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IBM: thumbs up for software (and the UK)
IBM put in another characteristically solid quarter in Q4 of 2011. There was little growth to speak of across the business as a whole, but earnings improved yet again and were slightly above...
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Windows revenue down but Microsoft is still ahead in Q2
When you consider the challenges Microsoft faces in terms of declining PC sales pulling down Windows sales and the shift away from netbooks, it came out of Q2 (to December 31 2011) in a fair state....
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UNIT4 pushes consumable analytics with App Store and PAYG
UNIT4 is making a move into the analytics sector with its Business Analytics Apps initiative. The move into analytics is not unexpected given that this is a key trend for 2012, but the approach - based...
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Eye-catching growth from Intel
On this day of results from tech bellwethers, it’s worth giving a quick mention of Intel’s Q4 numbers. The chipmaker put in a quarter of strong growth, with revenue up 21%, despite the negative impact...
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TCS Q3 Update
I felt that the mood of the TCS top team (see No surprises from TCS) was rather more upbeat on their concall than that of Infosys management, though this is not an unusual state of affairs. Whereas...
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SAP’s new profile: implications for the ecosystem
SAP was built on ERP and this is still core to the business but it is not relying purely on its traditional business to move forward. Its Innovation Agenda projects – in-memory computing, cloud and...
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Torex acquires RBS from Sanderson
Torex has acquired the Retail Division (RBS) of Sanderson Group for £11.75m (£11.5m cash on completion) RBS had sales of £12.36m, operating profits of £1.42m and PBT of £860K in the year to 30th Sept...
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The B of the BRICs
The continuing high level of interest from UK IT companies in Brazil was amply demonstrated last week Friday with a full house at a seminar outlining the ICT opportunities in what is now the wold’s...
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RM completes disposals with Easytrace sale
On Friday, RM completed the disposals that it promised in last September’s Strategic Review (see RM clears out old furniture and rearranges the rest) with the sale of Easytrace, part of the AMI...
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Deloitte: adapting to SaaS
At a Salesforce.com event last week Deloitte provided insight into how SaaS is altering the methods it uses when working on deployment projects. Projects are getting more complex with demand for...
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UK BPS Predictions for 2012 – supplier challenges and opportunities
Late last year we published our top predictions for the UK business process services (BPS) market in 2012 (see TechMarketView Predictions for 2012 – Business Process Services). We have now taken a...
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Northgate wins 'Project Athena' police deal
Northgate Information Solutions is celebrating having won the ‘Project Athena’ police IT contract, for which it was shortlisted against HCL. The framework looks set to be used by seven or more police...
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RIM needs 'seismic change'
As you will have no doubt have read, founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have been replaced as joint CEOs of RIM by Thorsten Heins. The markets were ‘so impressed’ that RIM shares dived another...
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Ubisense locates FY numbers in the right position
We have been keeping a close eye on Cambridge-based, ‘real-time locations solutions’ company, Ubisense, on account of the fact it was last year’s first UK SITS (software and IT services) IPO (see...
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Quindell buys again, in legal services
Quindell Portfolio, the AIM-listed build and buy insurance business process services (BPS) provider, is making another bold move, to acquire personal injury law firm Silverbeck Rymer Solicitors (SRS)...
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‘Satisfactory’ Sage keeps watchful eye on Europe
Sage flagged up Europe as an area to keep a careful eye on in its latest interim management statement, which is hardly surprising, but says it has made a ‘satisfactory’ start to the year (from October...
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Digital Barriers acquisition: all part of the plan...
Digital Barriers’ raison d’être has been slowly refined as its acquisition tally has ramped up (see Digital breaks down international barriers). Today it has announced a small, bite-sized, acquisition...
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KPN sells non-Dutch bits of Getronics
Dutch telco KPN has announced it is selling the operations of struggling IT services business Getronics in all countries except for its home territory of the Netherlands. The deal, which includes the...
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KeyedIn to acquire Atlantic Global
The 16-year old Yorkshire-based people and project management software provider Atlantic Global who put itself up for sale in September following approaches from two parties (see Atlantic Global...
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