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Outcome-based business process services: what's it all about?
All business process services (BPS) suppliers want to talk about ‘business outcomes’ in relation to their BP service delivery. They want to engage with clients on matters that directly impact their...
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SciSys signs Scottish deal with the BBC
SciSys’ Media & Broadcast division is celebrating another order under its framework agreement with the BBC. SciSys is set to replace the dira! radio production and playout system used on all radio...
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blur Group pays the price for top line growth
In its first set of full results following its October 2012 IPO (see here), blur Group is performing in line with its own expectations. What that means is that revenue is soaring, but so are losses and...
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Innovation Group buys UK motor claims handler
Insurance business process services (BPS) provider The Innovation Group (TIG) is looking to capitalise on the introduction of new legislation in the UK, acquiring motor claims handler Gemini Vehicle...
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UK a bright spot for Robert Walters
The UK continues to be a bright spot for UK-headquartered but Asia-Pacific-led recruitment firm Robert Walters (see also Asia-Pac lets down Robert Walters), which performed ‘in line with expectations’...
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Fujitsu launches Centre of Excellence with Microsoft
Fujitsu is to invest £4.5m in a Centre of Excellence (CoE) that will see its staff work ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ with Microsoft experts. The investment will largely cover labour costs for the combined...
View ArticleKainos harnesses three engines for growth
Application development and management specialist Kainos is a rare beast. A 26 year-old ‘Little British Battler’ that appears to have come of age very recently, growing rapidly over the last couple of...
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Mobile advertising revisited
Further to my 4th Apr post – Mobile Advertising– and its follow-up Facebook Home is no MyTop– PwC has issued an interesting report for the Internet Advertising Bureau. It shows that mobile advertising...
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TCS acquires French Alti
In one of its very rare forays onto the M&A scene, Mumbai-headquartered TCS has acquired private equity-backed, French enterprise applications consultancy Alti for €75m cash. Alti turned over €126m...
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Valuations steady as European tech M&A deals decline
March saw the lowest number of European TMT deals in just over a year with 214 transactions announced, according to latest data from corporate finance firm Regent Partners. There were only a few very...
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Windows 8 to blame for PC slump
My 9 year old niece wanted a laptop (for her school work) for her birthday next month. We asked around and several TMV people had bought Windows 8 laptops for their children only to take them back to...
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Zuora: management for the subscription age
One of the challenges the SaaS model has to square up to during 2013 is breaking into the back office in a meaningful way – in terms of the areas of functionality entrusted to SaaS solutions and the...
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Accumuli accumulates - and distributes - cash
A fine close to the FY (31st March) has encouraged management at AIM-listed IT security services buy-and-build play Accumuli to introduce a dividend policy that will see around 30% of pre-tax EBITDA...
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Geordies rule
It has just been announced that Paul Walker– the CEO of Sage from 1994 to 2010 – has been appointed as NED and Chair designate of Halma plc‘the safety, health and environmental technology group’. He...
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HP: Strategically important UK health sector win
This week HP announced a significant contract win in the UK public sector market. It has signed a $210m ten-year contract to support Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s (CUH)...
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Idox acquires again
Idox has acquired French engineering document control software company, Artesys, for a cash consideration of £2m (€2.4m). The acquisition will be funded from cash and existing debt facilities and will...
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Octopus lifts stake in blur Group
After announcing earlier this week massively higher losses and cash burn in its maiden results as an AIM-listed company (see blur Group pays the price for top line growth), online marketing services...
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Public sector job churn steadies Hays UK
Job churn in public sector – especially in Education and Healthcare – kept profits on an even keel for the UK operations of London-headquartered international recruitment firm Hays in its 3rd quarter...
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iGate off to a steady start
Phaneesh Murthy, CEO of California-headquartered but India-centric IT services firm iGate, described the company's performance in Q1 (to 31st March) as "a steady start to the year". And that just about...
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Infosys limbos under the bar
Perhaps the only shred of comfort that management at Bangalore-based IT services firm Infosys can take from its FY results is that it is still the second largest India-centric offshore services player...
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