Build a better business

Through technology, experience, and commitment, we work with hundreds of clients, big and small, to improve their business.

We strive to improve businesses through technology, and we make sure to do it in one (or more) of the following 5 Ways:

Can we help? Get in touch to find out.

Our founder Sally Waterston has been announced as one of 50 Leading Lights in the UK for kindness in leadership

Who we are

We are an IT consultancy with a keen business focus. We're open and honest, we'll challenge you when you need challenging and we've been around for over twenty years so we really do know what we're doing. We're only interested in doing work that has a proven business benefit in at least one of the 5 Ways, so you can be sure that you'll get a return on your investment with us.

Meet the team

Work for us

We’re always looking for excellent people to join our team and help us get to where we want to go. We want people to learn and have fun but at the same time we want them to excel. We’ve been awarded Gold Investors in People for a reason.

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Keeping connected

Being connected doesn’t just mean being online for work meetings; we worked with St Cuthbert’s to deliver a solid wireless network to allow patients and family to stay connected via FaceTime, WhatsApp and other data intensive platforms

For the last 20 years we've helped over 300 companies improve their businesses
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    Age UK County Durham is the principal voluntary organisation working for older people, their families and carers throughout County Durham.

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    ERP System Review
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    Architecting a flexible practice
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    ARHAG is a housing association which focuses on housing refugees and migrants from all countries and continents.

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    Formed in 1974, the Council comprises the former Urban Districts of Hucknall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield, together with the parishes of Annesley, Felley and Selston. The Council's long term vision is for 'A regenerated and thriving Ashfield'.

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    Research Portal
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    A Collaborative Hub
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    Simple, Secure Remote Working
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    Firm prepares for long term gain with IT Strategy
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    The United Kingdom’s leading Electrical Wholesale Network with almost twice as many distribution outlets as their nearest competitor.

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    Crest Nicholson has been building new homes for over 50 years and is firmly established as a leading developer with a passion for not just building homes, but creating vibrant sustainable communities.

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    Reducing Cost, Increasing Performance Looking after Legacy Applications
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    Manufacturing efficiency improvements
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    A Citizen Portal the efficient way
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    Durham University is a world-class University providing high-quality teaching and learning, along with advanced research and partnering with business

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    Business Education Partners Enhancing the student experience Project management: reducing risk and delivering on time Streamlining the desktop experience
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    IT Strategy supports growth Elddis ups a gear with flash performance injection
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    Enva delivers outstanding hazardous waste solutions and expert, tailored water services.

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    Evergreen Garden Care is the leading garden care company in Europe and Australasia.

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    Established in London in 2004, today Exponent is one of the UK’s leading private equity firms, investing in companies headquartered in the UK and Ireland with enterprise values between £100-400m.

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    Gateway Housing Association is the largest provider of sheltered housing and has the third largest stock-holding of social housing within the Tower Hamlets area of London, with some 2,700 properties.

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    Lighting up African communities
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    A down-to-earth, innovative, friendly and professional architectural practice with offices in Birmingham and London. Underpinning the practice is an approach rooted in exploring ideas of how places and buildings can make peoples lives better.

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    The UK's largest quoted residential property owner, managing over 12,000 homes. Their portfolio spans a broad range of assets from modest terraced houses to major development sites.

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    Hawkins\Brown is an award-winning architectural practice of over 200 architects, interior designers, urban designers, and researchers, with studios in London and Manchester.

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    Founded in 1893, Henry Colbeck are the oldest independent supplier to the fish & chip market in the UK.

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    Highly available messaging Protecting and preserving critical emails
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    Becoming Outrageously Brilliant
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    The trust provides a very broad range of community services (including therapies), community and inpatient mental health services, learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services to people living in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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    Innisfree Housing Association is a publicly accountable, independent charity which strives to achieve a continuing improvement in the quality of housing services.

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    Intelect provide engineering services to some of the leading operators in the food processing, utilities, renewables and pharmaceuticals sectors.

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    Interoute’s cloud based services connects 30 countries, 102 cities, 12 Data Centres, 31 colocation centres and has connections to an additional 140 partner owned data centres

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    System and process gap analysis Live Data Integration
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    James Fisher and Sons plc is a leading provider of specialist services to the marine, oil and gas and other high assurance industries worldwide.

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    Streamlining Business Processes for a Cutting Edge Refrigeration Solutions Provider
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    Cyber Essentials: The springboard to your security journey
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    John McAslan + Partners is a leading architectural and design practice based in London and Edinburgh. Their extensive portfolio of award-winning projects in the UK and overseas includes infrastructure, commercial, residential, education, cultural, heritage, urban design, and landscape sectors.

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    Creating a master plan for future work
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    Drilling contractor drills-down its data
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    A fast growing top 10 UK housing and construction company. Keepmoat design, build, refurbish and regenerate places to improve economic and social outcomes for people.

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    Formerly Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds Beckett is a public university located in Leeds, with around 28,000 students from over 100 countries.

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    Make is an award-winning international architectural practice with a reputation for design excellence.

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    Cutting Costs, Not Trees Analytics provide key student progression insights
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    MHT Technology Ltd is a leading supplier of bulk inventory management and stock reconciliation systems to the Oil, Gas and Petro-chemical business.

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    Partnering Pragmatically
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    Navigator is the UK’s largest independent bulk liquid storage provider.

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    IT solutions for market domination
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    Resilient IT for regional airport Airport Analytics
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    Virtual infrastructure health check
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    The largest university in the North of England with more than 30,000 students from over 130 countries.

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    Where security is paramount
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    Workflow automation
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    Gold Standard Security for People’s Postcode Lottery
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    Aligning port IT to the business
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    Established in 1909, PWS is a fifth-generation family business and the market leader in the design and supply of quality kitchen components and bespoke worksurfaces to manufacturers, retailers and installers.

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    Quorn Foods Virtualised Estate Ringing in the changes at Quorn
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    Working in Partnership
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    Controlled move for storage Designing a safety critical IP network Providing highly resilient cross site communication
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    Keeping an i on performance
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    The major UK pension administration company operating for the last 45 years, and now manage pension schemes and manage assets in excess of £20bn

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    Workflow automation in a safety-critical environment
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    Founded in 1970, SGP are one of the UK’s leading architectural practices with offices in London, Birmingham, Leicester, Leeds and Solihull. Placed in the ‘Top 100’ practices by the Architects’ Journal and previously listed as one of the ‘Best Small Companies to work for’ by The Sunday Times.

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    Keeping connected
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    A group of market-leading companies that combines capabilities to deliver the UK’s most diverse range of marketing solutions and book publishing services.

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    Manufacturer of high quality bespoke home grown fencing, pallet and packaging timbers, enhanced with the very latest milling and processing equipment.

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    Employability portal helps Teesside students get ahead of the competition An agile approach for rapid PC deployment
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    Tailored selection process ensures best-fit for business technology
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    Mobile Protection from Bears
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    Community vision
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    Founded in 1927, the University of Hull is one of the oldest and most respected universities in the UK, known for providing a first-class education and rewarding life experience to students from all over the world.

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    Widely regarded as one of the UK's leading enterprise universities; famous for its links with industry, commerce and the arts.

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    The University of Sunderland has one base in the City of Sunderland, in the North East of England, and another base in London. In 2013, the combined student population at the University was 15,152 students.

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    A University with a national and international reputation for excellence, innovation and regional engagement, making a major contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland.

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    Improving the student experience at the University of York
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    Westmorland operate services with a difference, focusing on local produce, community and family heritage.

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    Willow Burn Hospice treasures the lives of people whose illnesses are no longer curable, enabling them to achieve the best quality of life.

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    WilkinsonEyre is one of the world's leading architectural practices with a portfolio of national and international award-winning projects.

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