Happy New Year
The TechMarketView team is back from its Christmas break and looking forward to bringing you all the news and views on the UK tech scene in 2014. It promises to be quite an interesting year with many...
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Holway's Share Portfolio - Annual Update
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I invest in the tech sector. Indeed that I am a director of the RCM Technology Trust (#RTT.L). Rather pleased to report that RTT had a stunning year – up 63% -...
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Monitise – a good start to 2014
In our recent predictions for Financial Services, see here, we highlighted the importance of Mobile as a means of generating growth across the sector. We see Monitise as a key participant in this move....
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New ESAS Research: Visual Data Discovery
We are familiar with the concepts of ‘cloud first’ and ‘mobile first’, now ‘visual first’ is emerging. This describes the new wave of BI and analytics tools from the likes of QlikTech, Tableau and...
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Share Indices for December 2013
Whichever index you look at, 2013 has really been a stunning year with the FTSE100 up 14.4% but the technology indices reporting many times that growth. NASDAQ was 38.2%. The UK FTSE SCS Index was up...
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Two sides to Brazilian IT market growth
I am nearing the end of my regular Xmas trip to the land of the samba sun and it looks like being another hot and sticky day here in Sao Paulo – but I won’t rub it in! However, while the weather...
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Will Oracle close on its Responsys offer?
Just before the Christmas break, Oracle revealed its pursuit of cloud marketing software specialist Responsys, based on a big $1.5bn cash bid. In the intervening period there has been speculation that...
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Outbox riding customer experience specialisation
A recent briefing with CRM IT services specialist Outbox provided useful insight into changes within the CRM market, specifically the shift from Oracle to Salesforce.com and Microsoft. When...
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IBM boosting big data resources with Aspera acquisition
Catching up on the holiday period events we noticed IBM’s proposal to acquire California-based Aspera, for an undisclosed fee. This is another of IBM’s tuck-in technology acquisitions which will feed...
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More management shuffling at Infosys
Subsequent to the resignation of Infosys exec V. Balakrishnan (see Infosys’ Bala jumps ship), executive chairman NR Narayana Murthy has in effect ‘down-selected’ the candidates who are likely to take...
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Egress Software secures rapid growth
Just before Christmas, we had an in-depth chat with CEO of Egress Software Technologies. Though not officially one of our Little British Battlers (see Little British Battlers – the Third Wave), the...
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LBB Carrenza toasts Majestic Wine deal
Carrenza, one of TechMarketView’s most recent Little British Battlers, has signed a deal with Majestic Wine to host its new Intershop ecommerce platform. Financial details of the deal were not...
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NetDimensions closes another punchy year
NetDimensions, the provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, looks like it has closed off another strong year with revenues heading significantly upwards while losses reduce....
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NHS' Alder Hey partners with BT
The festive season has seen no let up in activity in the UK’s NHS IT market. Hot on the heels of news that CGI had won a £60m/7-year ICT infrastructure services deal with the Central & North West...
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Osborne: no going back to bad old habits
Yesterday the Chancellor, George Osborne, gave his New Year economy speech. He made clear that a Conservative Government would be committed to continuing the current direction of travel after the 2015...
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US 'e-laundry' service Prim folds!
So, not all US ‘awesome’ venture-backed start-ups make it to stardom – of course very few do. San Francisco-based laundry service Prim has thrown in the towel – metaphorically speaking. Prim offered an...
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Verint Systems preparing to acquire Kana
Kana Software, one of the original CRM pure-plays from the days before the advent of SaaS, who has changed form several times over the past decade or so (see here), is changing once again. Where Kana...
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Convergys buys Stream, creates $3bn customer service player
Reshaping of the global customer management BPS market is taking place at an increasing rate, with customer service giant Convergys acquiring US-based rival Stream Global Services for $820m in cash....
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Growth so fast it's all a blur
Online business services exchange (s-commerce) provider blur Group has described FY13 as its “most successful year to date” following a record-breaking fourth quarter. As can be seen from the metrics...
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Idox: pulling through a year of change
The year-end numbers only tell part of the story of document management software provider Idox, a company that has undergone significant change and a reality check. After a stellar 2012, expectations...
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