Mar 30, 2017, by Rachael Stormonth
On March 15, WNS announced its intended acquisition of HealthHelp, in what, at $95m, will be its largest acquisition to date. HealthHelp, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Houston, TX is a 400-FTE strong healthcare utilization management specialist.
In many ways, the HealthHelp acquisition has much in common with WNS’ Value Edge acquisition. HealthHelp, like Value Edge, will become[...]
Oct 19, 2015, by Rachael Stormonth
On 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[...]
May 22, 2015, by Rachael Stormonth
HP Enterprise Services has announced Q2 FY 2015 results, for the period ending April 30, 2015:
Revenue was $4,817m, down 15.5% y/y, and down 10% in constant currency (CC), reflecting key account run off and weakness in EMEA
Segment earnings before taxes (EBT) were $194m, a margin of 4.0%, up 143 bps y/y.
Q2 FY 2015 revenue by service line (with y/y revenue growth) was:
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Feb 09, 2015, by Rachael Stormonth
Accenture Federal Services (AFS) is to acquire Agilex Technologies, a privately-held provider of digital solutions for the U.S. federal government based in Chantilly, VA. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition will enhance Accenture’s digital capabilities in analytics, cloud and mobility for federal agencies. It also will add agile delivery expertise. Agilex br[...]
Aug 22, 2014, by Rachael Stormonth
In a case that has been unfolding for several years now, and which heated up in early May, Accenture on August 1 assumed responsibility for administering Medicaid claims in the state of Texas. Accenture’s first award as a state’s primary fiscal agent was announced in the wake of a dispute between Texas and Xerox over its process for reviewing Medicaid dental c[...]
Oct 17, 2013, by Rachael Stormonth
HP recently provided an update on its turnaround program at a securities analyst meeting in the U.S. One major takeaway from the briefing is that HP ES, in particular, is taking additional steps to rebuild and strengthen its business.
Looking firstly at the HP group-wide picture, turnaround measures till now have included restructuring, retooling, and reducing costs. Successes so fa[...]
Jul 12, 2013, by Rachael Stormonth
An encouraging quarter for Infosys after the disappointment of missing guidance last quarter.
It is not possible to determine the precise level of organic growth (excluding Lodestone) as Infosys is folding some of its consulting capabilities into Lodestone Consulting: this has happened already in the U.K. and is occurring now in the U.S. and Germany; the incremental $20m in revenue contributed [...]