Telford tech firm SysGroup, an award-winning managed IT services and cloud hosting provider, has revealed that it has grown revenues by 47.3 percent to £5.8m for the six months ending 30 September 2018. Recurring managed IT services represented 77.8 percent of the Group’s total revenue during the period, underpinning the ongoing success of its growth […]

Digital display technology firm Elonex has appointed Lord Digby Jones as its new Chairman. Lord Jones joins Birmingham-based Elonex to work closely with its senior management team as the firm continues to grow market share in the digital out of home advertising and hardware markets. Lord Jones is the former Director General of the CBI, served as […]

Birmingham investmeent company Beech Tree Private Equity plans to execute a buy-and-build strategy after completing a significant investment in BCN Group, a fast-growing IT managed services company. Beech Tree has been looking to invest in the sector due to the rapid growth in demand for the provision of cloud managed services and will support BCN with […]

The research and development of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) in the West Midlands has been given a £19m funding boost. Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street said the additional money for the Midlands Future Mobility project would help ensure the CAV sector played an increasingly important role in building a “resilient and future-proof” […]

Redditch software provider Unique IQ serves the health, social care and cleaning sectors has received a significant investment for expansion. Unique IQ has received the money from venture capital firm Midven, which was recently appointed to manage the £35m equity portion of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). The company, which was founded in 2003, […]

Mobile payment provider PM Connect has secured a contract with Africa’s largest mobile carrier Vodacom. Birmingham-based PM Connect’s technology allows consumers to pay for lifestyle and sport content, videos and articles through carrier billing in a few clicks – adding any purchases directly to their phone bill. The partnership with Vodacom, which has a 43 per […]

Edge Testing Solutions has announced its next Sting event on 6 December, 2018 at Regus, Quayside Tower, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2HF, from 08:30-10:00am. When discussing DevOps within a formal gathering, Gal-on Broner, a Technical Test Consultant at Edge Testing, found that many of his fellow participating attendees such as Test Managers left the venue feeling rather […]

An enterprising Birmingham duo are celebrating the launch of a new service designed to help Midlands SMEs create sustainable business growth. eVirtualFD is an entirely cloud-based FD (financial director) service, designed to give small and medium sized businesses access to a ‘virtual’ FD who can help them develop a deeper understanding of their company’s finances and build […]

Twycross Zoo has selected managed service provider, EBC Group as their new IT and telephony partner. Having completed a thorough tender process, EBC Group was selected over a number of other providers to help Twycross Zoo invest and improve its current IT infrastructure, ensuring security and reliability as well as future proofing their systems.  Investments will […]

Silwood Technology Ltd has expanded its metadata discovery capabilities for SAP customers, who can now use Safyr® to analyse the metadata behind SAP ABAP Core Data Services (CDS). Silwood’s Safyr software has been helping customers accelerate delivery of key data and information projects involving SAP since 1992. It does this by providing data analysts and architect […]

Edge Testing Solutions, part of Eurofins Digital Testing, has boosted its Midlands’ service offering, with the appointment of Gal-on Broner as Principal Technical Consultant to lead its DevOps service from the software testing company’s Midlands Digital Test Hub, which is located at Quayside Wharf. Gal-on’s appointment follows a series of key senior technical team hires […]

A new Nottingham technology business, Tully, say it is on a mission to tackle Britain’s growing personal debt crisis. Backed by Nottingham venture builder Blenheim Chalcot, the company believes that the way personal debts are currently tackled via fixed monthly payments don’t work for either people or the businesses that lend money. Tully says it […]

The investment will see five million homes receive full fibre meeting a third of the target set by government Five million homes are to be connected to full fibre network thanks to aa £2.5 billion investment from CityFibre. Over 37 towns and cities across the country will now benefit from superfast broadband speeds capable of […]

Edge Testing Solutions, part of Eurofins Digital Testing, has expanded its testing tools suite with the addition of test automation framework TestWizard. A comprehensive set of tools for the automated testing of software applications, TestWizard is the first product from its parent company, Eurofins, that Edge Testing has introduced to its client base. Using TestWizard, […]

Coach operator National Express has teamed up with Innovation Birmingham to launch ‘NXIS’, a new business incubator which is hoping to create commercial opportunities for small businesses across the West Midlands. The new business support hub has opened in Birmingham aimed at helping the region’s tech companies develop new products for the transport sector. The […]