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The rise of BYO
I have on many occasions, both on Hotviews and in my presentations, told the story of how we approached IT at TechMarketView. How we are totally Cloud-based and how, over two years ago, we gave our...
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NCC on track as awaits return on SDLC
Almost all appears to be going swimmingly for assurance and escrow services firm, NCC, with performance on track for its May year-end close. The laggard is testing firm, SDLC, which NCC acquired almost...
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Imperial innovates a busy half year
Imperial Innovations (IVO), the AIM-listed tech ‘incubator’ arm of London’s Imperial College, is putting the £140m it raised recently (see Imperial to ‘innovate’ in Oxford, Cambridge, UCL) to good use....
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Sherriff takes charge at Microgen
Software pure play Microgen issued an in line trading update, and announced the promotion of COO David Sherriff to the role of CEO. Sherriff, who will report into chairman Martyn Ratcliffe, has...
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Promethean: core business suffers big Q1 decline
Although “in line with expectations”, trading in the first three months of 2011 for Promethean World, the supplier of interactive learning technologies, was nothing to smile about. According to its...
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Micro Focus - Kelly responds
Further to my post Micro Focus revisited – occasioned by the abrupt departure of their CEO Nigel Clifford – Stephen Kelly contacted me. I’d mentioned that Kelly’s ‘3 in 3’ target had been ‘to triple...
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Good day for tech
You’ll read more detailed analysis of IBM’s results elsewhere on HotViews. See IBM services signings crash. But IBM was not the only company to report upbeat results last night. Both Intel and VMWare...
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Computacenter in line for FY11
After a “satisfactory” first quarter, Computacenter said it is in-line with management expectations for FY11. Interim revenue for the period from 1 January to 20 April, was up 2% overall, helped by 6%...
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IBM services signings crash
IBM reported a pretty impressive 8% revenue and 10% earnings growth in Q1 (to 31st March) - largely as a result of their booming server business. See Good day for tech. But growth in IBM’s services...
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Sanderson’s outlook gives 'confidence for FY'
Sanderson provided an update on trading for its first half today, revealing “a small reduction in turnover” but an improvement in profitability. Gross margins are higher because the retail and...
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Fidessa’s customary caution
Fidessa, the financial asset trading systems provider, said it has seen good growth since the start of the year as a result of significant new orders. However a more competitive recruitment market, and...
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Europe pushes HCL faster
Unusually, it was fifth-ranked India-based offshore services player, HCL, that was ‘second cab off the rank’ to report its quarterly results (usually TCS and Wipro follow Infosys). And it was with a...
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Sage reunites Europe
Sage’s CEO for Northern Europe, Paul Stobart, has decided to move on – he’s leaving Sage at the end of May after 15 “wonderful” years. Sage is taking the opportunity to change its organisational...
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Apple the gold standard
Apple’s Q2 results were way better than analysts had forecast. It is rare for any company of the size and longevity of Apple to report an organic 83% increase in revenues (to $24.7b) and a 95% increase...
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A great day for ‘Little British Battlers’
Three small UK-based software companies have walked away with much prized Queen’s Awards today. AIM-listed CAD/CAM software provider Delcam and privately held operations management software firm AOM...
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UNIT4: positive performance all round
There’s nothing but positive news in UNIT4’s Q1 results. In line with its medium to long-term predictions, the Netherlands-based ERP supplier, achieved organic revenue growth of 7% (see UNIT4 impacted...
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Temenos spurns Cognizant for Wipro for ASP delivery
Despite announcing a much-heralded ‘global strategic partnership’ with Cognizant a couple of years ago (see Letters from Monaco), Geneva-based banking software firm, Temenos, has selected Wipro to...
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WNS finally sees the light
After posting consistently declining revenues from its established ‘lift-and-shift’ BPO business (see WNS faces more turbulence in Q3), offshore BPO pure play WNS is now looking to invest in...
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Clinical's US healthcare business drags down numbers
Tiny AIM-listed healthcare information systems player, Clinical Computing, continued to struggle in the year to 31 December 2010. Total revenues decreased by 7% to £2.97 million and, at the operating...
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MindTree's margins merit much minding
Bangalore-based offshore services firm, MindTree, finished its FY (to 31st March) with a creditable 21% headline revenue growth, to $331m. However, operating margins almost halved to 7% as delivery...
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