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TIG eyes the magic ‘20%’
Steady progress from the new top team at claims management business process services and software firm, The Innovation Group (TIG). Indeed, TIG finished first half (to 31st March) with all geographies...
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First Derivatives FY growth soars
First Derivatives, the AIM-listed software vendor and IT consultancy focused on the investment bank and hedge fund industry, has delivered impressive growth in the year ended 28 February, with revenue...
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Accumuli rebrands to show true colours
There is absolutely no point in trying to decipher the FY results for entrepreneur Ian Smith’s buy-and-build IT services vehicle, Accumuli (start here and work back), as they are just for 7 months and...
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The perils of being a SaaS start-up
We have fallen in love with CRM SaaS start-up, Capsule, which has been serving TechMarketView well for some months. Other ‘usual suspect’ CRM products were simply too much like hard work for a...
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My earlier post on CRM SaaS start-up Capsule (see The perils of being a SaaS start-up) elicited the following response from a respected player in the UK SITS market (no names, no packdrill): “I read...
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Xerox copies print services acquisition
Following hot on the heels of Capita’s acquisition of Right Document Solutions last month (see here), Xerox has announced the purchase of Twickenham-based print consultancy and software provider...
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CSC's Nordics fiasco shields NHS disclosure – for now
Normally, when troubled ‘SI sans frontieres’ CSC reports its quarterly results, we dash to the relevant SEC filing to dig the dirt on how much more dosh they have thrown into the NHS IT programme and...
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EDP and the case for in-house hosting
Every six months we take a look how veteran software and services microcap, EDP, is faring, as much for the nostalgia kick as anything else. Well, not surprisingly the half-time score is not great –...
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Scisys: positive outlook but caution remains
Based on performance in the year so far, it looks like SciSys - SITS supplier to the government, space and broadcast & media sectors - is on track for its H1 results to be consistent with market...
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Parity dashes across finish line
ITSA (IT staff agency)-cum-system house, Parity, dashed across the finish line yesterday, placing over 97% of available shares from its recent open offer (see Parity makes dash for cash). As we said at...
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Tribal ends uncertainty over ownership
When Tribal Group released a trading update last week (see Still early days for slimmed-down Tribal), it remained in an offer period. Today uncertainty over Group's future has come to an end (for now)...
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Tech Mahindra bursts the billion-dollar balloon
Though it had technically broken through the billion-dollar annualised revenue run rate barrier back in June last year, Tech Mahindra, the telecom-focused India-based SI, closed its FY (to 31st March)...
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Twitter buys Tweetdeck
Although Twitter paying $40m in cash and stock for Tweetdeck might not be the biggest of deals, it is pretty significant. Firstly Tweetdeck is a British startup – located in the so-called Silicon...
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Mphasis pedals faster to overcome HP braking
Management at HP-controlled Indian SI, Mphasis, is certainly not letting the grass grow under its feet. The still separately (Mumbai) quoted company has been drumming up business outside of its parent...
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Dinner with Sheryl Sandberg
Last night there were only two dinners worth being invited to in London. I was most privileged to get an invite to the second – dinner with Sheryl Sandberg – the COO of Facebook . The dinner was...
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Patni partners for Serco’s SAP
It’s turning out to be quite a love affair between (now) iGate Patni and Serco, with the announcement that Patni will in effect become Serco’s SAP support and maintenance arm in the UK. Patni will take...
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Atos among winners of £300m Scottish IT framework
Atos Origin has been selected as one of four ‘large’ suppliers, alongside BT, Fujitsu and Logica, to compete for business in the new three-year Scottish Government IT managed services framework...
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HP's services margins in the clouds
HP’s drubbing on the markets following its hastily released Q2 results, and trimmed revenue and profits outlook (see No more miracle margins at HP), has left us with one big question – how is new CEO...
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Capita acquires call centre partner
Following the lead taken by rival Serco in March (see Serco acquires UK contact centre provider), Capita has acquired Bristol-based call centre partner Call Centre Technology Ltd (CCT) for £15m on a...
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FreeJellyBeans.com 2.0
Back in those crazy dot.com bubble days, I wrote a spoof www.freejellybeans.com (how to turn a silly internet idea into a $1b IPO in six months..) which I then used at the Feb 2000 Regent Conference....
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