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Computacenter keeps shining in the UK
Computacenter has updated the market on its Q1, with continued good performance in the UK. In constant currency, Group revenues declined 3% to £659.4m. Group Services revenue grew 4% and Group Supply...
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Dillistone continues on a profitable voyage
Despite strong headwinds blowing in the recruitment market, AIM-listed recruitment software company Dillistone Group continues to tack ahead, closing the year to 31st Dec. 2012 with revenues 29% higher...
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More success for Agilisys and Unit4
There’s been more good news for both IT and business services provider Agilisys and Tier 2 ERP player Unit4 today. Wolverhampton City Council has selected Agilisys to transform its business support...
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Quindell crusades further into auto insurance
Quindell Portfolio is making yet another acquisition, and its fourth since January (see here and work back). This time it is taking on Crusader Assistance Group Holdings Ltd (Crusader), a claims...
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Unisys sinks into Q1 losses
Revenue decline of 13% (to $810m) in Q1 has pushed Unisys into a net loss of $34m compared with a profit of $13m a year ago. Services revenue (89% of total revenue) declined 12% to $723m on Q1 FY12....
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Atos Q1: UK benefits from 2012 signings
Though Atos continues to forecast a “slight growth” for 2013, its Q1 results were a bit of a mixed bag. Unfortunately on this occasion, the bad outweighed the good such that total revenues (compared to...
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EMC retains FY13 outlook
EMC remains on track to hit FY13 revenues of $23.5b, up 8% on FY12. Its Q1 performance was solid, if a little weighted to the back end of the three-month period due to on going caution from buyers....
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ReThink thinking better thoughts
After its very own 'annus horribilis' which saw profit warnings and the exit of its founding CEO (see ReThink rethinks CEO), AIM-listed IT recruitment-cum-consultancy firm ReThink Group (RTG) seems to...
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SDL misses in Q1; hopes for H2
Today’s Q1 IMS from SDL emphasised the need for the additional investment in sales and marketing and research and development announced when the company released its end of year results (see SDL fights...
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WANdisco continues to impress; secures first Hadoop customer
It only joined the AIM in June 2012 but we have already come to expect impressive performance from WANdisco because of its focus on high availability software which supports big data and distributed...
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Xerox's diversity issues continue
Having missed its FY12 earnings target, even following three previous downgrades (see here), Xerox exceeded its Q1 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) expectations. But this was only achieved thanks to a...
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Avanade UK soars!
I met up the other day with Pam Maynard, UK General Manager for Avanade, the high-end Microsoft consultancy joint venture with Accenture. It was a storming year for Avanade UK, with revenues soaring...
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Capita signs joint venture with Cabinet Office
Capita has won a deal to form a joint venture (JV) with the Cabinet Office (CO), in which it will seek to commercialise the CO’s best practice management training tools around PRINCE2 and ITIL. Capita...
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Citrix grows but still disappoints
One of the messages that came through from the Q1 results from Citrix was that organisations are struggling to piece together frameworks and strategies around tablets and smartphones, which contributed...
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Colt goes backwards
An interim Q1 statement from Colt shows the infrastructure services provider struggling to grow the top line again (see Colt finally grows (sort of)). Revenue slipped 1.3% due to a fall in voice...
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HotDocs scoops Queen's Award
Our not-so-eagle eyes missed the fact that there was another UK software and IT services firm that picked up a coveted Queen’s Award for Enterprise this week, and that was Edinburgh based HotDocs, the...
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Netsuite: moving through the enterprise ranks
Rising losses on rising revenues are the norm for SaaS pure-plays and Netsuite is a firm participant in this trend. Q113 was no different but the level of increase across both metrics was notable....
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Public Sector, Banking keeps Steria UK under pressure
It was another challenging quarter for John Torrie and his team at Steria UK, as revenues slipped back 2% (like for like) to €172m (c.£147m) in Q1 (to 31st March). As in the prior quarter (see here),...
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The curse of the ubiquitous smartphone
As I said in Apple, ARM and Tales from SamsungLand, I’ve been in Hong Kong for the last week with my family. I wrote about my last visit to China in Hotviews in Oct 2008 (see Dalian, China). Much has...
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Amor in love with growth
You can't fault Glasgow-headquartered, private equity-backed Amor Group CEO John Innes for lack of ambition! Having closed a very successful 2012 – that's with 27% headline revenue growth to £57.2m –...
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