Edison Investment Research - Expert System (EXSY) Building the foundations for growth

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Edison Investment Research

Katherine Thompson

Building the foundations for growth

The focus on integrating the TEMIS acquisition slowed the pace of customer wins in H116, resulting in a dip in revenues and EBITDA. With this integration largely complete, we expect a better rate of new business wins in H216. We have reduced our forecasts to reflect H1 performance and incorporated the recent fund-raising. The company continues to focus on evolving the product, developing indirect sales channels and building the business in the US.

17/11/2016 6 EN

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Expert System

Expert System Spa. Expert System SpA is an Italy-based company engaged in software industry. The Company provides document management with linguistic analysis and meanings understanding. Expert System SpA delivers application software for various sectors, such as banking and insurance, oil and gas, media and publishing, government, telecommunications, life science and pharmaceuticals. The Company's products portfolio includes Cogito Semantic Tagger, Cogito Studio, Cogito Answers, Cogito Discover, Cogito Categorization Platform, Cogito Search Explore Engine, Cogito Intelligence API, Cogito Intelligence Platform and Cogito Technology. The Company's products are designed for semantic indexing and search, automatic categorization of unstructured information, marketing and business intelligence and open source intelligence, extraction of relevant entities and for advanced customer care. On July 2014, it increased its stakes in ADmantX SpA up to a 77.83%.

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IT0004496029 Italy

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Edison Investment Research

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Katherine Thompson

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Building the foundations for growth

Expert.ai - Growth in focus areas

Expert.ai - Growth in focus areas

Expert System - Focus shifts to scaling up

Intralot - Focus on business development in FY24

Headlam Group - Strategy for growth in tougher market

Lithium Power International - Termination of coverage

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