Title: Amdocs Company Overview
1Amdocs Company Overview
2Brief Description
- Amdocs combines innovative billing and CRM
software products and services with deep business
knowledge to deliver true Integrated Customer
Management, enabling the world's leading services
companies to achieve stronger, more profitable
customer relationships. - The company supports its customers with a wide
range of services, including integration and
implementation services, managed services, and
advisory services. Its unique combination of
products and services ensures accountability and
reduces risk. - Backed by an unsurpassed 21 years of delivering
real business results for its customers, Amdocs
leverages deep industry experience and develops
lasting relationships to help its global customer
base of industry leaders plan and execute their
business strategies with confidence.
Source Amdocs Company Website
3Business Model
- Amdocs derives its revenue principally from
- the sale of licenses for its products, including
initial license fees and incremental license fees
resulting from increases in a customer's business
volume - the sale of services related to its products,
including customization, implementation and
integration services - recurring revenue from ongoing support and
maintenance provided to its customers - providing outsourcing and other related services
for its customers
Source Amdocs Limited Form 20-F, Fiscal Year
ended 9/30/2002
4Principal Revenue Sources
- The majority of Amdocs revenue comes from
business support systems. These business support
systems include customer care and billing, CRM,
and order management systems - 1.44 bn - Customer Care Billing Systems
- 174 mn - Directory Systems
- 1.61 bn - Total
- 153 mn - License Revenue
- 1.46 bn - Service Revenue
- 1.61 bn - Total
Source Amdocs Limited Form 20-F, Fiscal Year
ended 9/30/2002
5Current Management
- Bruce Anderson, Chairman and CEO
- Avinoam Noar, Vice Chairman
- Dov Baharav, President and CEO of Amdocs Mgmt Ltd
- Thomas O'Brien, Treasurer, Sec.
- Nehemia Lemelbaum, SVP of Amdocs Mgmt Ltd.,
Director
Source Yahoo! Finance
6Corporate History
- 1982 Company founded as Aurec Information
- 1984 Aurec Information and SBC form a joint
venture - 1985 SBC acquires 50 of the company
- 1988 Aurec has operations on five continents
- 1995 Amdocs created as a holding company.
- 1997 WCAS Investors invested in company. Bruce
Anderson (partner) named Chairman and CEO - 1998 Initial Public Offering
- 1999 Acquired International Telecommunications
Data Systems - 2000 Acquired Solect Technology Group
- 2001 Acquired Clarify from Nortel Networks for
200 million - 2003 Bought assets of Exchange Applications and
purchased Bell Canadas joint venture stake in
Certen
Sources Hoovers Online Welsh, Carson, Anderson
Stowe website
7About the Founders
- A team of people including Avinoam Naor began
Amdocs in 1982. He initially served as SVP. He is
curently Vice Chairman of the Board. He has been
involved with software for 29 years. - No info on other founders available
Source Hoovers Online
8Funding history
- Information on initial funding is hard to find.
Significant investors in the company included - ? Amdocs International Limited
- 1985 SBC International acquired 50 of company
- 1997 WCAS Investors invested in company
- 1998 In June, the company had its IPO
Sources Amdocs Limited Form 20-F, Fiscal Year
ended 9/30/2002 Welsh, Carson, Anderson Stowe
website Yahoo! Finance, Hoovers Online
9Stock Chart
No splits. Company went public in June 1998.
Source Yahoo! Finance