A global open source company, Payara creates innovative infrastructure software, and is delighted to be among the 205 organisations nationally recognised by the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2021. With offices in Malvern, England, and Madeira, Portugal, the Payara team develop the Payara Platform and Payara Cloud. The Payara Platform, consisting of Payara Server and Payara Micro, is stable and supported software used by enterprises around the world, including BMW, Hermes and Rakuten Card. Payara Cloud is an all-in-one Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that simplifies cloud infrastructure management. Founded by Steve Millidge, Payara is a sustainable open source business that proudly nurtures and grows a collaborative community to advance industry-leading software and services and enable users to create world-class solutions for a diverse range of industries. Payara has increased its annual revenue by 107% over the past three years, with export sales more than doubling from 33% to 75%. The company has a remote-first team, with employees and suppliers carefully selected for their talents and commitment to growing their skills and potential in their area of expertise, regardless of their geographic location. Payara Services Ltd
Payara founder and CEO Steve Millidge
The Payara team
Its corporate values are echoed in every team member’s passion and contribution toward the growth of Payara’s business and culture: building strong relationships, maintaining transparency, a willingness to share with others and striving for excellence. The Payara Platform is designed for mission critical production systems and containerised Jakarta EE (Java EE) and MicroProfile applications, making it easy to quickly and securely deliver Jakarta EE applications in any environment – on premise, in the cloud or hybrid.
Payara Cloud is the next generation of cloud- native application runtime. It’s an easier way to run your Jakarta EE apps on the cloud – simply select theWAR file, click deploy and watch the application run on the cloud. PAYARA SERVICES LTD Malvern Hills Science Park, Geraldine Road, Malvern WR14 3SZ Tel: +44 (0)207 754 0481/international: +1 415 523 0175 info@payara.fish • www.payara.fish @Payara_Fish
SkyDemon
SkyDemon is a lean, privately owned company, producing world-class flight planning and navigation software for light aviation. Its team are extremely proud to have won a Queen’s Award in the category of International Trade. The company’s remarkable success is based on relentless innovation and continuous development in response to feedback from its customers. It seeks not to merely add new features to its products, but to understand the problems its users are trying to solve, and create solutions that overcome these problems more effectively than pilots imagined to be possible. The SkyDemon team then closely follow how their systems are used, constantly refining and always seeking to reduce the workload of the pilot without removing their options and agency. SkyDemon creates its products with clarity and ease of use as its main focus. Modern airspace is complex, and pilots need to be aware of all the potential hazards and options without becoming overloaded with irrelevant details. Thanks to this common sense approach, the skies are made less intimidating for pilots, giving them the confidence to engage with their passion to the fullest. The company’s innovations have helped to avoid needless duplication of effort; not just by its customers, but also by airfield owners, air
traffic controllers and state regulators. It sets new standards in how complicated data should be presented to users in a timely and intuitive way. The team work with data producers to improve the quality of the base data for the benefit of all pilots, not just their own. Perhaps most importantly, the SkyDemon teammake it so that planning and briefing for a flight becomes easy and more fun. They are known throughout the industry for engaging directly with pilots of all kinds, opening dialogues and supporting their needs with a human touch.
SkyDemon receiving their awards from the Queen’s Lord-Lieutenant for Somerset
They never tire of hearing how their work has made flights easier and safer, and redouble their efforts so they can continue to deserve the trust that is placed in them.
SKYDEMON Aviation House, Eastgate Court, Frome BA11 1QD Tel: +44 (0)1373 470452 • sales@skydemon.aero www.skydemon.aero
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