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USPS leads Escher to a high growth H1
H113 results from postal sector point-of-sale specialist Escher Group Holdings make interesting reading. With a 48% increase in revenue to $12.9m for the six months to June 30 2013, the company appears...
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Zoopla for London £1b IPO
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of meeting Alex Chesterman. He had already made his name and fortune by creating ScreenSelect in 2003 which later became LoveFilm which was sold to Amazon for...
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Backers extend support for Sumerian
There was a very positive update from one of our original batch of Little British Battlers, Edinburgh-based Sumerian, which provides analytics for operational IT. Existing backer Scottish Equity...
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Icahn abandons Dell bid
Carl Icahn has abandoned his bid for Dell as it was now ‘impossible to win. We therefore congratulate Michael Dell and I intend to call him to wish him good luck (he may need it)”. So the vote on...
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BGF backs Inoapps
The two things that stood out in my mind about the £10m minority stake investment made by the Business Growth Fund in Aberdeen-based Oracle consultancy Inoapps were (a) that the major high street banks...
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Capgemini bags Centrica SAP deal
Capgemini has announced a new five-year contract with Centrica to manage and support its corporate global SAP services in the UK, Norway, the Netherlands and North America. The contract includes SAP...
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Craneware - looking for big deals
As highlighted in our results preview comment at the end of June, Craneware, the provider of revenue integrity solutions for US healthcare, is under the cosh as it has not been able to sign a big deal...
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New from ESASViews: Market Trends and Forecasts 2013, Part 2
The second instalment of the 2013 ESAS Market Trends and Forecast report is now available for download. Part 2 analyses the performance and prospects of the two segments that form the overall ESAS...
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The Big Debate
I’ve been invited by Fujitsu to take part in their BIG DEBATE on the subject‘Doing Business in the Next Decade’. Other debaters will be Duncan Tait, CEO of Fujitsu UK & Ireland and Nick Jankel of...
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Apple's two new iPhones
Either I am easily impressed or the market has got it wrong. I listened in to the Apple announcement earlier this evening and I really found the announcements pretty interesting. Conversely, Apple...
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Deal completed: BMC moves into private ownership
The private equity group aiming to take BMC into private ownership has been successful. The $6.4bn deal, one of the largest in 2013 and led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital, represented a 13%...
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IBM sells customer services BPO operation
IBM is often an innovator in the markets it sets out to dominate. So the news that it is now disposing of its global customer services BPO business to US-based IT distributor and BPO player SYNNEX,...
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InterQuest improves
After what can only be described as its own ‘annus horribilis’ last year (see here), AIM-listed UK-focused IT recruitment firm InterQuest (a sort of ‘SThree-lite’) seems to have got off on the right...
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Lockheed preferred SIAM bidder at MoJ
At the weekend the Sunday Times published a few lines in its ‘Digest’ with the headline “Lockheed Martin gets ‘preferred bidder’ on £125 million MoJ IT System”. The details were scant but on further...
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NEW Report: Setting the Scene for Mobile Banking
Today we are issuing a research report on what has recently become one of the most exciting areas of the Financial Services industry. The increase in penetration of smartphones is driving a revolution...
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Redstone evolves in FY13
It’s been nearly a six-month wait but recently reconfigured managed infrastructure provider, Redstone, has released its full year results for the year to end March 2013 - and what a busy year it has...
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SAP buys into burgeoning accessible analytics sector
SAP is on the acquisition trail again, hitting two targets with one stone with the planned acquisition of cloud predictive analytics provider KXEN. Terms of the deal, which is expected to complete in...
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Ubisense closes the kimono
Management at Ubisense, the AIM-listed Cambridge-based ‘real-time location intelligence’ products company, has neatly solved the problem of highlighting the divergent performance of its ‘business of...
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£250-£450m ESR tender due as NHS IT activity mounts
Earlier this week the Department of Health confirmed its intention to re-tender its Electronic Staff Record (ESR) contract. ESR is currently provided by McKesson under a £325m contract originally let...
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A national disgrace
I am getting angry. If there is one ‘passion’ I have had for the last 10 years it is youth unemployment and the creation of entry-level jobs – be it in IT or any occupation. That’s why I put so much of...
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