The importance of the Bath and Bristol area’s tech sector to the local economy has been underlined by a major new report which puts it among the country’s most successful and fastest growing. While the strength of the industry has been highlighted in previous studies, this week’s Tech Nation 2017 report reveals that it...
Bath’s tech and creative businesses will get the opportunity to find out the views of the candidates in May’s West of England Metro Mayoral election at a special hustings next month. All six candidates to declare so far have promised to attend the event and put forward their views on the sectors, which are both key to...
The clock is ticking for Bath directors to enter the region’s top award scheme recognising excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The deadline for the Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 is March 31 and organisers are urging Bath’s top executives to get their skates on and submit...
Business organisation the CBI’s director-general Carolyn Fairbairn described today’s Budget as a “breakthrough for skills”. She said: “There has never been a more important time for the UK to sit at the global top table of technical education for young people. “Firms will be looking for ongoing partnership with the government as they try...
Chancellor Philip Hammond announced new funding to help the UK compete in science and innovation in his spring Budget, including: £300m for research talent, including 1,000 PhD places for STEM subjects £270m for robots, driverless cars and biotech £16m for a 5G mobile technology hub £200m for fibre broadband
Fast-growing Bath-based cloud services firm Cloud Direct has been shortlisted for the title of Best Cloud Service Provider at the industry’s top awards. The firm, which recently completed its fifth deal in less than two years, is shortlisted alongside multi-billion dollar giant Ingram Micro, Interoute, Mambu and UKCloud in the UK Cloud Awards 2017. The...
Bath PR consultant Neil Whitehead and learning and development professional Jane Davidson have drawn on their decades of experience to launch a simple, easy-to-use way for managers to communicate with a mobile workforce. Called VOZ, it is downloaded to workers’ smartphones so they can receive targeted information anytime, anywhere. Unlike blanket emails, which can...
Cloud Direct, the acquisitive Bath-based cloud services firm, is on the takeover trail again after chalking up its fifth deal in less than two years. Cloud Direct, a gold Microsoft CSP partner, said the addition of Connect Support Services’s skills and capacity bolster its key Microsoft product areas: Azure and Office 365. The acquisition comes hot on the...
Directors from Bath and across the West of England are being invited to enter one of the region’s top annual awards schemes that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 will showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs as well as focusing UK-wide attention on...
Specialist software group SCISYS has landed a multi-million pound contract to support a pioneering European mission to search for life on Mars. The Chippenham-based group, which has its roots in the European Space Agency, has signed the €3.7m (£3.17m) deal with Italian group Thales Alenia Space to help design, code and verify software for...
