Software Group

At a glance: A group set up to represent the views and raise the profile of the software industry in the UK and to seek to optimise the trading environment in which members operate.

Next meeting

Meeting dates to follow shortly

Focus: identification of the key issues facing the software industry, create proposals to address these issues and then seek to influence the relevant organisations to effect their implementation. The target audience includes customers, government, the media and other industry associations.

Key focus areas

• promoting the UK Software Industry to key stakeholders (e.g. ministers, officials, politicians and other opinion formers)
• promotion of the UK as a place to develop software.
• the Economic Impact of the Software Industry on UK GDP
• promotion of SMEs & their issues to MPs especially of UK origin
• the regulatory framework, both economic and political, in which the Software Industry operates
• ensuring that UK Government provides a neutral “level playing field” for all software companies when procuring software
• working to provide a tax regime that supports the UK Software Industry
• promoting the importance and value of Intellectual Property Rights to the economy and ensuring that companies are able to gain a fair return on investment in R&D
• assisting in the development of Intellect guidance on issues such as software licensing and pricing
• promoting the importance of software in a number of vertical markets e.g. retail, financial services, central civil government

Get in touch:

Software and IT Services Survey Report 2007 - SME results (PDF 320KB)

Intellect paper for the Trade and Industry Select Committee (PDF 100KB - members only)

Software Group members