts of the market dynamic: market development, product overview and changes, customer preferences, pricing strategies, and governmental regulations. The report includes examples and deep dive descriptions from national and international energy companies.

The report is sold as a subscription product, and key findings are presented at different conferences, webinars, and podcasts or referred to by journalists.

Sector Alarm teams up with Itera to increase scalability

Sector Alarm is one of Europe's leading safety providers with 600,000 customers. Providing excellent customer service is extremely important to enable their consistent 95% customer satisfaction rating.

Through a well conducted RFP process, Sector Alarm has chosen Itera as their partner for modernisation of their CRM solution.

A multi-disciplined team from Itera provides services within project management, architecture, user experience, development, design and testing.

The engagement is fully based on our distributed delivery model across borders to increase speed, scalability and cost efficiency for Sector Alarm.

Summer internships

During the summer, 27 master's students were engaged in four customer projects at Itera Norway

The students were divided into multi-disciplined teams of business consultants, developers, UX specialists and testers.

New technology was applied for a wide range of innovative solutions and services.

Disrupting the global self-storage industry through technology

Summer internship for ADD+SPACE

The ADD+SPACE platform is turning three different actors into one seamless ecosystem.

is to build the biggest self-storage company in the world, not owning any storage room.

the world's first virtual and sustainable selfstorage for physical things.

  1. Offensive rollout in US and Europe the following 5 years.

Order intake

Order intake from selected new and existing customers

Book-to-bill ratio*) of 0.9 in Q3 for core digital business and 1.1 for the last 12 months

Customer development

▪ New business

  • Existing customers accounted for 85.8% (91.8%) of revenues in Q3 2021
  • New customers won over the past year generated revenues of NOK 20.9 (11.2) million in Q3 2021 (14.2%)
  • Good visibility
    • Share of revenue from top 30 customers 77% (78%)
    • High customer concentration signifies
      • Strategic relationships
      • Full range of services
      • Distributed delivery across borders

Revenue customers split (in MNOK)

Largest customers' share of revenue

Q3-19 Q4-19 Q1-20 Q2-20 Q3-20 Q4-20 Q1-21 Q2-21 Q3-21

Top 30 Top 10

** New customers defined as customers won since end of corresponding quarter last year

* Existing customers defined as customers that were invoiced in the corresponding quarter last year

Skilled and innovative employees in core digital business

  • 589 employees at the end of the quarter
    • Up by 50 in the quarter
    • Up by 103 (43) last twelve months
  • Nearshore ratio of 51% (46%)
    • Our distributed delivery model of onshore and nearshore consultants are increasing our price competitiveness as well as providing high scalability through access to a very large talent pool

Number of employees end of quarter by shore

Rolling 12 months net FTE growth

03 Financial review

Financial reporting 2021

▪ Given the sunsetting of the data centre operations, focus for our financial reporting is on the core digital business, including the investment in the Cloud Centre of Excellence.

Key financials core digital business

2021 2020 change change
in
million
Amounts
NOK
7-9 7-9 %
Sales
revenue
138
9
109
7
29
3
26
7
%
of
sales
Cost
10
0
7
9
2
0
25
4
%
profit
Gross
129
0
101
7
27
3
26
8
%
margin
Gross
92
8
%
92
8
%
0
1
pts
,
0
1
pts
,
Personnel
expenses
96
8
73
2
23
6
32
2
%
Other
operating
expenses
11
2
9
4
1
8
19
0
%
Depreciation
and
amortisation
6
5
8
7
2
-1
0
%
-16
Total
operating
expenses
124
5
98
3
26
1
26
%
6
EBITDA 21
0
19
1
1
9
10
0
%
margin
EBITDA
15
1
%
17
4
%
-2
3
pts
-2
3
pts
EBIT 14
5
11
3
3
1
27
8
%
margin
EBIT
10
4
%
10
3
%
0
1
pts
0
1
pts
. of
employees
the
end
of
the
period
No
at
589 487 103 21
1
%
  • Strong growth of 27% fuelled by some major new accounts and more subcontractors
  • Personnel expenses include a double annual salary adjustment (last year postponed until Q4) and return of social events
  • Opex increase from recruitment fees and new SK office
  • Depreciation down due to office sublease and end-of-life R&D assets
  • EBIT up 28% to MNOK 14.5
  • EBIT margin of 10.4% (10.3%)
  • No. of FTEs up 103 to 589

Revenue and earnings development

Quarterly Revenue and EBIT margin*

  • Strong sales growth year over year
  • Q3 margins seasonally lower due to vacations and additionally by high recruitment
  • Quarterly figures are impacted by number of working days net of vacations

Subscription revenue from data centre operations

  • Subscription revenue from data centre operations will continue to drop as customers are migrated to cloud or exited
  • Freed up resources will be available to help new customers on their cloud journey

Segment reporting

7-9
2021
7-9
2020
Growth
Year-to-date
growth
in
million
Amounts
NOK
Core
digital
business
(94%)
Data
centre
operations
(6%)
Total Core
digital
business
(80%)
Data
centre
operations
(20%)
Total Core
digital
business
Data
centre
operations
Total Core
digital
business
Data
centre
operations
Total
Sales
revenue
138.9 8.5 147.5 109.7 27.6 137.3 26.7
%
-69.0
%
7.4
%
20.0 %
-63.9
%
3.8
%
Cost
of
sales
10.0 3.9 13.9 7.9 8.0 15.9 25.4
%
-50.8
%
-12.8
%
35.3 %
-53.1
%
-11.6
%
Gross
profit
129.0 4.6 133.6 101.7 19.6 121.4 26.8
%
%
-76.4
10.1
%
18.8 %
-69.3
%
6.0
%
Gross
margin
92.8
%
%
54.1
90.6
%
92.8
%
%
71.1
88.4
%
0.1
pts
-17
pts
2.2
pts
-0.9
pts
-10
pts
1.8
pts
Personnel
expenses
96.8 6.9 103.7 73.2 13.1 86.3 32.2
%
-47.1
%
20.1
%
22.6 %
-42.8
%
12.6
%
Other
operating
expenses
11.2 1.2 12.5 9.4 1.0 10.4 19.0
%
23.6
%
19.4
%
1.1 %
-1.1
%
0.8
%
Depreciation
and
amortisation
6.5 1.0 7.5 7.8 2.3 10.1 -16.0
%
-57.1
%
-25.5
%
-18.4 %
-52.1
%
-25.8
%
Total
operating
expenses
124.5 13.1 137.5 98.3 24.4 122.7 26.6
%
-46.4
%
12.1
%
18.6 %
-45.2
%
%
5.5
EBITDA 21.0 -3.5 17.5 19.1 5.5 24.6 10.0
%
-163.7
%
-29.1
%
12.9 %
-200.4
%
-15.6
%
margin
EBITDA
15.1
%
-41.3
%
11.8
%
17.4
%
20.0
%
17.9
%
-2.3
pts
-61.3
pts
-6.1
pts
-1.1
pts
-46.8
pts
-3.3
pts
EBIT 14.5 -4.5 10.0 11.3 3.2 14.5 27.8
%
-240.3
%
-31.6
%
29.1 %
-443.9
%
-9.4
%
margin
EBIT
10.4
%
-52.9
%
6.7
%
10.3
%
11.7
%
10.6
%
0.1
pts
-64.5
pts
-3.8
pts
1
pts
-49.3
pts
-1.4
pts

▪ Data centre operations revenue MNOK 8.5 (-69%)

▪ Decline in data centre operations revenue more than mitigated by growth in core digital business

Statement of cash flow

2021 2020 2021 2020 2020
NOK Million 7-9 7-9 1-9 1-9 F
Y
Cash flow from operations (EBITDA) 17.5 24.6 67.3 79.7 108.9
Change in balance sheet items (1.8) (8.2) (26.3) (16.2) (9.7)
Net cash flow from operating activities 15.6 16.4 41.0 63.5 99.2
Net cash flow from investment activities (6.5) (4.5) (26.1) (12.2) (17.0)
Purchase of own shares - - (23.5) (18.2) (18.2)
Sale of shares - 3.6 8.4 5.9 8.0
Principal elements of lease payments (2.9) (5.7) (14.5) (18.1) (22.6)
Instalment of sublease receivable 0.9 - 2.7 - -
External dividend paid - - (19.8) (16.3) (48.0)
Net cash flow from financing activities (1.9) (2.1) (46.7) (46.7) (80.9)
Net change in bank deposits and cash 7.2 9.9 (31.8) 4.6 1.3
Bank deposits at the end of the period 22.6 57.7 22.6 57.7 54.4
New borrowing related to leasing - 0.5 - 2.4 2.4

• 12 month rolling cash flow from operations was NOK 77 million

Dividend and own shares

  • An supplementary dividend of NOK 0.10 per share based on 2020 results has been approved by the Board for payment in December. Total dividend for 2020 is NOK 0.35 per share.
  • Share price was NOK 15.7 at the end of Q3 2021, an increase of 13% (17% incl. dividends) from NOK 13.95 at the end of Q3 2020.
  • Current holding of own shares is 1,637,006 shares. Value at 30 September 2021 was MNOK 25.7
  • Consistent high distribution of earnings

Statement of financial position

  • Equity ratio of 17% (24%) per 30 September 2021
    • 20% excl. IFRS 16 Leasing
  • Cash balance of MNOK 23 (MNOK 58)
  • Total balance reduced by MNOK 21 to MNOK 219

04 Outlook

Outlook

Attractive market driven by sustainability and digitalisation after Covid-19.

Strong position through its end-toend services, worldclass distributed delivery and industrial partnerships.

Core digital business will continue to grow at full speed. Profitable growth and cash flow are key focus areas.

Transforming own data centres to the cloud with short-term revenue drop.

Regional expansion in the Nordics for proximity to more customers and talents

Itera does not provide guidance to the market on future prospects.

32

Top 20 shareholders

No Name % Nat Shareholding
1 MJØS
AS*
ARNE
INVEST
30
01
NOR 24
663
031
2 OP
CAPITAL
AS
5
54
NOR 4
551
083
3 GIP
AS
5
05
NOR 4
153
420
4 EIKESTAD
AS
20
4
NOR 3
450
000
5 SEPTIM
CONSULTING
AS
3
57
NOR 2
930
000
6 BOINVESTERING
AS
3
27
NOR 2
686
968
7 Bank
ASA*
DnB
NOR
3
16
NOR 2
600
000
8 GAMST
INVEST
AS
3
06
NOR 2
517
867
9 JØSYRA
INVEST
AS
2
68
NOR 2
200
000
10 ASA
ITERA
99
1
NOR 637
006
1
11 Privatbank
S
DZ
A
1
56
LUX 280
000
1
12 VERDIPAPIRFONDET
STOREBRAND
VEKST
33
1
NOR 092
539
1
13 HØGBERG 1
18
NOR 967
959
14 FRAMAR
INVEST
AS
1
13
NOR 925
000
15 AANESTAD
PANAGRI
AS
1
10
NOR 900
000
16 PROPERTY
DEVELOPMENT
AS
ALTEA
0
85
NOR 700
000
17 GRØSLAND 0
77
NOR 630
000
18 JENSEN 0
75
NOR 620
460
19 NYVANG 0
75
DEN 615
000
20 MORTEN
JOHNSEN
HOLDING
AS
0
73
NOR 600
000
TOP
20
72
66
59
720
333

*Arne Mjøs Invest AS holds a future contract on 2,600,000 shares. The total controlling interest of Arne Mjøs is thus 27,263,031 shares (33.2%).

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