square one fact file
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Square One Resources
specialist recruitment at it’s finest
2012
Specialist Recruitment at it’s finest
Key company facts
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Delivery to 40
countries across
5 continents
144 countries
from which candidates visited our
website
89% increase in
mobile traffic to
our website year on
year
16,598 Candidates added to
our database in
2011
328,500 visits to our website in
2011
20 languages spoken by staff across
the company
10,000 members
in our Square One
LinkedIn group
14,800 hours spent
speaking with IT & ERP professionals
in 2011
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Global outlook & expansion
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76% increase in placements in Eastern
Europe
62% increase year on
year requirements outside of the UK
34% increase in requiremen
ts across the
Americas
32 global companies chose us as preferred suppliers
Our specialist practices & memberships
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Our specialisms continually evolve with market demand
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Top enterprise solutions trends we saw in 2011
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'Big data' analytics surges into the
BI software market
‘Big data’
SAP BusinessObjects
4.0 debuts
SAP HANA
launched in June 2011
Open source
technologies such as
Apache Hadoop
went mainstream in 2011
SAP Business Intelligen
ce
Open Source
Oracle
Oracle introduced the biggest update to its Solaris operating system
Solaris 11 heralded as ‘first
cloud OS’
move towards
corporate application suites focusing
on information delivery
& flexibility in more
networked
workplace
Top design & development trends we saw in 2011
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2011 was the year of the tablet with
further growth
predicted.
Enterprise
Mobility
JavaScriptHTML5
Open Web technologi
es gain momentu
m with further
increases expected over the coming 2
years
The preferred cloud dev target for
Visual Studio
development is
Windows Azure & Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
Cloud
.NET Framework is picking up with
large scale deployment
s of Windows 7.
.NET
Due to it’s universality JavaScript emerging
as the most important language
for the next few years
Top functional management trends we saw in 2011
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Agile developmen
t methodolog
y gained popularity in
technical project plans
Project Manageme
nt
The rise of Ubiquitous Computing (informatio
n processing
is integrated
into everyday objects
and activities)
Testing Change Manageme
nt
Increase in demand for resources
and positions
devoted to change
management
With investment in master
data managemen
t growing 18%
a push for user-friendly
customer data
analysis tools rose.
Data Analysis
Security
Targeted attacks,
“hacktivist”
campaigns and the rise of mobile
malware
Top infrastructure & support trends we saw in 2011
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Deployments around
‘joined up’ comms
emphasis on technologies
like voice, video,
smartphones, and other mobile form
factors.
Unified Communicati
ons
Internal and external data and network security become higher
priorities for IT
Management
Network Security
consolidation and
maintenance with push
towards next generation, optimised, right-sized
datacentres
Servers
Increase in migration to hybrid and
fully virtualised desktop, storage,
networking, and
datacentre environment
s
Virtualisation
the issue of how to
monitor, manage &
reduce power
consumption has
increased
Power