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Micro Focus edges closer to Boring Award
A year back, Kevin Loosemore, Chairman of Micro Focus, in presenting their full year results to analysts, alluded to his ambition to get a Holway Boring Award. See Boring Micro Focus. Today, after...
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Micro Focus: room for improvement
“Solid performance” is a frequently occurring phrase in the current set of financial results and it duly cropped up in the interim results from Micro Focus. Describing last year as a period of...
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Microsoft goes visual on social media
Interesting to hear that Microsoft has expanded visually oriented, Bing-powered Socl, its in-house built social network, to a wider community. Launched quietly in May this year on an in-house basis and...
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Mphasis woos non-HP investors
It looks like Mphasis, the majority-owned (but still separately listed) Bangalore-based offshore services subsidiary of HP, is making a big push to build support with its minority investors by almost...
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Schuckenbrook makes sudden departure from Dell
Steve Schuckenbrook has resigned with immediate effect from his lead role at Dell Services “to seek new opportunities”. The ex-EDS COO will, however, stay on until March next year to handover to his...
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UK public sector SITS: Autumn Statement takeaways
Yesterday Richard Holway gave TechMarketView’s reaction to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement from the perspective of business – see Chancellor delivers business-friendly autumn statement. The statement...
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Innovation Group and Xchanging partner over analytics
Hard on the heels of its comforting end of year results (see here), Innovation Group has entered into a partnership with the Xuber part of the Xchanging business that provides a next generation...
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Predictions 2013 – Make or Break!
2013 will be a watershed year – perhaps the most significant year – for the UK software and IT services (SITS) industry and its players for more than a decade. It will be the year when well-established...
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TechMarketView LBBs meet Deputy Government CIO
Earlier this week TechMarketView was delighted to be able to organise a dinner for the dozen Little British Battlers (LBBs) which participated in our inaugural LBB initiative at the beginning of the...
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Keeping faith with Apple
As I have said countless times, whatever your feelings about or involvement with Apple are, if you are a HotViews reader you can’t ignore them. What they do affects every area of what we analyse. So...
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Predictions 2013 - Make or Break
One of the oft-repeated comments from those taking part in the 2012 Olympics was that they had trained for many years but just a few days in August would be ‘make or break’ for their careers. In 2000,...
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ACS acquires Serco Learning
There is no let up in Advanced Computer Software (ACS)’s appetite for acquisition. Following hot on the heels of its purchase of ATMS last month (see Advanced bulks up on warehousing), the provider of...
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Redstone announces two contracts
Managed infrastructure provider and reseller, Redstone, has this morning announced a couple of contract wins. The total value of the deals is just over £2m, which is fairly small within the context of...
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Attenda: Planting those seeds of growth
We recently met with Mark Fowle, CEO of Attenda, for a strategy update. The company’s main revenue stream comes from managing business critical applications – primarily hosted in its three UK data...
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EDP endures
With a 3.6% increase in revenue for the year to September 30 2012, EDP is on the right side of the growth chart and has moved up from the flat yoy revenue situation of the previous year (see here). The...
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European tech deals at 13 month high
Aggregate deal value for European tech M&A transactions hit a 13-month high in November, according to latest data from corporate finance firm Regent Partners. The rolling 3-month average hit $15bn,...
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Little British Battler Update: Assuria
When we first met Reading-based Assuria back in January, we were impressed by the way the Little British Battler was punching way above its weight in competitive global markets. It operates in one of...
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Predictions 2013: UK Public Sector SITS
It is TechMarketView’s opinion that 2013 will be a ‘Make or Break’ year. In the UK public sector, one of the greatest challenges for SITS suppliers to the market has been to determine which of the...
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Redstone moves into operating profit
Managed infrastructure provider, Redstone, has improved profitability in H1 in the face of a 22% revenue decline to £28m. For the six months to the end of September, the firm increased gross margin...
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Security under the spotlight in the latest ESASViews report
Cloud, mobile and social media continue to garner attention and rightly so because of the disruptive changes they bring about on both the supply and buy sides of the market. One of the many...
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