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Revenue & profit head in opposite ways at Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com’s ebullient CEO Marc Benioff routinely shrugs off concerns over patchy profitability but the level of losses is piling up and causing market jitters that he will have to work hard to...
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SocialGO warns - and gets social with Catalis
Normally, the announcement of a software player inking an agency agreement with a distributor would not attract our attention. But when we looked more closely at the news that AIM-listed, social media...
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Quartermaine leaves Capita
Mark Quartermaine has left Capita after just six months as MD of their newly created IT Services operation. See – Quartermaine joins Capita. Ops Director Russ Hewitt also left a month back. Mark Wylie...
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G4S takes £50m charge for Olympics
Support services giant G4S has taken the full £50m charge in the first half against its Olympics security contract, which CE Nick Buckles was forced to admit in July had turned into a ‘humiliating...
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Kenexa takes IBM into socialised mainstream HR
IBM is changing its applications game with its proposed $1.3bn cash acquisition of web-based social HR specialist Kenexa and is moving into the mainstream business application space it has shunned for...
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Ordina still struggling for scale and profit
From time to time I like to take a peek at the fortunes of the somewhat tarnished Netherlands IT services ‘national hero’ Ordina, partly to see if it’s still in business (it is) and also because the...
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DRS boosted by international election contracts
From a low this time last year, DRS Data and Research’s roller coaster-style financial results are currently at a peak, boosted by international election and census work, but although this work has...
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If only Mphasis was single again!
If Bangalore-based mid-tier offshore services player, Mphasis, was an independent company you might consider its Q3 results (to 29 August) to be rather dull, with headline revenues up 5% yoy to...
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Infrastructure services – everything to play for
The £14bn UK infrastructure services market is undergoing a number of radical changes due to ‘disruptive’ technologies such as cloud, mobile internet and BYOT. Meanwhile, large outsourcing contracts,...
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iPad mini?
Knowing our readers insatiable appetite for all things Apple, I was interested to see an article in StrategyEye today, itself reporting on an All Things Digital rumour, that Apple is set to launch its...
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Serco's disappointing first half
Having already warned of a ‘small reduction’ in organic revenue at half time (see here), support services and BPO giant Serco reported a fall of 2%, largely as a result of a 16% slump in the US...
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Serco's disappointing first half (update)
We have now heard management discuss Serco's H112 results. It is clear the support services and BPS giant is banking on a real improvement in the second half of 2012 after a disappointing first half...
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BT sells down Tech Mahindra stake
BT has sold off 60% of its remaining stake in Tech Mahindra, its telecoms-focused joint venture with Indian diversified conglomerate, Mahindra & Mahindra. The sale raised nearly £160m and leaves...
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Pilat Media expands via joint venture
Pilat Media, the UK provider of business management software to the media industry, is treading water in terms overall performance with half time results (to June 30 2012) pretty much in line with the...
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UK not quite so 'resilient' for Hays
Despite CEO Alistair Cox recently describing aspects of London-headquartered international recruitment firm Hays’ UK business as ‘resilient’ (see here), in fact UK operations recorded a £6.5m...
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Brady ponders bad debt
Acquisitive Brady, supplier of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the energy, metals and soft commodities sectors (see Brady successfully scaling up), has found itself in dispute...
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Capita acquires business travel company
Leaving aside the apparent problems and management distractions in its IT services division (see Quartermaine leaves Capita), Capita's CE Paul Pindar is back focusing his attention on the company's...
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Computacenter – worthy mentions and dangling questions
The broad size and shape of Computacenter’s half-time results has already had a pretty good airing over the past couple of months, what with the mid-June profit warning (see How Computacenter got...
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EMIS getting stronger and stronger
Shares in leading GP systems supplier EMIS Group rose more than 7% this morning after it delivered 19% revenue growth in the first half – all of which organic – taking its revenue to £42.3m. Meanwhile...
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EMIS getting stronger and stronger (update)
We have spoken with EMIS’ CE Sean Riddell and FD Phillip Woodrow to get some more colour on the impressive H1 results (see EMIS getting stronger and stronger). Interestingly, management were more keen...
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