IT automation business targets £3m turnover
York-based IT automation specialist, PowerON, has created 14 jobs in the last six months and its turnover is set to rise by £800,000 to about £3m in its current financial year.
The company, founded in 2013 by experienced IT professionals Philip Mercer and Steve Beaumont, specialises in simplifying IT operations and ensuring its potential can be fully maximised in all types of public and private sector organisations.
PowerON is one of only eight Microsoft Elite partners in the UK and a number of its team are classed as Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), due to them continually sharing their specialist knowledge with the global IT community.
The company now employs 41 staff across offices in York and North Lincolnshire, and also works with a team of associates throughout the UK.
Mercer said: “In the last six months alone, we’ve appointed sales heads in York and London, five delivery heads working nationally, a head of support and a new financial controller. We’ve also recruited nine apprentices, which gives us the opportunity to shape and train the IT industry’s future talent.
“Our strategy has always been about reinvesting our profits into the business and the experience, ability and overall calibre of people that we have in our team has significantly expanded our capabilities and could see us push turnover towards the £4m mark next year.
“A key part of our growth strategy is due to PowerON evolving into a transformation specialist, over the last two years, providing highly topical and relevant solutions on an ongoing and retained basis.
“Last year we launched our Pulse and SmarT Teaming products, which enable organisations of all shapes and sizes to manage, secure and update devices, as well as monitoring system performance, directly from the cloud.
“It’s been a huge success due to its flexible subscription model, built on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Azure, that enables users to migrate, manage and secure desktops, laptops, tablets and phones, directly from the internet, which ultimately saves organisations time, money and internal resources.
“It’s also making migration to Windows 10 straightforward for large organisations that have users spread far and wide and this is proving to be a big growth area for us, especially after Microsoft announced earlier this year that Windows 7’s end of life is fast approaching in January 2020.”
Organisations using PowerON’s Pulse product to migrate to Windows 10 include the likes of retail giant The Bodyshop, and East Midlands Ambulance Service, whose paramedics use more than 800 GETAC rugged laptops that can be mobile and in use 24 hours a day.
PowerON is also currently working on large scale transformational projects with Chiltern District Council and The Co-operative as they modernise their IT systems to a cloud based solution.
