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Share Indices Dec 2012
Although all the tech indices we follow had a great 2012 – See The Longer View– the month of December was unremarkable as can be seen in the table. The last few weeks has been dominated by the Fiscal...
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Acquisition activity update: Micro Focus, IBM, Adobe
Micro Focus, IBM and Adobe are starting the new year with fresh acquisitions, with Micro Focus taking on software assets from Progress Software, IBM buying into the big data space again, and Adobe...
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Christmas Eve trading updates
On Christmas Eve, three SITS companies chose to release trading updates to the market: DRS Data & Research Services (DRS); Instem Technologies; and ServicePower Technologies. A good day to ‘bury...
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all HotViews readers and, even more so, all of TechMarketView's many paying subscribers. In a way, TechMarketView is representative of the market. The tech research and analysis...
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Japan's Hitachi Consulting snaps up Brit Celerant
Rank outsider Hitachi Consulting has snapped up Richmond-based (as in SW London rather than Virginia, US) operations management consultancy, Celerant Consulting. Terms were not disclosed, though it...
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Holway's Share Portfolio - Annual update
I really do wish I could protect the terms I use and reap royalties from their reuse. I’d be pretty rich now on Acquisition Indigestion, ‘Boring’, Martini Moment etal. Since using the term Fiscal...
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IT's all over now
I used to claim that Gartner was a competitor of TechMarketView and its predecessors. But in almost every case where a client is rich enough to afford Gartner research they tend to buy us too. Anyway,...
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Progress Software: looking for a fresh start
Progress Software dropped c4% in after hours trading following the release of its Q4 results. They wrap up a turbulent year for the company that has made determined efforts to get back to its roots...
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Disloyalty using competitor's products
Over Christmas Melinda Gates was a guest editor on BBC Radio 4 Today. She was asked if she allowed her children to have iPods. She replied ‘No’ as their lives had been built upon Microsoft’s success...
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Chris Stone joins Lumesse
Guildford –based Lumesse provides SaaS-based Talent Management Systems. They started life as Stepstone Solutions back in 2003. In 2010 they separated from parent Stepstone in an HGCapital backed MBO....
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Digital Barriers acquires Visimetrics
Digital Barriers has acquired Visimetrics Limited and its subsidiary, OmniPerception Limited, for an initial cash consideration of £3.3m. A further £4.7m is payable (the majority of which would be paid...
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IBM renews Unilever
Just before our Christmas break we commented on Capgemini and Accenture’s respective finance and accounting (F&A) and HR services renewals with Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant Unilever (see...
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Make sure you don't miss any TechMarketView research!
The last few weeks of 2012 saw a flurry of activity at TechMarketView. Here’s a quick reminder of our most recent publications in case you missed anything before or during the festive period: Firstly,...
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2013 "The Year of the Connected TV"
You are unlikely to have missed that today is opening day for the CES Show in Las Vegas. Three years back, before the launch of the iPad, we declared 2010 would be ‘The Year of the Tablet’. Now,...
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Allocate gains momentum in Q2
After a very slow first quarter, workforce and compliance optimisation specialist Allocate Software has had a much stronger Q2. It closed every contract forecast for the period and achieved its second...
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Parity confirms FY12 on track
IT recruitment player Parity has again confirmed it will meet expectations for FY12 (see Parity steady as she trundles). And following recent cost cutting, reorganisation and investments in digital...
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SQS managed services boosted by substantial deals
The positive vibes from software testing and quality management services provider SQS that were apparent in the latter half of last year are still thrumming following the news of a number of major...
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@UK captures delayed contracts
Embattled e-procurement player @UK, who last month warned of lower FY12 revenues due to delays in signing contracts (see @UK warns on full year), has announced that three of those contracts have come...
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IBM and NTT Data win Leicester Hospitals deal
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has chosen IBM to provide its Information Management & Technology (IM&T) services. The Trust has confirmed that it signed a contract with IBM just...
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Industry remains crucial to MoD cyber security
The House of Commons Defence Committee has today published its 51-page report considering the implications of cyberspace for UK defence & security. Though the recommendations may not necessarily...
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