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OLM joins up health and care with Esprit acquisition
Social care application stalwart OLM Group has added to its portfolio with the acquisition of Esprit, a provider of multi-agency information sharing software to UK local authorities and the NHS. The...
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Implementation costs hurt Pilat Media
The year got off to a nondescript start for Pilat Media, with Q1 revenues flat on the year ago period at £5m, but it did edge into profit (£19K) compared to a loss of £190K this time last year....
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Liz Benison finally gets her official title
Though she’s been signing her emails as such since February, Liz Benison has finally been officially blessed as CSC’s new UK & Ireland President. Benison left Capgemini to join CSC as UK COO in...
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Scisys upbeat on start to year
Scisys, the software and services provider to the government, space and broadcast & media sectors, said trading in the first half of 2012 is proving more buoyant than originally expected, due to a...
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NCC rips out its new software system, takes a £6.9m hit
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard of a software implementation going so wrong that it risked compromising the ability to do business, but escrow and assurance provider NCC Group is in this sorry...
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Social media marketing vendor-grab gathering pace
The social media marketing subsector is a hot bed of activity at the moment, with the level of activity underlining just how seriously software suppliers are taking the business use of social media –...
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Logica to be acquired by CGI
Logica has announced that it has agreed a bid from CGI at 105p per share. This values Logica at £1.7b and represents a premium of c60% on Logica’s closing share price yesterday. The share price has...
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Jubilee
As we all prepare for a very long weekend of street parties, river pageants and the like to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, I thought I might look back at 1952. I’m probably one of a very few...
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NCC’s system problems stem from SAP project
The company is not naming names but the failed software implementation at NCC Group (see NCC rips out its new software system, takes a £6.9m hit) relates to a SAP project that has been a long-term...
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Oracle loses API copyright issue
Oracle’s hopes in the Java copyright and patent legal tussle against Google are fizzling out with each development (see the HotViews archive here). In the latest setback, judge Alsup has ruled that...
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Triad breaks even in full year
Triad, the long-established IT staffing firm, and now also software product hopeful, has broken even at an operating level in FY11, following three years of losses, thanks in large part to continued...
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CGI/Logica - Can We Deliver and Be Brilliant Together?
Looking through yesterday’s press comment on the proposed CGI/Logica deal leads me to believe I am the only analyst to express surprise that Logica attracted a trade bidder. Indeed, we even received a...
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CSC admits to ‘intentional’ NHS accounting errors
Liz Benson, ‘new’ UK & Ireland President at beleaguered CSC (see Liz Benison finally gets her official title), must wonder whether she has been handed a poisoned chalice. A report in yesterday’s...
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BT makes small French disposal
BT has announced it is to sell BT Global Services’ applications development business in France. The buyer is French IT services firm Osiatis - a new name to us, but by the look of things a significant...
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‘Pleasing’ quarter – and an acquisition – for Harvey Nash
After reporting a fine set of numbers for last year (see Harvey Nash confirms a good year), UK-based international recruitment, outsourcing and offshoring firm, Harvey Nash, seems to have kicked the...
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Dutch Imtech buys Brit Capula
Though somewhat on the boundaries of ‘our space’, Gouda-based technical services firm, Royal Imtech, has just acquired Staffordshire-based automation and real-time control systems player, Capula....
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Shares Indices in May 12
That sinking (or should it be shrinking?) feeling. As you can see from the Share Indices table, May was a pretty depressing month all round with FTSE100 down 7.3% and giving up all its gains – and...
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Leo to 'supervise' Steria
Fresh from his triumph at HP, Leo Apotheker has joined the supervisory board of Steria. Recently reappointed General Manager Francois Enaud asserted that “Leo's expertise in strategic planning … will...
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HP business steady at Mphasis
The proportion of revenues that Bangalore-based offshore services firm Mphasis derived from its majority owner, HP, held steady last quarter, at 58%. Nonetheless, this still represented a 3% revenue...
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WANdisco steps out onto the AIM dancefloor
As presaged last month (see WANdisco to dance to the beat of AIM’s drum), Sheffield/Silicon Valley-based WANdisco (Wide Area Network Distributed Computing), the self-styled ‘leading provider of global...
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