Influential expands with new office space in iconic Gherkin building

Sept. 16, 2011 - PRLog -- Influential Software, provider of business intelligence solutions and bespoke software, has announced the expansion of its UK operation with the addition of new office space in the iconic 30 St Mary Axe office building, best known as ‘The Gherkin’.
Influential Software is delighted to open its first London office to better support its expanding client portfolio, which includes several London-based companies. The St Mary Axe building was chosen as it offers excellent client services, both vocational and social and is an ideal location for City travel.

John Simpson, Director of Influential Software, said of the expansion, “We are as excited about being in the City of London, the hub of business activity, as the new office space, which signals our growing success in expanding the business”.

Since 1993, Influential Software has been driven by a mission to deliver quality solutions to the world’s leading publishers and other complex businesses - to increase client profitability via a core set of objectives; to drive revenue, to aid growth and to reduce cost whilst reducing risk. This is achieved by realising past investment in systems and infrastructure and unlocking the drivers of each business, developing enterprise-grade bespoke software to integrate, manage and streamline processes, all underpinned by expert consultancy.

30 St Mary Axe, the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London’s main financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 2004. With 40 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, and stands on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building, which was severely bomb damaged on 10 April 1992.
Since its completion, the building has won a number of prestigious awards for architecture. In October 2004, the building was awarded the 2004 RIBA Stirling Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the judges reached a unanimous decision. In December 2005, a survey of the world’s largest firms of architects published in 2006 BD World Architecture 200 voted the tower as the most admired new building in the world.

In September 2006, the building was put up for sale and on 21 February 2007, IVG Immobilien AG and UK investment firm Evans Randall completed their joint purchase of the building for £630 million, making it Britain’s most expensive office building.

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Influential Software (http://www.influentialsoftware.com), Maidstone-based IT consultancy, has a 20 year history of delivering IT solutions to some of the worldʼs leading global businesses – aiming to increase client profitability via a core set of objectives; to drive revenue, to underpin growth, to reduce cost whilst reducing risk. This is achieved by realising past investment in systems and infrastructure and unlocking the drivers of each business, developing enterprise-grade bespoke software to integrate, manage and streamline processes, all underpinned by expert consultancy.