Datagate Innovation appoints a new director

Enprise Group is a public company listed on New Zealand’s NZAX stock exchange with the code ENS.
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23 January 2017
NZ cloud software company Datagate adds
CTO of Dell EMC to board line up

AUCKLAND. New Zealand cloud software start-up Datagate Innovation Limited
has appointed Arron Patterson – Dell EMC Chief Technology Officer for Asia
Pacific and Japan, and start-up investor/mentor – as a Non-Executive Director.

For customers including a network of Spark resellers and one of New Zealand’s largest IT
services companies, Datagate’s cloud billing solution provides online billing, reporting and
customer self-service for usage-based services.

Arron Patterson joins BankLink founder Malcolm McDonald on the Datagate board. Mr
Patterson has also invested in Datagate through investment group Flying Kiwi Angels. In
his role as investor, advisor and mentor for Flying Kiwi Angels Patterson routinely sees
presentations from six different start-ups and start-up ideas each week. He says Datagate
‘stood out from the pack.’

“I was impressed by CEO Mark Loveys’ track record of creating shareholder value and with
the quality of the team around him,” Arron Patterson says.

“Datagate’s product is also pretty mature and it has happy customers. The foundations are
in place for the company to grow in scale. Part of my regional CTO role is to evaluate the
cloud IT service provider market. One of the persistent challenges for these organisations
is the need to carve up a service stream and give it to multiple metered customers.
Datagate’s value is that it can bill, rate and present virtually any service that is subscription
or usage-based. Metered billing continues to be an issue for managed service providers
the world over, which is why Datagate has global growth potential. This is a start-up that
has successfully solved a difficult issue for many utility and telco customers. Cloud IT
service providers are the next logical target.”

CEO Mark Loveys says Arron Patterson’s expertise in managed service provisioning, and
his global business connections, are valuable for both customer acquisition and strategic
planning.

“Arron lives and breathes the large IT service provider market, which is one of Datagate’s
biggest market opportunities,” he says.

"These are highly strategic customers because they generate new ‘white label’
opportunities for Datagate within their own reseller and customer communities. This grows
annualised revenue. It’s a dynamic that has seen Datagate almost triple customer numbers
and contracted annualised revenue in the last twelve months,” Mark Loveys says.

Formerly a wholly-owned division of NZAX-listed Enprise Group (ENS), in 2015 Datagate
was established as a joint venture between Enprise Group and new investors, including the
Ice Angels, VIF, Flying Kiwi Angels and Datagate management. First round seed funding of
$1.46 million was raised and a separate board established, BankLink founder Malcolm
McDonald joined the board as a director and Enprise CEO and co-founder Mark Loveys
was appointed CEO.

Enprise Group is a public company listed on New Zealand’s NZAX stock exchange with the code ENS.
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About Enprise Group
Listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange Alternative Market (NZAX) on 1 December
2014, Enprise Group (ENS) has two operating divisions: Enprise Solutions and joint
venture Datagate Innovation Ltd.

Enprise Solutions is a cloud business software company that is the leading trans-Tasman
provider of solutions based on the MYOB EXO and MYOB Advanced software platforms.
Enprise Solutions offers cloud options for every piece of software it sells, including a broad
range of companion products to extend the power of the MYOB Advanced and MYOB EXO
platforms. The company supports around 750 MYOB EXO and MYOB Advanced
customers across Australia and New Zealand.

Datagate Innovation Ltd provides online billing and reporting solutions for businesses that
bill according to subscription or usage.

Datagate opens up new recurring revenue opportunities for Telcos, Utilities, Retailers and
Managed Service Providers by allowing them to sell, price and invoice their customers for a
wide range of services – including phone, internet, electricity and software – all on a single
invoice under their own branding.

Datagate’s friendly and intuitive “white labelled” self-service portal reduces time and cost
for both the customer and the service provider. A strong feature is customer self-service
where customers can log in to view and analyse consumption data, as well as view and pay
invoices online.

Datagate's largest shareholder is Enprise Group (NZAX: ENS) with the balance privately
held.

Visit http://www.datagate-i.com/
to see Datagate at work.


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Released by Sayle Noble & Associates on behalf of Enprise Group. For more information,
please contact Enprise Group CEO Elliot Cooper tel +649 829 5500 email
elliotc@enprisegroup.com; Datagate Director Arron Patterson: tel +64 21 674 765, email
arronp@outlook.com; Datagate CEO Mark Loveys: tel +64 275 971 889, email
mark.loveys@datagate-i.com; or Caroline Sayle: tel +64 9 307 8450, email
caros@noble.co.nz