Great catch by India's Economic Times spotting that activist investor Elliott Management disappeared from New Jersey-headquartered offshore services firm Cognizant's shareholder list in its March .....
17/05/2018
The National Audit Office (NAO) today released its findings into Capita’s primary care support services contract with NHS England and poses some significant questions regarding risk transfer and .....
17/05/2018
A detailed look at BT’s latest strategy update confirms a familiar pattern: the telco is pushing resource into expanding its consumer voice, data and TV revenue whilst simultaneously trying to .....
11/05/2018
Capita is the largest UK BPS player and remains an important bellwether for the market more generally and its woes since 2016 have been well documented.
New CEO Jonathan Lewis has been .....
11/05/2018
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has announced Northgate Public Services (NPS) has secured the contract to provide the technology for its Met Integrated Policing Solution (MiPS) .....
08/05/2018
This report looks at how intelligent automation is maturing and what this means for BPS providers. We are seeing the more established technologies like RPA becoming increasingly deployed in .....
04/05/2018
Consolidated UKHotViews commentaries on the candidates for the third Great British Scaleups Programme event held in March .....
03/05/2018
April 18 proved to be an ‘interesting’ month with contrasting performances. The FTSE100 had its best month YTD with a 6.4% rise (still down 2.3% YTD) - mostly on the back of well-publicised M&A .....
01/05/2018
As businesses move towards low friction, data-driven digital models, these outcomes are guided by the need to support high quality, engaging and sustainable customer experiences. The deployment of .....
30/04/2018
The first quarter of the year is usually a quieter time for merger and acquisition activity in the UK software and IT services (SITS) sector and Q1 2018 was no exception. UK companies continued to .....
26/04/2018
Most of the UK tech indices we track performed badly in Q1 with the FTSE SCS index, a proxy for UK listed software and IT services (SITS) companies being the worst performer. Indeed, the aggregate .....
26/04/2018
Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Strategy was published yesterday, presenting a vision for a digital and interoperable health and social care system. The strategy was developed jointly by the .....
26/04/2018
Our SD-WAN Builds New Service Models for Network Providers report outlines the benefits of SD-WAN products and services to private and public sector buyers, defines the different approaches to .....
20/04/2018
This year’s RSA IT security conference brought together some of the leading players in the cyber security world in more ways than one, demonstrating what looks like real intention to enable .....
19/04/2018
The UK’s largest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, has secured a further £40m of investment to support the growth of its online NHS repeat prescription service. Already a disruptive force in the UK .....
18/04/2018
Chennai-headquartered offshore services major HCL Tehcnologies has made a big jump into the database and analytics space with the acquisition of Palo Alto based Actian, the Oracle archrival .....
13/04/2018
It’s only been a couple of months since we last refreshed our analysis of Fujitsu’s UK public sector business (see Public Sector SITS Supplier Prospects 2018), but it feels like things are moving .....
09/04/2018
It would have been easy to miss the announcement if it hadn’t been for the furore on Twitter. There had already been speculation, but, late on Thursday, Prime Minster, Theresa May, confirmed that .....
03/04/2018
When the UK's most valuable software company loses half its value overnight (see Micro Focus shares in freefall following revenue warning), the effect ripples through the FTSE indices.
Let's .....
02/04/2018
As discussed in last year’s Student Data and Analytics: Market Trends and Supplier Opportunities report, the education sector is extremely data rich, but establishments have been poor at utilising .....
30/03/2018
VMware faces increasing challenges as the hypervisor technology that underpins virtualisation is regarded as something of a commodity. Competition is also coming not just from on-premise rivals .....
30/03/2018
Nearly half of half the companies that feature in TechMarketView’s Top 20 ranking of UK application services (AS) providers have made Creative Agency acquisitions. Some $5 billion has been .....
29/03/2018
The latest stats from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on progress with the UK smart meter rollout make, as ever, interesting reading.
Where shall we .....
29/03/2018
I was reading the good news story in today's FT that the European Investment Bank (EIB) has finally given the go-ahead to back a £120m investment fund for the UK North East. The funding decision .....
27/03/2018
A Tale of the Right Decisions often for the Wrong Reasons
TechMarketView was formed 10 years ago. A look back through the archives (only available to TMV’s clients and HotViews Premium .....
25/03/2018
It was another record year for venture capital funding of UK and Irish technology companies in 2017, according to the latest data from corporate finance firm, Ascendant. During 2017, £5.3b was .....
23/03/2018
It’s clear from this year’s Finovate event at the Excel earlier this month that FinTech has grown up. It is no longer just clever tech that we see on stage, but integrated solutions which are .....
20/03/2018
It was perhaps a fortunate coincidence that Bangalore-based offshore services major, Wipro, chose to hold a briefing for analysts (and later that day, clients) on its cloud strategy the same day .....
16/03/2018
The £1.4bn bid by Temenos for Fidessa opens up the capital markets sector which Temenos reckons to be spending some US$14bn on IT. Looking at 2017 revenues, Capital Markets revenue will account .....
14/03/2018
In his first Spring Statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond declared himself to be at his “most positively Tigger like”. But with, as expected, no new tax or spending commitments, it leaves us to .....
13/03/2018
This report looks at the journey on which the Life and Pensions sector is embarking as third generation BPS deals materialize with new commercial and operating models. It also considers what the .....
12/03/2018
Our latest report on data protection - ‘GDPR: Opportunities and Recommendations for UK SITS Suppliers’ - sets out where TechMarketView thinks the universal need to comply wtih the EU's new privacy .....
09/03/2018
Alan Laing joined Sage Group in February 2015 as EVP for Partners and Alliances, part of the new leadership team built by CEO Stephen Kelly, and was appointed MD of the UK & Ireland business in .....
09/03/2018
In FinancialServicesViews we have written long and often about how banks need to address their legacy issues urgently if they are to remain competitive against agile, cloud-native digital .....
07/03/2018
The Financial Services sector is still a cauldron of change as new competitors emerge, regulations change and customers get more demanding. The large, established players have to change their .....
06/03/2018
Rip van Winkle month
Once in a while we have what I have previously described as a ‘Rip van Winkle’ month. Go to sleep on 31st Jan and awake a month later and nothing much seems to have .....
01/03/2018
US (more meaningfully, HP) v Hussain (more meaningfully Autonomy)
Court case opens in San Francisco
The long awaited criminal case of US v Hussain opened on 26th Feb 18 in San .....
28/02/2018
Machine intelligence (the term we use for the combination of machine learning and AI technologies) is one of the forces causing boundaries to be broken. This report examines the scope for .....
28/02/2018
For the last two decades, the Applications Management market (in TechMarketView terms the combination of Applications Operations and Applications Support & Maintenance) has been a key source of .....
28/02/2018
Conduent’s 2017 financial results give us an opportunity to look back on its first full year as an independent company since it separated from Xerox in 2016 Conduent – the new name for Xerox .....
28/02/2018
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