Awards and accreditations

As one of the market leading suppliers of address management and data accuracy solutions. Over the years QAS has won countless prestigious awards, a selection of which are detailed below:

• Information Age's Effective IT Awards 2007 In June 2007 Comic Relief won Most Effective IT Project award and the Most Effective Use of IT in a Charitable Organisation at the Effective IT Awards, for their use of QAS products. These awards recognise the huge benefits Comic Relief gain from using QuickAddress Batch to maintain accurate and up-to-date data, which in turn enables them to keep track of supporters and to validate Gift Aid donations.

• SMART Best Address Management Award 2005 In October 2005 QAS won the Best Address Management category at the SMART Awards. The award recognises the superior functionality of QuickAddress Pro Web, which combines our full experience of address capture along with the latest web service technologies.

• Information Management Awards 2005 The QAS Intranet, iQ, was selected as the winner of the 'Knowledge Management Project Award' category for the most innovative and successful knowledge management project. The intranet is estimated to save QAS over £100k annually.

• Experian wins National Business of the Year 2005 Experian has been awarded the 'Business of the Year Award' for the second time in three years, and for the first time the Award recognised Experian's global business excellence. Judges considered entries from both private and public sector organisations looking for an outstanding business that has best demonstrated exceptional financial returns, strong growth and innovation strategies, plus market leadership in its sector. This is great news for Experian and all of the companies within the Experian group.

• Data Accuracy Winner 2004 This award recognises the multiple data sets available to enhance name and address accuracy.. QuickAddress DataWorld offers over 60 additional data sets that can be appended to QuickAddress Pro and QuickAddress Batch, including geographic grid-reference data, Government and administrative data, lifestyle data and 18 international address data sets.

• Direct Marketing Association QAS is a dedicated member of the Direct Marketing Association, Europe's largest trade association within the marketing and communications sector. We promote best practice through intelligent and responsible marketing. For further information on the DMA please visit www.dma.org.uk.

• BS7799 At QAS we take data security very seriously. To continue expanding our product offering and increase the number of data sets we supply to customers, we are committed to having the highest security measures. We evaluate all of our business processes in regard to using data to ensure they are in line with industry standards, to maintain our BS7799 accreditation.

• Growing Business Awards Winner in the Deloitte & Touche UK Fast 50 Awards 2003 acknowledging the UK's fastest-growing technology companies.

• National Business Awards Simon Worth, former CEO of QAS, was a finalist at the National Business Awards for Entrepreneur of the Year 2003. These Awards have been established to recognise national and regional business excellence.

• The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For 2003 54th place. This award identifies best practice in the UK workplace and 80% of the score is derived solely from the views of employees.

• Growing Business Awards Nominated as a finalist in the 'Customer Excellence Award' category of the Growing Business Awards 2003.

• BT Vision 100 Awards Recognised in Human Resource, Information Technology and Software at the BT Vision 100 Awards 2002 that identifies 100 innovative UK organisations that have achieved strategic goals through visionary activities.

• Queen's Award for Enterprise Awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category in April 2001. A Queen's Award is the highest honour the British Government can confer on a business and is given in recognition of the success and growth of an organisation.