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Suppliers looking to effect digital transformation on behalf on their clients need to look at the complete digital value chain. While it is tempting to focus on the front office and customer facing areas of the business, this only addresses part of the digital change requirement—the back office is as much of an enabler of change as the front office. Certain operational areas are under recognised contributors and HR is one of them.
The latest research from TechSectorViews analyses the changing role of HR as it becomes more strategic and more dynamic, changes that would not be possible without the cloud and SaaS HR systems. SaaS HR is well positioned to surface the SMAC digital enabling technologies and present them in a business context, within a defined operational area. In this way it addresses one of the fundamental questions around digital transformation—where to begin. It also holds the promise of high volume usage and therefore high revenue, plus the extensive services potential. As if that wasn’t enough it is also a perfect example of the importance of Joining the Dots.
ESASViews subscribers can find out more about the opportunities in this market by downloading Six Reasons to Pay Attention to SaaS HR here. If you are not part of the TechMarketView TechSectorViews family contact Deb Seth and she will help you join.
Posted by Angela Eager at '19:07' - Tagged: cloud software applications
The UK Business Process Services (BPS) market achieved mid-single digit growth in 2014, albeit a slower pace of growth than we have seen in recent years (see UK BPS Market Trends & Forecasts, 2014).
Strong growth in sectors like central government shared services, retail and energy & utilities, were offset by sluggish performances from suppliers in more mature markets like insurance and life and pensions.
Cost reduction remains as ever a high priority, which is great news for BPS demand at the macro level. But organisations are now looking at ways to free up spend to invest in digital technologies and services (social, mobile, analytics, cloud – and increasingly automation and artificial intelligence) in order to compete in a rapidly changing market (see TMV Evening Slidedeck - September 2015).
We now see digital technologies driving a more rapid adoption of platform-based delivery models such as platform BPO and Business Process as-a-Service (BPaaS) over the next few years, at the expense of traditional lift, shift and transform approaches. This will create both deflationary effects in outsourced operations, as well as new inflationary market opportunities, even opening up new markets to BPS —making for a time of dramatic change ahead.
Subscribers to TechMarketView’s BusinessProcessViews research stream can read the analysis and insights in our new report UK Business Process Services Market Trends & Forecasts 2015. The accompanying forecasts data and charts can be found here.
If you’re not yet a subscriber, please contact Deb Seth (deseth@techmarketview.com) who will be happy to help.
Posted by John O'Brien at '07:00' - Tagged: markettrends bps
Our fifth Public Sector Opportunities Bulletin looks at a number of opportunities that highlight how government organisations are beginning to realise the benefits of ‘Joining the Dots’, whether that is by improving their internal operations (as at the Crown Prosecution Service) or by delivering the vision of a ‘Smart Place’ (as is evident across a range of local government opportunities), or by improving insight (as at the British Council and Birmingham University). Often our view is that the potential may extend far beyond this initial, sometimes small, contract.
PublicSectorViews subscribers can download the 10-page Bulletin from today by clicking here (once logged in).
If you're unsure whether your organisation subscribes to PublicSectorViews, or you'd like details of our subscription packages, please email info@techmarketview.com and a member of our Client Services team will get back to you.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '12:27'
There are only four days left to get your application in for TechMarketView's 'Little British Battler' (LBB) programme. Applications close on Friday, so don't put it off till tomorrow, complete the simple Pre Qualification Form today by clicking here.
We're looking for 12 outstanding SMEs to join us in London on Thursday 12th November 2015 and become part of the Little British Battler Programme. Over 70 aspiring UK tech growth companies have already joined the ranks of the TechMarketView Little British Battler brigade and yours could be next. Here’s what the CEOs of just some of our LBBs have said about the programme:
“Obtaining the coveted LBB status has not only provided our company and our staff recognition for our hard work in reaching our financial goals… but has helped to promote our business to the extensive readership base of the TechMarketView.”
“Being an LBB applicant put us on the 'map' with several large firms who ordinarily would not have known about us. This has allowed us to form business partnerships that today are driving business for the company.”
“The ability to network with fellow LBBs and gain some genuine business advantage by working with them has been an unexpected benefit of our LBB success."
“Being part of the LBB programme stands out as one of the most positive experiences of our journey so far.”
“LBB participation for a small and focused company like ours has been really very positive. The profile this has offered is exceeded by access to areas of influence, critical to enabling us to engage in meaningful conversations with the customer communities we serve.”
The seventh TechMarketView Little British Battler event will be held on Thursday 12th November at techUK, London. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to share their aspirations and challenges, and get valuable opinion and advice on their business plans, in confidential sessions with TechMarketView research directors and senior partners of MXC Capital, the tech focused, AIM quoted merchant bank that actively invests in and advises companies in the UK tech sector.
Candidate companies must be headquartered in the UK (i.e. not subsidiaries of foreign firms), privately held (though may have accepted external funding), with annual revenues under £20m. Companies must derive the substantial majority of their revenues from software, IT services or business process services.
To apply, just click here and fill in the Pre Qualification form. And don't forget, the deadline for registrations is this Friday, 2nd October.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '09:53' - Tagged: events lbb
After Accenture’s stellar results for FY15 last week (see Accenture beats FY15 target; nears double-digit organic growth), we’ve now taken a deeper dive into the detail and considered management comments, to assess what are the significant factors ahead for Accenture in FY16.
Acquisitions have of course played an increasingly important role in the past twelve to eighteen months, changing Accenture's focus onto higher growth digital technologies and services. However these are also helping drive growth back into the core/traditional business.
TechMarketView subscription research clients can read the analysis and implications in UKHotViewsExtra in Accenture FY15 update: Focus shifting to Digital.
Posted by John O'Brien at '08:54' - Tagged: bpo bps applications digital
ONLY 5 DAYS TO GO - APPLY FOR LBB7 NOW!
We're looking for 12 outstanding SMEs to join us in London on Thursday 12th November 2015 and become part of TechMarketView's 'Little British Battler' (LBB) programme.
Over 70 aspiring UK tech growth companies have already joined the ranks of the TechMarketView Little British Battler brigade and yours could be next. We’ll be holding the seventh TechMarketView Little British Battler day (LBB7) on Thursday 12th November 2015 in London.
Founders, CEOs and board executives from twelve SMEs will have their chance to share their aspirations and challenges, and get valuable opinion and advice on their business plans, in confidential sessions with TechMarketView research directors and senior partners of our sponsors, MXC Capital, the tech focused, AIM-quoted merchant bank.
Raise your company's profile & receive free expert advice
The 12 companies selected to participate in LBB7 will be featured in TechMarketView UKHotViews, the leading daily source of opinion and comment on the UK tech scene. UKHotViews reaches many thousands of senior executives and professionals in the tech industry, government and investment community, and has brought many exciting but unknown UK tech companies to the attention of the market. The companies will also be profiled in the next Little British Battler Report, available only to TechMarketView subscription service clients.
LBB7 is open to independent, privately held, UK-owned tech companies with annualised revenues under £20m. Publicly quoted companies, or subsidiaries of public or private companies (whether UK or international), are ineligible. There is no charge to apply or to participate.
How to apply...
To register your application for LBB7, please complete the simple web-based Pre-Qualification Form by clicking here.
Applications must be submitted by Friday 2nd October and we will notify the companies selected to participate by 23rd October. If you were unsuccessful last time and believe your company plays to the ‘digital journey’ theme, then please do apply again.
Feel free to contact our LBB coordinator Deb Seth for further information.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '08:30' - Tagged: events sme lbb
The total value of venture capital investment in UK and Irish tech companies reached a record level of £669m in Q2, up 8% over the previous quarter and more than double the same period in 2014. London based companies received the highest level of investment with 72 companies attracting 66% of the funds in the quarter, according to latest data from corporate finance firm, Ascendant.
A total of 29 UK/Irish software companies raised £83m in VC funding last quarter, 53% higher by number and 77% by value yoy. However, this was dwarfed by investment in the Internet Services sector in which 56 companies received total funding of £459m. In total, £669m was invested in 117 deals over £500k in UK/Irish tech companies, 110% higher by value and 41% higher by volume compared to Q2 2014. Ascendant CEO, Stuart McKnight, expects total funding for the year to come in at around £2.2bn, more than 50% higher than in 2014.
Subscribers to TechMarketView's Foundation Service can read our full analysis with details of the deals in our latest IndustryViews report, IndustryViews Venture Capital Q2 2015, which is available for download from today here.
If you don't yet subscribe to the Foundation Service and you'd like details of our Subscription Packages please email Deb Seth in our Client Services team.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '08:00' - Tagged: funding vcpe
The UK Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) recommendation earlier this week that Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is put into ‘Special Measures’, following its overall rating by inspectors as ‘Inadequate’, has implications not just for the high profile trust but also for NHS IT.
The Trust has championed innovative technology in the NHS and has impressed us with its pioneering eHospital programme, which is run in partnership with HP under a $210m 10-year deal signed in 2013 (see here). As part of its digital transformation, the trust’s Addenbrooke’s and Rosie hospitals went live with a new electronic patient record (EPR) system from US vendor EPIC last October.
Regardless of the reasons for the CQC’s decision – the majority of which have no bearing on the trust’s eHospital programme - the fact that both hospitals have now been rated as ‘Inadequate’ overall will inevitably take the shine of their status as digital visionaries. Our concern is that, directly or indirectly, the news will also discourage other trusts from making significant investments in ICT at a time when that’s exactly what’s required if the NHS is to square the circle of increasing demand and tightening budgets.
TechMarketView subscription clients can read our full analysis in today’s UKHotViewsExtra article: Don’t let Cambridge’s ‘Special Measures’ discourage NHS IT investment. If you don’t yet subscribe to our paid-for research services and you’d like details of our subscription packages, please email Deborah Seth in our Client Services Team.
Posted by Tola Sargeant at '19:56' - Tagged: health
Over 70 aspiring UK tech growth companies have already joined the ranks of the TechMarketView Little British Battler brigade. Here’s another chance for your company to join them.
We’ll be holding the seventh TechMarketView Little British Battler day (LBB7) on Thursday 12th November 2015 in London.
The theme for LBB7 is ‘Taking your clients on their digital journey’. In order to qualify for LBB7 you must be able to show that your company offers products and/or services that help your clients with their digital transformation ambitions.
To register your application for LBB7, please complete the web-based Pre-Qualification Form by clicking here.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '09:00' - Tagged: lbb
The TechMarketView PublicSectorViews team last published our broad view of the trends impacting the UK public sector software and IT services (SITS) market in December 2014. Since then much has changed. We have witnessed a new majority Conservative government voted into Parliament. Most SITS suppliers we spoke to were initially delighted, holding the view that – regardless of your political leanings - a majority government would spell a period of greater certainty for the industry.
However, now the dust has settled, much remains uncertain for software and IT services suppliers to the UK public sector when it comes to the Government’s approach to the procurement, delivery and management of ICT. That uncertainty deepened over the summer months as key figures in the Cabinet Office, and most notably from the Government Digital Service (GDS), departed Whitehall.
Over the next five years, there is no doubt that efficiency savings will remain a feature of the landscape. It is our view that in order to achieve the necessary level of savings, radical civil service reform - involving 'Joining the Dots' across the public sector to break down the long-established silos - will be required. In this latest PublicSectorViews report – UK public sector SITS market trends & forecasts – September 2015 – we consider the likely extent of that reform, the role that ICT will play, and how public sector organisations are likely to work with industry to achieve their objectives. We analyse the situation not just across Whitehall (central government and defence) but across the broader public sector: in local government & education, in the health sector, and across police.
PublicSectorViews subscribers can download the report now. If you are not yet a subscriber, you can rectify the situation by contacting Deb Seth in our Client Services team.
Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '20:36' - Tagged: publicsector markettrends forecasts research
Eligible TechMarketView subscription service clients can download the latest edition of OffshoreViews, our concise review of the major India-centric IT services firms and their UK performance, here.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '16:32' - Tagged: offshore
Islington and Camden Councils plan to establish a shared Information and Communications Technology (ICT) service by April 2016. The councils anticipate the need to achieve a combined saving of £185m by 2018/19. While the councils have a history of collaboration, TechMarketView subscribers can read our thoughts on whether the plans proposed have a realistic chance of success in our UKHotViewsExtra: 'Camden and Islington coming together'.
Those readers who are not yet TechMarketView subscribers can find out how to subscribe by emailing Deborah Seth.
Posted by Michael Larner at '12:44' - Tagged: localgovernment sharedservices
Thank you once again to everybody who came to the TechMarketView Presentation & Dinner 2015 at RIBA last week. If you attended the evening you should by now have received a copy of the slidedeck directly. If you are a TechMarketView subscription client you can now also download the slidedeck from the research portal here.
Of course, if you think a presentation from one of our Research Directors would be of interest to your organisation - perhaps to kick-off a planning session or inform the sales team - we'd be very happy to provide costings, simply email your account manager or info@techmarketview.com for more information.
Posted by HotViews Editor at '09:47'
Last month Leeds City Council selected Fujitsu Services alongside Lockheed Martin Business Technology Solutions (formerly Amor) and Methods Advisory Ltd (part of Methods Group) for its framework to supplement the council’s existing IT services contracts.
Fujitsu is already a top five SITS supplier in the local government market. Subscribers can read our thoughts regarding the role this framework has in Fujitsu’s plans for the local government market going forward in our UKHotViewsExtra: 'Fujitsu bids to reposition itself in Local Government'.
Posted by Michael Larner at '15:31'
We are really delighted to say that TechMarketView’s Annual Presentation & Dinner on Wednesday 9 September is officially SOLD OUT! We’re looking forward to seeing so many of you there for what promises to be a super evening. Don’t forget that this year the event, which is sponsored by Avnet Technology Solutions and Wells Fargo Capital Finance, is being held from 6pm at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in Portland Place, London.
If you’re disappointed not to have secured a place and would like to be added to the waiting list, you can still drop an email to our techUK event manager, Tina Compton, in case we get any cancellations.
The TechMarketView Presentation & Dinner 2015 is sponsored by
Posted by HotViews Editor at '16:57' - Tagged: events
The 2015 edition of the Enterprise Software & Application Services Supplier Landscape report is now available - download it here.
In this report we track the latest developments in the digital journey, including the rise of advanced analytics as the leading digital enabler, adoption trends, and the importance of digital design and the UX, alongside the impact they are having on the supplier landscape and performance of the top ESAS suppliers.
Digital transition demands a dynamic environment in which suppliers are under pressure to reassess and adapt on a continual basis in order to juggle digital developments alongside existing business lines which generate the bulk of today’s revenue and are often the foundation for digital growth. The net result is the need to wrestle with two very different styles of business - requiring different tools and technologies, operational, commercial and delivery models - running at different paces. The ESAS Supplier Landscape report, which includes the Top 20 supplier rankings across the combined ESAS sector plus Enterprise Software and Application Services breakdowns, provides a window into how the leaders are handling the situation.
ESAS Supplier Landscape 2015 is only available to ESASViews subscribers – if you haven’t taken out a subscription yet, contact Deborah Seth for the low down on how to.
Posted by Angela Eager at '08:37' - Tagged: software rankings applications suppliers digital
