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As Scotland’s fastest growing IT company Escape are continuously
able to offer an expert opinion on technical issues effecting
businesses both locally and internationally. They have commented
and written articles on skills shortages in the IT industry and
virus warnings as well as advising individuals and businesses
how best to utilise technology to help develop a positive work
life balance.
Escape Directors Mike Bain and Robin Parkinson have regularly
been featured in local and trade media talking about their success
as Entrepreneurs and advising on how others can follow in their
footsteps.
 03/08/2011 - Escapee returns to new role |
Escape Business Technologies has appointed former employee Graeme Gammie as Operations Director.
Mr Gammie left Escape in 2004 to pursue his own IT business start-up which he successfully built over the past 7 years. He joins Escape at a time of growth both in Aberdeen but also overseas due to its oil and gas client-base.
Escape has offices in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Caithness – its team of 35 engineers provide IT support for all sizes of businesses as well as offering IT consultancy and outsourced IT solutions...more
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| 27/06/2011 - Make your IT system work for you |
Graeme Niven, Technical Director, Escape Business Technologies, offers advice to new and growing businesses on how to get the most from an IT system. Escape is an Aberdeen-based Microsoft Gold Partner IT firm specialising in virtualization, managed IT services and consultancy and IT outsourcing...more
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| 24/09/2010 - Busy month for Escape Group |
Aberdeen-based Escape Group, the energy-focused provider of business technology solutions, has secured over £400,000 of contracts this month (September) and added four staff to its team in Aberdeen, Glasgow and the Highlands.
The contracts include IT infrastructure and support work for the education and energy sectors. The securing of projects within the nuclear and renewables industries has resulted in new appointments in the firm’s Caithness office to provide a local presence for these customers...more |
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| 22/03/2010 - Privacy today |
What does online privacy mean today? To what extent are we at risk of identity theft and phishing scams and how can we protect ourselves against it?
The recent story regarding the stolen passport information of unsuspecting individuals in Dubai is a warning to everyone everywhere about data privacy and protection.
This brings a whole new meaning to the old saying about keeping your cards close to your chest and with technology frequently being light years ahead of the law, there is a major need to increase public awareness regarding online safety...more |
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| 27/01/2010 - Recent wins reflect Escape's focus on the energy industry |
Aberdeen-based Escape, the energy-focused provider of business technology solutions, completed 2009 with £400,000 of new business.
Recent projects included IT consultancy and virtualisation work for clients including OMV UK, Axiom Process and Dron & Dickson. Escape has partnered with US firm FalconStor Inc to offer Disaster Recovery (DR) technology to firms in the oil and gas sector and was appointed by Central Europe’s largest oil and gas corporation, OMV UK, to carry out a risk analysis on its IT systems. As a result, Escape then implemented a full disaster recovery plan for the firms UK data...more |
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| 27/07/09 - Cutting-edge products |
In a modern day business environment, with a global workforce geared to respond to customer requirements at any time and in any location, one-to-one concepts are looking increasingly dated. Microsoft Sharepoint products and technologies set out to address this problem – incorporating essential business collaboration and communication technologies into a single web-based environment that integrates easily with desktop applications, as Chris Ellis of Encode Software, a division of Escape Business Technologies explains.
Put simply, Sharepoint is Microsoft’s version of a cutting edge intranet. It’s an internet based collaboration, process management, search and document management platform...more |
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| 20/04/09 - Escaping the Recruitment Challenge |
It’s common knowledge that recruiting functions expand and shrink with the economy but one North-east IT firm is planning for the future and could be said to be ‘bucking the trend’ by engaging in a strong recruitment campaign throughout 2009.
Celebrating its 10th birthday this year, Escape Business Technologies, an IT firm focused on the Energy industry, has recruited 8 IT experts since the beginning of the year with plans to increase workforce to 40 by the end of the Summer...more |
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| 20/04/09 - Touch Technology of the Future at our Fingertips |
Technology is going touchy-feely as more products appear which threaten to replace the humble mouse with finger-touch computing. Touch technology has been around for decades and has found a role in many professions but only recently in the gadgets consumers carry around and use on a daily basis.
Today, it’s evident in both big and small devices, such as Microsoft’s table computer – Microsoft Surface, and Apple’s i-phone, which poses the question: “is it a case of watch, or touch this space?...more |
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04/02/09 - Escape Celebrates with IT Contract Wins and Accreditation |
Aberdeen-based Escape Business Technologies has secured in excess of £200,000 of contracts in the last 2 months. Celebrating its 10th year in business, the new contracts see the energy focused technology firm on target to turnover a predicted £3million in 2009...more |
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| 26/01/09 - Escape Warn of Future Spammers |
At one point or another we have all had a one way battle with junk mail, but now that the company blamed for producing half of the world’s web spam has been shut down will the problem diminish? And what measures should company’s be taking to minimize the risks of harmful spam threatening their business?...more |
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| 17/12/08 - Escape Launches New Dynamic Division |
Escape Business Technologies, an IT firm focused on the Energy industry, has announced the launch of a new division. Encode Software will offer the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Sharepoint...more |
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| 01/10/08 - Escape announces sponsorship of Team Tulachard |
Aberdeen-based Escape Business Technologies have announced a sponsorship package with Team Tulachard, the 2007 Weldex Scottish 2WD Rally Champions.
Escape focuses a lot of time and effort on ensuring a good working environment for its employees and encourages team working throughout the organisation. As such, the opportunity to sponsor Team Tulachard allows Escape to promote their ethics within the community...more |
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| 28/07/08 - One 'box' can serve up many machines |
Virtualisation is one of the hottest trends in the IT industry – first introduced in the 1960s, now nearly 9 out of every 10 companies will have implemented virtualisation in their IT systems. The global leader in virtual infrastructure, VMware, is used by over 100,000 organisations and leading IT firm, Escape Business Technologies, is the only Aberdeen-based company to obtain the VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) accreditation. Robin Parkinson, Director of Escape, highlights the key benefits of virtualisation and looks at how it can have real financial and operational benefits for businesses...more |
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| 25/06/08 - Escape director gears up for Transsiberian Rally |
Aberdeen-based entrepreneur Robin Parkinson, a director of rapidly-growing communications technologies firm Escape Business Technologies, is to take part in the gruelling Transsiberian 2008 rally.
Robin was offered a last-minute slot as co-driver/navigator and is the only Scot taking part in the epic 4,471-mile adventure from Moscow to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, starting on July 11 and due to end on July 25...more |
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| 21/05/08 - New technology keeping firm at forefront |
Aberdeen firm Escape Business Technologies said yesterday it has secured £500,000 of information technology contracts since the start of its financial year on April 1, including projects for the installation of VMware virtualisation technology...more |
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| 21/04/08 - Modern technology for remote working |
Remote working is becoming a major requirement within businesses, especially in industry’s that require travel such as the oil and gas sector. Aberdeen is increasingly becoming a hub, with many Aberdeen businesses setting up offices in Norway, Perth, Singapore, London, Baku, KL and Houston. This is driving the need for employees to travel daily, whilst being able to keep in touch or run their business when they are away from the office...more |
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| 18/02/08 - Making IT work during your Merger |
When two companies merge, the IT systems need to merge too. It can be tempting to choose one company's system over the others', but rapid standardisation is usually impossible. Mike Smith, sales manager at Escape, discusses the issues involved in merging two IT systems into one and gives advice on how to approach it...more |
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| 28/01/08 - Your Top 5 IT New Year Resolutions |
How can you help your computer run more efficiently? Information Technology is an essential part of any business and with a new year ahead of us, Robin Parkinson of Escape Business Technologies, the North-east’s leading IT provider, gives us some new year resolutions that might help your computer too...more |
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| 22/10/07 - To upgrade or not to upgrade? |
The launch of Windows Vista earlier this year resulted in businesses wondering how necessary it was to upgrade computers, and in turn, make a large investment into its IT infrastructure. Robin Parkinson, Director of Escape Business Technologies, discusses the issues with new technology and explains why some businesses should keep the IT set up already in place...more |
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| 19/10/07 - The IT Crowd |
Recent research, by analyst firm IDC, found an overwhelming 1.5 million new positions will be created by the IT sector in Europe by 2010, with SME’s playing the biggest part in the employment growth...more |
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| 01/09/07 - Is your computer running off steam? |
This edition’s ‘Hot Topic’ from the business world is Green Computing. As pressure mounts for business owners and IT managers to reduce power bills and CO2 emissions, Star Flyer asks Mike Bain, Director of Escape, a leading Aberdeen IT firm, to explain the role virtualization plays in businesses ‘going green’...more |
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| 01/08/07 - Virtualisation win for Escape |
The north-east’s fastest growing communications technology firm, according to Deloitte, Escape Business Technologies has secured a contract win with data cleansing and enrichment services company OILCATS, in a deal worth £50,000...more |
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| 30/07/07 - VMware Q&A |
For many people the concept of virtualisation will refer more to virtual reality and entertainment than a solid business tool. For Robin Parkinson, director of Escape Business Technologies, virtualisation is an exciting concept which can have real financial and operational benefits for businesses. As one of the few VMWare Virtual Partners (VIP) in Scotland, Escape can offer local businesses the type of technology and services previously only available to large corporations...more |
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| 29/06/07 - Beware of Bebo |
Most of us would never dream of divulging our private passwords for personal or work related information to the rest of the world, yet over 34 million internet users are doing just that through social networking sites such as Bebo or MySpace...more |
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| 23/04/07 - Beware of 'drive-by' cyber attacks |
Web-drive-by attacks may sounds like a New York gangster movie when in fact it’s affecting companies of all sizes. Attacking web users where they feel most safe - for example, at work protected by corporate network security - can cause as much harm as getting robbed on the street. Robin Parkinson, Director of Escape, Scotland’s only authorised Trend Micro partner, explains...more |
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| 21/03/07 - Escape Continues on Positive Trend |
Aberdeen-based Escape Business Technologies has been awarded ‘Top Reseller for SMB Security Sales 2006’ in the Scottish category of Trend Micro’s annual achievement awards. The rapidly growing communication technologies firm beat off competition from many other Scottish companies, recently accepting the accolade at an award ceremony in Edinburgh...more |
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| 16/03/07 - Computer Personalities |
Like the 1984 hit film ‘Electric Dreams’ where Edgar the computer shows slightly psychotic signs of artificial intelligence, our little flat screened work colleagues can sometimes seem to have a personality all of their own. Dave Morris, Technical Manager of Escape, the leading communication technology provider in the Northeast, talks us through the possible reasons behind some computer personality problems...more |
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| 19/02/07 - Organic Growth versus Acquisitions |
If you want to build a business quickly then you need to consider acquiring businesses as well as building your own firm organically. One local business, Escape, has experienced both first hand and Director Mike Bain discusses the issues of each when growing a business...more |
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| 14/02/07 - Escape wins £750,000 worth of outsourced IT contracts |
Aberdeen-based Escape Business Technologies has started 2007 by successfully securing £750,000 worth of outsourced IT contracts. The rapidly growing communication technologies firm, ended January with contract wins to provide outsourced IT services for several blue-chip companies, including one of the world’s largest providers of helicopter services, Bristow...more |
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| 01/12/06 - Outsourcing can mean big savings for big business |
Outsourcing is the current business buzz word, with the hot story being Vodafone outsourcing their maintenance services and application development, with predicted savings to the tune of 25 to 30 per cent. But what could outsourcing IT services mean for your organisation? Robin Parkinson, director of Escape, the leading communication technology provider in the Northeast, explains how outsourcing can mean big savings for big business...more |
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| 24/11/06 - Escape officially fastest growth IT company in Aberdeen |
Leading IT & Telecoms company, Escape, has been placed 5th in Scotland in the 2006 Deloitte Fast 50. The Fast 50 Awards Programme, now in its ninth year, ranks the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. It covers both public and private companies in all areas of technology...more |
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21/07/06 - IT Skills Shortages |
| A recent study
conducted by Microsoft and other leading IT organisations
has revealed that the UK is facing a £20billion IT
skills shortage. Neil Gordon, General Manager at IT &
Telecoms firm, Escape, discusses this issue and the reasons
behind it...more |
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21/06/06 - Escape wins North-sea Contracts for Vessel Work |
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Firm Only Scottish Company to Become Accredited Partners
Aberdeen-based IT and Telecoms firm, Escape, has won over
£150,000 worth of contracts from North-sea shipping
companies and became the only Scottish company trained in
a vessel maintenance programme...more |
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06/06/06 - Former AVC Director Joins Escape |
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IT and telecoms provider, Escape, has appointed Neil Gordon
to further strengthen the Escape management team. Recognised
as the fastest growing IT company in Scotland...more |
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07/04/06 - The ‘IT’ Girls |
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new comedy series, IT Crowd, has been causing a stir in
the IT industry. The Channel 4 programme portrays IT professionals
as stereotypical ‘geeky’ individuals –
an image that seems to be far from the truth and especially
in the case of Aberdeen-based IT company, Escape. Your Job
looks at why IT still carries the ‘nerd’ label,
why more females aren’t working in the industry and
what one local company is doing to counteract this problem...more |
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