Two Scottish software companies are committing over £4.7millon to their R&D projects with support from Scottish Enterprise. Sciencesoft and SHE Softwareare being supported by £1.9m of R&D grants and will safeguard 56 jobs in Scotland.

Glasgow-based oil and gas specialist Sciencesoft has received £1.5m towards its £3.6m project to develop an integrated solution for chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) reservoir simulation. It hopes to increase revenue by over £21m and secure 28 jobs..

East Kilbride-based SHE Software, which specialises in cloud-based health and safety applications, receives £415,000 towards its £1.1m R&D project to help accelerate development of its next generation solution Assure 2.0 and will secure 28 jobs.