Digital Technology Awards showcase Scotland’s flourishing tech sector

13/05/2019
This year's winners at the Digital Technology Awards
This year's winners at the Digital Technology Awards

The ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards took place last week with Craneware winning the large Digital Technology Business of the Year award.

MyWay Digital Health Limited won the emerging Digital Technology Business of the Year while Ecometrica won small/medium Digital Technology Business of the Year.

Disclosure Scotland and BJSS received the award for Innovation within the Public Sector for their work on an enterprise-wide digital transformation programme, migrating highly sensitive police data from a legacy platform to the cloud. Judges were impressed by the year on year roll out of the application and the adoption of cloud from an unscaleable legacy infrastructure.

Ecometrica a company specialising in turning satellite and drone observation data into actionable sustainability insights for business and society impressed the judges with their strong commercialisation and business growth during 2018.

Edinburgh-based Airts, an AI focused software company took Best New Product or Service for “Braid”, an intelligent planning platform that helps organisations meet strategic objectives through optimised scheduling. The company received the award for excellent penetration in sales and delivery in a tough enterprise market.

Quorum Cyber took the Cyber Security Initiative award for the launch of “Big Red Button”. Designed to address the challenges of SMEs, the public sector and third sector, Big Red Button offers round the clock capability to detect, respond and contain cyber attacks.

Polly Purvis, Chief Executive of ScotlandIS, said: 

“The success stories showcased at last night’s awards are a testament to why Scotland’s digital technologies sector is increasingly recognised for worldclass innovation. The competition was fierce, underlining the quality of products and services being developed across the industry,.

“It is no coincidence that Scotland is home to such high calibre tech businesses given the combination of highly skilled people, a culture of problem solving and innovation and the growing ambition within the industry.  We are committed to continuing to raise the profile of the industry and provide support to our membership and the wider community.

“The bar is raised every year at these Awards and it is important to keep feeding that ambition to ensure we continue to compete effectively as an industry on the international stage.”

The full list of winners is as follows:

  • Best New Product or Service: Airts
  • Fintech Innovation: Previse
  • Innovation within the Public Sector: BJSS with Disclosure Scotland
  • Best Training Programme: The Data Lab
  • Cyber Security Initiative: Quorum Cyber
  • Transformational Innovation Through Data: Castlight Financial
  • Culture & Leadership Award: Good-Loop
  • Digital Agency of the Year: After Digital
  • Digital Technology Business of the Year Emerging: MyWay Digital Health Limited
  • Digital Technology Business of the Year Small-Med: Ecometrica
  • Digital Technology Business of the Year Large: Craneware

The awards are hosted annually by Scotland’s digital technologies membership and cluster management organisation, ScotlandIS. The winners were celebrated at an awards night held in Glasgow.

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