NDMC

1. NDMC COMPANY PROFILE
Introduction
NDMC Ltd is an information management consultancy with a track-record of successful projects for large
enterprises. Our competencies in Web 2.0 and cloud computing technologies and tools encourage fresh thinking in
the supply and delivery of information management solutions for business.
Fact Sheet
 Track record of large corporate project successes since 2002
 Runner-up in Enterprise Awards 2007 for ‘best new technology company’
 Encanvas Inc. established in the United States in 2009
 Squork Software-as-a-Service solutions for instant messaging, website design and mapping
 Privately-owned
 Strong R&D team with tight links to customers
 40% of company dedicated to product development
Profile
NDMC Ltd was established in 2002 by strategic marketers Nick Lawrie and Ian Tomlin providing management
consulting to fast growing technology businesses. The initial value proposition of the business was to help leaders
focus efforts and strategies around delivering more customer value by understanding it better. Unique approaches
to channelling business energies to customer value priorities soon led to a growing list of large corporate accounts.
A series of projects in 2002-3 evidenced that – even with all of the investments made into enterprise software –
most organisations continued to find information management a major inhibitor to business growth.
The key challenges NDMC identified included:
 Leaders lacked a holistic view of projects, customer wants, activity pipelines and the information tools they
need to fulfil their curiosity when new situations demanded answers to new questions.
 Managers found it hard to cascade strategy through their organizations and turn plans into actions.
 Marketers lacked a holistic understanding of who their customers were and what they cared about. They
also lacked information on their competitors and markets.
 Rather than contribute to personal productivity, desktop tools like email, spreadsheets, PowerPoint
presentations, word processed documents and spreadsheets were increasing data re-purposing but
making little impression on learning, knowledge development and planning. Furthermore, tools like
spreadsheets were inappropriately used as a ‘tool of last resort’ to make sense of huge pots of data
because databases were too difficult to author and beyond the realms of most office workers.
Most of all, NDMC identified that organizations lacked professional ‘built-for-purpose’ information management
tools that could respond timely to new business situations. This resulted in the small team embarking on its quest
to provide ‘change ready, really useful software’ that could provide organization with the information management
tooling needed to adapt to new business situations without incurring large frictional change costs.
The result of these experiences led in 2004 to the appointment of Andrew Lawrie as Chief Technical Officer.
We believe what makes the company unique is its commitment to human-centric software that de-skills the
applications life-cycle and gives web workers and business professionals relational database tools they can use
themselves.
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2. NDMC COMPANY PROFILE
Vision
The founders of NDMC share a vision of how information management should work; could work. Thanks to a blend
of this clarity of vision and the skills of a remarkable team of technologists, the first components of Encanvas
architecture were released as ‘tools’ for consultants to use in 2006. Through client deployments, the team learnt
how to improve and shape the technology to fit bigger projects, broader projects.
Our Software
In 2006-2009, the learning of previous years was digested into development of the Encanvas.
NDMC created Encanvas and it was sold in 2009 to Encanvas Inc., Secure&Live™ is a secure and live enterprise
portal and mobile computing platform purposely designed for cloud computing a services-oriented information
world. Encanvas gives CIO’s a game-changing technology to address the ‘long-tail’ of applications now demanded
by stakeholders, delivering greater software value to their business for lower cost. It embeds IT innovation into
improvement teams so they can create portal and mobile information services without coding or scripting skills.
The solutions Encanvas creates cascade decision making and performance management through the enterprise,
streamline data capture and provide individuals and teams with the ability to securely share content, formalise
processes, digest ideas, track activities, manage and align projects to achieve business outcomes.
Employing Encanvas as a development platform, NDMC created the Squork Software-as-a-Service platform in 2009.
Squork is a hybrid social networking suite that blends the best aspects of email with an instant messaging
technology designed for business. NDMC continues to develop Squork branded Software-as-a-Service applications.
NDMC Incorporated Competencies
Information Management, Business Social Networking, Social Operating Systems, Enterprise Portals, Enterprise Data
Security, Identity Management, Integration, File transfer, Flow orchestration, Content Management, Web Services,
Agile Development, Enterprise Data Mashups, Search, Geo-spatial Intelligence, Mobility, Data capture and forms,
Printing, Business Process Management, Workflow, Dynamic data visualisation Geo-Spatial Intelligence.
For more information visit www.squork.com/maps, contact NDMC on press@ndmc.uk.com or call (Europe) +44 1865 392150 (USA) +1 201 777 3398
Made in Britain
Squork is a trade name of NDMC Ltd. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Are recognised trademarks and names of their respective owners.
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