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Shares Indices August 12
August has continued the positive run that tech has enjoyed for most of 2012. Indeed NASDAQ stormed ahead by 4.3% and the UK TechMark was up 2.9%. The FTSE SCS Index (which best represents UK SITS...
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Better Q4 for Kofax
As expected, document imaging and business process management (BPM) provider Kofax delivered a better Q4 (see Signs of a better quarter at Kofax), after a warning the previous quarter (see Kofax...
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Catch up on the latest from TechMarketView
The holiday season is over; the new business term has begun. If you need to catch up on what has been happening across the UK SITS market, you’re in the best place. IndustryViews Corporate Activity Q2...
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NetDimensions punches above its weight
AIM-listed training software and services firm NetDimensions is punching above its weight in international markets and growing strongly as a result. Its first half results reveal 34% revenue growth to...
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Phoenix uncovers accounting hole at Servo
Somewhat unnerving news from infrastructure support services group, Phoenix, advising that they have discovered ‘the mis-statement of a number of accounting balances within Servo Limited and its...
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Rights for downloaders
I have received many emails and other comments to my previous posts about the perils of death in the digital age. Many have reported the problems of closing Linkedin or Facebook accounts when...
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Access steps up to SaaS and BI
Business management and accounting software provider Access Group is moving into the SaaS business intelligence space with the acquisition of French HQ’d Prelytis. Terms were not disclosed. Having...
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Another two PublicSectorViews reports published!
Following this morning’s publication of our third annual UK public sector SITS market trends & forecasts report, TechMarketView’s PublicSectorViews team has also published a deeper dive into two...
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Craneware regains strength in H2
It’s hard for modestly-sized UK software companies to fare well in the US market so watching Craneware’s success in the US healthcare sector has been a pleasure. The company stumbled in the first half...
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Monitise momentum masks larger losses
Almost everything in today’s FY results from AIM-listed, mobile banking player, Monitise, exudes confidence and enthusiasm – and arguably rightly so. But there is still a small matter of a £16.4m net...
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Oracle reprises its damages claim over SAP’s TomorrowNow
The copyright court case between Oracle and SAP which has already been running for 5 years is turning into a never ending story as Oracle renews its bid for higher damages. In August, the two parties...
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Quindell delivers 27% margin in first half
As expected, following the pre-close update in July (see Quindell shows progress, but still hurdles to clear), buy and build insurance BPS player Quindell Portfolio delivered revenue of £45.6m for the...
View ArticleRights for Downloaders - update
Further to my Rights for Downloaders story yesterday, Bruce Willis's wife has made it be known that this story is 'untrue'. Actually it appeared on many sources including the Sunday Times, Guardian,...
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Six Degrees makes acquisition no.12
Serial mid-market acquirer Six Degrees has notched up its twelfth acquisition in a little over a year. It’s snapped up unified communications integrator Aurora Networks, a company that has been...
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Tech Mahindra buys Hutchison’s BPS captive
Telco-focused offshore IT/BP player Tech Mahindra has emerged as the buyer of Hutchison Global Services (HGS), the captive BPS division of multinational telco Hutchison Whampoa. It emerged that Tech M...
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Ubisenses a steeper half-time loss
As expected from its July profit warning (see here), Cambridge-based, ‘real-time locations solutions’ company, Ubisense, recorded a steeper net loss in the first 6 months of the year, to the tune of...
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UK public sector SITS: 2012 set to be worse than 2011
Today we publish our third annual report outlining the main trends affecting the UK public sector software and IT services (SITS) market and highlighting where suppliers will find rare growth...
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Corero goes further off track
It really does seem like Corero CEO, Jens Montana, is driving the business down a steep incline. He is ‘transforming’ the once profitable provider of software to the UK education market into a network...
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CSC and NHS finally reach agreement
At last! After months of negotiations CSC and the Department of Health have finally reached an agreement that should draw a line under the dispute between the two over the future of CSC’s £3bn...
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Smart Metering getting better connected
We’re running out of superlatives to describe ‘soup to nuts’ gas meter installation and asset management firm, Smart Metering Systems. After a cracking 2011 (see Smart Metering Systems trebles full...
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