Square One Resources

specialist recruitment at it’s finest

2012

Specialist Recruitment at it’s finest

Key company facts

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Delivery to 40

countries across

5 continents

144 countries

from which candidates visited our

website

89% increase in

mobile traffic to

our website year on

year

16,598 Candidates added to

our database in

2011

328,500 visits to our website in

2011

20 languages spoken by staff across

the company

10,000 members

in our Square One

LinkedIn group

14,800 hours spent

speaking with IT & ERP professionals

in 2011

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Global outlook & expansion

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76% increase in placements in Eastern

Europe

62% increase year on

year requirements outside of the UK

34% increase in requiremen

ts across the

Americas

32 global companies chose us as preferred suppliers

Our specialist practices & memberships

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Our specialisms continually evolve with market demand

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Top enterprise solutions trends we saw in 2011

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'Big data' analytics surges into the

BI software market

‘Big data’

SAP BusinessObjects

4.0 debuts

SAP HANA

launched in June 2011

Open source

technologies such as

Apache Hadoop

went mainstream in 2011

SAP Business Intelligen

ce

Open Source

Oracle

Oracle introduced the biggest update to its Solaris operating system

Solaris 11 heralded as ‘first

cloud OS’

move towards

corporate application suites focusing

on information delivery

& flexibility in more

networked

workplace

Top design & development trends we saw in 2011

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2011 was the year of the tablet with

further growth

predicted.

Enterprise

Mobility

JavaScriptHTML5

Open Web technologi

es gain momentu

m with further

increases expected over the coming 2

years

The preferred cloud dev target for

Visual Studio

development is

Windows Azure & Amazon Elastic

Compute Cloud

Cloud

.NET Framework is picking up with

large scale deployment

s of Windows 7.

.NET

Due to it’s universality JavaScript emerging

as the most important language

for the next few years

Top functional management trends we saw in 2011

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Agile developmen

t methodolog

y gained popularity in

technical project plans

Project Manageme

nt

The rise of Ubiquitous Computing (informatio

n processing

is integrated

into everyday objects

and activities)

Testing Change Manageme

nt

Increase in demand for resources

and positions

devoted to change

management

With investment in master

data managemen

t growing 18%

a push for user-friendly

customer data

analysis tools rose.

Data Analysis

Security

Targeted attacks,

“hacktivist”

campaigns and the rise of mobile

malware

Top infrastructure & support trends we saw in 2011

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Deployments around

‘joined up’ comms

emphasis on technologies

like voice, video,

smartphones, and other mobile form

factors.

Unified Communicati

ons

Internal and external data and network security become higher

priorities for IT

Management

Network Security

consolidation and

maintenance with push

towards next generation, optimised, right-sized

datacentres

Servers

Increase in migration to hybrid and

fully virtualised desktop, storage,

networking, and

datacentre environment

s

Virtualisation

the issue of how to

monitor, manage &

reduce power

consumption has

increased

Power