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Celaton - artificial intelligence for business processes
One of the big challenges facing organisations is how to handle the ever growing number of paper and electronic communications flooding into the enterprise. Our Little British Battler (LBB) Celaton...
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Apple buys PrimeSense
Apple has spent $360m (Source – Financial Times) buying PrimeSense– an Israeli motion sensor maker behind Kinect used in the original Microsoft XBox. Apart from this being yet another Israeli tech...
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Clear Books growing with the crowd
You have to tip your hat to Tim Fouracre, co-founder and CEO of UK accounting software SaaS start-up Clear Books. He set out to raise over £800k through DIY ‘crowdfunding’ (see here) and by gosh he did...
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GB Group identifies strong future organic growth
The restructuring of identity intelligence specialist GB Group’s commercial relationship with BT is significantly impacting revenues for the Group in its current financial year. For the full year, the...
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MoPowered – listing on AIM
After a funding round to raise £2.5m in the summer, see here, MoPowered, the mobile commerce website development platform, has announced that it will list on AIM, at the same time raising a further £4m...
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Passing the Test of Time
ComputerWeekly’s email today had a warning from David Cripps, CISO of Investec, made at an EMC Conference about how ‘years of irreplaceable tape backups are inaccessable’ because there isn’t the kit...
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Plan B doesn’t need a Plan B
Little British Battler, Plan B, is using virtualisation technology to create fast and cost-effective disaster recovery for its growing band of customers. In essence, Plan B’s technology captures...
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SAP muses cloud acceleration
SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann-Snabe says the company is debating whether to accelerate its move to the cloud, given that some markets (like North America) are themselves moving faster. But this strategic...
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Crowd plants Seedrs growth
On the basis of what’s good enough for its customers is good enough for itself, London-based crowdfunding start-up Seedrs has just raised £750k for its own expansion through its own platform. This was...
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Mhub: engaging corporate comms
Mhub brings the essential task of corporate communications bang up to date by exploiting cloud-based, socially-oriented multi-channel communications, multi-platform support, and a wide variety of...
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OmPrompt automating order-to-cash processes
OmPrompt is another interesting player in the emerging business process automation (BPA) space. Run by CEO John Wakeman, a former Symantec exec, OmPrompt has a sharp vertical focus, an impressive...
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"Let the good times roll..."
Two interesting milestones reached tonight.1 – For the second time this year (see Apple recovers lost ground) Apple has recovered all the ground lost this year. On 31st Dec 12, Apple closed at $532...
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Dynamic Business Intelligence – Delivering Intelligence to the Business
To run a company successfully, management needs the right information at the right time. Most UK SMEs still rely on Excel or stand-alone systems to provide this information but an estimated 25,000 of...
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Rewarding Performance
A few days back I was sent an advance copy of GrantThornton’s Rewarding Performance Report which looked into the pay of Executives of quoted UK technology companies – Main and AIM. Basically the report...
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Sanderson marks up another solid year
FY13 results show that steady-state Sanderson continues to progress its growth plan despite on-going changes within its target markets that are altering the flow and mix of the business. There is...
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HelpIT sees opportunity in cleaner data
HelpIT Systems is a 22-year-old Little British Battler punching above its weight in the data quality market both in the UK and, unusually for a British SME, in the US where it has had a presence since...
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InterQuest goes digital with ECOM
InterQuest, the (hopefully) recovering AIM-listed UK-focused IT recruitment firm, has stepped back into the acquisition market for the first time since its disastrous purchase of London-based...
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Access Group delivers impressive organic growth
Mid-market business applications provider Access Group has really been on the move since the £50m MBO in 2011. Management has grown the business via several acquisitions (see the string here) but also...
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Genpact's opportunities and challenges in UK BPS
We recently attended the European analyst event of offshore centric BPS provider Genpact, where we heard from two major UK customers and top management about its plans for growth. Genpact is of real...
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HP concludes a tough FY13
HP has announced FY13 revenue of $112.3bn, down 5% in constant currency. Q4 revenue was down 1% in constant currency. The non-GAAP operating margin in FY13 was 8%, compared with 9% in FY12. EMEA Q4...
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