The Honourable Michael F. Currie announced today that xwave, a subsidiary of the Aliant group, is leasing 1300 square feet of space in the Atlantic Technology Centre in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
"xwave is good addition to the ATC," said Minister Currie. "The company exports services and technology solutions all over the world and will complement the other tenants within the ATC by contributing toward a strong technology cluster in the province."
Profit Magazine included xwave in its list of the top 100 fastest growing companies in Canada. xwave delivers complete IT services to clients through three service lines: systems integration and software engineering, infrastructure services, and product fulfilment. These areas offer clients a broad delivery capability: xwave plans, designs, builds and operates IT solutions that span both corporate and operational systems and fulfil all infrastructure needs. With more than $374 million in revenues and 2,800 people, xwave is one of the largest IT services companies in Canada, with offices in St. John's, Halifax, Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, and Edmonton as well as Texas, New England and Ireland. More information can be found at www.xwave.com.
"xwave is excited to be part of the Atlantic Technology Centre, an information technology and innovation centre designed to promote growth in the province's emerging IT industry," said Todd Clark, xwave's Director of Business Development in PEI. "Our experience has proven to us that in order to be successful in our global mandate, we need to partner; and we see this move as the beginning of that partnership with PEI's technology industry."
xwave joins a growing list of tenants and partners in the ATC including: EDS Canada, Cisco Systems, DeltaWare Systems, Cellar Door Productions, Trapeze Media Limited of Toronto, Business Technology Consulting, Polar Bear Corporate Education Solutions, Holland College, Immersion Studios of Toronto, Castaways Inc., Steelcase, Virtual Charlottetown, and Paramita Academy of Makeup Inc.
The ATC features key infrastructure including state-of-the-art office space, specialized research labs, a business incubator and smart boardrooms, as well as a world class media production environment for television and new media projects with a sound stage, interactive theatre, digital audio and picture editing suites, green screen and webcasting capability.
ATC is designed to stimulate new partnerships among firms seeking a competitive business environment to locate innovative applied research, new product and solution development, testing and pre-commercialization.