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London-based construction tech startup Auar (also known as Automated Architecture) has raised £5.1m in a funding round led by Planet A, with participation from Shadow Ventures, Common Magic, Concrete VC, and angel investors. Previous backers Miles Ahead, ABB Robotics Ventures, and Nicolas Bearelle (founder and executive chairman of Revive, a real estate developer and investor specialising in urban regeneration) also participated.
Founded in 2019 by Mollie Claypool (CEO) and Gilles Retsin (CTO), Auar has developed a platform combining robotic micro-factories with AI-powered design software to automate timber housing construction. The company's decentralised approach allows builders to rent compact, mobile micro-factories that can produce the full timber structure of a home in under 12 hours, reducing on-site labour by up to 75% and cutting construction costs by 30-40%.
What sets Auar apart is its focus on democratising sustainable construction. Rather than requiring massive capital investment in centralised factories, builders can deploy Auar's micro-factories on-site or nearby, typically seeing a return on their investment in under six months. The platform makes Passivhaus-standard, carbon-negative homes economically viable at scale – addressing both the housing crisis and climate imperatives simultaneously.
The company has established partnerships with builders including Rival Holdings in the US and Vandenbussche NV in Belgium, and also received an Innovate UK grant (of £341k) late last year to scale its platform for mid-rise (6-storey) timber housing. The £5.1m of new funding will accelerate Auar's expansion across key European markets including Benelux, DACH, and the Nordics, while growing its team and partner ecosystem.
According to the latest (2024) Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the buildings and construction sector accounts for around 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions – with UNEP stating that the sector needed to show an annual increase of ten “decarbonisation points” (representing specific measures and actions taken to reduce emissions) – up from the six points per year anticipated in 2015, when the Paris Agreement was signed – in order to reach its goals of net-zero carbon emission buildings for new buildings by 2030.
By that year too, however. Auar aims to have facilitated the construction of over 100,000 carbon-negative homes – a significant contribution to addressing both housing shortages, and the construction industry’s environmental impact.
Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 10:14
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Omni Partners has added Council Tax and fraud prevention specialists Datatank to its rapidly expanding govtech software offering. The deal is part of Omni’s buy-and-build strategy, which launched with the acquisition of Infoshare+ in October 2024 (see Omni acquires Infoshare to drive public sector expansion). Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Datatank has been helping local authorities detect fraudulent single person discount claims on Council Tax bills for over 20 years. The company now works with more than 160 councils across the UK, providing a managed Council Tax review service and the data analysis tools to identify potential cases of fraud. Datatank also provides a range of other solutions including empty homes, tenancy and probate reviews, as well as case management solutions.
The deal is the fourth acquisition Omni has made to bolster Infoshare+. It follows the purchase of local government digital solutions provider Looking Local in January 2025 (see Omni Partners adds Looking Local to growing govtech platform) and expands the company’s public sector-focused data solutions and software platform.
Given the financial challenges facing the local government sector, tackling the threat of fraud and recovering losses has become a vital part of council operations. The need to operate more efficiently and maximise revenue is not going to go away and is likely to be high on the agenda of council leadership following the Spending Review later this month.
Databank represents a strong addition to the Infoshare+ stable, providing the company with a demonstrable solution for protecting council finances and supporting the delivery of frontline services.
Posted by: Dale Peters at 10:08
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A £1 million project is underway to test the safety and effectiveness of artificial intelligence in the Scottish NHS. Funded by Innovate UK, the scheme involves collaboration between NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Lothian, and AI evaluation company Aival, to create a validation framework for AI tools.
Aival’s independent evaluation platform will be used to assess AI systems for diagnosing head trauma and lung cancer, aiming to improve care for patients and support NHS staff. The platform allows hospitals to verify AI performance using anonymised patient data and provides ongoing monitoring once the software is deployed.
The project will also test the Aival platform’s ability to monitor long-term AI performance, addressing concerns about ‘drift’—the decline in software accuracy over time due to changes in patient populations, disease trends, or equipment updates.
Dr Mark Hall, consultant radiologist at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: "Post-deployment surveillance monitoring is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of patient care, especially in radiology, where early detection of disease progression can make all the difference. Despite its importance, there are currently no standardised guidelines. AI-powered monitoring software bridges this gap by providing a structured approach”
One of the challenges addressed by the project is the lengthy testing process for AI. Currently, it can take more than nine months to evaluate a single product, and there are more than 200 AI options available for some hospital departments. This has limited the rollout of AI solutions in clinical settings. The project will compare six commercial AI products used in stroke and lung cancer triage, including tools developed by InferVision, Annalise-AI, and Qure.AI.
AI has tremendous potential to improve patient care in healthcare, and we have already seen it applied in numerous use cases from taking patient notes to aiding consultations and suggesting treatment diagnosis. The key barrier, as with the application of AI in any heavily regulated industry, is trust and confidence that the systems will behave as expected and are safe to use. Both are key aspects this project will seek to test and which may well help establish important benchmarks for other healthcare organisations.
Posted by: Simon Baxter at 09:55
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Healthtech startup HealthKey, the marketplace platform focused on improving access to preventative health services, has acquired Syndi Health.
Syndi Health is a personalised health assessment and recommendation platform. The new combined entity brings together HealthKey's due diligence and marketplace capabilities with Syndi Health's patented and medically approved clinical assessment technology. This will provide users with tailored guidance on health services. David Joerring, CEO of HealthKey, said: "We have both been focused on supporting people with better access to healthcare through technology, making preventative care more personalised and affordable."
Syndi Health was founded in 2020 by Ben Lakey and Jorge Alexander. Lakey becomes HealthKey's Director of Operations.
Joerring founded HealthKey with Tudor Cotop in 2022 with the intention of making it easier for people to access the ever-expanding range of digital healthcare providers. In April of last year, the firm secured £1.13m in a seed round led by Aviva Ventures, with participation from Ascension, Oxford Capital, and Cur8 Capital. Those funds have clearly been put to good use.
Posted by: Kate Hanaghan at 09:53
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Please join me in congratulating Craig Wentworth on his promotion to Research Director.
Readers of UKHotViews and members of our subscription and advisory services will be familiar with Craig’s work, which spans the SustainabilityViews and PublicSectorViews research programmes. In the latter, he is our research lead for Education, Local Government, and Social Value.
In particular, Craig has built a rich body of research examining the intersection of technology and sustainability. He is the master of ‘joining the dots’ and deciphering swathes of data to explain the trends and emerging opportunities. Craig produces creative outputs that inform and inspire (check out his latest podcasts below*), giving our clients the detail and confidence they need to edge ahead of the competition.
Craig joined TechMarketView around two years ago, and he works with the rest of the analyst team in producing research that is founded on high-quality and unique data sets. Today, he is launching his latest report: Sustainability Technology Activity Index 2025 – The global view, available only for members of SustainabilityViews clients.
Craig says: “The Sustainability Technology Activity Index lies at the heart of our SustainabilityViews research, delivering essential market intelligence for suppliers and tech users navigating the rapidly evolving sustainability tech landscape. By tracking the sustainability activities of over 2,000 companies worldwide, our detailed analysis of market trends across multiple industries reveals where the immediate commercial opportunities are and which sectors require longer-term investment.
Customers are using the Index to identify the high-growth use case areas and where the suppliers are focusing their efforts (and with whom). I am typically working with our clients on projects that leverage the Index’s rich data and unique analysis, including the identification of partnership and M&A opportunities.”
If you would like to bring Craig into your strategic thinking around sustainability or appear on one of his podcasts, you can contact him here.
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Totally Sust #12: Decarbonising pharma
Totally Sust #11: Scaling soil carbon markets
Totally Sust #10: Pairing sustainability with profitability
Posted by: Kate Hanaghan at 09:30
London-based cybersecurity firm ThreatSpike has raised £10.35m in a Series A funding round led by Expedition Growth Capital, marking its first external investment after 14 years of bootstrapped growth. The round also sees the appointment of Darktrace co-founder Emily Orton to the company’s board, which adds a strong vote of confidence in the cyber startup.
Founded in 2011 by husband-and-wife team Adam and Kate Blake, former analysts at Deloitte, Accenture, and Morgan Stanley, ThreatSpike delivers an all-in-one cybersecurity platform tailored for mid-sized enterprises. The business already serves more than 200 customers across 90 countries and sectors including hospitality, industrial, investment, and professional services, with logo’s listed including the RAC, ISG and Claridges.
The company combines real-time detection, incident response, and penetration testing into a single, unified system. The company offers two solutions, ThreatSpike Blue (24/7 managed detection and response) and ThreatSpike Red (unlimited penetration testing). A key feature of the platform is its ability to simulate real-world cyberattacks and conduct continuous vulnerability scanning, enabling organisations to assess their security posture on demand.
“In a market full of three-letter acronym products and aggressive upselling, we take a different approach,” said CEO Adam Blake. “We’re proud to offer a transparent, flexible platform that truly protects without hidden costs.”
For mid-sized enterprises it can be challenging finding a complete cybersecurity solution at the right price point, and one that is clear on what it delivers. Blake is on point when he highlights just how confusing the security product landscape can be at times. We have also seen product consolidation happening across all levels of the market as companies try to cut costs and management overheads. Whilst the heavy hitters like Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike can deliver that all-encompassing cyber suite, it is not a fit for all organisations and can often be far more complex that they appear, with multiple products requiring integration even on the same platform.
Posted by: Simon Baxter at 09:29
In further evidence that Atos UK&I CEO Michael Herron is surging ahead with his transformation agenda for the region, the company has announced the appointment of Michelle Scarsbrook as the Head of Sales UK&I.
As noted in (*UKHotViewsExtra* Atos 'Genesis': Birthing a new beginning | TechMarketView), this appointment validates my observation that Herron is building his top team with a strategic thirds approach: one third from the previous existing leadership team from Tech Foundations & Eviden, one third from emerging internal talent, and one third from senior external hires. Scarsbrook sits in the third category.
Scarsbrook joins from Sopra Steria where she led Private Sector Client Relations team. Over her 25-year career, Michelle has a built a track record of driving strategic growth and leading high-performing sales teams across diverse markets and industries.
According to Herron, Michelle is known for her “dynamic leadership style and customer-focused approach” and will play a key role in shaping Atos’ UK sales strategy, expanding its client base and fostering long-term partnerships. Her private sector experience will be of notable benefit to Herron who has traditionally been more Public Sector focused. Experience gained from past tenures at Sopra Steria, WNS and British Airways combined with her ITS/BPS experience will support Herron’s aim of recalibrating the portfolio of Public and Private sector business so that revenues are more evenly balanced.
Following the appointment of Mike Hill (Mike Hill joins Atos UKI: Strategic appointment signals strengthening foundations | TechMarketView) the strategic hire of Scarsbrook represents another key piece in Herron's transformation puzzle, as he continues to build his leadership team with the right individuals to drive change. As Herron outlined in our recent "View from the Top" podcast (see *Watch now*: View from the Top - Atos UK&I's new CEO Michael Herron | TechMarketView), 2025 is about "fixing the foundations" to return to growth in 2026. And whilst he is notably focused on improving profitably during 2025, the appointment of Scarsbrook shows he is gearing up for the return to profitable growth in 2026. The appointment also aligns with Herron's continued focus on "building a culture of a disciplined bidding, delivery and operations and winning behaviours," a key pillar of his transformation strategy now well into the operational phase.
The proof of course with the success or not of the transformation that Herron is leading will ultimately have to be judged on the numbers but what is evident is that my ink is barely dry before having to write up about another piece of the transformation puzzle that Herron has put in place. The impact, pace and urgency since his appointment at the end of January is certainly being felt.
Posted by: Georgina O'Toole at 09:02
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In an era where environmental imperatives collide with technological innovation and policy rhetoric, understanding who's doing what (with whom, and how they’re benefitting) in sustainability tech has become mission-critical. TechMarketView today launches its comprehensive Sustainability Technology Activity Index 2025, with The global view report – tracking over 900 milestone activities from a watchlist of 2,000+ organisations worldwide.
This isn't another aspirational sustainability report which tracks some of the money to suggest what might happen, or surveys people to find out what they’d like to happen. Instead, the Index captures what's actually going on globally (from pilot launches to production deployments, from strategic partnerships to scaled implementations), analysed across 17 industry sectors and 15 sustainability use cases.
Armed with this wealth of unique, proprietary data, we highlight the hotspots of use case activity; which suppliers are dominating where and why; what technology combinations offer the best solutions to which problems; whether sector markets are mature or emerging; and what that all means in terms of trends, predictions, and recommendations (for both suppliers and tech user organisations).
For technology suppliers, the Index provides essential competitive intelligence. It reveals where rivals are focusing efforts, which sectors offer immediate commercial opportunities, and where consolidation is likely in a market that remains surprisingly fragmented despite the dominance of enterprise tech giants. Microsoft may top the global rankings in terms of sustainability activity, but the Top 10 suppliers collectively account for just 12.4% of total activity – signalling significant opportunity for specialists and new entrants alike.
Technology users gain equally valuable insights. The Index cuts through vendor marketing to show which solutions peers are actually implementing, which suppliers have proven expertise in specific sectors, and crucially, which technologies deliver demonstrable results. With ESG reporting dominating use cases (at 27.6% of activities), organisations can see how compliance requirements are driving adoption patterns whilst operational applications gain ground.
The research also reveals how sustainability is transitioning from peripheral concern to core business imperative, with analytics appearing in nearly two-thirds of all initiatives. This data-driven approach signals market maturity as organisations move beyond measurement towards actionable intelligence.
Whether you're positioning solutions or selecting suppliers, the Index provides the evidence base for strategic decisions in a rapidly evolving market (against a backdrop of increasing climate stress) where greenwashing is no longer an option.
Companion reports in the Index series (coming soon) will take a detailed look at the domestic market for sustainability technology in particular – analysing the impact and implications of 370 milestone activities with UK relevance; plus a deep dive into the market shaping trends and predictions summarised in these reports.
SustainabilityViews subscribers can download Sustainability Technology Activity Index 2025 – The global view now. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your company has a subscription, please contact Jean-Luc de Jonge to find out how you can access the research.
Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 08:54
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Accenture has invested in Reserv, a tech-enabled insurance claims processing company focused on the US and UK markets. The cash injection formed part of
the start-up’s recently completed $25 million Series B funding round. The stake was taken by Accenture Ventures whose Project Spotlight, a vertical accelerator for data and AI companies, Reserv will also join.
Founded in 2022, Reserv is seeking to shake up the insurance third-party administration (TPA) business process management arena with offerings which leverage modern technologies, such as agentic AI, automated communications, to improve performance and reporting. The company’s automated rollover technology, for example, is able to ingest data from legacy TPAs and incumbent systems and map it to the Reserv platform. This can reduce the typical data migration timeline from over 9 months to under two weeks.
The business has grown quickly achieving triple-digit yoy revenue growth for two consecutive years. Reserv now employs 350+ personnel in the United States and United Kingdom and supports more than 80 Managing General Agent clients and 20 carriers across nearly all property and casualty lines of business.
After several quieter years and viewed as ripe for technology-led disruption, the TPA BPO arena is again attracting increased interest from the top tier service providers. Two months ago, Wipro UK secured a ten-year life and pension business administration contract worth £500m with Phoenix Group (see here). As a part of the deal, the offshore heavyweight will assume management of the core policy administration ALPHA platform, modernising it with AI, automation, cloud, and digital technologies.
Accompanying the news of the Reserv investment was a separate announcement that Accenture Ventures is expanding its technical, commercial, and strategic support for high-potential AI startups. In collaboration with NVIDIA Inception, the new engagement initiative will provide participants with market intelligence, technical workshops, enterprise workflow knowledge and exposure to real-world business environments. It aims to facilitate the development of breakthrough ideas into scalable enterprise solutions.
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 08:47
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More than 20,000 civil servants across numerous departments took part in a government-led trial using Microsoft’s GenAI Office 365 Copilot to support their daily work – with early results showing time savings equivalent to nearly 2 working weeks per person, per year.
Civil servants across departments including the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), HMRC, Home Office (HO) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) were given M365 Copilot for three months (from Sep to Dec 2024), using it to draft documents, summarise meetings, cut through jargon and streamline consultations, and in specific roles such as Work Coaches speeding up support for job seekers.
Trial participants saved an average of 26 minutes a day when using M365 Copilot, which some rough maths equates to around about 5% in time saved based on a regular working week. Results were consistent across grades and professions, with differences observed in how the tool was used and where benefits were realised. Over 70% of users agreed that M365 Copilot reduced time spent searching for information, performing mundane tasks, and increased time spent on more strategic activities.
These are not really results that will blow anybody away, but do highlight that wide scale benefits can be achieved using even generalist GenAI tools like Microsoft Copilot. Even bigger gains are likely to be had when more tailored and sophisticated tools are adopted, of course that is contingent on the government investing quickly and at scale in proven AI tools, something so far that it has been slow to do.
TechMarketView subscribers can read our further analysis, and how this aligns with the UK governments broader plans for adoption of AI tools in *UKHotViewsExtra* Government trial shows AI could save civil servants 2 weeks a year.
Posted by: Simon Baxter at 10:43
In a written statement to Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that responsibility for government and public sector cyber security will move from the Cabinet Office to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
The machinery of government change, which became effective immediately, is intended to “strengthen technology resilience and policymaking across the public sector, by better integrating cyber security responsibilities and expertise into the Government Digital Service”.
The move is part of the government’s strategy of establishing the digital centre of government within DSIT (see Digital centre of government starts to take shape). In January 2025 that digital centre, now called the Government Digital Service, was created by bringing together teams from the earlier Government Digital Service (GDS), Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), Geospatial Commission, and parts of the Responsible Tech Adoption Unit (see A Blueprint for a Modern Digital Government).
Until yesterday, responsibility for the oversight, coordination and delivery of cyber security within government remained with the Cabinet Office. This includes the Government Security Group (GSG), which leads the government’s security function and is responsible for the implementation of the Government Cyber Security Strategy: 2022–2030.
The change follows a damning series of reports highlighting the precarious state of cyber resilience in the public sector. In May 2025, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warned that the UK's cyber resilience has been outpaced by hostile states and criminals (see UK government cyber resilience lagging behind). This followed the National Audit Office report in January 2025, which pressed for urgent action to build capabilities and defences against a rapidly increasing and evolving cyber threat (see NAO: Government must act now to build cyber resilience).
Placing responsibility for cyber under DSIT makes sense. It should create a more cohesive approach to technology resilience, improving departmental coordination and helping drive policy implementation. However, the move is not a panacea for the significant gap that exists between cyber threat and the government’s ability to respond to that threat. Fundamental challenges such as the cyber skills shortage, inadequate funding models, poor governance, the lack of cyber expertise at executive levels across departments, and the scale of the government’s reliance on outdated technology remain. Addressing these persistent issues will require far greater prioritisation, urgency and investment if the government is to avoid a catastrophic cyber attack.
Posted by: Dale Peters at 10:10
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The latest episode in TechMarketView's series of Totally Sust podcasts sees SustainabilityViews’ Research Director, Craig Wentworth, interview Sam Jones (SVP of Health, Life Sciences and Manufacturing for the UK & Ireland at Atos) and Martin Keane (Head of Digital at technology innovation centre CPI) about bringing sustainable manufacturing to pharma through IT/OT digital transformation.
Tune in to discover how their partnership tackles a range of sustainability challenges – from reducing clinical trial waste through real-time product release, to optimising energy consumption based on grid carbon intensity (leveraging Scotland's abundant wind energy, in particular). Tune in to learn how AI-powered feedback loops can enact changes on the factory floor, and how to overcome cultural barriers in IT/OT convergence.
CPI's Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre facility (a collaboration between CPI, the University of Strathclyde, UK Research & Innovation, Scottish Enterprise, and founding industry partners AstraZeneca and GSK) provides a real-world pharma factory environment for testing integrated solutions in action. Its architecture blueprint, offering a standardised roadmap for sustainable digital transformation, is available to download here.
A 6-minute snippet of the podcast is available to stream for free now on SoundCloud and Spotify (or you can play it in the widget below).
Subscribers to our SustainabilityViews research stream can stream or download the full 26-minute version of the episode. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your company has a subscription, please contact Jean-Luc de Jonge to find out how you can access the research.
Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 09:34
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AI Operating System provider, VAST Data has expanded its strategic partnership with Cisco to offer a turnkey platform for building enterprise AI
Factories. Together, the companies are seeking to deliver a fully integrated and validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage, and observability. More significantly for the tech scale-up, the VAST AI Operating System is now available directly through Cisco’s Global Price List and is fully supported by Cisco as part of the joint solution.
As we have noted before, VAST Data is quite a difficult tech company to fit neatly into a category. It is neither a storage business nor a database provider but offers both as it looks to capaitalise on the demand for data infrastructure and data management, driven by explosion in demand by AI and Machine Learning adoption. VAST Data helps organisations manage large and complex data sets that are increasingly becoming the life blood of AI-driven business models.
Founded in 2016, the AI OS specialist launched onto the market three years later and today generates annual revenue of around $200m. VAST Data, which counts NVIDIA among its investors, has seen its valuation skyrocket since the start of the decade. The company’s most funding round priced it at $9.1bn, up from $3.7bn just thirty months earlier (see here).
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 09:32
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EY is making a more concerted global push into the marketing arena by bringing together its acquired and in-house capabilities across design, sales, branding and customer experience technology under one umbrella. Through the establishment of EY Studio+, the Big Four firm aims to “offer a holistic and human-centred transformation service to its CMO clients around the world.”.
Over the last decade or so, EY has bought some 37marketing centric consulting and technology companies which will now form the core of the new entity. These include both the UK-based firms Seren and Digital Detox as well as overseas-HQ’d business with practices in the country such as Blackdot. The establishment of EY Studio+ continues the global advisory heavyweight’s efforts to rationalise its organisation and follows the consolidation of its 25,000 worldwide strategy and transaction personnel into the EY-Parthenon division announced in March.
EY, which has been struggling to grow in this country of late (see here), is no doubt hoping that this latest move will at least to some degree emulate the success of Accenture Song. Launched in 2022 by aggregating the Accenture’s global network of more than 40 marketing-focused acquisitions into a single brand, Song has become the world’s largest tech-driven creative company, growing from $12.5bn to $19bn in revenue.
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 09:20
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Shares ticked up a couple of percent yesterday on news that HPE had reported solid Q2 FY25 results with 6% revenue growth to $7.6bn, demonstrating resilience across all its product segments despite the tough macro conditions. The standout metric was ARR growth of 46% to $2.2bn, reflecting successful transition to subscription-based models.
However, margin pressure remains a worry with gross margins declining 370 basis points YoY to 29.4%. The Server segment, while growing 6%, saw operating margins fall to 5.9% from 11.0% previously, indicating pricing pressure in competitive AI/HPC markets. Conversely, Hybrid Cloud showed strong momentum with 13% revenue growth and operating margins expanding to 5.4% from 1.0%.
However, cash flow deteriorated, with free cash flow turning negative at -$847m versus positive territory last year, reflecting higher working capital requirements and greater investment.
Management's FY25 guidance suggests continued revenue momentum (7-9% constant currency growth) but acknowledges margin headwinds with operating profit growth expected to be flat to -7%. The $1bn free cash flow target indicates confidence in normalising working capital.
Things have moved on from Q1 (HPE shares dip on outlook) with HPE's portfolio diversification paying dividends, but delivering a recovery in margins will be critical for improved investor confidence.
Posted by: Marc Hardwick at 09:08
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At TechMarketView, we like to do difficult things. Usually, that involves our own proprietary data and the piecing together of complex puzzles.
The TechMarketView Market Readiness Index (MRI) involves all of this, and it means our analysts can give our clients a robust and unique view of IT service providers in the UK.
Widely used within the UK senior tech buyer community, the TechMarketView MRI is based on a proprietary assessment methodology created to understand and quantify the performance of suppliers.
Our most recent analysis, The Road to AI (published in two parts), has been designed to enable senior tech buyers to understand the ability of the leading IT service providers to support and accelerate their AI journey.
By applying TechMarketView’s highly regarded methodology and rigorous research approach, analysts assessed suppliers across six areas as they pertain to AI:
- Corporate Resilience
- Suitability of Offerings
- Skills & Resources
- Partner Ecosystem
- Industry Expertise
- Delivery & Execution.
In Part 1 of the Market Readiness Index: The Road to AI, we mapped the readiness of the Top 10 IT and Business Process Services providers in the UK. Stand out performances from Accenture, Capgemini, 
Cognizant, and TCS placed them in the Leading Pack (i.e., those suppliers exceeding the average score for the overall group in each category) of the UK’s largest IT service providers. This research was conducted 12 months ago, meaning the levels of Market Readiness for these providers will have continued to accelerate further.
In Part 2 of the Market Readiness Index: The Road to AI, we assessed the next strata of suppliers, those placing 11-20 in the ranking (by size/revenue) of the largest IT/BP service providers in the UK. Those emerging as the Leading Pack in this next layer down were Deloitte, NTT Data, PwC, and Wipro.
Once again, congratulations to the Leading Pack suppliers that scored consistently strongly within their cohort. And a big thank you to all of the senior tech buyers that supported the research by sharing their experiences and views.
If you are not a member of our Tech Buyer community, you can purchase the report by contacting Deb Seth.
Posted by: UKHotViews Editor at 07:35
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TCS has secured another seven-year extension of its long running Virgin Atlantic partnership, marking an evolution from traditional IT services towards AI-powered service modernisation. Last extended in 2021, this deal centres on implementing a cloud-first digital core with a ‘Tech Command Centre’ promising operational intelligence.
This partnership showcases TCS's aviation sector expertise and will use its proprietary Cognix and AI WisdomNext platforms to help drive operational resilience and more personalised customer experiences. The contract extension is another demonstration of TCS's modus operandi in its ability to evolve long-standing client relationships into more strategic transformation partnerships. Now with some 50 years in the UK market and relationships with half of the FTSE100, TCS continues strengthening its position as one of the country’s largest SITS providers.
The timing of the deal aligns with aviation's increasing focus on AI-driven operational intelligence, positioning both companies to benefit from the industry's tech-led recovery.
Posted by: Marc Hardwick at 09:34
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