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High Levels of HRO M&A Activity in H1 2014 Led by Benefits Administration Acquisitions
Aug 14, 2014, by NelsonHall AnalystOverall H1 HRO M&A activity is up year-over-year, and acquisition activity has increased in nearly all service lines except learning. While learning M&A activity was high in H1 2013, this year, M&A activity in H1 2014 was strongest in the benefits administration market, and it’s occurring in both the U.S. and U.K. as vendors strengthen their DC contribution capability.&[...]
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Cognizant Q2 2014 Results: Delivers on Revenues, Margins, But Share Price Falls on Reduced Guidance. Over-Reaction, We Feel
Aug 06, 2014, by Rachael StormonthSo why has Cognizant’s share price taken such a battering today, after such strong topline growth (16.5%, at the mid-point of prior guidance) and a non-GAAP operating margin of 21%, above the company’s target range of 19% to 20%? (see here). Quite simply because of the revised revenue guidance for 2014 from growth of at least 16.5% to at least 14%. This is a huge[...]
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Spotlight on Talent2: HR Cloud SaaS meets Payroll Services
Jul 15, 2014, by Gary BragarHow Talent2 addresses the HR Cloud SaaS puzzle with payroll Talent2’s cloud-based HR SaaS with integrated payroll services offering now represents 25% of the company’s HR/payroll revenues. Its revenues have been growing at ~10 % per annum and NelsonHall expects cloud based HR SaaS with payroll services to represent 30% of Talent2’s HR/payroll revenue by 2015. Talent2’[...]
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Highlights and Trends in the HRO Market in H1 2014
Jul 10, 2014, by NelsonHall AnalystThe HRO market is always buzzing with activity. With the first half of the year over, it’s a good time to examine the key trends by service area. Benefits Administration: Benefits administration was a hotbed of activity in H1! Contracts were awarded across various service lines in the U.S. as well as in the U.K. There was a solid stream of pensions and retirement administration c[...]
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ADP Meeting of the Minds: Spotlight on HCM
Apr 16, 2014, by Gary BragarADP is focused on growing its HCM business globally. Much of this growth will be organic. Accordingly, ADP is making investments across HCM including ADP Vantage, which has global record capability, and aiming to help organizations improve their employee engagement and talent management. ADP’s commitment to HCM is clearly evident by its April 10 announcement to spin-off its Dealer Servi[...]
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NelsonHall’s HR Program Just Gets Bigger
Jan 22, 2014, by Gary BragarNelsonHall’s HR team has undertaken a review of our programs and in response to customer feedback and market requests and will be launching a Managed Services Program (MSP) in 2014. The MSP program will supplement the already established HR programs: Multi-process HR BPO services. Payroll Services Benefits Administration Recruitment Process Outsourcing Learning BPO. T[...]
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Infosys Q3 FY 2014 Results: Traditional ADM Services Recover; PPS Businesses Yet to Make a Meaningful Contribution to Infosys 3.0
Jan 10, 2014, by Rachael StormonthThere are clear positives to this quarter’s results from Infosys, and its share price certainly picked up (is now the highest since March 2012), though it continues to look to address a number of challenges, some of which are company-specific issues. This is the third quarter of improved topline growth. Management has raised revenue guidance for full FY 2014 to growth of 11.5-12% (up from[...]
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NelsonHall’s 2014 HRO Predictions By Service Line
Dec 17, 2013, by Gary BragarPer NelsonHall’s blog of December 12, 2013 was a healthy year for HRO, with overall contract activity up ~37%. We now take a look at what we can expect in 2014 by HRO service line. MPHRO We predict the Global MPHRO market will grow at mid-single digits CAAGR through 2017 The Shared Service Transformation segment will continue to grow mainly as a result of contract expansions and ren[...]
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Mouchel Bounces Back in FY 2013
Dec 12, 2013, by NelsonHall AnalystMouchel has announced results for FY 2013, for the period ending 30 September 2013: Revenue was £555.3m EBIT was £28.1m, a margin of 5.1%. Comparisons with the prior year were not provided as the company in its present from came into being in August 2012. For the new company, for the five weeks to the end of 2012 FY, revenue was[...]
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Cabinet Office on Track with Shared Services Strategy
Nov 04, 2013, by NelsonHall AnalystThe U.K. Cabinet Office recently briefed NelsonHall about progress with its shared services strategy. Shared services has been a recurring theme in the U.K. public sector’s drive for efficiency for many years. It has continued to rise in importance as a lever for cost savings in the public sector, driven first by the Gershon Review of 2004 and most recently, when the current government first[...]
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Cognizant Acquires TriZetto to Add ISV Business to its Healthcare Business
Sep 15, 2014, by Dominique RaviartCognizant is to acquire TriZetto, a healthcare ISV in the U.S., for $2.7bn in cash. TriZetto has a headcount of 3.7k (Cognizant at end of H1 2014: 187k.4). In its last 12 months, TriZetto had $711m in revenues and a non-GAAP operating margin of 18.4% (Cognizant in 2013: 20.6%). TriZetto LTM revenues breakdown by service/product line is: Payer software: 40% (~$277m) Consulting: 23% (~[...]
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Genpact Q2 Results: The Transformation Remains a 'Wait & See' Game
Aug 01, 2014, by NelsonHall AnalystGenpact’s Q2 2014 results show similar mid-single digit (5%) top line growth to Q1 (4.9%), in line with prior guidance for the year of 4%-6% (this has now been adjusted to 5-7% to include a revenue contribution from its Q2 acquisition of Pharmalink). But it is substantially below the 12.1% growth seen in 2013. EBIT margin was 13.0%, down both sequentially (-7 bps) and y/y (-157 bps[...]
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NelsonHall Launches “Speed-to-Source” Vendor Evaluation Tool for Payroll Outsourcing
Jul 30, 2014, by Gary BragarThe NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) for Payroll Outsourcing is now available to NelsonHall clients, and is also available for a period free-of-charge to buy-side organizations through NelsonHall and through its partners SIG and SSON. The NEAT tool for Payroll Outsourcing is part of NelsonHall’s “speed-to-source” initia[...]
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TCS Q3 FY14 Results: TCS Continues to Pull Ahead - What are Its Growth Engines?
Jan 16, 2014, by Rachael StormonthAnother very strong quarter from TCS, with no hint of the slight slowdown in growth that we have seen at Accenture (for its November quarter) and Infosys. If we look at where the growth is coming from: The more established ADM services (where Infosys took its eye of the ball in FY 13) contributed an estimated $173m in additional revenue, or 35.4% of the y/y growth of $490m. (Infosys achie[...]
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HP Enterprise Services Exceeds Guidance for FY 2013
Nov 26, 2013, by Rachael StormonthHP Enterprise Services (ES) has announced fiscal Q4 2013 results, for the period ending October 31, 2013: Revenues were $5,759m, down 9.3% y/y, and down 1% sequentially EBIT was $255m, a margin of 4.4% down 223 bps y/y. Fiscal Q4 2013 revenue (and y/y and sequential revenue growth) by service type was: Infrastructure technology outsourcing $3,563m (-9%, -3%) Application and bu[...]
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Capita CEO to Retire
Nov 18, 2013, by Rachael StormonthCapita has announced the retirement of its CEO, Paul Pindar, with effect from February 28, 2014. Pindar will step down after 26 years with the company. Andy Parker, Capita's current Deputy Chief Executive and Joint COO, will succeed Paul as Chief Executive from March 1, 2014. Dawn Marriott-Sims, currently Executive Director of Capita's Workplace Services division, will be appointed t[...]
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Northgate Information Solutions Announces 2013 Revenues Down 6% to £802m
Sep 02, 2013, by NelsonHall AnalystNGA's performance is in keeping with the HRO market which has been buoyant in recent months. The division's revenue will have been boosted by the Convergys acquisition as well as wining new contracts (e.g. Aer Lingus) and successful renewals (e.g. Fifth Third Bank). The restructuring of NPS division last year, to focus more on services, combined with a number of contracts starting in 20[...]
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Highlights and Trends in the HRO Market for H1 2013: Part One
Aug 07, 2013, by NelsonHall AnalystNow that H1 2013 is complete, it is time to recap on highlights and trends in the HRO world. Overall Activity There was a healthy number of new contracts awarded across all HRO service lines in H1 2013. There was, however, an increase in organizations changing their existing service provider, particularly within benefits administration and RPO. For the last few years, attention [...]
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Why Companies Outsource Payroll - Some Key Drivers
Jul 25, 2013, by Gary BragarOn July 25 2013, MidlandHR was awarded a payroll BPO and HR software contract by UK General Insurance. This is a full payroll BPO contract with MidlandHR providing management and operations of payroll including: Processing of gross to net Data entry, both manual and electronic Provision of automated or manual calculations Checking of input, validation, sensibility checks, investig[...]