The Salesforce.com story demonstrates that the cloud and SaaS solutions can add up to interesting business opportunities for traditional systems integrators. At the “Salesforce Customer Company Tour 2013 – London“ yesterday, 2 May 2013, the presence of a number of large SIs such as Accenture, Capgemini, CSC and Deloitte proved this. During the event I had the chance to quickly [...]

Les leaders du capital risque français se sont réunis suite à l’invitation de Leonardo Ventures au « Cercle de l’Union Interallié ». A cette occasion  notre Senior Vice Président des Operations, Franck NASSAH a présenté les tendances du marché du logiciel en mode SaaS, suivi par Jérôme LASCOMBE de Hopscotch qui a présenté l’impact du « Big Data » pour les directions marketing. Les [...]

CEO Guy Berruyer continues to make his presence felt at Sage, the UK’s biggest software company and its only global top-10 business applications provider. When M Berruyer took over as CEO a couple of years ago, one of his biggest decisions was to exit Sage’s north American healthcare business – a business line which had long been criticised by investors [...]

One of the UK’s more prominent software-as-as-service success stories, Ffastfill, announced today that it has received an offer to buy the company by Pattington, part of Dublin’s Ion Group. Pattington previously acquired another UK company operating in a similar space, Patsystems, so this looks like a consolidation play. Ffastfill’s directors have recommended the offer, which values the company at £106m [...]

The Indian Cloud services market is growing at a significant pace, despite perceived and actual challenges such as data security, compliance (privacy laws, local laws) and worries over uptime. Moreover, the way customers are consuming high performance computing is also undergoing major change. PAC estimates that the overall cloud market in India is worth around INR 50 billion, with more [...]

We hear so much about the relationship between Big Data and Cloud but what does this relationship mean?  EMC made the idea famous with its advertising on Big Data and Cloud, and they do not offer a Big Data solution in the cloud – rather their large customers can build one with EMC offerings. One can host an analytics appliance [...]

It became clear some time ago that larger and global enterprises are keen to move non-core processes to the Cloud, or software-as-a-service – notably CRM, collaboration and some aspects of HR. Other areas, such as ERP and core financials, they wish to keep in-house (at least for now). At the other end of the scale, small companies can easily move [...]

Today, Fujitsu is launching an SMB Cloud Initiative, based on the enterprise app store first announced at its user conference last November. It is thereby hoping to meet the needs of customers that we articulated in this recent blog post, and extend its reach into the European SMB market. Formerly called the Business Solution Store, the app store is now [...]

IT in the manufacturing industry is today, more than ever, required to help save costs, both by cuts and by enhancing business efficiency through IT. These two elements will drive the IT project services market. Almost one third of the total IT project services revenues in Germany are currently realized by the manufacturing industry. IT projects aimed at reducing fixed [...]

The Russian IT market has had a very successful year in 2011, being by far the fastest growing market in Europe. The over 15% growth rate as well qualifies it as one of the most dynamic at the global level, after China and India. If compared to European regions, the Western Europe mature markets’ average growth has been modest, around [...]