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/

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

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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''.


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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


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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.

Setting the team up, with David Richards looking for a Hr manager for San Francisco.

On Wednesday, WANdisco PLC (WAND:LSE) closed at 895.00, 13.53% below its 52-week high of 1,035, set on May 09, 2013.

Article in Shares mag today.

WANdisco (WAND:AIM) 947.5p

STORY

WANdisco is largely about connectivity, supplying an ‘always-on’ data feed across the globe via clever server computer replication technology. The name stands for ‘Wide Area Network DIStributed Computing’ and it is based in Sheffield’s Electric Works digital campus, with offices in Silicon Valley, where chief executive officer David Richards lives. The company joined Aim in June last year raising £15 million at 180p, and the shares have captured the imagination of investors like nothing else since, rising more than 425%.

BIG DATA PITCH

Cut its teeth in innovation, supplying a collaboration software platform called Subversion that effectively allows engineering teams of big companies access to the same open source development systems and projects from anywhere in the world. Based on open source technology, it uses a ‘freemium’ model – it provides free access to clients and up-sells a variety of in-house built enterprise extras, including newly launched tools for the Hadoop 2.0 platform. Hadoop is the big data engine that Facebook, Amazon, Google and almost all the big technology firms rely on. WANdisco unveiled its first big data customer win in April.

NUMBERS

At IPO the company was servicing five million users worldwide across 2,000 international companies, a base earned thanks to WANdisco’s claim of an internal pay-back inside of a year and return-on-investment of 150% for its users. While the £200 million company is not currently expected to make a profits breakthrough for several years, estimates out there at the moment are based solely on the firm’s existing products. There is the possibility of cashflow neutrality late next year, or early 2015. Richards sees WANdisco developing into a $1 billion revenue business in time, ambitious given last year’s $7.9 million of bookings. That will double this year, reckon Panmure Gordon analysts, hitting over $21 million in 2014. The broker has a discounted cashflow-based valuation of £12.35.

COMPANY SAYS (David Richards, CEO)

‘We are incredibly pleased with the progress achieved since our IPO in June 2012. Our revenues have almost doubled during this period in a fast growing market and our results today are ahead of expectation. Our major investments in talented people and complementary IP during 2012 have enabled us to launch new products for the high growth big data market, which we believe ideally position WANdisco for long term sustained growth. We have delivered a tremendous start to 2013, securing another record quarter in Q1 where we saw 96% growth in bookings. Some of the world’s largest, most innovative companies know they must get to grips with the big data challenge and – perhaps even more importantly – are prepared to trust WANdisco to help them do that.’





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WANdisco Hadoop Expert Presenting at Big Data Cloud Today

Dr. Boudnik, WANdisco Director of Big Data Distribution, will be presenting at Big Data Cloud Today

San Ramon, CA – June 7, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, announced that Dr. Boudnik, Director of Big Data Distribution, will be presenting at Big Data Cloud Today!, which is being held from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (1401 N Shoreline Blvd).

Dr. Boudnik’s session, scheduled for 12:00 PM, is entitled “Hadoop v2.0.5 – Why it’s important.” Today, six out of seven commercial vendors are announcing, using and selling Hadoop 2.x-based versions of storage and data analytics solutions, system software, and services. With a variety of offerings, platform unification is more important than ever. What’s happening around Hadoop stabilization and releases in the community? The latest news, trends and analysis will be covered in the talk.

Dr. Boudnik is one of the early developers of Hadoop and founder of Apache BigTop, the open source project that focuses on building community around the packaging and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects. With extensive experience in software development, including Hadoop, analytics, Git, distributed systems and more, Dr. Boudnik has been an Apache Hadoop committer since 2009. He has spoken at numerous industry events, holds 14 software patents and earned his PhD and MS in Computer Science from Saint-Petersburg University, Russia.

About Big Data Cloud Today!

“Big Data Cloud Today!” is a focused, high intensity conference on both the technical aspects of Big Data and the Business Applications. Suitable for executives, analysts and technologists, the subject matter ranges from technical training sessions, to in-depth panel discussions on the future of Applications.

About WANdisco

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today’s data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco’s products are differentiated by the company’s patented active-active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Fortune Global 1000 companies, including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

Hadoop is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

Contact:
Samantha Leggat
samantha.leggat@wandisco.com
(925) 396-1194

WANdisco Announces Subversion Live 2013











Industry Experts and Developers to Discuss the Future of Subversion at Conferences in Boston, San Francisco, and London




San Ramon, CA – June 11, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development and a major corporate sponsor of the Apache Subversion Foundation, today announced the dates for its popular annual conference series, Subversion Live.

2013 has been an important year for the Apache Software Foundation, with the long-awaited release of Subversion 1.8, and its new merge features, as well as WANdisco, with the launch of SVN MultiSite Plus. Subversion Live 2013 will reflect the great strides made within the Subversion community, focusing on the new features announced in recent Subversion releases, expert-led discussions on the nature of software evolution, presentations highlighting the future of Subversion, live demos, and an in-depth committer roundtable at each conference.

Subversion 2013 sessions include:
•What's coming in Subversion 1.8 and 1.9
•The Flow of Change: How Software Evolves
•Subversion: The Road Ahead
•Practical TortoiseSVN
•Move Tracking
•Developments in Merging
•Benchmarking Subversion
•Apache Bloodhound

“We are excited to once again bring together Subversion's most dedicated users and committers to share their experiences and expertise in improving development and collaboration among the open source community,” said David Richards, WANdisco CEO. “The Apache Subversion community is a talented and dedicated group and we are proud to contribute to its continued success with Subversion Live 2013.”

This year's conference will take place at the following locations on these dates:
•Boston, October 3 at the Westin Copley Place (10 Huntington Ave.)
•San Francisco, October 8 at Le Méridien (333 Battery St.)
•London, October 16, Lancaster London Hotel (Lancaster Terrace)

Visit the Subversion Live webpage to learn more about the conference and view the entire agenda. The schedule and speaker lineup is subject to change.

Replacement AGM & Chairman's Statement

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The WANdisco Plc announcement released on 12/06/2013 at 11:45 under RNS No. 8775G has been amended.

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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 at the Company's first Annual General Meeting, held today in Sheffield, UK, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, David Richards, will make the following statement:



"It is with great pleasure that I am able to report to our Annual General Meeting that very good progress continues to be made in all areas of our business.

On the product development side our new and evolving products for the Application Lifecycle Management and Big Data markets are being well received by our customers. Since the IPO we have hired a number of highly experienced enterprise sales staff and they have delivered substantial year-on-year sales growth, which in the first quarter was 96%. Also pleasing was an almost three-fold increase in the average deal size as we now sell on value rather than technology. The sales pipeline for the second quarter and beyond continues to grow for all products and the group remains confident of further substantial sales growth.

We anticipate making further updates in the coming weeks associated with our Hadoop Big Data products. We anticipate them to be made during the Hadoop Summit, where we are exhibiting, on the 26th and 27th of June.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees of the Group who have contributed so much to the rapid growth and development of WANdisco and we all look forward to further progress going forward."

Sales accelerate at Wandisco

StockMarketWire.com

WANdisco, a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of big data and distributed software development, is confident of substantial sales growth.

Its chairman and chief executive officer, David Richards, told its AGM: "On the product development side our new and evolving products for the Application Lifecycle Management and Big Data markets are being well received by our customers.

"Since the IPO we have hired a number of highly experienced enterprise sales staff and they have delivered substantial year-on-year sales growth, which in the first quarter was 96%. Also pleasing was an almost threefold increase in the average deal size as we now sell on value rather than technology.

"The sales pipeline for the second quarter and beyond continues to grow for all products and the group remains confident of further substantial sales growth."



At 2:40pm: (LON:WAND) share price was -2.5p at 897.5p


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WANdisco make progress in all areas of business

12th June 2013

Ellie Newton-Syms
By Ellie Newton-Syms - Assistant Editor


David Richards, chief executive of WANdisco


YORKSHIRE software group WANdisco today said it has made “very good” progress in all areas of its business as it looks forward to substantial sales growth.

Chairman and chief executive officer, David Richards, will tell shareholders at the Sheffield and California-based company's annual general meeting, held today in Sheffield: "It is with great pleasure that I am able to report to our annual general meeting that very good progress continues to be made in all areas of our business. “On the product developm......for the full story register now for free or login below...

Purchase of TortoiseSVN.Net Community Website

TortoiseSVN.net attracts over 500,000 unique visitors each month and supports over five million downloads each year, making it the most popular Subversion client for enterprises that typically have Windows desktops, including many of the company's current customers. The website is considered as one of the most popular among software engineers and allows WANdisco to immediately target a significantly expanded online audience consisting of potential customers for WANdisco's paid Subversion products and services.

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4613097

From Shares mag today -




TortoiseSVN.net is now part of WANdisco!

Published by Mand on June 13, 2013 in Subversion and WANdisco. 0 Comments




You may have seen the news release earlier today, advising that WANdisco has acquired TortoiseSVN.net, home to the world’s most popular Subversion client for Windows, TortoiseSVN.

We’re excited about this for a number of reasons:

- TortoiseSVN is an award-winning open source Subversion client software for Windows with millions of users.

- We (WANdisco) have been a major contributor to the TortoiseSVN project since 2010.

- We already support customers who are quite happy with TortoiseSVN, and want to continue using it.

- We’ve had a dedicated TortoiseSVN section on our popular Subversion forum for a while now so we’re familiar with a lot of the issues users face and the new features they’re looking for.

- This acquisition, along with our cross-platform Subversion client, SmartSVN, puts us in a great position to help drive development of features users will love, regardless of their environment.

As part of the acquisition Stefan Küng, the lead developer on the TortoiseSVN project since the start, has joined the ‘Disco to continue development on TortoiseSVN.

Welcome aboard Stefan, and the TortoiseSVN community!