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Oracle Q1's show diversity of performance
Oracle’s Q1’s for fiscal 2012 (period ending August 31 2011) were well received when they were reported earlier this week (see Oracle surprises with strong EMEA performance in Q1) - as they should be...
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BYOT - Gathering support
I’ve been banging on about ‘Buy your own Tech ‘ (BYOT) for some time now. This culminated in me using it as my main theme in my Prince’s Trust ‘State of the ICT Nation’ speech – Things have Changed -...
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Netcall starts dialling some right numbers
I have just come off the phone speaking with Michael Jackson, Henrik Bang and James Ormondroyd, the top team at contact management software firm, Netcall. You might as well treat today’s FY results...
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Last waltz for Highams as Nakama reverses in
Once a year we take a peek at the fortunes of veteran AIM-listed ITSA (IT staff agency) Highams Systems Services just to check it’s still in business – and it still is, nearly 30 years on from its...
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Infor prioritises products
We had the opportunity to speak to Infor's management during its London roadshow yesterday and it is evident that the ERP and business management vendor is entering a new phase of its life, led by the...
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ReThink aiming high with Aiimi
Regular readers will know that I take a somewhat jaundiced view of ITSAs (IT staff agencies) that want to get above their station in life by running a ‘consultancy’ business alongside the core...
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Across the board growth for Misys
In Q1, its smallest and quietest period of the year Misys still managed to increase revenue across all its divisions and regions resulting in 4% (cc) YOY revenue growth, taking total revenue for the...
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Accenture calls 2012 like it saw 2011
If you are a ‘glass half empty’ sort of chap, you’d say that Accenture expects revenue growth to halve in 2012, on the basis that they delivered 15% growth (at constant exchange rates, CER) in FY11 (to...
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Entry-level IT jobs in the UK
Yesterday’s Leader’s speech by Ed Milliband talked of punishing ‘predators’ and helping ‘producers’. Autonomy’s (or is that HP’s?) Mike Lynch on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning described this...
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Cognizant zaps SAP house Zaffera
US-headquartered but India-centric Cognizant continued its long record of acquisitions, picking up US-headquartered but India-centric SAP retail industry consultancy, Zaffera. No terms were disclosed,...
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Kimble takes PSA to the cloud
With traditional software areas clogged (often with like-for-like applications), the best opportunities lie in the white space between those established offerings. That is what intrigued us about UK...
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Virgin flies into the cloud
In Virgin Media means business in UK public sector we commented that Virgin Media Business had ambitions to be a ‘broker’ of cloud services, and that it would need to do this in conjunction with...
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An 'Enigmatic' offer for Clarity
Enigmatic Investments yesterday announced a cash offer for Clarity Commerce Solutions. The offer is being made at a price of 23p per share representing a 51% premium on the closing price of 15.25p per...
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Clarity Commerce: CEO resigns
Following on from Clarity Commerce’s news this morning that it had received an offer for the company (see An ‘Enigmatic’ offer for Clarity), it has since released another couple of announcements....
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Amazon Fire - the first real competitor for the iPad
As we have stated previously, the Amazon Fire (launched this afternoon) is likely to be the first serious competitor to the iPad. Not because of its spec- it has a 7inch colour touch screen, WiFi only,...
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Atlantic Global attracting acquisition attention
We haven’t written about Atlantic Global before but as another little British battler this Yorkshire-based business has been quietly going about its business for 16 years, providing people and project...
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Parseq moves into half-time loss
You can read the reasons why in our recent post Parseq warns on weak BPO business, but basically the reverse takeover of Intelligent Environments by privately held financial services BPO firm,...
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Scisys 'tough but successful' first half
SciSys, the AIM-listed SITS supplier to the government, space, and broadcast & media sectors, had a ‘tough but successful’ first half to 30 June, according to exec chairman Mike Love, confirming...
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Iomart ahead as seeks more bolt-ons
Iomart, “the world’s 22nd top cloud provider” (read and enjoy We’re all Cloud companies now!), looks like it’s running ahead of plan at half-time (to 30th Sept.) and expects much the same for the FY....
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Accumuli finds bad apple in Boxing Orange
When Graham Norfolk, chairman of buy-and-build software and services play, Accumuli, said earlier this year that he looked forward to providing further updates on the company’s M&A strategy after...
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