Business Objects owned by SAP creates 100 jobs in Dublin
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Business Objects will create 100 new jobs in Dublin as a result of a EUR29m investment. Business Objects will establish a R&D center in Citywest in Dublin. SAP bought Business Objects in January of this year so new jobs will be located at SAP’s facility in West Dublin.
These high value positions will be created over the next 4 years he next four years and they will be focus on new generation of performance optimisation applications. Jobs created will be for graduates and experienced IT professionals. IT roles will include IT architects, Software testers and programmers. There will also be a recruitment drive for engineers with Java, Eclipse, XML languages.
Business Objects & SAP currently employ over 1000 staff in Dublin & Galway. Business Objects set up in Dublin in 2004 and employs 200 of the 1000 staff.
This is some positive news for the government as these are they type of high-end jobs they have promised to deliver.
