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‘Commander’ Read!
Many congratulations to Dr Martin Read, who became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (i.e. CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, for services to the Public Sector and to Business....
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Xchanging simplifies structure via complex asset swap
Xchanging's CE Ken Lever is continuing his reshaping of the business following his appointment to the top job last week (see Lever gets the top job at Xchanging). He is now acquiring the remaining 24%...
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ACS comes of age
Advanced Computer Software is a good example of a SITS company that is benefiting from government spending cuts. Its FY11 results show its health and care applications and managed services are in...
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Corero to do what it says on the tin
Some companies lop bits off their name to make the point (e.g. Colt). Others add bits on. Such is the case for ‘born again’ network security solutions business, Corero,which will henceforth rejoice in...
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IDOX: improving picture (as far as we can tell!)
Delving into the detail to find out the underlying growth story at IDOX is easier said than done. Speaking to IDOX’s CEO, Richard Kellett-Clarke, can sometimes feel like getting blood from a stone! The...
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Capita expands in EMEA through Zurich
Capita has renewed and extended a major business process services deal with existing client Zurich Financial Services, and with it gets the green light to its international expansion plans (see...
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Will 2e2 get ‘cabled up’?
We don’t usually go much on marketplace rumours, but when the excellent Paul Kunert (now at Channel Register) gets a scoop, experience tells us he’s usually very close to the mark. In this case, it’s...
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NHS reforms relaunched
Having ‘listened and learnt’, the Government confirmed today that it will make changes to its controversial plans for the modernisation of health and social care. From what we’ve seen, the government’s...
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What happens when you don’t keep taking the (right) tablets!
You take massive write downs and close businesses! Two more indicators of the parlous state of the consumer electronics market hit the wires this morning. Reuters reported that Acer has slashed its...
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Livermore eschews life under Leo for life over Leo
The inevitable denouement of CEO Leo Apotheker’s unshackling of HP’s services business from under erstwhile Enterprise Business head, Ann Livermore (see One thing Leo got right) played out the other...
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Mouchel appoints new FD from Carillion
Mouchel has appointed Rod Harris, the former FD of Carillion Business Services, as its new group FD. Harris replaces outgoing FD David Tilston, who appointed Harris in autumn 2010 as Mouchel’s group...
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Sopheon: Still heading in the right direction
In a pre-AGM update Sopheon, the provider of software and services to support the product innovation processes, revealed that license sales have continued to climb. In its trading update on May 5...
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Happy centenary, IBM
Richard Holway writes: Although IBM has been around for 100 years, for me the IT industry started in 1964 with the launch of the IBM S/360 – the first computer designed for business. It happened to...
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Angela Eager joins TechMarketView
We are absolutely delighted to welcome to the team Angela Eager, who joins TechMarketView as Research Director for Enterprise Software & Application Services (ESAS). Many readers will know Angela...
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Enterprise Software & Application Services – Disruption rules
There are few certainties in life but change is one of them and if you’re in the software and IT services (SITS) space, that change will be frequent and dramatic. In the enterprise software and...
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CSC flat in UK despite NHS IT woes
CSC’s UK revenues were essentially flat in FY11 at c£1.2b ($1,869m), despite mounting problems with its NHS IT contracts. The full extent of the issues with CSC’s £2.9b NHS contracts is revealed in its...
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Unit4 chipping away at SAP
Unit4, the Netherlands-based ERP provider, has acquired a new customer, nuclear power specialist Magnox, who will pay £2.5 million to put Unit4’s Agresso Business World ERP suite in place. What is...
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In praise of Engineers
Those of you who watch The Apprentice on Wednesday night will have heard Alan Sugar suggest that he had ‘never met one engineer who was good at business’. See Daily Telegraph . Although the Apprentice...
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RIM issues warning
Shares in RIM, the Blackberry maker ‘crashed’ by 16% last night as it issued a profits warning as well as reporting profits 10% lower in the quarter ending end May 11. RIM’s woes are well documented...
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We’re all Cloud companies now!
It’s official! If you are in IT – or can even spell it – you are a Cloud company. Or so it seems, judging by recent media headlines, bestowing that rather questionable ‘badge of honour’ on two rather...
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