AUGUST 2019 BusIness 41
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T firm Novosco was handed
the Best in the Business
award.
The Daresbury Park-based
business specialises in
managed services with
clients including Premier
League football clubs, police forces,
NHS trusts and universities.
In 2017, Novosco experienced rapid
growth, including growing turnover by
more than 30%.
It also integrated NetDef, a company
it acquired in a seven-figure deal, into
the Novosco group, adding new
expertise in cyber-security to the
company.
Last year, the company won a £107m
contract with Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Trust.
Following this, it also announced it
would invest £20m to expand its
operations and create an additional
150 jobs by 2021.
The company has also increased its
workforce by 13%, to 195, representing
a 54% increase in staff headcount since
2016.
Novosco is one of the first partners in
the UK and Ireland to achieve
VMware’s Master Services Competency
in Data Centre Virtualisation.
This means the company is able to
help organisations accelerate their
digital transformations.
Operations director at Novosco,
Jacqualine Kennedy, said: “Novosco
are a growing company.
“We’ve committed to growth in
England this year and the development
of the secure operating centre in theDaresbury offices is a phenomenal
achievement and we’re hoping to build
on that and develop our managed
service offering from there.”
Commenting on the award win, she
said: “I’m delighted the work that
Novosco are doing in our region has
now been recognised, and we arecontinuing to build on this success and
hopefully more in the future.
“I think the award recognises the
work we’ve been doing, and will
encourage and promote what we’re
doing, and hopefully allow people to
understand Novosco are a fantastic
employer and attract them to us.”Best in the Business Novosco
Best in the Business, sponsored
by Praetura, is NovoscoBest use of Technology Capita T&I
T
he Best use of
Technology award
went to Capita
Translation and
Interpretation, beating
Mojo Mortgages and
Sorted.The company, part of Capita Plc, is a
leading provider of language services
to both public and private
organisations, offering a wide range of
professional translation and
interpreting services, including
website localisation, face-to-faceinterpreting, voiceover and subtitling,
and multilingual SEO in over 180
languages.
Its remote interpreting platform,
LiveLINK, connects its customers to
an interpreter via mobile app, web
browser or telephone.The LiveLINK platform caters for 170
languages and has an average
connection time of 15 seconds.
Through LiveLINK, Capital is able to
deliver remote interpreting to
corporate customers globally, as well
as police forces and NHS Trusts
throughout the UK.
The platform was launched in 2017
after the company recognised that
remote, on-demand interpreting
(voice and video) would be the future
of interpreting services.
Head of sales at Capita Translation
and Interpretation, Tom Moran, said:
“The team deserve the award because
the technology we’re hoping is going
to transform certain sectors, like
public sector, NHS, police, as well as
commercially, so I can see it having a
real impact in people’s lives,
genuinely.”
Commenting on the award win, the
company’s content and bid producer,
Katie Hampson, said: “It’s really
positive to get the technology
recognised and to be up there
nominated with such big names.
“It’s quite an honour to be here, so
we’re really proud to get the actual
award.”Best use of Technology, sponsored by Praetura,
is Capita Translation and Interpretation