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/

1000p next stop.

After your performance on the NEW thread Mitzy I'm surprised you've had the cheek to show your face on here again -):

NEW did alright for me Stan a one bagger at one time then it all went wrong.

Favs now are Wan and Nanoco.. tech is back.

WANdisco: Panmure Gordon ups target price from 1060p to 1083p and reiterates a buy recommendation.

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new high during today's trading session when it reached 990.00. Since the IPO on Jun 01, 2012, the share price is up 391.21%.

Panmure Gordon

Wandisco catches the biggest fish in LSEland with the hire of Paul Harrison
CFO of Sage. We are fond of talking about WANdisco’s nifty operational
pivot since IPO – i.e. float as a single product entity and since become a
wider platform business with a horizontal technology base and three product
areas ALM, GIT and Big Data – with news of Paul Harrison’s hire ‘nifty’ is
replaced by ‘gutsy’ – both for WANdisco and indeed Mr Harrison. There is
also a very impressive channel ecosystem being built up. From here sit back
and watch WANdisco ‘mine’ that fresh seam of Big Data sales opportunities.
We retain our Buy increasing our Target Price from 1060p to 1083p.



http://www.wandisco.com/get?f=documentation%2Fanalyst-reviews%2Fwandisco-08-may-13.pdf


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May 08 2013 17:39 BST
Sage posts strong results but loses its CFO to WANdisco
Sage Group's better-than-expected results on Wednesday were made bittersweet by the loss of its long-serving chief financial officer to WANdisco. Paul Harrison, who has worked at Sage for 16 years and as CFO since 2000, has been instrumental in implementing chief executive Guy Berruyer's strategy to grow Sage's subscription business

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new high during today's trading session when it reached 1,000.00. Since the IPO on Jun 01, 2012, the share price is up 402.51%.

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new high during today's trading session when it reached 1,015. Since the IPO on Jun 01, 2012, the share price is up 410.05%.

WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) set a new high during today's trading session when it reached 1,035. Since the IPO on Jun 01, 2012, the share price is up 411.31%.

The company management is being built, with the arrival of Paul Harrison (CFO of Sage) He must have some insight into this company to leave a top position in the Sage group. He helped build Sage from a 100m company to a 4bn company. Hope his magic works for WANDISCO.

Ambitious WANdisco appoints Sage man as new FD




Published on 09/05/2013 08:56


“With news of Paul Harrison’s hire, ‘nifty’ is replaced by ‘gutsy’ – both for WANdisco and indeed Mr Harrison.

“From here sit back and watch WANdisco ‘mine’ that fresh seam of Big Data sales opportunities.”

Mr Richards said: “We started at the top of the list and that’s the guy we got. It’s quite incredible. He’s coming from a £4bn company and we’re £200m at the moment.”

Asked why Mr Harrison would want to switch over, Mr Richards said: “How many other companies on the exchange are growing at 96 per cent a year? He thinks there’s the potential at WANdisco to do something similar to Sage.”






http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/business-news/ambitious-wandisco-appoints-sage-man-as-new-fd-1-5657907

MARKET REPORT: WANdisco has a hit on its hands with early buyers cheering growth


By Geoff Foster

PUBLISHED: 22:07, 8 May 2013 | UPDATED: 22:07, 8 May 2013


Investors who bought into WANdisco in last June’s IPO have ever since been laughing all the way to the bank.

The software company, which was brought to the AIM by co-founder David Richards at 180p a pop, continues to go from strength to strength.

Its shares boogied a further 37.5p higher to a record 977.5p yesterday on news of the appointment of industry ‘heavyweight’ Paul Harrison. He will become chief financial officer in September, replacing Nick Parker.


Exponential growth: WANdisco, the boss of which is David Richards (pictured), has just recruited Paul Harrison as CFO


Panmure Gordon’s analyst George O’Connor said that WANdisco has caught the biggest fish in LSE land. He immediately raised his target price to 1083p from 1060p.

Harrison, who has been on Sage Group’s board since 2000 as finance director, will be based in California. Commenting on his appointment Harrison said: ‘With its patented technology providing unique functionality targeted at some very high growth markets, I believe that WANdisco is well placed to continue its exceptional growth.’

WANdisco’s software allows companies to synchronise the computer programme documents used in different locations. Last month the company announced it had secured its first deal for its own ‘Big Data’ technology for managing huge databases. Although the identity of the customer was not disclosed, WANdisco reassured the market that the company was a ‘tier one UK telecoms operator with operations in Britain and around the world’.

Posting of Annual Report

RNS


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10 May 2013

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("WANdisco" or the "Company")



Posting of Annual Report



Annual Report to be posted to shareholders and available on website



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 announce that the Company's annual report for the year ended 31 December 2012 will be posted to shareholders on 17 May 2013 and is available for download at the Company's website www.wandisco.com.

WANdisco co-founder David Richards has backed ACCELERATE 2013 to have a major impact on the British economy, describing the festival as “a brilliant idea”.

“Ultimately, what ACCELERATE is going to do is bring some fantastic speakers and some fantastic delegates into the same place,” Richards said.

“When you get like-minded people in the same place, it’s amazing what can happen”.

Richards, a headliner at ACCELERATE 2013, added that start-ups’ potential for high-growth depends on their ability to consistently deliver.

“Execution means two things in my industry [the software industry] – it means building great products and it means selling great products.



http://www.accelerate2013.co.uk/news/when-you-get-like-minded-people-in-the-same-place-its-amazing-what-can-happen/

David Richards has tweeted -

David Richards ‏@davidrichards 12h
@WANdisco is now a constituent of the FTSE AIM 100


http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/indices/summary/summary-indices-constituents.html?index=AIM1&page=5

Entrepeneurcountry - May 2013


Concluding our interview, I asked David what his hopes and dreams are for Wandisco in the next few years. ''We want to maintain growth and I can see that we will'', he says. ''I would like to build the Uk's most successful software company ever and if I can do that in the next couple of years, i'll be pleased. That all depends on size, valuation and revenue- things we are working hard to increase''.


http://content.yudu.com/Library/A25x5r/EntrepreneurCountryM/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FR9kHaaYpcs

Executive Interview with David Richards, Chairman and CEO of WANdisco plc

http://vimeo.com/65882387

Oh no not another one -):

Big data moving fast now , another huge IPO -

Posted by David Richards

Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo’s First Day Up 78% To $23.10


Ingrid Lunden







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One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two, Tableau Software and Marketo, are debuting on New York stock exchanges. Business intelligence provider Tableau Software, trading as “DATA”, is one of the more highly anticipated tech IPOs of the year, and so far it has not disappointed. It priced its IPO at $31 per share, and it , popped 58% in early trading, and closed at 64% above opening price, or $50.75/share.

Meanwhile, Marketo, a cloud-based marketing services company, priced its IPO at $13 per share. It will be trading as MKTO on the NASDAQ exchange, but has yet to trade at the time of writing. It went up by more than 50% in early activity and then continued to creep up: it closed at 68% nearly 78% above the IPO pricing and trading at $21.48$23.10. (We have been updating these numbers throughout the day.)

Taken together, the two are strong endorsements for the market for enterprise services and some of the still-emerging trends within it.

Tableau Software, as its stock ticker unsubtly hints, is aimed more at a big-data play, offering visualization and analytics that it says are easy enough for non-technical people to use. Up to now, it still offers the majority of its services as downloadable, on-premises software rather than as cloud-based apps.

Marketo is positioned as a software-as-a-service, and like a Salesforce for the marketing department, offers its various services — inbound marketing, lead management, social marketing, event management, instant CRM integration, sales dashboards, and marketing ROI reporting and analytics — all in a one-stop-in-the-cloud-shop.

Tableau Software raised some $254.2 million at the $31/share price, after raising that IPO from an initial range of $23-26; this gives it a valuation of $2 billion. Marketo, meanwhile, is raising just under $85 million at a $550 million valuation.

(Incidentally, Facebook’s shares have lost some 30% of their value in the last year, and are at around $26.25/share at the moment.)

How does Tableau’s IPO compare to other high-profile enterprise listings? The money raised is just shy of the $260 million that enterprise security company Palo Alto Networks raised in July 2012. It is still a ways behind HR specialist Workday’s IPO in October 2012, which raised $637 million.

Tableau Software’s 10-figure IPO sets the stage for other $ 1 billion+ tech IPOs from the likes of Box and Twitter. Tableau had raised less than $40 million prior to this from NEA and Meritech (Crunchbase puts the total at only $15 million, but Geekwire says that NEA’s total investment in the company has been $29 million).

In contrast, Marketo has raised $108 million in six rounds, from investors that include Institutional Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, Mayfield Fund, Storm Ventures and Battery Ventures.

Investors interested in Wandisco may be interested in the company below, there is a thread for 1Spatial.



Buyers were all suddenly over aim listed 1Spatial like a rash on hearing that David Richards will soon become deputy non-executive chairman.
He has a growing city fan club after bringing his co-founded software company WANDISCO to the junior market last June at 180p and seeing it rocket to trade above £10 months later. At last nights flat close of 952.5p, his near -16pc stake is worth more than £36m.
Shares of the provider of the location-based information company jumped 1.38p or 20pc to a 52 week high or 8.12p on hopes that Richards would have also subscribed for shares in yesterdays £18m placing. Some 300 million shares were placed at 6p a pop to help fund an earnings enhancing European acquisition.
Dealers heard that some of the very same institutions behind WANDISCO, including smaller company Expert Hargreave Hale, were big supporters of 1Spatial.
1Spatial is acquiring Star-Apic , a Belgium based provider of Geographic information systems software and solutions , specialising in land and infrastructure management.
Analysts believe the complementary bolt-on significantly enhances the company's capability in the rapidly growing Big Data market. Some of the worlds biggest agencies rely on 1Spatial, such as the Ordnance Survey in Britain which uses its software to update its records every day.