Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland

Ireland: Role of foreign direct investment, position and future

Presenter:

Liam Ryan, 47 - Managing Director SAP Ireland

BSc Eng DIT Kevin St & Trinity College Dublin 1986

‘86-’90 Siemens Germany ‘90-’99 Motorola Ireland ‘99 - SAP Ireland

• 72% of the worlds Transactions touch an SAP System

• Our Customers manufacture more than 95,000 automobiles each day

• Our Customers produce more than 77% of the worlds Beer

• SAP HANA can increase analysis speed > 10,000 times

SAP in Ireland

• 1,400 Employees in 2 locations – Dublin & Galway

• Development, Support and Sales for EMEA and US

• Degree in Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science

• 29 Nationalities, 36 Languages

Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland

Why Ireland ?

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