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Northern Ireland offers a highly-qualified and skilled workforce for cost effective software design, development and customer support across a range of sub-sectors including mobile telecoms, cloud computing, security, financial software, digital media, information management and health IT. Northern Ireland is an ideal near shore location to develop and service a European customer base and to provide ‘follow-the-sun’ customer service as part of a global delivery model. Having grown rapidly in recent years, Northern Ireland is now the leading foreign direct investment region in Europe for software development centres and IT technical support centres. Of over 900 companies in Northern Ireland’s vibrant ICT sector, more than 100 are international investors, including SAP, Fujitsu, Openwave, Microsoft, Cybersource (VISA) and BTI Systems. They are attracted by the strong information and communications technology (ICT) focus of the region’s two universities, leading-edge research and development (R&D), a ready availability of graduates and an attractive cost base. Northern Ireland also has a vibrant cluster of indigenous software firms, many of which are leading global players. Areas of expertise include wireless, financial services software, security and information management. Burgeoning ICT research There are 13 university ICT-related research centres in Northern Ireland. The key technology areas under research are telecommunications and wireless, security technologies, engineering technologies and semiconductors, and digital media. Mobile Telecoms Northern Ireland is known for innovation and excellence in wireless application and development, R&D, and telecoms software development. A well developed communications cluster of companies includes BT, Openwave, BroadSoft, IBM, mFormation, Digital Theatre Systems, Seagate, Aepona, Asidua, CSR, BTI Systems and ByteMobile. Access to globally recognized research centres of excellence is just one of the attractions Northern Ireland offers for telecommunications technology companies seeking a location that enables them to get to market faster. Skills analysis Find out how Northern Ireland's skills match up to your requirements. Using our location skills analysis tool, 2010 Oxford Intelligence Location Skills Audit©, we will give you a snapshot of what Northern Ireland has to offer your company. For a free skills assessment, you can contact us at one of our worldwide offices or fill in this short form and we'll come back to you with an in-depth analysis. Further information: |
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