Cork’s position as a jewel in Ireland’s tech crown was given added shine this morning (20 January) with the news that cloud firm Netigate is to bring 45 new jobs to the city at a new international HQ.
Netigate’s investment in Cork is supported by the IDA on behalf of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and will see 45 new sales, technical support and account management roles arrive in Cork.
“Netigate is a welcome addition to the thriving ICT cluster in Cork,” said IDA CEO Martin Shanahan.
“Netigate’s decision to establish its international HQ in Ireland adds to the country’s reputation as a location of choice for cloud computing.”
Through its online research platform and solutions, Netigate helps organisations gain insights, make better business decisions and improve processes.
With 1,500 customers in more than 30 countries, Netigate’s clients range from small organisations to global companies in all industries, including many leading companies around the world such as Electrolux, Ericsson, The AA Ireland, BMW Group and Spotify.
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The Dublin-based Digital Marketing Institute has announced 34 new jobs following a lucrative 2015, with the recruitment to take place across 2016.
Founded in 2008 by Irish entrepreneurs Ian Dodson and Anthony Quigley, the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI) has said the announcement of these new positions comes following a year in which it achieved a revenue growth of 86pc in its core businesses.
This, it says, has resulted in a trebling of its turnover over the past three years, which has also seen its employee numbers grow from 20 in 2013 to 47 today.
Since its foundation, the DMI has been producing some of the most widely-accepted digital marketing certifications, with more than 12,500 students and 70 partner institutions partaking in its programmes, from diploma to master’s level.
In August of last year, the DMI agreed to a deal to partner with IBAT College in a bid to expand its certification reach internationally.
The institute has said that the 34 new jobs are to be in the roles of sales, operations and marketing at their headquarters in Dún Laoghaire, bringing their total staff number to 81.
“We are expanding at such a fast pace because the global skills shortage in digital is acute, and we have produced an industry validated standard that is replicable across international markets,” said co-founder and director of the DMI Ian Dodson.
“Having developed our business model successfully over the past number of years, we are in a phase of rapid expansion.
The Dublin-based Digital Marketing Institute has announced 34 new jobs following a lucrative 2015, with the recruitment to take place across 2016.
Founded in 2008 by Irish entrepreneurs Ian Dodson and Anthony Quigley, the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI) has said the announcement of these new positions comes following a year in which it achieved a revenue growth of 86pc in its core businesses.
This, it says, has resulted in a trebling of its turnover over the past three years, which has also seen its employee numbers grow from 20 in 2013 to 47 today.
Since its foundation, the DMI has been producing some of the most widely-accepted digital marketing certifications, with more than 12,500 students and 70 partner institutions partaking in its programmes, from diploma to master’s level.
In August of last year, the DMI agreed to a deal to partner with IBAT College in a bid to expand its certification reach internationally.
The institute has said that the 34 new jobs are to be in the roles of sales, operations and marketing at their headquarters in Dún Laoghaire, bringing their total staff number to 81.
“We are expanding at such a fast pace because the global skills shortage in digital is acute, and we have produced an industry validated standard that is replicable across international markets,” said co-founder and director of the DMI Ian Dodson.
“Having developed our business model successfully over the past number of years, we are in a phase of rapid expansion."
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The digital transformation of the Health Service Executive (HSE) spearheaded by CIO Richard Corbridge is well underway and some 40 new jobs are to be created by the HSE’s technology arm eHealth Ireland during 2016.
Under Corbridge’s leadership, eHealth Ireland has successfully deployed the Individual Health Identifier, moved 50pc of Ireland’s acute hospitals to an eReferral solution and began the complex journey of modernising the ‘digital fabric’ that supports the health system in 2015.
Before Christmas, Corbridge began a public consultation on the HSE’s plans for a new Electronic Health Record system.
Corbridge explained that the new roles that the HSE now has permission to fill will focus across a range of deliveries with an ultimate goal of ensuring that, wherever possible, digital solutions can improve the way health is delivered in Ireland.
“The office of the CIO is focused on delivering the benefits of eHealth Ireland. The ability to add to the workforce with such a fundamental responsibility indicates the importance Government and the Department of Health are placing on eHealth as a tool for healthcare reform.”
The goals of eHealth Ireland were articulated in the Knowledge and Information plan released in the spring of 2015.
The team then went on to deliver some of the items it considered as bringing the most benefit the quickest in 2015 and creating an operating model that would allow it to reflect the way in which care is delivered in the Irish healthcare system.
Ireland lags behind international averages on spend on healthcare IT, with 0.8pc of the HSE budget being made available for technology compared to an EU average of just over 2.5pc.
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Founded in 1977, Oracle has established itself as one of the largest tech companies in the world, who offer a wide range of cloud and platform applications in a time where businesses are tunring more toward analytical data
They have been in Dublin for the past 30 years, and are based in EastPoint Business Park in the Dublin docklands. Oracle has five Irish offices in its campus covering the entire EMEA region in terms of its sales division, as well as its product and systems development divisions.
Today they announced 450 jobs announced Dublin as part of an EMEA recruitment drive to hire 1,400 cloud sales professionals in the region. Senior vice-president of Oracle in the UK & Ireland Dermot O'Kelly said “This is an opportunity for ambitious people who want to be a part of the incredible cloud story happening at Oracle in Ireland and right across EMEA.
“This is a great opportunity for people with a passion for selling the cloud or a burning ambition to do so who want to further their career with the company that is doing the most to shape cloud and the way it serves innovative businesses around the world.”
A Dublin based company Transpoco have announced 20 new telematics jobs at their offices. This will double their workforce and comes after the launch of their new software product Synx.
They are Based in Swords in north Co Dublin and have been around since 2004. They developed vehicle tracking and fleet management solutions, beginning with a GPS tracking system for professional drivers with an aim of achieving greater fuel economy.
With the creations of 10 jobs last year its current staff number of 20 is expected to double to 40 by the end of 2016 to work on its latest product called SynX, which was developed following research and development support from Enterprise Ireland over the past two years.
The main concept of SynX, much like its predecessor, is to integrate its GPS technology with cloud computing capable of handling data uploaded from a driver’s fuel card.
Dairymaster certainly comes from ‘good stock’ having caught the eye of much of the Irish agriculture and tech community here in Ireland when its device, the Swiftflo Commander, was named as the winner of the National Ploughing Championships’ Innovation Awards.
The device is an aide for dairy farming and, once an entire processing system is installed throughout the milking facility, it can show real-time information for things such as milk yield, milking time and somatic cell count data on each cow.
Dairymaster says that the 60 new jobs will be in a variety of roles including design, software, production, electronic engineering, mobile app development, service and installation and sales.
Dairymaster currently employs 360 people, the majority of whom are in in its global headquarters in Kerry as well as regional hubs in the UK and the US.
