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Education-focused Tribal grows in H1
Tribal is a very different company today to the one that reported results this time last year, or even six months ago. The uncertainty over its future ownership was brought to an end in May (see here)...
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BT lands Australian healthcare contract
BT’s ambitions to grow its healthcare business internationally have been bolstered by a contract win in Australia that will see it provide networked IT services to a new-build hospital in Perth as a...
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Prince's Trust ICT Leaders Presentation and Dinner
On the evening of 21st Sept 11, Richard Holway, Anthony Miller and Georgina O’Toole are giving their ‘State of the ICT Nation’ presentation on behalf of the Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group....
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Covalent bonding in overseas markets
I whiled away a pleasant hour and more the other day with Peter McHugh, founder and CEO of Taunton-based performance management SaaS firm, Covalent. What a great story of yet another ‘Little British...
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Sage Minding its Own Business!
We thought that Sage chief executive Guy Berruyer was preparing for a new round of acquisitions when the company released a trading update last month (see Status quo maintained at Sage). Now we know...
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eg still setting an example
Another encouraging trading update today from AIM-listed operations management software player (and ‘Little British Battler’), eg solutions. CEO Elizabeth Gooch expects to report 10% headline growth...
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Dell - what a difference a quarter makes
Having upped its full year guidance for revenue and profitability just last quarter (see Dell’s ding dong quarter), Dell has had to make a sharp u-turn in Q2, slashing its sales growth forecast for the...
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Fujitsu communicates the difference
If it walks like a telco and talks like a telco, you may be forgiven for thinking that it is a telco. But that’s not quite the case for Fujitsu Telecommunications (Ftel) the telecommunications products...
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Xchanging wins new BAE deal in the US
Number two ranked UK business process services provider Xchanging has secured a much needed vote of confidence from its original anchor client BAE Systems. This time Xchanging won a $150m seven-year...
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The storm was already brewing!
And it caught us all by surprise. As we started writing the Q2 edition of IndustryViews Quoted Sector suddenly the markets went terribly pear-shaped. Nonetheless, if you want to see the figures behind...
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RIP the Best of British Software
HP has announced that it is to offer to buy UK Autonomy for c$10.3b or £25.50 per share – a c78% premium on their £14.29 close price tonight. Before I retire for the night, I just wanted to express my...
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HP abandons webOS and the Touchpad
Several readers seem to have remembered my 28th Apr 10 post – HP to buy Palm. But why?. Well worth a reread as I pretty comprehensively damned the acquisition and forecast that it was well and truly...
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Leo’s titanic decisions to reshape HP
When I first heard the news last night I couldn’t immediately work out whether Leo (a) had completely lost the plot, (b) was a genius, or (c) is quite simply desperate. Having thought much about it, I...
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Innovation Group in line for FY11
After announcing its biggest ever contract last week, a £40m win with RBS Insurance (see here), insurance focused business process software and services provider The Innovation Group (TIG) confirmed...
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HP and Autonomy – where are the synergies?
Most of the discussion about HP’s bid for Autonomy is focused on the impact on HP - primarily the hope that it will make its software business a contender. But as the posts from my colleagues Richard...
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Unit4 bagging bigger contracts
It was a pretty good first half for Unit4 overall but performance was patchy at the country level with the UK one of the areas where there was no revenue growth. It sounds like the mid market vendor...
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HP - the day after
We posted a record four items on Friday on the same company – HP. Indeed we had more quotes in the media in one day than since we started TechMarketView. Friday also proved an ‘interesting’ day for...
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That sinking feeling...
In my first Whilst I was away post, I commented on the meltdown on the stock markets. I’m back now and the full extent of the rout has hit me hard. Since 1st Aug 11, when I went on my holidays, the...
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Cleantech investments bounce back
Venture capital investment in the UK/Irish ‘Cleantech’ sector bounced back in Q2, according to latest data from Ascendant, though CEO, Stuart McKnight thinks this reinvigoration may not be sustained....
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Micro Focus takes the sale sign down
The UK’s Micro Focus is no longer for sale, having closed down discussions with private equity firms Bain Capital and Advent International on the grounds that the bids undervalued the company. It was...
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