Alienation Digital is celebrating its year of tremendous growth by dedicating the entire agency’s services and its 15 strong staff free for a day's work on a good producing a new logo, contents managed website, training and digital marketing strategy for Woodlands Community Development Trust which aims to encourage the revitalisation of the Woodlands area of Glasgow.

This has been Alienation’s most successful year ever, with a long list of prestigious new clients such as Scottoiler, Strathclyde Fire & Rescue, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Usher Hall, with turnover up by 240%, profit up 300%, a move to larger premises in Glasgow’s West End and the opening of its London office.

Neil Barr, Alienation MD (right) said: ““We are committed to using our success to help others and this year we are very excited to help a local cause that is close to our heart and reinforces our green credentials.”

In Aberdeen IT specialist Indigo Technologies (Indigo) has secured a raft of new contract wins estimated to be worth in excess of £100k from companies in the shipping, finance and oil and gas sectors.
 
The new business includes a significant three year contract with Thomas Gunn Navigation Services Limited worth around £40k for a company which specialises in the supply of navigational products and associated services to the shipping industry worldwide, and will see Indigo provide licensing and hardware consultancy services.
 
Indigo also won a further two contracts with Epeus Ltd and Rushmore Reviews  equating to £67k.
 
The company achieved a 20% growth in annual turnover for the last financial year, reporting £550,000 revenue for the period April 2009 to March 2010. Having secured more than £153k (including the above contracts) worth of business since March 2010, Indigo is now well on target to exceed its projected annual turnover.
 
Sean Thomson, (left) director at Indigo, says, “It is incredibly satisfying to secure these pieces of work which have highlighted our expertise in finding IT solutions to large and small business. The contracts secured by the team put Indigo in a very strong position for further growth in the coming year. As always we remain committed to maintaining the support we give to our current clients, while we continue to build on our client base in a steady but sustainable way.”
 
Onyx Group with last year's turnover at £12.4m and pre-tax profit at £1.14m aims to double its turnover in the next two year says Hugh Gillen, MD of Onyx Scotland, which claims to be the country's largest commercial data centre.

Recent contract successes have included both banking, construction and engineering businesses he says.

"One of Cloud Onyx strengths is its ability to move between different UK locations and servers and with the ability to buy and use bulk cheap night power for example, means the ability passing on cost saving benefits to its clients," he says.

Gillen is on record that the Group is investing and continues to plan to invest £2m in its Scottish facilities to provide improved continuity and communications, as well as adding new facilities such as the workplace recovery centre by Glasgow Airport.

With some 50 of its 112 UK workforce employed in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Onyx expects to be recruiting for the Edinburgh centre in the next few months.

Onyx footnote

The Onyx Group  has appointed IT sales expert Andrew Torrance (left) as head of Sales and Business Development to spearhead the business development and sales management of Onyx’s managed services across Scotland.

Overseeing the company’s strategic focus on new target markets and its development within these sectors, his remit will include targeting financial services in Scotland and North East England, professional services (accountancy, law) in London, progressing strategic initiatives in the logistics, manufacturing and transport sector and also growing the company’s presence in the education sector.

In terms of sales management, Torrance will be responsible for driving service sales, with a particular focus on increasing the company’s cloud computing customers in Scotland. OnyxCloud acquisitions will be a key objective for him and his team, as the Group look to develop its profile as a leading national provider of cloud computing.

Prior to joining Onyx, Torrance was sales director at the ill fated Scottish based IT company Adventi and its acquisition, Scotsys.  He has worked at a senior level for a number of years including a 12 month secondment on the employer engagement strategy for the Scottish Government’s ‘More Choices More Chances’ agenda.