Accenture boosts digital offerings with Fjord acquisition
24.05.2013 Technology consulting firm Accenture has wrapped up its acquisition of Fjord, a London-based global service design consultancy, for an undisclosed sum.
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Opensky plans further expansion with 30 jobs to come over next 18 months
26.04.2013 Having seen revenues grow 100pc in the past two years and with 60pc growth forecast for 2013, IT company Opensky is preparing to meet the demands of new business by adding 30 new positions over the next 18 months.
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21 new jobs for technology consultancy firm Storm Technology
26.04.2013 Microsoft technologies specialist Storm Technology will bring 21 new jobs to Dublin and Galway, thanks to year-on-year growth and increasing demand for its services.
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Free TechElevate programme launches to help job-seekers break into IT
16.04.2013 The Dublin-based Digital Skills Academy is launching a free programme called TechElevate to help graduate job-seekers of ICT and computing courses upskill in order to work in areas such as web development and IT technical project management.
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Tech start-up of the week: The Analytics Store
07.04.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is The Analytics Store, a boutique consultancy and training company set up by computer scientist Aoife D’Arcy to help companies and organisations discover insights hidden in the data they collect about customers and their competitors.
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Galway ICT firms forge strategic cloud alliance
21.02.2013 Galway ICT companies Computer Troubleshooters and CloudStrong have formed a strategic cloud partnership that will see CloudStrong be the dedicated cloud services supplier for Computer Troubleshooters.
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Cloud brokerage firm to create 12 jobs in Dublin
18.02.2013 A new cloud services brokerage, Cloud Compare, is to create 12 new technical and sales jobs in Dublin this year. The company is also planning to expand into the UK market.
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Ireland’s Dept of Social Protection cited as a change leader in global IT report
12.02.2013 It may sound incredible to the ears of recession-weary citizens of a country paying a higher price than their neighbours for Europe’s debt mountain, but an Irish Government department has actually been cited by an international report as an example of how the public-sector organisations can accelerate modernisation and reform.
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The five minute CIO: Derek Mizak
25.01.2013 Derek Mizak, the former IT manager of Mercury Engineering for 10 years, now a consultant offering ‘CIO as a service’ to Irish organisations, explains why he favours outsourcing to external providers and why the best CIO is a business person first.
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Revealed: IT contractors’ handsome wages, and recruiters’ lucrative fees
15.01.2013 A typical Dublin-based Java developer on a six-month contract will earn €52,200 during the course of the contract while the recruitment agency that placed him or her will earn €18,200. These are the findings gleaned from new online platform RoleConnect whose ‘Fee Speedometer’ received input from more than 600 IT contractors.