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August 04, 2010
Research from website performance and load testing specialist Site Confidence, an NCC Group company, suggests that UK gambling websites are ready to take advantage of renewed traffic from the US to boost revenues, should online gambling be legalised in America.
UK gambling websites enjoyed 99.91 per cent availability for the period between 1 June and 31 July 2010, representing an average downtime of one hour and 19 minutes, according to Site Confidence. In addition, the average download speed across UK ...
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July 14, 2010
Experts at Manchester-based IT assurance specialist, NCC Group plc, have reported a significant increase in organisations using remote risk assessment of their third party suppliers, as the trend for offshore outsourcing continues to rise in a bid to maximise efficiencies.
A recent YouGov survey, commissioned by NCC Group, found that 20 percent of IT managers at large companies believed that outsourced systems are less secure than those based in-house, and are now turning to remote risk assessment as a way ...
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July 12, 2010
Is Software Escrow the Plan B for your organisations’ most valuable resource?
Irrespective of an organisation’s sector, or the products or services it provides, it is fair to assume that it uses some form of third party software to perform business-critical tasks, be it sales order processing, customer relationship management, invoicing or payroll. Indeed, according to a recent independent survey, 98 per cent of large organisations said that they use applications without which their operations would fail.
Despite this reliance ...
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July 05, 2010
Six year earnings CAGR 21.9% and dividend 33.9%
NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, “NCC Group” or “the Group”), the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, has reported its final results for the year to 31 May 2010.
Financial highlights
- Group revenue up by 15% to £53.7m (2009: £46.8m)
- Group adjusted operating profits* up by 16% to £14.8m (2009: £12.7m)
- Group adjusted pre-tax profits* up by 18% to £14.5m (2009: £12.3m)
- Adjusted fully diluted earnings per ...
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June 16, 2010
Twitter experienced 1.87 per cent downtime between 1 June and 15 June 2010 – representing a total of six hours and 44 minutes – compared with just 0.18 per cent for the whole of May, according to research from website monitoring and load testing specialist, Site Confidence, an NCC Group company.
The micro-blogging site experienced two hours and 20 minutes of downtime yesterday (15 June 2010) alone, representing its poorest day for availability since the beginning of June. Twitter also ...
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June 07, 2010
NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, “NCC Group” or “the Group”), the international,
independent provider of Escrow and Assurance Testing, has appointed
John Gittins as Finance Director and he will take up his appointment on
20 September 2010.
John joins from Begbies Traynor Group plc, the specialist professional
services organisation, where he was Chief Financial Officer for over
three years. Before Begbies Traynor, he was Finance Director at Vertex
Data Science, the UK`s second largest business process outsourcer, for
seven years. From 1993 to 1999, he was Group ...
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April 23, 2010
NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, “NCC Group” or “the Group”), the international,
independent provider of Escrow and Assurance Testing, has acquired SDLC
Solutions Limited (SDLC), a testing services provider for a maximum
consideration of £15.0m in cash.
The earnings enhancing acquisition of SDLC complements the Group’s
existing information security and testing capabilities within its
Assurance Division. It will now enable NCC Group to provide a wider
range of information security assurance services.
The initial consideration payable is £7.75m in cash, subject to balance
sheet adjustments, with two ...
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April 15, 2010
NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC or “the Group”), the international, independent
provider of Escrow and Assurance Testing, is today publishing its
Interim Management Statement, covering the period from 1 December 2009
to 14 April 2010.
NCC Group’s trading performance remains in line with the Board’s
expectations and on course to deliver the anticipated levels of growth
and profitability. Whilst the economy has not materially picked up,
both of the Group’s divisions are trading well ahead of last year.
In the first 10 months of the financial ...
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April 13, 2010
Bob Dowson, director of Site Confidence, comments on the news that Google has started ranking web pages by the speed with which they load:
“While Google insists that its recent move to consider site speed in determining the relevance of web pages in its search results will only affect one per cent of search queries, it should pave the way for improved user experience across the internet.
“Individual businesses spend thousands of pounds each year optimising and maintaining their position ...
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April 01, 2010
The Conservative Party had the worst average website download speed of the UK’s leading political parties in March at 24.78 seconds, a response time dramatically higher than its election rivals, according to research from leading website monitoring and load testing specialist, Site Confidence, an NCC Group company.
Despite being praised for its creative use of social media in a recent report commissioned by the BBC – which noted that the party was out performing the Liberal Democrats and Labour in ...
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