arivia'kom strategy and way forward Update

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arivia.kom strategy and way forwardUpdate
20 August 2003
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What is arivia.kom?

• An ICT(1) solutions company with significant
  capability and collective experience
• Provides Totally Integrated Business Solutions
  across a wide range of technological platforms
  and industries
• Supports world leading IT solutions from across
  the globe
• Significant customer base includes the worlds
  largest utility companies

Information, Communications Technology
(1)
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The original business case for the creation of
arivia.kom highlighted a number of strategic
milestones
Potential IPO
We are here!
Strategic Milestone 1
Strategic Milestone 2
Strategic Milestone 3
Strategic Milestone 4

• BEE Equity Structure
• Acquisition strategy

Commercialised Business
IPO

• Stabilise the business
• Merger integration process- People / processes
• Acquire capability
• capacity
• Commercialisebusiness model and processes

• Creation of the business
• Launch the brand
• Structure transaction

• Final value extraction for shareholders

• Structure Black Economic Empowerment
  transaction
• Acquisitions
• Potential SEP structure

Timeline between 3 5 years
We are on track in achieving our strategic
milestones.
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Strategic Intent
A14GBGHNMHIJO.

• To be the dominant ICT solutions company in
  Africa
• With pride, to take our distinctly African
  heritage to the world through innovative and
  relevant ICT solutions

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Business Strategy

• In order to be a competitive player in the local,
  regional and global IT market, arivia.kom focuses
  its strategy on three core areas
• Leveraging our significant capability and scale
  in the IT infrastructure market
• Packaging our niche capability in focused IT
  business solutions in the local, regional and
  global market
• Initiating Ventures business to support our
  longer term growth strategy

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Each line of business has distinctive
differentiatorsand focus areas
Niche Solutions

• Biometric Solutions
• Niche Markets provides specialised
• technologies and niche business
• solutions
• Healthcare Management Solutions
• These include GIS (Geographic
• Information Systems), smart card and
• biometrics, as well as knowledge and
• document management.
• Geographic Information Solutions
• These technologies are the basis for
• integrated niche solutions such as
• election solutions, national identification
• solutions and traffic information
• management solutions

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Business focus

• Provides integrated business solutions that
  include the entire spectrum of Information
  Communications Technology (ICT) services
• Focus is high-end business technology solutions
• Solutions support the public sector and large
  private sector corporates
• Primarily within the South African and African
  markets
• Large, end-to-end information technology
  outsource agreements
• Turn-key business solutions
• Niche solutions
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Our performance for the March 2003 financial year
is an indication of our strategic strength
Note 2002 financials annualised for 12 months
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Looking Ahead

• Continuing to aggressively brand arivia.kom in
  its target markets

• Diversifying the revenue base with a
  significant focus on Africa

• Fully utilising the opportunities offered by
  technology trends, merging business
  applications, and new legislation, to enhance
  its value propositions

• Continue improving its service delivery and
  client management processes

• Continuing its commitment to Black Economic
  Empowerment in all its dimensions

• Aggressively building delivery capacity in
  support of our strategy