Inverness IT firm eyes global expansion
INVERNESS IT expert William Murray seeking business abroad as a way of overcoming the economic downturn.
He estimates that 90 per cent of his clients are based overseas and has just tied up a major deal with a US company.
“With the way the UK economy is going we decided to start looking for work abroad as well,” explained Mr Murray, who established Murray IT with his son Liam 14 months ago.
“We are looking seriously into the Far East market, where there is huge investment in many sectors, stable economies and growing companies.”
The firm now has a sales director in Singapore and has just appointed Pakistan-based mobile technology specialist Abdul Aziz as chief technology officer. Mr Murray himself is considering relocating to Kuala Lumpur later this year, leaving his son to run the Inverness operation.
The US contract is one of the largest to be secured so far and involves designing a lifestyle and fitness website for San Jose company ToGoFit. Murray IT was recommended to ToGoFit president Eugene Reyes after an American firm failed to get to grips with the site.
“We picked it up and started from scratch,” explained Mr Murray. “It is a very complex site which required a lot of expertise to perfect, but we are now happy with the end result. It is user friendly and we believe it will be a huge success. We are also producing mobile phone apps for android and IPhone.
“The site is eight to 10 weeks away from going live but we have started phase two discussions already, with Mr Reyes coming over to Inverness recently. Terms of the contract don’t allow me to reveal figures but it is one of our largest and an extremely important one for us.”
Closer to home, Murray IT is producing a new site for TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Scotland and was engaged on a consultancy basis by Inverness building services company G&A Barnie. It is currently in early negotiations with an Aberdeen based IT company looking to source out development of a commercial application it has on the market.
