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Access acquires Volcanic and enhances candidate to cash strategy

The Access Group, the UK’s leading providers of software to growing mid-market businesses, today announced the acquisition of Volcanic, a recruitment and staffing website software supplier with over 10 years’ experience providing software exclusively to the recruitment industry.

The acquisition of Volcanic, the leading provider of SaaS based website and marketing technology platforms for the recruitment sector, is a testament to Access’ commitment to the recruitment industry and further demonstrates its drive for innovation within the recruitment software sector.

Posted 05/03/2019

Since inception, Volcanic has quickly grown to become one of the leading SaaS technology businesses in the recruitment sector.  The business supports over 600 customers across three continents including market leading brands.

Access already works with over 40% of the UK’s top 500 agencies and 75% of the top 20 agencies. Volcanic, which naturally extends Access’ product offering, reinforces its position as the UK’s leading recruitment software provider offering everything from candidate attraction to cash collection.

Paul Vogel, Managing Director for Access’ Recruitment Division, commentedAccess is excited to welcome Volcanic into our family. The addition of Volcanic to our solution suite further strengthens our candidate to cash proposition and our overall presence in the Recruitment market.  We look forward to deepening our relationship with Volcanic’s customers over coming months and years, while further supporting their business.”

Rob Wilde, CEO and founder of Volcanic also shares “Access’ customer-centric culture and its desire to offer business enabling technology is aligned to Volcanic’s.  Access’ desire to fuel efficiency, productivity and collaboration in the recruitment sector will be further enhanced with the integration of Volcanic’s proven recruitment technology and will allow us to play an integrated role connecting key technologies in the recruitment and HR ecosystem.”

Access has continued to go from strength to strength over recent years to what is now a market leading suite of solutions that provide a recruitment business the ability to complete the full candidate to cash cycle.  Access also recently announced the launch of Access Workspace, its innovative platform for connected and collaborative working. Access Workspace brings together all departments across a recruitment business, from sales, finance, HR, IT and compliance to fuel efficiency, productivity and collaboration all in one place.

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