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A company on the cutting Edge

IN this week's SME Focus two technology entrepreneurs who have succeeded amid challenging conditions say the Government has to help reduce the risks involved in employing graduates if small and medium sized enterprises are to create the kind of high-skilled jobs that Scotland needs.

IT CROWD: Brian Ferrie and Susan Chadwick are aiming for £2.5m turnover this year . Picture: Jamie Simpson
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SME Focus By Mark Williamson Email: mark.williamson@theherald.co.uk Telephone: 0131 240 0282

Name: Susan Chadwick and Brian Ferrie

Age: 50 and 36

What is your business called? Edge Testing Solutions

Where is it based? Eurocentral in Lanarkshire.

What services does it offer? We test software. We don’t write the software or support it – we are paid to find bugs in software hopefully before it is put live and found by the users. There are four parts to the business. We help customers with how they test. We train customers how to test more effectively. We test software on behalf of customers. We provide supporting tools and technology to test software and we are partners with the leading vendor in this space, HP.