ENDAVA PLC Annual Report FY20
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ENDAVA PLC ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2020 COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER 5722669 COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER 5722669 REGISTERED OFFICE 125 Old Broad Street LONDON EC2N 1AR T A Smith (Non-Executive Chairman) DIRECTORS J E Cotterell (Chief Executive Officer) M S Thurston (Chief Financial Officer) A Allan (Non-Executive Director) S Connal (Non-Executive Director) B Druskin (Non-Executive Director) M J Kinton (Non-Executive Director) D Pattillo (Non-Executive Director) SECRETARY R Bhoothalingam AUDITOR KPMG LLP 15 Canada Square London E14 5GL Endava plc 2 Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2020 CONTENTS Strategic Report 4 Directors' Remuneration Report 35 Directors' Report 56 Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Endava plc 60 Group Financial Statements And Notes 70 Company Financial Statements And Notes 141 Endava plc 3 Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2020 STRATEGIC REPORT The Directors present their Strategic, Directors' Remuneration and Directors’ Reports on and the audited financial statements of Endava Plc (the "Company" and, together with its subsidiary undertakings, the “Group”) for the year ended 30 June 2020. STRATEGIC REPORT Our Business We are a leading next-generation technology services provider and help accelerate disruption by delivering rapid evolution to enterprises. We aid our clients in finding new ways to interact with their customers and users, enabling them to become more engaging, responsive and efficient. Using Distributed Enterprise Agile at scale, we collaborate with our clients, seamlessly integrating with their teams, catalysing ideation and delivering robust solutions. Our approach to ideation comprises an empathy for user needs, curiosity, creativity and a deep understanding of technologies. From proof of concept, to prototype, to production, we use our engineering expertise to deliver enterprise platforms capable of handling millions of transactions per day. Our people, whom we call Endavans, synthesise creativity, technology and delivery at scale in multi-disciplinary teams, enabling us to support our clients from ideation to production. Waves of technological change are disrupting the nature of competition in every industry. New technologies have enabled the growth and success of companies that leverage these technologies in every aspect of their businesses, or digital native companies, allowing them to be nimble, innovative, data driven and focused on user experience, often through an Agile development approach. Technology has also increased customer expectations, giving customers the ability to choose not only the products and services that they want, but also where, when and how they want them delivered. Incumbent enterprises must undertake digital transformation of their businesses by leveraging technology in order to meet ever-evolving customer expectations and compete with digital native disruptors. According to International Data Corporation, or IDC, the worldwide market for digital transformation services is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15.3% through 2023 from approximately $451 billion in 2019. Technological transformation poses numerous challenges for incumbent enterprises. Incumbent enterprises are often laden with legacy infrastructure and applications that are deeply embedded in core transactional systems, making it difficult to reconcile maintenance of existing infrastructure and applications with a nimble approach to using next generation technologies. Incumbent enterprises are also often stymied by institutional constraints that impede their ability to solve complex problems and rapidly respond to shifting competitive dynamics, as well as ingrained traditional approaches to development. The Agile methodology stands in stark contrast to the IT-department-driven, legacy approach often used by incumbent enterprises, which is premised on a sequential and siloed structure, involves long development cycles, fails to integrate user feedback and is often more costly. Likewise, internal IT teams at incumbent enterprises often struggle to absorb the rapid pace of technology development and its growing complexity. To effectively harness the power of technology, incumbent enterprises need talent in ideation, strategy, user experience, Agile development and next-generation technologies. While incumbent enterprises have historically looked to traditional information technology, or IT, service providers to undertake technology development projects, these traditional players were built to serve, and remain focused on serving, legacy systems using offshore delivery. Endava plc 4 Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2020 STRATEGIC REPORT We reimagine the relationship between people and technology and help our clients become digital, experience driven businesses by assisting them in their journey from idea generation to development and deployment of products, platforms and solutions. Our expertise spans the entire ideation-to-production spectrum. We create value for our clients through creation of Product and Technology Strategies, Intelligent Digital Experiences, and World Class Engineering, delivered through our 24 capabilities, grouped into four key areas: Define, Design, Build and Run & Evolve. We accelerate our clients’ ability to take advantage of new business models and market opportunities by ideating and delivering dynamic platforms and intelligent digital experiences that are designed to fuel rapid, ongoing transformation of our customer’s businesses. By leveraging next-generation technologies, our agile, multi-disciplinary teams provide a combination of Product & Technology Strategies, Intelligent Experiences, and World Class Engineering to help our clients become more engaging, responsive, and efficient. At the core of our approach is our proprietary Distributed Enterprise Agile scaling framework, known as The Endava Agile Scaling framework, or TEAS. TEAS utilises common Agile scaling frameworks, but enhances them by balancing the requirements of delivering both quality and speed-to-market, helping our clients release higher-quality products to market faster, respond better to market changes and incorporate customer and user feedback through rapid releases and product iterations. Our deep familiarity with technologies developed over the last decade including mobile connectivity, social media, automation, big data analytics and cloud delivery, as well as next-generation technologies such as the Internet of Things, or IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented reality, virtual reality and blockchain, allows us to help our clients transform their businesses. Our Strategy We are focused on continuing to distinguish ourselves as a leader in next-generation technology services. The key elements of our strategy include: Expand relationships with existing clients We are focused on continuing to expand our relationships with existing clients by helping them solve new problems and become more engaging, responsive and efficient. We have a demonstrated track record of expanding our work with clients after an initial engagement. Our ten largest clients together contributed 38.1% and 37.7% of our total revenue in the last two financial years, respectively, and the number of clients that have a minimum annual spend of at least £1.0 million has grown from 63 to 65 over the same time period. Expansion of our relationships with existing active clients will remain a key strategy going forward as we continue to leverage our deep domain expertise and knowledge of emerging technology trends in order to drive incremental growth for our business. Establish new client relationships We believe that we have a significant opportunity to add new clients. We have established ourselves as a leader in delivering end-to-end ideation-to-production services in the Financial Services and Payments and Technology, Media and Telecommunications, or TMT verticals. Clients in the Payments and Financial Services vertical contributed to 52.8%, 52.9% and 56.8% of our total revenue in the 2020, 2019 and 2018 financial years, respectively. Clients in the TMT vertical contributed 25.7%, 27.4% and 28.1%, of our total revenue in the 2020, 2019 and 2018 financial years, respectively. Clients in our Other vertical contributed 21.5%, 19.7% and 15.1%, of our total revenue in the 2020, 2019 and 2018 financial years, respectively. We believe that we continue to have a significant untapped opportunity in these sectors and we plan to leverage this experience to expand our vertical reach. Endava plc 5 Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2020 STRATEGIC REPORT As waves of technological change sweep across industries and increasingly facilitate seamless integration of different aspects of customers and users lives, we believe our experience working within our core client base will also be of particular value in expanding our vertical reach. For example, as customers increasingly demand a frictionless and consistent buying experience and the payments and retail sectors converge, we believe our deep expertise in developing payment systems and e-commerce platforms will allow us to grow our base of retail clients. Similarly, we believe that our expertise in data analytics and augmented and virtual reality will be increasingly relevant in the healthcare industry as technology continues to reshape the practice and provision of medicine. We are