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TECHNOLOGY ONE LIMITED AGM Information 2002

Oct 31, 2002

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Private and Confidential

www.TechnologyOneCorp.com

2002 Annual General Meeting

Technology One

Intelligent eBusiness Solutions

November 2002

[email protected] Chief Executive Officer

Agenda

  • Financial Highlights
  • Research and Development
  • Organisational Restructure
  • Company's Share Price
  • Share Buy Back
  • Outlook for 2003

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  • 10th consecutive year of record revenues
  • 7th consecutive year of record profits
  • Difficult trading conditions continue in the IT sector

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2002 Financial Highlights

  • EBITDA of \$13.4 million, up 20 percent
  • Revenue of \$46.37 million, up 20 percent
  • R&D Expenditure (fully expensed) of \$8.14 million, representing 17% of Revenue
  • Net Profit After Tax of \$8.76 million, up 13 percent
  • Earnings Per Share of 2.76 cents, up 11 percent
  • Dividend Per Share of 2.00 cents, up 41 percent
  • Adjusted Return on Equity of 55%
  • Cash on Hand of \$23 million
  • Debt/Equity of 5% no net debt

Intelligent eBusiness

Technology One

Research and Development

  • Significant R&D program continued at 17% of Revenues
  • Almost equal to the size of our NPAT
  • All R&D continued to be fully expensed
  • We have today one of the most significant software IP portfolios ever developed in Australia

Intelligent eBusiness

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Our Portfolio of Products

  • Financial Management and Accounting Finance One
  • Retail One - Retail
  • Sales One - Wholesale and Distribution
  • People One - Human Resources and Payroll
  • Proclaim One - Local Government
  • Student Administration for Universities ■ Student One

Technology One Difference

Extensive IP portfolio

Unique Business Model

  • We develop
  • We market
  • We sell
  • We implement
  • We support

■ Clear differentiator between us and our competitors

Research and Development

■ R&D directed

  • Improving existing products
  • Investigating new products
  • Integrating to third party/partner products
  • Maintaining the technology edge

■ New generation of Internet Applications

  • Working with Microsoft
  • Based on Microsoft .Net platform
  • Re-engineer all our applications
  • Significant competitive advantage

■ Significant organisational restructure in progress

■ Service Delivery

  • "Act Locally, Think Globally"
  • More decentralised organisation ■■

Research and Development

  • "Great Software, Every Day, Every Way"
  • Smaller teams, focused on engineering excellence

Company's Share price

■ Disappointing situation given our continuing growth in a difficult operating environment

■ Issue: Stock Market dynamics

  • IT sector is now clearly out of favour
  • Move away from high PE stocks

■ Our approach

  • Run our business well
  • Target continued growth

  • Not about financial engineering to increase EPS
  • Opportunity to increase shareholder wealth
  • Factors to be considered, other than share price:
  • Prevailing stock market conditions
  • Outlook for stock market
  • Alternative investment opportunities
  • Share Buy Back is in place, ready to go, once we are convinced it is the best investment opportunity

Review of Operations

Technology One Executive Team:

Mr Ron McLean

Mr Mike Clahsen

Technology One

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2002 Annual General Meeting Review of Operations

Technology One Intelligent eBusiness Solutions

November 2002

Ron [email protected] Chief Operating Officer

Agenda

■ 2002 Year

Significant Achievements

New Initiatives

  • Regional Restructure
  • New Partnerships

■ Software Engineering

■ New Clients Licence Fees up 22%

  • Exceptional result in a very difficult and competitive market
  • Addition of 42 new clients
  • Finance One Suite continues to perform well (revenue up $40\%$ )
  • Largest Finance One contract signed with WA Tafe
  • Retail One Emergence: The Good Guys, Rabbit Photo, Godfreys
  • People One continues to grow 12 new sites in 2002. 23 sites in total.

  • Proclaim One Revenue up 7%
  • Six new clients
  • Leading supplier in local government in Australia
  • First New Zealand council (Wanganui District Council)

■ Student One - limited opportunities in Australia

■ Focused on securing new licence fees 2003

  • Continued Investment in:
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Malaysia
  • Account Management
  • Initiative implemented last year 靈
  • Improved customer satisfaction based on User Survey
  • Additional revenues generated from User base
  • Model still being refined for effectiveness and focus

■ Opening of new Canberra office (now have direct representation in all States)

■ Increased sales / presales infrastructure

New Clients

Retail

  • The Good Guys
  • Godfrey's
  • Rabbit Photo

International

  • Northern Utility Resources (Malaysia)
  • Universal Trustee Bhd (Malaysia)
  • Metro Water Limited (New Zealand)
  • Wakefield Hospital (New Zealand)
  • Wanganui District Council (New Zealand)
  • Wanganui Gas Limited (New Zealand)
  • Dorchester Pacific Limited (New Zealand)

Technology One

New Clients

  • Local Government
  • City of Charles Sturt
  • City of Cockburn
  • City of Greater Bendigo
  • Great Lakes Council
  • Local Government Association of Old
  • Mackay City Council
  • Moyne Shire Council
  • Sutherland Shire Council
  • Wagga Wagga City 蠿 Council

  • Corporate

  • Baptist Community Services
  • Budget Rent a Car Australia
  • Data Action 驖
  • Dermody Petroleum
  • Freemasons Hospital
  • The Gribbles Group
  • Lumley Technology
  • Madec Australia
  • Peter W Beck
  • Piedimonte Stanley Hall
  • University of New England 驖
  • Villa World
  • Willmott Forests
  • WorkPac

New Clients

■ State / Federal Government

  • Australian Radiation Protection & Nuclear Safety Authority (ARPANSA)
  • Building Services Authority
  • Indigenous Land Corporation
  • Lower Murray Region Water Authority
  • Queensland Performing Arts Trust
  • Royal District Nursing Service SA
  • Tasmanian Department of Justice and Industrial Relations
  • Tasmanian Electronic Commerce Centre
  • WA Department of Training and Employment and WA TAFE

Project Services New Business

  • Project Services performing strongly (revenue up 10%)
  • Project Services, major contracts awarded include:
  • PBL (Strategic relationship with PBL)
  • Access Queensland
  • NSW Police (Informants), Missing Persons System and Child Protection Register
  • $\Box$ Stage 2 Victorian Land Titles
  • Archives One for the State Records of SA

Agenda

$\sqrt{2002}$ Year

Significant Achievements

New Initiatives

  • Regional Restructure
  • New Partnerships

■ Software Engineering

Benefits of Service Delivery Restructure

  • Act locally, think globally
  • Structured for continued and sustainable growth (model easier to adopt in new regions)
  • Direct link from Regional Managers to Executive Team
  • Single point of responsibility/accountability
  • Ability to act locally and swiftly (no bottlenecks)
  • No requirement for General Manager
  • Profit and loss responsibility

Technology One

Technology One

Organisational Restructure Service Delivery

  • Department focus
  • Department P&L's

  • Regional focus
  • Regional P&L's 聯
  • Direct link to regions 蹦

Partnerships

■ Corporate One

  • Budgeting and reporting system
  • Developed by Chameleon Technology 驪 (specialists in budgeting systems)
  • Identical to Finance One look and feel
  • Totally integrated to Finance One
  • Three Beta sites installed and running
  • Technology One to market and implement exclusively to 嬲 user base and to local government

Partnerships

WEMS

  • Asset Maintenance Application
  • Developed by EMS 驪 (specialists in Asset Maintenance Systems)
  • Integrated to Finance One. Further integration to Finance One and other Technology One applications will be developed
  • Two joint sites and more interested
  • Technology One to market and may get involved in implementation
  • Primarily marketed to local government and other asset intensive organisations

Agenda

$\sqrt{2002}$ Year

■ Significant Achievements

$\checkmark$ New Initiatives

  • Regional Restructure
  • New Partnerships

■ Software Engineering

Mike Clahsen - Operating Officer Software Engineering

Technology One

"Great Software, Every Day, Every Way"

Organisational Restructure Software Engineering

Old Structure New Structure

"Great Software, Every Day, Every Way"

Organisational Restructure Software Engineering

Old Structure New Structure

Technology One

"Great Software, Every Day, Every Way"

Software Engineering Achievements

■ Continued R&D into:

  • Finance One (R10.1 shipped)
  • Retail One and Sales One (R10.1 shipped)
  • (R10.1 shipped) ■ People One
  • Proclaim One
  • Student One
  • $ADF$

  • (R9.0 to ship Q3 2002)

  • (R2.2 and R2.3 shipped)
  • (R5.3 shipped)

■ Continued R&D into new technologies:

  • J2EE (Java) "Smart State" initiative, NSW Police
  • $\blacksquare$ Microsoft .NET Products and Custom Applications

Microsoft .NET - a new paradigm shift

■ Significant paradigm shifts over the years

  • Relational Database technology
  • Client/Server (Windows) technology
  • BUSINESS (HTML) technology

■ Next paradigm shift is happening - Microsoft .NET

  • Internet-based Architecture
  • Significant opportunity for those organisations who can move quickly to capitalise

Microsoft .NET - Internet-based Architecture

  • Rich powerful user interface
  • Internet based deployment
  • Exposure of business processes (Web Services)
  • Multi-Tier Architecture

Our Microsoft .NET Strategy

Sales & Marketing

Consulting & Services

Technology One

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2002 Annual General Meeting

Technology One

Intelligent eBusiness Solutions

November 2002

[email protected] Chief Executive Officer

■ Significant Challenge: Depressed IT Environment

Technology One

10 Year Business Replacement Cycle for Enterprise Applications

  • 40+% business done in two years to Y2K
  • Expect some improvement in 2003/2004 year
  • Expect 2005 to return to normal levels

Technology

One

Outlook

■ Continuing fierce competition

Delays by customers to sign contracts

■ Onerous contractual conditions and payment terms

Outlook

■ Significant challenge to provide continuing growth with a depressed IT industry, on the back of 10 years of consecutive record revenues

■ Focus on streamlining the company

  • New organisational structure
  • Impact will not be felt this financial year ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

Outlook

Acquisitions under investigation

■ Partnerships being developed

Technology One

These slides are available from the company's web site, under the Investor Relations section :

www.TechnologyOneCorp.com

Technology One

Private and Confidential

www.TechnologyOneCorp.com

2002 Annual General Meeting

Technology One

Intelligent eBusiness Solutions

November 2002

[email protected] Chief Executive Officer