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Genpact and EXL storm ahead in Q3
India-based BPO pure plays Genpact and EXL Service both performed extremely well in their third quarters ended 30 September, driven by organic growth and recent acquisitions. Smaller of the two, EXL,...
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Social and mobile are the messages, Facebook is the messenger
I have spent the best part of the last couple of days at the excellent Web & Mobility Summit, organised by the European Tech Tour team. There I saw a goodly number of the 25 start-ups that had...
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Steve Jobs the Excusive Biography
I’ve just finished reading Steve Jobs the Excusive Biography by Walter Issacson. It is a remarkably ‘good read’ – a real page turner. I recommend it unreservedly. Indeed, I think it is one of those...
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Xchanging grabs another industry ‘heavyweight’ in Bill Thomas
Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement that Geoff Unwin is to become Xchanging’s new chairman (see here), it has now got its hands on another IT industry ‘heavyweight’ in Bill Thomas, the former...
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Telecity Q3 update: growth means dividends
Telecity has delivered another positive signal of growth in its Q3 interim statement this morning, as the UK and European co-lo markets continue to benefit from the unceasing rise in demand for...
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IDOX acquires e-learning business
This time last year we described IDOX as a ‘UK local government software supplier’. A year on and that no longer seems an appropriate strap line. Although the UK local government market is still...
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Taking to the clouds with Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com has come a long way since its CRM SaaS days, having moved into the cloud platform space and now fronting the social enterprise drive, causing a radical change in the enterprise software...
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Unwin and Thomas
In the last week, Xchanging has appointed Geoff Unwin (left) as its Chairman and Bill Thomas (right) as an NED (See Xchanging bags another heavyweight in Bill Thomas) Although my colleague, John...
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Capgemini’s UK star wanes as group margins dim
Capgemini UK grew slower than major European peers in Q3, with like-for-like revenues for the 3 months to 30th Sept. only 1% yoy higher, at €473m (c. £415m), a 4% decline as reported. With Logica and...
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Kewill suffers in all regions in H1
It was evident from its prelims (see Kewill: half year bad, full year good) that Kewill had a tough H1 but its interim results have revealed just how poor it was. Top line revenue was down 6% to...
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Fair winds in wireless propel Anite
There’s more good news from Anite this morning in the shape of its half year trading update. The testing and travel software provider says that, thanks to growth from its handset testing business, “the...
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Adecco: UK reports slow growth in tough market
International staffing agency Adecco Group failed to maintain its double-digit revenue growth of the last few quarters in its Q3 (see Adecco posts another double digit quarter but UK is flat). Group...
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Civica takes on RM’s Oz ops
Executive chairman, Martyn Ratcliffe, continues to ‘work the plan’ at troubled education solutions firm, RM (see RM clears out old furniture and rearranges the rest) with the disposal of its Australian...
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Growing Blinkx expands again
Video search engine provider (and Autonomy spin-out) Blinkx, who has been stunning the market with its momentum (including a near doubling of revenue in the half year to March 31, see Blinkx exceeds),...
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Firstsource operating margin slumps in Q2
India-based BPO pure play Firstsource took another hit on margins in Q211 after seeing them halve in Q1 (see Shine fading from Firstsource growth). For the three months to 30 September, Firstsource’s...
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Rackspace powers ahead in US and UK
US-based hosting provider Rackspace has reported another quarter of excellent growth. Total Q3 revenue was $265m, up 31% in constant currency year-on-year and 7% sequentially. Managed hosting grew by...
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Amdocs intrigues
Amdocs is one of those vendors who sits at an interesting technology intersection given its focus on customer experience systems for multi-play telco service providers (e.g. those who provide mobile,...
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Diligenta wins £1.4bn BPO deal with Friends Life
TCS’s life and pensions (L&P) BPO division Diligenta has hit the jackpot, securing its largest contract to date, a £1.37bn deal with UK-based pensions, investments and insurance provider Friends...
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CSC's Quarter horribilis
The second quarter of FY12 is one that CSC would prefer not to dwell on. Today it revealed a pre-tax loss for the quarter of $2.85b and a loss per share of $18.6. Most of the damage was done by a...
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Top resellers named (and shamed?) by CRN
Our friends at Computer Reseller News have published an interesting ranking of UK resellers this week, along with a new end user survey. Both are available on the CRN website here. The list of 100...
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