Fd Technologies Public Share Discussion Threads

[johnroger] 17/2/2020 20:25

FD (AIM: FDP.L, ESM: FDP.I) announces that it has been selected by a leading global oilfield services company for the use of Kx technology to provide operational intelligence for their customers' oil and gas field assets. This contract, awarded after a thorough technology evaluation by the client, extends the range of Kx use cases within the energy market and showcases the ability of Kx to deliver actionable insights at the edge.

The flexibility and open nature of the Kx platform will enable new processes and data-intensive analytics to be added as required both in the field and centrally.

Using Kx technology to deliver big data levels of analytic capability to the edge, where compute resources are limited, will enable the client to increase efficiency. This represents a new use case for Kx, which the client expects to generate a high return on investment and should be of interest across the broader energy and industrial IoT markets.

Seamus Keating, Chief Executive Officer, FD commented: "Making decisions at the time and place where action is required can deliver major operational efficiencies. We believe Kx is the only technology capable of delivering this solution, enabling decision-making in real-time on vast volumes of data. As organisations increasingly look to drive action, not just reports from the data they generate, Kx stands out for its high performance and ability to operate at the edge."

[johnroger] 05/2/2020 13:55

Kx, a division of First Derivatives plc (LSE:FDP), has entered into a strategic partnership with Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprise, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Chosen for its high-performance streaming capabilities and enhanced analytics, Kx will provide Keysight Technologies with deeper insights and operational intelligence into its manufacturing data, across a range of industries, including aerospace, automotive and energy.

Kx will be deployed within Keysight’s PathWave Manufacturing Analytics Industry 4.0-ready big data platform, which accelerates ROI in smart factory digital transformation by providing real time actionable insights to improve operational efficiency. The Analytics-As-A-Service platform acquires, transforms, ingests and analyzes test equipment data. The partnership with Kx combines Keysight’s test and measurement domain expertise with data science, using high performance data mining and machine learning models that works for electronics manufacturing.

This platform will help customers across a host of areas including; improving OEE and reducing unplanned downtime; reducing wastage such as retest and rework and solving root cause chronic manufacturing test issues for permanent resolution. Keysight Technologies and Kx are excited that the partnership will ensure products get to market faster; will accelerate data analysis with modern visualization tools designed for the Test and Measurement world; improve manufacturing operational KPIs (yield, throughput, quality and asset utilization) with advanced algorithms; and grant the ability to monitor operations and detect anomaly in real-time.

Kx helps because it allows to gather huge streams of data, in real-time, to analyze that data very quickly, and to make decisions when seconds count, electronics manufacturers will be able to accelerate time-to-market and cut down on waste.

[sspurt] 30/1/2020 12:37

Good PH note out today on FDP. Comprehensive and more detailed than most. They restate software revenues at 30% of total, not 60% as categorised by FDP, and give a £31 valuation. Generally a positive note and points to improving FCF over the last 3 years.

[swiss paul] 15/1/2020 16:27

Just hope our new chair ponies up and adds - and I dont mean through options.

So c'mon Donna put your money where your paycheck (one of many) has come from.

[mog] 15/1/2020 08:33

Somewhat disappointed they haven't appointed an external candidate as CEO as that would have put to bed the shorters' stories of dodgy accounting. However Seamus Keating does have extensive experience so should do a good job.

[mog] 07/1/2020 19:16

Presumably TW the self-styled "failed fund manager" has had another go at FD?

[badger36] 07/1/2020 09:06

Sadly yes.

[glavey] 07/1/2020 05:14

Still long badger?

[badger36] 06/1/2020 16:33

This POS can't even hold late 20s

[johnroger] 27/12/2019 11:27

Back over 3000 by the year end?

[swiss paul] 11/12/2019 08:22

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[sspurt] 11/12/2019 07:56

Kabouter still building - now up to 7%

[glavey] 03/12/2019 04:00

It was a question, Badger, simple as that.

(Observe the question mark please.)

[swiss paul] 02/12/2019 21:21

Ah Mr B tell me which co has responded to Mr W? Have you never heard of bounded rationality?

It is beneath the co to repsond to allegations, because if you respond to one - you then have to repsond to any and all spurious allegations. A dignified silence does wonders for the share price (notice the climb?). Yes i realise it dropped from a frothy height.

Now if your unhappy with what is going on you can always attend the AGM and question the board.

As an aside I find fat simon more convincing

Edited to add - erm the information re the awards and offices are on the FDP website. You dont do RNS's for these sort of things - it costs money dontchaknow!

[badger36] 02/12/2019 14:07

So Swiss Paul : "you don't reply to that kind of thing" being TWIf TW has caused more than a 50% collapse in market cap and the company remains silent, do you not think silence is maintained because they cannot satisfactorily address his allegations? The have a duty to shareholders to uphold the integrity of the enterprise and accounting standards. Silence speaks volumes

[badger36] 02/12/2019 13:55

Always the same answer for the cheerleaders "you sold out"Tweeting and self congratulation does not pass muster in the real world

[glavey] 02/12/2019 13:17

You sold out then Badger?

[aa29] 02/12/2019 10:51

Everyone has different views but surely Mr Market talked and reduced £46 down to £25??

[badger36] 29/11/2019 16:33

Interesting that they have been constantly tweeting of late about winning vanity awards, opening a Micky mouse office and not one word of a contract win. Stock falling again and if they think some clown tweeting is sufficient to address the allegations by TW they are more stupid than I thought