MoJ shortlists Capita for next phase of electronic tagging
The Ministry of Justice has provided more details on its plans announced in August, regarding the future delivery of its electronic monitoring (offender tagging) contracts with Serco and G4S (see...
View ArticleMurthy’s mystery management moves
We picked up on an interview in the Economic Times of India with Infosys chairman N R Narayana Murthy which, among other things, highlighted a management exit we had previously missed, that of...
View ArticleTri-borough IT services winners: BT and Agilisys
In January, three central London authorities – Westminster City Council, the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, and Hammersmith & Fulham Council – announced BT as the winner of a contract...
View ArticleWe have to talk about Infrastructure!
The latest edition of TechMarketView OffshoreViews pick up on the analysis we published earlier this year on the infrastructure services of the major India-centric suppliers (see Have the India-centric...
View ArticlePredictions 2014: Financial Services
TechMarketView’s theme for 2014, “Race for Change” is absolutely spot on for the Financial Services sector. Over the past five years, Financial Services companies have been pre-occupied with slashing...
View ArticleAccess building FactoryMaster assets
Colchester-based business application provider Access Technology Group took a slightly different approach with its latest acquisition, buying market reach and customer base more than product with the...
View ArticleEDP holding steady
Industry veteran EDP, the provider of software and services to the UK wholesale distribution market and sales intelligence software, has closed another year in which it lay on the right side of the...
View ArticleHotViewsExtra: Memset’s government growth curve
We recently caught up with Memset CEO and co-founder, Kate Craig-Wood, at the company’s new offices. The Surrey-based cloud services and hosting firm (primary services are managed hosting, dedicated...
View ArticleHP wins NI health & social care ICT framework
HP Enterprise Services has won a significant framework contract in Northern Ireland, with the potential to be worth £100m over its life. It has been awarded the Technology Partnership Agreement 2013 by...
View ArticleLittle British Battlers – The Third Wave
Eligible TechMarketView subscription service clients can now download Little British Battlers – The Third Wave, the third report in our Little British Battler series. This report provides concise...
View ArticleNEW RESEARCH: UK local government SITS supplier landscape
The UK local government SITS supplier landscape remains dominated by IT and business services players benefitting from the steady flow of revenues attributable to multimillion pound and multi-service...
View ArticleRedcentric releases first set of interims
Managed services firm, Redcentric, has released its interim results for the eight months ending September 2013. Revenue was £21m (67% annuity revenue) and adjusted EBITDA was £3.6m (slightly ahead of...
View ArticleTelehealth moves closer with ESPO framework
The provision of mainstream telehealth and telecare services edged closer this week with the award of a framework for telehealth and telecare solutions by Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO),...
View ArticleFacebook launches annoying video ads
When I wrote my review of our predictions of 2013 – See 2013 – The ‘Make or Break’ Year– I made the point that Facebook was certainly in the ‘We’ve made it’ camp. Their launch of ‘Suggested Posts’ was...
View ArticleInnovation Group partners for telematics apps
Insurance software and BPS provider The Innovation Group is moving in to the telematics arena via a partnership with smartphone telematics apps developer Wunelli Ltd. Portsmouth-based Wunelli is run by...
View ArticleNEW REPORT: Financial Services Supplier Landscape
Today, TechMarketView’s research stream focused on the supply of Software and IT Services to the UK Financial Services industry, FinancialServicesViews, publishes its flagship Supplier Landscape...
View ArticlePredictions 2014: Enterprise Software & App Services
Activity in the Enterprise Software & Application Services (ESAS) sector will revolve intensively around information in 2014 as organisations act on the knowledge that they have to ‘use it or lose...
View ArticleQuindell updates
Insurance BPS player Quindell is never one for blowing its own trumpet (ahem). It said the final quarter of 2013 has been ‘extremely positive’, with over £100m of new business confirmed since it raised...
View ArticleSQS: latest deals show online, mobile and ecommerce market activity
Today’s trading update from software testing and quality management services provider SQS shows further progress on its strategy to secure larger contracts, particularly around managed services (see...
View ArticleAccess Intelligence – jury still out
In September, Access Intelligence, the provider of SaaS solutions for corporate governance, risk and compliance warned that the full year outturn would fall short of market estimates, see “Access...
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