headquarters coventry england products imaging software microscopy parent perkinelmer website www.improvision.com improvision is a software developer based in coventry england . the company is the developer of confocal live cell imaging solutions and image analysis software for 2d 3d and 4d imaging . improvision was founded in 1990 by ken salisbury andrew waterfall and john zeidler . improvision was acquired by perkinelmer on 2 april 2007 in a cash transaction . 1 2 the company is based in coventry england and it develops and sells scientific imaging equipment and software including confocal microscopy systems and image analysis software volocity for the life sciences industry . 3 in 2004 improvision was runner up in the apple design awards for best mac os x scientific computing solution for their volocity 2.6.1 software release . in 2002 it was a winner in the annual lord stafford awards for innovation . 4 in april 2000 improvision received a queen s award for enterprise the highest honour which can be given to a uk company in recognition of outstanding achievement in export sales . 5 references edit perkinelmer acquires improvision ltd . perkinelmer corporate news . wilkinson matt 5 april 2007 . perkinelmer buys imaging software specialist . perkinelmer have continued to expand their cellular imaging portfolio with the acquisition of software company improvision . . in pharmatechnologist.com . retrieved 3 july 2008 . imaging cells in four dimensions improvision s volocity lets researchers examine how 3d images change over time . . the scientist . 18 february 2002 . retrieved 3 july 2008 . pain steve 9 october 2002 . improvision wins prestige award for innovation . the birmingham post . retrieved 3 july 2008 . dunn peter . national award for university support that helped coventry company achieve 700 % increase in sales . the university of warwick . archived from the original on 26 may 2005 . retrieved 4 july 2008 . external links edit improvision perkinelmer corporate website life and analytical sciences website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title improvision & oldid 738804790 categories technology companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in coventrylife sciences industryhidden categories use dmy dates from december 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 04 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view