TEKenable Announces New Motor Insurance Compliance System for the Irish Insurance Federation
Irish Software Development Company Has Developed an Innovative New Solution to Meet EU, Insurance Industry and Gardai Requirements

TEKenable a leading Dublin based software development company, has today announced the successful deployment of a new software solution for the Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) that reduces the cost of business to motor insurance underwriters, creates an efficient and automated response to EU Directives and reduces uninsured driving thus increasing road safety.

TEKenable have developed a centralised system to record and manage all the movement of vehicle registrations between insurers. This solution has proven abilities to reduce the number of uninsured drivers on the road and in doing so reduce the cost of uninsured claims to the motor industry in Ireland, which pays out approximately €60 million in claims annually for uninsured drivers.

The system took approximately one year to develop and is operated and managed by TEKenable. Since being rolled out, the system has been so successful that the Irish Insurance Federation has publicly endorsed it and TEKenable for adoption by other insurance federations across the EU.

Niall Doyle, Corporate Affairs Manager with the IIF, said “What was required was an efficient, low cost solution to the information requirements the EU motor insurance directive. The new system had to be able to instantly determine if a car is insured and who insures it. This information had to be up to date and available to the Gardai Traffic Corp’s on-board vehicle camera systems.”

“We now have a very successful system which meets all the requirements set out but is low cost, efficient, easy to understand and deploy.”

Peter Rose, Director of TEKenable, said “The system has saved the insurance industry and the state several million Euros by avoiding the need to build an expensive, cumbersome data-base with significant ongoing maintenance costs.

By focussing on the core issue of just tracking the vehicle number plates, not the drivers, the TEKenable solution was able to achieve the goal of compliance to the EU directive, with a project that cost €200k approximately.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured from left to right - Niall Doyle, Corporate Affairs Manager of the IIF, Peter Rose, Director of TEKenable

 

TEKenable announces further expansion with the launch of software developer focussed recruitment business - TEKpeople
Huge shortage of high skilled software developers leads to new specialist recruitment agency

TEKenable has today announced its continued expansion through the opening of a new specialist recruitment business – TEKpeople.

TEKpeople was founded as a result of TEKenable’s first hand experience of the difficulties in sourcing and recruiting highly skilled software developers for complex projects in Ireland and abroad.

Since being founded in April, TEKpeople has received very strong demand for software developers, project managers, technical architects and software analysts with specific high skills around Microsoft and Open Source technologies. The business has grown rapidly and now employs four people at its offices in Dublin.

Speaking at the opening of the new business, Nick Connors – Managing Director of TEKenable said, “The new recruitment agency, TEKpeople continues the steady growth of TEKenable in the past 18 months and follows the opening of the Cloud Centre of Excellence in Dublin and our new offices in Dubai”.

He continued, “As a software development company, we saw first hand the difficulty in finding highly skilled software developers and we came across the problem of many recruitment agencies who aren’t close enough to the technology to really understand what the customer is looking for".

Kira Gusakova, Principal Consultant of TEKpeople added that, “TEKpeople was set up to address a need in the market we have identified many times – the lack of a specialised recruitment agency for skilled professionals like developers, project managers, software engineers and technical architects; whose recruiters really understand the technology well enough to add value to the recruitment process".

“There is still a huge shortage of skills in the market. We are attracting clients from many sectors and are very pleased with the feedback from both the IT professionals and clients. Our knowledge of the software development business and the complex skills required has meant that we are able to advise the client and each professional candidate very accurately as to whether they are a good fit for each other and the projects in question", she said.

Visit the TEKpeople web site here: http://www.tekpeople.ie

TEKenable announces further international expansion with opening of a new office in Dubai, UAE - June 2011
Irish Software Development Company Finds Strong Demand for Cloud Development Services in the Middle East.

TEKenable has announced its continued expansion through the opening of a new trading office in Dubai, to further target international markets for cloud computing development projects.

The new office in Dubai is already attracting some large projects from customers in the region. TEKenable are forecasting the new office achieving a turnover of €600k euro in its first 18 months of operation.

In the last twelve months, TEKenable has seen very significant growth, doubling staff numbers from 20 to 40. Over the past four years, the business has developed offices trading in the UK, Pakistan and now Dubai. The growth of TEKenable’s presence in international markets has been driven by a strong reputation for technical excellence and successful project delivery across different industry sectors. Earlier this year, the company launched Ireland’s only Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence based at their corporate headquarters in Dublin - the first of its kind in the Irish marketplace.

Speaking at the opening of the new office in Dubai, Peter Rose - Director of TEKenable said, “Following on from the launch of our Cloud Centre of Excellence in Dublin, TEKenable has now become the first Irish business to provide Cloud Computing services to the UAE. He continued, “The new office in Dubai has received support from Enterprise Ireland. They recognised that as part of a national strategy to build Ireland’s smart economy, there are very significant opportunities to attract foreign companies to use facilities like our Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence in Dublin for their software development projects.

Muhammad Z Khan, CEO of TEKenable UAE added that, “Our intention is to leverage our assets and partners in Ireland to provide the financial sector and public sector in Dubai and the UAE/Saudi Arabia/Qatar, with strong services in Cloud Computing", he said. “We are attracting clients from many sectors and are currently working on projects from diverse industries ranging from oil and finance to manufacturing.

TEKenable Exhibiting at Premier Financial Services Exhibition MEFTEC - Abu Dhabi- 30-31st May 2011
TEKenable attending MEFTEC, the Middle East Financial Technology Conference in Abu Dhabi from June 1st to the 2nd.

TEKenable is delighted to accept an invitation to attend the MEFTEC event in Abu Dhabi this year. TEKenable intends to provide a strong presentation of our capabilities within the Financial Services sector and looks forward to the start of new relationships with business in the Middle East. We will be presenting as part of the Enterprise Ireland pavilion. (MEFTEC 2011)

TEKenable Exhibiting at QITCOM in Qatar-24th-26th May 2011
TEKenable presenting at the Enterprise Ireland pavilion at QITCOM 2011 in Qatar from May 24th to the 26th.

TEKenable's expansion into the Middle East continues with our presence at QITCOM, the largest IT Convention in Qatar this year. Representing Ireland at the Enterprise Ireland pavilion, TEKenable is proud to be part of this event and looks forward to developing meaningful and lasting relationships with leading Qatar based businesses. (QITCOM 2011)

The photo below taken at the EI stand in QITCOM shows (left to right) Muhammad Khan of TEKenable with Nasser Zahran, Senior Market Adviser, Middle East & North Africa, Enterprise Ireland, William Fagan, former Telecom Regulator of Qatar and Frank Murray, CEO – Piercom Limited

TEKenable announces the launch of Ireland's first Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence- May 19th 2011
Significant expansion through job creation and investment in new internationally recognised centre of excellence

TEKenable, a leading Dublin based software development company, has today announced its continued expansion through the opening of a dedicated Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence in it’s corporate head office in Dublin.

The Cloud Centre of Excellence is the first of its kind in the Irish marketplace and is focussing initially on supporting Windows Azure as the primary cloud development platform.

The new centre of excellence will create twenty high quality roles over the next twelve months with a focus on business analysis, project management, software development and support. TEKenable has made a policy of only hiring highly skilled and experienced technical people in the areas of Windows Azure, Java and .Net. The centre of excellence is recruiting technical talent from abroad too – with people coming from all over the world to be part of this team.

Speaking at the official opening of the new centre, Peter Rose, Director of TEKenable said, “TEKenable’s business continues to go from strength to strength. With staff numbers at 40, we are now a significant player in cloud development services in the Irish market and in some international markets. Our ongoing expansion, including the introduction of the Cloud Centre of Excellence, further enhances our ability to deliver the highest quality of software development services and solutions to our clients and to tailor our offerings to match their evolving business needs and requirements”. 

"We are extremely excited about our new venture and see huge opportunities to provide strong services to clients seeking major reductions in IT costs and risks", said Nick Connors, MD of TEKenable. He continued, “We have already completed some very exciting new projects entirely using the cloud platform and the interest from both the public and private sectors in Ireland is very strong. Our focus on partnering with leading vendors like Microsoft, Sungard and Eircom, along with our commitment to employing the best people to service our customers has been very successful and we feel confident there will be further strong growth for TEKenable over the next year”.
 

ICT Excellence Awards Shortlist- 9th May 2011
TEKenable shortlisted in the ICT Excellence Awards 2011.

TEKenable has been shortlisted three times in this years ICT Excellence Awards. The categories we have been short listed for are: ICT Project of the Year, Private Sector; ICT Project of the Year, SME; IT Team of the Year;

New Website- 7th May 2011
New Website Launched.

TEKenable is proud to announce the launch of our new corporate website. Designed to match both the dynamism of our organisation, as well as the breadth of services we offer, the new website will become the cornerstone of our online strategy and information dissemination, going forward.