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Scisys reaches 7% margin in full year
Having updated on FY12 in January (see here), Scisys’ prelims show its continued focus on the bottom line now bearing results. Adjusted operating profits (excluding the nasty bits) were up 13% to £2.7m...
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Smart Metering Systems gets smarter
It was another stonking year for Glasgow-based gas meter installation and asset management firm, Smart Metering Systems. Headline revenues for the year to 31st Dec. 2012 rose by 32% to £21.0m (all...
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FFastfill to join Dearly Departed
The deal is all but done. AIM-listed derivatives software firm FFastfill is to de-list in a month’s time now that the offer (see here) from Pattington, part of the Dublin-based Ion Group (bond and...
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Goodbye Logica
I see I am quoted extensively in Nic Fildes’ article in The Times today Fading star of British technology finally disappears. It’s all about CGI finally retiring the Logica brand. We’ve written much...
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Nasscom still missing the point
The acronym stands for The National Association of Software and Services Companies, yet Indian industry body Nasscom seems to have rather forgotten about the first ‘S’ – as in Software. Nasscom has...
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Times iPad update
Amazing how a short note on Hotviews can turn you into a world authority. On 25th Feb I wrote How not to launch an iPad App at my exasperation as a long-term subscriber to the Times iPad app had turned...
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Fujitsu's 'Vote of Confidence' in the UK
As announced at the time of their Q3 results (see – Fujitsu restructure causes deep Q3 losses) Fujitsu UK & Ireland has now received the special payment of £800m from Fujitsu Japan to invest in its...
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Labour's proposals for supporting small businesses
Back in the 1980/90s I spent a lot of time campaigning to the then Conservative Govt of Thatcher and Major to get the CGT rate reduced for founder/entrepreneurs. The rate was 60% in the 1980s. I...
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The TechMarketView PublicSectorViews research programme is widely recognised as one of the most insightful sources of analysis and opinion on the UK public sector software and IT services market. We...
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BT-run NHS network joins PSN
N3, the NHS’ ‘New National Network’ which is currently run by BT, has officially become part of the Public Services Network (PSN). N3 has been awarded PSN certification for its Direct Network Service...
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O’Connell takes non-exec chair at eg Solutions
Tech entrepreneur John O’Connell has joined the board of back office optimisation software provider eg Solutions as non-executive chairman. O’Connell is well known in UK tech circles having founded...
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Quindell buys medico-legal SaaS provider
Insurance BPS provider Quindell Portfolio is shifting in its strategy to respond to the threat posed by self-service SaaS alternatives, by acquiring Bolton-based iSaaS Technology Limited (iSaaS), a...
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Rebuild at IS Solutions continues
AIM-listed IS Solutions, who is rebuilding itself in the wake of loss of sales to the government sector, is gathering its bricks and managed a small but important increase in revenue for the year to...
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Teen dreams of tech
It’s one of those stories that teen dreams ought to be made of. South London schoolboy teaches himself to code aged 12, comes up with idea to summarise news items to fit onto an iPhone screen, builds...
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Two more bids for Dell
We decided not to comment this morning on the rumours in many of the serious newspapers of new bids for Dell. But they were obviously well sourced as it has now been announced that both Blackstone and...
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Corero still digging
I asked Andrew Miller, in effect the ‘all-in-one’ top team at 'born-again’ network security and education software firm Corero Network Security, whether it wasn’t time to ‘stop digging’? The FY numbers...
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Deloitte and the Prince's Trust
It is, of course, not a coincidence that TechMarketView’s subscribers and supporters of the Prince’s Trust are often the same companies. Indeed, I met the CEOs of many of our clients at Celebrate...
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Desktop blues with Microsoft Blue?
There was a leak of a build of the next iteration of Microsoft Windows 8 – known as Windows Blue – over the weekend. Commentators are excited over a batch of changes including improvements to the...
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KBC: rapid action salvages something from 2012
Management at energy software and services supplier KBC Technology Group will be glad to close the doors on FY12 with its warnings, restructuring, and top level executive changes (see the HotViews...
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Trading update points to strong FY for iomart
Hosting company, iomart, has released a very upbeat update prior to the close of its financial year. For the year to end March 2013, the Group expects to achieve an adjusted EBITDA of not less than...
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