Trading Update

Gresham Computing PLC 04 January 2008 Gresham Computing plc ('Gresham' or the 'Company') 4 January 2008 Trading update Gresham Computing plc provides the following update to progress in respect of the year ended 31 December 2007. Financials We expect to report a significantly improved second half to 2007. The EBITDA loss for the second half is expected to be broadly half of that seen in the first half. Cash Reporting We have further increased the number of providers and currencies available on the Clareti Cash Reporting Service at the request of our user banks. We now have 29 major banks (an increase of 7 in 12 months) that have agreed to provide data to the service of which data from 20 of them is now available in 19 currencies, with more on the way. There are 9 user banks, some of which have deeply embedded our solution in their back office environment. We are currently collating data and building the business case for another 20 banks. When the service was originally launched the primary targets were the banks as the end users of the data. Our experience indicates that while the pressure for real-time data grows, especially in a credit crunch, the most significant driver of new revenues for us is the demand for intra-day/real-time cash management information from the banks' corporate customers. This can then be used by the corporate for intraday decision making and hence drives new revenues for the bank. It also acts as a differentiator in a globally competitive market. As at the 31 December 2007, our solutions were enabling 10 corporate customers of a major UK clearing bank with intraday cash management information. We currently have a pipeline of several hundred new corporate users and will be working closely with our partners to bring these onboard during 2008 and beyond. Payables Financing The payables financing service went live in the second half of 2007 initially in Australia. The service is live with the first major corporate buyer and two more buyers are being integrated onto the service. We have a strong pipeline of blue chip customers and a proven business and technology solution working in conjunction with a major global bank. Treasury Management Our partnership with Wall Street Systems continues to develop. We have made significant progress in this area in the latter stages of 2007, albeit that much of the revenue will impact 2008. We expect this relationship to deliver significant additional returns in 2008, capitalizing on the strong pipeline generated in 2007. Storage Our Virtual Tape Library solution (Clareti VTL) is growing in importance to the group and has now been successfully installed at 13 customer sites. The addition of high quality sales resource in the second half of 2007 has generated a step change in pipeline opportunity and we now enter 2008 with agreed proof of concepts where, if successful, our VTL solution will be deployed widely in FTSE 100 sized companies, initially in North America. Outlook We start the year with a very substantial level of contracted revenues for 2008 in the above mentioned areas of our business. We also have a strong pipeline of new or incremental revenue in each of our core areas of business. We are aggressively pursuing these opportunities which we believe will have significant impact on our trading performance in 2008 and beyond. - Ends - For further information, please contact: Gresham Computing plc +44 (0)20 7653 0200 Andrew Walton-Green KBC Peel Hunt +44 (0) 20 7418 8900 Oliver Scott Financial Dynamics +44 (0)207 831 3113 James Melville-Ross This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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