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A bright year-end close for TCS
It’s not often that top-ranked India-based IT services firm TCS grows faster than archrival Infosys, but that was certainly the case for the year just closed (to 31st March). TCS’ Q4 revenues exceeded...
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Huddle set to give Microsoft a run for its SharePoint money
The media is awash with reports that UK Government has signed a commercial agreement with Huddle (Ninian Solutions Ltd) for its cloud-based collaboration platform. We understand that the agreement,...
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Unisys feels more pain
It’s really hard – yet again – to find any good news in Unisys’ Q1 results (to 31st March). The prior couple of quarters were grim (see Unisys feels the pain) but now the company is back in net loss...
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Autonomy’s cloud revenues hit 24%
Autonomy’s business is moving fast to the cloud. In Q1 ended 31 March, cloud revenue from its core IDOL product grew 17% (all organic) to $52.7m, now making cloud 24% of revenue vs. 21% in Q410 and 22%...
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TechMarketView round-up
The highlight of our recent research is Georgina O’Toole’s AnalystViews note on the progress towards shared services in local government. Georgina comments on the outlook for shared services in the...
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EMIS exits Canada
EMIS has confirmed the disposal of its small, loss-making Canadian subsidiary signaling the end of its activities in Canada. QHR Technologies is buying the business, which made a pre-tax loss of £1.96m...
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Micro Focus gets a bid approach
I finished my last post on the 18th Apr 11 Micro Focus revisited with the words “In our sector, shareholder value is enhanced by either the expectation of growth (note the use of the word...
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Rethinking Global
The concept that we all live in a ‘global’ economy has taken root over the last ten years to such an extent that questioning its wisdom has seemed unwise. The same applies to ‘Global Cloud’. I have to...
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Amazon earnings disappoint
In my article Rethinking Global I mentioned the outage at Amazon’s Cloud servers last week. Another shockwave hit Amazon tonight as it reported a drop of one third in its earnings in Q1. This despite a...
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Sopra makes strong start to year
French SI Sopra Group is continuing its recent good form in to 2011 (see Sopra shows smaller can be smarter). Group organic growth was 10.3% (headline 10.9%) for the quarter ended 31 March to €309.2m,...
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Wipro breaks through $5b IT services barrier
Third-ranked India-based offshore services player, Wipro, followed peers TCS and Infosys in breaking through the $5b revenue barrier, finishing the year (to 31st March) with headline revenues 19%...
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Patni’s margins suffer in limbo period
Perhaps not surprisingly under the circumstances, soon-to-be-acquired Patni, the smallest of the India-based ‘majors’, suffered another margin hiccup in Q1 (to 31st March). Though headline revenues...
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iomart expands SME hosting business
At the end of March, we noted that iomart’s financial year (to 31st March 2011) had been missing one thing – an acquisition (see Iomart puts a great year to bed). Well it might have been a few weeks...
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Nokia's pain is Accenture's gain
As readers know, “Diversity of Performance’ has been one of our main themes in the last ten years and we have always used Nokia as the main example. Contrasting their performance in the smartphone...
View ArticleA definite spring in Harvey Nash’s step
The winter of some discontent appears to be mostly passed for international recruitment, outsourcing and offshoring firm, Harvey Nash. Today’s FY results (to 31st Jan) pretty much confirm February’s...
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UK growth shines at Firstsource
BPO pure play Firstsource is going great guns in the UK since its October win at Barclays (see Firstsource confirms Barclaycard contract). In Q4 ended 31 March, Firstsource’s UK revenue was up 33% to...
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Wishing William and Kate a very happy day
In a world record for any media outlet, HotViews hasn’t so far mentioned the Royal Wedding. We will, like the rest of the country, be taking the day off and the next HotViews will be on Tuesday. Maybe...
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Kofax confirms 14% organic growth story
Document imaging company Kofax confirmed it is in line to deliver 14% organic growth from its core software business in FY11 (on a constant currency basis). Expenses and earnings before interest, taxes...
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SAP Q1: In line with expectations; average deal size down
At the top line SAP’s Q1 was impressive with total non-IFRS revenues increasing by 21% to Eur3.0 billion. At constant currency, the increase was 18%. Take out the impact of the Sybase acquisition...
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More top team musical chairs at Infosys
In what has become a regular ritual at the second ranked India-based IT services firm, Infosys has announced a changing of the guard that once again sees the founding top team move up a level. From...
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