Company
Formed in 2003, Covalent Software has grown into the UK's leading Performance and Governance Management software vendor, with a particular strength in the public sector. Covalent's suite of applications now services Corporate Performance Management, Employee Performance Management & Staff Appraisals, Risk Management, Governance & Compliance.
Covalent has customers in USA and Australia with a growing network of partners servicing local markets internationally.
At Covalent, great emphasis has always been placed on making this a good company to work for and we pride ourselves on being a 'good employer' and want to be recognised as an employer of choice.
Company Profile
Public sector organisations in the UK are among the most advanced globally in their usage of performance management methodologies and techniques, driven by a regulatory regime that places great emphasis on tracking achievement of performance targets and reporting results to the public. As a result, the Covalent team has developed considerable expertise in all aspects of performance management and our software product has evolved into the most advanced, functionally-rich solution on the market.
Covalent History
Covalent was founded in September 2003 by Peter McHugh, following a market consultation and research exercise over that summer. In October 2003, Version 1 of Covalent CPM was deployed in our pathfinder customers - Sedgemoor District Council and Wychavon District Council.
Starting and growing a company with ambitions as big as Covalent you encounter a lot of highs and lows along the way as summarized on the company timeline.
Covalent KPIs
As you would expect, Covalent uses its own software to manage all aspects of our business operations. We have published on this website a series of business KPIs in a Covalent Scorecard using our Web Publishing module.
Employer of Choice
We want to be recognised as an employer of choice, and are continually looking for new and innovative ways to keep staff satisfied, whilst continuing to challenge and develop them.
Ensuring that staff are happy, supported, encouraged and challenged, means that we have a more productive, effective and customer friendly team. Feedback from customers reflects this, with comments on why our customers like working with Covalent including...
Attitude and vibrancy of staff. Friendly and responsive. Approachability and 'can do' attitude. Its enthusiasm and ambition. Friendly approach.
Partners
The Covalent Partner Channel programme supports our expansion into selected vertical and geographic markets using an indirect channels model. In each target market, partners represent all aspects of our business, from sales & marketing, through implementation and training onto providing first line helpdesk support.
Broadly Covalent appoints two types of partners - Value Added Reseller (VARs) that are already supply software or relevant IT services to one of Covalent's target vertical markets or Consulting Partners who provide consulting services in relevant disciplines.
Leadership Team
Peter McHugh founded Covalent in May 2003 with a vision of building Covalent into one of the UK's leading software companies.
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