As a technology business, SwarmOnline only survives if it innovates for clients. The company now has a burgeoning international reputation and a client list that includes E.ON, Scottish Power, Shell, Veripos, GlaxoSmithKline and Thales. It also works in partnership with Sencha and Vodafone to turn great ideas into great products.
SwarmOnline’s apps provide practical solutions for businesses saving time and money. These include an app to help E.ON’s field engineers install smart meters across the UK; an app used by TFL engineers to help with the repairs process and to keep the London underground network moving and an app for Veripos to help pinpoint the exact location of divers working on oil rigs – in this case the app can save lives as well resources.
OUR TEAM
Andrew Duncan
Founder & Managing Director
Tony McKenzie
Client Services Director
Robert Doherty
Business Operations & Quality Manager
Ryszard Jedrzejewski
Financial Services Portfolio Manager
Nigel Ellis
Board Advisor
Ian Marchant
Board Advisor
SWARM TIMELINE
2011 - 2013
HELLO WORLD
After 6 years of preparation, SwarmOnline comes to fruition as the company incorporates as SwarmOnline Ltd starting out in Andrew’s living room! With extensive knowledge of enterprise solutions and mobile application development, SwarmOnline was poised at the forefront of the Scottish tech industry.
Here are just some of the highlights from our early years
Swarm’s blog hits over 10,000 readers, our first major client – NHS Lothian, First Sencha partner outside of North America, guest speaker at Sencha Con 2013, published ExtJS4 Development Cookbook, moved into new office at the Hub and Swarm hired it’s first employee – Chris!
We also expanded our client portfolio:
2014
CLIENT LIST GROWS
In 2014 we took on some big projects and continued to grow our development team. Big names in silicon valley started to notice the name ‘SwarmOnline’.
We started working with:
2015
THE TEAM GROWS
In 2015 we had yet more growth with the team expanding to 15 – we took on more projects, we took on more space at the Hub and even won some awards. 2015 also saw us starting work our our innovative connected home and energy products.
Our MD, Andrew Duncan, won Digital Professional of the year and we were nominated for Tech Company of the year in the Scottish Business Awards.
We started working with:
2016
SWARM EXPANDS
2016 has been our biggest year yet – in January Swarm merged with Open Platform expanding our team to over 25 staff over Glasgow and Edinburgh. Our client base has grown too – so far we’ve taken on even more projects and more than doubled the floor space of our Glasgow headquarters with even more yet to come! In 2016 we continue to work on our connection home products and began working on our conference mobile application.
Our team in Edinburgh moved to a new office in the heart of the city and our MD, Andrew Duncan, won the Outstanding Contribution by a Young Business Leader award at the Glasgow Inspiring City Awards.
We started working with:
AWARD WINS & NOMINATIONS
I’d have no hesitation using SwarmOnline for future developments and would recommend them to anyone. Thanks for the great work guys.
Brilliant to deal with. At the point where I was expecting a rough prototype to be presented they were able to show a nigh-on-complete application.
SwarmOnline fitted perfectly into the team we already had and were able to solve all of the technical challenges we threw at them.
