Sigma Seven Ranked Number One IT Company

Edinburgh software company, Sigma Seven, has been ranked the number one IT company in Scottish Business Insider magazine’s Sprint100 survey. The survey, now in its eighth year, reveals which independent Scottish growth companies are on the ‘fast-track’ to success.

Sigma Seven was also ranked in seventh place overall, reflecting its position as a strong, consistent performer within the Scottish business community as a whole, with turnover up 64 per cent in the last year.

Sigma Seven specialises in mobile work-management, field data collection and map-based workflow systems. Its product, GeoField, uses state-of- the-art technology to bring data together from a number of sources, allowing field workers in remote and rural areas to access files, collect and manage data, organise tasks and record information directly onto digital maps, either on a tablet or a laptop.

GeoField has created significant savings for Sigma Seven clients over the years - in some cases hundreds of thousands of pounds, saving companies time and money by speeding up and streamlining data collection processes. It has reduced the impact of field projects on the environment too, as no paper is involved and fewer car journeys are required.

The company has grown from four to 19 staff, since it was founded in 2000 and this year Sigma Seven won its first contract in the US, for energy giant Iberdrola. Another of its current projects is to provide bespoke software solutions for Balfour Beatty, for one of the biggest infra-structure projects in the UK - the multi million pound project to replace the electricity transmission line between Beauly and Wharry Burn, near Denny in Stirlingshire.

Other clients include National Grid, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), the Health & Safety Executive and ScottishPower, which was the company’s first customer and has remained a client ever since.

Founder and managing director, Paul Reid commented: “We are delighted to be recognised as the number one IT company in this survey and the seventh ranking business overall.

“The whole Sigma Seven team has worked hard to grow the company to this stage and we are anticipating further growth over the next few years.

“Our strategy will, however, remain the same - to focus on building long-term relationships with our customers and creating solutions which are an ideal fit for their business needs.”

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Sigma Seven wins contract for electricity transmission software

Edinburgh information mobilisation specialists, Sigma Seven, have been appointed by Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions to provide bespoke software solutions for the multi million pound project to replace the electricity transmission line between Beauly and Wharry Burn, 20km north of Denny.

The £290M contract, recently awarded to Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions by Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission Limited, a subsidiary of SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy), is thought to be one of the largest public infrastructure projects of its kind in the UK.

Balfour Beatty is responsible for project development and design, including the installation of 200km of overhead transmission line. They will also construct 154km of temporary access roads and upgrade 124km of existing roads, equivalent in distance from Glasgow to Inverness. The contract began recently and is scheduled to be completed in 2015. The replacement line should be completed in 2014

Sigma Seven will assist Balfour Beatty in delivery of the project, with their product GeoField, a powerful, map-based, mobile work-management tool for hand held PCs.

GeoField uses state-of- the-art technology to bring data together from a number of sources, allowing field workers in remote and rural areas to access files, collect and manage data, organise tasks and record information directly onto digital maps.

It will also allow the Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions team to share information quickly and effectively with their colleagues at the company’s office in Derby.

Sigma Seven’s expertise will be of particular benefit to this project in a number of ways.

For instance, GeoField’s mapping ability will enable the on site team to make sketches, to help locate specific points in areas of featureless landscape.

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Sigma Seven expand to new Edinburgh HQ

Release date: 6th June 2011

After ten years at Edinburgh Technopole on the south of the city, technology company Sigma Seven have relocated to larger premises in Gordon Lamb House on Jackson’s Entry in the capital’s city centre. The move was made to accommodate Sigma Seven’s growing staff; provide a better working environment and reduce staff commutes.

Leaders in the provision of mobile map-based work management, Sigma Seven have won several significant contracts over the last two years. As a result, they have recruited four new team members to the company in that period and have plans to expand further. The new jobs which have been created bring staff numbers to fifteen.

Existing Sigma Seven customers include Scottish Water, Scottish Power and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

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Wales & West Utilities selects Sigma Seven for mobilisation contract

Mobile solutions specialist Sigma Seven has been chosen by Wales & West Utilities (WWU) to deliver a new mobile maps solution to support the critical work and asset data management processes for its 1,000 strong mobile workforce.

Based on Sigma Seven’s GeoField product suite, the solution will be used by field workers at the regulated gas distribution business which transports gas to the homes and businesses of 2.5 million customers in Wales and the South West of England.

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