building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
It’s mid-afternoon at Edinburgh’s Sheraton Grand Hotel and Polly Purvis is taking a short breather. In the next room, chief technology officers as well as key figures from the private and public sectors are touring exhibitors at the annual ScotSoft
A student from Abertay University has been named Young Software Engineer of the Year 2015. Peeter Parna won first prize for an outstanding project combining fluid dynamics, gaming and advanced programming. This is the first time a student from Abertay has won this
Market-leading 3D mapping company Mapix technologies Ltd has been awarded first prize in the e-Placement Scotland Placement of the Year Awards at ScotSoft2015 in recognition of an outstanding student placement. Leif Gehrmann, student of Heriot Watt University, worked with Mapix for three
ScotlandIS has been approached by a company interested in a partnership with a Scottish software business. This company sells workflow and business process automation and performance improvement solutions to large organisations in a range of sectors including the public sector, transport
Scottish Development International has approached ScotlandIS to publicise to members the opportunity to collaborate with two multinational organisations. Huawei is China’s leading digital technology company. Headquartered in Shenzhen, it is mainland China’s largest investor into the UK with 15 offices across
Digital World: Working in Partnership to Promote ICT Careers ScotlandIS have been working with Skills Development Scotland and other partners over the last few years to develop and deliver the ICT and Digital Technologies Skills Investment Plan. Skills Development Scotland
FreeAgent, the multi-award winning cloud accounting provider, has raised more than £1m from its first crowdfunding drive aimed at “Democratising Accounting” for UK micro-businesses and freelancers. The Edinburgh-based company has closed its round with equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs after breaking
Contract worth £186m over seven years Will save Council a minimum of £45m over term of contract Worth an additional £46m thanks to provision of further essential services at no extra cost Secondary schools to receive up to 50 times
At ScotlandIS, we’re delighted to have signed up to the Scottish Business Pledge. To make the pledge an organisation concerned has to be paying a minimum of the Living Wage (£7.85 per hour) and be working towards a range of
The birth of a second billion-dollar software firm proves Scotland’s potential to create a global technology hub, writes Kristy Dorsey There have been precious few sightings of Scotland’s official animal throughout the centuries, but the modern-day version of the unicorn
