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Cognizant wins a large PES contract at AVEVA
ERDservices.org rarely reports about Cognizant, the NJ-headquartered but India-centric IT services giant in the space of ER&D services. Despite its size (2018 revenues of USD 16.1bn) and high-growth, Cognizant is little-visible in the ER&D area and is not a significant player in this industry.
LLTS: a splendid performance in FY19!
LTTS continued to be impressive in FY19: the company grew revenues completed by 26.5% at CC (almost purely organic) to USD 723m. LLTS has now taken over Cyient as India’s largest listed ER&D pure-play.
EDAG revises its guidance down for full year 2019
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A few thoughts about Akka’s performance in Q1 2019
Akka has a somewhat soft financial performance in Q1 2019. The company’s organic (CC/CS) revenue growth reached 6.6%, impacted by a lesser number of working days yoy, a 0.5% sequential decrease in its headcount, and by high attrition (20.8%, up by 230 bps yoy).
KPIT returns to the stock market
Last week, KPIT Technologies, returned to India’s BSE and NSE. The company now has a market cap of approximately USD 410m with its share was introduced at a price of INR 99 and traded in the past few days between INR 103 and INR 115. KPIT has succeeded in its IPO and is now an ER&D service pure-play having sold its IT services business to Birlasoft.
Accenture makes a further acquisition for Industry X.0, in Germany
Accenture continues to deploy its M&A strategy and has made its fifth acquisition for Industry X.0. The company acquired Zielpuls, an ER&D vendor servicing the German automotive industry. Zielpuls is an embedded systems specialist.
Alten adds EUR 100m in revenues this quarter
Alten impressed, again, with its growth performance. In Q1 2019, revenue growth (at CC/CS yoy) reached +12.5%, to EUR 643m. This quarter, Alten added almost EUR 100m in revenues, two-thirds of it through organic growth and one third through acquisitions. The Forex impact was negligible.
Assystems gets its largest rail transportation contract
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Assystem accelerates in Q1 2019 across all units
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UPDATED: a few thoughts about Altran and its cyber-attack
Altran provided some light on January 24, 2019, cyber attack that affected its operations in several countries in Europe. The company isolated malware and avoided its contamination and propagation to clients. Altran’s systems are now up and running.
Altran performs well in Q1 2019 despite the cyber-security incident and Aricent
Altran achieved in Q1 2019 a CC/CS growth yoy of 8.1% despite the impact of the decline in revenues of Aricent (-2% at CC/CS) and its cyber-attack (impacting the revenue growth of Altran by 200 bps).
Segula open a new delivery center in the east of France
Segula Technologies has opened a new delivery center, close to Montbéliard, in the east of France. Segula will use the delivery center for its offsite projects, targeting the automotive industry (i.e., PSA) and its suppliers initially. Over time, Segula wants to diversify its client base to other sectors.
Altran phases out the Aricent brand
Altran has phased out the Aricent brand in North America and now trades under the Altran brand. The company highlights it now has three primary brands: Aricent for its core ER&D services, Cambridge Consultants for its “innovation consulting” capabilities, and Frog for product design
EDAG impresses in 2018 with a 10% growth. Key strategic questions remain
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How will 2019 look like for the ER&D services industry?
We are now entering the season for Q1 earnings, and as always we will look into changes in major trends. The state of the automotive industry will be an area we will be closely monitoring.
IBM sells its marketing and software applications to PE. Implications for HCL Tech
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A few thoughts about Akka’s 2018 results
During its presentation of its 2018 results, Akka provided some light on key its priorities. Here is a summary of these priorities.
ÅF Pöyry resumes its acquisitions
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Accenture opens another Industry X.O “innovation center”, in Spain
Accenture has opened a new “Industry X.0 Innovation” center. The new center is located in Bilbao, Spain, once an industrial city that has grown significantly in the past twenty years.
Cyient warns on a softer Q4 FY19 than expected, stock down 12%
Cyient warned investors that its Q4 FY19 would not be as good as expected. The company saw softness in both its services and DLM activities.
Akka: good financial performance in 2018 and a bold US strategy
Akka performed well in full-year 2018: revenues were up 9.5% at CC/CS to EUR 1,505m. The company demonstrates, quarter after quarter, its ability to grow quickly in geographies, large or small
AE Industrial Partners makes further scope changes between Belcan and CDI Corp
Private equity (PE) firm AE Industrial Partners (AE) continues to adjust the scope of its portfolio companies and transferred Schafer from Belcan to Gryphon Technologies.
UPDATED: What’s up with Expleo?
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