TechMarketView In The Press September 2013

August and September have been very busy months for the TechMarketView (TMV) team with the launch of key Market Trends and Forecast reports and Supplier Landscape reports in most research streams, which have raised a lot of media interest. Our research directors also continue to be in demand by the press for their views on developments in the UK tech scene.  Here are a few highlights from the last month:

There has been extensive courage in the Financial Times starting with PublicSectorViews research director, Georgina O’Toole quoted in Why big IT projects crash. ESASViews research director, Angela Eager, is also quoted in WANdisco raises £19m in big data push, along with TechMarketView chairman, Richard Holway, quoting his views in the article on employment within the IT industry: Growth in IT jobs confounds offshoring fears. And in Visa, MasterCard and Amex seek new online payments standard, research director, Peter Roe, welcomes the move to tighten security in mobile payments.

There have been several appearances in The Times for TechMarketView analysts, notably for Richard Holway in the article on Dell entitled They don’t give a damn’: investor looks back in anger at Dell. Following the intrigue surrounding Microsoft and the news of Steve Ballmer stepping down Richard Holway offers his views in ‘Make or Break’ at Microsoft as intrigue builds over succession and in Steve Ballmer to step down as Microsoft chief executive. Richard is also quoted on the acquisition by Microsoft of Nokia in: Nokia: Window into the world of a corporate outsider. Managing Partner, Anthony Miller, is also quoted in The Times in Quindell has last word with rising profits.

Elsewhere, in CIO PublicSectorViews principal analyst, Khalda De Souza, is quoted giving her view on the deal with HCL in: Haringey and Waltham Forest councils’ award of a £19m SAP deal to HCL.

In Computing, Angela Eagar is quoted in BMC finally completes $6,4bn private equity privatisation. Over at TechRepublic Angela’s key report on ESAS Market Trends and Forecast 2013 is reviewed in CMOs are elbowing out CIOs: But do they know their back ends from the their front ends!

There was also plenty of coverage in CRN for the TMV team starting with the article, Big players to suffer as infrastructure services market declines, which reviews InfrastructureViews research director, Kate Hanaghan’s, key report on Infrastructure Market Trends and Forecasts 2013.

PublicSectorViews research director, Tola Sargeant, is quoted in ACS poised to celebrate strong H1 results and Angela Eagar appears in K3 gears up for positive new financial year. Richard Holway has further coverage on the recent changes at Microsoft in End of an error? and Microsoft snaps up Nokia’s mobile division for €5.4bn. He also offers his invaluable insight on the new iPhones in Apple stock drops after new iPhones unveiled.

Our analysts have featured prominently in ComputerWorldUK. In UK public sector SITS market down £644m since 2010 Georgina O’Toole urges suppliers to react to changes. Georgina is also quoted in Lockheed Martin buys Scottish IT provider Amor Group, IT jobs at risk as government outsources back office to Steria, and Computacenter beats HP, Fujitsu and CSC to FCO desktop deal.

There was further coverage in ComputerWorldUK for John O’Brien on the Direct Line Group contract win in Direct Line extends BPS contract with Innovation Group. While Kate Hanaghan is quoted in Cloud firm iomart acquires Redstation in £8m deal. In NHS set for £1bn tech investment to enable patient record sharing, Tola Sargeant remains sceptical as to whether such a small pot of money can deliver the government’s ambitious goal of a paperless NHS.

And finally in The Register John O’Brien has plenty to say about recent events at IBM in IBM offloads customer services biz for half a BEELLION DOLLARS.

As you can see from these ‘edited highlights’, it has been an extremely busy period for the research team. If you’ve missed any of the key research reports don’t forget to check them out on our subscriber-only research pages. If you don’t yet subscribe to the relevant research stream you can read a brief overview in our News pages on the TechMarketView website or contact Deborah Seth for details of our subscription packages.

Posted by HotViews Editor at '09:00'