In 2007 the company moved to premises in Wicksteed St but its location meant "no one could see us and no one knew about us really".
But NZCS has now relocated to offices in Glasgow St, moving in late March and holding an official opening on September 1.
Mr Nixon said the move indicated the business was looking for greater exposure.
"A lot of our clients are out of Whanganui but we wanted a location that gave better access to our customers and clients in this community as well."
He started NZCS as a virtual backyard business. He'd been working for an IT firm in Palmerston North and making the daily commute.
"At the time we were writing software for legal firms but legal firms didn't know too much about software so after hours they'd get me to help them with their servers. Local firm Armstrong Barton was my first client and things just grew from there."
He took on his first employee in 2006 and business has blossomed.
Mr Nixon said ultrafast broadband had given Whanganui a point of difference to many other places.
"It's made a huge difference to us. We talk to clients in Auckland and they're frustrated they haven't got fibre yet. We're spoilt really and it's getting cheaper."
Natasha Brechmanis is the operations manager, leading the engineers and managing the projects while doing some design work.
She said NZCS was taking on another employee, an former Whanganui woman returning to her home city.
"The beauty with our business is that we can be successful operating from Whanganui. We don't have to be in the big cities to make it happen," Ms Brechmanis said.
"We've got the infrastructure here for this sort of business, it's cheaper living so why not come here."
She said it was house prices that had drawn the former Whanganui woman back.
"She felt it was time to settle down and Whanganui's a great place to live."
"We're excited about our growth and our new premises allows for further expansion as we prepare for local companies to 'go digital'," Ms Brechmanis said.
Mr Nixon said NZCS's core business was software design, and that includes designing apps for iPhones and android devices. Customers come to NZCS, explain what they want and the crew go away and create it.
"This is about working with businesses looking at technology to give them a competitive advantage."
But it's not about sitting on their hands waiting for customers to come through the door. They continue to devise new programmes.
A shining example of that creativity is the work the company did with Whanganui security firm Alarm Watch. They created a smartphone app - the first of its kind in New Zealand - that allows users to remotely activate and deactivate their alarm system and interact directly with the alarm monitoring team.
Wade Coneybeer, general manager of Alarm Watch, said the phone app meant there was zero delay in the client getting a notification about potential intrusion and allows them to quickly change emergency contacts when going away.
He said there were other alarms apps but they were expensive. He said the app NZCS created works with any alarm, is a free add-on "and the take-up has been huge".
"NZCS has a clever bunch working there. I don't think many people know that there are people in Wanganui who can write apps," he said.
The work environment at the office reflects the highly social atmosphere of the business.
"It's a bit Google-esque. We want to create a fun, team environment. Just sometimes the staff want to get away from their desk and sit on a bean bag and work on a laptop or work at a stand-up desk."
NZCS isn't a servicing business but since moving to its new office a few people have come in off the street with IT problems.
"It's not our core business for sure but we helped them. We're not going to turn them away," he said.
As a managed service provider, NZCS concentrates on offering affordable IT solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. But along with managing IT infrastructure for clients and providing user support, its kept busy with more and more companies wanting smart phone apps and custom software developed and designed.
"This is NZ-wide and we think that's pretty cool for a Whanganui company," Ms Brechmanis said.
