Case Study
Company overview
The Oil Spill Training Company (OSTC) Ltd have extensive experience in responding to oil spills globally. They have been involved in hundreds of training courses, reviews, studies, exercises and other related projects in over ffty countries worldwide; ensuring that personnel at all levels are prepared for oil spill incidents. They have consistently exploited the latest technologies in their quest to provide the best training and analysis tools for their clients and are currently working on producing the next generation of these tools.
Company overview
Established in 1986 Kelvin have been providing incident investigation services and training around the world for over 20 years. The company's primary product, Kelvin TOP-SET, is an internationally acclaimed incident investigation and problem solving methodology used by blue chip companies around the world.
As early adopters of enabling technologies Kelvin's policy is to always use the right tool for the job. Kelvin believe that the launch of the iPod Touch and iPhone mark a coming of age for mobile devices.
Company overview
Sterling Healthcare is a nationwide organisation providing Occupational Health Services to a varied range of clients. They specialise in helping with work related health issues such as sickness absence management, stress management, health surveillance, travel medicine and substance abuse. They provide cost effective occupational health solutions using a team of highly qualified professionals who are available to work on-site, either full time or part time as required.
Company overview
Sounds Good Advertising (SGA) Ltd is an award winning company working towards enabling their outdoor digital advertising displays to allow the buyer to interact and purchase any product being advertised in real time. The hybrid advertising display will enable free browsing and purchasing of advertised products via a 2 way communication process where the users mobile phone interacts with the SGA wireless ecosystem.
Company overview
Orb International was established in 2004 and is one of the leading suppliers of corporate and promotional merchandise items and one of the largest independent sourcing houses, servicing many blue chip companies in the UK.
While their customer base is predominantly UK based, they do work with a few companies overseas – mostly subsidiaries or parents of the UK company.
Company overview
Invec Solutions is an independent company, established in 2004. They provide warranty management, repair and parts management services to leading companies in the information technology and consumer electronics sectors.
Invec Solutions use an end to end warranty management system called Viper 1 which needs to have some interaction with external client systems, currently this interaction is managed manually.
Company overview
Healthcare Skills Training (HST) specialise in Professional Qualifications for the healthcare medical device/pharmaceutical industry and hospital staff of all grades.
Through Edexcel International they develop, provide and accredit high quality assessed and accredited training programmes throughout the UK and Europe.
Company overview
Full Visual are an Edinburgh based company who produce high quality, high resolution Virtual Tours and Still Panoramic Images. Established in 2007 they have grown rapidly, attracting a high profile client base due to both the quality of their work and their competitive rates. With experience in both website design and photography they produce spectacular virtual tours which are complemented with effective interfaces.
Company overview
Flexpansion was founded on a predictive text expansion system which is based on computational linguistics PHD research at Edinburgh University by Dr Tim WIllis. As well as predicting words from their initial few letters like conventional word prediction methods, this novel innovation will also take 'txt-spk' type abbreviated input and turn it into full text. Flexpansion's predictive text is also more advanced, having the ability to predict words from word frameworks as opposed to words typed in the correct letter order.
Company overview
East Kilbride & District Engineering Group Training Association (EKGTA) Ltd is a not for profit organisation that exists to provide businesses with a locally based training provision. They are committed to offering and delivering a wide range of training to nationally recognised standards, at realistic and competitive costs, as well as being a source for recruiting apprentice engineers.
