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WANdisco bulks up sales operation
Up and coming WANdisco is moving quickly to capitalise on its rapid growth and is expanding its sales operation with two new additions. Paul Hewitt and Scott Rudenstein, who are both IBM veterans,...
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Sopheon finding growth
In a short trading update today, product lifecycle software and services provider Sopheon confirmed that H1 is panning out as it hoped and that many - although not all - of the deals it expected to...
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'Science powered' Tessella completes MBO
Tessella, the privately-held provider of ‘science powered technology and consulting’, has completed a management buy-out backed by Mobeus Equity Partners. Alan Gaby, Managing Director of Tessella,...
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Microgen falls backwards in H1
When the opening comment in the highlights statement of a set of interim results contains the phrase “very satisfactory performance in difficult market conditions with results in line with first half...
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The very latest from TechMarketView
Top billing in this regular round-up of recent research goes to John O’Brien’s analysis of the UK BPS market. The report gives a full run-down of market forecasts in business process services up to...
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New insights into infrastructure services from TechMarketView
We have just published a major new report on the infrastructure services market in the UK. Infrastructure Services: UK market trends and forecasts analyses the changes taking place in this £14bn...
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G-Cloud: Leading supplier propositions
The Cabinet Office’s UK Government ICT strategy states that UK Government is fully committed to the adoption of cloud computing. G-Cloud is the umbrella programme focused on promoting adoption of...
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KBC points to a steady H1
Energy sector software and services supplier KBC Advanced Technologies is signalling a steady performance in its first half (to end June) in a trading update released this morning. The company says it...
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Wipro shares the 'Bangalore blues'
Well, last quarter wasn’t brilliant for Wipro either, but at least management felt it had a clear enough picture of things to come to offer guidance for the current quarter, unlike its Banaglore-based...
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Ubisense warns on contract delays
Cambridge-based, ‘real-time locations solutions’ company, Ubisense, is suffering like so many others as contract signings ‘move to the right’. After posting very acceptable growth – though iffy...
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VMware forks out for virtual networker Nicira
VMware has announced it is paying a total of $1.26bn for software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Nicira. The virtualisation specialist is hoping tiny Nicira, which was founded in 2007 and is...
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Compliance and unstructured info combo works for Ideagen
Ideagen’s first set of results following its AIM listing earlier this month (see Ideagen joins AIM) are a pleasing sight with revenue up 78% to £4m, including 38% organic growth, and adjusted profit...
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Signs of a better quarter at Kofax
Document imaging and business process management (BPM) provider Kofax says its performance in Q4 and for the year to June was in line with expectations. Revenue was in the range of $261m to $263m,...
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SAP glows in Q2
SAP confirmed its Q2 prelims and is looking good for the full year as take up of software, and particularly its new offerings, accelerates performance. For a company who only a few years ago was being...
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Lockheed: End of Census 2011 hits IS&GS revenues
Global security, aerospace and IT company, Lockheed Martin, has reported a solid set of results for the six month period to 24th June 2012. Worldwide sales increased from $22.2b to $23.2b leaving the...
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Eurozone woes hits Apple
I seem to have reported Apple’s quarterly earnings ‘forever’. If Apple has a ‘problem’ it is that expectations are so high that a performance that every other company would be ecstatic about can be...
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Capita – matching the words with the music
Sometimes it’s a little tricky to match the words with the music in Capita CEO Paul Pindar’s results commentary. In particular, his reference to “organic growth returning as expected” rather jars with...
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To counter Apple not reaching (the albeit high) expectations of analysts – See Eurozone woes hit Apple – ARM, which supplies most of the chips for Apple products, exceeded expectations. PBT rose 23%...
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Unisys reports another quarter of improvement
Unisys stock is up 11% in after hours trading on NYSE, following an expectation-busting set of Q2 results. The Pennsylvania-based company impressed investors with better than expected profits and...
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Revenue up, margins down at Virgin Media Business
Virgin Media Business (VMB) remains a key source of revenue growth for parent Virgin Media as it continues on its mission to “shake up B2B telecoms and provide a unique alternative to BT and other...
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