Assured cloud services provider named the winner of the Communications category, coming sixth overall and second in the Fast 50 UK shortlist
London – December 8, 2015 – Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud services company has been announced as the winner of the Communications category in Deloitte Global’s 2015 Technology Fast 500 EMEA programme, which ranks the fastest growing public and private technology companies annually. Skyscape was in sixth place overall and came second in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 UK shortlist of the country’s most innovative and fastest growing technology firms.
“We’re thrilled to have topped the Communications sector in the Technology Fast 500 EMEA shortlist in recognition of our rapid growth,” said Simon Hansford, CEO of Skyscape Cloud Services. “It’s a great honour to have achieved sixth position overall and to be named the runner up in the Fast 50 UK rankings.”
“Making the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA ranking shows Skyscape Cloud Services’ commitment to innovation and pushing the industry forward,” David Cobb, Deloitte UK and partner in charge of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA programme. “With its 13,391% growth rate over four years, Skyscape has proven that its leadership has the vision and determination to grow in a highly competitive market.”
Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth, Technology Fast 500 companies span a variety of industry sectors and are transforming the way business is done today. Now in its fourteenth year, the programme covers over 20 countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, UK, France, Germany and Turkey and the sectors span software, hardware, communications, media, life sciences and clean technology.
2015 has been a very successful year for Skyscape, with this the latest of a string of accolades. Most recently, Skyscape was crowned a Cloudex 20:20 winner and was named ‘One to Watch’ in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100. Skyscape was also announced as the winner of the Community & Environmental Action Award at this year’s British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Management Team Awards.
Hansford continued: “We attribute our success to date to two things: disruption and innovation. Our core business objective is to deliver assured, agile and cost-effective services to the public sector, ultimately delivering better value for money for UK citizens and tax payers.”
Skyscape has won a number of high-profile public sector contracts with HMRC, DVLA and the MoD to name a few, and it has rapidly grown to more than 100 employees in just three years, with expectations to almost double that figure in 2016. Skyscape’s channel partner programme has also gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2013, with 190 organisations now able to market their services to the public sector by hosting on Skyscape’s accredited platform.
