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TechMarketView: Forging insights in complex market areas
TechMarketView prides itself in developing a clear understanding of complex market challenges. So far in 2023, our clients have been able to access a range of research outputs that take difficult topics – and emerging market areas – and create insightful market data and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Examples of Q1 data-led research […]
Dell’s decline continues in Q1
Dell’s revenue fell sharply in Q1 as it continues to face a challenging market environment due to cautious customer spending and falling demand for PC’s. Q1 FY24 revenue was $20.9 bn, down 20% yoy, with operating income of $1.1bn, down 31%. Demand softened across all major lines of business, regions, customer sizes, and most verticals. […]
Accenture names new leader for UK&I
A change at the top will see Shaheen Sayed taking up the reins as head Accenture UK & Ireland and member of the firm’s Global Management Committee on the 1st September. She will succeed Simon Eaves who, after three years in the role, is relocating to the US to become the North America Strategy & Consulting […]
SaaS powering Q1 growth for VMware
VMware continues to focus on driving growth in its cloud offerings and shift the revenue profile towards recurring revenue and away from its license and services business, which continues to decline. Revenue for Q1 FY243 was $3.28bn, an increase of 6% yoy. Subscription and SaaS were the key drivers for growth with revenue of $1.22bn, […]
Moneyhub powers Standard Life’s Money Mindset
Life and pensions specialist, Standard Life is using open finance technology from UK fintech Moneyhub to power a new service for its customers. Money Mindset is targeted at Standard life’s 1.5m workplace pension scheme members and will enable users to manage all of their finances in one place. Money Mindset will also provide education on […]
Government Shared Services: Synergy Cluster procurement
Late last week, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published a £934m opportunity. It relates to the Synergy Programme, part of the Shared Services Strategy for Government. DWP is the lead contracting authority for the Synergy Cluster, which also includes MoJ, DWP, DEFRA and Home Office. The 2018 Government’s Shared Services Strategy (see Government […]
70 years ago today…
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 took place 70 years ago today – on 2nd June 1953. I was 6 at the time and it is my very first memory involving technology. My parents had spent a fortune on a television set in a smart wooden cabinet with a 7 inch black and white screen. […]
Call for collaborators to use AI for Digital Media Inclusion (Sponsored Post)
The University of Surrey’s creative AI teams in vision, sound and language understanding, with Royal Holloway StoryFutures’ innovators in immersive storytelling, audience experience, diversity & inclusion, are calling for industry, government and 3rd sector collaborators interested in creating a doctoral training centre to develop AI solutions that improve inclusion, accessibility and personalisation for modern media. […]
Profitability up (growth much as expected) in Salesforce’s Q1/2024
Salesforce has announced results for its first quarter of 2024 (ending 30 April 2023), showing revenue up 13% year-over-year (in constant currency) to $8.25bn (£6.8bn), slightly beating expectations set at the end of FY2023 ($70m above the upper end) and keeping the company on track for its predicted revenue for the full year of between […]