Dyalog User Meeting in Olhão Portugal, 9th-13th October 2022 Dyalog’s user meeting in Portugal this year was a huge success and it was so exciting to feel and hear that buzz that only comes from face to face gatherings. The event was held in Olhão Portugal not far from Faro airport on the southern coast. We were blessed with fine … Read More
State Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II
Bank Holiday 19th September 2022 The State Funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be held next Monday 19th September. As a mark of respect, and to offer our staff the opportunity to pay their respects, we will be closed that day. We have remained open since the announcement of her death as we continue to support our customers … Read More
Are Consumer Smart Devices the Future of Healthcare?
Recently, we’ve been working with several clients looking at the effectiveness of easily obtainable biosensors. You know the sort of thing: Fitbits, sports watches, Oximeters, smart weighing scales etc. On the surface, they promised to be great little gadgets that can provide an amount of information that was helpful to your average sports enthusiast. However, in more recent years, the … Read More
Optima Awarded Digital Outcomes 6 Framework Contract
Optima Systems is proud to be able to announce that it has been awarded a Framework Contract on the Digital Outcomes 6 (RM1043.8) platform through the Crown Commercial Service (CCS). We look forward to being able to bid for and work with the CCS on a wide range of bespoke digital services. Essentially, we aim to build and support the … Read More
Optima Systems Ltd acquires PAS Consulting Ltd
Optima is pleased to be able to announce that it has completed the acquisition of PAS Consulting Ltd. As of the 1st November 2021, PAS Consulting has joined the Optima Systems Holdings group of companies and will be working closely with us. Like Optima, PAS Consulting is an IT support company which delivers high-quality, hands-on support to its various clients. … Read More
Optima Systems now ISO 27001:2013 Certified
On the 12th February 2020 just before the Pandemic hit us, Optima Systems achieved an ISO9001 certification. Today I can announce that we have achieved ISO 27001 certification as well. From now on, not only can you expect that Optima Systems runs an efficient business which delivers quality products but also that we implement and maintain a rigorous information security … Read More
Christmas 2020 at Optima Systems
Well what can you say, 2020 has not been what we expected, and neither will Christmas. Normally Optima, like many companies, would have an office party, maybe do secret Santa and be sending Christmas cards out to customers. But sadly, this year it has all changed. Nevertheless, all is not lost, what we can and will be doing this year … Read More
Helicon Health and Optima Systems join forces
Optima Systems Ltd is proud to announce that as of today we will be partnering with Helicon Health. We have been working together on a variety of projects over the past 12-24 months and Optima has provided technical and media support to Helicon in respect to some of the latest technologies coming to market in the healthcare world. With the … Read More
Optima Systems is 30 Years Old!
This year we celebrate Optima becoming 30 years old. I remember only too well the very early days when we created the company together with the highs and lows we encountered along our long and winding path. In some ways it only seems like yesterday but in others it feels like an age. We started with 5 employees and now … Read More
Optima Systems is now ISO 9001 Certified
As with any sucessful company, we have spent many years working hard on our internal processes to ensure that we operate an efficient business and deliver quality products to our customers. To a large extent we have achieved that and many of our customers have come back to us and said how pleased they are with the service we deliver. … Read More
Dyalog ’20 Announced – Annual APL User Meeting set for Portugal
Dyalog ’20 announced – Today (13th January 2020) Dyalog announced the return of their Annual User Meeting. As one of the highlights of the APL calendar it’s guaranteed to be eagerly awaited and generously attended. The venue for the 2020 event is Portugal. More specifically Olhão in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Optima will, of course, be in attendance … Read More
British APL Association AGM announced
In his role as the Chairman of the British APL Association our Managing Director, Paul Grosvenor today announced the Annual General Meeting. It will take place on Friday 31st May in London. Full details of the event can be found on the BAA website.About the AuthorPaul Grosvenor Managing DirectorPaul is the founder and Managing Director of Optima Systems which he … Read More
Our (Small!) Green Initiative
It seems to me these days that everything we do is scrutinised from a sustainability standpoint. Business practices and personal behaviour that was once commonplace now causes eyebrows to be raised and fingers to be wagged. Even the humble plastic drinking straw has been consigned to history (sorry kids!). Of course, all of this is for positive reasons and the … Read More
Electric cars – are we going back to the future?
In my second blog instalment relating to electric cars I thought I might consider how the future might look. Before I do however let’s look back in time to 1900 or thereabouts. London, Oxford Street looked something like this;And in 1910, something like this;You will quickly notice that in the space of only 10 years we changed from a largely … Read More
Meltdown and Spectre
What exactly are Meltdown and Spectre? Many of the current generation of chips in our computers use what is called a cache to speed up processing. The vulnerability that has been announced in recent days is that under certain circumstances the content of this area can be read and over time passwords or encryption keys identified bit by bit by … Read More
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