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Tessella to preserve Met Office records
You may have read Richard’s comments recently on the way that digital media is failing pass the test of time (see Passing the Test of Time). He lamented the fact that as floppy discs, diskettes, VHS...
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Mphasis taps Sawhney to drive non-HP business
Were there any clearer sign (and there have been a few – see Mphasis declares itself to be Indian et al) that Mphasis, the ‘renegade’ offshore services business 60% owned by HP, wants to break free...
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It’s the TechMarketView Christmas offsite team meeting today (you know what we mean) and the whole team will be there, so please bear with us if we are a bit tardy responding to your calls and emails....
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Outsourcery magics up another £4.2m
Outsourcery, the much-hyped ‘cloud’ infrastructure services play led by ‘Dragon’ Piers Linney, has raised £4.2m gross through placing 3.75m shares (12% of the issued capital) at 112p, a 6% discount to...
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Race for Change
When you look back now on the technological developments of the past, it seems amazing how long they lasted until they were replaced by ‘something completely different’. The printing press, the...
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TechMarketView's Theme for 2014
Race for Change is TechMarketView’s theme for 2014. Richard Holway introduces the theme in the Race for Change post below.This will be taken up in the Predictions from the Research Directors for each...
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UK highest net exporter of IT services?
I know that many of you, like me, attended the very well-organised launch of TechUK on 7th Nov and listened to Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable. I took away a number of really interesting...
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CGI wins ITO deal with CNWL NHS Foundation trust
CGI has won an ICT infrastructure services deal with the Central & North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation trust, valued at c£60m over seven years. The services provided will support c5,200 end...
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Fujitsu creates more jobs in Northern Ireland
TechMarketView – and Richard Holway in particular - has written avidly about UK job creation over the last few months, emphasising the ‘good’ that companies can do – whether UK HQ’ed or not – to the UK...
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Adobe subs soar but profitability pain is clear
Adobe’s results these days are all about the rate of its transition to the cloud and subscription model. The good news is that it is signing up customers at a faster than anticipated pace, a trend it...
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Race for change 2014: UK public sector predictions
There are two key ‘events’ that will have the potential to impact the UK public sector SITS market in 2014. The first is the looming General Election in May 2015. And the second is a peak in the...
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Rosslyn Analytics boosts IQ with Amati investment
It looks like 2014 could turn out to be an exciting year for new tech IPOs on the London markets. London-based business intelligence start-up Rosslyn Analytics has just raised a further £2.1m in...
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Serco takes £17m charge, exits healthcare contracts
Serco is making its latest retrenchment, following the sale of its transport technology business to Cubic last month (see here). It has now completed a review into its clinical health operations, and...
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TCS goes north of the border
We mooted in our recent report Scottish Public Sector SITS Market: Trends & Opportunities that India-based IT services giant TCS was close to signing its first deal in the Scottish public sector...
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Aurelius buys Telvent Global Services
Munich-based investment firm, Aurelius Group, is to acquire Telvent Global Services in Spain, Brazil and Chile from Telvent (a subsidiary of the French group Schneider Electric). Telvent Global...
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Race for Change: UK Infrastructure Services
The undeniable move towards the cloud from the traditional ‘old world’ of IT outsourcing will be one of the most influential factors for supplier revenue, margin and share price performance in 2014....
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Age is no barrier for SAS
SAS is one of those veterans of the software world who you would expect to be suffering from the move to the cloud and more modern software architecture but that’s far from the case. Revenue for this...
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Allocate exceeds - mostly - in H1
According to its latest trading update, workforce and compliance optimisation supplier Allocate Software will meet H1 expectations, with all bar one product line either meeting or exceeding...
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Concirrus seeks connections to accelerate growth
I caught up the other day with Andy Yeoman, co-founder and CEO of Little British Battler ‘internet of things’ solution provider Concirrus (see Concirrus connecting the ‘internet of things’). Concirrus...
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Fujitsu announces 10-year deal with United Utilities
Fujitsu has today announced a 10-year contract with United Utilities (UU) to design, build and manage the fibre optic network infrastructure connecting UU’s data centre environments. Financial details...
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