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Oracle and Capgemini deals deliver savings for Government
Today came confirmation that Oracle has finally agreed a new deal with the Cabinet Office that is slated to deliver ‘in excess of £75m in savings’ across government by 2015. Under the deal, Government...
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Mouchel's downward spiral continues
Mouchel is evaluating a ‘significantly dilutive' equity raise as one of the options to help lift it out of the mire. Not the greatest news for shareholders who have already seen their shares slump 90%...
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Another great year for the Indians
We have just completed our preliminary estimates of the UK revenues for the leading India-centric IT/BP offshore services suppliers and yet again the players have gained significant share. According to...
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CWW bidders buy more time
Today was the deadline for both Vodafone and Tata Communications Ltd (TCL) to submit a bid for Cable & Wireless Worldwide (see Tata Comms takes a look at CWW). Rumours had been circulating that an...
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IndustryViews Private Equity 2011 Review
Despite a precipitous fall in the number and value of VC investments in UK/Irish tech companies in Q4 last year, there was almost 30% more invested in 2011 (£789m) than in 2010, according to data from...
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RIM to quit consumer market
Back on 23rd Jan 12 (See RIM needs ‘seismic change’), RIM’s founders Mike Lazardis and Jim Balsillie were ‘replaced’ (they still stayed on the board though…) as joint CEO by Thorsten Heins. I was...
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Capita: a new force in UK IT services?
We met up recently with Capita’s IT services executive director Mark Wyllie and MD Mark Quartermaine to discuss their plans to take Capita forwards as a leading player in UK IT services in its own...
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Quindell keeps it in the family with Enzyme buy
The enigma that is ‘brand extension’ company, Quindell Portfolio, just gets more and more intriguing (see Making head or tail of Quindell). They have just acquired Enzyme International Limited, a...
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@UK: riding high on government hopes
Even though it is a small player in the market, AIM-listed @UK’s decision to raise funds twice since last December (see here) despite a rising revenue trend was puzzling. But in its year end results...
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SAP launches social enterprise counter attack
SAP is not shirking away from the social networking contest and less than two months after completing the purchase of SuccessFactors (see SAP on SuccessFactors plans), has released a free social...
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Operating margins at the leading European SIs seemed trapped in mid-single digits, less than half the level of global majors and a fraction of the Indian offshore services firms. UK margins are little...
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Share indices March 2012
March was relatively subdued on the markets compared to Jan and Feb. But the 2.3% rise in the FTSE SCS Index means a rise of nearly 15% YTD. That’s a bit lower than NASDAQ (up nearly 19% YTD) and the...
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Vallance steps down as Firstsource CEO
Matthew Vallance is stepping down as MD and CEO of offshore BPO pure play Firstsource, and will be replaced by its current deputy MD and CFO Rajesh Subramaniam. Vallance will then consult Firstsource...
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Clinical Computing to join AIM 'Dearly Departed' (finally!)
It’s been a difficult time of late (well, for ages, actually) for tiny, AIM-listed healthcare information systems provider Clinical Computing. This was most recently signalled at its interim results,...
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InternetQ rides the mobile wave
With its focus on mobile marketing and digital entertainment solutions for mobile network operators and brands, InternetQ really is in a sweet spot - and its year-end numbers were equally sweet. For...
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CVC/ValueAct walk away from Misys
The likelihood that Misys will end up in the Vista Equity Partners camp increased today with the news that the CVC Capital Partners/Value Act Capital combo will not be making a rival bid for the UK...
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Quindell ups the ante on Ai
Having taken a a near-30% stake in AIM-listed motor claims management firm, Ai Claims Solutions in January (see here), enigmatic (well, to me, anyway) ‘brand extension’ company, Quindell Portfolio, has...
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Capita to offshore IT services roles
The Register broke the news on Friday that Capita is planning to offshore IT services roles to India. However it came as no surprise to us to read this. In our new research note Capita: a new force in...
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Services-backed software disrupts the SITS landscape
As the impact of technology developments and enterprises’ demand for business agility causes the boundaries between software and services to splinter, it is becoming harder to differentiate one type of...
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Bond International: moving towards recovery
Staffing, HR and payroll software and services provider Bond International Software has had a busy year or so dealing with its H2 2010 acquisitions on one hand (VGC and Strictly Education Solutions),...
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