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Congratulations to our 2009 WINNERS!

Green Technology WINNER - EMC

EMC: EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) celebrates 30 years as the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organisations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. EMC established a presence in Ireland in 1988 with its first manufacturing facility outside of North America in Ovens, Cork.  It then formed its Dublin based sales office in 1990 and Belfast in 2005.  EMC now employs over 1,600 people in Ireland between all sites.  Last year EMC celebrated its 20th Anniversary in Ireland and announced a €20 million investment in its local Research and Development Centre. The Cork facility has become a multifunctional campus and the home of EMC’s International Operations. It has emerged as a leader in EMC’s initiative to develop and manufacture energy efficient information infrastructure technologies.  In addition to the manufacturing facility, the Cork site also includes the International Executive Briefing Centre, the Global Solutions Centre, Worldwide Customer Service Centre, VMware Support Services, Software Development and Shared Services functions. EMC in Ireland today claims some of Ireland’s most recognised organisations as its customers. http://uk.emc.com/

Novartis Ringaskiddy: Novartis is a world leader in research and development of products to protect and improve health and well-being.  Novartis Ringaskiddy Ltd. is one of 4 key manufacturing facilities within Chemical Operations and is responsible for the worldwide supply of pharmaceutical drug substances for Novartis Pharma.  We produce a variety of drug substances used for the production of medicines in many therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Transplantation, Cardiovascular, Dermatology and Bone-Disease.  We currently employ over 430 staff.

Avego: Avego is a provider of software, hardware and professional services for improving passenger transport efficiency. Using GPS, web and mobile technologies, Avego’s real-time information and management systems make seat capacity known and available to passengers, provide convenient ticket purchasing options, and enable extensive reporting capabilities. Led by a multinational team of transport experts, Avego has  offices in Ireland (Kinsale and Dublin), the United States (Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley, CA)  and China (Dalian). In the past year, Avego has released two products that aim to promote sustainable urban mobility by reducing the number of single-occupant vehicles on our roads. Avego Shared Transport uses iPhone GPS technology to enable private cars to become part of the public transport network by providing a marketplace for drivers to offer their vacant seats to others in real time. It has been prominently featured in major publications such as the New York Times and the San Jose Mercury News and has been used by thousands of individuals around the world. Avego's Futurefleet software is a real-time management system for improving passenger transport efficiency. Bus and coach operators around the world are using Futurefleet to publish real-time passenger information, issue tickets to passengers and streamline their operational performance. www.avego.com

 

High Growth Company - WINNER - AMCS

AMCS: AMCS Environmental is a leading solutions provider to the Environmental Industry worldwide. The company’s technology is widely used by a number of the world’s leading municipalities and commercial waste contractors. Established in 2003 AMCS has become renowned for supplying the most comprehensive and innovative solutions to the Environmental sector. In a short period of time AMCS has grown from being a solutions provider in the Irish waste market to having wholly owned subsidiaries in the UK, Norway, Sweden and the US. Due to increasing demand for RFID solutions outside of the Environmental sector AMCS established an Industrial division which is dedicated to supplying state of the art technology to the Medical, Pharmaceutical, Automation and Logistics Industry. www.amcsgroup.com

SouthWestern: SouthWestern (formerly SWS Business Process Outsourcing Ltd.) is a market leader in the provision of outsourced business process services to key blue chip clients in the Food and Drink, Media, Banking, Telecommunications, Retail and Energy sectors. The Company currently provides services to clients in the Irish, UK and Polish markets and employs 535 people in its delivery centres in Clonakilty, in the south of Ireland, and Lodz in Poland. www.southwestern.ie

Cubic Telecom: Cubic is one of the world's first and largest suppliers of white label mobile communications, which abolish high roaming fees that are usually charged by incumbent Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). The company offers a 100% white label platform where MVNO's can customize everything as their own, including having their own branding of SIMs and web portal, plus customized audio prompts and short-codes. MVNO's can set up multiple sub-distributors, each with their own discrete pricing, and customization. www.cubictelecom.com

Sustained Excellence Award - WINNER - GxP Systems

GxP Systems: A technology & professional services firm established in 1997, GxP Systems works with the Medical Device, Biotech & Pharmaceutical Industry to eliminate inefficiencies and associated costs in keeping their manufacturing systems in compliance with industry regulations. Our principal offering – Lean Validation Services – helps manufacturers to systematically and continuously lower the cost of compliance within their facilities.
GxP Systems serves lifescience leaders throughout Ireland, the US and mainland Europe. With approximately 100 employees and a reputation for excellence and reliability, the company is focused on building a global presence. Headquartered in Cork with regional offices in Ireland and the US, GxP Systems will continue to leverage its strong relationships and track record with multinationals to build export growth.
Innovation in the management and delivery of services is backboned by IT and Information Systems. These systems provide performance analytics and productivity benchmarking to our customer service teams. With most customer assignments requiring significant on-site presence, the flexibility and reach of Cloud Computing is integral to the application of these analytics and associated benchmarking. GxP Systems will continue to innovate and invest in technology that sets the company apart from its competitors. www.gxpsystems.com

Eirteic Consulting: Since inception in 2000, Eirteic Consulting has been dedicated to providing quality Fault, Service and Performance Management solutions and services to Government, Health Care, Financial and Telecommunications markets. Eirteic Consulting is headquartered in Ireland with offices in South Africa, Australia, USA and China. Eirteic Consulting works with customers in over 30 countries to deliver best-of-breed solutions and services. www.eirteic.com

PFH: PFH is Ireland’s largest privately owned national ICT Company, with offices in Dublin, Cork, and Galway and 80 nationwide engineers delivering our national services at a local level.  PFH is a leading provider of managed services with its Custodian ICT Managed Services offering.  It is actively involved in outsourcing IT services; professional services; training & consultancy services; business systems solutions and IT infrastructure. PFH operates a Network Management Centre offering customers 24/7 seamless monitoring and management of their IT networks. www.pfh.ie

R&D Project - WINNER - Yougetitback

Yougetitback: Yougetitback.com is a global company based in Ireland and backed by the Irish government which develops solutions to give peace of mind to mobile device users. It combats the problem of protecting and recovering lost and stolen mobile devices by offering a fully scalable global solution that includes physical tagging, smart phone software and laptop software together with a powerful recovery service. www.yougetitback.com

Avego: Avego is a provider of software, hardware and professional services for improving passenger transport efficiency. Using GPS, web and mobile technologies, Avego’s real-time information and management systems make seat capacity known and available to passengers, provide convenient ticket purchasing options, and enable extensive reporting capabilities. Led by a multinational team of transport experts, Avego has  offices in Ireland (Kinsale and Dublin), the United States (Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley, CA)  and China (Dalian). Avego released an innovative real-time ride-matching product in December 2008. Avego Shared Transport uses iPhone GPS technology to enable private cars to become part of the public transport network by providing a marketplace for drivers to offer their vacant seats to others in real time. Avego's iPhone app, which has been in development since 2007, has been prominently featured in major publications such as the New York Times and the San Jose Mercury News. www.avego.com

Newsweaver: 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 Ernst & Young, Failte Ireland, InterContinental Hotel Group, Meteor, MyHome.ie, Recruit Ireland and Shell. An award-winning company, Newsweaver helps businesses to create email newsletters that deliver results – from the initial newsletter design to tracking readers' behaviour. www.newsweaver.co.uk

 

Excellence in Education - WINNER - Knockaclarig NS, Rockchapel, Mallow, Co. Cork

Knockaclarig National School, Rockchapel, Mallow, Co. Cork

School of the Divine Child Lavanagh Centre, Ballintemple, Cork

St. Patricks Boys National School, Mallow, Co. Cork

 

IT Department Award - WINNER - Musgrave Group

CIT: CIT is one of the leading 3rd level institutions in Ireland, catering for over 8,000 students. We have a particular focus on the development of skills in our graduates that are relevant and in demand in the workplace. A key requirement for CIT is the ability to effectively communicate with our students past and present. CIT has implemented a modularized approach to our courses, this provides our students with a high degree of flexibility - it also greatly increases our need to communicate regularly with our students. The MYCIT portal and email service we built on Google technology provides an ideal solution to this requirement.  It is cost effective, flexible and relatively easy to implement and integrate with our existing systems, therefore immediately adding real value and service to our students and to our internal academic and administration customers. http://www.cit.ie

Musgrave Group: Musgrave is partner to entrepreneurial food retailers and food service professionals in Ireland, the UK and Spain. Our approach is to co-create brands with our retail partners, and equip them with the sales, marketing, IT, finance and logistical expertise that come with the most advanced retail model.
Our emphasis is on partnership and innovation that delivers value to consumers without compromising quality. We leverage our scale to help retailers compete on quality and price and we work with local suppliers to satisfy the demand for affordable food and fresh, locally sourced products.
We are committed to our values which are about long-term stable relationships, not being greedy, honesty, working hard and achievement. As a private business with a firm commitment to remaining an independent family-run company, these are the qualities that define our enduring partnerships with our retailers, suppliers and colleagues. www.musgrave.ie

Schering Plough: Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) is a global innovation-driven, science-based health care company with leading prescription pharmaceutical, animal health and consumer health care products.Through internal research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough discovers, develops,manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies to meet important medical needs. The IT Department project was datacentre consolidation using virtualisation technologies. www.schering-plough.com

 

High Potential Start-up - WINNER - Avego

ProcessMaster: Process Master removes the biggest barrier that Irish companies have to achieving continual operational improvements. Our solution is a simple system that helps managers and staff see how their businesses really work. Our target clients employ in excess of 1000 (often over 50,000) who achieve a minimum of €2m in operations improvements and cost reductions annually. www.processmaster.com

Avego: Avego is a provider of software, hardware and professional services for improving passenger transport efficiency. Using GPS, web and mobile technologies, Avego’s real-time information and management systems make seat capacity known and available to passengers, provide convenient ticket purchasing options, and enable extensive reporting capabilities. Led by a multinational team of transport experts, Avego has  offices in Ireland (Kinsale and Dublin), the United States (Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley, CA)  and China (Dalian). www.avego.com

WaveBreak Media: WaveBreak Media specialise in creative digital stock media allowing world wide access to all your creative needs.With Rights Managed, Royalty Free and Editorial stock material they offer a comprehensive one stop shop for photography, video and animations. Whether you need Broadcast Quality material, high quality photographs for print media, or straight forward media files for web use. www.wavebreakmedia.com

Congratulations to all our WINNERS!

The event is proudly sponsored by Airspeed Telecom, DELL, IBM, Enterprise Ireland, SEI, Verkom & EMC