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Itera

Investor Presentation Feb 17, 2022

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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

Q4 in brief

* Focus for the financial reporting has been placed on the core digital business as the own data centre is being sunset.

Key figures core digital business

02 Business review

Specialist in creating sustainable digital business

At Itera, we share a commitment to make a positive difference in the world. As a society, the most urgent challenge we face is how to live and work sustainably.

Sustainable Digital Business

© Itera & Partners

Creating end-to-end understanding of value creation

FOCUS CONVERSATIONS
Industry Business Agenda Business & Product Agenda
Business Outcome &
Potential Disruption
Digital Agenda Digital Agenda
Technology Initiative Digital Initiative
Digital Initiative
Digital Initiative
We
operate
Digital Initiative
here
Partnership-led Solution Digital
Digital
Solution
Solution
We
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
Digital
Solution
discussions Cloud Platform operate
here
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud

Fighting financial crime with Artificial Intelligence

Itera launched a next generation AI-based offering for anti-money laundering (AML) for Nordic financial services based on a strong partnership with IBM and Red Hat.

Continuous monitoring & screening

Visions for a new era of fighting financial crime are needed

n November, tera published a report together with its partner BM, titled "Fighting Financial Crime With ". To create awareness of our modern solutions for financial crime prevention, Itera and IBM arranged a webinar and a roundtable discussion together with Norway's leading business newspaper, Dagens Næringsliv (DN), with key stakeholders from DNB, ZTL Payment Solution and Vega Integrity participating.

Digital Factory at Scale for data-driven businesses

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

Business events that trigger a transition to cloud

Cloud migration and modernisation strategies

Mastercard accelerates and grows engagement

One of our latest projects was to help Mastercard develop flexible and secure solutions to handle both brand sites and B2B core solutions with all their integrations

An engagement for Mastercard Payment Solutions (MPS).

The solutions are integrated with third-party products, internal core systems, stakeholders and partners, secure logins, e-signing and more.

The solutions are fully based on best practices from Microsoft Azure DevOps and other frameworks.

The partnership with Mastercard is based in Denmark with several expansions across borders during 2021

All solutions have to live up to Mastercard's Golden Standards – which are some of the highest compliance standards in the market

Itera delivered end-toend solutions including development, testing and Cloud and Application Services everything in Azure.

The result is flexible and secure business systems, rapid access to new functionality, and accelerated delivery of innovative solutions and time to market

Cloud migration for faster time to market at a lower cost

Denmark's best known real estate agency had to make a smooth migration to the cloud without disturbing day-today business.

Home is Denmark's most well-known real estate chain, 100% owned by Realkredit Danmark.

The chain consists of approximately 120 franchisees with a total of 180 offices throughout Denmark and more than 900 employees nationwide.

The challenge was not to only lift and shift but handle all third-party products and core solutions, and move them according to a controlled and aligned roadmap.

Itera performed a Cloud Readiness Assessment, developed a business case and evaluated the complexity of the system portfolio.

The result is that time to market for new services has improved.

After more than 20 years as a provider of on-premise managed services for Home, Itera challenged Home two years ago to migrate to the cloud.

Through cloud migration, Home was able to continuously meet customer expectations of new and improved services. By the end of 2021, Home had finally moved from a traditional operating model to 95% of their systems in the cloud.

Digital transformation towards SaaS solutions

DNV is modernising its digital solutions in the cloud for managing risk, improving safety and asset performance.

DNV is modernising its digital solutions to support customers around the world towards the future of Industry 4.0

The solutions have been continuously developed, but for many of them there was a need to upgrade the technology platform to a modern architecture.

A full fledged Digital Factory at Scale and Cloud Centre of Excellence are used to create new SaaS solutions in Azure with new event driven architecture and new technology stack.

Azure DevOps is applied for efficiency, quality and lice cycle management.

DNV Digital Solutions team up with Itera to accelerate digital transformation by combining deep industry knowledge and digitalisation at scale

leading companies.

he speed of DNV's cloud transformation has increased significantly and the share of applications operated in the cloud is increasing

New office opening in Iceland

After five successful years in the Icelandic market, partnering with ambitious customers like Össur, Landsbankinn and Íslandsbanki, Itera opened a branch office in Reykjavik in the fourth quarter.

The office opening represents a natural next step due to increased market demand for Itera's services in the Icelandic market.

Efficient onboarding of new employees as ONE Itera

With a 22% growth in employees the last 12 months, well-functioning and efficient onboarding processes across all locations are important.

Orientation Day

A practical day to get to know different systems and processes.

Onboarding Day

Insight into the organisation, our delivery model, the business strategy and a deep dive into how it is to be a consultant.

Professional Onboarding

Professional onboarding in the various organisation units, capabilities and practices, including online training and certification programs

Business continuity plan in place for our offices in Ukraine

Despite growing tensions in and around Ukraine, we have a normal operation and activity level at our office in Kyiv.

We have updated our business continuity plans for our personnel and operations in case of further escalations.

Itera office in Kiev is located more than 600 kilometres from the centre of the unrest in the country's eastern regions. We have also increased our office space in Lviv close to the Polish border.

Indeed, our distributed delivery model and high mobility of consultants enable us to work from anywhere as needed, including home as the new hybrid work normal after the pandemic, as well as from other Itera offices in the western part of Ukraine, Slovakia and the Nordics.

Itera in Ukraine

Order intake

Order intake from selected new and existing customers

Book-to-bill ratio*) of 1.5 in Q4 for core digital business and 1.1 for the last 12 months

Customer development

New business

  • Existing customers accounted for 86.6% (92.8%) of revenues in Q4 2021
  • New customers won over the past year generated revenues of NOK 22.5 (12.1) million in Q4 2021 (13.4% share)

Good visibility

  • Share of revenue from top 30 customers 76% (80%)
  • High customer concentration signifies
  • Strategic relationships
  • Full range of services
  • Distributed delivery across borders

Revenue customers split (in MNOK)

Largest customers' share of revenue

Top 30 Top 10

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

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

Skilled and innovative employees in core digital business

617 employees at the end of the quarter

  • Up by 28 in the quarter
  • Up by 113 (55) last twelve months

Nearshore ratio of 53% (49%)

▪ 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 discontinuation 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
10-12 10-12 %
Sales
revenue
158
7
135
6
23
1
17
0
%
of
sales
Cost
11
4
10
3
1
1
10
9
%
profit
Gross
147
3
125
3
22
0
17
5
%
margin
Gross
92
8
%
92
4
%
0
4
pts
0
4
pts
Personnel
expenses
109
8
92
8
17
1
18
%
4
Other
operating
expenses
12
9
3
11
1
6
%
14
1
Depreciation
and
amortisation
6
3
7
6
-1
4
-17
7
%
Total
operating
expenses
140
5
122
0
18
4
15
1
%
EBITDA 24
5
21
3
3
3
15
5
%
margin
EBITDA
15
5
%
15
7
%
-0
2
pts
-0
2
pts
EBIT 18
3
13
6
4
6
34
1
%
margin
EBIT
11
5
%
10
0
%
1
5
pts
1
5
pts
. of
employees
the
end
of
the
period
No
at
617 504 113 22
4
%
  • Strong growth of 17% fuelled by some major new accounts and more subcontractors
  • Personnel expenses include higher variable compensation relating to performance
  • Opex increase from new SK office and ERP implementation costs reclassified from depreciation
  • Depreciation down due to office sublease and end-of-life R&D assets
  • EBIT up 34% to MNOK 18.3
  • EBIT margin of 11.5% (10.0%)
  • No. of FTEs up 113 to 617

Revenue and earnings development

  • Strong sales growth year over year with 2-year CAGR of 14.5% and 1.1% margin improvement
  • Quarterly figures are impacted by number of working days net of vacations

Subscription revenue from data centre operations

  • Migrations and transfers (those with no imminent cloud journey) to be completed by end of Q1
  • Residual planned exits completed before end of Q2

Segment reporting

10-12
2021
10-12
2020
Growth Year-to-date growth
in
million
Amounts
NOK
Core
digital
business
(95%)
Data
centre
operations
(5%)
Total Core
digital
business
(81%)
Data
centre
operations
(19%)
Total Core
digital
business
Data
centre
operations
Total Core
digital
business
Data centre
operations
Total
Sales
revenue
158.7 9.0 167.8 135.6 31.7 167.3 17.0
%
%
-71.5
0.3
%
19.2 % -65.9 % 2.9 %
of
sales
Cost
11.4 4.0 15.4 10.3 7.6 17.9 10.9
%
-47.2
%
-13.7
%
28.2 % -51.8 % -12.1 %
Gross
profit
147.3 5.0 152.3 125.3 24.1 149.5 %
17.5
-79.2
%
1.9
%
18.5 % -72.2 % 4.9 %
margin
Gross
92.8
%
55.8
%
90.8
%
92.4
%
76.2
%
89.3
%
0.4
pts
-20.4
pts
1.5
pts
-0.5 pts -12.7 pts 1.7 pts
Personnel
expenses
109.8 7.3 117.1 92.8 17.7 110.5 18.4
%
-59.0
%
6.0
%
21.4 % -47.5 % 10.8 %
Other
operating
expenses
12.9 1.5 14.5 11.3 2.3 13.6 14.1
%
-32.2
%
6.4
%
7.3 % -12.7 % 4.6 %
Depreciation
and
amortisation
6.3 0.8 7.1 7.6 4.8 12.4 %
-17.7
-82.6
%
-42.6
%
-21.4 % -64.8 % -33.0 %
Total
operating
expenses
140.5 13.6 154.1 122.0 32.3 154.3 15.1
%
-57.8
%
-0.1
%
17.7 % -48.8 % 3.9 %
EBITDA 24.5 -3.8 20.8 21.3 4.1 25.4 %
15.5
-191.8
%
-18.2
%
12.4 % -198.0 % -17.1 %
margin
EBITDA
15.5
%
-41.9
%
12.4
%
15.7
%
13.0
%
15.2
%
-0.2
pts
-55
pts
-2.8
pts
-1 pts -48.6 pts -3.3 pts
EBIT 18.3 -4.6 13.6 13.6 -0.6 13.0 34.1
%
625.1
%
5.1
%
30.3 % -644.1 % -6.3 %
EBIT
margin
11.5
%
-51.1
%
8.1
%
10.0
%
-2.0
%
7.8
%
1.5
pts
-49.1
pts
0.4
pts
1.1 pts -49 pts -0.9 pts

▪ Data centre operations revenue MNOK 9.0 (-72%)

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

Statement of cash flow

2021 2020 2021 2020
Million
NOK
10-12 10-12 1-12 1-12
(EBITDA)
Cash
flow
from
operations
20
8
29
2
87
1
108
9
Change
in
balance
sheet
items
12
1
6
5
(17
3)
(9
7)
cash
flow
from
operating
activities
Net
32
8
35
6
69
7
99
2
investment
activities
cash
flow
from
Net
(7
8)
(4
8)
(32
8)
(17
0)
Purchase
of
shares
own
- - (23
5)
(18
2)
Sale
of
shares
- 2
1
12
4
8
0
Cash
settlement
of
options
contract
- - (1
0)
-
Principal
elements
of
lease
payments
(3
1)
(4
5)
(17
5)
(22
6)
Instalment
of
sublease
receivable
0
9
- 3
6
-
External
dividend
paid
(8
1)
(31
7)
(27
9)
(48
0)
cash
flow
from
financing
activities
Net
(10
2)
(34
1)
(53
9)
(80
9)
in
deposits
change
bank
and
cash
Net
9
14
(3
3)
(16
9)
3
1
Bank
deposits
the
end
of
the
period
at
37
5
54
4
37
5
54
4
borrowing
related
leasing
New
to
- - - 2
4
  • Cash flow from operations NOK 32.8 (35.6) million in Q4

Dividend and own shares

  • A supplementary dividend of NOK 0.10 was paid in December. Total dividend for 2020 is NOK 0.35 per share.
  • The Board has proposed an ordinary dividend of NOK 0.20 per share for 2021 with the opportunity to pay a supplementary dividend later in the year
  • Share price was NOK 15.25 at the end of 2021, an increase of 2% (4% incl. dividends) from NOK 15.00 at the end of 2020.
  • Current holding of own shares is 1,637,006 shares. Value at 31 December 2021 was MNOK 25.0
  • Consistent high distribution of earnings

  • Equity ratio of 18% (15%) per 31 December 2021

  • 21% (18%) excl. IFRS 16 Leasing
  • Cash balance of MNOK 37 (MNOK 54)
  • Total balance reduced by MNOK 3 to MNOK 221

04 Outlook

Q4 REPORT 2021

Outlook

Modern business in the cloud is the new normal accelerated 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.

Data centres being closed down and reported as discontinued business

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

33

Top 20 shareholders

No Name % Nat Shareholding
1 MJØS
INVEST
AS*
ARNE
30
01
NOR 24
663
031
2 OP
CAPITAL
AS
5
54
NOR 4
551
083
3 GIP
AS
5
06
NOR 4
162
000
4 EIKESTAD
AS
3
89
NOR 3
200
000
5 SEPTIM
CONSULTING
AS
3
59
NOR 2
950
000
6 BOINVESTERING
AS
3
27
NOR 2
686
968
7 Bank
DnB
NOR
ASA
3
08
NOR 2
527
867
8 GAMST
INVEST
AS
2
92
NOR 2
400
000
9 JØSYRA
INVEST
AS
2
68
NOR 2
200
000
0
1
ASA
ITERA
2
06
NOR 692
006
1
1
1
VERDIPAPIRFONDET
STOREBRAND
VEKST
1
56
NOR 280
000
1
1
2
HØGBERG 1
30
NOR 1
068
444
1
3
FRAMAR
INVEST
AS
1
18
NOR 967
959
1
4
AANESTAD
PANAGRI
AS
1
13
NOR 925
000
1
5
DZ
PRIVATBANK
S
A
1
10
LUX 900
000
1
6
ALTEA
PROPERTY
DEVELOPMENT
AS
0
85
NOR 700
000
1
7
GRØSLAND 0
79
NOR 650
000
8
1
NYVANG 0
76
NOR 626
400
1
9
JENSEN 0
76
DEN 625
624
2
0
MORTEN
JOHNSEN
HOLDING
AS
0
73
NOR 600
000
TOP
20
72
25
59
376
382

*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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