Infographic of Scottish Technology Companies In the previous infographics in the 2019-2020 series we provided insights into tech companies across Scotland, and focused on tech in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen. This week we start to look at what is happening in various industry sectors. The first of the sector infographics provides insights to the Scottish Oil and ... Read more

The Fourth in our new infographic series (you can check out the others here) covers all of Aberdeen city. This infographic features 203 IT/Tech companies based in the Aberdeen city. Aberdeen has a huge proportion of it’s IT companies working in the Oil & Gas sector (53%), along with related sectors such as Engineering, Energy and Marine. ... Read more

Company Connecting asked Graeme Gordon of IFB for his views on technology in the Oil & Gas sector and the impact of the recent downturn. Graeme provides some great insights including a comparison between transferring Oil & Gas assets with transferring Ronaldo! A bit about youI am a qualified Electronics Engineer and the first part ... Read more

Company Connecting spoke with Ian Watt of The Data Lab and Code the City to get his insights into technology and the Oil & Gas sector. Ian Watt works on machine learning, AI and data analytics and helps push forward innovative technology solutions. Whats your background and what are you doing now?I have a background of over 30 ... Read more

Earlier this week Company Connecting published an infographic which looks at 289 IT and telecoms companies providing services and products to the Oil & Gas sector. More than half of these companies are in the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshireshire council areas. The industry is of huge importance to the North East of Scotland. In conjunction with the infographic we are publishing ... Read more

The UK has a thriving oil and gas industry, having extracted close to 44 billion barrels since 1964. Despite (or perhaps because) of the recent downturn, technology companies are becoming incremental in the development of the oil and gas sector. Technology can help to optimise the extraction process as well as increase the overall productivity ... Read more

Our infographic summarises the size, skills, sectors and focal areas for IT companies in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. There are 284 companies in the area, which is very high given the population size. 65% of companies have less than 10 employees, and 20% have more than 20 employees.Once again Software Development comes out as the top skill ... Read more

This week we talked with Calum McHardy– director of Unicom. Unicom offers a wide range of digital services relating to 3D animation and digital presentation. However, our talk concerned Company Connecting’s continuing theme of Augmented reality. Hi Calum, could you tell us what Unicom is all about and how your business is structured?We’ve grown from ... Read more

Some musings on entering a world where DNS and SEO are omnipresent TLAs, Ruby is your best friend and if myths are to be believed hipsters drive the new economy! Background – I am in my mid-50s and have worked for 30+ years in the upstream oil & gas industry, starting out as a reservoir ... Read more

Ewan Waugh of E-wan Networks is the subject of today’s nutshell. Ewan sees great opportunities in the Unified Communications Solutions market. Over the years he has amassed considerable experience in telecoms and has been involved in the deployment of the largest and most complex Skype for Business solution globally. Main Focus of the BusinessE-wan Networks offers ... Read more