What have we done? Revisited

The harm that social media is doing to our children as Australia bans social media use for under 16s Reaction to my Nov 24 article I was pretty stunned by the reaction to my 15th Nov 24  article What have we done? It attracted more views, likes, shares and comments than anything I have ever […]

K3 to divest NexSys Solutions for £36m

Retail-focused software company K3 Business Technologies announced this morning plans to sell its NexSys Solutions business for £36m to SYSPRO, an ERP software provider that K3 acts as a value-added reseller for. The board is looking to return a substantial proportion of the proceeds to shareholders in the first half of 2025. K3 shares are up a […]

eflow Global continues US push

UK headquartered Regtech specialist, eflow Global, has added to its senior team as it looks to further expand its global footprint in the face of increasing demand for compliance solutions. To support this effort and eflow’s growing customer base, the vendor has recruited Ryan Longmire, as its new VP of Sale for the Americas, bolstering […]

Atos completes sale of Worldgrid

Atos’ news this morning is positive for its forecast financial leverage. The Group has announced that it has completed the sale of its Worldgrid business unit to ALTEN, valuing the asset at €270m. Following the sale, Atos’ net debt will be reduced by c€0.2bn. As a result, Atos expects its 2027 financial leverage to be […]

The Big Four consulting cull continues

EY UK is preparing to both axe 150 senior personnel in its consultancy division and replace the head of this practice, Benoit Laclau, who is stepping down after five years in post. A selection process for his replacement is under way. Word of these moves, which were first reported by The Sunday Times, comes barely […]

*New Research* Defence SITS Suppliers, Trends & Forecasts

Today, we have published the latest in our series of PublicSectorViews reports, which delve into each of the six UK Public Sector SITS subsectors. This time it is the turn of the UK Defence SITS market. In Defence SITS Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts 2024, we paint a picture of a complex UK Defence landscape. There […]

Agilisys launches GenAI partnership with SCIE

Agilisys and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) are launching a strategic partnership to support social care organisations to adopt GenAI, working collaboratively to share knowledge, skills, and capabilities. Social care organisations and local councils have already been investing in digitally transforming their organisations, with much of the work focused on process automation and […]

CAA outlines its strategy for AI adoption in UK aviation

The UK’s aviation authority, the CAA, has outlined plans to embrace the use of AI technology in the sector. The new strategy reveals the authority’s thinking on some of the possible benefits and likely challenges presented by adoption AI in the UK aviation industry. The CAA is taking a proactive approach to AI in aviation […]

*NEW RESEARCH* Local & Regional Government Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts 2024

TechMarketView’s latest UK Local & Regional Government (LRG) Software and IT Services (SITS) Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts report is now available. It is the fourth of six subsector reports, after September’s Central Government report, October’s Education report, November’s Health report, and our UK Public Sector Software and IT Services Suppliers Trends, and Forecasts report, published in August. It will be […]