It's been another busy couple of weeks at TechMarketView.
We published three UKHotViewsExtra comments exclusively for our Foundation Service subscribers. In HP’s services margins in the clouds, our research director for Business Process Services, John O’Brien commented on how HP hopes to deliver higher value services in ‘the cloud’ following its recent EMEA analyst event. He also explored why Serco is making the bold move to acquire Indian offshore BPO provider Intelenet Global Services in Serco’s expensive offshore gamble. And our managing partner, Anthony Miller commented on the stalled integration of Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra in Mahindra Satyam (update).
TechMarketView was quoted widely in the press once again. John’s comments on the impact of offshoring local government jobs in Service Birmingham considers offshoring were picked up by Computerworld, as was the interesting line up (and omission) of suppliers in Atos among winners in £300m Scottish IT framework, here. Anthony spoke with Computerworld on CSC’s increasingly troubled involvement in the NHS NPfIT here.
One of the highlights was our chairman Richard Holway’s Dinner with Sheryl Sanberg, COO of Facebook. Richard came away thinking she is one of the most impressive COOs he has ever met. Richard also commented on the signs of another potential dot com bubble appearing in the social media space following LinkedIn's 'fireworks' IPO here, and also in No froth here and FreeJellyBeans.com 2.0. You may also have seen his comments on Nokia’s continuing woes in Nokia Tumbles on CNBC.com, and his views on the need for new UK IT apprenticeships in Computing. He also paid tribute here to friend Peter Rowell, chairman of Regent Associates, who sadly passed away last month.
The Hotviews archive really is the most valuable repository of knowledge and views. We might be a bit biased but we never do anything without searching the archive for past views on a company or topic. Hugely valuable and only available to our paying Foundation Service clients.
To get access to the UKHotViews archive, UKHotViewsExtra and all the other TechmarketView Foundation Service research on the UK SITS market, just email Deborah Seth (dseth@techmarketview.com).