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Assuria seeks samba partners!
I caught up this week with Terry Pudwell, executive chairman of cybersecurity ‘Little British Battler’ Assuria, at the partnering event organised by the São Paulo-based Institute of Software...
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Colt replaces Enterprise Services leadership
Colt has appointed Jürgen Hernichel to replace Simon Walsh as the lead for Colt Enterprise Services (CES). Hat tip to The Register's Paul Kunert for bringing this to our attention yesterday evening -...
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Quindell furthers bold ambitions
The one thing you cannot fault Rob Terry for is lack of ambition! Terry is founding CEO of Hampshire-based insurance business process services firm Quindell Portfolio (soon to be renamed ‘plain’...
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Tribal still on track
Systems and solutions provider to the education sector, Tribal, provided an update on its trading today. The company continues to build on its growth in the first half of the year (see: Tribal shows...
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Britain defying Gravity
Anyone attending any of my presentations recently will have heard me pontificate on how good Britain can be in the combining of Technology and Media. Indeed I would suggest that we were world-beating...
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Brazilian Qualitin scores a hit at Lincoln University
I met up recently with Carlos Cordal, who leads the UK operations of Brazilian business performance management consultancy, Qualitin. The company was founded in 1996 as ‘Quality Inn’ in Porto Alegre,...
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Capita’s Pindar goes back to his roots
After 26 years with the company, 22 as MD and CEO, Paul Pindar is to step down from the UK’s dominant business process services supplier, Capita, next February, to return to a role in private equity....
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Further good news from Gresham
A brief management statement from Gresham Computing, a provider of specialist software-based solutions to support trading and the back office, has confirmed the progress that we anticipated in our...
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Here come the Little British Battlers!
Today we bring you a glimpse of two of the Little British Battler companies that participated in our third Little British Battler event earlier this month. We will bring you two more tomorrow and...
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LBB C24 motoring nicely
We were impressed when we met C24 earlier this month at our most recent Little British Battlers event. The firm has all the characteristics we like: it’s growing, it’s profitable and it’s doing...
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New head for Wipro in Continental Europe
Bangalore-based IT services major, Wipro, has recruited Ulrich Meister from T-Systems as Senior VP and Head of Continental Europe, reporting directly to Wipro CEO TK Kurien. Meister joined Wipro last...
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No pause in Aveva’s onward march
Aveva Group, the provider of engineering data and design IT systems, had another strong period in H1 (to September 30 2013) with double-digit revenue growth of 11% to £108.5m, although performance...
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Oracle moves on mobile with Bitzer
Oracle is behind the times when it comes to mobile, but it looks like that is about to change following its (very quiet) acquisition of two-year old enterprise mobile management provider Bitzer...
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Prolinx links growth aspirations to cyber
Starting life as a VAR to the education sector in 1997, Little British Battler, Prolinx, has, over the last three years, been transitioning to become a managed services provider. The journey began...
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Redcentric to acquire InTechnology Managed Services
Redcentric is to acquire the entire issued share capital of InTechnology Managed Services Limited (IMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of InTechnology, for £65m in cash. The deal, which is technically a...
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Wheels in motion for PE firm Advent to acquire UNIT4
Dutch ERP provider UNIT4 is setting up to be acquired by private equity firm Advent International for €1.17bn. The cash offer is conditional but as it follows a structured sales process, has the...
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Charteris falls on its Sword
Charteris was formed in 1996 and was an AIM IPO in Nov 2000. At one time run by ex-Logica CEO, David Mann and Chris Preddy, this IT consultancy seemed to be doing OK. In 2008 they reported revenues of...
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DRS focused on education and international growth
In its interim management statement for the ten months ended October 31st 2013, SITS provider to the education, election and census sectors, DRS Data and Research Services reported a revenue decline of...
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Farewell Mr Pindar
Paul Pindar stepping down as CEO of Capita yesterday (see Capita’s Pindar goes back to his roots) seemed like very much the End of an Era for me too. I’ve known Pindar, and the co-founder of Capita -...
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Lean Carrenza targets aggressive growth
If we could choose one word to describe Little British Battler, Carrenza it would be ‘lean’. We are incredibly impressed with the efficiency of the company. Carrenza is wholly focused on providing...
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