Value proposition

Business software for mission-critical tasks

IRIS Software Group is a leading global provider of mission critical software & services & one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. We help organisations to make better business decisions by developing integrated software solutions to minimise admin, make business processes more efficient & give more time to do what’s valued.

We started 45 years ago with accountancy software & have evolved to be relied on by more than 100,000 customers across 135 countries in accountancy, education & business.

We invest heavily in development using the latest processes & technologies, driven by our Indian & Romanian Centres of Excellence to build the next generation of cloud-based accountancy, HR & education solutions.

Almost one million UK employees are managed by our HR solutions, & one in six UK employees are paid through IRIS payroll solutions.

We are the largest third-party online tax filer with the UK Government, & we are used by 54 of the top 100 US & 93 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms.

We also serve over 12,000 schools & academies, & almost four million UK families use our apps to connect to their child’s school.

Since 2023, we have been awarded Tech CEO of the Year 2023 (Elona Mortimer-Zhika) in the UK Tech Awards; Cloud Innovation of the Year 2023 by UK IT Industry Awards; Tech Employer of the Year (2023 & 2024) in the Thames Valley Tech Awards; Technical Innovation – National Supplier 2024 Award at the Onrec Awards. IRIS Education has been named Company of the Year at the UK National MAT Awards 2023, crowned Company of the Year (more than 12m) in the Bett Awards 2023 & awarded Best EdTech Product – School Management Solutions in the Global EdTech Awards 2024. Troncmasters By IRIS also won the Payroll Innovation Award in the Global Payroll Association Awards 2024.

We are proud of our Great Place to Work accolades, including Best Workplaces in Tech, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing and Best Workplaces for Women.

Accountancy, HR management, Education management, Financial management, Biometric systems and technology, and Payroll management