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Like all old people say - the years have flown past, and today we're celebrating fifteen years in business! Looking back over 15 years with an ageing memory and a blog archive that doesn't go back to the very beginning was a test. Here's our highlights from the life of Ixis, so far...
2004
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The Birth
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From IT support services in to website builds
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Established our office base in sunny Runcorn
2005
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Our first client site launched for National Association of Primary Care Educators using Drupal v4.5
2006
- Epilepsy Action are our longest standing Drupal hosting, support and development client clocking in at 13 years.
- Upgraded our office to the canal side view of Daresbury at the Innovation Centre
- Released our first Drupal contrib module - Path Access
2008
- The British Council become a client. Now 11 years of hosting and support services for them.
2009
- The Druplicon stress balls were born!
- Attended, presented and sponsored DrupalCamp Manchester.
2010
- Attended our first Drupalcon as a team in Copenhagen
- Change in strategy focused the business on purely Drupal services. Goodbye IT!
2011
- Pete, our longest standing employee joins the team.
- First time exhibiting at a Drupalcon - held in London, UK
2012
- Ixis selected as one of the first suppliers on the UK Governments G-Cloud framework
- Public Sector roadshow saw us exhibiting at many conferences over the space of 3 months.
- Opened a new large branded office space in South Warrington
- Acquisition of North Wales Drupal agency Leafish
- We organised the DrupalCamp Northwest event with the local user group
2013
- Featured by Inside Medias “The Verdict” on the subject of business growth options
- Barry shakes up the services by putting formal processes into place with ITIL and change of structure, birth of distinct departments
- Josh joins as a developer apprentice
2014
- Achieved a fantastic growth rate of over 400% resulted in being listed in the Deloitte Fast 500 for EMEA.
2015
- Established our dedicated account management team as Ben joins us
2016
- Opening of a staffed Manchester office
- Moved to a modern central Warrington office
- Ixis.co.uk moved to Drupal 8 and began our move to Drupal 8 for client work
- We presented a session at DrupalCon Dublin alongside Platform.sh
- Matt passes his ITIL certification
2017
- Ixis Management Buyout
- Joined the Northern Power House
- Uniper Energy becomes an international client
2018
- Opening of our London location
- Big Chip apprentice award for Josh
- We achieved ISO 9001 and 27001 certification
- New clients include IBM/Verizon and Nestle
2019
- Acquisition of Liberonet expanding the team headcount and skills outside of just Drupal
- Our growth project begins!
- Heather joins the team to dedicate to marketing Ixis.
