Irish Life selects Tableau Software to deliver Business Intelligence mobile dashboards for its life assurance and pensions divisions
Gerry Hasset, Irish Life, & Graham Mulhern, MXI
Dublin – 6th, February 2012: Wicklow software provider MXI Ireland has secured a €380,000 ($500,000) deal with pensions and life assurance insurance provider, Irish Life, which has selected Tableau Software to support its new vision for Business Intelligence (BI) across the firm. The financial services specialist is using Tableau to provide user friendly dashboards that allow access to data on financial products to 300 of their staff, for use when they out of the office, presenting data to clients using tablet computers. Irish Life chose Tableau Software for its ease of use and cost effectiveness.
There is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing, according to Snickers Workwear, who’ve launched two new offers on their cutting edge clothing to help Irish workers cope with the extremes of the coming winter.
As the nights close in and the temperature drops people have to still keep working, especially in these tough times when workers can’t afford to be losing days due to bad weather, so preparation and wearing suitable clothing is vital.
New appointments by Teradata, Kaspersky Lab, Eurofound, and ebookers takes Irish social media agency’s revenue from exports to 25%
Niall Harbison and Lauren Fisher founders of Simply Zesty
2nd December, 2011; Dublin, Ireland: Simply Zesty, the Dublin-based social media agency founded by Niall Harbison and Lauren Fisher, has today announced it has secured four new major international clients. It means the young company, which was only set up in 2009 and employs 25 people at its St Stephen’s Green HQ, now generates 25% of its revenue from outside Ireland. The firm expects this figure to increase significantly in the next two years and will soon outgrow its third office.
A great job vacancy has arisen for anyone interested in fashion, Snickers Workwear are currently recruiting for a new Marketing Coordinator. Snickers Workear are a Swedish company that practically invented workwear in 1970s. Since then they have become synonymous with stylish, durable and comforable workwear. These days their gear is worn by everyone from tradesmen (and women) to sailors or snowboarders. Whether it’s work, outdoor pursuits or just relaxing about, their clothes can withstand anything the elements can throw at them and because they’re designed as workwear they’re very comfy.
Here are the details:
Marketing Coordinator
Snickers Workwear is Ireland’s leading supplier of high quality functional workwear, designed for professional trade’s people as well as the service, maintenance, distribution and manufacturing sectors. Our products are designed specifically for professionals and the companies they work for.
Reporting directly to our sales and marketing manager the ideal candidate should be a good communicator, market oriented and excel when working individually. You will be part of a dynamic team and will receive a full introduction in our Dublin office as well as our head office in Stockholm.
If you are enthusiastic and would welcome the challenge of working in a fast moving industry we would like to hear from you. Applicants should preferably have at least 2/3 years experience but this is not essential.
The legal PR work I am doing is continuing to pay off handsomely for Dublin law firm Anthony Joyce & Co, after having Anthony on RTE TV’s main Six One News last week, and getting him a front page splash in Ireland’s best selling newspaper The Sunday Independent yesterday, today his story also featured on page 2 of The Irish Times (see below) following a telephone interview he did as he was cycling around the countryside on Sunday.
Today he also featured heavily in the broadcast media where he was on Newstalk’s Breakfast Show, a national radio station for which he also did a pre-recorded interview on Sunday. Then he did a live interview for Today FM’s Ray Darcy Show, also a national radio station, the same interview was then also used on the much respected Last Word, hosted by ex-Sunday Tribune Editor, Matt Cooper.
I’ll be adding MP3s of these interviews shortly, meanwhile here’s The Irish Times piece.
The Irish Times article by Kitty Holland (click to zoom).
Today I had a bit of coup getting the front page headline, known in the trade as a ‘splash’, on Ireland’s biggest selling newspaper The Sunday Independent. The newspapers has over a million readers, that’s a quarter of the country’s population, so it was a big day for the client, Dublin legal firm Anthony Joyce & Co.
It’s incredible how sometimes a story can gain momentum. We contacted by the journalist Ronal Quinlan following Anthony’s appearance on the TV on the RTE Six One News on Thursday please click here to see it. Ronald needed written confirmation of the decision from the mortgage lender before his editor would give the approval for the story, so we needed to get approval from the client to release the letter and give get to him for his internal approval process. A newspaper doesn’t wait as print deadlines can’t be missed and ended up cutting it a bit fine, but thankfully the front pages are the last to be completed, needless to say I had a busy Saturday. But, it was well worth it to get such a major from page for a client.
The Sunday Independent 'splash' (please click to zoom).
We had a great bit of legal PR for Dublin law firm Anthony Joyce & Co yesterday when Anthony featured on TV in RTE’s Six One News. He was interviewed by Paul Colgan, who recently also interviewed him for RTE1′s Primetime TV show. Anthony was discussing a case where a couple of clients sold their house and were able to get their mortgage lender to write-off the €200,000 balance of their mortgage.
This photo appears on Page 3 of today’s Irish Times. I love this photo, it shows the leaders of the Girls Friendly Society, a Christian organisation for girls, in the traditional dresses of their respective countries, gathered at The King’s Hospital School in Dublin.
The school is my client and this a great example of a simple photo story that can be very effective. The idea for the photo was sold into the photo desk who sent out a photographer. The newspaper gets a great photo, the school gets great profile, the GFS get free PR and it takes a minimum amount of time from all parties to sort.
Traditional costumes at The King's Hospital School in Dublin (click to zoom).
It was the first day of the Leaving Cert exams all over Ireland yesterday and as part of their Exam Times, a big feature on the exams, The Irish Times sent one of their photographers into the King’s Hospital School boarding school in Dublin to get some shots of the exams.
The attraction of the King’s Hospital is it has a gymnasium above the main hall that has a glass wall so the photographer was able to look down on the exam hall and take photos unobtrusively so that he didn’t disturb the exams.
Please click on the photo in order to zoom in if you like to look in more detail.
It was the first day students sitting their Leaving Cert exams all over Ireland today and TV3 covered the exams at the The King’s Hospital School, the prestigious boarding school in Dublin as part of their 5.30 News coverage. They also used the footage in their Midweek programme and their 11pm bulletin.
Republic PR is the trading name of Palmer PR Limited (Companies Registration Office number 479153). Based in Donnyrook, Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland.
Please follow me on Twitter. I’ve decided to remove my own personal Twitter feed off this page and replace it with a corporate one below. Though you can still follow me via the username @simonprepublic, which I use to ReTeweet the Tweets from this company Twitterfeed.
IT News, Latest news and features, MXI, Technology, Technology PR | Simon Palmer | 
06/02/2012 9:02 am | 
Comments (0) 
