Sponsored by
Top award for firm’s new IT product
STAFF at a website design and marketing firm are celebrating after they received a top award.
Biggleswade-based Harmony was given the accolade for Business Innovation at the Bedfordshire Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) awards on Wednesday, June 13.
Judges at the awards – which took place at The Mansion House at Old Warden Park, Shuttleworth – were impressed by the company’s new Onvert product.
The product – which is available as a free app and as a more sophisticated paid-for version – turns two-dimensional artwork into three-dimensional designs when viewed on a tablet or smartphone.
Managing director Jason Higgins said: “Onvert almost came about by accident really – it was something that we were experimenting with but it has really caught on.
“Since we launched it we have had interest from a number of blue chip firms.”
The increased demand for research and production has also meant expanding the company, based at Connections House in Station Road.
Jason added: “We now have five more members of staff here and 11 employees in total.
“The new staff are working in one of the offices here which was previously vacant and which we were thinking of letting to someone else.”
Onvert is an Augmented Reality technology which allows users to see three-dimensional projections which designers can implement in their online advertising.
Jason said: “It really does give designers a new dimension to what they do and much more flexibility.”
David Glover, general manager of headline sponsor Mercedes-Benz of Bedford praised the ‘amazing’ quality and breadth of entrants in the awards. The FSB is the UK’s largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms.
For a full report and video of the awards visit www.biggleswadetoday.co.uk
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Biggleswade
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: 3 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 21 mph
Wind direction: North west
Tomorrow
Light showers
Temperature: 4 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 20 mph
Wind direction: North west
