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Deem Going for Growth as Travel Rebounds
As part of a bold global growth strategy, California-based travel-tech company Deem announced a new European Innovation Centre in Dublin in 2019, which would create 50 new jobs. Ashutosh Saxena, Deem’s Director of Engineering and Director of Ireland Operations (previously Engineering Manager based at San Francisco headquarters), relocated to Ireland to set up the European Innovation Centre, starting out with a small 11-person team in July of that year. However, as the pandemic pressed pause on corporate travel, the redevelopment of the high-volume e-commerce platform for booking and managing corporate travel paused too, but only for a while. Deem started hiring again in April 2021 and have added 15 people to their Dublin office this year already, growing to 45 employees. Deem’s original travel booking and management tools, which are used by corporate customers and travel management companies, were built in Silicon Valley starting in 1999. The Dublin office covers a variety of functions such as research and development, with a focus on building the nextgeneration platform for Deem, rearchitecting Deem’s existing travel platform into a highly scalable application, built on a modern microservices architecture. Updating the legacy architecture, the team at Deem is taking a mobile-first, modernised approach across iOS and Android development, shaping the technology of the future through AI and personalisation. One of the key attractions which led Deem to set up in Dublin was the cluster of companies in the travel technology sector, with the likes of Travelport and Retail inMotion in the area. As well as the pool of peer companies, other attractive factors included access to technology talent needed for its innovative plans, and the ability to scale quickly – the company has already moved office four times within the same building to accommodate its growing team, and from here, the only way is onwards and upwards.
“The Dublin office covers a variety of functions such as research and development, with a focus on building the next-generation platform for Deem, rearchitecting Deem’s existing travel platform into a highly scalable application.”
Ashutosh Saxena, Director of Engineering and Director of Ireland Operations, Deem
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Jabil Healthcare Bray Awarded for Excellence
Worldwide, manufacturing solutions provider Jabil comprises over 260,000 employees across 100 locations in 30 countries. In Ireland, Jabil Bray specialises in the design, development, and commercial scale up of complex and innovative healthcare products, serving the world’s leading pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostic companies. Jabil was recently awarded Medtech Partner/ Supplier of the Year by the Irish Medtech Association, for its new product offering in molecular diagnostics launching a COVID PCR testing device; and to acknowledge the company’s success achieving elite Shingo status. With expertise in the areas of moulding, tooling, engineering, quality assurance and automation, Jabil Bray also serves some of the largest packaging customers in the world. Established in 1980, the Jabil Bray site employs over 450 people across 153,000 square feet of manufacturing floor space, 14 state-of-the-art clean rooms, 65 injection moulding machines and 18 assembly cells. With a designated Centre of Excellence, the site’s annual production exceeds 1.7 billion products and components for the respiratory, ophthalmic, renal health markets and more.In October 2021, Jabil Bray was awarded the prestigious Shingo Prize. The award is the world’s highest standard for organisational and operational excellence. Awarded by the Shingo Institute, a programme in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, it recognises organisations that demonstrate an exceptional culture of continuous improvement. Jabil Bray is the first Jabil site to apply for Shingo recognition and becomes one of an elite group of only 190 organisations globally to receive the Shingo Institute’s highest award. To attain the award, seven Shingo Examiners rigorously reviewed operations at Jabil Bray over four days, marking it against the Shingo Model™ and its guiding principles. Examiners observed
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