Allied Digital Services : On A Roll

Once again coming up trumps in the Silver Club listing for solution providers
in the country is Allied Digital Services. What is startling is that at a time
when most of the companies were finding it difficult to maintain the revenue
they had posted in FY'2007-08, Allied Digital Services managed to post a growth
of 87 percent in FY'2008-09 to register a turnover of Rs 556 crore.

This also made it the fastest growing company in the Silver Club list for the
solution providers. Part of this growth came from its inorganic expansion, which
came in the form of two acquisitions. Last year, Allied acquired 80.5 percent
stake in the infrastructure management services firm, EnPointe Global Services (EGS).

EnPointe contributed close to Rs 200 crore to Allied's revenues in FY'08-09.
With this acquisition, Allied also derived a network operations center (NOC) in
Bengaluru and it enhanced its capacity to 250 seats, offering SAP support to
enterprise customers on a 10Mbps pipeline.

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SILVER CLUB RANK (2007-08): 2
PROFILE
CEO: Nitin Shah Start-up year: 1995 Employees: 30,000 Collaborations: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Unisys, NIIT, HP, Cisco, Stonesoft, Resilience, Nortel Networks, Novell, etc Address: Third Floor, Kimmatrai Building, 77/79, Maharishi Karve Marg, Marine Lines, Mumbai - 400002 Tel: 2002020 Website:www.alliedindia.com
HIGHLIGHTS Bagged 14 new enterprise clients Acquired EnPointe Technologies and Digicomp

This aside, the company also acquired Bengaluru-based Digicomp, which added
another Rs 20 crore to Allied's revenue last fiscal as well.

Allied put its joint venture with Sri Lanka-based CNT International called
Allied CNT Solutions in the freezer last fiscal. This JV was for distribution of
solution-oriented products like Check Point, Landesk, eSafe, Barracuda,
Validsoft, Stonesoft, Resilience, Celestix, Blackspider, etc. It created a
business division called Asset Lite which will offer finance for IT procurement
to these customers who are not willing to invest their funds into IT projects or
upgrading their infrastructure.

Allied has its presence in over 132 locations in India, and over 40 states in
the USA, through its acquisition of EnPointe. It's an ISO 9001: 2000 certified
company with a command center certified under ISO 27001:2005.