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Donagh Kiernan s Blog
onagh Kiernan is an services.
acknowledged market leader
in technology sales and The company’s flagship product
marketing blog. He has been known Suite Webcore is credited as the
to meet challenges and learn from key to its dynamic growth. This
it and eagerly anticipate more particular product made possible
challenges that the future will the swift deployment of web
bring. He holds the belief that solutions. Expansion was
one must always strive to be the happening at a very fast rate
leader in whatever business a where turnover and employees are
person decides to be in. doubled every year. People behind
the prestigious Technology Fast
Early Achievements 50 Progressive have acknowledged
their chosen winners as the
Donagh Kiernan established perfect exemplification of the
Vistech software in 1994 where it phenomenal growth and diversity
functioned as a sub-contractor that is found in the technology
for software development services sector of the present Ireland.
to the software industry. This
Cork-based company became one of Vistech software entered
the more progressive participants discussions with several software
in Ireland’s technology boom. development companies for the
Vistech was consistently featured purpose of pushing the Webcore
in Delaitte and Touche, Ireland’s technology into the international
Technology FAST 50 from 2000 to market. The company has used its
2002. This is largely due to the Webcore toolset on development
company’s timely response to projects for end-user
market shifts when it focused on organizations within Ireland as
the development and delivery of well as elsewhere. It maintained
content management products and a product development group
separate from the service team to provide assistance in sustaining
look into other product ambition. their time in the market. It was
a very promising time but Vistech
Webcore is a set of tools based was eventually closed in 2003
on XML and J2EE which simplified after taking a particularly hard
the development and management of hit due to the downturn in the
web applications and publishing worldwide technology.
of content in multiple formats
such as XML, WML, and SMS. Kiernan has since sold and
Kiernan called it the development delivered high-caliber IT systems
platform where its components sit to many well-known organizations,
on top of standard applications international or otherwise. The
server environment. The on-line most notable names include the
edition of the Sunday Business likes of Irish Life and
Post is one of the company’s Permanent, Heineken Ireland,
project references where Webcore Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and
was integrated with the Motorola. He was able to fit
newspaper’s legacy publishing together business and technology
system. This enabled content to due to his thorough understanding
flow directly from editorial of all types of business and a
production to the website. fundamental grasp on relevant
technology. He was always been up
Kiernan believes that Ireland is to the challenge of the changing
well positioned to become the hub environment of emerging business
of the e-commerce world to and has relied on innovations to
provide a gateway between the US produce business benefits with
and Europe. Irish companies are the use of technology.
intent on overcoming existing
barriers, thus their continuous Recent Developments
search for a solution that will
Donagh Kiernan formed Maidsfield worldwide.
in 2003 out of his strong passion
and drive for Irish companies to Maidsfield plays an important
achieve international status. part in the development of the
Maidsfield is a business National Software Center in
development consulting company Mahon, Cork. Its facility houses
that focuses on driving sales more than fifty companies
growth. It draws on Kiernan’s including small start-ups and
expertise in defining, selling large established organizations.
and delivering outstanding Its reputation for IT excellence
technology solutions. The long in the Cork region has been
years he spent of generating clearly established as it was
tangible business advantage confirmed as the communications
through the application of hub of the Cork Metro Area
relevant and effective technology Network.
is highlighted in his blog.
Kiernan is an active steering
The founder of Maidsfield is a committee member of IT@Cork which
technology professional with a is the regional industry
solid focus on business and organization for suppliers and
sales. He graduated from Cork buyers of information technology.
Institute of Technology in 1989 It is a non-profit organization
with a degree in Computer that provides forum for
Applications. Prior to his businesses that have a key
founding of Vistech, he worked dependency on IT to facilitate
with PS Squared and CompuSense sharing of best practices and
with the development of networking as well. It likewise
Engineering and Desktop supports the promotion of the
Publishing Products as his main region to external investors
duty while working with customers while working with other regional
stakeholders for the promotion of This would involve the clear
IT related opportunities. definition of a company’s
business product or service
A caption from Donagh Kiernan’s offering and pricing structure.
blog reads: “Challenges met, It also involves defining the
lessons learnt and tomorrow’s product market or business
cliff hangers – things I know and requirements, marketing
things that just feel right”. collateral, sales approval,
This line speaks much of what to presentations, case studies and
expect from his blog. It aims to materials. The focus on the
bring a company to business strengths of the organization is
success through faster growth by expected to win more ideal
means of more sales, higher clients. However, it is not
margins and greater return on solely about delivering
investment. He uses the principle recommendations and
of the Maidsfield Business documentation. It is about
Development which advocates the achieving results by actually
practical approach in focusing on doing what needs to be done.
sales results.
The development program is action
Kiernan believes that every oriented and results focused. It
aspect of the organization needs uses practical solutions while
to be geared toward sales. focusing on the strengths for
Challenges arise in securing new greater effectiveness. It brings
business or delivering a broad network of expertise
successfully and consistently. which the readers can take
Maidsfield Business Development advantage of through its
focuses on productization and comprehensive blog.
sales to answer this challenge.
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