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Intercede plans for growth
Identity management software supplier Intercede has delivered a strong performance in FY11 despite challenging market conditions in the UK and Europe. As its trading update anticipated (see Intercede...
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Lever gets the top job at Xchanging
Ken Lever, who has been Xchanging’s acting CE since the February departure of CEO and founder David Andrews (see Xchanging’s founder falls on his sword), has now been given the top job on a permanent...
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The sky should be full of many different clouds
If you have a few spare minutes today, can I commend you to read Charles Leadbeater’s article in the FT today – A cloud gathers over our digital freedoms. I pretty much agree with every word and it’s...
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Kewill picks itself up …
… brushes itself down and starts all over again. Well perhaps not quite the latter, but given that trade and logistics software firm, Kewill, spent some four months last year under a bid approach,...
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Innovise to join ‘Dearly Departed’
After five years as a public company, Vin Murria is to pull her ‘other’ buy and build vehicle, Innovise, off AIM, citing low share liquidity and high listing costs. We have many times commented that...
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Phoenix: the highs and lows of the cloud
It’s difficult to get too excited about Phoenix IT’s FY11 results. As we’d already gathered from the trading update in April (see No flap at Phoenix), the company ended the year on a calm note....
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Ubisense to be first ‘real’ UK SITS IPO for over a year
Cambridge-based real-time software company, Ubisense, is to float on AIM, raising £6m along the way. Ubisense turned over £18m in 2010 with £6m gross profit. We’ll have to wait to see the prospectus to...
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Government consultancy spend: things really are changing
Consultants to the UK public sector should be getting used to being in the Government’s firing line my now. It has been 18 months since Gordon Brown pledged to reduce the Government’s spend on...
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iMessage
I remember some years ago the CTO of Vodafone telling me how much market info he got from his 6 year old daughter. My own daughter is a bit older than 6 (well that’s how old my grandson is!) but I can...
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Courtley joins Parity board and takes a slice of the action
Industry veteran (but dare I say, younger than me!) David Courtley, has become a non-exec director at ITSA-cum-system house, Parity Group. Courtley had taken a near-10% stake in Parity after its recent...
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CSC has a Brazilian too!
Following in Capgemini’s footsteps (see Capgemini has a Brazilian), CSC has taken the plunge in the land of the samba sun, and acquired São Paulo-based IT services firm VIXIA Consultoria e Tecnologia....
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SThree sees pickup beyond UK banking
I’ve just spoken to Steve Quinn, UK Group MD of recruitment firm SThree, who told me that they are now seeing a pick up in demand for IT staff beyond just the banking sector. Quinn said that the call...
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GB Group 'identifies' revenue and profits growth
We have previously cringed at GB Group’s strap-line – ‘GB Group – because identity matters’ – (see Identity matters a lot to GB Group profit). However, GB Group’s financial results go to show that for...
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Happy 40th Birthday email
I was asked today by Nic Fildes at The Times for my comments on the 40th birthday today of the first email. See – email hits 40 and still not written off. Nic started his article “40 years ago today,...
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Infosys takes a bite out of a Kiwi
Infosys has taken one of its very rare excursions into M&A-land, acquiring the software solutions practice of Telecom New Zealand ICT arm, Gen-i. In effect, Infosys will back its own fledgling NZ...
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Troubled Nokia
Rats, sinking ships…just a few of the words that come into mind when looking at the stream of news from ‘troubled’ Nokia. Today has seen several sources quoting that their CTO – Rich Green – had quit...
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Broke, not broken
Most readers know of my long association and support for the Prince’s Trust. I’ve just been reading their latest research – Broke, not broken. The research, which highlights a clear aspiration gap...
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Europe looms large in tech M&A
Europe loomed large in high profile tech M&A deals last month, according to the latest data from our friends at Regent. The list was led of course by Microsoft’s $8.5b acquisition of Skype (see...
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UK Government: the open source debate hots up
This week Computer Weekly published an article entitled ‘System integrators render Cabinet Office open source strategy unworkable’. The piece has since been picked up by numerous other publications....
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Allocate closes a ‘healthy’ year
There was much (and much deserved) blowing of trumpets – but no surprises – in AIM-listed workforce management software company, Allocate’s, Q4 trading update. The bottom line is that Allocate closed...
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