John Lewis has agreed to undertake further SAP Business Objects training, utilising a training package created by our team specifically for the Group Influential offers certified training courses in the SAP Business Objects suite of products, and as per the John Lewis deal, these can be bespoked, if required. We will undertake the training at […]
Oxford Brookes University has appointed Influential for specialist Prince2 project management resource, based in Headington
Cengage Learning has appointed Influential for specialist .NET consultancy around further development of their centralised Textbook, eBook & eChapter repository Cengage Brain
“Influential Software’s long-term expertise with SAP Business Objects and its dedication and commitment has accelerated it to the top tier of the SAP Partner Edge program in record time” – Richard Phillips, UK Channel & Sales Director, SAP Influential Software is proud to have been awarded SAP Gold Partner status, having demonstrated the required expertise […]
Influential Software, the UK-based SAP & IBM BI analytics partner, is delighted to announce the acquisition of the SAP and Microsoft BI division of Redstone PLC (formerly Maxima Holdings PLC). The division’s client base, contracts and staff have transitioned across with immediate effect. Influential has previously worked in partnership with the Redstone BI division throughout […]
The future wasn’t meant to look like this. According to e-book evangelists, freeing the book from its paper format was going to herald a new era of reading. Physical book sales would wither and e-book sales soar as a new generation of reader, converted by the convenience of digital reading, thumbed through Twilight on their […]
Another week, another publishing takeover. Yesterday McGraw Hill announced that it was offloading its education publishing business, though this time not to another publisher. The Private equity arm of investment firm Apollo Global Management will take control of the textbook publisher, which has undershot its revenue targets in 7 of the last 8 quarters and […]
A few months ago I was invited to speak on BBC Radio 4’s flagship consumer affairs show, You and Yours, alongside Professor Nigel Shadbolt, to discuss the government’s Midata scheme proposals The initiative is gaining significant momentum as consumer affairs minister, Jo Swinson, waded in on the debate by threatening to take legal action against […]
Pew Research Center has just released a new research study – Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits. It provides a fascinating look at the behaviours of young adults and their attitudes towards reading and libraries. On the face of it, this research may seem to be of little relevance to the UK publishing market, but […]
How Random House and Penguin should handle the imminent amalgamation of their IT systems. In a deal announced earlier this week, Pearson and Bertelsmann are set to own around 25% of the global publishing market when the publishers Penguin and Random House merge in the latter half of 2013. Random House owner Bertelsmann will own […]