Adrian Marco’s TechnologyOne Is Australia’s Largest Enterprise Software Company.
Adrian Di Marco, an Australian entrepreneur founded TechnologyOne in 1987. The company received unicorn status in 2014 and it is mainly known for offering commercial support software. It has its headquarters based in Brisbane, Australia and apart from the Australian market, it has an international presence in the UK, New Zealand, South Pacific, and Asia. TechnologyOne has 1,200 employees and currently, the CEO of the company is Edward Chung. It mainly offers SaaS products as in 2012 the company decided to transfer its business solution from on-premise business software to a SaaS provider. TechnologyOne is a publicly-traded company and it is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the symbol TNE.
About TechnologyOne
TechnologyOne is one of the first startups in Australia and when it was founded its main focus was deep research and using innovative cutting-edge technology. The company is known for investing heavily in its R&D unit. It invests 20% of the total annual revenue for research purposes. The company today operates in six market categories. They are local government, education, health and community services, government, asset and project-intensive, and financial services and corporates. TechnologyOne is currently associated with more than 150 health and community organizations for better health outcomes. The company started expanding in the 21st-century by opening international offices and also through several acquisitions.
History
Adrian Di Marco decided to establish a new enterprise software company when he saw the immense potential to build a new generation of accounting software. The initial investment to establish TechnologyOne was offered by J L Mactaggart Industries (John and Dugal Mactaggart) which was a former client as well. TechnologyOne developed configurable software such that every client can use the same code but the software can be configured to meet individual needs. In the year TechnologyOne was established, the company opened its R&D center in Mactaggart’s hide processing plant.
The company introduced its first product in the market, FinanceOne in 1991. Marco’s idea was to make the foundation of the company based on relational database technology and it paid off. After the first product was released, TechnologyOne was recognized by various magazines. In 1995, the company’s name was on top of the customer satisfaction survey list released by CFO magazine. In the late 1990s, the company opened several other offices in Australia. It also started getting international contracts and big projects. For example, in the 1990s the company built Automated Titling System (ATS) for the Queensland Department of Natural Resource and Mines. In 2000 and the following years, TechnologyOne opened new offices in London and New Zealand and currently it is focusing on the local government market and tertiary education.
Success
There was a shift in the strategy of TechnologyOne in 2005 when it decided to shift from functionality-centric software to people-centric software. In 2004, TechnologyOne recorded $1 billion market capitalization and entered the S&P/ASX 200 Index. Marco was the CEO and COO of the company until 2017 when he decided to step down and his place was taken by Edward Chung. By the end of 2017, TechnologyOne recorded a huge profit from its cloud business for the first time and landed 112 new cloud customers. Currently, its annual revenue has reached $300 million.
Acquisitions
TechnologyOne has also expanded its territory through a series of acquisitions. In 2000, it made the first acquisition when it purchased Tablelands Computer Systems followed by ProClaim software in the same year. In 2002, it acquired Infloplan and Avand Pty Ltd 2007. In 2015 the company acquired three businesses, namely, ICON Software, Digital Mapping Solutions, and Jeff Roorda & Associates.
Edward Chung – CEO of TechnologyOne
Edward Chung became the CEO of the company in 2017 but he has experience with TechnologyOne for more than 10 years. He worked for the products and solution division of the company and also became the COO of the company before getting appointed as CEO. Edward also worked for Queensland Rail and Queensland Audit Office for 10 years.
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