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In Excellence CTO Mark Brosnan explains why Xanadu Consultancy is strides ahead of the competition in the provision of software and hardware solutions.
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ased in Cork but with offices in London, Xanadu Consultancy was launched in 2011 and currently employs over 40 people in its southern Irish base. Providing software development, operational support and consultancy services to companies, predominantly those involved in the online gaming sector, Xanadu has assembled an extensively experienced cross-discipline team. Amongst their impressive list of clients is Matchbook.com, one of the world’s leading betting exchanges. Xanadu Consultancy is responsible for the ongoing maintenance and development of Matchbook’s real-time systems, which process hundreds of thousands of real-time transactions each day. Matchbook can also claim to have played its role in Xanadu’s emergence, as Mark Brosnan, Chief Technology Officer and a computer science graduate from UCC, explains. “I met a number of investors in Cork who were setting up a service company for the Matchbook betting exchange, and they brought me in, in 2004,” he says. “ The previous company I had been working for had been both servicing Matchbook’s platform development needs from its inception,
Esme O’Flynn, Business Analyst and Mark Brosnan, Chief Technology Officer, Xanadu Consultancy.
this company managed a number of outsourced and offshore software development companies to build and services many different components of the Matchbook Betting Platform.”
“We look at what types of applications they are currently running and then we design the solution and build it from start to finish.”
Solutions To Problems Xanadu offers a wide range of services in both hardware and software formats – from java development to security and information management to QA and testing services on both business to customer and business to business platforms. “Essentially what we do is full end-to-end development,” says Brosnan. “Online gambling companies approach us with a problem and we look at their needs and propose a solution. We look at what
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