Detica Share Discussion Threads

[initiate] 06/5/2004 15:30

Hi Smarm - no friends but making money ! I might join you soon - I noticed the MM buy today, volume seems quite high too, results due soon any idea how they are likely to be ?

[smarm] 06/5/2004 13:06

Another day, another dollar :-)

[smarm] 05/5/2004 14:58

Results will be announced Monday 24th May.

[smarm] 05/5/2004 14:03

And again. Seriously not sure why I'm still here on my own. Lonely but happy.

[smarm] 04/5/2004 14:18

Another day and up again. Results due this month...

[smarm] 30/4/2004 18:17

I work in the IT industry but I had not heard of DCA.

I did some research to try and find companies in profit with rising historical/predicted EPS, not too many shares in circulation, buy recommendations, no negative news, institutions holding shares or recent director buys & and interesting product line. Struck me shares with these characterics could be good little earners.

My search produced 26 shares (yep, that's all) of which I liked DCA and Ottaker (OKR). They fail on interesting product line, although it could be said that books are very fashionable at the moment and DCA involved with inovative projects.

Both have risen since I bought, so I'm pleased with strategy. I'm hoping for a recovery to £7 quite quickly.

I also hold my fair share of blue sky small cap stuff but feel a few sensible shares have a place in my portfolio.

[woodpecker3303] 30/4/2004 09:27

hi smarm,

sorry that I haven't checked in on this thread. Don't worry that not many people on this BB not interested in this share, as most of them are on really small caps. Secondly, DCA is not well known to people. How did you get into this share, do you know IT industry well?

I don't hold the share yet, but plan to get in. The company due to report result on 24 May.

w

[smarm] 30/4/2004 08:44

Still here on my own, still going up.

[smarm] 27/4/2004 08:39

...Up again this am....and I'm still here all on my own. Results due in May.

[woodpecker3303] 24/4/2004 20:19

Detica is a well run company, profitable, with good people. The final result is due in May so the price is likely to move up further.

[smarm] 23/4/2004 09:05

UP again today.

Still here on my own :-(

[smarm] 22/4/2004 22:28

..and finally, who are they:

"Detica is the UK's leading specialist IT consultancy. We help major organisations manage and apply intelligence from large, enterprise-wide sources of information.

Working in areas such as marketing, operations, security & fraud, risk and financial management, we deliver benefits of cost reduction, revenue growth, improved customer service, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance for our clients. We provide services from business consulting through to software development and systems integration.

Detica clients are major corporations and government departments, including Vodafone, Nationwide, Centrica, AstraZeneca, HM Customs & Excise, The Home Office and The Department for Trade & Industry. "

[smarm] 22/4/2004 22:26

...and another...

Detica Helps Food Watchdog to Inform Public About Harmful Toxins

15/03/2004

The UK's independent food watchdog, The Food Standards Agency (FSA), has contracted specialist IT consultancy, Detica, to build a sophisticated data analytics solution which will enable the Agency to analyse information concerning food content.

The solution, which will be used by 20 FSA statisticians and scientists, includes a sophisticated data warehouse and is expected to be in use by summer 2004. It will act as a central store for the Agency's food survey and recipe and nutrient databases, enabling staff to find all this data at a single source. The new data warehouse will replace the existing Intake system and will be created using Sagent software.

Martin Sutherland, Head of Public Sector at Detica, said: "We are very pleased to be working closely with the FSA over the next year to deliver what will be a highly valuable solution for them."


Notes to editors:
About Detica
Detica is the UK's leading specialist IT consultancy. We help clients improve their ability to manage and apply intelligence from large and diverse sources of information across the enterprise.

Working in areas such as marketing, operations, security & fraud, risk, investigation and
financial management, we have a proven track record of delivering cost reduction and
improved revenue growth, customer service, operational efficiency and regulatory
compliance for our clients. Our expertise is naturally deeply technical, but our work is driven by a fundamental understanding of our clients' business needs and markets.

Detica clients are major corporations and government departments, including Vodafone, Nationwide, Centrica, AstraZeneca, HM Customs & Excise, The Home Office and The Department for Trade & Industry.

Headquartered in Guildford, with offices in London and Cheltenham, Detica employs
around 500 staff and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:DCA).

About the Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency is an independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food.
For more information, visit www.food.gov.uk


Press contacts:
David Bell or Lisa Allen
Portfolio Communications Ltd
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

[smarm] 22/4/2004 22:25

Here's a £1m deal they just signed: press release from www.Detica.com

Detica Signs Soothsayer Deal

25/03/2004

Detica, the specialist IT consultancy, has signed a £1M deal with Lockheed Martin as part of the new Soothsayer programme. The programme, which will deliver the next generation electronic warfare system to the UK's land based armed forced, was awarded by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to Lockheed Martin in August 2003, who in turn awarded the subcontract to Detica in January 2004.

Soothsayer comprises a range of sensor and information processing capabilities to provide battlefield commanders and troops with tactical information and intelligence on enemy activity. Soothsayer will be deployed in the field using all-terrain Supacat HMT vehicles and by soldier operators. The system is expected to enter operation in 2006.

Detica's role in the project is to integrate the Soothsayer platform with UK infrastructure. This provides a facility to support mission planning and preparation in advance of deployment as well as a means of communication with the operators in the field.

Commenting on the win, Scott McVicar, Detica's Systems Manager for Defence said: "Our role in Soothsayer gives us a strategic position in the rapidly growing electronic warfare market and we hope to be able to reuse our capabilities in forthcoming programmes to improve affordability of EW Capability for the MoD".

Notes to editors:

About Detica
Detica is the UK's leading specialist IT consultancy. We help major organisations improve their ability to manage and apply intelligence from large and diverse sources of enterprise information.

Working in areas such as marketing, operations, security & fraud, risk, investigation and financial management, we have a proven track record of delivering cost reduction and improved revenue growth, customer service, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance for our clients. We provide services from business consulting through to software development and systems integration.

Detica clients are major corporations and government departments, including Vodafone, Nationwide, Centrica, AstraZeneca, HM Customs & Excise, The Home Office and The Department for Trade & Industry.

Headquartered in Guildford, with offices in London and Cheltenham, Detica employs around 500 staff and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:DCA).

Press contacts:
David Bell or Jane Grey
Portfolio Communications Ltd
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

[smarm] 22/4/2004 22:20

Detica doing work in the area of National ID cards + more...



Check out this article on the work Detica is doing in the area of ID cards.

Here's a snippet:

"Detica itself seems slightly bemused by the public's views on the capabilities of ID cards. Although it does a good bit of IT consultancy work for the government and is currently engaged in some government ID card related projects, it's a technical consultancy with real depth, as opposed to a bunch of Blairite survey-wonks, so when The Register spoke to Detica this morning we found we didn't need to take the crucifix and silver bullets out of our bag - these people know what they're talking about."

Another area where Detica is probably doing good business is in helping unravelEU regulation. Last month the EU announced plans for tougher auditing and is now in consultancy phase. The impact on IT is all the password rules & regs....a minefied of complexity.

Meanwhile, and this comes from an article on vnunet,com:

"IT managers are already shouldering the burden of setting up systems for other new regulations, including Basel II rules for financial organisations; International Accounting Standards; and anti-money-laundering laws.

We are now talking about highly complex, multi-stream software development projects involving enhancements to existing systems and databases plus the development of new ones," said David Porter, head of security and risk at IT consultancy Detica. IT chiefs' efforts will definitely cover structured data, such as that found in accounting systems and databases. "[But] if the US experience is anything to go by then IT managers had better start looking at unstructured data [as well] such as emails, instant messaging and telephone calls," Porter added.

In the US, financial services organisations are required to monitor, store and report on a wide range of employee communications. However, the large amount of unstructured data involved makes this a daunting challenge, and some types of communication are often not detected and recorded by traditional IT systems.

Due to the complex nature of compliance projects, which often comprise multiple co-dependent units, IT directors could benefit from improving their programme management skills, argued Porter. "They could in fact look to the public sector to see how large programmes are put together and managed," he said. "There is a lot of useful best practice to be found there."

But while the current emphasis on compliance is likely to mean more work for IT teams, it could also bring benefits. Porter argued it could help budget-starved IT departments kick-start the transformation of creaking IT systems and processes into something more powerful and flexible.


..and lastly, they have been busy in the area of SPAM

From an article in PC Pro

"The survey, carried out on behalf of Web content security firm Detica, also found that two-thirds of Internet users would switch ISPs in order to get protection.

Simon Gawne, director of Content Security at Detica, said: 'It is surprising, based on the levels of investment going into Internet services in the UK and the highly competitive nature of the market, that ISPs are not fully addressing the security fears of their subscribers.'"


So here we have a profitable consultancy with expertise in the area of all things IT. All things IT are getting more complicated and in fact there is a blurring of responsiblity between IT and Finance (security often being the domain of IT).

I hold Detica and maybe I'm here alone but at least I'm alone and happy!

[smarm] 22/4/2004 16:56

Continues to push up, albeit slowly - am I all alone here, does anyone else hold?

[smarm] 01/4/2004 11:23

I was looking a little longer term than start of the year. Rising trend from Oct'02.

[opthalmist] 01/4/2004 10:55

Looks like a downtrend.

[smarm] 01/4/2004 10:53

I discovered DCA while looking for that rarity: a small company making a profit without bulletin board hype, price near highs with buy consensus, institutional interest, rising EPS and even paying a dividend.

I have no idea how to post graphs here but take a look - rising nicely.

DYOR, just thought I would share (sic) my find.

S

[m.t.glass] 29/1/2004 11:16

Meanwhile onward and upward..

[rarther] 18/11/2003 07:50

PE of 50 due to consistent growth & small dividend.

If the IT consultancy business goes belly-up and earnings are effected, then I could imagine this at less than 1/10th of this.

Clearly no one holding judging by the lack of posts for 5 months?