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August 04, 2014
04
Aug'14
PHC looks for UK growth with the channel
Portuguese firm PHC Software is looking to make a mark in the UK with its cloud based service suite and is aiming to do it via the channel
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July 28, 2014
28
Jul'14
SCC increases Oracle focus
SCC has set up an Oracle practice to focus the support it provides for the vendor
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July 28, 2014
28
Jul'14
K3 snaps up Retail Technology to extend market reach
K3 Business Technology Group has acquired small retail EPOS specialist Retail Technology
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July 25, 2014
25
Jul'14
CCL hits out at Oracle charges
The Campaign for Clear Licensing has hit out at Oracle over charges the vendor plans to introduce
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July 24, 2014
24
Jul'14
Gartner predicts strong supply chain management software growth
Demand for more visibility from customers is producing the strongest annual growth recorded in the supply chain management software market
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July 18, 2014
18
Jul'14
Server weakness continues to hurt IBM
IBM's second quarter results were a mixed bag with mainframes performing well but server systems continuing to struggle
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July 14, 2014
14
Jul'14
Channel interest in BI will drive the market
Research into the business intelligence market from Compris reveals that the channel has a key role to play in the future of the market
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
SAS continues channel building with SCC appointment
SAS has followed up the signing of Computacenter by adding SCC to its channel roster
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July 04, 2014
04
Jul'14
Xchanging swoops again with buyout of Agencyport Europe
Xchanging has made it two acquisitions in as many days as it seals a deal to take over Agencyport Europe
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July 04, 2014
04
Jul'14
BI specialists in pole position to gain big data rewards
Resellers with BI skills should be in the vanguard of those in the channel able to translate the buzz about big data into tangible financial rewards
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July 04, 2014
04
Jul'14
SAS signs Computacenter in channel drive
Just a few months after announcing its intention to work more with the channel SAS has signed up Computacenter
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Xchanging swoops on Total Objects
Xchanging has bolstered its position in the insurance software market buying Total Objects
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July 02, 2014
02
Jul'14
Fruition snaps up Partners in IT
US firm Fruition Partners has acquired Partners in IT, in a move designed to strengthen and grow its presence in the UK and EMEA
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July 01, 2014
01
Jul'14
TmaxSoft on the hunt for channel partners
South Korean enterprise software vendor TmaxSoft is keen to develop its channel in the UK
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June 25, 2014
25
Jun'14
BI market posing reseller challenges
Selling business intelligence is not just about the technology with the channel advised to consider some company politics before making the sales pitch
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June 24, 2014
24
Jun'14
Sitecore takes the FAST route
Software player Sitecore has signed up with the Federation Against Software Theft as it looks to increase awareness of the importance of its software licensing
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June 23, 2014
23
Jun'14
TmaxSoft bolsters channel team as it seeks new partners
South Korean software player TmaxSoft has added some experienced heads to its UK operation as it looks for UK growth
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June 20, 2014
20
Jun'14
Tibco lands former HP PC chief
The former chief of HP's printing and personal systems group has popped up at business intelligence player Tibco
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
Accenture swoops on PurePlay to drive EPM growth
Accenture continues to expand its reach by buying another consultancy business
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June 04, 2014
04
Jun'14
Fenton's QuantiQ Acquisitions snaps up Tectura UK
QuantiQ Acquisitions moves to bolster Microsoft Dynamics credentials with Tectura UK buy
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June 03, 2014
03
Jun'14
KPMG acquires Safira as it seeks to bolster BPM offering
KPMG has opted to pick up another consultancy as it extends its customer options
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May 23, 2014
23
May'14
Civica snaps up Keystone Asset Management
Civica has added asset management to its portfolio after acquiring Keystone
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May 20, 2014
20
May'14
Billions being wasted on unused software
Sage has found that billions is being wasted by firms not using the full functionality of their software
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May 16, 2014
16
May'14
Accenture snaps up Enkitec as it ramps up Oracle business
Accenture has strengthened its Oracle business after buying up consultancy Enkitec
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May 15, 2014
15
May'14
Gartner: AIM market thrives with moves towards integrated business
Gartner has predicted growth will continue to come in the application infrastructure and middleware market
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May 08, 2014
08
May'14
SAP aims to drive cloud adoption through the channel
SAP has appointed a new head of global partner operations as it looks to drive more business through the channel
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May 08, 2014
08
May'14
Sage CEO decides its time to go as cloud business grows
Sage's CEO has decided its time to do other things as he announces plans to quit the firm by March next year
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
IRIS Software snaps up HR specialist Cascade
IRIS Software has extended its portfolio with the acquisition of HR specialist Cascade
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April 22, 2014
22
Apr'14
MicroScope top stories, week ending 18 April 2014
The week saw Capita snap up AMT-SYBEX and Dell making changes to its partner programme
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April 15, 2014
15
Apr'14
Capita snaps up AMT-SYBEX
Capita’s appetite for acquisitions is showing no sign of abating following an £82m buy-out of AMT-SYBEX, a proprietary software vendor
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April 09, 2014
09
Apr'14
SAP puts business suite into the cloud
SAP has put more of its applications into its HANA cloud platform as it looks to fight off the competition
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April 03, 2014
03
Apr'14
ACS extends portfolio with ConsultCRM acquisition
Advanced Computer Software has moved to add Microsoft Dynamics expertise to its offering with the purchase of ConsultCRM
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Gartner IT spending forecasts for 2014 on track
With a quarter of the year gone Gartner has indicated it believes its forecasts of growth in global IT spending this year remain on track
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April 01, 2014
01
Apr'14
Salesforce gets spot on top 10 global software vendor chart
Emergence of cloud specialist Salesforce.com as a major player in the software world confirmed by Gartner
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March 28, 2014
28
Mar'14
SAS turns to the channel
Big data analytics player SAS has decided that the time is right to turn to the channel
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March 19, 2014
19
Mar'14
Oracle boss claims IBM and SAP are in its sights
A strong set of third quarter financials has given Larry Ellison the chance to talk about overtaking both IBM and SAP in some of the key areas they compete against Oracle
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March 18, 2014
18
Mar'14
Intermedia adds Salesforce, ConnectWise to channel portal
Integration of Salesforce and ConnectWise into Intermedia’s hosted cloud platform intended to slash complexity for partner sales teams
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March 17, 2014
17
Mar'14
Former Toshiba UK boss Bass joins OpenSymmetry
Long standing Toshiba executive Andy Bass has opted to join sales performance management specialist OpenSymmetry
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March 13, 2014
13
Mar'14
CDG completes software distribution divestment
CDG software distribution business spun out into independent business
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March 11, 2014
11
Mar'14
Jaspersoft hires global partner head as BI channel expands
Paul Kochanski joins BI specialist Jaspersoft from Talend to seek out further growth opportunities.
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March 03, 2014
03
Mar'14
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 28 February 2014
Ingram Micro discusses restructuring plan, VMware brings channel hybrid clouds to UK, and Bytes turns to the Apprentice for recruitment skills. Catch up on the biggest stories from last week
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February 19, 2014
19
Feb'14
HP knew of Autonomy hardware sales tactics
New evidence suggests HP was aware of Autonomy’s accounting practices months before publicly condemning the company
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February 17, 2014
17
Feb'14
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 14 February 2014
Claranet CEO talks cloud channel landscape, Yorks cricketer heads to Big Technology and Discount-Licensing hits out at FAST. Catch up on last week's biggest channel news stories
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February 12, 2014
12
Feb'14
DataStax hunts disillusioned Oracle partners
Application and big data specialist DataStax seeks out partner channel in the UK, saying its market is undergoing a paradigm shift towards open source databases
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February 10, 2014
10
Feb'14
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 7 February 2014
Microsoft clashes with reseller in copyright case, Dell extends SME managed print options, and Tintri forges ahead with virtual storage plan. Catch up on the biggest stories of last week
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
ASG Software puts channel at heart of relaunch
Enterprise software solutions firm ASG turns its back on direct selling model for first time in 28 year history
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February 03, 2014
03
Feb'14
ACS extends education reach with Compass acquisition
ACS continues to build up its education business after picking up Compass Computer Consultants
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January 31, 2014
31
Jan'14
NetSuite thanks channel for growth
NetSuite's CEO has cheered the channel's role in improving its revenue numbers in 2013
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January 28, 2014
28
Jan'14
Accenture predicts more enterprise IT innovation
Accenture's Technology Vision 2014 report outlines a world where large companies are as innovative as start-ups when it comes to using IT to improve the business
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January 24, 2014
24
Jan'14
Express Metrix hands channel free SAM software
Software Asset Management specialist Express Metrix has made an SME licensing management tool free for users and channel partners
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January 22, 2014
22
Jan'14
Sluggish hardware performance hurts IBM
IBM executives will forgo bonuses and more staff will be cut after a disappointing fourth quarter
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January 15, 2014
15
Jan'14
License Dashboard takes proactive approach to SAM
Software Asset Management specialist License Dashboard has taken the wraps off a fresh approach to monitoring application licences.
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January 13, 2014
13
Jan'14
Cloud delivering the numbers for SAP
Cloud subscription growth and increased revenue from HANA helped SAP deliver solid prelim numbers for last year
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January 13, 2014
13
Jan'14
Inoapps buys Crocus ahead of further expansion plans
Acquisition of rival Crocus comes in the wake of £10m investment from growth fund BGF and heralds further international expansion
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January 13, 2014
13
Jan'14
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 10 January 2014
McAfee brand killed off by Intel, Avnet gets new UK management and Gartner bets on enterprise software. Catch up on the biggest channel news stories from the past week
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January 06, 2014
06
Jan'14
Gartner: enterprise software good bet for 2014
Gartner’s latest forecast for global IT spending this year indicates that enterprise software resellers are going to be cashing in during 2014
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January 02, 2014
02
Jan'14
Digital economy experts recognised in Honours list
The New Year's Honours List has recognised some of the talents of people working in the digital economy arena
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December 19, 2013
19
Dec'13
Cloud business growing at Oracle
Oracle has revealed an increase in revenues in its latest results and revealed its SaaS business is breaking new ground with revenues
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December 18, 2013
18
Dec'13
TechMarketView: Financial sector a software and services opportunity
Analyst house TechMarketView has forecast strong growth in the IT software and services sector for those vendors and channel players operating in the financial services sector
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December 16, 2013
16
Dec'13
Gartner: BI set to remain top customer focus
As it looks into the crystal ball Gartner believes that business intelligence and analytics will remain a key focus for CIOs through to 2017.
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December 06, 2013
06
Dec'13
useMango ties up first distribution deal with Azlan
useMango, a provider of testing tools for software development and implementations, has announced its first distribution deal with Azlan
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November 29, 2013
29
Nov'13
Panintelligence aims to boost sales reach through channel
Business intelligence vendor Panintelligence has kicked off a reseller recruitment campaign
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November 22, 2013
22
Nov'13
IT help desks adopt self-service strategy as staff cuts hit
Almost all service desks will use self-service tools to help cope amid job cuts which have left IT help desks with a huge drop in staff
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November 21, 2013
21
Nov'13
Tech Data attempts to tap big data trend
Tech Data UK has added the SAP Sybase IQ system to its software portfolio in a move designed to strengthen relationships with SAP resellers
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November 19, 2013
19
Nov'13
Ovum finds higher education market lagging on cloud adoption
Research into the higher education market by Ovum has revealed that the vast majority of customers are failing to exploit cloud computing
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November 15, 2013
15
Nov'13
Competition driving financial services IT investment
The need to remain competitive as well as compliant is driving spending in the financial services sector
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November 11, 2013
11
Nov'13
Financial sector embracing software and services
The latest report into the financial services market from TechMarketView reveals a sector that is investing in software and IT services quicker than the rest of the economy
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November 04, 2013
04
Nov'13
License Dashboard extends partner network
Software Asset Management specialist License Dashboard has extended its global partner network
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November 01, 2013
01
Nov'13
Pearlfinders: Channel under pressure to hone software skills
The latest Pearlfinders IT Index finds that customers are increasingly looking to the channel to help them host, test and manage applications
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October 21, 2013
21
Oct'13
SAP tinkers with Business by Design as cloud grows
SAP's decision to wind down its SME Business by Design offering has caused some distraction away from its Q3 numbers
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October 21, 2013
21
Oct'13
Livingstone shuffles management pack
SAM specialist Livingstone has seen its CEO head to run US operations as it introduces a fresh head of sales in EMEA
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October 17, 2013
17
Oct'13
Emerging markets and hardware weakness hit IBM
IBM has missed revenue targets as a result of declines in its hardware business and its weaker performance in emerging markets
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October 04, 2013
04
Oct'13
Oracle UK channel boss: partners must address legacy estates
Oracle’s new UK channel VP Will O’Brien has nailed his colours to the mast, urging resellers to expand their expertise and push the Oracle solution stack into legacy customers
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September 30, 2013
30
Sep'13
Red Hat: solution-based portfolios key to new channel scheme
Red Hat redefines structure of EMEA channel partner programme to better support and enable resellers offering solution-based product sets to the market
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September 26, 2013
26
Sep'13
Express Metrix looks for strategic SAM partners
Software Asset Management specialist Express Metrix is looking to make the conversation partners have with customers around software more strategic
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September 19, 2013
19
Sep'13
Oracle sounds cautious note over Q2 prospects
Oracle has seen its share price slide after it delivered sober forecasts for what lies ahead in its fiscal Q2
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September 18, 2013
18
Sep'13
Intuitive Business Intelligence appoints three directors
Business intelligence dashboard software firm Intuitive Business Intelligence brings in three new directors to spruce up its board and manage a surge in demand for BI
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September 13, 2013
13
Sep'13
Channel pressure causes u-turn at Mindjet
Mindjet has reintroduced a product that it had planned to shelve after the channel caused it to change its plans
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September 13, 2013
13
Sep'13
SAP becomes Intel, Hortonworks Hadoop reseller
SAP signs redistribution agreement to provide Intel Distributuion Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks Data Platform alongside SAP HANA in big data drive
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September 10, 2013
10
Sep'13
Rimo3 opens for business and for channel partners
Formed by staff from Camwood application management specialist Rimo3 has started business and is looking for channel partners
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September 04, 2013
04
Sep'13
UK Kodak Pension Plan acquires document imaging business
The UK Kodak Pension Plan has acquired the document and personal imaging businesses from Kodak Eastman
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September 03, 2013
03
Sep'13
Dell enhances software programme
New software competencies take account of growing status of Dell’s software business within the company
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August 16, 2013
16
Aug'13
Dell profits collapse as fight for PC firm rages on
Dell’s profits fell off a cliff in the second quarter of its fiscal 2014, as the fight between Michael Dell and Carl Icahn for control of the company continues
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August 09, 2013
09
Aug'13
Microgen boss set to retire
Microgen's CEO has announced plans to retire once a strategic review of the business is completed
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August 05, 2013
05
Aug'13
Utilities sector set to up services and software spending
Gartner analysis of the utilities market in Western Europe shows increased spending on software and IT services
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July 23, 2013
23
Jul'13
BPO contract values tumble
The value of business process outsourcing contracts has taken a tumble in the second quarter as a result of weak economic conditions
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July 22, 2013
22
Jul'13
SAP drops co-CEO strategy
The shock decision by one of SAP's co-CEOs to leave the firm leaves the vendor looking at having one man in charge from May next year
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July 22, 2013
22
Jul'13
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 19 July 2013
Adopting cloud could make midsized businesses more competitive; Computacenter UK sitting pretty; and Avnet and Arrow land IBM training role, in our regular look back at last week's big stories
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July 18, 2013
18
Jul'13
Weak Asia causes SAP software licence sales to drop
For the first time in three years SAP has reported a drop in software licence sales with a weak performance in Asia being blamed
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July 18, 2013
18
Jul'13
Lay-off costs hurt IBM profits in Q2
Second quarter profit at IBM took a hit on the back of ‘workforce rebalancing charges’
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July 04, 2013
04
Jul'13
HP software reseller hardware links grow under PartnerOne
The decision to combine the software channel programmes into PartnerOne has made it easier for HP software and hardware resellers to link up
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July 03, 2013
03
Jul'13
OFT calls for competition probe into government ICT costs
The Office of Fair Trading has called for information about government ICT contracts as it expressed worries about competition in the market
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July 03, 2013
03
Jul'13
Microsoft reaches 100,000 app milestone
Microsoft has hit the 100k app milestone but still lags a long way behind Apple and Google in getting developers to provide additional content for users
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July 01, 2013
01
Jul'13
Losses widen at big data specialist 1Spatial
Firm formed in reverse takeover by Avisen in 2011 falls to £4.4m loss but insists it is now on track for growth
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July 01, 2013
01
Jul'13
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 28 June 2013
Our regular look back at the biggest IT channel news stories from the past seven days, as selected by MicroScope readers
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June 26, 2013
26
Jun'13
ACS sees strong sales in health, managed services
Sales at software and services group jump by nearly a quarter in strengthening market
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June 25, 2013
25
Jun'13
Unit4 hires former SAP staffer to drive channel growth
Business transformation software specialist Unit4 has hired a former SAP staffer to enhance and widen its channel network
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June 21, 2013
21
Jun'13
Brit compliance software firm Rivo bags VC backing
Health and safety specialist acquired by investors Kennet Partners and Fidelity Growth Partners to enhance scale and client base
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June 21, 2013
21
Jun'13
Oracle numbers disappoint investors
Oracle saw its share price drop after it delivered flat revenue and declines in its hardware operations for its fourth fiscal quarter.
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June 20, 2013
20
Jun'13
V1 bids to widen business automation reach
Document management software specialist V1 (formerly Version One) has unveiled a swathe of new products as it bids to expand its channel reach in the business automation sector