Ireland’s leading business innovation hub The Rubicon Centre, based in CIT is celebrating the success of one of their foremost female entrepreneurs, Patrice Fanning of Technically Write IT. Fanning who is a graduate of the Centre’s PINC and Genesis programmes recently opened her new offices in Carrigaline as she expands her technical writing business.
Technically Write IT Ltd is a Cork-based company that delivers outsourced business-to-business technical writing, editing, and managed documentation solutions. The team works on training material, user guides, manuals, and other instructional content, mainly for clients in the IT space.
Set up in 2011, CEO and founder Patrice Fanning, recently moved her 25-strong team to new offices in Carrigaline Industrial Park to facilitate expansion. This followed the initial incubation period at the Rubicon Centre in CIT, where Patrice completed both the PINC and Genesis programmes for budding entrepreneurs.
The theme for the opening was “Dreaming it, believing it, and making it happen”.
Minister Coveney praised the business support Patrice received from Enterprise Ireland and the Rubicon Centre at CIT that had greatly helped the success of the company. He spoke about Carrigaline as a domestic hub and how this initiative from Technically Write IT and others is putting the area on the map as a centre of employment, with knowledge-based jobs, key to building our smart economy.
“The opening of the new Technically Write IT offices and expansion of the company clearly demonstrates how robust the Cork region is becoming in the IT space, now a genuine world-class tech cluster”, said Denis Collins of IBM who is also chairman of IT@Cork and director of Cork Chamber.
Technically Write IT has become a preferred supplier for SAP worldwide. Representing the company was Amy Sellers, senior director of the education portfolio from their Paris office. She spoke about the confidence and trust she placed in Patrice and her team, who had consistently delivered excellent results. The training material that Technically Write IT provides is used worldwide and generates millions of euros of revenue for the leading multinational hi-tech company.
Patrice, who was also invited to speak at this year’s Web Summit, spoke about the drive that led her to start a company and her personal journey to developing a technology-based start-up and a strong team who share her vision. She is one of few female entrepreneurs operating in the IT space in Ireland today.
“At a time when the number of people developing and using technology is increasing, the need to explain how to use this technology in a clear and concise way has never been greater. Here in Ireland, we are recognised as a hub for technical writing with native English speakers, a good grasp of technology, and dedicated university programmes focussed on the discipline”
As well as writers and project managers, Technically Write IT’s team includes a dedicated finance director, a business process/IT specialist, and an office administrator. The plan is to grow to 30 employees before the end of the year and 50 by the end of 2014.
