AWARDS
Winner: CNet Business Technology - Mobile Product of the Year 2008
The ‘Mobile Product or Service of the Year’ category included as finalists:
- BigHand - BigHand Mobile (BlackBerry Edition)
- Electronic Media Services Ltd - i-MO
- LogMeIn - Rescue+Mobile
- Opera Software - Opera Mobile 9.5
- Orange - Orange Mobile Forms

The judges commented: “Phones are better for talking into than typing on, a fact no amount of usability sugar can sweeten. BigHand recognised this and has made working life easier for mobile users thereby enhancing productivity and client service.”

Winner: Best of Breed System of the Year 2008
BigHand was awarded ‘Best of Breed System of the Year’ at the prestigious Legal Technology Awards 2008, held 31 January 08 at London’s Mariott Grosvenor Square hotel. The award recognises BigHand’s excellence as the developer of the leading digital dictation workflow system BigHand3 and remote working suite including BlackBerry dictation, along with outstanding commercial performance. Read more here.

Finalist: Angel or VC-backed Business of the Year 2008
The Fast Growth Business Awards, organised in conjunction with Growing Business magazine has announced its shortlist for the 2008 awards. The Fast Growth Business Awards is an independent scheme designed to raise awareness and celebrate the UK’s fastest growing businesses and the people running them. BigHand has been nominated as a finalist in the award category ‘Angel or VC-backed Business of the Year’.

Winner: Best Use Of Technology 2007 - South-East Region
BigHand won the ‘Best Use of Technology in Business 2007’ regional award for the South-East of England at The National Business Awards. The award was made at the regional finals at The Royal Lancaster Hotel, in recognition of the market leading combination of innovation, functionality & reliability of BigHand’s digital dictation workflow software. The multiple mobility features that BigHand has developed in the last year to enhance remote working for professionals were also recognized. Outstanding financial performance and commercial stability were additional criteria cited in the category.

Finalist: BCS IT Industry Awards 2007 - Organisational Excellence Section
The BCS IT Industry awards are the leading hallmark of success amongst practitioners in the IT industry today. These cross-industry awards recognise, promote and acclaim excellence, professionalism, innovation and the outstanding achievements to which individuals and groups contribute. BigHand is a national finalist with the results due on 6th Dec 2007.

Highly Commended: Best of Breed System of the Year 2007
BigHand3 was Highly Commended in the 'Best of Breed System of the Year 2007' category at the Legal Technology Awards 2007. No other digital dictation system even made it into the best of breed category. For more information visit Digital Dictation Best of Breed

Highly Commended: The AXA Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year 2007
BigHand was highly commended in the The AXA Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year category at The National Business Awards. Open to organisations with less than £10 million turnover in their last financial year, only companies that best demonstrate significant growth and innovation in its market sector, underpinned by strong financial performance, get Highly Commended status.

The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 2006
BigHand were listed in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 list again this year, this time at No. 73. BigHand returned sales growth of 52.53% pa between 2003 and 2005. In terms of profitable companies on the list BigHand ranked No. 48. and were one of only 38 companies to be listed for the second year running. See the full table here

The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 2005

Britain’s one hundred fastest-growing private technology companies were revealed on 25 September 2005, with BigHand ranking 51st overall and the only software developer aimed at the legal sector to make the list. Among the profitable companies in the league table, BigHand was listed in an impressive 32nd place and was shown to be the 19th fastest growing technology company in London.


Highly Commended: Best Use Of Technology 2005
BigHand was awarded the coveted 'Highly Commended' status in this year's National Business Awards 2005 "Best Use of Technology" category. Only five companies in the UK were given the honour, which is given to those companies who judges wish to single out for special praise.

Deloitte EMEA Fast 500 Award Winner 2004
BigHand was announced as a Deloitte EMEA Fast-500 Winner, a list which details the 500 fastest growing high-tech companies across Europe, Middle-East and Africa.

Winner: Best Legal Office Technology System 2004
BigHand was voted "Best Legal Office Technology System" at the 2004 LOTIES.

Deloitte Fast 50 Award Winner 2004
At an award ceremony held by Deloittes at The Savoy on Oct 28th 2004, BigHand was announced as the 23rd fastest growing IT company in London and the South-East. BigHand was the highest ranking professional services software company listed. BigHand has also been listed as one of Europe's 500 fastest growing TMT companies.

Nominated: Most Customer Focused Supplier Award 2004
BigHand was nominated for the Most Customer Focused Supplier 2004 award.

Winner: Vendor of the Year 2003
In the premier category of the LOTIE Awards in November 2003, BigHand was voted Best Legal Office Technology Supplier. BigHand beat highly regarded companies such as Tikit, Solicitec, Solution 6, iManage, Elite, Axxia & Eclipse to win the most hotly contested category.

Winner: Society for Computers and Law Technology Award 2003
Professor Richard Susskind OBE presented the most coveted award in the legal technology arena, the SCL IT Award, to BigHand in 2003 for our digital dictation product. The SCL Award is made annually for "the most outstanding application of information technology to the law in the UK and Ireland."

Winner: Best Legal Office Technology Automation System 2002
BigHand Digital Dictation won Best Legal Office Technology Automation System 2002. No other dictation system was even nominated for the award.

Runner-up: Best Legal Office Technology System 2002
BigHand were also runner-up in the legal product award of the year category for 2002.