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TechMarketView’s latest UK Education Software and IT Services (SITS) Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts report is now available. It is the third of six subsector reports, after last week’s Health report, and it follows last month's Central Government report and our UK Public Sector Software and IT Services Suppliers Trends, and Forecasts report, published in August. It will be followed in the coming weeks by subsector reports for the other public sector subsectors as defined by TechMarketView: Local & Regional Government, Police, and Defence.
This report provides TechMarketView’s view of the UK Education Software and IT Services (SITS) market from a market and supplier perspective. It provides our analysis of the performance of the market in 2022, a year of modest growth where universities and colleges maintained their modernising march cloud-wards, and—in the school sector—multi-academy trusts continued to invest (whilst nonetheless navigating the challenges of the forthcoming general election, in terms of spending plans).
The report also contains an update to our UK Education SITS Top 10 supplier rankings, with our analysis of what is driving each player’s performance, as well as an insight into those suppliers that are threatening to unseat the leading players, and our pick of the ‘ones to watch’.
PublicSectorViews subscribers can find out the size of the UK Education SITS market, its future growth, and who the leading suppliers are by downloading Education Software and IT Services Suppliers, Trends and Forecasts 2023-26 today. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your organisation has corporate subscription, please contact Deb Seth to find out more.
Posted by Craig Wentworth at '10:14' - Tagged: education market trends public sector supplier rankings
The 2023 version of the UK Applications Operations Market: Suppliers, Trends & Forecasts report is now available to download. Containing our latest market size and forecast data, along with insight into market dynamics and the key trends shaping the market, plus analysis of the challenges facing suppliers and recommendations for how to move forward, it is vital reading for suppliers operating in the UK. The report also contains the Top 20 Supplier Ranking (by revenue) for the UK Applications Operations market, together with commentary on the up-and-coming players making noteworthy progress in this most competitive of arenas.
The marked uptick in UK demand for Applications Operations (AO) services in 2021 gathered even further momentum last year to deliver a period of significant growth. Sales of these offerings were up nearly 9% yoy in 2022. As “run” budgets come under increasing pressure in the face of gathering economic headwinds, the pace of AO market expansion is cooling and will remain more subdued for the foreseeable future
Despite the softer demand outlook, there will be a significant volume of incremental AO business let over the next three years. Competition in this market will, however, intensify as we move into a more cost conscious and investment constrained period. Going forward, successful AO service provision will need to be enhanced and transformed to boost client-wide productivity outcomes.
If you are a subscriber to TechSectorViews click here to download the UK Applications Operations Market: Suppliers, Trends and Forecast 2023 report. If you don’t have a subscription and would like to gain access the report and our other research and services please contact Deb Seth.
Posted by Duncan Aitchison at '07:00' - Tagged: applications newresearch operations MarketForecasts supplier+rankings
In recent years, the UK economy has experienced historically low unemployment. The resulting labour shortages have led organisations to seek a higher rate of output through improved workforce productivity. But with the UK in the grip of a prolonged period of depressed productivity growth (known as the Productivity Puzzle), it is far from clear how such improvements can be achieved.
Yet, despite the UK's poor track record on productivity growth, the UK software and IT services (SITS) market experienced its highest annual rate of growth in 2022, up 12.2% year-on-year, valuing it at almost £68bn.
But we are seeing that buyers want a much more rapid and more significant return on the billions they have ploughed into IT spend. Why have these vast sums not translated into greater productivity for the UK? This report considers these questions and what they mean for SITS suppliers and is available to all our subscribers. If you don’t have a subscription and would like to gain access to this report and our other research and services, please contact Deb Seth.
Posted by Tania Wilson at '17:11' - Tagged: pursuingproductivity
TechMarketView’s brand new Data Insights research UK HyperAutomation Market Forecasts is now live for our subscribers.
HyperAutomation refers to the process and application of continuous automation within an organisation. This typically operates via a framework approach to quickly identifying, vetting, and automating appropriate business and IT processes through a structured approach. HyperAutomation usually includes a range of software tools (e.g., Process Mining, No/Low Code Apps & Analytics) with cognitive skills that also usually include ‘humans in the loop’.
For digital-native organisations HyperAutomation can allow for full end-to-end workflow automation to be ‘baked in from the ground up’. For more mature organisations with legacy systems and operations, HyperAutomation offers the potential to redesign legacy processes, enhancing security and governance, and integrating back office and customer facing operations.
This HyperAutomation Data Insights report is the third in a series of reports looking at the UK Software and IT Services (SITS) automation market. This report is designed to help readers understand the market opportunity and scale of investment flowing into HyperAutomation, and which segments of the market – be that technology, process or industry sector – offer the greatest market potential. The report offers detailed market forecasts across three segmentations for the period 2023 to 2026 allowing readers to understand the current and future size of the opportunity and challenges posed by HyperAutomation.
If you are a subscriber to TechSectorViews, download UK HyperAutomation Market Forecasts report today. If you don’t have a subscription and would like to gain access the report and our other research and services, please contact Deb Seth.
Posted by Marc Hardwick at '16:24' - Tagged: automation newresearch hyperautomation
TechMarketView’s latest UK Health Software and IT Services (SITS) Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts report is now available. It is the second of six subsector reports, after last month's Central Government report, and it follows our UK Public Sector Software and IT Services Suppliers Trends, and Forecasts report, published in August (see here). It will be followed in the coming weeks by subsector reports for the other public sector subsectors as defined by TechMarketView: Local & Regional Government, Education, Police, and Defence.
This report provides TechMarketView’s view of the UK Health Software and IT Services (SITS) market from a market and supplier perspective. It provides our analysis of the performance of the market in 2022, a year of subdued growth resulting from many of the COVID-19 test and trace initiatives coming to an end. We also look at the years ahead (2023-2026) as the NHS tries to recover core services and improve productivity whilst navigating the challenges of the forthcoming general election.
The report also contains an update to our UK Health SITS Top 10 supplier rankings, with our analysis of what is driving each player’s performance, as well as an insight into those suppliers that are threatening to unseat the leading players, and our pick of the ‘ones to watch’.
PublicSectorViews subscribers can find out the size of the UK Health SITS market, its future growth, and who the leading suppliers are by downloading Health Software and IT Services Suppliers, Trends and Forecasts 2023-26 today. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your organisation has corporate subscription, please contact Deb Seth to find out more.
Posted by Dale Peters at '07:38' - Tagged: nhs health healthcare market+trends public+sector supplier+rankings
Microsoft is off to a strong start in Q1, driven by continued strength in its Cloud business, with the pending release of its workplace Copilot solution just around the corner, and the closing of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, both looking like strong tailwinds moving forwards.
Overall revenue for Q1 was $56.5bn, up 12% in constant currency, Operating income was $26.9bn up an impressive 24%, though the company has reduced total headcount, which is 7% lower than a year ago. Revenue for Productivity and Business Processes was $18.6bn, up 12%, driven largely by Office 365 commercial revenue which was up 17%, and Dynamics, up 21%, with Dynamics 365 up 26%. Growth continues to be driven by healthy renewal execution and strong E5 momentum.
Revenue in Intelligent Cloud was $24.3bn, up 19%, with strong growth for Azure up 28% yoy. Overall Microsoft Cloud revenue was up 23% yoy. While the trends from prior quarters continued, growth was ahead of expectations primarily driven by increased GPU capacity and better-than-expected GPU utilisation of its AI service.
Revenue in More Personal Computing was $13.7bn and increased 2%, with a 22% decline in Devices offset by Windows revenue up 5% and Xbox content and services up 12%. Microsoft completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard on October 13th, 2023, which now provides a significant content portfolio for it to leverage. (See CMA clears Microsoft’s £54bn gaming acquisition).
TechMarketView subscribers, including UKHotViews Premium subscribers, can continue reading our analysis of Microsoft’s Q1 results, and a look ahead to Q2, in our UKHotViewsExtra article Microsoft Cloud fuels growth as Copilot release imminent.
If you aren't a subscriber – or aren't sure if your organisation has a corporate subscription – please contact Deb Seth to find out more.
Posted by Simon Baxter at '09:47'
Europol has published a new report on the impact of quantum computing and quantum technologies on law enforcement. The report, which was authored by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), and the Europol Innovation Lab, warns the technology poses a serious threat to security but could also bring significant advancements to policing and wider law enforcement agencies.
It highlights the impact of quantum computing on cryptography, including 'store now, decrypt later', password guessing, digital forensics, and post-quantum cryptography, as well as looking at quantum machine learning, communications and sensors.
The authors identify five key recommendations for law enforcement: 1) observe quantum trends; 2. build up knowledge and start experimenting; 3) foster research and development projects; 4) assess the impact of quantum technologies on fundamental rights; and 5) review your organisation’s transition plans.
TechMarketView subscribers, including UKHotViews Premium subscribers, can find out more about Europol’s views on the likely impact of quantum computing and quantum technologies on law enforcement here.
Posted by Dale Peters at '10:17' - Tagged: police quantum cybersecurity law+enforcement public+safety cybercrime
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On Wednesday last week techUK hosted its fifth Cyber Innovation Den, with 10 different Cybersecurity start-ups and SME’s short-listed to pitch their businesses, each vying to be chosen as the winner, as well as demonstrate how they stand out in an increasingly competitive and crowded cybersecurity supplier landscape.
The UK has proven to be a great environment for creating innovative startups and we continue to see significant investment into early-stage innovation, as venture capital and corporate backed funds increasingly look to find the next disruptive players, especially in the cybersecurity space. In addition, a combination of the strength of the UK’s academic institutions, and support from innovation programmes such as NCSC for Startups (the successor to the NCSC Cyber Accelerator) have helped support early-stage companies as they get off the ground.
This year’s selection of Cybersecurity SME’s came from a wide number of fields, pitching solutions ranging from hardware-based products, to mobile app security, to innovative methods for protecting sensitive data, with of course many leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance their solutions.
In this UKHotViewsExtra article we take a look at the 10 companies that pitched at the event, including some additional info from public sources and of course also announce the winner of the techUK competition. The 10 companies covered include; Licel, Lab1, Acubed.IT, Complete Cyber, Goldilock, Secretarium, Verifoxx, FACT360, J2 Software and Falconers Group.
TechMarketView subscribers, including UKHotViews Premium subscribers, can read this review of techUK’s 2023 Cyber Innovation Den in our expanded UKHotViewsExtra article here.
Posted by Simon Baxter at '09:42' - Tagged: startup cybersecurity
A Government productivity drive has been on the cards for a while. Indeed, at the beginning of the summer, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, announced a Productivity Review, being led by Chief Secretary to the Treasury, John Glen.
Expected in the autumn (so any time from now), it has yet to be published. However, at the Conservative Party Conference being held in Manchester, which has so far been dominated by the future of HS2, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is likely to use the final day of the conference to announce some initial steps.
On Tuesday, the Government released a press release entitled, “the Chancellor has today announced an immediate cap on civil service headcount across Whitehall to stop any further expansion, increase efficiencies and boost productivity”.
At the conference, he is likely to use such an announcement to show that he is willing to make changes. He has said that he is determined to end the general public’s exhaustion with politics, which is driven by the fact politician’s say things but “nothing ever changes”. He is pitching himself as a radical reformer.
The steps outlined in Tuesday’s release are threefold. You can read more on our take on the announcements in UKHotViewsExtra here. If you are not yet a subscriber - or are unsure if your organisation has a corporate subscription, please contact Deb Seth.
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Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '11:48' - Tagged: policy government productivity public+sector central+government pursuingproductivity
The annual Police Digital Summit took place in Brighton last month. More than 500 people from across the world of policing, including representatives from many of the UK police forces and the supplier community, came together to discuss the progress and prospects associated with digital technologies in the sector.
Ian Bell, Chief Executive at Police Digital Service (PDS), said: "This year’s summit was the most successful one yet and I’m delighted to see how the event grows each year. It was a great opportunity to bring together colleagues across policing and technology and discuss how we can work together to enable UK policing to safely harness technology to protect the public."
In this HotViewsExtra article we take a look at some of the technology themes discussed at the Summit, including AI, automation, analytics, and cybersecurity, as well as the challenges facing efforts to digitally transform policing, such as funding, resources, demand, technical debt, privacy, ethics, regulation, leadership and culture. We also look at how the role of PDS will evolve over the next few years, including the impact of the Home Office’s National Public Safety IT Delivery Landscape Reform Programme.
TechMarketView subscribers, including UKHotViews Premium subscribers, can read more about Stimulating the Future of Police Technology in our expanded UKHotViewsExtra article here.
Posted by Dale Peters at '09:32' - Tagged: police automation AI data conference privacy ethics law+enforcement public+safety policetech
I recently spent an interesting couple of days at the DXC Connect Insurance Executive Forum in London. The event was the last leg of a world tour by the US technology giant that had begun nine months ago and had taken in Australia, Singapore and the United States along the way. DXC Connect was also effectively a relaunch for DXC Technology’s insurance business, which is worth around $1.7bn in terms of annual revenue and remains one of the largest (if not the largest) such operations globally, employing around 20k people.
Crucially, the DXC Connect Insurance Executive Forum could have been subtitled “Back to the future” showcasing as it did, the triumphant return of a number of the respected industry experts who had previously helped build a successful and dominant global operation (under the banner of one of DXC’s major antecedents, CSC). The most influential of these returnees is undoubtedly Ray August, President, Insurance Software and BPS. Ray led CSC’s global Financial Services Group (FSG) between 1998 and 2014. Under his stewardship, FSG employed more than 10k industry experts and grew past $3bn in revenue and over $10bn in bookings.
TechMarketView clients (including UKHotViews Premium subscribers) can learn more by reading our latest UKHotViewsExtra DXC goes back to the future for insurance success. The article highlights some of the key messages that DXC delivered to its clients and partners at the event and outlines the company's future strategy as DXC looks to leverage its vertical domain expertise and subtantial customer base in the insurance sector.
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Posted by Jon C Davies at '07:00' - Tagged: insurance DXC
TechMarketView’s latest UK Central Government Software and IT Services (SITS) Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts report is now available. It is the first of six subsector reports that will follow our UK Public Sector Software and IT Services Suppliers Trends, and Forecasts report, published in August (see here). It will be followed in the coming weeks by subsector reports for the other public sector subsectors as defined by TechMarketView: Local & Regional Government, Health, Education, Police, and Defence.
In this report you will find our analysis of the performance of the UK Central Government market in 2022, a year in which the market reached double-digit percentage growth. We then look at the years ahead (2023-2026) to determine the likely impact of recent and forthcoming development, including the much-discussed General Election.
The report also contains an update to our UK Central Government SITS Top 20 supplier rankings, with our analysis of what is driving each player’s performance, as well an insight into those suppliers that are threatening to unseat the leading players, and our pick of the ‘ones to watch’, i.e., companies that look to be making some interesting moves to take a share of Whitehall spend.
PublicSectorViews subscribers can find out the size of the UK Central Government SITS market, its future growth, and who the leading suppliers are by downloading Central Government Software and IT Services Suppliers, Trends and Forecasts 2023-26 today. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your organisation has corporate subscription, please contact Deb Seth to find out more.
Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '09:48' - Tagged: forecasts MarketForecasts market+trends public+sector supplier central+government supplier+rankings
