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Latest news from Aberdeen and the North East
TAP scores £250,000 oil spares deal
While the IT community in Aberdeen considers cloud services, Aberdeen Pressure Washer Centre, a division of Turriff AgriParts (TAP) Ltd has been awarded a £250,000 contract to supply Kärcher spares to a major oil company in Azerbaijan or Gorgia
This week Aberdeen examines the Cloud
The rapidly expanding use by businesses of cloud computing as an IT solution will be the focus of an industry forum in Aberdeen next week at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on August 25th, that will examine how the concept of IT services hosted remotely and delivered by internet – has developed in recent years, and assess the benefits to individual companies.
Good news: data & web design
Glasgow-based Alienation Digital, Aberdeen's Indigo Technologies and Onyx Scotland are all reporting good business and healthy growth.
The Northern defence economy
RAF Kinloss and RAF Lossiemouth contribute £158m in gross income to the Moray economy and collectively support 5,710 full time equivalent (FTE) jobs in the region according to independent economic consultants Inverness based Reference Economics calculations, in work commissioned by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). However as traditional employment such as fishing has been wiped out, with few alternatives being presented, Just how quickly can such an economic prop be supplemented or replaced?
Dundee and deep sea pipeline safety
Doors, horses & bolted initially spring to mind in the news that a team from the University of Dundee have been awarded two grants totalling almost £300,000 to improve the safety and reliability of ultra-deep water oil and gas extraction, but the work has been long anticipated and the development will both optimise reliability under deep sea high pressure of tubular connections and develop future pipeline coatings.
Indigo Technology gains two nominations
Aberdeen based IT specialist, Indigo Technologies (not to be confused with Indigo Vision) has two award nominations in the prestigious 2010 Northern Star Awards becoming one of three finalists in the Excellence in Customer Service and the Commitment to People Development categories. Award winners will be announced in September.
Production growth for Aventa
Aberdeen-based Aventa, which specialises in integrated production data systems, has won two contracts worth £300,000 and comprising an extension with Talisman Energy (UK) Limited, and a new contract with Hess.
Rowett Institute award to be 'Good with food'
The University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health awarded almost €1m to deliver three elements of NeuroFAST is looking at the effect of workplace stress on eating behaviour; if sweet tastes and rich textures cause food addiction, and pulling together findings from all the European researchers to share the information with governments, food and drink producers, health professionals, industry and other stakeholders. An early attention getting study using blaeberries aims to understand the connection between obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
PiSys stimulates as it simulates
PiSys with offices at Bridge of Don and Old Meldrum, Aberdeen, Swansea and Houston is a Scottish software company specialising in the creation and delivery of specialist software products and services to a worldwide client base.
Alchemy nets the north
With its Inverness facility due for launch this year, Alchemy Plus has a suitably audacious plan to develop both Lerwick in the Shetland Islands as well as an Aberdeen site. The Faroes next?
Animation highlights flood awareness
A multimedia animation highlighting the problems caused by flooding has swept Scotstown Primary in Bridge of Don to victory. The pupils' animation was submitted as an entry in a competition run by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to help raise awareness of flooding and the impact it can have on people's lives.
SAAS, cloud & telehealth investment predictions
Around 85% of firms that invest in the IT sector have predicted they will make acquisitions in the next 12 months, according to a survey published yesterday by accountancy firm Grant Thorton. While cloud computing and SAAS are predicted as interest areas, a Scottish push to telehealth could make the sector another candidate. It comes on the heels of the ScotlandIS survey and sturdy growth reports from the services sector.
New appointments spring up
Edinburgh-based web software house, Money Dashboard, and two of Aberdeen's energy focused service companies Escape Business Technologies and Dynamic Edge Solutions are hiring and promoting advisers and staff.
Aberdeen University takes Caithness Stone for library
Caithness Stone Industries has secured a multi-million pound contract to provide both building and specialist finished stone for key areas of the development. The Wick-based business, which employs 30 local people, will provide walling and flooring for the new library project. It is announced, as Aberdeen's 10th Word festival with Scottish Opera from 14-16 May also gets a Footnote word in with the library action.
All-Energy 2010
All-Energy UK Exhibition & Conference is claimed as Europe's largest event devoted to all forms of clean and renewable energy.
ITL through social networks
Innovation, Technology and Leadership (ITL) are the themes for The Institute of Directors Scotland chairman and speaker Raymond O’Hare, at this Thursday IoD Aberdeen lunch.
After Copenhagen: challenges
Professor Pete Smith of Soils & Global Change at Aberdeen University will be amongst those examining what the outcomes of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen mean for Scotland and the UK, at a conference on "The new Climate Change and Energy Challenges for Scotland and the UK" in Edinburgh on Friday.
North east flood warning live
A new £1 million SEPA scheme to protect vulnerable communities from the threat of flooding in high-risk areas of the North East of Scotland which includes several urban centres such as Aberdeen, Inverurie and Huntly, rural settlements, large areas of agricultural land and significant transport links has been launched by Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead.
Silver lining in IT oil business expertise
While the advent of the Cloud may be building business in Aberdeen, energy industry experience is another silver lining growth sector there as Aventa Systems Ltd, IT consultancy to the oil and gas industry, targets a 150% rise in staff over the next 12 months, following its move to larger offices.
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