Founded as a spin-out from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, IST is a software engineering company with a long pedigree in Internet and Web technologies, having been an Internet pioneer - it has been connected since 1983.

The company has developed significant expertise in user interface technology and mobile systems, working with industry majors on server infrastructure and phone software. IST uses its technological competence, experience and skills to provide its customers with a unique competitive edge in a critical, highly demanding world.

IST has dominated the world market in graphical user interface tools for high performance workstations. Its award-winning user interface builder, X-Designer, is used by major aerospace, research, government and financial organizations world-wide.

IST’s vision of "Excellence in Software Engineering" has enabled its inventive, problem-solving capabilities to be deployed to provide novel, cost-effective solutions for a wide variety of enterprises.

IST’s focus is, and always has been, on helping clients unlock the full business value of technology. As a result of working with us, our clients have improved their capabilities and implemented lower-cost operating models. Furthermore, we view problems from multiple perspectives - addressing the people, process, marketing and technology factors - to help ensure our software solutions and services provide lasting value and sustainable competitive advantage to our clients.

Working with you to understand your industry, your business, your challenges and your goals is at the heart of what we do.  Discovering the ways we can add value, and fusing that with our technical expertise is how powerful software solutions are born.

We recognise that we work in a ‘people business’. So we have hand-picked and developed the very best technical and business consultants whose focus is working closely with, and not just for, our customers.