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Salamander gets back in the MooD
So much so that they’ve changed their name. The “Enterprise Performance Governance Solutions” firm currently known as The Salamander Organisation is to rebrand its business back to that of its...
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Capita takes on £105m Pensions Regulator deal
UK business process leader Capita has secured a £105m with The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to provide direct communications services between TPR and UK employers, as it rolls out the new requirement for...
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RM clears out old furniture and rearranges the rest
It appears that Martyn Ratcliffe is starting to make his mark on the RM business (see RM appoints Ratcliffe as Chairman). We expected Ratcliffe to be tough in his actions and he’s not disappointing so...
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DWP lets contracts to IBM and Capgemini
DWP has let two of its Application Deployment 'Tower' Lots covering business facilitating systems and business prototyping to IBM and Capgemini respectively. Subscribers to TechMarketView's...
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Very sad to have to bring you news of the death of Mike Chivers last week. Many of you will know of Mike from his days at Honeywell and Bull where he led many successful partnership bids in the Public...
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Xchanging buys out Aon from enterprise partnership
Xchanging is buying out insurance giant Aon from the enterprise partnership (EP) they set up in 2006 to target third party policy and claims administration opportunities in the London insurance market....
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Another fine half for Harvey Nash
Fleshing out the detail of its upbeat trading statement last month (see Harvey Nash bucks UK trend), UK-based international recruitment, outsourcing and offshoring firm, Harvey Nash, has turned in a...
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Xerox's challenges and opportunities post ACS
Technology and document services giant Xerox has owned Affiliated Computer Services (now ACS, a Xerox company) for over a year and a half now (see Xerox copies Dell, buys ACS). The deal turned Xerox...
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Alterian not for sale, looking for a fresh start
Recently appointed Alterian CEO Heath Davies is pushing onto a new stage of the review process aimed at getting Alterian out of trouble. Having cut costs earlier in the year (see Alterian: management...
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Keep a watching brief on SocialGo
SocialGo is still chasing profits rather than achieving them according to its H1 interims, although it did manage to pare its losses a tad in the period to June 30 2011. It made a loss of £611K...
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Share indices in September
The headlines this weekend screamed “Stock market completes its most miserable quarter in nine years”. Indeed the FTSE100 fell 13.74% in the period 30th June – 30th Sept. NASDAQ fell by 12.9%. But the...
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Reminder - Peter Rowell Memorial Service
Peter Rowell, Chairman of Regent, died in May this year. See – Peter Rowell. Peter was a close business colleague and, above all, a good friend, over several decades. There will be a Memorial Service...
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More than meets the eye at Mahindra Satyam
I have usually found that ‘the truth is in the numbers’. However, in the case of ‘born-again’ India-based player, Satyam (now sporting the Mahindra Satyam brand), this is not the whole truth, at least...
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Patsystems cautions on H2 profits
Patsystem’s hosted operations are still powering ahead and sales in the Asia region continue to grow but its business with exchanges has been hit by a substantial downturn, resulting in lower...
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Aveva acquires Z+F
Engineering software provider Aveva its putting its substantial cash resources to use and continuing its acquisition strategy with the purchase of UK-based partner Z+F UK for £6.3m. The acquisition...
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Logica gets new UK CEO
Just as we were putting the UKHotViews email to bed we caught the news that Logica UK CEO Craig Boundy, is to leave the company at the end of the year to join credit management services firm, Experian....
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HP and Autonomy - Soap opera or Tragedy?
Tonight HP has announced that 87% of Autonomy shareholders have said ‘Yes’. So it’s now a done deal. In my long time as an analyst I have never witnessed a takeover with so many twists and turns as...
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Oracle takes on BI and Big Data
At the opening keynote of its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle marched into the untapped world of appliances by announcing an in-memory BI Exalytics appliance and a Hadoop...
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Clarity Commerce holds firm against Enigmatic
There was nothing enigmatic about Clarity Commerce’s rejection of the bid from Enigmatic Investments (see An ‘Enigmatic’ offer for Clarity). The board has roundly rejected the unsolicited bid on the...
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Lumison adds third leg to managed services stool
Just seven months after its maiden acquisition (see Lumison goes co-lo with BlueSquare), Bridgepoint-backed mid-market managed services play, Lumison, has added Reading-based managed services and co-lo...
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