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Carrenza inks WWF deal
Hosting firm, Carrenza, has inked a deal with WWF International to host up to 60 international websites. The deal comes after WWF was “forced to move from its existing data centre by its previous...
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Earthport going global with BAML
In November we headlined Earthport as “Transforming cross-border payments”, as they reported significantly improved (but still loss-making) full year results. They have been adding to their customer...
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Masterstroke for eServGlobal?
eServGlobal, the AIM listed provider of end-to-end financial services for emerging markets reported revenue up 10% to A$31m, with Gross Profit up by 22% as gross margins rocketed from 43% to 62%. Costs...
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Predictions 2014: Business Process Services
The pace of change impacting the business process services (BPS) market is set to accelerate even faster in 2014. Platform-led BP services are becoming widely adopted across many sectors, and...
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Pressure eased at Oracle in Q2
Q2 was more of a relief for Oracle than a result but it edged past market expectations and unlike Q1 (see here), it did not let watchers down with a disappointing current quarter forecast. Total...
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Serco contract costs escalate
After issuing a profit warning back in November following recent high profile contract problems (see Serco warns on profits), Serco is now getting clearer on how much all of this is going to cost, and...
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Accenture FY14 looking up
Shares in Accenture rose almost 5% after strong Q1 results, and impressive levels of bookings. At $8.7bn up from $7.5bn last time, these bookings paint an upbeat picture for the rest of the year....
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Early Xmas presents for Ubisense
Ubisense, the AIM-listed provider of real time location intelligence technology, has announced two major contracts to boost the order book before the December year end. In recent HotViews we have...
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Infosys’ Bala jumps ship
The news came after our last UKHotViews email for the year but I thought it was worthy of note that V. Balakrishnan (‘Bala’), ex-CFO of Infosys and current head of its India and BPO businesses (among...
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Logicalis replaces Phones4u core network
Logicalis has been signed up by Phones4u to design and implement a new core network for the mobile phone retailer. The Cisco-based network underpins customer-facing and back-office operations including...
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Marketo shaping up for marketing automation opps
With the digital front office primed for a lot of action during 2014 (see 2014 ESAS Predictions here), one of the companies we expect to be hearing much more from is San Mateo-based marketing...
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
TechMarketView is taking a break over the Christmas period and will return - along with HotViews - on the 2nd January, 2014. If anything earth-shattering happens during the holiday period we will try...
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NEW RESEARCH: How are BPS suppliers responding to the rise of BPM?
Business process management (BPM) is seeing an increase in adoption in the UK business process services (BPS) market as suppliers attempt to respond more quickly and efficiently to clients’ process...
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New Year changes at SciSys
January 1st 2014 will see the succession plan laid out by SciSys play out as Klaus Heidrich, currently COO, steps into the chief executive role, replacing David Jones. This move has been envisaged...
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Predictions 2014
This is our last HotViews before the Christmas break. We’ve introduced our Theme for 2014 – Race for Change and everyone of our Research Directors have given their Predictions for their respective...
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Serco settles £68.5m for MoJ 'issues'
Just after it had updated the market yesterday (see Serco contract costs escalate), Serco revealed it had reached a ‘full and final settlement’ with the Ministry of Justice for 'issues arising' on its...
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Tibco, talking up 2014
In its full year figures yesterday, the management of Tibco, the software infrastructure and services provider, pointed out the effects of a re-organisation which slowed progress in the first half, but...
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Apple and fruitcake
Another ‘yawn’ story over the festive season was Apple’s deal with China Mobile making available its iPhones to its 760m subscribers in China. Great deal but this has been on the cards for many months....
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Era of the Sailables?
In my Predictions 2014 post on 20th Dec 13, I declared 2014 to be the start of the Era of Wearable Computing. I also declared it an Era that would include Driveables and Flyables. I should have added...
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New Year's Honours
Exactly why people get Honours is still beyond me. I had thought that the days of getting an honour for just doing your paid-for job had passed. I thought you had to do something beyond that, eg for...
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