A fortnight in the life of TechMarketView...

Over the last fortnight, TechMarketView’s analyst team has published a raft of quality research and analysis, on a broad range of hot topics, for our band of eligible subscription service clients. For starters we continued our IndustryViews reports with the latest quarterly review of M&A activity.

But there was more besides. Following two successful ‘maiden’ events at the end of January – our ‘Little British Battler’ day and our ‘UK local government dinner debate’ – the team has been hard at work drawing out the important messages from the days’ discussions. The result is two publications: our first-ever Little British Battlers report (Little British Battlers – Q1 2012), which provides an in-depth view of the first 12 SMEs to meet the TechMarketView team; and a view of the changes facing the UK local government sector and what that means for SITS suppliers, in ‘UK local government dinner debate: facing change’.

We have also published a major report within our BusinessProcessViews’ stream. ‘Communications-focused BPS – opportunities beyond document outsourcing’ introduces a new term – communications focused-BPS – to our clients, covering the entire ecosystem of software and services supporting communications into and out of the enterprise. The report is incredibly timely as it highlights the impact of some of our key 2012 themes, such as BYOT, the Consumerisaton of IT, and Big Data.

And hot off the press this morning, we are publishing a major report from our PublicSectorViews team focused on the Public Services Network (PSN). ‘The Public Services Network: the foundation for change in public sector IT’ seeks to answer key questions about the UK Government’s planned ‘network of networks’ relating to the progress being made, the benefits achievable, the barriers being faced, and the evolving supplier landscape.  

Of course it is also results season so we have been hard at work analysing the full year results of the UK software and IT services providers. So far in March, we have published 39 HotViews articles (and we’re less than two weeks in!). But TechMarketViews’ subscribers have also been able to benefit from a more in-depth analysis in HotViewsExtra articles (such as Xchanging stablilised but still in transition and Colt finally looks ahead to growth) as well as in CompanyViews notes (such as Capita emerging from a lean spell and Atos UK: making the most of SIS). Once all the results are in, and all the numbers have been crunched, our clients will, of course, be able to look forward to our annual UK SITS supplier rankings report.

As usual much of our commentary has been picked up by the media. Most remarked on were our views on CSC’s latest agreement with the NHS (for example, in Information Age); on the launch of the UK Government CloudStore (for example in CIO); on the future of PSN (for example in Computer Weekly), on the MoD’s search for a strategic partner (for example in Computerworld), and on Oracle's plans for Taleo (for example in Personnel Today). But as you know, for the best source of insight and opinion, there’s only one place to come. So if you’re not yet a subscriber Deb Seth will be very happy to hear from you!

Posted by: HotViews Editor at 07:00

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