Square One Resources specializes in recruitment across IT sectors, with significant growth in global placements and a diverse candidate pool spanning 40 countries and 20 languages. In 2011, the company saw an increase in overall traffic to their platforms and was preferred by over 32 global companies for placements. Key trends noted include advancements in big data analytics, cloud technologies, and project management methodologies, indicating a strong demand for specialized skills in the evolving tech landscape.

1. Square One Resources
2012
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2. Key company facts
Delivery to 20 languages 16,598 14,800 hours
40 countries spoken by Candidates spent speaking
across staff across added to our with IT & ERP
5 continents the company database in professionals
2011 in 2011
328,500 visits 144 countries 10,000 89% increase
to our from which members in in mobile
website in candidates our Square traffic to our
2011 visited our One LinkedIn website year
website group on year
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3. Global outlook & expansion
32 global 76% increase
companies in
chose us as placements
preferred in Eastern
suppliers Europe
62% increase
year on year
requirements
outside of the
UK
34% increase
in
requirements
across the
Americas
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4. Our specialist practices & memberships
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5. Our specialisms continually evolve with market demand
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6. Top enterprise solutions trends we saw in 2011
‘Big data’ Open SAP Oracle Business
Source Intelligence
Oracle move
'Big data' Open SAP
introduced towards
analytics source Business
the biggest corporate
surges technologies Objects
update to its application
into the BI such as 4.0 debuts
Solaris suites
software Apache
operating focusing on
market Hadoop SAP
system information
went HANA
Solaris 11 delivery &
mainstream launched
heralded as flexibility in
in 2011 in June
‘first cloud more
2011
OS’ networked
workplace
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7. Top design & development trends we saw in 2011
Enterprise Cloud .NET HTML5 JavaScript
Mobility
2011 was The preferred .NET Open Web Due to it’s
the year of cloud dev Framework is technologies universality
the tablet target for picking up gain JavaScript
with Visual Studio with large momentum emerging as
further development scale with further the most
growth is Windows deployments increases important
predicted. Azure & of Windows expected language for
Amazon 7. over the the next few
Elastic coming 2 years
Compute years
Cloud
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8. Top functional management trends we saw in 2011
Project Testing Change Security Data Analysis
Management Management
Agile The rise of Increase in Targeted With
development Ubiquitous demand for attacks, “ha investment in
methodology Computing resources and cktivist” master data
gained (information positions campaigns management
popularity in processing devoted to and the rise growing 18%
technical is integrated change of mobile a push for
project plans into management malware user-friendly
everyday customer data
objects and analysis tools
activities) rose.
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9. Top infrastructure & support trends we saw in 2011
Virtualisation Power Servers Network Unified
Security Communications
Increase in the issue of consolidation Internal and Deployments
migration to how to and external data around ‘joined
hybrid and fully monitor, man maintenance and network up’ comms
virtualised age & reduce with push security emphasis on
desktop, stora power towards next become technologies
ge, networking consumption generation, opt higher like
, and has increased imised, right- priorities for voice, video, s
datacentre sized IT martphones, a
environments datacentres Management nd other
mobile form
factors.
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