Talk:Civica

This article appears to have been substantially lifted from the Civica website. For example the employee profiles have all been lifted completely. See for example the exec profile for Phill Rowland at the company website. I'm not certain that a company of this size warrants an article at all, but it certainly doesn't warrant one of this length! Thepm (talk) 08:42, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I assume the major contributor is me. I am connected to Civica as they are a previous client (I wrote case studies for them). I don't believe however this has affected the neutrality of the article- it is entirely fact based, feel free to edit any bias.

Reading it I do agree that the bios here, including the ones I have added, are very close to the website and some could use taking out. I will be happy to scale it down to the notable members of its management team.

Finally, on notability, Civica is formerly a listed company and receives regular citations in British national press- I believe this fulfils notability guidelines. Thanks (P.crouch (talk) 15:41, 4 July 2011 (UTC))[reply]

I think once upon a time advertising like this used to be deleted, and in this instance the author seems to confirm that it is not an arm's length contribution. At any rate, it is not helpful with information. I arrived here because my library's online service has been undermined by something appropriately named "spydus" (appropriate as it makes the library site unusable without letting their secret code run on my computer and visiting the secret spydus server gets a "keep out" response.. I have deleted the unsupported and probably unjustifiable promotional description of spydus as "market-leading".--Alkhowarizmi (talk) 11:20, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Advert and ownership[edit]

Years ago this sounded like advertising (apparently). It's a little that way, but I assume it's been toned down. It's certainly not lifted from the current Civica web site.

I was surprised to see the parent company listed as 3i. I've looked into this and 3i owned it between 2008^[1] and 2013^[2], then it was OMERS Private Equity. The narrative says it was purchased by partners Group in 2017^[3]. When I've pieced it together I plan to update the ownership history.

F J Leonhardt 14:37, 18 February 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fjleonhardt (talk • contribs)

References

Education and libraries section[edit]

Hello,

I believe the phrase 'library management services' mentioned in the first sentence would mainly refer to the Integrated Library Management group of solutions, of which Spydus is one. As such, would 'library management products' be a more appropriate phrase to use?

Thanks 2406:3003:2001:284F:B96D:371:B509:ED19 (talk) 06:19, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.3i.com/media-centre/corporate-and-portfolio-news/2008/3i-agrees-237m-civica-deal/

[2] ttps://www.3i.com/media-centre/corporate-and-portfolio-news/2013/3i-makes-a-21x-return-on-the-sale-of-civica/

[3] ttps://www.partnersgroup.com/en/news-views/investment-news/archive/detail/article/partners-group-to-acquire-civica-a-leading-uk-based-provider-of-software-and-services/

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