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UK Government CloudStore (update)
The day after Sunday’s launch of the CloudStore by the Cabinet Office (see Government’s CloudStore opens for business, Chris Chant, G-Cloud Programme Director, made the following comment in an article...
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More on Colt's results and outlook
As promised we have posted some more detail and comments on Colt's full-year results, following the analyst call with management earlier today. The piece - entitled Colt finally looks ahead to growth -...
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Atos UK: Making the most of SIS
Picking up on our comments in Atos UK beats peers on FY11 revenue growth, it’s worth dwelling on the remarkable performance of Atos’ UK business over the last year. While the Group has suffered nine...
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Salesforce.com trumpets social growth but swings to a loss
Top line growth is never the issue with Salesforce.com but profitability is and these dual themes played out again in its Q4 and full year 2012 results. Social developments are adding additional force...
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Keep ahead of the market with TechMarketView
It’s been a busy start of the year for the TechMarketView team, with 9 new research notes and reports already published and some 20 insights posted in UKHotViews Extra – all of which only eligible...
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Microgen: still growing cash and building its process platform
There is no change in the respective performance of the two segments of Microgen, with the Financial Systems Division (FSD) continuing to tread water with 2% revenue growth over the year (to December...
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Netcall calls better performance
After a positive start to 2012 (see Netcall improves cash position at half year), call centre and business process automation software firm Netcall posted headline revenue growth in the six months to...
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Dell acquires AppAssure for storage and backup
On Friday Dell announced a noteworthy acquisition in the storage and backup space. It’s buying AppAssure, a US-based provider of software to support application protection across physical, virtual and...
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@UK - Another dash for cash
After claiming no requirement to raise further funds at its interim results in July, AIM-listed e-procurement software and services provider, @UK, has done just that not once but twice since. Back in...
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Oracle runs out its SaaS HCM prelim plans
Anxious to maintain visibility in the wake of SAP’s skeleton plans for SuccessFactors (see here), Oracle has its released its preliminary plans for Taleo. The speed with which both are announcing their...
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360GlobalNet inches closer to Quindell
Well, maybe it won’t be another loss of great British IP to the US after all (see 360globalnet – another ‘loss’ to the US?). Quindell Portfolio, the AIM-listed, self-styled ‘brand extension’ company...
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Serco achieves single-digit organic growth
Following hot on the heels of rival Capita’s mixed full year results last week (see Capita: ‘ups and downs’ in 2011), rival Serco has reported another strong set of figures that go a long way to...
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Promethean learns benefits of international spread
Highlighting the difficult market conditions in the UK education market, supplier of interactive learning technologies, Promethean World, saw UK & Ireland revenues dive by 21% in FY11. Fortunately...
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Handling problems
I may be a saddo, but every year that passes means that the internet becomes more essential to me. My, and TechMarketView’s, operations are totally reliant on the web. I have many backups – like...
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Craneware: not sparkling but building up to a shine
Craneware’s January H1 trading update (see here) caused ripples of concern in the market because H1 revenue growth was ‘only’ in the low double digits rather than the 24% of the year ago period (it...
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Patsystems joins Dearly Departed
Today’s the day we wave a fond farewell to troubled derivatives-trading software company, Patsystems (see Waving goodbye to Patsystems) as its shares delist from AIM subsequent to its acquisition by...
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SDL's content management push going well
SDL is still going well and its FY 2011 results show it is making progress executing on its strategic vision of enabling everyone to be able to engage with the information they require in the way they...
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Ordina – on the one hand, on the other hand
A marvellously pragmatic observation from Stepan Breedveld, new CEO (see here) of troubled Netherlands IT services player, Ordina, on the outlook for 2012. “On the one hand, ICT is the engine which...
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Product rework scuppers eg Solutions' revenue, profits
Disruption within its product set means AIM-listed back office optimisation software supplier eg Solutions expects to end the year (to January 31 2012) with revenue “significantly below” market...
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NTT Data shows its true colours in Europe
Up until now, NTT Data, the publicly quoted network and IT services arm of Japanese telecoms giant, NTT, has been quietly snapping up IT services businesses around the world, then leaving them pretty...
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