Having subsumed the much larger Patni (see iGate seals Patni deal) and finally erasing the brand name altogether (see Bye bye, Patni), Fremont, California-headquartered (though India-centric) IT/BP services firm iGate ended its first full year as a billion dollar company, with revenues of $1.07bn. Operating margins were a very creditable 19.3%, comparable with much larger peer HCL (see HCL still rolling along).
The challenge now is organic growth. iGate’s revenues were essentially flat (sequentially) for the last quarter of the year (to 31st Dec), with prior quarters’ growth somewhere between -2% and +2%. Success will depend on iGate’s ability to carve out niches in the spaces between the much larger players’ much larger footprints. There is a lot of ‘good stuff’ going on in ‘new’ iGate (including here in the UK). It’s just a matter of finding a good ‘home’ for it.