TechMarketView July Review

July saw no let up for our busy team of analysts. From our Foundation Service Anthony Miller published the quarterly IndustryViews Corporate Activity - Q2 2013 report, assessing corporate activity in the UK SITS market, including both ‘trade’ M&A and private equity deals. Also released was the IndustryViews Quoted Sector - Q2 2013 report. Eligible TechMarketView Foundation Service subscription clients can download the full reports.

PublicSectorViews research director, Georgina O’Toole, released her report on UK Public Sector: BYOD adoption. Following on from our earlier InfrastructureViews report, BYOT: opportunities and threats from disruption, Georgina focuses on the adoption of ‘Bring Your Own Device/Technology’ in the UK public sector market. Has BYOD really taken off? If you are a PublicSectorViews subscriber you can find out here. Georgina also reported on the Government digital services framework tender. As pre-empted by the Prior Information Notice (PIN) in December, the UK’s Government Procurement Service (GPS) has published a tender for a nine-month “digital services” framework.

BusinessProcessViews research director, John O’Brien, published the much anticipated report UK Business Process Services Market Trends & Forecast 2013. John predicts a more optimistic outlook for the UK BPS market in the coming years. Subscribers to BusinessProcessViews can download the full report. Non-subscribers can read the overview here: UK BPS market outlook more optimistic. Also from BusinessProcessViews, John reports on Capita’s return as the UK BPS market leader after winning a record £2bn worth of new contracts in H113. To see how Capita achieved this subscribers to BusinessProcessViews can read John’s full report Capita delivers 'robust' first half (update).

InfrastructureViews research director, Kate Hanaghan, released the flagship report, Infrastructure Services Supplier Landscape 2013. As infrastructure services account for 42% of the total UK IT services market this is a report you can’t afford to miss! Kate reflects on the slow growth in this mature market and lists the top 20 major players in this sector. To read more about it click here. Subscribers, of course, can read the complete report by following the link above. Earlier in the month Kate met up with ControlCircle CEO, Carment CareyRead her views in: ControlCircle: Invest to grow. Kate also met up with Mark Starkey, UK MD of Logicalis, see: Logicalis edges towards optimal services balance. Finally, roving Kate attended IBM CFO, Mark Loughridge’s talk on Big Blue’s performance for the three months to the end of June. Read Kate’s full review of the evening in: Software and services help buoy IBM Q2 revenue. Also from InfrastructureViews, Kate covers Getronic’s announcement of a £10m deal with Alpha LSG, a UK in-flight caterer. See: Getronics moves Alpha to the cloud.

From ESASViews, Angela Eager focuses the lens on IBM. Read July's two HotViewsExtra articles here: Software and services help buoy IBM Q2 revenue and IBM Q2 – software in focus. Microsoft, have a new rallying cry; ‘One Microsoft’. This refers to the company restructuring and shared goal strategy crafted to keep the company relevant in a mobile and cloud-centric technology world. Management is being reshuffled and titles changed but will this be enough? Angela considers this in: Microsoft’s restructure – a deeper dive. Angela also published a highly popular analyst views peice on Is Social Software an enterprise proposition?. In it Angela discusses how Social software is struggling to gain credibility as a tool for business. Subscribers to ESASViews can click the link to download her full report.

In Fidessa building on solid foundations, research director, Peter Roe, assesses the first half figures for this provider of trading, investment and information solutions to the world’s financial community. Peter finds that the figures were, as indicated by the company’s management, not particularly impressive.

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