‘Nearshoring’ trend boosts Godel

TECHNOLOGY company Godel has reported a 41% surge in revenues on the back of demand from customers for its ‘nearshore’ software development services.

The company, whose largest shareholder is entrepreneur Scott Fletcher,  grew turnover from £2.7m to £3.8m in 2014 as it picked up a number of new clients including Thetrainline.com, Laterooms.com, Boden, Intelliflo, MITIE and Grafton.

The growth saw the firm move from Manchester Science Park to larger offices at City Tower, Piccadilly, where it now has 16 staff. Godel also has a large development team based in Belarus.
 
Godel’s teams of software development and quality assurance experts act as an extension of clients’ in-house delivery functions.

The company says it is seeing a growing trend for big UK companies to bring their software development functions closer to home rather than in locations such as India.

Chief executive Neil Turvin, said: “Our own engagement strategy has been honed over the past few years and we now have a very unique offering for the market which allows clients to have access to some of the best software development talent available in Europe, who work UK working hours and have vast experience of working as remote teams for UK clients.  
 
“This enables clients to not only have a method of accessing software development talent, but it also offers the client a risk mitigation strategy for retaining knowledge, whilst also potentially saving them thousands of pounds per year. 

“In the past three years, we have experienced 250% growth in staff in Belarus and opened two offices there which demonstrates there is a need for our offering, but we have also held a 98% retention rate on clients too, which is a positive sign as it means we are continuing to deliver quality throughout our growth.“