Ecco solutions ltd background The company ecco solutions ltd was launched in 2010 to market ecco software. The software was developed under the auspices of another company founded in 2006. ecco’s owner-directors are not new in their respective fields; they have between them more than 65 years experience of business, the support industry, and computer software applications. Our chairman, chief executive and principal share holder has held the most senior positions in the public and private sectors. The director profiles can be read on the web site: http://www.eccosolutions.co.uk/aboutus/ ecco solutions is registered under the Data Protection Act (Registration No. Z2273917) and on the NHS IG Toolkit and IG Training Tool for handling sensitive patient information (Organisation No. 8HV41), and has been certified on all the latter’s recommended modules for data security. The company has registered with an ISO9001 provider and is working towards certification. ecco solutions holds contracts with many different Third Sector organisations, Housing Associations and other national bodies, including some that involve handling sensitive information on behalf of the MOD and the NHS. The technical bit The underlying technologies for ecco are the most up to date and extensively used technologies in web-based applications in the world today. The application is built on the Spring Framework owned by the EMC Corporation – a Fortune 500 company. Nearly half of the Global 2000 companies, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. ecco’s use of this framework ensures that ecco software will always be up-to-date with emerging standards and enables the system to cope with increasing data flows without performance degradation. Our unique software architecture design allows us to maximise the use of computer servers thus reducing overheads. The software adheres to OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) security guidelines through the use of an independent global security framework known as HDIV (HTTP Data Integrity Validator). Support in depth ecco software has been developed in conjunction with two of the world’s leading software houses specialising in Spring Framework applications – OpenCredo (London and Cambridge) and Cake Solutions (Manchester and Oxford). We have selected Cake Solutions (http://cakesolutions.net/) as our preferred provider of software support for ecco solutions - they have an in depth knowledge of the ecco software system. This partnership ensures we have a team of specialists available at any point in time to provide support for ecco solutions, and if required, directly to our customers. May 2012