The Irish Government is making an initial €1m investment in a new Dublin technology centre in data analytics called CeADAR, the Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research, to leverage the high-growth area that is data analytics and the potential to create jobs.
The project, an Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland initiative, is led by University College Dublin and also includes researchers from University College Cork, and Dublin Institute of Technology. It will use the funding to work with a group of companies to accelerate the development, deployment and adoption of data analytics technology.
Top-tier multinational and Irish ICT companies including eBay, Dell, Fidelity Investments and Hp will lead the research agenda, focused on developing ways of generating business, profit and ultimately jobs from the high-growth area of data analytics.