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February 22, 2012 |  |
 SpeechStorm®, a leader in software for automating customer service over the phone, is pleased to announce that British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (BSkyB) has deployed its advanced customer care applications to deliver highly personalised self-service to its 10.5 million Sky customers. As the UK's leading satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company, Sky deals with over 52 million calls a year. |
Lestas Consulting Ltd, a management consultancy in Coleraine, is being assisted by Invest Northern Ireland to explore business opportunities in international markets.
The company is now reaching out internationally for business by means of a fully interactive website developed with support from Invest NI.
Invest NI’s assistance to Lestas Consulting to develop its IT export-focused technology was announced by Des Gartland, Manager of Invest NI’s North West Regional Office. |
 CIS Oncology in Belfast is being assisted by Invest Northern Ireland to pinpoint opportunities in South Africa for its sophisticated software for cancer treatment.
The company, part of the CIS Healthcare operation, is following up its participation in the Invest NI’s ‘Going South Africa’ initiative which culminated in a trade mission to South Africa in December, by returning to the market this month.
During this follow-up visit the company has a series of meetings with potential clients interested in its unique ChemoCare software, an electronic prescribing system and management technology for cancer patients. |
 CIGA Healthcare in Ballymena has won its biggest single export deal following an Invest Northern Ireland trade mission to Saudi Arabia in October.
The company is to supply its full range of self-diagnostic products to AM Batterjee, a leading Saudi business located in Jeddah, for a network of pharmacies around the country. The contract is CIGA Healthcare’s first significant business in Saudi Arabia. |
 Export Technologies, an ecommerce software provider based at the Northern Ireland Science Park, is providing local businesses with a platform for global success after transacting over £500 million worth of online sales through its International Retail Platform (IRP) which has been recently upgraded to operate in multiple languages, currencies and pricing capabilities. This customer growth is underpinning the planned expansion of the company with a move to larger premises within the Science Park and the recruitment of 4 new software developers.
Ranking 12th in this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Export Technologies provides a world class ‘on demand’ ecommerce platform which is operated by Northern Ireland’s largest ecommerce site and top 100 UK online retailers Chain Reaction and local jewellers Argento who have expanded from a NI start-up to a successful nationwide company with over 40 stores across the UK and Ireland. |
Electric Machine Services Ltd (EMS) is on target to achieve £190,000 worth of new export business with support from Invest Northern Ireland.
The software company, based in Doagh, specialises in automated processing systems for sectors including agriculture, construction and materials handling and recently invested over £213,000 to boost sales across the USA and Europe.
Invest NI offered Electric Machine Services £32,000 of support, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, towards its export development activities. |
 Ulster Bank, Invest Northern Ireland and UKTI link up to back NI exporters. Encouraging Northern Ireland companies to explore the potential to do business in Asia are Ian Jordan, head of business and commercial banking, Northern Ireland, at Ulster Bank and Vicki Kell, Invest NI’s Trade Director.
Northern Ireland companies with the potential to export to Asia will hear from some of the world’s leading experts on trading with the continent’s key markets during an Ulster Bank-backed event in Belfast next month. |
 Northern Ireland companies will have greater opportunities than ever before to develop export business during 2012/13, Alastair Hamilton, Invest Northern Ireland Chief Executive, said today.
Mr Hamilton announced details of a major export drive by Invest NI for local companies, both large and small, and in virtually every business sector, during a week-long trade mission, from January 20-25, to Saudi Arabia involving 25 local firms, which also saw the opening of an Invest NI Trade Office in Jeddah.
The new office, which is being headed by an experienced business development professional, Wissam Saadi, is already working with several Northern Ireland companies keen to develop business in the Kingdom especially the Jeddah area, the main commercial centre and largest seaport. |
 Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced that Muldoon Transport Systems in Dungannon has won a £1 million contract to make trailers for one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest businesses.
The Minister announced the contract between Muldoon and Almarai in Riyadh for 19 bespoke trailers during a visit to the Tyrone company. Muldoon is among 25 Northern Ireland companies on the week-long Invest Northern Ireland mission to Saudi Arabia, from 20-25 January. |
 I first was asked this question by my children, once they had reached that age when, in human geography lessons, they heard, for example, that wheat and corn comes from the North American prairies, wool from Australia, cars from Germany, electronics from Japan etc etc. School Atlases were devoid of anything up to date from the UK and Ireland and all the comments chose to bemoan the loss of our Victorian style industry and black satanic mills.
I don’t think it’s changed much. |
January 18, 2012 |  |
 A UK Company was formed in 2003 to develop Policy Management Software for customer’s needs that would later become described as Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). This company was called Metacompliance and its vision of making compliance easier for organisations in the Public and Private sector was to prove attractive to the market as Legislative and Regulatory requirements began to become increasingly part of everyday norms.
The company’s focus on providing its clients with cost effective “commercial off the shelf” compliance software has been recently validated by the findings in a report published by Boston- based Industry Analysts, Hypatia Research. |
December 15, 2011 |  |
 instaGiv, the Portstewart-based technology company, has signed a major partnership agreement with Nasdaq-listed Blackbaud, a US leader in software and services designed specifically for not-for-profit organisations.
The agreement will see Blackbaud using instaGiv’s mobile fundraising software platform to provide such organisations with an all-in-one solution to handle text giving, integration with social media, regular giving, supporter integration with two-way interactive text communications, and QR code functionality for offline campaigns.
The agreement was announced by Michael Carlin, Managing Director of instaGiv, and welcomed by Des Gartland, Manager of Invest Northern Ireland’s North West Regional Office in Londonderry. |
Belfast production company The Picture House is investing £157,000 with support from Invest Northern Ireland towards an expansion project aimed at growing its export presence.
The company is based on the Holywood Road with its sister firm, The Sound House, which recently celebrated 25 years of trading.
The Picture House is keen to build a reputation outside Northern Ireland for its state-of-the-art film and television production and post production services. |
Picture by Parkway Photography
Pictured are Dr Vicky Kell, Invest NI Trade Director, and Cathal Rodgers, FSL Electronics Business Development Manager, with the company’s ‘JumpMat’ product.
FSL Electronics in Cookstown secured export business for two innovative products from taking part in ‘Going South Africa', a recently launched Invest Northern Ireland trade initiative.
The Tyrone company, a specialist in the design and manufacture of electronic devices for key industries such as materials handling and sports equipment, was among six smaller businesses to take part in the first ‘Going South Africa’ programme. |
Belfast consulting company su53 Solutions Ltd is hoping to increase its export sales through a targeted programme of marketing activities supported by Invest Northern Ireland.
The company wants to exploit its position as a leading provider of governance, risk management, compliance and security services to companies that run SAP software. su53 is already ranked as one of the world leaders for such consulting, with several global companies as its clients. |
Annagh Ltd has become the 600th recipient of an Invest NI Innovation Voucher, a scheme which has proved to be highly effective in helping small businesses to engage in innovation.
With expertise accessed through the Innovation Voucher, Annagh Ltd, based at C-TRIC, Altnagelvin, Londonderry, is developing remote sensor technology that could help save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.
The aim is to devise a communications protocol between a device worn by the diabetic and a mobile phone and to develop an application on the mobile phone which will alert the diabetic that there is a problem and send SMS messages to friends or neighbours to summon help. |
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Pictured are (left) Rory McManus, CEO of Tide Master Ltd, Peter Fitzsimmons, Chairman, Warrenpoint Harbour Authority, and John Miller, Invest NI.
Warrenpoint company Tide Master Ltd has recently completed a move to larger premises with assistance from Invest Northern Ireland and Warrenpoint Harbour Authority.
Tide Master now plans to manufacture composite tidal turbines for the offshore renewable energy industry from the new facility. |
 Antrim software firm Team Solutionz has announced its plans to expand into Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland with support from Invest Northern Ireland.
The company provides specialist software systems that are designed to help both public and private sector organisations improve the productivity of their automated processes. Included in its customer base are food processors, insurance brokers and aerospace manufacturers. |
Tracy Meharg, Managing Director, Innovation and Capability Development, Invest Northern Ireland, looks at how northern companies are prospering abroad.
Northern Ireland products and expertise can now be found in the most unusual place!. Our companies are today operating profitably in every corner of the globe. |
Invest Northern Ireland has helped Belfast company Big Lolly to open up new markets for its specialist services and secure a significant contract with a Scottish firm.
Big Lolly provides 3D visualisation and animation services primarily for the construction sector. With the contraction of the sector in Northern Ireland caused by the economic downturn, the company was faced with looking for alternative sources of business and approached Invest NI for help. |
A Bangor based web solutions company, which specialises in social media and gamification, will double its workforce with the creation of thirty new roles which it is seeking to fill between now and Christmas. Omnisoft Services, has won a series of new business contracts and is now looking for a range of skilled IT and education specialists, including programmers, graphic designers, copywriters and even a key stage two teacher.
Omnisoft Services currently employ just over 30 full time staff at its Bangor offices who service a range of clients in social media marketing, app development, web design and game development. |
 Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster is pictured with Ryan Daly, winner of the Northern Bank Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and Kevin Kingston, MD Business & Corporate Banking, Northern Bank.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster today praised the creativity, flair and determination of Northern Ireland’s young entrepreneurs. The Minister was speaking at the final of the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2011. |
Northern Ireland saw the highest ever Research and Development (R&D) expenditure in 2010. Investment was up by 8% in cash terms.
Total R&D investment rose from £482. |
 Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster, has opened NICVA’s “Creating the good economy” conference, held at the Stormont Hotel Belfast.
In her address the Minister set out her intention to publish, for public consultation, a new Economic Strategy which will set out how the Executive plans to grow a prosperous local economy.
The Minister said: “The Executive is committed to working in partnership to build a safe and prosperous society where everyone can enjoy a better quality of life now and in the years to come. |
 Northern Ireland’s brightest young business owners will do battle at Stormont this week in an effort to be crowned ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ and Danny Turley from Portadown and Ryan Daly from Lisburn are among the 8 finalists.
The competition, in partnership with Northern Bank and supported by Invest Northern Ireland, celebrates the spirit of entrepreneurship that’s very much alive and kicking in Northern Ireland’s young people. The winner will be announced at a celebratory lunch in the Long Gallery, Stormont on November 10th. |
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