IT’s hap­pen­ing here

The Irish soft­ware indus­try is not just alive – it’s thriv­ing. Six hun­dred small to medium-sized indige­nous com­pa­nies are bring­ing inno­v­a­tive and cre­ative prod­ucts to the world, while still main­tain­ing the friendly, infor­mal atmos­phere for which Irish work­places are renowned.

There are lots of good rea­sons to work in an Irish soft­ware com­pany. With flat, open organ­i­sa­tional struc­tures, you will get many oppor­tu­ni­ties to have a say. With rel­a­tively small work­forces, you will have to work at a wide range of tasks, devel­op­ing your skills in the process. With niche prod­ucts aimed at an inter­na­tional mar­ket, you get to see the results of your input being used world­wide. And with the global reach of these dynamic com­pa­nies, you get to make a real dif­fer­ence. Oh yes – and because the Irish love the ’craic’, you’ll have lots of fun!

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Have your say

If you come to Ire­land to work, you will prob­a­bly book a plane ticket online. Chances are that pay­ment will be processed using soft­ware devel­oped by Realex, one of a num­ber of Irish com­pa­nies pro­vid­ing finan­cial prod­ucts. Realex is only 12 years old, but in that short time its work­force has grown from two to over 100 peo­ple, with offices in Dublin, Lon­don and Paris. Because the com­pany is evolv­ing and chang­ing all the time, the work­force has to also, and every­one has a voice. New ideas can be brought to the ‘ring­fort’, a set of floor-to-ceiling white­boards which recall the tra­di­tional ring­forts of the Bur­ren in the west of Ire­land. Tra­di­tion meets technology!

Develop your skills

Cre­at­ing oppor­tu­nity out of cri­sis is the sign of an inno­v­a­tive com­pany. A few years ago, Sys­net Global Solu­tions, an Irish soft­ware com­pany, saw that con­fi­dence in the credit card indus­try was being dam­aged by secu­rity breaches and moved its focus to Pay­ment Card Indus­try Data (PCI) com­pli­ance. With a global client base, includ­ing the UK, Europe, CIS and the US, the work­force had to more than triple from around 30 to over 100. Sysnet’s diverse array of clients enables devel­op­ers to work on a wide range of tasks to pro­vide the portal-based solu­tion, allow­ing them to expand their skills.

See the results

Hunch­ing over a com­puter screen can be a strain on your eyes, so get­ting them checked reg­u­larly is prob­a­bly a good idea. Next time you do so, you’ll prob­a­bly see the optometrist enter­ing your data into a sys­tem devel­oped by Ocuco, allow­ing the opti­cian to pro­vide you with new glasses – should you need them – within an hour. And all pos­si­ble thanks to an Irish soft­ware com­pany which, along with many other Irish soft­ware inno­va­tors, has cre­ated a prod­uct now used through­out North Amer­ica and in Europe.

Make a difference

Inno­va­tion is not just about find­ing new tech­nolo­gies, it’s about find­ing new ways to exploit tech­nolo­gies. Award-winning Intu­ition is an Irish soft­ware com­pany – just one of a wide range of Irish soft­ware com­pa­nies work­ing in dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies – which has taken an estab­lished process, e-learning – and brought it to a new level, enabling com­pa­nies to pro­vide a range of learn­ing activ­i­ties to its employ­ees via mobile phones and other technologies.