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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Software containers continue to generate a great deal of interest among organisations of all sectors and sizes, and represent an important emerging trend. This is largely because containers have .....
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
Many of the large players in Cloud and Infrastructure Services are living through a period of substantial change as the market shifts. They are having to evolve their portfolios, restructure their .....
27/02/2018
It doesn’t set out to provide answers to the many potential threats from the misuse of AI but the Malicious use of Artificial Intelligence report certainly raises the questions and provides a .....
22/02/2018
Serco’s year end results give us another opportunity to check in on where it sits on its transformation journey.
Group revenues for HY 2017 were down 2% to £2,958m (FY 2016 £3,048), .....
22/02/2018
Consolidated UKHotViews commentaries on the candidates for the first Great British Scaleups Programme event held in June .....
21/02/2018
Consolidated UKHitViews commentaries on the candidates for the second Great British Scaleups Programme event held in November .....
21/02/2018
The Indian pure-plays are making steady if stately progress on the march towards 'non-linearity', with aggregate revenues rising faster than headcount for each of the past four quarters. This has .....
19/02/2018
The last time we caught up with David Driver, one half of the fraternal founders of Solihull-based eTech Solutions was at the fifth TechMarketView Little British Battler event in November 2014. At .....
16/02/2018
At the beginning of February 2018, the Government Digital Service and Crown Commercial Service released the Digital Marketplace sales figures up to December 2017. The data covers sales from the .....
16/02/2018
The operational demands of an aquaculture business call for traceability, instant access to information and rapid response times. Working on how to improve these characteristics, seafood producer .....
14/02/2018
Now here’s a different business model for a venture capital firm – share the ‘carry’ pot with the entrepreneurs that it backs! Not all of it, of course, but around 20%. This was one of the .....
01/02/2018
Following on from Computacenter’s pre-close statement last week, we have added a few more thoughts regarding the company’s performance in UK Services. The trading statement for FY17 brought .....
31/01/2018