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Accenture gets 'design thinking'
I first heard the term 'design thinking' when I met up early this year with Ysmar Vianna, co-founder of Brazilian consultancy MJV (see MJV gets creative with ‘Design Thinking’) and thought it sounded...
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Confident Aveva delivers for the year
Aveva, the UK-based provider of engineering data and design systems, is gaining strength on the back of regularly increasing demand for its products both at home and internationally, and its expansion...
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HP Q2 revenue down across the board
After all the changes and general turmoil at HP (see here and work back), it is hardly surprising second quarter results were at best mixed. Headline revenue, was worse than expected, down 10% to...
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Record highs
Yesterday, the FTSE100 closed at 6840 – only 90 points below its all time high achieved at the end of Dec 1999. But overnight news from the US, Japan and China might well have put a stop to the party...
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Workday grows but reveals back office SaaS challenges
Since its high valuation IPO in October 2012 (see here), the pressure has been on Workday to deliver. The Q114 results certainly did that on the revenue growth metric and although losses were higher...
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1Spatial aims for the stars (well, Star-Apic)
Perhaps management at self-styled "business technology and profit improvement specialist" 1Spatial are finally setting the right trajectory to reach a sustainable orbit, with the proposed acquisition...
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Computacenter deals the dosh
As presaged in its FY results announcement earlier this year (see Computacenter’s year of ‘growing pains’), Computacenter is to return an extra £75m to shareholders by way of a capital reorganisation....
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Facebook Home flops
As many readers know, back in 2007 I put forward the concept of MyTop. This was a personalised portal which you used on every one of the devices (PC, smartphone, tablet, internet café etc) you used to...
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Outsourcery weaves its spell on investors
Day One of the AIM launch and there are believers. Shares in Manchester-headquartered, Microsoft-platformed, self-styled independent pure-play Cloud Service Provider, Outsourcery are up 9% from their...
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Salesforce.com and the curse of high expectations
In many ways it was business as usual at Salesforce.com during Q114 with rising revenue and rising losses but this time costs rose faster than revenues, pushing the company further into the red. This...
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Accenture wins major contract with Oracle
Accenture has announced a major new contract with UK electricity and gas company SSE. The value was not revealed but the supplier will be working on two significant projects for SSE under a multi year,...
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Atos invests north of the border
Kilts and bagpipes seem to be flavour of the month! Following our report that Capgemini is expanding its Scottish presence (see here), we have also learnt that Atos has made further investments in the...
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Large Government IT projects in firing line again
Over the Bank Holiday weekend we saw more weight was given to the Cabinet Office’s argument that large Government IT projects don’t work. Firstly, late on Friday, the Major Projects Authority...
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SAP shuffles cloud management, Dalgaard leaves
SAP is bringing the three major areas of its innovation agenda – in-memory Hana, cloud-first developments and mobile - together under one lead. Vishal Sikka, who is well respected inside and outside...
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Digital Barriers: focus paying off
Onwards and upwards for Digital Barriers; full year results show significant progress for the ‘buy and build’ provider of advanced technologies to the international homeland security and defence...
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Idox warns following disappointing first half
Idox has warned on the full year following a slower than expected first half, which was primarily caused by delays in new engineering information management (EIM) licence sales. Idox said EBITDA...
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iomart closes strong FY13
Hosting company, iomart, has closed a strong and busy FY13 (to the end March 2013). The company grew topline revenue by 29% to £43m, buoyed partly by several acquisitions (Melbourne Service Hosting...
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Make Or Break: An Evening with TechMarketView
Only a few places remaining Even if you didn't make the BAFTA shortlist this year there is still just time to enjoy a stimulating evening at BAFTA, London, in the company of leading figures from across...
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Mphasis' direct revenues now the majority
HP is still its majority (60%) owner despite the recent media frenzy (see Shifting sands in the Indian IT sector), but Bangalore-based (and Mumbai-listed) Mphasis now derives less than half its...
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UK business flat in Q1 for SQS
Following an eventful run up to the end of the year when software testing and quality management services supplier SQS issued a surprise profit warning then ended the year with pre tax profits up 40%...
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