Michael Meagher@mmeagher11

Microsoft Ireland Evolution1985

Microsoft

Ireland

founded

1988

International

Product Group

(IPG) established

1991

Worldwide

Products Group

Ireland (WPGI)

1995

Windows 95 &

Office 95 -

WPGI now 20+

languages

1998

WPGI renamed

European

Development

Centre (EDC)

2000

Win 2000 & Office 2000

Visio acquisition sees 60

new employees in EDC

2003

Windows Engineering

& Innovation Group

formed

2009

Office Dev team

expanded and

rebranded as

OMEX2010

Windows Azure

Engineering

2011

CRM Online

Service

Engineering

2014

Exchange

Online Service

Engineering

2014

Windows P&C

Engagement and Intl

teams become

Global E&S CAT and

App & Device

Compatibility teams

Manufacturing

1987

Microsoft Ireland

ships its one

millionth

package

2009

Microsoft open

‘Mega data

centre’ in Dublin

2012

Microsoft

announces

expansion of its

data centre

1991

Ireland Global Sales,

Marketing & Operations

Group established (2

heads)

2013

Microsoft

announces

expansion of its

data centre

2007

Microsoft

announces

$500m

investment in

1st Live Data

Centre

2006

Establishment

of PRSS

2013

SharePoint

Online Service

Engineering

1998

Ireland Global Sales,

Marketing & Operations

Group established

(50 heads)

2016

Establishment

of Microsoft

Ireland Inside

Sales

2015

Havok acquisition

sees 47 new

employees in EDC

2015

Microsoft

announces

expansion of its

data centre

2016

LinkedIn

Acquisition

2017

Microsoft

Ireland New

€134m Campus

to open

Product Development

Service Engineering

Localisation

Linguistics Engineering

Int’l Engineering

European

Development Centre

EMEA

Data Centre

Data Centre Operations

Design & Development

Data Centre Supply Chain

EMEA

Operations

1200 FTEs 500 Vendors across the site

Ireland

Sales & Marketing

Agreement to Cash

Launch excellence

Channel Operations

CSS

Search Advertising &

Ad Ops

Supply Chain

Microsoft Sales &

Marketing for the

island of Ireland

EMEA Inside Sales

Targeted Sales

Demand Sales

Renewal Sales

Pharmaceutical

Research & Development Sales & Marketing Operations & Finance Support & Services

Financial Services

Ireland’s Multinational Environment

“We will always be partner-led.”

Partnering Opportunities

We need to think and act differently.

Smart Stadium Partnership

Microsoft’s objectives

• Showcase reference project

• Gain real-world insights

• Early example of Open Connectivity

Foundation (OCF) collaboration

• Identify further opportunities with

Intel & Irish SME’s

ISV Partner Benefits

• Get expert advice on optimizing for the cloud, from

business assessment through application launch

• Access the latest cloud technologies and architecture best

practices

• Receive support from Microsoft through technical

resources

• Be part of a connected and collaborative ISV partner

community

• Expand your marketing and sales channels through

Microsoft Go-to-Market channels and application

marketplaces

• Leverage the trust customers have in Microsoft products

and its security and data protection practices

Microsoft can help you build

and innovate in the cloud

Microsoft Partners