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THE LARGEST SOFTWARE company in Europe is to create 250 new jobs in Ireland through an investment of €110 million.
SAP will expand its operations at Citywest in Dublin, offering sales, services and global support, while expanding its cloud services centre in Galway.
The move will mean an extra 150 jobs in Dublin and a further 100 in Galway. The company already employs 1,200 people in Ireland.
The positions will cater for jobseekers with qualifications including computer science, engineering, maths, languages and business.
SAP Ireland managing director Liam Ryan said the move was “all about gearing SAP up for the company’s next wave of technology innovation to meet business needs in the areas of cloud computing, mobile applications and high performing database technology”.
Ryan said Ireland had “provided SAP with a highly-skilled and innovative workforce”.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who announced the jobs this morning, said the expansion “contributes to Ireland’s growing reputation as a global hub for the digital industry”.
Kenny said the decision to further expand operations in Ireland “demonstrates the real value of an economically stable business environment and Ireland’s position in Europe when it comes to attracting the overseas operations of major technology companies like SAP”.
The positions were created with the input of IDA Ireland, whose chief executive Barry O’Leary described the expansion as a “great tribute to the capability, commitment and professionalism of the Irish workforce”.
Details on the vacancies can be found at www.sap.com/careers/Ireland.
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We can decry as many goverment agencies as we want to but in my opinion the IDA seem to be doing a great job these days at getting more FDI from multinational firms. Kudos to all at the IDA.
Hear Hear
Indeed!
It’s great news in the short term for sure. However the over reliance on foreign investment as a source of employment is another jobs crisis in the pipeline. We’d be just as well creating a real smart economy underpinned by a strong culture of entrepreneurship. Our brightest shouldn’t have to emigrate to America to realise their ideas because enterprise Ireland or whoever else lack the competence to know a good technology idea when they see one here.
Of course this being Ireland where neither the government nor the people can think more than 5 minutes into the future, it’s unlikely to happen.
@Eric I agree, an over dependence on anything is always a bad thing but there are benefits. A lot of Irish tech companies were started by former employees of the big multinationals. I’ll also point out that Enterprise Ireland have been extremely good partners to a lot of Irish tech companies. I worked with one such company and they have offices both here and in silicon valley all with the help of EI. The advice given, contacts made through EI and Irish ex pats in the US have been extremely advantageous to their company which is now growing and growing. It’s definitely not all doom and gloom out there and there are some state agencies doing a good job and I’d put the IDA and Enterprise Ireland in that camp.
Galway seems have done well on jobs front this week
Taoiseach from the West and Tanaiste too ! That is good news !
It is funny that rhe Managing Director came out in support of the Austerity Treaty with Kenny last tuesday ,after Jobs were announced , All happy news !
Next we need to re-train out unemployed in the areas of IT and Bio-Pharma. I know, working in the industry, that there is already a shortage of IT experts in Ireland in all area’s of IT. If we want to lower our dole queues we need to train our unemployed.
What good are IT jobs if we don’t have the workforce ready to take them up.
Many of these IT jobs require a certain way of thinking, troubleshooting and analysing data / situations. These skills are in plenty supply in our sparks, and other trades people but right now they are trained in the wrong area.
True but we also need better linguistic training as a lot of these jobs require a second language. I’ve worked in international software for 15 years and, like me, very few of the Irish people I work with speak a second language.
I was a cabinet maker up until 3 years ago & have trained in IT the last few years and am getting my CCNA qualification this year, should of done it years ago !
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