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| 08/02/2008
Fujitsu Services has announced two public sector software and IT services awards with a potential co...
John O`Brien The first is a £100m eight-year contract to supply managed IT services to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Under the deal, which is initially valued at £34m, Fujitsu will provide PSNI's service desk, fixed-line telephony network, data networks (covering WAN and LAN), desktop and laptop maintenance and support, applications hosting services, a network of static and mobile automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras and applications support services. The second i... 
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| 01/02/2008
Atos Origin has reported 8.5% full-year revenue growth to ?5.86bn in the year to end December 2007. ...
OVUM. Samad Masood By service line, the strongest grower was Managed Operations, which leapt by 14.9% (5.4% organically and at constant currencies) to ?3.16bn. Systems integration grew by 4.3% to ?2.34bn, and Consulting declined by 11.2% (-8.7% organic and at constant currencies) to ?360m. Full results will be released on 15 February 2008. Comment: Atos Origin has done very well to meet its growth target of 8.5% despite losing ?50m from the termination of the NHS Diagnostics contract a...
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| 31/01/2008
In his first public speech as CEO of T-Systems, Reinhard Clemens outlined his vision of T-Systems' f...
Cornelia Wels-Maug Externally, its focus will be on clients that are headquartered in Europe, major outsourcing deals and the mid-sized market. Overall, it wants to strengthen its position in the automotive sector. No decision has been taken regarding the prospects of its system integration business, which is expected to be decided in March. Comment: With declining revenues, EBITDA and new orders, T-Systems' performance has been under pressure for a while. The departure of its former CEO Lotha...
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| 25/01/2008
AT&T and SAP announced a new marketing agreement, under which AT&T will become a preferred hosting p...
OVUM. Jan Dawson, John Madden AT&T claims it is the only 'preferred partner' for SAP in this category, although of course several big names are already well entrenched in the SAP hosting business, including IBM, Accenture and HP. AT&T will also take over from SAP management of the development and testing environment SAP sets up for new customers before they take over, using AT&T's virtualisation platform. Comment: The three-year agreement with SAP marks the first big thing AT&T...
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| 25/01/2008
Worldwide Survey Results Show CIOs Must "Make the Difference" by Replacing Generic IT With Distincti...
STAMFORD, Conn., January23, 2008 ? Eighty-five percent of chief information officers (CIOs) see significant change coming over the next three years as they look to meet rising business expectations for IT to make the difference in their enterprise strategy, according to a worldwide survey of 1,500 CIOs by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP). "CIOs recognize the importance of IT in 'making the difference' by changing business processes, attracting customers and developing new products and services,"...
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| 24/01/2008
The MySQL purchase immediately casts Sun in the role of a major open-source database management syst...
On 16 January 2008, Sun announced that it has agreed to acquire MySQL, the open-source database management system (DBMS), for approximately $1 billion in cash and options. Sun plans to integrate MySQL into its software, sales and service organizations. MySQL CEO Marten Mikos will join Sun's executive leadership team and report to Rich Green, Sun's executive vice president of software. The deal is expected to close in April or May 2008. ...
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| 24/01/2008
Oracle's main motives likely are to gain market share in the lucrative mission-critical computing pl...
Oracle's first attempt to buy BEA failed because BEA's board deemed the original offer of $17 per share inadequate. The only substantial change since then is the price offered per share. Oracle will focus especially on China, where BEA is the leading middleware vendor. After this merger, Oracle will emerge as a portal, process and middleware vendor with revenue second only to IBM, the market leader. These two vendors will then be the main players in the Java-centric middleware market, competing ...
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| 15/01/2008
Las experiencias prácticas de Deutsche Bank, Banco Sabadell, Bankinter, BBVA, Banco Popular, Caixa G...
Expertos del sector bancario y tecnológico reafirman la importancia del cliente y la necesidad de poder satisfacer sus exigencias para aumentar la competitividad Madrid, 10 de enero de 2008.? IDC Research España, compañía líder en análisis del mercado tecnológico, celebró recientemente en Madrid la 4ª convocatoria internacional sobre TIC en el sector bancario, en colaboración con su unidad operativa Financial Insights, centrada en la industria de servicios financieros. Bajo el título "Banking07...
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| 26/12/2007
"Disruptive technologies have been a persistent theme in IDC's predictions over the past several yea...
IDC's Top 10 IT Predictions Worldwide IT Spending Growth Lower, Due to Significant U.S. Market Downside RiskIT Suppliers Will "Double Down" on Hyper-Growth Emerging Markets: "BRIC+9" and SMBKey Market Leaders Leap Into "Everything-as-a-Service"Application Appliances - "iPods of the Enterprise" - Will Go MainstreamA Flood of "Web Gadgets" Will Extend the (Mobile) InternetAll Mobile Phone Network Operators Will Join the Open Internet, and Leverage ...
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| 22/12/2007
Accenture announced its results for Q1 (three months ended 30 November) of its fiscal year 2008. Rev...
OVUM. Angel DobardzievComment: Accenture continues to impress with the strength, discipline and consistency of its execution. There were a lot of eyes on Accenture's results this quarter, after an analyst event last month where its management was very bullish despite concerns of the effects of the credit crunch. Those that expected an impact in this set of numbers would have been disappointed: these are an excellent set of results.Below the high level picture, we note the usual mix in the pace o...
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