SME News Q1 2025 / 8 Headquartered in Langstone, Newport, de Novo Solutions has rapidly expanded beyond its Welsh roots. With a second office in Guildford, Surrey, and a recent expansion into India, the company’s growth trajectory speaks volumes about its success. In just three years, de Novo has gone global with offices across three countries, demonstrating its ability to redefine operational excellence in an increasingly digital world. The driving force behind de Novo’s growth is the two-decade partnership that exists between Founder and Chief Executive Mark Sweeny and Chairman Tim Warner, a period which has seen them make significant advancements in the Cloud and pioneer a new era of digital transformation across Wales and beyond. Along with a dedicated team of innovators and trendsetters, these two straight-talking disruptors have spent the past three-and-a-half years turning this business into a beacon of innovation and value generation for clients. At the heart of their success with de Novo are its strategic partnerships with Oracle Corporation and ServiceNow. Mark and Tim’s journey in the cloud tech world began in 2011 when they co-founded Certus Solutions, the UK’s first dedicated Oracle Cloud applications implementation partner. de Novo is the natural evolution of their expertise, continuing to break boundaries and lead the way in digital transformation now in the era of the experience economy and the hybrid Cloud, something Mark saw coming as early as 2019. A standout example of de Novo’s innovation is Odyssea™, a groundbreaking cloud-based solution tailored with industry specific functionality. Built on the powerful Oracle Cloud platform and leveraging AI, Odyssea™ is designed to streamline back-office operations in finance, procurement, HR, and payroll. By maximising economies of scale, reducing costs, and boosting productivity, Odyssea™ empowers organisations to digitally transform while addressing their unique sector-specific demands. Its unique implementation model addresses 80% of a client’s requirements through a templated blueprint, leaving the remaining 20% to be customised, ensuring faster deployment and quicker ROI. de Novo has industry cloud solutions for Central Government, Local Government and what it sees as its biggest growth area – Secondary Education and Multi-Academy Trusts. In the realm of managed services, de Novo’s Value as a Service™ (VaaS™) redefines traditional cloud management. This next-gen proactive service delivers tailored, measurable outcomes, simplifying the complexities of Cloud operations with continuous support, seamless updates, and proactive management. VaaS™ helps clients stay on track with their digital transformation journeys, enabling them to leverage cutting-edge technologies like GenAI, all while focusing on core business goals. By rigorously tracking value and assessing performance, VaaS™ ensures clients can confidently demonstrate ROI and make datadriven decisions. To further accelerate cloud adoption, de Novo offers Testing as a Service™ (TaaS™)—an AI-powered solution for Oracle Cloud applications. TaaS™ provides scalable, flexible testing services that minimise risk, enhance quality, and speed up release cycles. With an integrated five-step management framework and automated testing, TaaS™ enables organisations to innovate confidently, knowing their software will perform reliably and integrate seamlessly. In addition to these core offerings, de Novo provides a comprehensive suite of services to ensure seamless cloud adoption and operational success. These include Cloud Readiness Assessments to prepare organisations for a smooth transition, Healthchecks to optimise system performance, and Cloud Recovery Services to ensure rapid recovery when necessary. The company also offers extensive training services to ensure teams are equipped to maximise the potential of their cloud investments. Collectively, these services solidify de Novo’s leadership in the digital transformation space, helping clients achieve sustained success. With these best-in-class solutions to boot, de Novo has a carved out a well-deserved reputation for itself as a company with a significant competitive edge when it comes to improving operational efficiency and fostering ongoing innovation for those that choose to partner with it. It is on the back of this that de Novo has secured such high-profile clients as HM Treasury, the Ministry of Justice, the Office for National Statistics, Kent County Council, Swansea City Council, Scottish Legal Aid Board, Historic Environment Scotland and many more. These cutting-edge cloud technology solutions have proven themselves to be incredibly effective across local and central government sectors, but the uses do not end there. For example, Mark is particularly As the foremost digital transformation experts in Wales, the team at Newport’s de Novo Solutions have been successfully realising the vision of Founder and Chief Executive Mark Sweeny since operations commenced in 2021. Just over three years in, the company has already made huge leaps when it comes to the optimisation of critical back-office functions of finance, procurement, HR, and payroll for its clients – and it is immensely proud to today be the UK’s only small-to-medium enterprise to have leveraged the industry-leading capabilities of both Oracle Cloud and ServiceNow technologies. Most Innovative Digital Transformation Experts 2024 Oct24113
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