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Consulting enables KBC to end 2011 on a good note
KBC Advanced Technologies closed 2011 in good style with a 20% hike in profits due to strong performance in its consulting business. The situation around license sales was not as strong - several...
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Computacenter delivers positives despite tough year in UK
Computacenter says UK revenue shrank by 13% during 2011. But growth in other geographies and managed services wins give the company some confidence and momentum for 2012. This morning’s pre-close...
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ReThink thinking about substantial growth
It’s not all bad news from the recruitment sector. AIM-listed (mainly) IT recruitment firm, ReThink Group, has signalled that the year ended well, with headlines revenues over 40% higher at some £80m,...
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Quindell boosted by recent M&A
A pre-close full year update from Quindell Portfolio (QP), the AIM-listed build-and-buy business process services (BPS) provider, shows significant growth from its recent acquisitions. Revenue for the...
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ESASViews releases Market Trends and Forecasts report
TechMarketView is not letting the grass grow under its feet where our new ESASViews research stream (see ESASViews Launches) is concerned and has released the second major report looking at the...
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More on Computacenter's pre-close update
We have posted more detail and commentary on Computacenter's pre-close update, following a call with CEO Mike Norris. HotViewsExtra readers (i.e. subscribers to TechMarketView’s services) can find it...
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Tribal's positive end to a difficult year
Tribal Group, the now streamlined education, learning and training supplier, would appear to have bounced back from its ‘lacklustre’ performance in mid-2011 (see here), with a ‘strong' performance in...
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SQS warns of lower profits
The recovery and growth strategy at testing and quality management provider SQS is stuttering and the company has issued a warning that PBT will be below analysts’ estimates. Profit for the year has...
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SSP sees growth in insurer systems business but suffers elsewhere
Filed accounts for the most recent full year (ending March 31 2011) showed that SSP, the UK supplier of software and services to the international insurance, underwriting and intermediary markets,...
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Infosys Q3 update
I had one of my regular catch-up chats with Sudhir Chaturvedi, Infosys VP UK, to confirm whether the trends we heard the other day from the top team about global market conditions (see Infosys lowers...
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Crazy extradition arrangements
This morning I had breakfast with Jeremy Hunt – the Culture Secretary (whom I have known since before he became an MP) – and a newly elected MP – Dominic Raab. Both have rather helped to restore my...
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Global Tech M and A
PwC has just released their Technology M&A Insights report. It is, as they say, a ‘jolly good read’ particularly for people who like lots of data and charts to go with the more subjective comments....
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Little British Battler Event Candidates announced
We are delighted to announce the names of the twelve ‘Little British Battlers’ whose top teams will be meeting TechMarketView at the inaugural LBB event on 25th January (see here). They are: Assuria...
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Unit4 warns of lower profits as SaaS sales rise
Despite a record month in December, Unit4 has warned that Q4 2011 profits will be down on the year ago period. As far as we can see it is the SaaS/subscription side of the business that has been an...
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SAP has its best year yet
SAP is on a high roll according to its Q4 and full year prelims and the company says it has been the best year in its 40-year history. Performance has been strong across the board both in terms of...
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iPlayer use soars on connected devices
Figures released today by the BBC show that iPlayer requests soared 29% (to 187m pm) between Dec 10 and Dec 11. That’s almost 2b in 2011 as a whole. But what was really interesting was the devices used...
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SDL ends year on a high
SDL has ended the year well with revenue c12% up on last year and in the £228.5m to £229m range compared to £203.5m in 2010, with profits before taxation and amortization of intangible assets of £39.5m...
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UK takeover flurry ends 2011
Although the biggest European tech M&A deal to end the year came from the telecom sector, there was a flurry of bid activity for UK quoted companies, including Workplace Systems, Patsystems and...
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Clarity joins ‘Dearly Departed’
Consumer transaction software firm, Clarity Commerce, became the second UK software and IT services player to delist from AIM (see Clarity on Enigmatic bid) as it passes into a better place in the...
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Symantec boosts cloud info governance with LiveOffice
Information security and archiving were areas of the business where Symantec saw good levels of performance last year (see the Symantec snapshot within the Enterprise Software Supplier Landscape 2012...
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