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The fuse is lit for Bango
Bango, the mobile web payments and analytics company, today reported half year results which reflect the company’s greater focus on the opportunity created by the growth in the number of smartphones....
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Adobe's subscription journey
Adobe may have missed street expectations for Q3 revenue but it was with good reason because the shift to subscriptions is happening faster than expected. Subscriptions for the Creative Cloud are now...
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Capita moves into legal sector with Optima buy
BPS market leader Capita making its entrée into the legal services market with the acquisition of the English business of Optima Legal Services Limited (Optima Legal), including its subsidiary Cost...
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eg Solutions prepared and ready for growth
The headline from back office optimisation provider eg Solutions’ interim results was that founder and CEO Elizabeth Gooch has handed the CEO reins over to John O’Connell as part of a strategy to scale...
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Public Accounts Committee sceptical on 2018 deadline for NHS IT
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has published its latest report on the dismantled National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT), which summarises the findings of the PAC hearing on the...
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RM has 'satisfactory' Q3, but challenges remain
Q3 has ‘progressed satisfactorily’ for educational ICT and resources group RM. In fact, the second half is now expected to be significantly stronger than anticipated at the time of its first half...
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SIBOS highlights pressure on FS IT spend
The week-long banking, payments and standards fest run by Swift, the international financial messaging provider, is well under way, with the 5,000+ delegates in Dubai being bombarded by a host of...
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Infosys - the way forwards
Infosys CEO and co-founder SD Shibulal (‘Shibu’) was referring to his customers when he told analysts that “the biggest challenge is how to maintain industry leadership”. But he might just as well have...
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Infosys aims to add ‘edge’ to its profits
I met up with Sanjay Purohit, Global Head of Products, Platforms & Solutions (PPS) at Infosys on the same day that India’s Economic Times (think FT+Hello!) questioned the likelihood of driving...
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NewVoiceMedia bags another $35m in funding
UK cloud-based call centre specialist NewVoiceMedia is moving into the US but under its own steam, not because it has been acquired. The company set up an office in San Francisco last month but with an...
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Oracle scuppered by Q2 outlook
Initial excitement over Oracle’s Q114 results which made it past street expectations on earning was quickly quelled when management got to the Q2 forecast. The result was a c6% decline in the share...
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Salesforce.com partnership déjà vu
There is an interesting tie-up between cloud pure-plays Salesforce.com and Workday. The duo are extending their existing partnership and plan to build integrations between Saleforce.com’s CRM and...
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Blackberry plunges
Tonight a feeling of guilt swept over me. A year back, I'd bought Blackberry shares at $7 and then sold them when they had doubled to $14. I've been a Blackberry user since I switched from a dumb...
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Microsoft feeds the enterprise from the consumer market
Microsoft discussed its growth strategy with financial analysts yesterday. It was all about the cloud and the enterprise – and how its consumer market lessons will fuel enterprise growth. There was no...
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NGA now does what it says on the tin!
In case there was any confusion as to what line of business the company is in, NorthgateArinso (the HR products and services business formed back in 2007 when then publicly listed Northgate Information...
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Xchanging buys US SaaS procurement player
BPS player Xchanging has made its first acquisition in several years after recent restructuring and asset disposals (see here and work back), taking over US-based e-sourcing software as-a-Service...
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KBC pushing through restructuring
Given the trauma it went through last year which included a flip into the red, and cash reserves running low, resulting in the departure of the CEO and a major restructuring operation, energy software...
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NEW report: Disruptors shaking up UK BPS market landscape
The UK business process services (BPS) supplier landscape is experiencing increasing diversity of performance as disruptive trends around mobility, analytics, social media and the cloud shake up the...
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NEW report: UK public sector SITS market trends & forecasts
In 2012, the UK public sector SITS market declined by 2.0% to be worth £11.3b. With further declines forecasted over the current year, we expect the market to be worth £644 million less in 2013 than in...
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One-third new EY hires will be students
According to a report in today’s Times, EY (the sparsely rebranded - and now near-impossible to search on - Ernst & Young – see here) is to hire 1,300 students, over one-third of the 3,700 staff it...
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