Ardentia, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions, has been ranked as one of the top technology companies in the Midlands and North of England for the second year running in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards.The Stafford-based company was placed 13th overall by consultancy giant Deloitte at the awards – held at Mere Golf and Country Club earlier this month – which recognise and reward innovation, management and vision in technology.

The awards saw Ardentia climb up ten places from the previous year, despite facing increased competition as a result of the awards area being extended to the whole of the North of England.

The awards recognise Ardentia as one of the fastest growing and most successful technology companies in the region. The business intelligence specialist has achieved sales growth of 99% per year over the last two years. It is now the third fastest growing technology company in the Midlands, with sales in 2004 reaching almost £4.5m.

Based at Staffordshire Technology Park, Ardentia currently employs 80 staff and business continues to go from strength to strength, with the company winning a nine-year contract worth £9m to help re–organise NHS care records as part of the National Programme for IT, which is recognised as the largest civil IT programme in the world.

Tom Mulhern, Chief Executive of Ardentia, collected the award on behalf of the company. He commented:

“Ardentia’s award is further recognition of the dedication, hard work and focus of its staff and managers.”

“This is the second year running that Ardentia has one a Deloitte Fast 50 award. Finishing 13th was an impressive result – it bettered last year’s performance by ten places and this year covered a much wider geographical area than the Midlands.”

Ardentia, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions, has launched NetSearch, a next–generation enterprise search tool enabling organisations to search their entire information database and access valuable business data quickly and efficiently. NetSearch is an intelligent and proactive search tool which enables users to search multiple sources of unrelated data spread across an enterprise in unconnected data sources such as file servers, content management systems, Intranets and Web servers, giving them rapid access to important business data.

An effective company–wide search tool, NetSearch boosts efficiency and gives managers a clearer business picture, extracting vital operational data from multiple internal sources and also increasing the ROI of existing enterprise applications such as CRM, saving valuable time and money.

Corporate compliance is an increasingly important business issue – NetSearch can be employed to quickly locate any areas of non–compliance so that action can be taken. It is also an ideal tool in customer–facing environments such as contact centres: linked into sales systems and customer databases, NetSearch gives agents quicker access to the information they need leading to greater volumes of call handling.

NetSearch’s simple interface lets users input keywords in everyday language, searching unstructured, semi–structured and structured information contained in Word, Acrobat, Excel, Html and Report documents and categorising results according to their relevance and providing intelligent links which can be further refined.

Managers can view highly relevant, fully unified data from a single access point, regardless of data source, format or location, enabling them to make rapid and informed business decisions.

The tool can be used by employees across the organisation, enabling employees to search the entire IT database whilst adhering to existing security infrastructures. NetSearch’s securely managed domain ensures the right information is delivered to the right person.

NetSearch also features user authentication and authorisation, delivering index level security and restricted views based on right to view. Queries and search results are also logged to provide a valuable audit trail of what information has been accessed, and by whom.

Keith Ricketts, Marketing Manager at Ardentia said:

“Without effective, company–wide search techniques, users waste valuable time searching across multiple systems for the data they need.”

“By searching through a company’s entire IT database, NetSearch links together relevant information from multiple sources, providing more meaningful, comprehensive data which enable businesses to make more informed business decisions and keep their competitive edge.”

Stafford, 26th September 2005. Ardentia, a leading provider of Business Intelligence software solutions, has been listed as one of the UK’s one hundred fastest growing technology companies in a Sunday Times survey. The independently commissioned survey by Microsoft ranks Britain’s fastest growing unquoted companies by sales growth each year was published on 25th September 2005.

Ardentia was ranked as the UK’s 33rd fastest growing technology company. Additionally, Ardentia was ranked as the 3rd fastest growing technology company in the Midlands. The fifth annual Tech Track 100 ranks Britain’s fastest–growing private tech companies based on 2002–2004 sales growth. Judging companies on sales growth ranging from 40% to 460% per annum, the survey has ranked Ardentia according to its increase in sales of 99% a year from £1,123,000 in 2002 to £4,433,000 in 2004.

Staffordshire based Ardentia has over 14 years experience providing Web–based technology for enterprise Business Intelligence solutions to the public and commercial sectors and has developed its technologies in a thin–client browser environment, which offers secure and hassle free access to specific sets of information and reporting.

Tom Mulhern, Ardentia, Chief Executive Officer stated:

“We are delighted to have been included in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100. To be recognised in this prestigious listing is a source of great pride for all at Ardentia. We are passionate about innovation, and about ensuring that technology helps to develop and enrich businesses.”

“In 2004 Ardentia made determined moves to strengthen its position as a leader in BI solutions through innovation, sound management, investment and strategic customer engagements.”

Ardentia has developed and executed some of the largest and most complex business intelligence solutions in Europe. Today the company has some 20,000 corporate users.

Gary Luke, Ardentia, Managing Director commented:

“Moving forward we will continue to maintain our reputation for providing the highest–quality solutions, and continue to enjoy the growth that we have seen over the last two years. The Tech Track 100 is an extremely competitive programme and we salute all this years winners. Once again the standard of the entrants was extremely high.”

Ardentia are one of eleven Midlands companies that have appeared in the Tech Track 100. All companies have made a substantial contribution to the local economy. Together they employ 1,288 staff and have racked up total sales of £571m.

Ardentia, a leading provider of Web-based Business Intelligence software and services to the Health and Public Sector, today named Gary Tharme as its Sales and Marketing Director. Tharme brings over 20 years of software and business consultancy experience of the UK Health sector to Ardentia. He has spent most of the last decade as Sales and Marketing Director at CHKS, advising over 130 NHS and independent sector clients at Board level. More recently, he had been a Director at Newchurch, before joining Ardentia.

In his new role, Tharme will direct all of Ardentia’s sales and marketing activities in the UK and European region, including Health, Government and the wider Public Sector, as well as the acquisition and support of certified partners (SIs and VARs).

Tom Mulhern, CEO, Ardentia commented:

“Tharme is an experienced Sales Director with exceptional strategic vision as well as leadership and team–building skills. He has previously delivered outstanding results, developing innovative and leading edge service propositions, which improve the quality and use of information and delivered unique client benefits. We feel he’s the ideal person to lead our sales and marketing teams, and his addition bolsters an executive staff that is poised to further strengthen Ardentia’s position as a dominant force in the Business Intelligence market.”

Gary Tharme stated:

“In today’s difficult business environment, finding a company like Ardentia with a leading brand in a growth market, tremendous technology, a solid customer base, a talented and committed team, and a strong cash position is almost impossible. With this platform, I am very excited about using my enterprise sales and rapid-revenue–growth experience to lead our Sales and Marketing teams. I welcome the challenge of taking Ardentia to the next level.”

ARDENTIA, a key supplier to the NHS, ranked as one of the fastest growing web–based technology companies in the Midlands on the 2004 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

Staffordshire–based technology company ARDENTIA was recently honoured at the seventh annual Deloitte Midlands Technology Fast 50 Awards, which identify the Midlands’ fastest growing technology companies in the region.

Staffordshire based ARDENTIA today announced that it ranked as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the 2004 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the Midlands. Rankings are based on average percentage revenue growth over five years, from 1999-2003. ARDENTIA grew 248 percent during this period.

ARDENTIA’s CEO, Tom Mulhern, credits commitment to technology and the vision and determination to grow in difficult conditions with the company’s 248 percent revenue growth over the past five years. He said:

“We attribute our 248 percent revenue growth to the creativity and quality of our people and sheer hard work.”

“Growing the top line enough to make the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is especially meaningful during tough economic times for the technology sector.” said Chris Robertson, partner in charge of Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group in the Midlands. “We congratulate Ardentia on becoming one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the Midlands.”

Andrew Hornigold, Head of Technology Chosen Market Group at law firm Pinsents who sponsored the awards, said: “The Fast 50 Awards is an extremely competitive programme and we salute this year´s winners for consistently demonstrating phenomenal growth over the last five years, particularly in the face of increased international competition. Once again the standard of the entrants was extremely high, confirming the strength and resilience of the regions technology industry.”

Overall, companies that ranked on the 2004 Midlands Technology Fast 50 had a combined turnover of £2.6 billion.

The new website for Ardentia – a leading provider of business intelligence solutions using advanced web-based technology – has gone live.

The new site – www.ardentia.co.uk – reflects the Staffordshire–based company’s new corporate identity, unveiled at the beginning of 2004. The site is also designed to mirror the company’s widening customer base. With a long track record in providing information solutions to healthcare, Ardentia is finding increasing demand for its ‘intelligent business intelligence’ solutions from the commercial and government sectors.

Customers have been drawn by Ardentia’s ability to provide important business information that is personalised for each individual. Using web-based technology created by Ardentia’s own development team, the solutions can be rapidly developed and rapidly deployed across an organisation with minimal disruption to everyday working routines.

“Ardentia makes business intelligence easy for all,” says Sales & Marketing Director, John Kane, “our new website makes it easy for everyone to find out what we can do for them, regardless of the sector in which they work.”

Ardentia – a leading business intelligence solutions company – has a new home: Ardentia House at Staffordshire Technology Park, close to the heart of the UK motorway network.

The three-storey building was purpose–built as a corporate HQ and is designed to house not only Ardentia’s 60 staff, but also to provide space for the fast-growing company to expand further.

Previously based in Sutton Coldfield, the company is known as an innovator in the field of business intelligence. Customers such as the NHS, as well as Government and private sector clients, have been drawn by Ardentia’s ability to provide important business information that is personalised for each individual.

Following recent success in signing a contract worth about £9million with BT Syntegra, Ardentia is providing the reporting solution that will form part of the NHS Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS). This major project will transform the way in which GPs and Hospitals gain access to patient records.

“As well as celebrating a new office, we’re celebrating new business and have welcomed new staff on board too,” said Managing Director, Gary Luke.

Business intelligence solutions provider Ardentia is to play an important role in developing the new NHS integrated Care Records Service as one of a number of leading suppliers working with prime contractor BT Syntegra.

BT Syntegra has awarded Ardentia a nine-year contract worth about £9 million to deliver the technology to report on information and data held within the NHS Care Records Service. Ultimately housing a summary care record for every NHS patient in England, the NHS Care Records Service will be one of the largest databases in the world and will revolutionise the way NHS patient information is managed.

Under the contract, Ardentia will provide the common user interface to manage access to and extracts from the NHS integrated Care Records Service.

“As well as providing information and reporting solutions for clinical and management reporting needs, our extensive experience of providing in–depth data quality analysis for the NHS–Wide Clearing Service plays a key role in the programme.” said Ardentia’s chief executive Tom Mulhern.

“Ardentia supplies information and reporting solutions to thousands of users in the NHS already,” BT’s programme director Neil Lamonby said. “It has a solid reputation in the healthcare market and the qualities we look for in a strategic partner.”

The NHS Care Records Service will enable healthcare professionals across England to access a patient’s NHS Care Record whenever and wherever they are involved in the care of that patient. So, GPs and clinicians will be able to access the NHS Care Record of patients they are treating who live outside of their local trust area. Currently patient records are only available to the patient’s designated GP surgery or local NHS trust.

Also, patients will no longer be required to present information about their medical history at different stages of the healthcare process. The result will be a far more efficient and streamlined service for accessing relevant patient data from any trust within the country. This will change the way information is shared as well as improve the quality of care delivered.

The National Application Service Provider contributes to the main thrust of the NHS Care Records Service, which is designed to improve and streamline the vast amounts of information and data flowing throughout the NHS every day.

Leading business intelligence solutions–provider Ardentia has unveiled a new corporate identity to coincide with the company´s move to a purpose–built headquarters building: Ardentia House at Staffordshire Technology Park.

The new look comprises a new logo, new corporate colours and new literature, with a totally redesigned website planned for later this year. The new identity also features Ardentia’s latest positioning statement, ‘Intelligent Business Intelligence’.

“Ardentia is known as an innovator in the field of business intelligence,” says Tom Mulhern, Chief Executive. “Our new corporate identity reflects our ability to provide customers with an intelligent approach to business intelligence. Instead of leaving people with a lot of software and little knowledge of how to make it work, ARDENTIA prides itself on providing easy–to–use and highly scalable complete business solutions that can be rapidly deployed.”

The publication of a new corporate brochure marks the first stage in the implementation of Ardentia’s 2004 corporate identity programme. Literature tailored to the commercial, healthcare and government sectors are also planned.