Information Communications Technology ICT
Amulet Devices, Garry McMullan www.amuletdevices.com
Amulet Devices is a technology innovation company aiming to use advanced technology such as voice recognition to deliver a natural, simple intuitive operating experience to users. The company’s initial focus is to remove the complexity of using Microsoft’s Media Centers in homes and businesses. Amulet believes voice recognition is the technology most appropriate in simplifying Media Center use. They believe that their product innovation will allow reseller, home entertainment installers and OEM suppliers to take the Media Center from a niche to the mainstream.
SensorMind, Siobhan King-Hughes www.sensormind.com
SensorMind develops assisted living technology solutions, which track normal behaviors of a person in the home and identify when those patterns become disrupted, indicating a potential problem. The system then automatically alerts caregivers via email, SMS text alert and/or via the web interface. The company’s solutions are primarily designed to enable older persons, or persons with physical/mental disabilities, to live independently in their own homes in safety and with dignity.
ByteSurgery, Robin Blandford www.bytesurgery.com
ByteSurgery create incident recording, management and analysis software. Delivered as a hosted service they enable groups to collect and organise information to make better decisions, reduce incidents, and improve responses. The company’s first service, 'Decisions For Heroes', helps emergency services save lives. ‘Decisions For Heroes’ is a collaborative rescue team management tool, recording and analysing rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork the service acts as a platform, generating real-time profiles of available responders, resources, and on-going activities. Records are stored securely, available for group management and post-incident analysis. Permission levels allow live statistics to be accessed by parent organisations, governing bodies, peer groups or customers.
Calom Technologies, Adrian Skehill www.calomtech.com
Calom Technologies is developing media aggregation software for set top boxes aimed at the home (non technical) user.
CandidatesDirect, Ken Cahill www.CandidatesDirect.ie
CandidatesDirect is an innovative recruitment and candidate management system designed to help organisations of any size streamline and automate their recruitment process. The CandidatesDirect system helps organisations attract, screen, test, recruit and retain quality staff while dramatically reducing costs and administration.
Cicero Networks, Ross Brennan www.ciceronetworks.com
Cicero Networks is at the forefront of the wireless Internet revolution, developing solutions for the delivery of Voice over Wireless IP. Cicero’s mission is to harness the power of VoIP to enable the delivery of wireless voice services while maintaining mobility and flexibility for end users at a lower cost. The company has focused on building platform-independent solutions which offer operators and service providers a means of delivering high-quality voice services over both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks. Its innovative use of wireless technology enables operators to terminate calls to fixed-line or hotspot locations at least cost to subscribers.
Cora Systems, Philip Martin www.corasystems.com
Cora Systems specialise in programme, project and performance management providing systems, consultancy and training. They are the number one provider of business and programme/project management applications to Local Authorities in Ireland and have a significant client base in the UK. ProjectVision, the company’s web-based Project, Programme and Performance management system, is designed to save clients time and ensure cost savings through visibility, control, simplicity and reporting.
decaWave, Ciarán Connell www.decawave.com
decaWave is a fabless semiconductor company focused on producing low cost, low power, high rate, wireless semiconductor communications products using ultra wideband radio technology and leading edge DSP techniques.
Equiendo, Cyril Murphy www.equiendo.com
Equiendo has developed a software traffic management system for the mobile operator industry. This unique system allows operators to bring their network to a new level of efficiency; increasing revenue and customer satisfaction by the elimination of congestion; reducing Opex spend; and massive base station equipment Capex savings. Equiendo’s goal is to be a leading global provider of network optimization software solutions.
ETAC, Steve Halpin www.etacsolutions.com
ETAC provide consultancy and training services on business process improvement through the use of lean and six sigma techniques. The company also offer software systems to track product or services. ETAC’s aim is to improve efficiency, reduces costs, eliminate paperwork and provides product tracking and assurance for their clients.
GariVo, Marian O’Shea www.garivo.com
GariVo leverages wireless and location tracking technology to create innovative products for the healthcare sector. GariVo has developed GariNav, an innovative solution which combines wireless computers and patient tracking in a novel application to enhance efficiency and patient safety. Passive decision support is built in. GariNav tracks patients going through surgery using WiFi tags which link in to an existing wireless LAN. An electronic operating list displayed on wireless computers can be updated instantly to eliminate bottlenecks
Garrylucas, Jack Nagle,
GL is developing products which use innovative statistical techniques to analyse data-sets of large transactions to detect the anomalous patterns typically associated with fraud. The approach taken by GL incorporates novel statistical mechanisms based on different sets of assumptions to those typically used by current data analysis techniques. Described by one client as 'User Friendly-Business Intelligence', GL's tools have successfully demonstrated that it is possible to detect spurious entries in a data-set faster than other techniques currently in use and which are applicable across a wide range of business sectors.
Glantel, Darren O'Donohoe www.glantel.com
Glantel is Ireland's leading business to business IP telephony service provider. Glantel provides cutting edge IP telephony for all businesses from SOHO's to PLC's in the Irish and UK markets. Glantel also provides innovative high volume products to the wholesale telecoms market. Glantel was purchased by Magnet Business, a division of Magnet Networks, in April 2008.
Grapevine Mobile, Peter O’Farrelly peter.farrelly@eircom.net
Grapevine Mobile is a mCommerce company delivering secure mCommerce solutions to a wide range of industries including travel and hospitality, finance, health and gaming. Their solutions provide mobile phone users with the ability to securely book concert, airline or rail tickets, book a hotel or do their banking on the phone.
Greenfinch Technology, Dermot Reid www.greenfinch.ie
Greenfinch Technology helps cost-conscious businesses to maximize the return on their IT spend through the deployment of simple, reliable software solutions, delivered as a service over the web.
iFlow, Dermot O’Sullivan www.iflow-tech.com
iFlow is a secure internet service that enables companies to send and receive fax, e-mail and
SMS text messages for the purposes of desktop messaging, direct marketing and the exchange of accounts documents.
iQ Content, Morgan McKeagney www.iqcontent.com
iQ Content is Ireland's leading web optimization consultancy. Their usability, accessibility, content and training services help organisations to align business objectives with user requirements to deliver better websites for everyone. iQ Contents clients include Vodafone, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Tourism Ireland, HP, Oracle and many large public sector organisations.
KOMINO, Tony Corrigan
KOMINO provides project management technology and IT services. KOMINO is currently developing EKOSYS, an intuitive solution to managing IT projects and leveraging business value. KOMINO’s current projects include wireless consultancy for local government, manufacturing solutions for high tech industry and Extreme Programming project management.
Liberator Aviation Services, Tony McDermott www.ahm560.com
Liberator Aviation Services uses web-based technologies to deliver ongoing cost reductions to airlines and their business partners in the management and distribution of industry related manuals and documents. The Global Data Bank - AHM560.com - is a unique product for managing and distributing aircraft weight and balance data on a 24x7 basis.
Locle, Ronan Higgins www.locle.com
Locle is software for mobile phones that lets users see where their friends and family are and be notified when they come nearby. Locle uses cell masts to identify user locations and ties in with established social networking websites such as Facebook.
Merrion IT, Brian O’Shaughnessy www.merrionit.com
Merrion I.T. has developed the world's first Student Administration System specifically tailored
towards Professional Accreditation Bodies such as institutes of accounting, engineering and
banking. Student Plus is a complete web based CRM/Reporting System that acts as a platform for all business processes - registrations, examinations, communication and reporting.
mobiEd, Don Corbett,
mobiEd is a collaborative, competitive and incentivized mobile learning platform for iPhone, Android phones and other smartphones. Designed to assist students to revise for a wide variety of exams, ranging from school to college to professional examinations, mobiEd will allow users to do sample mobiTests, help one another out, compete against their peers and gain tangible benefits for their work.
Movidia, Seán Mitchell www.movidia.com
Movidia is Bringing Mobile to Life! Movidia is a fabless semiconductor company whose highly innovative mobile video processors uniquely enable in-phone video editing for mobile social networking. With Movidia's chip inside a mobile phone, users can capture, edit, view and publish user generated video content directly to the internet in a spontaneous way at the time of capture. Advanced video effects such as Slow Motion, Zoom, Video Stabilisation, and Colour Effects are now possible from the phone without needing a PC.
Nostra Systems, Kevin O’Loughlin www.nostrasystems.ie
Nostra Systems was founded in January 2007 and is changing the way businesses work by reducing the amount of technology they need in their office and delivering servers and pcs over the internet. Nostra has since it started grown to a € 3M business and expects to double this again in 2009.
Q-VALIDUS, David Carpenter, www.q-validus.com
Q-Validus is an international certification solutions provider working with renowned international awarding bodies and global technology and distribution partners to develop and deliver innovative IT certification programmes which provide practical and collaborative skills appropriate to the evolving workplace. Q-Validus are leaders in creating and supporting global assessment and certification programmes and pioneers in the development of computer based assessment solutions
Savenet Solutions, Susan Dixon, www.savenetsolutions.ie
Savenet Solutions specialise in online backup & disaster recovery solutions for the SME market.
RazorCoast, Ian Cleary, www.razorcoast.com
RazorCoast provides social media consultancy, training and product solutions to SME companies internationally and are currently developing a social technology product.
Schoolspace, Denise O'Grady www.schoolspace.ie
SCHOOLSPACE are rapidly emerging as the number one resource for schools looking to improve their digital communication. Core products include text alerts for parents and build/management of school websites. With hundreds of schools in Ireland and the UK recognizing the need for up to date web content, and the benefit of instant home school communication, SCHOOLSPACE are developing an impressive list of clients.
Talk English Media, Enda Harty www.talkenglishmedia.com
Talk English Media is an e-learning provider specialising in ideas and solutions for teaching and training organisations. Coupled with years of experience, the company empower students to learn English and allow schools to create a new revenue stream by maintaining a longer educational relationship with their students.
TechWorks Marine, Charlotte O’Kelly www.techworks.ie
TechWorks Marine Black Box (TMBB), the company's proprietary data acquisition and transmission system, is designed for use in hostile environments delivering data via real-time telemetry. Real-time data from these monitoring platforms is supplied via the web to their clients, enabling them to make more effective management decisions.
World Class Consulting, William Loughran www.doubleyoudoublesee.com
WCC design and implement advanced business intelligence systems. WCC analyse existing source systems and existing reporting, and optimize and implement dashboard, web portal interfaces. Using these systems as an entry point, WCC then provide experienced consulting services, including European Legislative Compliance know-how, or business process optimization. WCC turn the most complex data into useful information, and can use this information to provide real-time, real-world solutions. Our network of European business partners ensure that WCC can always ensure a local and personal touch onsite.
