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Green light to Capita buying Vertex Private Sector
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared the way for Capita to complete its acquisition of Vertex Private Sector (see Capita buying Vertex private sector arm) because it didn’t ‘qualify for...
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Nightmare on the High Street
Amazon UK has reported selling 3m items on Cyber Monday last week - up from 2.3m in 2010. Online sales are likely to be up 15% at £7.75b in 2011. Conversely West End stores reported takings were 10%...
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Logica: to be de facto choice for UK Government HR BPO?
UK Government has once again gone down the route of expanding on an existing relationship with one of its suppliers. The Government Procurement Service has awarded Logica a framework agreement for...
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EDP feeling the pressure
Downward pricing pressure is taking its toll at software and hosted services house EDP whose prelim results showed flat revenues and a decline in profits, despite a one off boost from the sales of its...
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Northgate appoints new CEO
We’ve just spotted news that Northgate Information Solutions has appointed a Group CEO to replace Chris Stone, who announced his decision to leave the firm in September after twelve years at the helm...
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Agilisys wins first national procurement competition
Though Agilisys’ most recent contract win isn’t on the same scale as its major local government partnerships, it is strategically important to the Group. It has announced a multi-year strategic...
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Logica confronts the inevitable
The inevitable profit and revenue warning, and the inevitable restructuring, that is. When Logica announced its 2010 results in February I said that they would ‘miss’ in 2011 (see Logica’s margin...
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Diversification allows IDOX to continue growing
Once again, IDOX appears reluctant to reveal its organic revenue performance. Considering its acquisitive behaviour over the last couple of years, it really would be good to understand what’s happening...
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Logica confronts the inevitable (update)
For me, the telling statement in the investor concall on Logica's profit warning (see here) came from CEO Andy Green: “The (Logica) Board genuinely believes it is right to take tough decisions today”....
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K3 buys a bit of Maxima
In the past I have often (perhaps mischievously) suggested that mid-market ERP player, K3 Business Technology Group, ought to buy rival Maxima, as it appeared it me that there were some bits that K3...
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Huddle takes its challenge to Microsoft’s Exchange
Little British Battler (LBB) and SaaS enterprise content management and collaboration provider Huddle continues to batter away at Microsoft SharePoint as it works on positioning its offerings as an...
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Last chance for ‘Little British Battlers Day' applications
We have now received well over one hundred applications from small, UK-owned software and IT services companies – the proverbial ‘Little British Battlers’ – to meet the TechMarketView team on 25th...
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TechMarketView Predictions for 2012
Once again the TechMarketView team has gazed into its crystal ball to bring you our predictions for 2012. We start today with our chairman, Richard Holway, and will follow with predictions from the...
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How will the public sector SITS suppliers fare in 2012?
As the end of 2011 draws near, TechMarketView’s public sector team has reviewed the recent fortunes of the key suppliers to the UK public sector software and IT services market. Although many of the...
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Further to my recent Nightmare on the High Street post, it looks as if online sales are even more buoyant than was thought. The ONS has today revised up its retail sales figures to a reasonably good...
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Spotting opportunities in the UK public sector market
In November 2011 the Chancellor announced yet more cuts to UK public sector budgets, taking money out of the public purse into 2016-17. Central government ICT contracts remain subject to strict...
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Zynga's IPO
Closing another loop (see - More bubbles), Zynga’s IPO last night was at $10 a share valuing them at $7b. 14% of shares were sold in the float – rather higher than the minimal free floats in other IPOs...
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IBM signs up for Emptoris supply chain analytics
IBM has signed up to purchase Emptoris, a provider of on premise and cloud-based analytics for businesses procurement and supply chain operations. So far the two have entered into a definitive...
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Salesforce takes a deep breath and plunges into the back office
We’re used to Salesforce.com making acquisitions these days but the latest one stands out for its strategic importance because it is the first time the native cloud front office applications provider...
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Accenture Q1 – the real messages
Well, it was quite a different story that we heard from the Accenture top team last night than we heard from Logica the other day (see Logica confronts the inevitable). Let’s take a quick trot round...
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