Talk:Logica

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[[Link title]]Any information on the acquisition of Unilog? --84.56.242.71 13:20, 12 March 2006 (UTC)---- I remember there was also text that "while Logica does not advertise itself, commercial or public entities who want services provided by it will usually find the company on their own." I somehow remember that a similar sentence or two were up and I thought it to be quite telling about how widespread/professional LogicaCMG really is. (Or was it about another company?).

My personal point about it is that LogicaCMG very probably does market itself, but not in the sphere of traditional advertising. I'd say that whereever it is active, it advertises itself to those people who actually consider using services that this company just happens to provide. Because of its size, the company is very likely to show up in large government service contracts.

As with early computers, which usually took up the space of whole halls, their marketing material (of a solution, in fact) was provided to just a select people, who had the actual decision-making power, which is why computer marketing material from the times was not as widespread as it is now. The same applies to LogiaCMG's logic of not advertising itself widely.

While I have understood from the article that they are incredibly reliable, they are also given very serious responsibility only because of the scale of work that comes with their services. I understand that the strategy or tactic is that if something ever goes wrong and they just happen to advertise themselves, they would later be very easy targets to fingerpointing in the blame game, thus they'd have to reinforce their public image again through advertising and that would thus become a vicious circle. As it is know, advertising for such companies (e.g. Shell and other conglomerates) is very expensive, one reason being that such advertising usually covers a good amount of different media (relevant newspapers, magazines, television). -Mardus 05:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Logica VTS

Nothing on the VTS word-processors or the wonderful Kennet multi-user microcomputer?  :-(

You could search Google. -Mardus 05:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] recent revision

The most recent revision of this page changed the numbers of profit, revenue, etc by very large values. Are these numbers correct? As they were not by a registered user and offer no source, suspicious edits are liable to be reverted. Xcentaur 17:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

it may be worth noting that the IP range 158.234.*.* is entirely owned by LogicaCMG
--Rapiddescent 15:25, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wow Claims

Since they sold off GT. I don't think LCMG can claim to process 2 out of 3 messages or provide 1 out of 4 MMSC globally now, can't they? --Bukhrin 04:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested changes

I am a representative of the Corporate Communications department of LogicaCMG. I would like to suggest the following changes to this article:

1. "The Company has made a number of acquisitions in the United States, Germany, Sweden, France and Australia; however none of these has proved to be very successful."

The last part of this sentence is not a fact. LogicaCMG's financial result statements (eg. 2006 Financial Highlights) have shown the positive results of LogicaCMG's acquisitions over the last few years with earnings per share up 43% in the period. More specifically, LogicaCMG acquired Unilog, France's fourth largest IT services provider, in September 2005 and WM-data, the third largest IT services provider in the Nordic region, in August 2006.

2. "LogicaCMG is a prominent IT consulting firm, but does not advertise widely and is shy of general public attention. As a consequence of this relative obscurity, ..."

This is an opinion (Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view). LogicaCMG is not shy of public attention and as a business services company does advertise in local markets and on trade shows. For instance, LogicaCMG started this year with an extensive advertisement campaign in newspapers and at European airports.

3. The 'wow factors' listed under Activities can be updated as follows (with citation links):

  • LogicaCMG supports some 300 telecoms operators in more than 130 countries. [1]
  • LogicaCMG produces the authoritative survey of the leading MES products, which cuts months out of the product search and selection process, accelerating projects and driving earlier savings for our customers. [2]
  • LogicaCMG’s financial software solutions enable the transfer of more than $5 trillion per day. [3]
  • LogicaCMG's systems have been fundamental to the regulatory transformation of energy markets around the world. [4]

More successes can be found on LogicaCMG's track record page —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 158.234.250.71 (talk) 13:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

The statement regarding £5 trillion per day needs citation. For example, this marketing brochure states £15 trillion and Vision magazine (logicaCMG marketing) states $20 trillion or £4 trillion in this Vision magazine. The 'trillion' figures have been extremely contentious in FSB for many years.
--Rapiddescent 15:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)