2018 Irish Enterprise Award

40 EU BUSINESS NEWS / 2018 Irish Enterprise Awards , Despite the uncertainty in the region, Cormac remains optimistic about RocTel’s ongoing success, as the firm is currently growing and prospering. He outlines the firm’s growth strategy in his concluding comments, explaining how the firm is seeking to build upon its current achievements and support even more clients with its world class services. “Moving forward, at RocTel we are poised to grow even further and are really enjoying seeing many of our clients globalise from UK and Ireland, or in many cases inward invest in same. We are interested in developing our own deep tech with progressive universities and ensuring that we are collaborating with the best and deliver every time a truly exceptional experience for our valued customers.” Company: RocTel International Contact: Cormac Reid Address: The Capel Building, Marys Abbey, Dublin 7, Ireland Phone: 00353 1 8044410 Website: www.roctel.net Best Telecommunications Managed Service Provider 2018 RocTel is a business telecommunications company specialising in voice, broadband, managed services, on premise and cloud based IP unified communications, supporting indigenous and mid-market multinationals fromaround the world. We caught up with CEO and Founder Cormac Reid to find out more and multinational clients, all managed to offer high availability underpinned by best in class Cisco infrastructure.” Supporting clients with global reach, RocTel remains in Ireland thanks to the vast array of benefits the country offers to business. Cormac explores these benefits and discusses the challenges issues such as Brexit will bring. “Ireland is a committed member of the European Union and provides companies with guaranteed access to the European market. Ireland is the only English-speaking country in the Eurozone and provides an ideal hub for organisations seeking a European base. The brightest talent from across Europe is attracted here, mixing with our own to offer a multinational and multilingual melting pot of skills with a positive attitude to match. “Specifically, for firms in our market Ireland is home to many of the world’s leading high-performance companies including Intel, Twitter, Pfizer, Citi, Huawei, Takeda, Facebook, Google, Novartis and Trend Micro. The country is also positioning itself to become a world leader in the Internet of Things, Big Data, ICT Skills, Energy Efficiency, Health Innovation and Cloud Computing. All of this is underpinned by an educated workforce a very important feature of our teams in RocTel. “Overall, Ireland is a competitive place and achieving success here carves out a strong business case for other markets. Brexit will be a big challenge and I think it will hurt Irish business somewhat, however it will also offer lots of opportunity. My advice to anyone looking to overcome this challenge is to prepare and ensure that your business is ready, and always assume that it is going to happen. Many believe that it may not go ahead, but in business you should always prepare for the worst case scenario to ensure that you are able to meet the needs of your clients in an uncertain future.” GBA17005 Established in 2000, RocTel’s mission was to provide the best in class telecommunication and broadband services to businesses. As a Cisco partner, the firm specialises in providing the best telecommunications infrastructure to suit all their clients’ business requirements. Cormac explores how the firm has achieved the phenomenal success it has achieved today. “At RocTel we have built out three core offerings, and all are consumed via an OpEx finance model. Coupled with our best in class business systems from SAP, billing software, flexible contracts and advanced technologies from Cisco Systems, we are able to provide clients with a wide range of services. “Currently we are focused on the UK and Irish market places, offering our WAN services #HyperCloud which can connect anywhere. We have commercial offices in Dublin City, City of London and satellite offices in the UK and Ireland, and this vast array of bases helps us because all services are managed for our customers. Our premium products RocSolid, RocTel Advantage and Hyper Cloud all offer consumable infrastructure to enable both our local