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RM: moving in the right direction
Education-focused RM is beginning to see the benefit of the restructuring completed last financial year. Its first half results depict a more stable organisation that is trading profitably and is now...
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Infosys co-chairman to head Indian ‘G-Cloud’ panel
Infosys executive co-chairman (and co-founder and previous CEO) ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan, is to head up a new Indian government committee to recommend a framework for cloud computing. He’ll have lots of...
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UK BPS market to remain buoyant, despite headwinds
While other sectors of the UK software and IT services (SITS) market were either flat or in recession in 2011 (see UK SITS Market Trends & Forecasts – 2012), TechMarketViews’ newly published...
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Excited GoInstant being acquired by Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is to acquire two year old Canada-based GoInstant, a move the GoInstant founders say they are “beyond excited” about. It is easy to see why – Salesforce.com is paying c$70m in cash for...
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Tikit ticking along
It doesn’t look like Tikit Group’s H1 results (due in September) will be exciting but things do appear to be moving in the right direction. The provider of software and services to the legal &...
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European tech M&A deal flow down
Although there were fewer European tech M&A deals in June than the prior month, latest data from corporate finance firm Regent Partners (International) suggests that activity in the quarter was...
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Collington joins long list of Cabinet Office departures
It’s worth highlighting the departure of John Collington, the UK Government’s Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). Collington has been tempted back to the private sector thus adding to the level of staff...
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Crothers succeeds Collington as UK Goverment CPO
No sooner had we posted our views on the departure of UK Government CPO, John Collington, than his successor is announced (see Collington joins long list of Cabinet Office departures). And it is one...
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RIM listening?
How about this for an understatement? ”I want to assure you, I am not satisfied with the performance of the company over the past year. We understand that support is not unanimous and that many of you...
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Oracle consumes social media tools provider Involver
The run of social media acquisitions continues apace, with the latest activity coming from Oracle and its proposed purchase of Involver for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition is the third in the...
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Salesforce.com outage highlights need for enterprise monitoring
A power outage caused worldwide disruption of Salesforce.com services yesterday, just a couple of weeks after problems within its storage tier took the service down in parts of the US (see here). The...
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ZOO Digital tumbles into the red
Following its first half slump (see ZOO on a financial yo-yo), and gloomy year-end update in April (see ZOO Digital: closing out a difficult year), ZOO Digital, the media production workflow software...
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InternetQ soars on mobile growth
Mobile marketing and entertainment solutions provider InternetQ has provided more evidence of its ability to tap into the hot sector it plays in. A trading update released this morning says revenues...
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‘Resilient’ UK IT recruitment belies weaker quarter for Hays
Echoing the deteriorating conditions in the UK recruitment market by peer Michael Page (see Tough times persist for Michael Page UK), UK-headquartered international recruitment firm Hays saw UK &...
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Kana slices off Ciboodle from Sword
California-based customer service software player, Kana, has acquired Glasgow-based CRM software firm Ciboodle from its parent company, Luxembourg-registered software and IT services mini-conglomerate...
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Bookings up 60% at WANdisco
Sheffield-based WANdisco appears to have found its rhythm. The ‘provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry’ listed on AIM at the beginning of June (see here). And...
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Rock on
Since the start of HotViews, the biggest postbag of comment has not come from a learned thesis on the State of the ICT Market. It came from our tribute to Bo Diddley on his death on 2nd June 2008, see...
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Tim Noble returns to SAP UK
In its latest top-level change, SAP UK and Ireland is putting the division into known safe hands with the reappointment of Tim Noble. This is a positive move by the company and a sign that it wants...
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StatPro in line at half time
The note of caution that has been apparent in StatPro Group’s recent financial statements was again present in today’s trading update. H1 trading (to June 30 2012) is in line with expectations, as it...
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Xerox acquires WDS for wireless telecoms BPS
Xerox is making a significant business process services (BPS) acquisition in the UK with the purchase of Poole-based WDS Ltd (Wireless Data Services), a specialist in technical support and analysis...
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