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Daisy and Updata secure Essex NGN deal
A joint venture between Updata and unified business communications provider Daisy Group has been awarded a 10-year contract with Essex County Council to provide next generation network services. The...
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Eligible TechMarketView subscribers can download the new edition of IndustryViews Venture Capital to see our latest summary of venture capital investment in the UK software and IT services market.
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Quindell finally gets SRA approval
Buy and build insurance BPS player Quindell Portfolio has finally received regulatory approval from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to operate an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) for...
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Lansa bets on PIM and Mobile
It’s been a fair while since last we caught up with Martin Fincham at Lansa, the long-established Australian-heritage software company best known for its IBM midrange application modernisation tools...
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Colt details cost savings plan
Colt has released details around how it plans to reduce Group costs while laying the foundations for future growth. At the time of its Q3 interims (see Colt knocked slightly in Q3), management...
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Oracle: Customers keen to close orders
Oracle’s Q212 is quite a contrast to the same quarter a year ago - see Oracle shocks: spikes wider market fears. In Q211, Oracle stated that it had struggled to close deals and had come up against a...
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Pulsant acquires ScoLocate
Managed services and co-location firm, Pulsant, has acquired Scottish co-location specialist, ScoLocate, for £26m. ScoLocate is expected to deliver revenues of £8.5m this year, which will take...
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Telecity gets new UK MD
Telecity has announced that its longstanding UK MD, Adriaan Oosthoek, is set to leave the company. Oosthoek, who resides in Holland, will be departing after seven years in the role. He will be replaced...
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Xchanging's Xuber platform targets insurance SaaS/BPaaS
One of our key predictions for 2013 is to see more hybrid Software as-a-Service (SaaS) and Business Process as-a-Service (BPaaS) delivery models emerging in the UK BPS market (see Predictions 2013: UK...
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Accenture off to a more profitable start to the year
It’s only their first quarter but ‘class act’ Accenture has already raised its earnings guidance for the FY (to August) a tad after reporting operating margins 60bps higher yoy, at 14.5%. By the way,...
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Capita signs Staffordshire education mega-deal
Capita has now signed its largest ever contract, the £1.7bn 20-year education support services contract with Staffordshire County Council (see Staffordshire £1.7bn megadeal Capita’s largest ever)....
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Serco makes loss on recent disposals
Following Serco's update last month, in which it confirmed FY12 is on track (see Serco FY12 in line), the BPO and support services gianthas provided a bit more colour on recent developments. Serco said...
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Tribal buys bolt-on for Services business
Education, learning and training software and services provider, Tribal Group, is to acquire International Graduate Insight Group Limited ("i-graduate"), an education benchmarking and student...
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Unilever renews BPS deals with Capgemini and Accenture
Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer packaged goods manufacturer, has renewed its BPS deals with Capgemini and Accenture, for finance and accounting (F&A) and HR services respectively. Capgemini’s...
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UK Government: a new approach to frameworks
UK Government frameworks agreements aren’t dead but they will be approached differently in the future. And not all frameworks have survived the Cabinet Office review (as highlighted in our Predictions...
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Dell buys Credant Technologies
Dell is bringing the year to a close with the acquisition of Credant Technologies, for an undisclosed sum. Credant supplies data protection solutions to control, manage and secure data sent from...
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Happy Christmas from all at TechMarketView!
TechMarketView is taking a break over the Christmas period and will return - along with HotViews - on the 2nd January, 2013. In the mean time, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the whole team...
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Oracle acquires SaaS marketing player Eloqua
Hot on the heels of its proposed acquisition of big data company DataRaker last week (see here), Oracle has now announced the purchase of SaaS marketing player Eloqua. Oracle is paying $871m or $23.5...
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IT salary ‘jump’ more of a ‘skip’?
Management at IT staff agencies (ITSAs) and leading IT services companies operating in the UK must feel somewhat bemused by the article in today’s FT which declares that ‘Salaries across the UK...
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Share Indices - The Longer View
Whichever sector or region you choose, tech has really done rather well in 2012. NASDAQ finished the year up 15.9%. In the UK, the TechMark 100 was up 20% compared with a rather more modest rise of...
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