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Sage sells off ACT! and SalesLogix
The sale of seven products from Sage Group’s bulging portfolio will generate revenue of £93.4m (£81.9m in cash) as the business software company acts on its previously announced plan to rationalise its...
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TIG Q1 in line
An in line Q1 update from The Innovation Group (TIG) points to another positive year for the insurance business process services (BPS) player in 2013, after notching up 10% growth in FY12 (see...
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"Doing good is good for business"
A few weeks ago in his speech to the Prince’s Trust Leadership Groups, Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP used a quote “Doing good is good for business”. I can’t find the source, but in the search found this...
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Capita buying Northgate MS puts spotlight back on ITS
Capita’s purchase of Northgate Managed Services (NMS) last week (see Capita acquires Northgate Managed Services at knock-down price) left us with plenty of questions as to what the deal means for the...
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Here come the Little British Battlers!
Last week CEOs from twelve Little British Battler (LBB) software and IT services companies came to London to meet the TechMarketView research team (see Calling all ‘Little British Battlers’!) and talk...
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Monitise – Great Company? Great Stock? Both?
There is no doubt that Alastair Lukies is the right man for the top job at mobile banking player Monitise. His easy charm when being interviewed on stage by the BBC’s Political Editor, Nick Robinson,...
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New website features for TechMarketView clients
We are delighted to announce new website features exclusively for TechMarketView subscription service clients. From today, clients will be able to select UKHotViews and UKHotViews Extra articles for...
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OrderWork puts engineering feet on far-away streets
As Tom Bausemer puts it, “People need engineers where they don’t want to send engineers to!” Bausemer is Managing Director of Chiswick-based channel-only IT and support services firm OrderWork. The...
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VisionWare – sexy plumbing!
…That’s the phrase CEO Gordon Cooper uses to describe VisionWare’s master data management (MDM) software. Using technology to model, manage and govern operational master data, VisionWare’s ambition is...
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Corporate v Personal taxes
I received a lot of feedback to my ‘Doing Good is Good for Business’ post yesterday. Although all of it was fully supportive of the stance taken, I had a really interesting personal email from a...
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Cybertill breaks through retail doldrums
Looking at the state of the high street you would not have high hopes for retail-specific software providers - but performance is why Merseyside-based Cybertill stands out. This profitable vendor is...
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Science Warehouse profits from procurement
Leeds-based Science Warehouse is rather like ‘an Amazon for business’ and its cloud-based procurement software and data management service is hitting the right note as organisations look to tighten up...
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TCS to open Liverpool delivery centre
TCS is due to open a delivery centre in Liverpool “dedicated to public service delivery” in July this year. The company will use the facility to deliver services to the Home Office under its contract,...
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Balfour Beatty considers sale of support services business
Word on the proverbial grape vine is that construction giant Balfour Beatty is in the process of finding a new home for its WorkPlace facilities management and support services business. Following a...
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Microsoft - Time for a change at the top?
CBS This Morning carried an interview with Bill Gates which seems to have created a flurry of speculation about Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer. Asked if he was happy with Ballmer's performance, Gates...
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Pricing for the SaaS environment?
The media has been feisty in reporting restrictions on Microsoft Office 2013 (the retail, on premise, one device, perpetual licence offering). The gist is that users will not be able to reassign the...
View ArticleAcquisitions bring massive margin boost for Sopra UK
It must have been the software-laden acquisitions that did it (see Sopra UK goes shopping (again) to double size), as organic growth was a different story for Sopra UK, the local operation of the...
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Covalent: strong 'performance' in core markets
Little British Battler Covalent Software, which offers an integrated suite of 13 hosted applications grouped by two ‘bundles’ with a focus on ‘Specialist Performance Management’ and ‘Governance,...
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Dell concludes final ‘public’ FY
Last night Dell released its final set of full-year results as a publicly-traded company. Michael Dell himself was absent from the analyst call in “light of [his] involvement in the pending...
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Netcall still sitting comfortably
Netcall is still demonstrating strong performance, with double digit revenue growth for H1 (to December 31 2012) and H1 results that are “comfortably” in line with expectations. Even though it is...
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