On the 25th October in Athenium House Ferrybank the Waterford Chamber of Commerce awarded Dataworks the Business Excellence Award for Quarter 3 in the Manafacturing Sector.

The awards acknowledged businesses who provide exceptional customer service and exhibit outstanding business performance.

The awards committee was made up of the President of the Chamber, Award Sponsor VHI and Waterford Business Leaders

In accepting the award Liam said that he was delighted to accept on behalf of the company. He thanked the sponsors and adjudicating committee for selecting Dataworks as it is always nice for a business to receive an award, particularly one that focuses on Business Excellence and Customer Service. Liam continued on by saying that Dataworks has a clear focus on customer service and on building long term relationships with their clients. Liam concluded by thanking all of Dataworks customers without whom they would not be receiving the award. He also thanked all the team at Dataworks for their excellent efforts and contribution to the award.

Following on with more awards Dataworks was delighted to hear that one of it's customers, Waterford Institute of Technology's Mergo (Tourism) Network had been shortlisted for a Net Visionary Award for "Educational Contribution" by the Irish Internet Association. The Mergo team headed by Anne-Marie Frampton has been very successful in using technology to bring it's members closer together.

Looking back at 2007, it has been an extremely challenging and successful year for Dataworks. We have completed some large software projects in a variety of sectors including general manafacturing, life sciences, pharma, food & beverage and environmental monitoring. The projects touch on several business functions and enabled us to continue to develop software solutions using the latest .Net technologies. Application deployments included a mixture of desktop and web, both on PC's and PDA's.Another highlight has been our expansion of our SPC and OEE offerings based on WInSPC and the Iconics product suite. The projects have been extremely important for our business development and we are in the final phase of rollout of two large Plant Performance Monitoring applications. These applications offer our customers significant visability and cost savings. We have also enhanced our WinSPC/PDA based data collection application and have successfully deployed this in another installation in the life science sector.

We were also delighted to welcome Richard Butler to the team. Richard has taken up the position of Software Engineer having previously held several similar positions in the Cork Region. W e will also be recuiting again in January to expand our Software Engineering group.

Finally all at Dataworks would like to thank our clients for their continued support and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!