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UK Government acknowledges offshoring movement
It must be a sign that some things really are beginning to change in UK Government IT. For the second time in a fortnight, I feel moved to start writing with the word “finally” (see Changes afoot in...
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TCS delivers "very satisfying" first quarter
Top ranked India-based IT services provider TCS followed up a bright year end (see here) with a “very, very satisfying performance” in Q1 according to MD and CEO N Chandrasekaran. For the quarter ended...
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Following the introduction of new CEO Heath Davies, and non-exec chairman Phil Cartmell earlier this week (see Alterian ‘sorts’ new top team), marketing software vendor, Alterian confirmed that the...
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Google wows with Q2 results
What a difference a quarter can make. When it issued its Q1 financial results, fears about Google’s rising costs and profits that missed analyst forecasts dragged the share price down by 5% in the...
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Welcome Barclays Corporate
We are delighted to welcome Barclays Corporate as a TechMarketView banner advertiser. We've had a long association with the strong TMT team at Barclays which has included both our research and speeches...
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IndustryViews Private Equity
TechMarketView Foundation Service subscribers can now download the latest edition of IndustryViews Private Equity, our regular review of VC and PE activity in the UK software and IT services market....
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To Powerpoint or not to Powerpoint?
I rather liked the stories last week about the APPP (Anti PowerPoint Party) in Switzerland. The APPP estimates that Powerpoint presentations globally waste Euro350b a year. This was taken up in the...
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SThree sees lacklustre UK banking market
International recruitment firm, SThree, gave us yet another clue that last year’s ‘recovery’ in the UK banking market was more of a catch-up than a sustained return to previous form. CEO Russell...
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Netcall leaves us guessing some numbers
The FY trading update (to 30th June) from contact management software firm, Netcall, gave pointers to (adjusted) profit and cash performance – ahead of market forecasts – but no real clues as to...
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Vodafone partners ACS to target health & care
Mobile operators appear to be stepping up a gear in their efforts to woo the UK health and care sector. The latest development is the partnership between Vin Murria’s Advanced Computer Software Group...
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iSOFT faces the final curtain
Australian healthcare application provider iSOFT, a key supplier to the UK’s erstwhile National Programme for IT in the NHS (see the HotViews archive for the whole saga), is all set to become part of...
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Changing of the guard at TCS UK
After nearly 20 years working for Mumbai-headquartered IT/BP services firm, TCS, here in the UK, the last dozen or so as head of UK operations and more recently head of TCS’s Europe and UK business...
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Craneware full year financials set to meet expectations
The good news story continues for Craneware, the Scottish provider of healthcare software to the US market, with revenue anticipated to be up 34% on the 2010 figure of $28.4m for the year to 30 June...
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Services growth slows further at IBM
While there was much joy in the media over IBM’s Q2 results last night, it behoves us to pull apart the numbers, because I can’t see that there’s that much cause for celebration about IBM’s services...
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Dealogic joins ‘Dearly Departed’
Another UK software player leaves AIM today - investment banking and capital markets solutions supplier, Dealogic. The reason is as much to do with liquidity as value - the stock had returned some 34%...
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Apple - Lost for superlatives
Wouldn’t you just love to start your trading announcement with the words “We’re thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenues up 82% and profits up 125%”. That’s exactly what Steve Jobs of...
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Difficult quarter for Wipro
It was hard to match the words with the music for Wipro’s Q1 FY12 results. Chairman Azim Premji’s pronouncement that they are seeing “early signs of positive momentum after the re-organization” was...
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IBM’s software shines brightly
IBM’s software segment outshone its services division when it reported its Q2 results, benefitting from increased sales in analytics, information management and middleware. Subscribers can read more...
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Logicalis continues push into services
South-African headquartered Datatec has issued a trading update for the period from 1st March to 30th June showing improvements in revenue and profitability. The bit of Datatec we’re really interested...
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Williams Lea wins centralised Government print deal
Most HotViews readers will be unfamiliar with the name Williams Lea (WL). However the UK-based marketing and managed print services outsourcer has won the Government’s first centrally procured contract...
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