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Award-winning Document Management software supplier
Valid Information Systems has acquired Top Tech UK, formerly Simdell
EDMS - a major supplier of 'best-of-breed' business solutions for
the Local Authority market including the London Boroughs of Havering
and Croydon.
The demise of South Africa -based Top Tech caused its UK subsidiary,
Top Tech UK to bring in the administrators with the result that
Ilford-based EDMS Valid Information System was able to acquire the
company, its 12 programmers and marketing and sales team, at a cost
of £500,000. By late Friday evening on March 23rd the deal
was in place for VALID to take over Top-Tech's business and re-employ
all the staff.
The consolidation of the two businesses will provide a rich source
of solutions for Local Authorities looking for specialist systems
to automate all areas of Local Government and comply with e-Government
guidelines. Top Tech's headquarters in Coventry will provide VALID
with a central base from which to serve its nationwide clientele.
Although VALID is a relative newcomer to the Local Government market,
last year it topped the SOCITM Survey (Society for IT Managers)
of Document Management systems within the public sector. Now supplying
a number of authorities with Web-based solutions VALID continues
to introduce pioneering systems with clients such as Suffolk County
Council running one of the first virtual committee meetings using
VALID software. This was followed by Stockport Metropolitan Council
placing a £1.2m order with VALID to install a corporate solution.
Councillor Brian Millard, Chair of the Finance and General Sub-Committee
of Stockport Metropolitan Council,. "We are a very large organisation
responsible for providing a huge range of services for a population
of about 300,000 citizens. At the touch of a button an official
will have immediate access to the right information, and they will
be able to respond much more rapidly and effectively. Successful
businesses use new technology to increase their efficiency - the
public also deserves a high level of efficiency from the Council,
and we see this as the way forward for the future."
VALID also recently announced a strategic partnership with Capita
Business Services who are embedding VALID's technologies into their
core applications with a view to enlarging its application service
provision to the Local Authority market.
About Valid Information Systems
Ltd
Valid Information Systems has been providing Document
Management solutions for the past 30 years. Since 1990 it has specialised
in Electronic Document Management systems offering a family of products
that leverage the company's cores strengths in document management,
data integration and reporting. In 1997 it introduced its ASP model
and today, this service is responsible for 30% of the company's
turnover. VALID's solutions remain open and standardised ensuring
future-proof unlimited scalability and storage. VALID was recently
acknowledged the leading document management solution to the UK
public sector market see www.socitm.gov.uk.
About Top Tech UK
Top Tech UK provides business solutions to over 30
sites in the UK, supplying best-of-breed combining Staffware for
Workflow, Altris (now Spescom) for document management, data input
from FormsScan and COLD solutions from Hitech. Besides the products
its focuses on Oracle and SQL Server databases and Unix and Windows
systems.
Simdell was aquired by Maxima Information Group plc in early 1997
and traded under Systems Team subsidiary as Simdell EDS. It was
then sold to Top Tech in early 1999. Top Tech was quoted on the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Following Top-Tech's recent demise
Top Tech UK was acquired by Valid Information Systems on March 23rd.
See the company's website www.toptechuk.com
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