A LEADING digital mapping company based in Ashtown has announced a €1.6 million expansion to cater for increasing customer demand.
Esri Ireland employs 75 people, including software engineers consultants, developers and sales and marketing professionals in its two offices at Ashtown Gate, Navan Road, and Holywood, Co Antrim.
The investment will fund the upgrade of the company’s Dublin office and improve technologies and platforms.
Esri’s software solutions are designed to enable customers to record where things are happening and analyse why, so they can gain insight and make better decisions.
The company plans to provide a range of new services to businesses, throughout the island of Ireland.
Esri Ireland has undergone significant growth in the past year, adding 25 new staff, growing revenues by 13 percent to €7.8 million and taking on 38 new customers.
Further growth is expected this year, with revenues forecasted to grow by more than 15 percent to €9 million.
In addition to continued growth Esri Ireland is focused on promoting a positive workplace culture.
The company was recognised as one of the best workplaces in Ireland in the SME category at the 2018 Great Place to Work Awards, placing sixth in the official rankings.
Ersi Ireland say the latest investment is an essential step needed to accommodate continued growth of its workforce and business in Ireland while at the same time increasing its capacity for provision of managed services.
The company has also recently launched Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a secure end-to-end managed service that enables customers to more quickly and easily deploy geography into their business processes and workflow.
To ensure effective delivery of this, Esri Ireland has directed investment towards new online platforms and technologies that will enable the company to scale to meet increased demand.
“Accessing and utilising geospatial information helps organisations in every sector to increase efficiency and improve their processes,” said Paul Synnott, director and country manager, Esri Ireland.
“Esri Ireland has continued to drive awareness of the benefits of GIS, to the point at which it is now seen as a key part of the decision-making process by many organisations.
“We have experienced high rates of growth in the past year, and having set a target of becoming a €10 million turnover business by 2020 we are now on track to meet or even exceed that projection.”
Esri Ireland is part of the Esri Global Network, a billion-dollar privately held software company with nearly 10,000 employees worldwide.