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SciSys confirms tough year
SciSys has released its results for the year to December 2011. The supplier to the government, space and broadcast & media sectors saw revenues fall and remains “confident” but “cautious” regarding...
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eg Solutions: poor year but a better end
Last month eg Solutions warned that FY11 profits and revenue were going to be below market expectations (see Product rework scuppers eg Solutions’ revenue, profits) so today’s results did not come as a...
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Serco wins community health services deal
In a further sign of an increasing openness to outsourcing, NHS Suffolk has selected support services and IT/BPS giant Serco as its preferred supplier for a broad-ranging contract to provide local...
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Acquisitions boost buoyant Accenture
Though Accenture management would not put a figure on precisely how much the recent acquisitions of US-based insurance software firm Duck Creek and mortgage processing services firm, Zenta, helped the...
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Civica outperforms market in full year
Public sector software and services provider Civica has outperformed the broader UK public sector by some way in its year ended 30 September. UK revenue was up 8% to £127.8m, with organic UK growth at...
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Cumbria and Computacenter: no deal
It’s being reported that Computacenter has not been able to agree terms with Cumbria County Council. The services firm had been appointed preferred bidder on the council’s 5-year, c£60m ICT outsourcing...
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IS Solutions reduces turnover, as planned
It’s not often we hear a supplier planning to decrease turnover. But IS Solutions, the AIM-listed web focused SITS provider, did just that, executing on its ‘planned strategy’ to reduce turnover and...
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Monitise – can two losses make a profit?
We don’t often comment on AIM-listed, mobile banking play, Monitise, but today’s announcement of its first ‘fully fledged’ acquisition (i.e. beyond subsuming JV partners), that of US peer, Clairmail,...
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TechMarketView research update
TechMarketView’s analyst team has been busy once again over the past fortnight, publishing a raft of quality research and analysis, on a broad range of hot topics, for our eligible subscription service...
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Anite bags significant travel business win
Over the last year or so the Anite story has centred on its wireless testing business. The travel division lagged while it approached a performance inflection point as it transitioned from old to new...
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Eg Solutions: 2012 off to a strong start
News today from eg Solutions of another contract - a £340k deal with an existing financial services customer - is a further marker that its product reengineering and subsequent performance hit are...
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Harvey Nash steps closer to outing NashTech
It’s not exactly a trade secret, but sometimes you get the impression that UK-headquartered, international recruitment firm, Harvey Nash, prefers to keep its Vietnam-based IT services activities locked...
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RM on course as it starts FY12
After a ‘difficult FY11’, education-focused RM confirmed today that its first quarter performance for this fiscal year is line with management expectations and that expectations for the full year are...
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I've been pinned
Having got used to being ‘poked’ for years by my Facebook friends, today I was ‘pinned’ for the first time. I’d posted a photo of my garden with the daffodils out in the sunshine. A friend of mine in...
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IDOX acquires electoral software provider
Having started to shows signs of organic growth (see IDOX making progress organically), local government software and services provider IDOX is now also looking to push the inorganic growth buttons. It...
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Mixed results for Pilat Media
Pilat Media, the London based supplier of business process management software for broadcasting companies, posted a mixed bag of results for FY11 as costs to bring implementations live and the effect...
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More on Civica's FY11 performance & ambitions
As we reported last week, public sector-focused Civica is growing nicely despite tougher conditions in its core market: the UK public sector. According to company figures and our estimates, the...
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Instem: organic growth elusive
Instem’s full year results did not deviate from the story that has emerged over the past 12 months in which organic growth has been missing but there were signs that the market and its prospects were...
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Arvato emerging in UK BPS
Arvato is gradually making more of a name for itself in the UK SITS market thanks to recent new wins in the public and private sectors (see Germany’s Arvato emerges at Chesterfield). Arvato is a global...
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12 PSN Connectivity suppliers chosen
Last week the Cabinet Office revealed which 12 suppliers have made it onto the Public Services Network (PSN) Connectivity Framework. The framework is designed to make it quicker and easier for public...
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