Company Connecting recently launched a service to help non-IT companies through the minefield of selecting an IT partner. We received comments about our new service on Linkedin and a much larger response via private messages and calls from people who had found the whole experience of finding an IT supplier a ‘nightmare’ – a word ... Read more

An interview with Diagnostic Match who want to help family doctors to see hidden HIV+ patients and came up with an idea to make a decision-support tool for family doctors to detect hidden HIV+ patients with automatic HIV indicator disease algorithms. The Diagnostic Match algorithms analyse patient’s health data and display reminders for a doctor to make a ... Read more

Tell us about your company and what you do?Wallscope unlocks the value of an organisation’s data and quickly converts it into realisable information. Our technology uses Artificial Intelligence to directly link topics, concepts and associations that span any number of sources – including Excel and Word documents, web pages, emails and existing databases.Your organisation can ... Read more

We have taken a look at the IT companies that fall within the City of Edinburgh council area. We have identified 560 that fall within the area. The top three sectors are IT, Finance and Retail. This reflects the need that IT companies also have of skills to support their business. Edinburgh is known for ... Read more

Hi there, could you tell us a little about StartEdin got started and what your mission is as a company?StartEDIN is a joint initiative between the city of Edinburgh and its tech community to promote Edinburgh as a great place for tech and connect Edinburgh tech companies to International talent and global opportunities. The initiative ... Read more

The legal profession, traditionally slow to embrace technology, is now at least partly embracing the opportunities associated with algorithm driven computer technology’ In the film ‘Back to the Future II’, Doc Brown tells our hero Marty McFly: “the justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers.” Doc was referencing an ... Read more

Our infographic on Scottish IT companies has attracted a lot of attention. Questions were raised about our information and how it may compare with other views of the Scottish IT industry.  One area of interest was that our stats show the IT sector as the biggest customer sector for IT companies. We have taken a ... Read more

Hi there, could you tell us a little about SecurionPay and the inspiration behind your company?SecurionPay is a cross-device platform with simplified payment flow. We have been talking to online business owners for years, learning their expectations and decided to build a payment platform tailored precisely to their needs. We knew that something in the ... Read more

We sometimes delve so deeply into our favourite topic that we often forget to think through all of the relevant consequences. Among my well-known topics and areas of expertise are innovation and the financial technology (fintech) industry, which represent two of my favourites. The latter has a tremendous impact and influence on the traditional financial ... Read more

Tech collaborations need co-operation-minded contracting FOCUS: Businesses seeking to enter into collaborative arrangements need to embrace contract and negotiation approaches which support achieving the benefits of co-operative working.Organisations have a desire to harness new technologies to create innovative products and solutions, in response to digital disruption and other market challenges. Collaboration is increasingly being viewed ... Read more