Kainos
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| Type | Private company |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Belfast |
| Employees | 260 |
| Website | www.kainos.com |
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[edit] Kainos
[edit] Company Background
Kainos is a privately held company based in Northern Ireland. Established in 1986, as a joint venture between Fujitsu and The Queen's University of Belfast business incubation unit QUBIS, Kainos was one of Northern Ireland's first campus companies .[1]
Today Kainos has 260 consultants in four locations, Belfast, Dublin, London and Gdansk, Poland.
The word Kainos comes from ancient Greek and stands for new or fresh.
[edit] Company History
- 1986 - Kainos established, opening of Belfast office
- 1998 - Kainos opens its Dublin office
- 2000 - Brendan Mooney appointed Managing Director
- 2000 - Joint venture with Property News
- 2001 - Meridio spin-off
- 2007 - Kainos launches SpeechStorm [2]
- 2007 - Kainos opens its London office
- 2008 - Kainos opens its Gdansk office
[edit] Core Business
Kainos provides consulting services in the areas of IT strategy, business case development, technology sourcing and implementation.
The company specialises in the area of Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRMS), building solutions for customers in both the public and private sector.
Kainos also has a near-shore support service that is based in Northern Ireland.
In 2007 Kainos launched their speech recognition unit as a separate operating division of Kainos and called it SpeechStorm[2]. SpeechStorm provides automated solutions for call centres, including touch tone, SMS, speech and visual IVR.
[edit] Partners
Kainos currently work closely with the following companies:
Microsoft
Autonomy
Mediasurface
TIBCO
Kofax
Genesys
[edit] Awards
2008 ICT Award, Sales Professional of the Year[3]
2007 Belfast Business Awards, Business Growth[4]
2007 Irish Contact Centre Awards, with customer permanent tsb[5]
2006 Effective IT Awards, with customer Hibernian[6]
2005 IM Awards, with customer Hibernian[7]
2005 Belfast Telegraph Business Awards[8]
2005 Rising Star Awards, PropertyNews[9]
2001 IM Awards, PropertyNews.com[10]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "Queen's Portfolio". http://www.qubis.co.uk/Portfolio/?cpage_number=2.
- ^ a b "Kainos launches SpeechStorm". http://www.kainos.com/Article.aspx?id=680.
- ^ "ICT Award". http://www.ictexcellenceawards.ie/PublicSite/content.aspx?s=24&h=No&aid=92.[dead link]
- ^ "Belfast Business Awards". http://www.belfastcentre.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92.
- ^ "Irish Contact Centre Awards". http://www.kainos.com/Awards.aspx?id=56.
- ^ "Effective IT Awards". https://www.aviva.com/avivainvestor/index.asp?NewsID=2685&PageID=2&filter=&year=2003.[dead link]
- ^ "IM Awards 2005". http://www.hibernian.ie/HibPublicSite/HibPublicSite/media_centre/news_release_story.jsp?ID=155.[dead link]
- ^ "Belfast Telegraph Business Awards". http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/article3196744.ece.
- ^ "Rising Star Awards". http://www.kainos.com/Article.aspx?id=638.
- ^ "IM Awards 2001". http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=11455.
