Quintiles and Ergo have been named in the Best workplaces in Ireland 2013.

Quintiles came 13th in the large (301+ employees) and Ergo 8th respectively in the medium (101 to 300 employees) categories.

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Today, Great Place to Work Institute partners with many of the most successful and innovative businesses around the world to create, study, and recognise great workplaces. During the course of a typical year, Great Place to Work works with more than 5,500 organisations, representing over 10 million employees. These partnerships continually build our unique expertise, including our multi-industry workplace culture benchmarking and best practice databases. Our premiere Best Workplaces lists are published or distributed by market-leading news media around the world, to an audience of more than 25 million readers. The combination of this direct advisory work and media coverage is all core to how we create a better society by helping companies transform their workplaces.

arvato Finance celebrated its continued growth in Ireland by delivering on its promise to create 150 jobs in Dublin, a full two years ahead of schedule. The positions have been created in IT, consulting, finance and accounting, project management and customer service roles over the past 12 months. Supporting the growing demand for private and public BPO services, arvato is set to expand further and 100 positions have been created across the arvato network with over 60 positions currently available reflecting the strong demand for skilled people and 40 recently recruited.

To accommodate this sustained growth arvato has moved into new premises in Dublin’s Eastpoint Business Park. The building will be officially opened by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, during an event with clients, business partners and employees today.

Marking the occasion, Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD said, “Only one year ago we celebrated arvato Finance’s 15^th anniversary in Ireland and its plans to create 150 new jobs by 2014. I am delighted that arvato has already delivered on its promise and is further expanding its employee numbers and physical presence here. The Government has been working hard to improve Ireland's attractiveness as a business location and it’s great to see international companies expand and thrive in Ireland, boosting jobs and bringing our business services sector forward.”

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD said: “Today’s announcement that arvato is expanding ahead of schedule and creating 100 additional jobs in Fairview is great news for north Dublin and for Ireland. Financial services forms a key part of the Government’s plans for jobs and growth, with a target of 10,000 additional jobs by 2016. Today’s announcement shows that Ireland’s offering is strong in this sector. I am determined that, through continued implementation of the Action Plan for Jobs, we will continue to attract additional investment in this sector and create more jobs for north Dublin and for Ireland”.

Dublin continues to be a strategic centre of knowledge and innovation for arvato Finance. The company has made significant investment into the refurbishment of the 6,000 sq metre premises, which has been re-named ‘The arvato Building’. It features state of the art office and meeting facilities for 350 employees, and provides sufficient space for future expansion.

 Barry O’Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland said, “With more than 1,350 employees in Ireland, arvato, is an important strategic client for IDA Ireland and their decision to expand further demonstrates the long-term commitment of this German company to their Irish operations. The Irish company has won a number of strategic business lines over recent years and this expansion and new office space is an endorsement of the significance of the business processing sector in Ireland.’’

 arvato’s employees in Dublin work in more than 35 languages. The operation’s multicultural employee base supports Dublin’s position as a key strategic centre for the company’s global network.

 Andrea Kaminski, President, International Finance and arvato Ireland, said, “We’ve been successfully providing outsourcing solutions to national and international clients from Ireland for over 16 years now. We’re very confident we’ll continue to find the business environment and the highly skilled people we need to support future growth. We look forward to starting work at our new offices and continuing our success story in Ireland!”

Did you know that GoCar are on site in EastPoint?  You now have the convenience of a car but without the hassle of owning one as GoCar give you wheels when you need them.  Cars and vans can be booked from 15 minute slots to as long as you need it and you can book online or over the phone either months in advance or at the last minute.

So if you need to pop to the shops in your lunch break or a company wanting to save on taxi costs then have a look at www.gocar.ie.

Yesterday Oracle, along with some players from Bohemians FC, raised €670 for the Oscar Knox Appeal at EastPoint Office Park.  A big thank you to everyone who donated and bought a ’99 ice cream for Wee Oscar.

Oscar came to prominence  when the money raised from the auction of the famous ‘Don’t Tell Angela’ flag from the Euro 2012 tournament was donated to his appeal. Oscar is fighting stage 4 neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer and he needs your help raising over €300,000 for urgent treatment overseas.

Please follow on Oscar by facebook, twitter and his blog.

Calnet IT Solutions are now based in Block A2 EastPoint.

Calnet IT Solutions provides professional IT support for businesses ranging from small to medium size companies, right through to large organisations.

Calnet is a total IT solutions provider; we supply, install, manage and maintain your business technology for you. As suppliers of many leading brands of IT hardware and software, we use best of breed solutions combined with our skills and experience to ensure you get better results, pay less for them and stay focused on your core business. Our reputation for meeting the highest standards of reliability is based on expertise, customer commitment and a thorough understanding of our customer's needs.

Calnet provide IT solutions to suit our clients' working practices and provides the level of outsourced IT intelligence to allow them to grow painlessly. Our service is delivered by well-qualified, experienced and certified engineers ensuring that the technology your business is using is running effectively and efficiently. Recognising that our key resource is our personnel, our staff are noted for their enthusiasm, approachability, team-working and experience as much as for their technical ability.

These qualities provide the company with its sustainable competitive advantage in a rapidly changing and developing market.

Did you know that EastPoint has chess tables and its very own boules area? The tables are located next to the lake at Block P2 and the boules area is adjacent.  The chess and boules equipment can be collected from EastPoint Management Office above the Centra shop.

 Why not set up a lunch time chess tournament or a boules competition.  When the weather is this nice it is a shame not to!

Rules of Chess and Boules to download.

We would like to welcome our new resident in EastPoint - Aasonn.  

Aasonn delivers cloud based HCM software solutions for customers across multiple SuccessFactors modules. The company built its reputation primarily as a HCM solutions consultancy and is recognized by SuccessFactors as its most strategic and largest implementation partner in the world. By 2011, Aasonn served over 900 customers globally delivering cloud based talent management solutions that align organizations' processes and people with their business strategies.