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The latest report from the Advisory Science Council published on the 15th December 2009 details the contribution of PhDs to industry. Among the findings was that while only 29 per cent of R&D firms employed PhD researchers in 2007, these companies accounted for 70 per cent of business expenditure on research and development. Read the full report

Enovation Solutions is a business and information technology company providing professional services and managed solutions to the finance, government, health and education sectors.

Products/Services
• Project & Programme management – Providing clients with accredited PM professionals to delivery large complex projects, supported by a unique project support office.
• Software quality / Test consultancy – Offering test audits, test management, professional testers on-site as well as out-sourced test facilities. Test automation and tracking tools, based on open source products, and consultancy are also provided.
• Software development and support.
• Open source solutions – Enovation offer consultancy, hosting, training, integration and development, mainly in the areas of education, training and repositories.
• Moodle – As Moodle Partner, Enovation offers a full range of services designed to allow Moodle to provide educators with the best tools to create quality online learning courses.
• Repositories – Dspace, ePrints and Fedora. Implementing and customising repositories for Universities and libraries. The features of these products address storage and indexing of digital assets, archiving and preservation of digitised documents, on-line distribution of research material and automated workflow control of document & asset submission.

Key Benefits
• Experienced, accredited PM professionals managing complex projects.
• Cost-effective test solutions using best practise industry standards.
• Experienced team of open source developers with a deep understanding of the open source products, contributing regularly to the open source community.

Clients
Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs, Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Forfas, An Garda Siochana, Dublin Airport Authority, An Cosan, South Dublin County Council, Department of Finance, Fingal County Council, Local Government Management Services Board, FAS, Salford City Council (UK), The Samaritans (UK), The Chief State Solicitors Office

Partners
RCSI Health Care Management, Moodle, JasperSoft. Mahara, How to Moodle

Web www.enovation.ie

Tel +353 (0)1 602 4784

Address
The Friary, Bow Street, Dublin 7

Full notes and links below. Key Learning points

1. User Experience. User Experience. User Experience
2. iPhone currently the leader, revolutionized Mobile app sales, but market (and devices) evolving very quickly.
3. Good case for usage in Enterprise (cost reduction, growing use of iPhone platform in Enterprise, New channel to customers) but be flexible, be ready for the evolution.

The iPhone as an Emerging Enterprise Platform

1.15pm Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Venue – The Alexander Hotel Dublin .

The iPhone has captured significant mindshare since its launch in 2007, and in particular the application development model and the iTunes App Store, which has had over two billion downloads of over 100,000 applications.
There has been a move from games and other ‘fun’ applications to software companies looking to add mobile channels for their products. Enterprise focused companies like Intuition are developing iPhone applications in order to add to the value of their core product or service.

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