Sales and profits down as operating expenses jump to pay for cuts

Sales and profits down as operating expenses jump to pay for cuts
Christmas doesn't come early for distributor's long-suffering shareholders, again.
UK services revenue in the third quarter fell by 10 percent, although supply chain business recovered
Azure and Office 365 show the way forward but PC and mobile business slump
Both sales and profits are down again at Big Blue despite the company's 'strategic imperatives'
Data erasure specialist wants to bulk out its channel strategy after successful year
H1 sales on steady growth as company expects £57 billion revenue for 2016
Intel reports a better than expected profit, but hefty cost cutting impacts chip-maker’s bottom line
Azure growth offsets poor performance in PC and phone market as Microsoft ups pressure on AWS
Yet another quarterly decline as Big Blue closes 11 acquisitions in first six months of 2016
But Big Blue kicks on into the hybrid cloud
The VAR is on course for more acquisitions in 2016
Sage's Global Partner Programme (GPP) to support resellers was launched last month
The two companies are already established partners on a local level
The BlackLine Finance Controls & Automation Platform is designed to reduce risk and transform finance systems
The UK services business seems to be doing well though
The data protection firm, moving beyond its endpoint backup roots, added almost 1,000 new customers over the year, with cloud business growing 170 percent year-on-year
ReadSoft Online offers integration into all major accountancy packages and finance systems, in addition to secure storage in specialist data centres within the EU
Excluding currency changes, sales increased 7 percent across the group when compared to the third quarter last year
The new version of Sage 200 is available both on-premise and online, giving firms the choice of software on their servers or via the cloud
The apps available integrate directly with the product, enabling small businesses to expand the capabilities of QuickBooks Online
Tradeshift provides a cloud collaboration and payments platform to companies to ease supply chain management and financials
The IT economy may be trending upwards but not all vendors are reaping the benefits
Ingram’s revenues up 17 percent and Capita by 13 percent with other tech companies doing well
Troubled distributor stays optimistic as revenues drop by 20 percent on last year
Mobility acquisition led to double-digit increase in sales and profits last quarter
The benefits of Big Data analytics has been a focus for the giant IT services specialist as a trending technology
Banks on Comet's fall to help its figures rise
Restructuring continues