TechMarketView Roundup

Last week was another busy one for TechMarketView. John O’Brien, our research director for business process services (BPS), launched a major new report Business Process Services: UK Market Trends & Forecasts 2011, outlining our views on how ‘platform-based’ business process services - otherwise known as Business Process as-a-Service (BPaaS), will erode the traditional lift-and-shift BPO market over the next few years - see Cloud adoption accelerating in UK BPS market. Microscope and Computing were the first to pick it up.

We published three UKHotViewsExtra reports exclusively for our Foundation Service subscribers. Our managing partner Anthony Miller caught up with 2e2’s CEO, Terry Burt in 2e2 makes three (update) about his plans to take a ‘hiatus from M&A’, and also with Bernard Edwards, co-founding chairman of ‘enterprise portfolio governance’ software firm Salamander in Salamander gets in the MOOD. Meanwhile in Osborne unlocks Government data, director Tola Sargeant explored chancellor George Osborne’s plans to make the UK “the world leader in open data” following his speech at the Google Zeitgeist event.

Richard Holway had a busy week giving his comments on the LinkedIn IPO. (See LinkedIn Fireworks) $9b for a company with revenues of c$250M? Ummm… You might have seen his comments on Channel 4 News on Thursday, or you can read Nic Fildes’ report in The Times - The Social Network Stampede or Anthony’s comments in City AM LinkedIn surges 109% on Day One.

Tola’s comments on the ‘troubled’ NHS IT Programme NAO delivers damming verdict on NPfIT were reported in Computer Weekly’s Is the NHS National Programme for IT terminally ill?, and in ComputerWorld, MP to fight expedited signing of CSC NPfIT deal.

Posted by HotViews Editor at '07:12' - Tagged: publicsector   socialmedia   software   bps