TechUK President’s Awards 2024
We’re delighted that our CEO Andy was shortlisted for Tech UK’s President Awards 2024 in the Economy category. This celebrates people who, say Tech UK, “through technology, have enabled improvements, mitigated risk, protected funds, facilitated advancements in financial planning and supported the growth of the economy”.
Andy didn’t make the final spot (many congratulations to Toby Jones!) But he says, “it was a fantastic honour to be shortlisted, and it was great to be surrounded by so many innovators and entrepreneurs in the tech sector”.
Some of the team went along, and enjoyed seeing Andy’s face in the brochure and on the big screen, and then him on stage with all the shortlisted candidates on the night.
You can read more about what happened on the night in our blog post.
Eurocloud Awards
Ctrl O has won two Eurocloud awards thanks to our software LinkSpace. In 2015 when it was fresh out of the box, we won the “G-Cloud Outstanding Newcomer” prize, and the following year in 2016, we won the “G-Cloud Outstanding Success Story”. You can read more about the awards in this piece by Lindsay Smith, who was running Eurocloud in the UK at the time.
Since then, bespoke LinkSpace systems have been created for a number of companies and departments, and they’re used every day by thousands of people. We are always pleased to see that we have a number of happy clients who are finding their work more straightforward thanks to our software.
Testimonials
We have received some lovely comments about our software and our service recently, here is a selection.
About LinkSpace
The Ministry of Defence headquarters in London, where John often visits clients
An employee who has been using LinkSpace for some time at the MOD to keep track of non-operational events told John:
It’s a quick and easy way to know what is happening at any given time, and it’s really configurable to look at just the bits you need. Previously, when doing budgets, people were keeping individual spreadsheets, so you were having to wait for them to come back from leave and could never look back and see the history. This works so much better.
A newer user of LinkSpace told John that it’s:
highly configurable, and its ability to manipulate data is good.
Another said that:
it’s more user friendly than other systems
And another remarked that it’s
easy to fine-tune the views of the data
About our service
We like to think we provide a personal, friendly service, with real people at the end of the phone, and that seems to have been reflected in the notes we’ve received lately. These messages were sent to John, our COO, who is known as being impeccably polite, always kind and calm, and with a self-deprecating sense of humour that puts everyone at ease. He has taught Oliver and Dave all of the details of LinkSpace recently in the office in Yeovil who have also been on hand with client requests.
Hi John, I would just like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for the extra mile you and Oliver have gone for us. … (I understand) that you both worked incredibly late on a Friday night to test and resolve issues, and I know you had to do so again recently to deploy time-based policy changes.
This is very much appreciated by me, and the team; and we were big fans of Ctrl O before all this support but even more so now.
Hi John, it has been an absolute pleasure working with you, thanks for all your help in improving (our version of) LinkSpace, I don’t think I’ve ever worked with an external stakeholder who is a hundredth as helpful as you have been! Cheers John 😊
