Dataworks emerged as the overall winner of the National Enterprise Award in the Waterford Region in a recent ceremony hosted by the Waterford City Enterprise board. "We are delighted to be recognised as a leading & innovative company in the region" says Brian Robinson, Commercial Director of Dataworks. Dataworks will now compete for the national title this week.

To find out what is in store for 2005 in the Irish technology sector, Dataworks has devised a short survey (8 questions) covering general economical tendencies and industry trends. Many thanks for all of you who have already responded. For those who haven't yet, please click here to take the short survey now. Participants will be e-mailed a full report outlining the directions taken by most of the major multinationals established in Ireland for the coming year.

Dataworks has recently been appointed as system integrators for the implementation of a shop floor information system in Florida for a sister company of one of our multinational customers in the medical device sector.

Dataworks will be hitting the road in November and heads to Limerick where we will be presenting a technical talk in association with the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society. The event will take place at 8 pm on the 23rd of November at the South Court Hotel in Limerick. Shop Floor & IT - Closing the loop will be the theme of this debate/ presentation and will consist of a one our talk/ case study followed by a question and answer session and tea/ coffee & finger food.

In the past 10 years, the different roles between IT and engineering were very clear. While technology has moved on a great deal over recent years to bridge that gap between automation and IT; the cultural differences between IT, controls and engineering are preventing in a lot of cases the adoption of a fruitful collaborative approach to systems integration.

Professionals from Engineering, Controls, Quality and IT will be invited to share their experiences on the subject. The event will provide with a unique networking opportunity between professionals of the automation industry in IT, Engineering and process control. The event is free of charge. Please feel free to invite your colleagues along. More info about the event can be found on the ISA website by clicking here .