This year nFocus have made themselves a force to be reckoned with by solidifying their place in the industry.

At this year’s European Software Testing Awards, the most prestigious award in the software testing field. nFocus were named the leading vendors of the year after 4 consecutive years of being nominated as finalists. This achievement makes them the first to win the Leading Vendor category on two separate occasions (2016, 2019).

They were also named in CIO Applications Europe’s Top 10 Software Testing Consulting/Services Companies 2019.

This award adds to their list of achievements this year which includes being named one of Test Magazine’s 20 Leading Testing Providers for the third consecutive year and becoming double finalists at the UK IT industry Awards.

Our EIC residence have been taking several industries by storm this year, we look forward to seeing all our tenants achieve great things in the approaching New Year.

Training experts Imagine Training are celebrating 25 years in business in 2019!

As part of their celebrations, Imagine threw a party at their offices in the e-Innovation Centre, inviting friends and business contacts from the past 25 years. As well as food for everyone to enjoy, there was also some magical fun during the event provided by Colin Dorning MBE who performed close-up magic for the guests.

Training Director, Karen Turner said: “We’ve worked hard over the past 25 years to help hundreds of businesses save time and work more effectively using Microsoft Office software like Excel. We’re now launching a range of soft skills training courses including Leadership, Change Management and Customer Service.

We’ve trained thousands of delegates over the years and have kept all the evaluation comments so we could prove – if ever necessary – how great our service is. We have received 98% Total Satisfaction from our customers over the years.

We loved to hear stories from past delegates of how training has helped improve their work and how it has enhanced their careers as well as improving their employer’s bottom line.”

Imagine Training was also supporting The Ben Corfield Football Fund with their event. Ben Corfield is a local 7 year old boy who has been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. Donations from the day will be given entirely to this worthy cause, helping young Ben and others like him, and also the hospitals and specialist wards they rely on so much.

To find out more about Ben, you can follow his story here: http://thebencorfieldfootballfund.co.uk/bens-story

Hoopy are a software development consultancy firm and new tenants of the e-Innovation Centre.

However, they were not in the building long before jetting off to Tokyo, where they were hosting one of their regular international developer conferences – DevRelCon Tokyo.

This was part of an international series of conferences, started by Hoopy in 2015, for people who build developer communities and developer experiences.

At each event, they bring together practitioners to share through talks, training and networking. Speakers at the events have included Anil Dash, Jono Bacon, Bear Douglas, James Governor, Dr Sue Black, and others. As well as Tokyo there are also editions in London, San Francisco, and China.

So welcome, Hoopy. A great addition to the EIC family!