A business software provider is planning to create 150 jobs in Nottingham.
Ideagen, which is based in the city, said it was planning the new roles over the next year to 18 months.
The business, which counts almost 6,000 global businesses as clients - including NASA, SSE and the NHS - recently posted annual results saying sales were up a fifth last year to £56.6 million.
It supplies software and services to organisations in highly regulated industries such as aviation, banking and finance, life science, healthcare and manufacturing.
It says its products help its clients cut costs, improve operational efficiency, strengthen compliance and oversight and manage risk.
Chief executive Ben Dorks said the new, permanent, full-time jobs will be in customer support, sales and marketing.
He said there would be roles for experienced professionals, new graduates and some apprenticeships.
They will be able to join the existing head office team in a new office in Nottingham, which has just been opened.
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Mr Dorks said: “Nottingham is our home and we are very proud of this city.
“We are committed to being here for the long term and opening our fantastic new office in Ruddington today shows the strength of our commitment.
“While we can’t all work in the office at the moment, we have a superb facility here for when people want to come back to an office environment and I very much look forward to that day.
“The market for our products is growing as increasing numbers of businesses are using them to reduce the administrative burden traditionally associated with a variety of regulations and recommendations.
“Our products allow these processes to be streamlined, easily accessed by multiple people, and our cloud-hosting options make them portable and transferable.
“We operate across a number of industries, so although some of our clients have been badly hit by coronavirus, such as those in aviation, we’ve seen an increase in activity from companies in other sectors, such as life sciences and healthcare.”
In May, Ideagen supported the World Health Organisation in hosting its World Health Assembly, an annual meeting that was expected to attract 4,000 delegates.
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It provided one of its products free of charge to allow the event to go digital.
The document collaboration software package lets multiple users to review, comment on and agree the wording of papers online without the need to be physically present.
The package also offers secure hosting in the cloud and a complete audit trail of revisions and comments, which meant that by offering this software free of charge to the WHO, Ideagen was able to facilitate the first ever digital World Health Assembly.
In August, the business announced the acquisition of a significant competitor, Qualsys, for £15.6 million.
This acquisition brought with it the benefits of a £3 million injection into R&D that Qualsys had made over recent years and allowed Ideagen to combine this with its existing range of products to offer the market a cutting edge, cloud-based quality management system.
Mr Dorks said: “We moved quickly at the beginning of the pandemic to restructure our business.
“This strategy has worked really well for us and we now have a very solid foundation on which to continue to grow in the future.”