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Enterprise Ireland is the government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. We work in partnership with Irish enterprises to help them start, grow, innovate and win export sales on global markets. In this way, we support sustainable economic growth, regional development and secure employment
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Microsoft first opened its doors in Ireland in 1985 with a small manufacturing facility employing just over one hundred people. Since that time, Microsoft Ireland has grown to encompass four distinct operations at its campus in Sandyford in Dublin, employing over 1,200 full time employees and 700 full-time contract staff.
Microsoft's operations in Ireland include software development and testing, localisation, operations, finance, IT, HR and sales & marketing, both here in Ireland and across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
You can find out more about Microsoft's operations in Ireland here.
Contact the Microsoft Ireland Management Team here.
QuestZones is an Irish based company founded in 2008 that is bringing and developing brokered DSL and secure VPN services from QuestZones Inc (based in North America) into the European marketplace. QuestZones.net was formed in 1999 and provides services to many fortune 500 companies in the retail and banking sectors. QuestZones' solutions support payment and data networks for over 6,000 retail outlets across four continents, including international brands such as Aldo, Bell Canada and McDonalds.
Realex Payments is a leading European online payment gateway, providing a range of payment processing services for businesses selling online. The company has experienced year on year growth since its foundation in 2000. It is currently expanding both its product set and the regions into which it sells, and currently has over 85 staff.
A long time ago, fadó fadó, there lived some researchers who dreamt of making a difference in their home country – an island off the coast of Europa. And so, they set about mastering their trade and honing their skills until, together, they came to embody the very best of their ancient art and craft ...
Some dreams do come true. Amárach now provide world-class research services fused with a deep passion for understanding their country, their fellow citizens and their clients’ customers.
Populis is one of Europe’s fastest growing digital media companies (Source: GP Bullhound Media Momentum 2009, 2010, 2011) and European leader in content on demand.
With a network of over 550 web properties visited by more than 26.1 million unique users every month (Comscore January 2011), we provide up to the minute content on demand to web users, crowdsourced from a team of expert collaborators and published on our wholly owned and operated websites including Excite Europe, Better Deals, Blogo, Blogosfere and Nanopublishing.
The Populis team is a dynamic, multinational staff of 135, working across offices in Ireland and Italy.
The lifeblood of business
Making it safe and easy for your customers to pay you is essential - payment channels aren't just a part of your business, but its lifeblood.
Sage Pay recognise that every successful business needs a healthy flow of customers and money - which is why they deliver secure and efficient payment services that will help to increase cash-flow and improve your bottom line.
Paddy Power is Ireland's biggest and most successful bookmaker. Paddy Power operates both a retail and an online/telephone division.
Paddy Power's retail division operates a chain of licensed betting offices located throughout Ireland and in the UK. Their online/telephone division operates Ireland's largest telephone Sportsbook (Paddy Power Dial-a-Bet) as well as the following online businesses: online sportsbook (paddypower.com), mobile sportsbook (paddypowermobile.com), casino (paddypowercasino.com), games (paddypowergames.com), poker (paddypowerpoker.com), bingo (paddypowerbingo.com), and the most recent addition, financial spread betting (paddypowertrader.com)
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The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) operates the registry for all Internet domain names ending in .ie. For 10 years the IEDR has provided registration services and security to Ireland’s online community. The .ie namespace is consistently ranked in the top five safest domains worldwide by McAfee and offers Irish businesses and consumers the benefits of a secure e-business platform with minimal risks of cybercrime.
We are pleased to sponsor the IIA ‘Open for Business’ Conference. Indeed, the IEDR recently announced a series of initiatives to highlight the potential of the Internet, which remains largely untapped by small businesses in Ireland. OPTIMISE is IEDR’s €100,000 e-commerce website development fund which is designed to help 10 Irish SMEs with existing .ie websites to begin the process of optimising their existing online presence to a more fully featured, transactional website. In addition, the IEDR is also supporting the Getting Irish Business Online Campaigns, major initiatives welcomed by Government to encourage Irish companies online.
SunGard Availability Services provides IT Operations support to IT departments that need to ensure business viability by keeping mission critical information and applications up and running. Unlike other companies that offer individual technology services, SunGard is focused on providing responsive and integrated disaster recovery, managed services, IT consulting and business continuity management software solutions, to help organizations keep people and information connected. SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses.
pTools is a leading developer of enterprise-level Content Management Software (CMS), providing content management solutions and applications for intranet,
extranet and Internet.
pTools CMS is dynamic and scalable and provides future-proofed, managed and secure access to emerging technologies to generate secure, accessibility and usability standards compliant, multi-language, transactional online solutions.
pTools customers in Central & Local Government, Financial Services, Health, Police and Marketing, Media & Advertising deliver continuous, consistent brand management and messaging, efficient services and processes for business-critical initiatives online.
Digiweb is Ireland’s leading independent telecommunications service provider. The company has provided excellent service to the Business, Government and Residential markets in Ireland since its inception in 1997. As a single source vendor our dedicated business team offers a range of services from voice and connectivity solutions, data centre and cloud computing, right through to virtualisation and managed hosting. Our broad range of strategic solutions, services, and expertise can help you improve your IT infrastructure and application performance, secure your data wherever it is and provide you with complete nationwide coverage no matter where your location.
Newsweaver is Europe's leading email newsletter specialist with a wide range of clients across Europe varying from large Multinationals to SMEs. Some of Newsweaver's clients include IBEC, Forfas, The Shelbourne Hotel, Cassidy Travel, Meteor, The Green Party and Premier Group.
An award-winning company, Newsweaver helps businesses to create email
newsletters that deliver results - from the initial newsletter design to tracking readers' behaviour. Newsweaver is a self-service web based solution that is easy to use and can be managed either in-house or externally by Newsweaver. Newsweaver was recently named the fifth fastest growing technology company in Ireland in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
Digital Reach Group (DRG) is a specialist in the rapidly emerging mobile Internet economy.
Established in September 2009 to help companies optimise their brand for mobile, DRG has two divisions: Digital Reach and Adforce.ie
Digital Reach is focused on the digital advertising sector and is a specialist in Mobile Marketing and Publishing. It develops and executes mobile strategy for its clients, including building mobile sites and applications. It provides managed access to cloud-based Mobile Response (mobile codes and coupons), Mobile Publishing and Mobile Media buying platforms.
Clients include leading brands and ad agencies.
OWJO has emerged from a five year software build to develop a world-class patented e-commerce platform.
OWJO enables commercial activity where people naturally gather and interact online, for example in Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter, YouTube. It enables artists to sell directly to their fans. It enables sports personalities and celebrities to monetise their relationships with their fans. The applications are numerous as OWJO is a self service platform that enables anybody anywhere in the world the opportunity to go into business for themselves by establishing an online OWJO to sell physical and/or digital content.
The OWJO platform has recently been launched on an invitation only private beta test mode but we are now emerging from stealth mode to tell the world our story.