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(By Richard Holway) Thanks for all your good wishes on the launch of TechMarketView yesterday. Even bigger thanks for the orders! The only way we will be able to give you an even better service is if we get subscribers - TechMarketView needs YOU!As you can see, our banner ads start today on both the email and the website. If you would like to advertise on UKHotviews, pls contact us on Sales@Techmarketview.com.Also thanks for your suggestions.1 - Nobody liked the American date and timestamp on the email so we are removing it2 - For all you RSS feed fans (like me) we forgot to mention that we still have an atom feed. Just link to http://www.techmarketview.com/ukhotviews.xml. or add it to your news reader. We’ll put the appropriate button on the site as soon as we can. Sorry we didn’t do that on launch.We would really appreciate your comments on the service. Please send them to Comments@techmarketview.com.Finally, if you really do value UKHotViews, please pass it on and get your friends and colleagues to subscribe. It will really help us.
Posted by Richard Holway at '19:12'
We are delighted to launch the new TechMarketView today:
Our new MarketViews report forecasts three consecutive years of market contraction. Our industry will be much changed when recovery arrives.So we really do need A new approach for a new era!
Footnote - We have suspended our normal news service to bring you our own news today. 'Normal service will be resumed' tomorrow. Indeed, we will post all the latest news after 10.00am on Tuesday on the www.techmarketview.com website.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:38'
The same ‘must read’ opinionated comment on events in the tech scene with particular reference to the UK Software and IT Services sector.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:37'
Our brand new website is now the only place you can read UKHotViews.. So, if you have bookmarked the old site, please go to http://www.techmarketview.com/. and visit UKHotViews. You can then bookmark that page for your future enjoyment.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:34'
We welcome your comments. In future, please send these to Comments@TechMarketView.com. We won’t print them unless you give us express permission to do so.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:33'
Today we launch the TechmarketView Subscriber Services. Become a subscriber and over the next year you will gain access to :
MarketViews provides views, analysis, market sizing and forecasts for the UK software and IT Services sector. The main annual report is updated at the half year.CompanyViews ranks and comments on the performance of the main providers of Software and IT Services to the UK market.IndustryViews analyses all the corporate activity - like M&A, IPOs, Stock market performance - that affects the sector.OffshoreViews looks at the role that both offshore resources and offshore companies play in the sector.AnalystViews is a series of short, opinionated papers presented throughout the year on topics of current interest. Subjects might include Cloud Computing, Public Sector IT contracts.UKHotViews archive. Several thousand articles from the UKHotViews archive are now fully searchable and only available to Subscribers.MarketViews - launched todayAfter much midnight oil burning we are really proud to launch our first subscriber report, MarketViews. Contact us for a summary.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:17'
We are really pleased to announce that Ian Wesley has joined the TechMarketView team as an Associate covering the enterprise software sector.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:14'
We are very pleased to renew our partnership with Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). Back in 1992, Richard Holway Limited partnered with PAC to produce the UK portion of the European SITSI® Report. This partnership lasted for nearly ten years and only ended because Richard Holway Limited was acquired by Ovum in late 2000.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:09'
TechMarketView is a new approach to the provision of analysis and opinionated views on the tech scene. A new approach for a new era. The next few years will provide both the greatest challenges and the greatest opportunities for our sector.
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:07'
The first edition of MarketViews from TechMarketView LLP, with forecasts produced in partnership with PAC, finds that the UK software and IT services (SITS) sector shrank (in real terms) in 2008 - the first decline since 2003. The report also forecasts an even steeper decline in 2009. Although the market will show a third consecutive year of decline in 2010, TechMarketView forecasts that the recovery will only start in the second half of 2010 resulting in a return to modest growth in 2011. However even these bleak forecasts depend on economic conditions not deteriorating still further. Should things get worse, then the SITS recession could be deeper and longer than even we predict, particularly in the private sector. As ever, IT suppliers with a relatively high exposure to the public sector will be less impacted. The slump is mainly due to businesses reining back "discretionary" IT spending, driving down the demand for new software licences and related project services. It's "make do and mend" all over again. We expect spend in these segments - comprising 55% of the total UK SITS market - to shrink by some 3%-5% on average, with IT Training suffering the most. In contrast, the UK outsourcing market will grow - but not fast enough to mitigate the decline in software and project services. As in prior years, BPO is the fastest growing SITS segment - around 8% growth - though we expect application outsourcing (SaaS/ASP) will grow faster by 2011. Outsourcing provides the means for users to reduce IT spend in the short term and hence its current popularity
Posted by Richard Holway at '16:00'
Next week we launch our new website, our new daily HotViews email and our new subscriber services together with our first major industry report.
Posted by Richard Holway at '10:17'
