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Capita’s Offer to Xchanging: How it Makes Sense
Oct 19, 2015, by Rachael StormonthOn October 14, the Xchanging board recommended a final cash offer by Capita of 160p per share. The offer, valuing Xchanging at ~£412m, represents a premium of ~44% to the closing price on October 2, 2015 (the last business day before the start of the offer period), 52% to the prior three-month average price and 64% to the one-month average price. Capita states it believes the acquis[...]
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Analytics & Reporting BPS in Financial Services: Leveraging Complexity for Competitive Advantage
Oct 14, 2015, by Andy EfstathiouNelsonHall has just published a market assessment on Analytics and Reporting (A&R) BPS in banking and capital markets (BFS). This is an emerging BPS market with few significant competitors, and adoption from only a few institutions who are tier 1 banks in mature markets. There are many vendors of point A&R solutions, but no standard or dominant vendor has emerged to manage the process valu[...]
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Drive Next BPS Wave in U.S. Banking in the Decade Ahead
Oct 14, 2015, by Andy EfstathiouThe most important development in U.S. banking BPS in the last five years has just been announced (it may still not pass the U.S. Congress, but this analyst believes that too much pressure will be applied by industry for Congress to block it). The announcement is that the signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have reached an agreement on the terms of the trade agreement and will no[...]
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Capgemini’s Product Engineering Testing Business Prioritizes Portfolio Expansion and IoT
Oct 14, 2015, by Dominique RaviartCapgemini Group recently briefed on its R&D services/product engineering testing capabilities in its Sogeti High Tech subsidiary. Background Sogeti High Tech (SHT) is a subsidiary of Sogeti (itself a subsidiary of Capgemini). It provides product engineering services (PES)/R&D services. The company has a background in servicing key aeronautic sector clients. The company has expanded i[...]
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Want to Succeed in Agile? Learn from Rugby!
Oct 08, 2015, by Rachael StormonthOne recurring theme in recent conversations with CIOs has been their increasing interest in DevOps and their recognition of the importance of having the right culture. In fact, three C words: Culture, Collaboration, Communication. The general feeling is that if Agile is difficult, distributed Agile is challenging – and DevOps requires organizational rethinking. But, they agree[...]
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ITO Bookings Continue to Decline, Digital Transformation Spend Set to Climb
Oct 07, 2015, by Dominique RaviartOn October 6th, NelsonHall held its quarterly IT outsourcing (ITO) Index webcast, presented by Dominique Raviart, Research Director for IT Services research. In Q3 2015, ITO bookings were down 30% year-on-year overall. In North America, bookings declined by 60% y/y, while Europe was up 60% y/y. Over the Q1-Q3 2015 period, ITO bookings were down 30% y/y overall. North America was down [...]
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CSC Goes for Market Leadership in Australia IT Services with Acquisition of UXC
Oct 06, 2015, by Rachael StormonthCSC has announced it has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire Australian IT services vendor UXC for AU$1.26 per share, a purchase price of ~AU$428m (~US$300m). The transaction is subject to completion of a five-week exclusive due diligence process. CSC expects it to be finalized by February 2016. UXC is one of Australia’s largest independent publicly-owned IT services vendo[...]
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CSS Corporation Looks to Simplify the Customer Experience
Oct 05, 2015, by NelsonHall AnalystAt CSS Corp’s analyst day and OneWorld client conference in Santa Rosa, California, the theme was “Let’s Simplify”. CEO Tiger Ramesh opened the analyst day with a story about his own digital experience travelling to the conference, including buying his airline ticket online, and piloting a hotel phone app he used to select his room and take restaurant recommendations. He us[...]
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ADP Stays Focused on Client-Centric Innovation
Sep 29, 2015, by NelsonHall AnalystADP recently held its seventh annual industry analyst event in NYC at its Innovation Lab in Chelsea, providing a current business update, news of recent developments, and insights on what’s to come. Overall, there has been growth across ADP’s cloud-based platforms, including RUN, Workforce Now, Vantage HCM, and GlobalView HCM, with the total number of clients reaching ~5[...]
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Digital Transformation: Three Myths About IT Services Examined
Sep 28, 2015, by Dominique RaviartThree questions are commonly being aired these days about the delivery of IT services in support of digital transformation initiatives. Having heard each of these being raised several times, we thought it is a good time to put them through a bit of a reality check. First up for examination... Is “Fail Fast, Move On” the Right Approach to Digital Transformation Projects? The [...]
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2015 Activity Reveals Key Strategic Focus Areas for Benefits Administration in 2016
Sep 21, 2015, by NelsonHall AnalystThough we’re only just into fall, the nature of activity in the Benefits Administration market in 2015 provides important pointers to key strategic focus areas in 2016. In the U.S., the emphasis will continue around Health & Welfare (H&W) services, stemming from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In 2015, tier two H&W specialists such as Businessolver and TASC launched ACA reporti[...]
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HCL Targets Industry-Specific Processes with RPA - Significant Presence Developing in Banking Sector
Sep 17, 2015, by John WillmottHCL began its robotics program in late 2013. Since then HCL has invested ~$1.5m in robotics, (ToscanaBot Automation Framework), via its HCL ToscanaBot center of excellence, which currently employs a team of ~25 personnel and is planned to grow to 50+ personnel by 2016. HCL estimates that its robotics practice currently has an FTE impact of around 2,000 with this expected to grow to ~8,000 FTE impa[...]
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Virtusa’s Pegasystems Application Testing Offering Shows Potential
Sep 17, 2015, by Dominique RaviartVirtusa recently briefed NelsonHall on its Pegasystems application testing IP and service offering, and specifically the newly launched ADOPT testing framework, which illustrates the growing maturity of testing services offerings. Virtusa was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Westborough (Massachusetts) with large delivery facilities in India and Sri-Lanka. The company largely provides ap[...]
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Expanding & Diversifying the Talent Pool to Meet Employer Hiring Needs
Sep 04, 2015, by Gary BragarLast month Allegis Group announced it has combined GettingHired into its Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) business. GettingHired was acquired by Allegis Group in 2012, keeping its own brand, and is now being integrated into AGS’ talent offering, including RPO, in North America. GettingHired provides a talent pool made up of individuals with disabilities who are seeking to fill positions fro[...]
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DevOps & Beyond: Tech Mahindra’s Continued Focus on Testing Automation
Sep 03, 2015, by Dominique RaviartTech Mahindra Testing Services recently briefed NelsonHall on several of its IP investments, specifically around DevOps, its Integrated Automation Framework (iAF), and its connectors for scriptless automation software products. Software testing remains a labor-intensive activity, and the main testing automation software products continue to be mostly used in test execution. IT services vendor I[...]
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Minacs’ Digital Vision for CMS in the Automotive Sector
Sep 01, 2015, by NelsonHall AnalystMinacs has a strong tradition of supporting the automotive industry: over six years ago, the sector made up ~70% of overall revenues, and it now stands at ~45% due to diversification across multiple sectors. Consequently, Minacs has a vision for supporting the connected car, aiming to deliver seamless CMS solutions for any wirelessly connected vehicle, over any network. Its clients are mainly orig[...]
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NIIT Technologies Enhances DCX Offerings with 'Digital Foresight' Tool
Aug 20, 2015, by Dominique RaviartNIIT Technologies recently shared insights regarding its push into digital services. This digital push adds to existing priorities, which include growth intentions in North America and Europe and a strong focus on its IT infrastructure services. Meanwhile, the company is maintaining its established focus on clients in three core verticals: transportation, insurance and BFS (which combined acc[...]
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CSC to Acquire Fixnetix To Offer Front Office As-a-Service Utility Offerings to Capital Markets Sector
Aug 13, 2015, by Rachael StormonthAlong with its Q1 FY 2016 results today (see here) CSC has announced its intended acquisition of Fixnetix, a London-based provider of front-office managed trading solutions with 120 employees and offices in London, New York, Boston, Chicago and Tokyo. Founded in 2006, VC-backed Fixnetix provides and operates specialist trading infrastructure for ultra-low latency trading. It claims its iX-[...]
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Cognizant Q2 Results: Onwards and Upwards In Spite of Health Net Merger
Aug 07, 2015, by Rachael StormonthCognizant Q2 2015 results: Revenues were $3,085.1m, up 22.6% y/y, and up 25.5% in CC EBIT margin was 17.7%, down 171 bps y/y but up 50 bps sequentially Adjusted EBIT margin was 19.8%, down 122 bps y/y, but the same as in Q1 Non-GAAP operating margin, which excludes stock-based compensation expense and acquisition related expenses, was 20.2%, slightly above the target range of 19% to 20[...]
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ADP Integrates Private Exchange Offering in Holistic Approach to HCM
Aug 07, 2015, by NelsonHall AnalystOver the last few years, ADP has ramped up its capabilities beyond payroll to focus on other areas of HR, including benefits administration and RPO, making it well-equipped to handle the main HR functions. This is important because many organizations, from SMEs to large companies, are looking to minimize the number of suppliers they deal with – though only if quality of service is not c[...]
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