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Capgemini’s UK business still sluggish

November 8th, 2011

While rival Logica has seen business in the UK return to significant growth, the country is still a laggard for French IT services firm Capgemini

European IT services giant Capgemini’s UK and Ireland business grew by just 1.3% during the third quarter of 2011, compared to 7.8% in the country’s native France and 10.4% in the Nordic region.

The company said that its UK business is “still affected by public sectorspending cuts”.

By comparison, rival Logica last week reported a 6% increase in UK sales for the most recent quarter, ending 18 months of declining sales in the country.

Overall, Capgemini’s revenues grew by 13% to €2.4 billion. That growth rate includes the effect of two recent major acquisitions, those of Brazlian IT services company CPM Braxis and of French rival Prosodie. Without those acquisitions, Capgemini’s year-on-year revenue growth would have been 4.7%.

The company revealed that its outsourcing division saw a “slight” year-on-year decline in bookings during the third quarter, although other divisions saw a 6.4% increase.

It also revealed that half of all the company’s new recruits during the month were “young graduates”.

Source:http://www.information-age.com/channels/it-services/news/1667083/capgeminis-uk-business-still-sluggish.thtml

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Dell’s new UK data center to support slew of upcoming services

October 13th, 2011

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Dell has completed a modular data center build in Slough, UK (outside of London), that will support a wide variety of IT services, including a plethora of upcoming services the company expects to roll out in 2012.

On the slate for next year are “Virtual Desktop-as-a-Service” and Dell Cloud offerings. The Cloud service will be built on VMware, using VMware vCloud.

Another upcoming service is Unified Clinical Archiving, a Cloud-based medical imaging storage, management and sharing service for healthcare providers. Dell already offers this service in the US, currently managing more than 4bn diagnostic imaging objects for US-based customers.

In addition to new offerings, the Slough data center will support Dell’s traditional IT outsourcing services.

Don Mann, VP of infrastructure and Cloud computing at Dell, said the data center will provide “regionally delivered” outsourcing and Cloud services.

“This is the first data center to open as part of the company’s $1bn solutions announcement this past April and reinforces our commitment to deliver industry-leading services and solutions that help our customers innovate and drive business results,” he said.

In April, Dell announced a plan to build 10 data centers around the world to support a range of Cloud-based services, including Azure, VMware and OpenStack clouds. The services will include Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Virtual Desktop-as-a-Service and IT outsourcing, Steve Schuckenbrock, president of Dell Services, said then.

The company started with public cloud. In August, at VMware’s VMworld conference in San Francisco, Dell launched its public IaaS offering, which includes virtual CPUs, memory, storage networks, IP addresses, firewalls and catalog capabilities.

Source:http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2011/10/dells-new-uk-data-center-to-support-slew-of-upcoming-services

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Aegis to enter UK and European outsourcing market

July 15th, 2011

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Aegis Ltd, the global outsourcing services provider and part of the Essar Group, on Thursday said it will enter the UK and European market for the first time, creating 600 new jobs in Manchester. The 600 roles will be at a new customer centre in Manchester, which is expected to open later this year, according to a media statement.

Aegis, which is one of the largest outsourcing business with over 50,000 employees across 50 locations, then plans a further significant expansion across various countries in Continental Europe, where a number of additional customer service centres will be opened during the next two years.

Aparup Sengupta, global chief executive officer and managing director of Aegis said the company’s strategy is to ensure that people calling the centres get an excellent experience. ”.. and we think that generally, the best way to do that is to have a strong onshore presence, rather than having centres offshore. This approach of setting up greenfield centres in our target markets will be at the heart of Aegis’s plans to further expand in other European countries,” Sengupta said.

Source:http://www.livemint.com/2011/07/14203347/Aegis-to-enter-UK-and-European.html

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Infosys looks to UK public sector

July 13th, 2011

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Infosys is targeting a move into the UK public sector market, according to BG Srinivas, European head of the Indian outsourcing giant.

Srinivas told ComputerworldUK that the drive into the public sector would begin in the US, before Infosys began looking for opportunities in the UK. Public spending cuts and the 20 percent price cuts that the Cabinet Office demanded from its incumbent suppliers were not a deterrent, he said.

Spending cuts meant global sourcing was more necessary than ever, said Srinavas, who said Infosys would gain traction in the market “without reducing it s rate card”.

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Infosys expects to bid for public sector work directly and, on larger contracts, as part of a consortium.

The company will maintain its core focus on retail, consumer packaged goods, financial services and telecoms, said Srinavas, adding that it was using retail platforms developed in the UK to win contracts elsewhere in Europe. Infosys was though a key supplier to Waitrose on a £10 million project to build a new website that suffered major probelms when it went live in March.

Infosys today reported revenue for the quarter to 30 June of $1.7 billion (£1 billion), up by 23 percent from the same quarter last year. Net profit was up 17.8 percent at $384 million (£242 million).

The company is aiming to shift its focus from a traditional “time and materials” model, under which contracts are priced on the basis of the duration of a project and the number of staff working on it, to a products and platforms business.

Source:http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/outsourcing/3290893/infosys-looks-to-uk-public-sector/

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01 Synergy to participate in Internet World London

May 6th, 2011

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01 Synergy is pleased to announce that it will be participating at Internet World London 2011, “Europe’s Biggest Event for Digital Marketing and Online Business” to be held at Earls Court, London, UK from 10 – 12 May 2011.

01 Synergy will be showcasing its:

Mobile Software development services (Apps for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android etc.)
Social Media development & marketing (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin)
Rich Internet Application development services (Flash / Silver light)
E-Commerce & CMS Solutions (Joomla, Magento, Mambo, Drupal, WordPress, Typo3, Oxid)
Custom Software Development services (.Net, PHP, Java)
IT Consultancy
Legacy Application re-engineering
QA & Testing services
Offshore IT Staffing

To fix an appointment click here . We look forward to see you at the Internet World London.

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UK outsourcing almost rivals financial services

May 4th, 2011

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Demand for IT services has helped outsourcing become one of the highest grossing industries in the UK, research has shown.

IT and data services provided by British-based businesses generate revenues of about £41.7bn per year, more than any other outsourcing sector in the UK, according to the report The size of the UK outsourcing market – across the private and public sectors.

Overall, outsourcing generates about £207bn each year, roughly eight per cent of the annual output of the UK economy, making the industry almost as big as the financial services sector, researchers from Oxford Economics found.

The share of the output of the UK economy enjoyed by outsourced services in 2009
Photo: Oxford Economics/Business Services Association
Mark Fox, CEO of the Business Services Association – which commissioned the research – said: “IT is an important part of an industry, which itself is a significant part of the UK economy.”

Richard Holway, chairman of analyst house TechMarketView, welcomed the research findings, adding that the practice of IT and IT-related business process outsourcing “is far more advanced here than in any other European country”.

The IT outsourcing industry employs some 340,000 people in the UK, more than 10 per cent of the some 3.1 million people employed by the outsourcing industry as a whole.

The bulk of outsourcing is carried out by the private sector, with a 60-40 split in terms of spend.

In recent years, a number of large outsourcing deals have been signed, including airport operator BAA striking a £100m deal with a consortium led by Capgemini and EDF Energy signing an IT support deal with Capgemini worth up to £100m.

According to the report, outsourcing contributes a further £115bn to the UK economy each year, through supplies, goods and services that are procured by outsourcing firms.

The report, largely based on turnover figures from 2009, defines an outsourced service as one that involves “a degree of delegation of management responsibility” and that is “more typically provided by an inhouse team of the customer themselves”.

Source:http://www.silicon.com/technology/it-services/2011/05/03/uk-outsourcing-almost-rivals-financial-services-39747347/

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IT dominates UK outsourcing industry

May 3rd, 2011

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IT outsourcing makes up the largest part of the UK’s outsourcing industry, according to a new report.

The Oxford Economics research, commissioned by the Business Services Association, found that based on 2009 data, IT and data-related outsourcing has an annual turnover of £41.7 billion, or 20 percent of the industry’s £207 billion total turnover. The UK outsourcing industry represents eight percent of the UK economic output.

Although IT was closely followed by property services outsourcing (£39 billion), it employs far fewer people – just 340,000 compared to property services’ 590,000.

The private sector generally contributed more to outsourcing turnover across all sectors, apart from catering and security services. The public sector represented £82 billion (40 percent) of the total outsourcing industry, compared to £125 billion (60 percent) by the private sector.

In IT, the private sector was responsible for 84 percent of the IT outsourcing turnover (£35 billion), while the public sector contributed just £6.7 billion a year.

Analysts have welcomed the new research, which they believe puts IT outsourcing into context and highlights its significance in the UK.

“It shows how important outsourcing is to the UK economy,” TechMarketView analyst Richard Holway wrote on his blog. “Indeed, it is far more advanced here than in any other European country.”

Bindi Bhullar, director of global IT services provider and outsourcer HCL Technologies, added: “Until now, there has been a reluctance to openly discuss the core benefits outsourcing brings to the UK economy. It is great to finally see credible research highlighting the significance of IT and IT-related BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) into context. This report shows how IT outsourcing has fully developed into a mature market.”