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Solcara
Date of Investment: November 2008

Industry: Large Commercial organisations, Legal and Professional Services

Solution Category: Data & Information Management

Description: Advanced information management and search solutions that connect individuals and teams to essential internal and online information resources.


The Business Description
After merging the Solcara Media Division with Ether-ray, the Solcara business has been re-positioned to offer the advanced information management and search products and technologies. Solcara’s advanced federated search product, Solcara SolSearch, is the most widely used product of its kind in the UK, Channel Islands and Irish legal sectors and continues to be selected over what are perceived to be more costly and complex solutions. SolSearch delivers an integrated search across both internal and online information resources speeding up time critical research activities and ensuring that all required information resources are checked, thus improving efficiencies and reducing risk.

The technology can be delivered as SaaS or in-house solutions and is deployed by top 250 law firms and large commercial organisations across several sectors including large Government departments.

The Management Team

Solcara ‘s Managing Director, Rob Martin, is a computer scientist with more than 22 years experience in the software industry including Software Engineering, Consultancy and Management of Professional Services, Sales and Technical Management. Rob was a founder Director of Solcara Ltd.

Solcara’s chairman, Ray Jackson, also a founder Director, has over 35 years of IT industry experience. Ray has held senior management positions with many of the world’s leading IT companies and run a number of smaller companies and start ups.

Current Business Performance
The stronger business focus on the Information Management and Search products resulted in significant growth in recurring revenues and new contracts in the financial period ending November 2009.This momentum has been carried into the new financial year and the appointment of two new sales heads have helped to grow the pipeline.

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