WANdisco stands for Wide Area Network Distributed Computing, and we make software happen.

This is because our technology is the secret ingredient behind the products that you use every day – from mobile phones to machinery. We are an active member of the community that develops the world’s most popular Source Code product: Subversion, and our technology is used by half of the world’s software developers.

Our customers include a host of Fortune 1000 companies such as Hewlett Packard, Intel, John Deere, European Southern Observatory, Barclays Capital, Walmart, GE and Cisco.

How it works

With our patented technology, software developers in distributed locations can work simultaneously, creating a seamless global network. Users at every site where WANdisco is installed have local access to the same data at all times, which means that they can make changes locally and see each other’s changes immediately.

We are proud to have a 98% customer renewal rate – which is driven by compelling ROI data: a recent study from Forrester Research has shown that our Subversion MultiSite offers a 167% return on investment with a nine-month payback period.

The company

Co-founded in 2005 by David Richards, Jim Campigli and Dr Yeturu Aahlad, WANdisco has dual headquarters in Silicon Valley and Sheffield, England. WANdisco grew, without raising any private equity, venture capital or angel finance to become a leading provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry.

On June 1st, 2012 the company had a highly successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange raising over $24 million. The IPO was oversubscribed by over 300% and the list of investors included Fidelity, Legal & General, Blackrock, Artemis, Hargreave Hale, Cazenove, M&G, Octopus and Standard Life. WANdisco's ticker is WAND.L


http://www.wandisco.com/

Well worth watching the above to see the stage that WAND is at and the speed and competitive advantage this company has over its rivals.David mentions that those companies without Big Data are going to be in a far less competitive field than the ones that have this. They are a very rare top in their game team and if this comes off in my view this company will be huge. They are talking changing working practices
in the work field. The sp with the kind of news they are talking about will be through £10 by Easter. Than who knows ? I can guess but not going to put it on here. A company does not come along like this in a blue moon, very exiting and for its shareholders.

Broker profile research 28 Feb -

http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2FWAND-20130228-Update.pdf

Panmure Gordon and Co -WANdisco

Cometh the hour – cometh the flagship


WANdisco’s financials could be transformed in fairly short order (see below),
so shares should rally on this news (the opportunity being for WANdisco to
play a significant role in a US$23.8bn estimated market). We leave our
estimates unchanged but would expect Q2 update to guidance as customer
adoption trends are clearer. Our forecasts do not have any ‘Big Data’ revenue
component; although the share price does. On conservative assumptions (see
below) we increase our target price from 763p to 1015p. Buy.



http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2FWANdisco-Flash-27-02-13.pdf

GECR -We expect a Q2 update will provide a clearer picture regarding customer adoption numbers, and have therefore kept our forecasts unchanged. However, given the encouraging progress made so far and the positive response from vendors, we believe WANdisco is capable of commanding a larger share of the total market, and have therefore adjusted our DCF model. Accordingly, our stance remains speculative buy, but with an increased target price of 1,091p (previously 823p).



http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2FWANdisco-28022013.pdf

CITY INTERVIEW: WANdisco has right moves in data danceDavid Richards, the 42-year-old chief executive and co-founder, last year opted to list its shares on London’s junior AIM market, rather than in the US, and watched his company become one of the most successful floats of 2012 – or indeed ever




Richards clearly believes WANdisco has the potential to become very big in Big Data. But isn’t that name a hindrance?


He says the first pitch he ever did to an investor was to billionaire Ram Sriram. ‘He wasn’t interested in my idea. I went home and told my wife he was an idiot, because he had invested in a company with a name like Google.


‘He put in $250,000 and it turned into $3billion, so I decided never to criticise a firm for having a daft name again.’ Point taken.



http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-2289199/CITY-INTERVIEW-WANdisco-right-moves-data-dance.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Acquisition of Pioneering Big Data Company Accelerates Entry into Big Data Market

http://www.datacenterpost.com/2013/03/acquisition-of-pioneering-big-data.html

Software creates hi-tech ambitions




David Richards, president and chief executive of WANdisco, speaking to Prime Minister David Cameron




Published on Wednesday 20 February 2013 07:52



More Yorkshire technology businesses could float on the stock market following the success of two software businesses with strong Sheffield connections.



According to accountancy and professional services firm Deloitte, 2013 is shaping up to be a good year for Yorkshire technology businesses that want to raise finance from the equity markets.

Deloitte cites the success of companies like WANdisco and EMIS as examples which other Yorkshire technology companies could follow.

WANdisco is based in Silicon Valley in the US and at Electric Works, on Sheffield’s Digital Campus, and was co-founded by Sheffield-born David Richards.

The company’s products are used by blue chip corporates around the world to ensure software developers in different offices are always working on the latest version of the business’s bespoke systems.

Following a significantly over-subscribed floatation on the Alternative Investment Market last May, the company has made a number of key acquisitions.

It has moved into the fast growing “Big Data” sector, providing applications for companies needing to store and process vast amounts of information and has launched a new subsidiary in Sheffield’s twin city of Chengdu, in China.

EMIS is a market leading primary care software provider, based in Leeds, which supplies software that is used by more than half the GP practices in the UK and includes systems that securely store the records of 39 million patients.

The company is run by Sheffield Hallam University graduate Neil Laycock, the former chief executive of city-based internet service provider PlusNet.

Mr Laycock originally joined EMIS to head a Sheffield-based team developing www.patient.co.uk, now the UK’s most popular health information and advice website.

Deloitte partner Rob Seldon said: “Yorkshire firms are typically led by strong, entrepreneurial management teams who are keen to explore financing options to meet their strategic goals.

“The capital markets will continue to provide an alternative option for ambitious firms looking to raise capital for expansion.

“Developing strong technology platforms and exporting to developing markets both involve a mix of risk and reward which, when coupled with strong management governance makes them attractive to the equity markets.”

WANdisco Appoints CollabNet and HP Veteran Bas Nijjer to Director of EMEA Sales

San Ramon, CA – March 12, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced Bas Nijjer has joined the company as Sales Director, EMEA, reporting to Peter Scott, Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Nijjer, who joins WANdisco from LivePerson UK and CollabNet before that, will focus on opportunities for large enterprise software deployments, continuing to grow WANdisco’s market share throughout the UK and Europe.

Nijjer, who built CollabNet UK from startup to multimillion dollar recurring revenue, has a proven track record of increasing customer wins, accelerating revenue and providing customer satisfaction. He has had tremendous success building high-performance sales teams through recruitment, mentoring and motivation.

"Bas is an excellent addition to our team, with great insight on developing and strengthening sales teams and customer relationships as well as enterprise software," said David Richards, CEO of WANdisco. "His expertise and familiarity with EMEA and his results-oriented attitude will help strengthen the WANdisco team and increase sales and renewals. We are pleased to have him join us."

Nijjer joins WANdisco from LivePerson UK, where he was EMEA Sales Executive for Financial Services, managing accounts for customers such as HSBC, Aviva, Lloyds Bank, ING and more. Prior to LivePerson, he was Sales Director at CollabNet, where he managed and grew strategic European accounts and consistently grew UK revenues with double-digit performance. Prior to CollabNet, Nijjer held sales management positions with IONA Technologies (now Progress Software), Hewlett Packard, Easel UK, and Computer Associates. Nijjer earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Nottingham City University.

From the company web site news section also in this weeks Shares mag.

http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fpress%2FFantastic-Floats-Shares-Magazine.pdf

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WANdisco Plc - WANdisco Files Three Patents with USPTO


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WANdisco Files Three Patents with USPTO



Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, announces that it has filed three new patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) related to distributed computing. Most recently on January 29, 2013, WANdisco was issued patent number 8,364,633 for "Distributed computing systems and system components thereof" for the fundamentals of "active-active replication" over a Wide Area Network ("WAN"), enforceable until July 11, 2028.



WANdisco's three new patent applications represent significant additions to WANdisco's portfolio of distributed computing technology. These three new innovations developed by a team of five PhD's led by WANdisco's co-founder Dr Yeturu Aahlad involve methods, devices and systems that enhance security, reliability, flexibility and efficiency in the field of distributed computing. WANdisco's solutions, particularly with these patent-pending innovations, are expected to have significant benefits for users of WANdisco's new Hadoop Big Data product line.


Commenting on the patent application, WANdisco Chairman and CEO, David Richards, said:

"Our team continues to break new ground in the field of distributed computing technology. We are proud to have some of the world's most talented engineers in this field working for us and look forward to the eventual approval of these most recent patent applications. We are particularly excited about their application across our new Big Data product line."

Picking up again.

WANdisco a big hit in the States


WANdisco chief executive David Ridhards, front centre, and members of the team outside the Silicon Valley and Sheffield company's Electric Works headquarters

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/wandisco-a-big-hit-in-the-states-1-5533564

Session to Address Enterprise Data Center Availability, Scalability and Performance Needs and How Hadoop Can Meet Them


San Ramon, CA – March 28, 2013



http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/ovum-wandisco-webinar-big-data-enterprise-enabling-hadoop-for-data-center

WANdisco Applauds Release of Apache Bloodhound™











Original Project Submitter, WANdisco, Supports Project with On-Staff Committers


San Ramon, CA – April 2, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, is pleased to support Apache Bloodhound™, which was officially announced today as a Top-Level Project (TLP) by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Originally submitted to the ASF in December 2011 by WANdisco, Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool based on Trac that includes a Subversion repository browser, wiki, and defect tracker.

The WANdisco developers serving on the Project Management Committee (PMC) or participating at some level in the development of Bloodhound have been involved since the project's inception. Apache Bloodhound is an issue tracker with a tightly integrated source code browser that works with Apache Subversion and Git. It also provides Wiki functionality and is compatible with hundreds of free plugins available for Trac, allowing users to customize their experience even further.

"WANdisco received many requests for an issue tracker and at the time, open source options available for integration were limited, which is why we decided to invest in setting one up in the Apache Incubator," said David Richards, CEO of WANdisco. "WANdisco has been actively supportive of the ASF, and we're proud to have played a leading role in Bloodhound."

"When Bloodhound entered the incubator, while it was built on the Trac framework, it was a completely new project," said Gary Martin, Vice President of Apache Bloodhound and WANdisco developer. "Bloodhound's strengths lie in its powerful combination of Apache Subversion source control and robust ticket system."

WANdisco Releases New Version of Hadoop Distro; WDD 3.1.1 Simplifies Hadoop Deployments

http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/wandisco-releases-new-version-hadoop-distro-wdd-311-simplifies-hadoop-deployment

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WANdisco Announces New Releases of Apache Subversion

http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/wandisco-announces-new-releases-apache-subversion

As of Apr 12, 2013, the consensus forecast amongst 2 polled investment analysts covering Wandisco PLC advises investors to purchase equity in the company. This has been the consensus forecast since the sentiment of investment analysts improved on Feb 11, 2013. The previous consensus forecast advised that Wandisco PLC would outperform the market.

WANdisco Launches SVN MultiSite Plus for Dramatically Improved Availability, Performance and Scalability for Global Organizations

http://www.wandisco.com/news/press-releases/wandisco-launches-svn-multisite-plus-for-dramatically-improved-availability-perf

18 April 2013

WANdisco plc

Q1 2013 Bookings Update

Q1 subscription bookings increase by 96 per cent year-on-year

Renewal rate 134 per cent



Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, is pleased to provide the following update for the three months ended 31 March 2013.



In the first quarter of the new financial year, subscription bookings reached a record level of $3.035 million, representing a 96 per cent increase year-on-year (2012: $1.545 million).



Notable new customers signed in the first quarter included General Atomics, FutureWei (a division of Huawei), Société Générale and Maxim. In addition, the Company saw significant growth in existing customer accounts including Home Depot, Nokia, John Deere and McAfee all of whom expanded their use of WANdisco products within their organisations.



The annualised renewal rate by booking value was 134 per cent. Renewals included Sony, McGraw Hill, Raytheon, Vanguard, Borg Gais and Blue Shield. When one particularly large increased renewal is excluded the underlying rate of renewal is 117 per cent.



During the period the Company announced the release of its new products for the fast growing Hadoop Big Data market. Hadoop is a proven, open source Big Data technology which serves as the backbone for many of the world's largest and most important databases utilised by companies such as Yahoo, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon and eBay. According to the analyst firm Wikibon, the market for solutions able to solve Big Data issues is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 58% between 2012 and 2017 from $5 billion to over $50 billion.



WANdisco's flagship Big Data product, the Non-Stop NameNode, is the only 100 per cent uptime solution for Hadoop. Built on the company's Non-Stop patented replication technology, Non-Stop NameNode completely eliminates the single point of failure that risks data availability - the NameNode - which tracks the location of data within a Hadoop cluster and coordinates client access to it.



The Company also filed three new additional patents related to distributed computing with applications in the Big Data market to complement the patent awarded by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its core replication technology in November last year.



WANdisco will report results for the financial year ended 31 December 2012 on Thursday, 25 April 2013.



Ends

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon moves target price from 1015p to 1038p and retains a buy recommendation.