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    The Company History page lists out the major events in chronological order for Saksoft Ltd.

    Company History - Saksoft Ltd.
    History and Background:



    Saksoft Limited was incorporated on November 24, 1999 as `Sak Infotech

    Ltd.' under the Companies Act, 1956 and obtained certificate of

    commencement of business on 17th January 2000. The name was changed to

    Saksoft Limited on September 30, 2002 and fresh certificate of

    Incorporation was received consequent to the change in name.



    The Registered Office of the Company, was transferred from NCT of New

    Delhi to Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on October 11, 2004, vide a fresh

    certificate of registration from the Order of the Company Law Board

    under Section 16(3) of the Companies Act, 1956, and is situated at `Sri

    Ram Nivas', 38, V.K. Iyer Road, Mandaveli, Chennai - 600 028. The

    corporate office and the whole time directors are based in Chennai and

    hence for operational convenience the registered office has been

    changed from Delhi to Chennai.



    The company was promoted with the objective of providing IT solutions

    for business problems in the banking, financial and insurance sectors.

    The company has its corporate office and main development center at

    Chennai (`Sri Ram Nivas', #38 V K Iyer Road, Mandaveli, Chennai 600028,

    India).



    The deployment of the internal accruals is as below:



    Sr.No. Investment Description Amount (Rs. Lakhs)



    1. HDFC Cash Management Fund 72.91

    2. Deutsche Insta Cash Plus - Daily Dividend 104.11

    3. FT India Monthly Income Plan 96.99

    4. Templeton MIP - Half-yearly Dividend 98.65

    5. Grindlays Floating Rate Fund 100.05

    6. Cash & Bank balances 282.67

    TOTAL 755.38



    2. Incase of shortfall in issue proceeds, the same will be met out of

    internal accruals. Pending any use of the net proceeds of the IPO, the

    company will invest the funds in high quality, interest bearing liquid

    instruments including deposits with banks.



    History and Background:



    Saksoft Limited was incorporated on November 24, 1999 as `Sak Infotech

    Ltd.' under the Companies Act, 1956 and obtained certificate of

    commencement of business on 17th January 2000. The name was changed to

    Saksoft Limited on September 30, 2002 and fresh certificate of

    Incorporation was received consequent to the change in name.



    The Registered Office of the Company, was transferred from NCT of New

    Delhi to Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on October 11, 2004, vide a fresh

    certificate of registration from the Order of the Company Law Board

    under Section 16(3) of the Companies Act, 1956, and is situated at `Sri

    Ram Nivas', 38, V.K. Iyer Road, Mandaveli, Chennai - 600 028. The

    corporate office and the whole time directors are based in Chennai and

    hence for operational convenience the registered office has been

    changed from Delhi to Chennai.



    The company was promoted with the objective of providing IT solutions

    for business problems in the banking, financial and insurance sectors.

    The company has its corporate office and main development center at

    Chennai (`Sri Ram Nivas', #38 VK Iyer Road, Mandaveli, Chennai 600028,

    India).



    Though there are several software vendors, some of whom provide IT

    services to the banking industry, the company felt that a focus on

    domain knowledge and understanding business problems was lacking. Most

    software vendors were focused on IT solutions from the technology

    perspective. The company planned to set up a group of people with

    banking operations knowledge who would guide and help the technical

    team to build IT solutions for business problems from an end user

    perspective. This group of people would comprise the "Business

    Consulting Group" or BCG and this was considered a differentiator in

    the market. The company set its vision to be a significant player in

    the financial services IT outsourcing market with a portfolio of

    services, tools and products.



    The company took on lease rental a space of 16000 sq.ft across 3 floors

    in Sri Ram Nivas, 38 V.K Iyer Rd., Mandaveli, Chennai 600028. It began

    operations in April 2000 by building the complete interiors on the 3rd

    floor (6000 sq.ft.). In the year 2001 it built interiors for the 2nd

    floor and partly for the mezzanine floor. By the year 2004, the entire

    space plus additionally lease rented space (2000 sq.ft) in the same

    premises were completely furnished.



    The company established its second development center at NOIDA in March

    2004. The NOIDA software development center, located at B 35-36, sector

    80, Phase 2, NOIDA 201305 (U.P.) was taken on lease in January 2004.

    The floor area of the building taken on lease is 33,000 sq. ft.

    comprising ground floor and two upper floors of which the ground floor

    of 11,000 sq. ft. area was furnished in March 2004. The objective of

    establishing a second development center in NOIDA was to take advantage

    of the relatively easier availability of trained personnel in NOIDA and

    also to provide a continuity of business plan for the company's major

    customers from a second location. The NOIDA facility will provide the

    company with the necessary contiguous space to grow its manpower and

    infrastructure in the coming years.



    The lease details are as below:



    Landlord name and address Leased space Lease Lease

    in sq.ft Rental Deposit

    Chennai Noida Rs. Per

    sq.ft.



    Alamelu Subramaniam 12100 15.60 10 months'

    22,3rd Seaward Road Rent

    Valmiki Nagar, Chennai 41

    S.Venkataraman 4014 15.60 10 months'

    22, 3rd Seaward Road Rent

    Valmiki Nagar,

    Chennai 41

    Sakserve Pvt Ltd 2388 15.00 10 months'

    38, VK Iyer Road Rent

    Mandaveli,

    Chennai 600028*

    Sak Industries Ltd 33000 10.00 Nil

    Chandiwala Estate,

    Maa Anand Mai Marg

    Kalkaji,

    New Delhi 110019**

    Total 18502 33000



    Landlord name and address Lease Remarks

    Period



    Alamelu Subramaniam 9 years from Unrelated Party

    22,3rd Seaward Road February 2000

    Valmiki Nagar, Chennai 41

    S.Venkataraman 9 years from Unrelated Party

    22,3rd Seaward Road February 2000

    Valmiki Nagar,

    Chennai 41

    Sakserve Pvt Ltd Renewable every Related Party

    38, VK Iyer Road 11 Months.

    Mandaveli, Last renewal from

    Chennai 600028* September 2004

    Sak Industries Ltd 3 years from Related Party

    Chandiwala Estate, January 2004

    Maa Anand Mai Marg

    Kalkaji,

    New Delhi 110019**



    * Sakserve Pvt Ltd is an associate company of the promoters. Sak

    Industries Ltd is one of the promoters of Saksoft Limited.



    ** It may also be noted that no lease deposit has been paid to Sak

    Industries Ltd for the 33,000 sq.ft. of space leased at Noida.



    After building the initial development team and doing international

    business development the company began providing services on a regular

    basis by October 2000. Slowly the company made inroads and began

    offering services to several customers in Singapore. The first

    large-scale order was from Morgan Stanley, UK for a credit card MIS

    application.



    The company started its Singapore Subsidiary (Sak Software Pte) in

    August 2000 to manage operations in Singapore and Asia Pacific. It

    opened a branch office in London in June 2001 to manage business from

    the U K market and established a subsidiary in Germany in January 2003.

    The company acquired the business and assets of Synertech Inc., based

    at Boulder, USA in January 2001 and renamed it as Saksoft, Inc. The

    acquisition of Synertech gave the company a foothold in USA and a

    business base to leverage. The company shifted its US headquarters to

    New York and closed the Boulder office permanently in January 2003 for

    operational ease and logistical simplicity. From slightly different

    names (Sak Infotech in India, Sak Software Pte in Singapore and Saksoft

    Inc in USA) used between the company and its subsidiaries, 'Saksoft'

    was adopted as the uniform name and identity across all operations in

    September 2002.



    In September 2002, the company acquired the business assets of Neem Tree

    Technologies Private Limited (Neem Tree Technologies), Chennai along

    with all personnel associated with the business. Neem Tree had a product

    suite (Neem Tree EBT suite) for the corporate banking space that

    included treasury and money market operations. This acquisition enabled

    the company to acquire a customer base, which included State Bank of

    India, Central Bank of India, Oman International Bank, and Andhra Bank

    among others. Using the business credentials and product suite, the

    company acquired Punjab National Bank as a customer and sold several

    upgrades and enhancements to the existing customer base. This

    acquisition helped the company, understand the complexities of managing

    and integrating operations in an M&A scenario.



    2005



    -Saksoft shares listed on NSE at 261% premium



    2006



    -Saksoft & Atos Origin sign an MOU to offer Business Intelligence Solutions to Retail Banks in Asia Pacific.



    -Saksoft had acquired 100% stake in the Acuma Group, UK for USD 17 million in cash.



    2007



    -Saksoft Recommended dividend of 20%



    2008



    -Mr. R Rajagopalan has been designated as the Chairman of the Company



    2009



    -Registered Office of the Company has been shifted from No.38, V.K. Iyer Road, Mandaveli, Chennai- 600028 To SP Infocity, Block A, 2nd Floor,40,MGR Salai. Perungudi, Kadanchavadi, Chennai - 600096



    -Saksoft launches Veri-sens



    -Saksoft launches ready-to-use BI software



    2010



    -Saksoft launches Prima



    2011



    -FICO and Saksoft Partner to Deliver Analytic Solutions in India



    -Saksoft enters into a agreement with FICO



    -Saksoft launches specialized services for Credit Information Management



    -Saksoft enters into Joint Venture with SOFGEN India Pvt. Ltd.



    2012



    -Saksoft Recommended a final dividend at the rate of 10%



    2013

    - Saksoft Ltd. has recommended a final dividend at the rate of 20% (Rs.2 per equity share)

    - Synetairos Technologies to merge with Saksoft Ltd



    2014

    - Saksoft Ltd has recommended a final dividend at the rate of 25% (Rs. 2.50/- per equity share).



    2015

    -Saksoft acquires 51% of the Share Capital of M/s Threesixty Logica Testing Pvt. Ltd.



    2016

    -Saksoft Ltd has informed Acquisition of additional 25% stake in M/s. Threesixty Logica Testing Services Private Limited

    -Saksoft Ltd has informed that aproved to acquire a 60% of stake in M/s. Dreamorbit Softech Private Ltd.





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