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Still strong at Salesforce.com but headwinds could be increasing
A lot of expectations are heaped upon Salesforce.com’s head and when they aren’t all met – or even if results only match expectations - the markets howl. That was case last night when the share price...
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Volatility
We are in scary times. On the stock markets, I can’t remember a period of such volatility. I’ve lived through periods of consistent downturns and, fortunately, periods of the opposite too. But this...
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Apple in the Enterprise
Good article in StrategyEye about iPhone surpassing Blackberry as the top enterprise smartphone. According to researchers iPass (who surveyed just 2300 employees), Apple has increased its share of the...
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Cassis’ Parseq offer officially on the table
The proposed 9p a share MBO bid for Parseq, the Aim-listed amalgamation of Intelligent Environments and Documetric, by CEO Ram Cassis is now officially on the table (see Cassis clears first hurdle in...
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TechMark Awards 2011
Last Thursday, the winners of the Techmark Awards 2011 were announced at a gkittering affair at the London Intercontinental. PwC were lead sponsors. Jass Sarai, UK Technology Industry Leader at PwC,...
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Digital Barriers acquires Stryker for 'physical security'
Digital Barriers (DB), the build-and-buy defence and security services provider, has made another physical security acquisition (see Digital Barriers acquires Zimiti), this time taking on wireless...
View ArticleEnigmatic emerges as sole bidder for Clarity Commerce
There will be no alternative bid for Clarity Commerce Solutions (see Another bidder for Clarity Commerce Solutions?), an outcome we thought was becoming more likely given the time it was taking to move...
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Contrasting revenue and costs at Salesforce.com
The dichotomy between growth and profitability at Salesforce.com is becoming ever more apparent, as indicated by the providers' latest quarterly results (see Still strong at Salesforce.com but...
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Growing into New Markets
We just wanted to give Hotviews readers notice of an upcoming Knowledge Peers event 'Growing into New Markets: The Risks and Rewards'. This will explore the issues of expanding into new emerging...
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Berkshire NHS 'to outsource IT to CSC'
We were intrigued to read in ComputerWeekly that the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is to outsource its entire IT function to CSC in a deal that is said to be worth ‘up to £45m’ over ten years....
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Full and final says Enigmatic on Clarity Commerce Solutions
And so it continues. Against the background the end of talks between Clarity Commerce Solutions and its mystery potential bidder, which failed to produce an alternative offer (see here), Enigmatic...
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Xchanging loses HRO deal with BAE Systems
Xchanging’s recent ‘good news story’ has taken a step back with the announcement that anchor client BAE Systems won’t be renewing its landmark HR outsourcing (HRO) deal with Xchanging HR Services...
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Captain Meg steadies the HP ship
There was really only one mission that new HP ‘captain’ Meg Whitman had to achieve in last night’s earnings call – and that was to steady the ship. After taking on extra ballast (in the form of...
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Digital breaks down international Barriers
Though buy and build firm Digital Barriers is still ‘work in progress’ (see Digital Barriers: Partnerships with large SIs will help build scale), there’s clearly been significant progress towards...
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IPsoft scores ex-Patni CEO to run AP
In a somewhat ‘interesting’ career move, Jeyar Kumar, previously CEO at Mumbai-based Patni (now part of iGate), has come on board as CEO for Asia Pacific at US-based, privately held remote...
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Profits still elusive at Ffastfill but growth plans in play
It was a mixed bag at derivatives software house Ffastfill for H1 (to September 30 2011) as growth plans wrestled with profitability and lost. H1 revenue was essentially flat at £7.3m and the company...
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Ubisenses growth!
Just to say, I had a delightful lunch yesterday with Richard Green, CEO of recently IPO’d, Cambridge-based, ‘real-time locations solutions’ company, Ubisense (see Ubisenses the Realworld and work...
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CSC secures fourth-generation ITO deal with BAE
CSC has succeeded where Xchanging so recently failed (see Xchanging loses HRO deal with BAE Systems), securing a 5-year IT outsourcing deal with long-time customer BAE Systems. The agreement extends...
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UK Government CIO to retire
It’s less than two weeks since we reported on the resignation of UK Government Deputy CIO Bill McCluggage (see UK Government Deputy CIO resigns). And now we hear that UK Government CIO Joe Harley will...
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Constellation Software – ‘PE without the flip’!
I caught up again with John Billowits, CFO of Toronto-based software aggregator, Constellation Software, and I have to say, the more I learn about the company, the more I become intrigued! Avid...
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