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TechMarketView Predictions for 2012 - UK Public Sector
In the second in our series of Predictions for 2012, Georgina O’Toole and Tola Sargeant peer into the public sector tea leaves. Eligible TechMarketView subscirption service clients can download the...
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Lombard Risk sets up for US regulatory market
Lombard Risk Management’s announcement that it plans to acquire the regulatory reporting business of US-based SOFGEN Holdings for $4.25m will have a multiple impact on the company – including taking it...
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New leadership and new finance for Azzurri
Privately-held managed communications and contact centre player Azzurri has this morning announced some significant changes to the business. There’s a new CEO, a new Chairman, a new NED and a major new...
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Clarity on Enigmatic bid
All has become crystal clear. Jon ‘Happy Jak’ Moulton’s Better Capital (under the guise of Enigmatic Investments) has won control of consumer transaction software firm, Clarity Commerce (see Full and...
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More on the changes at Azzurri (and a correction)
As you will have read in HotViews already, communications and contact centre provider Azzurri has announced a significant new financing deal and board-level changes (see New leadership and new finance...
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Bye Bye Blackberry?
A few years back today’s Daily Telegraph headline - Will Blackberry survive 2012? – would have been unthinkable. But this year the news flow from RIM has been one bad story after another. That...
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TechMarketView Predictions 2012 - Enterprise Software
In the third of our series of Predictions for 2012, Angela Eager looks at what is in store for Enterprise Software. Eligible TechMarketView subscription service clients can download the full series of...
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Adobe surprises with unexpectedly good results
Adobe closed a challenging year with a set of numbers that certainly surprised the market, including revenue that was up 11% to $4.2bn, topping its growth target of 10% for the year. When you consider...
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Kewill boosts SaaS capabilities with PointandShip
Despite a poor H1 Kewill remains proactive and is boosting its SaaS capabilities with the acquisition of PointandShip Software. Terms were not disclosed – although acquired gross assets were $1.8m,...
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Mouchel still at the turnaround starting position
Unchanged expectations could be considered a positive where Mouchel Group is concerned given the awful time it had last year (see Mouchel’s ‘annus horribilis’) but the underlying situation is still...
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K3 picks up more managed services capacity with RSG
It’s been a busy time for K3 Business Technology Group. The company has just closed its third acquisition of the month (see K3 buys a bit of Maxima and K3 goes Dutch again with Unisoft), this time...
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HCL bags a win at AstraZeneca
Indian major HCL Technologies has announced a significant hosting and collaboration win with AstraZeneca. The deal comes after months of rumour suggesting that the pharma giant was seeking to extricate...
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Prologic stays in red for another season
Prologic, the tiny AIM-listed provider of software to the fashion and lifestyle industries, has announced results in the red for the first half of FY12. It’s also heading into a “strategic review”. The...
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TechMarketView 2012 Predictions - Infrastructure Services
In the fourth of TechMarketView's series of predictions for 2012, Phil Codling picks out the headlines for the UK infrastructure services market. Eligible TechMarketView clients can download our full...
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TechMarketView Predictions for 2012 - Business Process Services
In the fifth and final part of our series of Predictions for 2012, John O'Brien peers into the business process services (BPS) tea leaves. Eligible TechMarketView subscription service clients can...
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Oracle shocks, spikes wider market fears
Oracle struggled to close deals and came up against more stringent approvals processes in fiscal Q2 2012 (ending November 30 2011), causing it to land with a hard bump and contribute to the general...
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ION's rescue of Patsystems confirmed
ION Group has come through for Patsystems and confirmed on the 14 pence per share approach it made to the derivatives-trading software company last month, which valued the company at c£29m (see...
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New CompanyViews note: IBM's big ambitions with smaller accounts
The UK mid-market is a fiercely competitive space for SITS suppliers. It's also an area of major opportunity that TechMarketView will continue to cover in the course of 2012. In the meantime, we've...
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Serco in healthy shared services win
Serco has been announced as the preferred bidder to manage the Anglia Support Partnership (ASP). The unsuccessful final bidder on this occasion is services firm Sodexo. Currently hosted by...
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Christmas bonus for G4S with Lincs Police win
Lincolnshire Police Authority has selected G4S as preferred bidder for its wide-ranging support services deal. Worth “in excess of £200m”, the contract covers responsibility for a number of police...
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