TechMarketView's Big Night

Last night 200 of our customers and friends attended the first (see note) Intellect TechMarketView Presentation and Dinner at Bafta. It was a SELL OUT event and it was really great to see so many of the CEOs from the UK’s leading players give up an evening to attend.

It was also good to see the whole TMV Team in action. Everyone of our Research Directors gave a session on their ‘specialist areas’. Tola also conducted an interview with Christian Nagele, the CEO of Little British Battler CentraStage. Then Anthony Miller (complete with new shirt/tie combo) ended with his famous Top Twenty Countdown.

I was, I must admit, extremely proud of the TMV Team. Everyone who has ever worked with me in business or the Prince’s Trust knows how much I believe in succession planning. Last night showed that TMV is much more than Anthony & I and that the industry will have its star performers for many years to come!

The evening ended with a really rather good dinner and much heated conversation amongst the attendees on every subject under the tech sun…and beyond if my table was anything to go by.

Yesterday we issued a Press Release on our two new reports - UK Software & IT Services Market Trends & Forecasts 2013, and UK Software & IT Services Rankings 2013 - which made up much of last night’s presentation. Read It’s all down to execution and it’s all down to you. There has already been much press comment too.

See you next year?

Footnote – Although I say this was the ‘First’ Intellect Techmarkview Presentation,  the genesis of the evening goes back to 1988 with the first CSA (the forerunner to Intellect) Holway (the forerunner to TMV!) Evening. I well remember carrying my 35mm slide deck up to London on the train. Just like last night, it was organised by Tina Compton.

Oh how our industry has changed in those 25 years! For a start 9 out of the Top Ten suppliers of SITS to the UK market in 1988 were UK headquartered. Now only Capita and BT figure in the Top Ten. We also had a buoyant UK IPO market. Now that has all but disappeared too. The two are, of course, connected. Maybe if we get the UK IPOs back we might, in years to come, have more UK HQed SITS companies in the Top Ten too.

The one thing that hasn’t changed is that the top players in the market value top-rate analysis and research. Many tell us that we’ve been the most thought provoking – and the most accurate – analysts throughout that period. We intend to retain that crown into the future.

Posted by Richard Holway at '06:50'