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Record margins at Sagentia
Sagentia, the outsourced R&D venture chaired by Microgen chairman – and more recently, RM chairman – Martyn Ratcliffe, has turned in its best operating margin in 10 years. Headline revenues for its...
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Sopheon closes deals, raises revenue visibility
Cautious customers did close on a set of business deals that Sopheon had high hopes for but with some spilling over into July they missed the H1 cut-off, which is partly why Sopheon’s H1 revenue is...
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HCL wins €90m outsourcing deal at Mecom
HCL, the fifth largest of the India-based IT/BP services brigade, has scooped a €90m, 5-year infrastructure and application management deal at UK-headquartered and LSE-listed European media group,...
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K3 consumes the whole of FD Systems
Having consumed the Sage 200 (see here) and Clarita Solutions (see here) business areas of FD Systems Ltd, ERP and managed services provider K3 has now acquired the rest of the Sage and ecommerce-based...
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Patni hit by integration costs
It comes as no surprise that this was an unsettling quarter for Patni, the smallest of the India-based majors, as it restructures to fit under new owner iGate (see Farewell Patni, hello iGate Patni)....
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Unisys still in pain
The numbers are better sequentially – but not hugely. After plunging back into net loss in Q1 (see Unisys feels more pain), Unisys clawed back some ground in Q2 but not enough to go back to black....
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Patsystems: hosted revenue on the rise
Although it is still in transition mode from an onpremise/rental and one-off license business model to a hosted base, Patsystems is starting to experience momentum around its hosting operation and its...
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MIDs
In my ‘State of the ICT Nation’ speech for the Prince’s Trust a year back – See Earthquake – I presented some research we’d put together forecasting that the number of devices connected to the internet...
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Amazon hits all-time high
Apple wasn’t the only stock to hit an all time high (of $403) last night. Amazon also rose to an all time high of $225 in after hours trading after announcing a 51% increase in revenue to $9.91b in the...
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Cognizant buys CoreLogic captive
Cognizant, the fastest growing of the top tier India-centric IT/BP services players, is to boost its presence in the US business process services (BPS) market by acquiring the Indian captive of...
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Gresham on the up
The fortunes of veteran financial software (plus) player Gresham Computing have continued to improve in Q2 (see Gresham marches on). Its first half results (to 30 June) are considerably better than the...
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SAP benefits from increased corporate spending in Q2
SAP has come in with a powerful second quarter for 2011 where top line numbers were substantially up, virtually across the board, providing it with confidence to state that it expects 2011 forecasts to...
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HCL crowns great growth year with great growth quarter
It has to be said, fifth-largest India-based IT/BP services firm, HCL, appears to be on a bit of a growth roll, capping off a great year with a great quarter. HCL’s Q4 headline revenues (to 30th June)...
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Work in progress at Access Intelligence
It has been a mixed first half for Access Intelligence, the buy-and-build portfolio of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) SaaS offerings headed by Michael Jackson. The Group’s financial performance...
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Status quo maintained at Sage
There’s no change at Sage according to its interim management statement for the nine months ending 30 June 2011, with performance in line with the expectations it set at the time of its interim results...
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AtoS H1: UK outperforms other geographies
Continuing the theme of its Q1 results (see Managed services & BPS put Atos UK on top), the UK remained the star of the show in H1 (to end June 2011) for the newly-rebranded AtoS (we had to...
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Avisen sets off as a business of two halves – for now
It’s not that often we get to see a P&L with losses three times greater than revenues, but such is the case for buy-and-build (and sell) merchant, Avisen. It’s not worth pouring over the numbers...
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Sopra spurts ahead
France-based SI, Sopra, outshone its much larger peer Atos (see AtoS H1: UK outperforms other geographies) in first half growth, with headline revenues up nearly 12% (11% organic) to €530m. Sopra’s...
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Autonomy and its recurring revenue: an enviable position
There were several positives to take from Autonomy’s Q2 results (period ending 30 June 2011), not least record revenue that was up 16% to $256m yoy and profits from operations of $83m (from $77m), but...
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Ideagen braves the document management and compliance market
Ideagen Plc is a new company on our radar and of interest because it operates in the areas of data capture, enterprise content management (ECM) and compliance, provided via the SaaS model or on...
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