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According to our latest analysis, a number of factors – including tight budgets and the impact of the coalition government’s ‘localisation’ agenda on English education – will combine to make the education sector the earliest wide-scale adopter of cloud computing in the UK public sector. We expect the use of Cloud services to be ‘the norm’ in education within five to ten years, whereas, as we highlighted earlier this week, it could be ten years or more before this is widely true of central government in the UK (see What’s become of the UK government’s G-Cloud programme?).
Subscribers to TechMarketView's PublicSectorViews service can read our views on how the market is likely to evolve, and which suppliers are likely to lead the way, in our report, 'Ed-Cloud' before G-Cloud?, which is available for download from today. If you're not a subscriber yet, please contact our Client Services Director, Puni Rajah (prajah@techmarketview.com) for further details.
Posted by Tola Sargeant at '15:35' - Tagged: publicsector education cloud
It’s been only two years since TechMarketView burst onto the research scene with our first MarketViews report, analysing the trends and opportunities in the UK software and IT services (SITS) marketplace. We also launched UKHotViews, arguably the best informed and most provocative daily analysis of events in the UK SITS marketplace, now with over 10,000 hits every month. We soon expanded what became the TechMarketView Foundation Service to include regular research on the financial and corporate side of the sector with our IndustryViews series, along with UK-focused analysis of the India-based players in OffshoreViews. A year later, we launched PublicSectorViews, with what many perceive as the most insightful analysis of the UK public sector software and IT services scene.
Today TechMarketView brings this fine tradition of top quality, UK-focused research to the business process services market, with the launch of BusinessProcessViews, along with the publication of our first in-depth report on the sector: UK Business Process Services 2011: spotting the opportunities.
TechMarketView takes a new approach to the business process services (BPS) market. We talk about ‘business process services’, rather than ‘business process outsourcing’ (BPO) for good reason – outsourcing is only part of the equation. The rapid adoption of cloud computing will force traditional BPO providers to move from a ‘lift and shift’ approach to full transformational business process services, including process (re)design, development, integration and operations. Indeed, we forecast that business process services will grow faster than any other segment of the UK IT services market.
BusinessProcessViews is produced by TechMarketView Research Director, John O’Brien, one of the most experienced and highly respected IT analysts in the UK. Future research will include detailed market size and forecasts, analysis of the supplier landscape, partnering opportunities and vertical market trends.
Existing TechMarketView Foundation service clients will have access to all BusinessProcessViews research at no additional charge until their current subscription expires (click on the link to download UK Business Process Services 2011: spotting the opportunities). BusinessProcessViews is available to new clients as an add-on module to the TechMarketView Foundation Service at an extremely competitively price.
If you’d like to learn more about the trends shaping the UK business process services sector, the areas of opportunity, and the keys to success, then please contact Puni Rajah.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '15:01' - Tagged: bpo bps
Just another reminder that time is running out to book your place at the Intellect Regent Conference on 3rd February. Both Intellect and Regent have been long term friends of TechMarketView. Indeed either Richard Holway or Anthony Miller have spoken at every Regent Conference since they started in the mid 1990s. This year we are as much looking forward to Anthony's choice of shirt and tie as to his presentation - both promise to be colourful and provocative!
But other speakers promise to be great too. I'm particularly looking forward to Hermann Hauser and Mike Lynch - two heroes of mine. Peter Rowell's summary of the sector and its future is always a high spot for me too.
See you there! To book - follow link in banner today.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '08:14'
As many readers will know, I am a regular visitor to Brazil (wife’s family and all that!) and I try to take the pulse of the local IT services scene whenever I get the chance. My first real opportunity was a couple of years ago, when I visited TCS Brazil (see TCS brings a touch of India to Brazil). That was an eye-opener for me for all sorts of reasons, not least of which was the fact the vast majority of its business derived from the domestic market, serving both local enterprises as well as Brazilian subsidiaries of overseas clients. The other big surprise was that virtually no work was offshored to India!
Well, I was back in Sao Paulo just a couple of weeks ago and caught up again with TCS. I also had the chance to meet the CEOs of Logica Brazil and CPM Braxis, the Brazilian IT services ‘local hero’ in which Capgemini took a majority stake last September (see Capgemini has a Brazilian). My ‘mission’ was to take a sounding on market trends in the Brazilian IT sector to try to understand if it offers any opportunities for UK software and IT services suppliers.
You can read my initial impressions in Brazil – Land of opportunity? now available for download by TechMarketView Foundation Service clients.
Posted by Anthony Miller at '18:40'
We recently caught up with UK Government Deputy CIO, Bill McCluggage, to understand recent developments within the Cabinet Office Efficiency & Reform Group (E&RG) and to discuss the future of UK Government ICT.
We were particularly keen to get his take on the G-Cloud ‘programme’, its progress to date and its future. Subscribers to TechMarketView's PublicSectorViews can read our views by downloading ‘What’s become of the UK Government’s G-Cloud Programme?’ If you’re not a subscriber yet, please contact Puni Rajah (prajah@techmarketview.com) for more details.
Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '15:57' - Tagged: publicsector cloud
We are delighted to welcome PwC as the latest major organisation to use TechMarketView banners as a way of getting their message to our c10,000 senior level readers in the UK tech sector.
PwC are using our banners to publicise their latest Technology M&A Insights 2011. This global look at the tech M&A scene is extremely well respected and is available for download free of charge to all readers either by clicking on the banner above or Click here.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '18:27'
Until recently, ERP giants Oracle and SAP have focused on different parts of the UK public sector. SAP is well-known for its local government activities, working with fifty of the largest authorities, including Birmingham (alongside Capita – see Capita scores again at Birmingham) and SouthWest One (as part of the shared services joint venture with IBM). Oracle has found greater success in the central government, defence and health sectors.
Now, like all the major SITS suppliers, they are faced with numerous challenges as UK Government ICT policy evolves. We recently caught up with two of the men behind the UK Government business of SAP and Oracle: Munir Ismet, Vice President EMEA Public Sector and Education Industry Business Unit at Oracle; and Mark Kenyon, Public Sector Director, SAP UK & Ireland. Subscribers to TechMarketView’s public sector research can see our views on the future for SAP and Oracle in UK Government by downloading ‘SAP and Oracle in the UK public sector’. If you’re not a subscriber yet, please contact Puni Rajah (prajah@techmarketview.com) for more details.
Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '12:00' - Tagged: publicsector software
The UK education software and IT services (SITS) supplier landscape has undergone some significant changes in recent years. The highly fragmented, application-led market was disrupted by the Labour Government’s £45 billion+ programme of investment in England’s schools, known as Building Schools for the Future (BSF). BSF promised a significant injection of cash into ICT in schools - some 10% of the total budget – via larger, regional managed services contracts. It attracted a different type of supplier into the market: larger players with managed services expertise were tempted by the bigger deals and the fact that they didn’t now have to sell to hundreds of individual schools.
That dream didn’t last long. When the UK’s new coalition government took office in 2010 it abruptly moved the goalposts. BSF was curtailed – contracts that had reached financial close would go ahead, and some ‘sample’ schools in projects at preferred bidder stage would continue, but there would be no new BSF contracts after that. Overnight, according to our analysis, suppliers lost up to 44% of the total potential value of contracts that had been let or were at the preferred bidder stage (see Counting the cost of BSF cuts). Moreover, the lost opportunity of future contracts totalled more than £3.5 billion.
The government is still debating how capital investment in schools will be managed in the future, but it has made it clear that the priority will be repairing the schools most in need. There is unlikely to be another national programme of investment in ICT for schools. Things don’t look any brighter in Higher and Further education, which are facing unprecedented cuts to their budgets.
What does all this mean for the SITS suppliers active in the UK education market? How will they adapt their strategies to cope with the aftermath of BSF? You can read our views in our latest report - The UK Education SITS Supplier Landscape 2011 - which reveals the leading SITS suppliers to the UK public sector education market and analyses their strategy in the sector post BSF, as well as highlighting other players to watch in the months ahead. Subscribers to TechMarketView’s public sector research can download the report from today.
Posted by Tola Sargeant at '10:36' - Tagged: markettrends education
