Consilium has record year

Consilium Technologies, the Antrim-based supplier of IT solutions specifically for UK district councils, today reported the completion of its most successful trading year to date.

During the 12 months ended 31 December 2002, Consilium grew its revenues by nearly 50 per cent to £4.2m (€6m), expanded its customer by 25% and increased headcount by 44 per cent.

Entering the current year with an order book worth more than £12m (€17m), the company is emerging as one of the UK’s leading IT suppliers to district councils. Overall, these authorities represent around half of the country’s 467 councils and account for one third of the annual £1.9bn (€2.7bn) IT spent annually by local government.

Around £3m (€4.3m) of orders won by Consilium during 2002 resulted from strategic IT partnership agreements through which the company takes on responsibility for the operational management of councils’ core IT systems. These included contracts from Alnwick DC and Berwick-upon-Tweed BC - the first of their kind to be awarded in the UK - under which Consilium delivers tailor-made council software programmes exclusively on a ‘pay as you go’ basis.

Consilium’s Application Service Provision (ASP) service gives local authority staff access – via an internet browser - to applications hosted in a remote, custom-built, BT Ignite datacentre. Consilium has seen healthy interest in its ASP model and during 2002 signed up over 1000 browser-based users for a range of software applications.