Dublin, Ireland & Pleasanton, Calif. - November 11, 2005 - InnerWorkings has won the influential David Manley award for Most Inspiring Emerging Business in 2005. The company was awarded this prize for its pioneering work in creating performance capability solutions that support software developers and their managers. Through its core product offerings, the InnerWorkings team helps software developers to write superior code and allows corporations to associate skills improvement with measurable business results.
The David Manley award program is open to emerging companies with an innovative product or service that can demonstrate clear business success. The program is inspired by the work of the late David Manley, a Dublin businessman known for his commitment to fostering and developing emerging companies. Companies participating in the award program are judged on the basis that their solutions are innovative and capable of adding value to the Irish economy. As the winner of this award, InnerWorkings receives a prize fund worth 80,000 Euro ($96,700 USD). The prize was recently presented to Francis McKeagney, CEO of InnerWorkings, at a reception in the Dublin Chamber of Commerce.
“The David Manley award is a prestigious accolade for any emerging company and I am happy to accept the award on behalf of InnerWorkings,” said Francis McKeagney, CEO of InnerWorkings. “We are particularly pleased to be honored in Dublin, where our R&D organization is based. I would like to thank the Irish business community and especially Enterprise Ireland, which has been fully supportive of our efforts to introduce a completely new approach to skills development and validation in enterprise software organizations worldwide.”
“R&D and innovation are central to Enterprise Ireland’s strategy of transforming Irish industry,” said Frank Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Ireland, as he presented the award to InnerWorkings. “Over the coming years, more Irish companies will be performing R&D and rapid commercialization of applied research to generate value added products and services for world markets. Innovation and creativity are at the heart of InnerWorkings’ solutions to support enterprise software development. I take this opportunity to wish InnerWorkings every success in this and future developments.”
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and through its solution’s close integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET platform, InnerWorkings is continuing to deliver products that assist a growing audience of software developers in getting their skills rapidly up to speed. “We are very pleased to see InnerWorkings’ innovation recognized and honored by the David Manly award,” said Dan’l Lewin, Corporate VP of the Microsoft .NET Emerging Business Development. “Microsoft has been an active supporter of InnerWorkings since their inception and early funding endeavors. We applaud the company’s efforts to link broad technical expertise and developer performance with measurable business results. Today, InnerWorkings exhibits a strong value proposition to global organizations leveraging Microsoft .NET technologies in their mission-critical enterprise software applications.”
InnerWorkings is planning several significant software releases in early 2006, including a full code search and retrieval engine that will allow developers to unlock the inherent potential of all code samples and solutions developed within the performance capability environment. The company will also be releasing a version of its client application that integrates core judging and learning support functionality into the Visual Studio 2005 development environment.
About Enterprise Ireland
Enterprise Ireland is the Irish state development agency focused on accelerating the development of world-class Irish companies. It focuses on five main areas of activity:
* Achieving export sales
* Investing in research and innovation
* Enhancing productivity
* Supporting the growth of scaled companies
* Driving regional enterprise
Through its network of 13 Irish offices and 33 international offices, Enterprise Ireland works closely with companies to assist them to compete and grow on a global scale. For more information about the role of Enterprise Ireland, visit www.enterprise-ireland.com.
About InnerWorkings
InnerWorkings is a pioneer of performance capability solutions for software developers and their managers. The company specializes in the delivery of practice-based learning solutions that address key coding techniques and enterprise application needs, thereby providing true visibility into developer performance. Inferent, the company’s real-time code judging engine, lets developers evaluate their performance and provides corrective feedback to advance the learning process. InnerWorkings’ goal is to transform the way software developers learn and are supported in the workplace, as well as enabling the accurate measurement of performance capabilities throughout a development organization.
InnerWorkings’ Research and Development facility is based in Dublin, Ireland and the company maintains its corporate headquarters in Pleasanton, California. For more information about InnerWorkings and its services, visit www.innerworkings.com.
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