On the 27th August 2015, Matt Hancock, the Minister for the Cabinet Office announced a new target for small business’ to work in the public sector: 33% of government spending should go to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).The government definition of an SME is those employing 250 employees or less. In IT, a company of ... Read more

A Decade Later: Why This Matters Even More in 2025 This article was written ten years ago, after I had reviewed thousands of company websites. What struck me then, and still strikes me today, is how similar so many companies sound. Despite all the advances in technology, the explosion of cloud, analytics, cybersecurity and now ... Read more

Company Connecting Launches A Platform For B2B To Source Professional IT Companies The comprehensive ecosystem and directory of IT tech companies with Company Connecting costs nothing to register, manage company details or to carry out searches. PRESS RELEASE: Aberdeen Scotland, 25-AUGUST-2015 – Company Connecting Limited is pleased to announce the official launch of their website. The ... Read more

Starting out In the early 80s I started my career in IT as a trainee programmer working in a software bureau where the proportion of men and women were more or less equal. In fact, my second boss was female. In these early days we did everything. We wrote code, we managed what was then a ... Read more

Over the past few months Company Connecting has reviewed over 8,000 companies registered in Scotland with an IT classification. This means that we have looked at several thousand websites. It is pretty amazing the difference in quality. I guess it depends on the purpose companies see their websites fulfilling. The best sites that we have ... Read more

The Origins of Company Connecting Company Connecting was founded in October 2014 to make it easier for technology companies to discover one another and to shine a light on the breadth of tech capability across Scotland and beyond. From the outset, we began building a uniquely detailed dataset on tech companies. We researched thousands of ... Read more