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ONES TO WATCH Fairsail


announced the best ever quarter in company history with a 200% increase in top-line sales.


Its field is global workforce collaboration, cloud- based HR and HCM (human capital management) solutions capable of dealing with globally dispersed workforces. The company now supports some 120,000 users worldwide.


CEO Nic Scott said confidently: “We firmly believe this year will offer even more opportunity for Fairsail to take market share from the previous generation of HR players.“


Eclipse Marketing


Eclipse, based at Winnersh, specialises in combined CRM and database solutions. Formed by David Pickering and Penny Hutton in the late 1980s, the company has evolved to become an expert in digital marketing and uses social media, email, the web and other channels to provide a multi-channel approach for its customers. Clients include major car companies such as Toyota and GM.


Recently, Eclipse was acquired by ExpertSOLUTIONS, which is a global leader in product recalls and retrievals. ExpertSOLUTIONS is part of Stericycle, a global company listed on NASDAQ.


DataSift


Passionate about “big data“ and how it can be used to make smarter business decisions, DataSift was founded by Nick Halstead as a social media data- filtering platform.


During the past five years, Halstead has been a technical visionary on the power of social data to revolutionise information delivery. His company is growing fast and has secured $42 million of funding led by Insight Venture Partners with support from existing investors.


The company is based at the Enterprise Centre, University of Reading.


THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – APRIL 2014 www.businessmag.co.uk – first published in February 2014


A snapshot of five growing companies in the south that have gained a reputation for success in IT over the past year or more


Sondrel


Fairsail is a Reading company which opened its new headquarters last year at Whiteknights.


It recently


Sondrel celebrated a very successful 2013 that culminated in a move to new headquarters at Theale. Employee numbers more than doubled last year, with expansion in the company’s Shanghai office and the opening of an office in Finland.


Sondrel was founded in 2002. The company specialises in system-to-silicon design resource, developing chips for customers worldwide.


OrganOx


OrganOx is an example of a successful spinout from a university.


from Oxford, headed by CEO Dr Les Russell, to develop a device for transplant surgery.


The device keeps a human liver alive outside the patient’s body, and the innovation could as much as double the number of livers for transpant. Professor Peter Friend and Professor Constantin Coussios are the two academic founders of the Oxford Science Park-based company, which has won a number of awards and secured major funding from the Technology Strategy Board.


In 2008 the company spun out


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