The latest news, case studies and blogs from Sunderland Software City and the region’s tech community.
Building on the success of last year’s celebrations, the South Tyneside Business Awards aims to once again the profile of thriving businesses in the town. The Business Awards will take place on Thursday 12th September at South Shields Foreshore, with organisers accepting applications up until 14th August. The South Tyneside
Read moreSunderland Software City in partnership with Sage are offering a Scrum workshops for the first time in August 2013. The workshops aim to improve business’ product development skills using the widely adopted Scrum methodology. (More information on Scrum can be found here: http://www.scrum.org/Resources/What-is-Scrum) This is a unique opportunity to learn
Read moreA new industry-backed course to prepare young people for apprenticeships in IT has been launched by e-skills UK and Newcastle College. Local employers including Accenture, Fluid Pixel, HP, Ubisoft and many small firms in Sunderland Software City have collaborated on this new route into technology careers. The year-long pre-apprenticeship course
Read moreBusinesses are invited to a new event in September to find out more about the support on offer from Teesside University to help them prosper and grow. Doing Business @ Tees will see delegates from hundreds of businesses across the region spark new ideas, win new contracts and find new
Read moreA Sunderland software company has won a $300,000 contract to install and maintain a bespoke warehousing management system for a large US manufacturing facility. OnePoint Systems, a software development company specialising in custom office management systems, has been quietly growing its US order book for a number of years from
Read moreWITH climate experts from around the country gathering last month to debate the UK’s recent extreme weather, one Sunderland software company is taking action to ensure that for their customers ‘business as usual’ is guaranteed throughout our turbulent seasons. Affinity Systems, based in the Stanfield Business Centre in Hendon, has
Read moreEurope’s leading webinar, webcasting and virtual event organisation WorkCast are delighted to have won this year’s Streaming Media Awards for its Webcast Platform. Winners of the influential Awards programme for the European online video industry were announced on 18th June at the Streaming Forum conference in London. Voting took place
Read moreONE of the North East’s fastest- growing software companies is looking to expand its workforce after attracting a number of new big-brand clients. Since setting up near Sunderland in 2010, SaleCycle has seen staff numbers swell to over 30 to meet demand for their services from major international clients including
Read moreSunderland Software City is offering a limited number of software and technology businesses in the North-East the opportunity to develop the leadership and management skills of their staff, free of charge. Through continued dialogue with software companies in the region we have determined that there is an identified need for
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