Clik here to view.
Innovation Group boosted by platform strategy
HotViews readers will have seen that UK-based insurance BPS provider The Innovation Group (TIG) hit the numbers for FY11 (see Innovation Group hits FY expectations). I spoke with TIG’s CEO Andy Roberts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IBM gets ‘Smarter’ with Irish Curam Software
IBM is skimming its c$20bn acquisition fund to add another vendor to its growing software portfolio and make a strategic addition to its Smarter Cities initiative. The target is Dublin-based Curam...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yet another top-level reshuffle at Wipro
It seems that ‘new’ CEO TK Kurien had not yet got Bangalore-based offshore services major, Wipro, into its final form, instituting another major reorganisation of some key business units. From January,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Micro Focus: working its way back
Micro Focus is still a work in progress regarding performance as it continues to shake off the disappointment of its last financial year (see Micro Focus: revenues flat, discussions on going) when poor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boring Micro Focus?
Further to our post this morning – Micro Focus - working its way back - we understand that Chairman Kevin Loosemore alluded to Micro Focus now having 6 years of uninterrupted EPS growth and that he’d...
View ArticleClik here to view.
K3 goes Dutch again with Unisoft
It’s still ‘business as usual’ for mid-market ERP firm, K3 Business Technology Group, despite the mooted NEDBO (non-exec director buy-out!) bid by top shareholder PJ Claesson (see Claesson looks to K3...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NCC Group on an Assurance roll
Just a couple of months after it issued interims showing that performance was nicely in line (Some positive early signs from NCC), escrow and assurance provider NCC Group has come back to the market...
View ArticleClik here to view.
European tech deals continue downward trend
According to latest data from Regent Partners, the number of European technology M&A deals announced in November was 20% lower than in October. The value of deals also continued on a downward...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Serco learning from iGate Patni
I got a much deeper understanding of the relationship between the newly expanded iGate Patni (see iGate gets into gear) and its key UK public sector partner, Serco, yesterday, from Serco learning MD,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HgCapital rebacks separated Iris businesses
Existing backer HgCapital Trust has demonstrated its faith in UK-based software group Iris subsequent to Iris’ decision to split into two separate operating businesses in March this year. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TomTom on the road to nowhere
Yesterday I was in a taxi going to a meeting alongside a girl who was directing the taxi driver with her smartphone. When my phone rang it was Murad Ahmed from The Times asking for an 'instant comment'...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IndustryViews Private Equity now available for download
The latest edition of TechMarketView IndustryViews Private Equity includes a return interview with Simon Cook, CEO of VC firm DFJ Esprit, and we also meet up with corporate finance firm Arma Partners’...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Acora and its “little boys’ outsourcing”
We caught up with another fast-growing mid-market player this week. Dave Rabson, CEO of freshly-christened Acora, gave us a run-down on the business, following the rebranding and re-launching earlier...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Xchanging renews London Metal Exchange deal
After the disappointment of losing its anchor HR BPO client BAE Systems last month (see Xchanging loses HRO deal with BAE Systems), Xchanging has renewed its flagship IT services contract with the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No madness in Methods!
I met up with public sector-focused consultancy, Methods Consulting CEO Peter Rowlins and co-owner and director Mark Thompson the other day (see Methods surviving the madness). The meeting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IBM gets 3-4-1 with DemandTec: SaaS, analytics and retail
Another day another analytics acquisition for IBM. This time it is DemandTec, a SaaS house that provides marketing, pricing and merchandising optimization and analytics primarily for the retail sector...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PE LDC moves to acquire WorkPlace Software
WorkPlace Software’s rocky road (see WorkPlace Systems: a year of sprints and hurdles) took another, hopefully positive turn today, with the announcement that it is under offer for £41m, an offer the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fog in channel, Continent cut off
I’m rather surprised that none of the media this weekend reprised the headline of The Times, 22nd October 1957. Fog in channel, Continent cut off. Because that’s a bit how it feels. Anyone willing to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Construction companies ‘unusual suspects’ in UK BPS
The UK construction sector is taking an ever more active interest in ‘support services’ and its sub-set business process services (BPS). Support services is a broad-based market that includes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parseq likely to be first New Year ‘Dearly Departed’
CEO Ram Cassis now controls over 93% of the shares of Parseq, amalgamation of Intelligent Environments and Documetric, and will delist the company from AIM on 4th January (see Cassis offer for Parseq...
View Article