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Ajay Sawant, CEO & MD, Orient Technologies, is a Cloud Solutions Provider. He has 29 years of experience in IT Industry in driving business as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director in India, Dubai & Singapore. Here he talks about his business. Cloud technologies are now gaining ground and it is the need of the hour for the traditional IT business leaders to integration Cloud solutions in their portfolio. This can be a way to accelerate their business growth. Cloud solutions are high in demand now and their demand is likely to grow in future.
What was the revenue growth % of your business in 2021?
Ajay Sawant - FY 2021-22 was a fabulous year for Orient Technologies. We clocked Rs. 469 Cr of revenue which is 88% growth year on year.
What % of this revenue growth came from Cloud solutions?
Ajay Sawant - Across all 5 Business Units we had a tremendous growth. But Cloud Division has extremely done well with a revenue of Rs. 50+ Cr which is annuity business and grown by 70% over last year.
What aspects of Cloud segments were most in demand in the last year?
Ajay Sawant - Though lift and shift is a common business in the Cloud segment, we have managed to do SAP migrations from On-Premise to AWS Cloud, VDI implementations on MS Azure and many more SaaS business.
SaaS is very much in demand now, as also Hybrid Cloud solutions SAP migration, as the enterprises want to scale their businesses using the evolving Cloud technologies.
What % of your clients came from the non-metro areas and from the MSME sector?
Ajay Sawant - We are focused mainly on enterprise customers from the metro cities. However, we were able to get 20% of our Cloud revenue from the non-metros & 25% from the MSME customers.