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Monsoon Consulting is proud to announce the launch of one more new Magento Ecommerce website http://www.restaurantfurnituredirect.ie
It is also a re-launch of the website ‘Café Furniture Direct’ from old Magento version 1.1 to new Magento version 1.5 with new additional features and functionality.

We are proud to announce the launch of new Magento Ecommerce website http://www.classicfurnituredirect.ie

It is a re-launch of the website ‘Classic Furniture Direct’ from old Magento version 1.1 to new Magento version 1.5 with new additional features and functionality.

The Monsoon Team organised a Training Session on SEO-Basics on Friday, 8th of March within the company premises which was professionally conducted by Ms. Tripti Juni, SEO Tech Lead, Monsoon Consulting Pvt Ltd.

The purpose of the SEO Training Session was to create awareness among the designers and the developers to practice SEO friendly designs and development. The best part of the session was the interaction among the participants for tips and techniques of implementing SEO flowcharts and checklists and other general SEO practices within their domain of work.

Monsoon Consulting would like to welcome our new intern, Craig Ellis, to the team.

Craig completed his graduation in September with a BSc in Information Systems Development - Business Computing at Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin.

Since then he has been creating Android Apps, E-Commerce Websites doing IT Support and baking Cakes!!!

We are excited to announce that Abhishek Dhariwal has joined us as our new Drupal Team Lead last week.Abhishek has 8 years of experience in Drupal / PHP related technologies.

We are glad to announce that two new interns have joined Monsoon Consulting Indian office. They will be working with Drupal Development Team.

Sritanu Rudrapaul: He has done Bachelor of Technology from Ajmer Institute of Technology and is knowledgeable in the areas of PHP, ASP.Net, Core Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Along with his computing degree, he is also interested in the areas of content writing and blogging.

Good News for Monsoon Team, We are happy to say that we've hired one more member to our Indian Office Family this month to help and contribute in expanding our business empire!

We've hired Ranjita Sharma as QA Engineer.  She has done Bachelor of Engineering from Priyatam Institute of Technology and Management, Indore. In addition with this she did Manual testing certification from Qspider Institute of Manual Testing, Bangalore.

Good Luck to Ranjita!

We’re proud to announce the launch of the new Penthouse Casino and Card Club website. Penthouse Casino is a brand new and premier Casino and Card Club situated in Swords, Co Dublin.

We worked in collaboration with Catalyst DNA, the site is a sleek and simple HTML website with CMS functionality using Drupal 7, which enables the Penthouse Team to manage and update Banner Images, News,  Events and Tournament information. The new site boasts a simple navigation structure and a sleek design with rich colours and graphics

Congratulations to Educate Together, who are now shortlisted for Best Education and Third Level Website for the Web Awards 2012.

Educate Together are nominated in the 2012 Web Awards category for 'Best Education and Third Level' Website. Educate Together is the patron body to Ireland's 60 multi-denominational primary schools and was established over 34 years ago.

We have some exciting news today in the Monsoon office,as we've been nominated for a 2012 Web Awards. We're in the category of 'Web Agency of the Year'. We've been working hard on numerous projects this year, it's a great honour for us and we're delighted to be considered.

Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Global Drupal Association to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. Similar Training events take place around the world.

Monsoon Consulting has partnered with Drupal Association to organise a training workshop on this “Drupal Global Training Days”, the 14th Sep 2012 between 4PM - 6PM.

We're delighted to announce that we've just launched another Drupal 7 website for the Indian Embassy in Ireland. The Indian Embassy in Ireland provides Consular services to to Irish citizens wishing to travel to India and to the thriving Indian Community living in Ireland. It's Indian Independence Day today, 15th of August, so it's a fitting day to launch the new website.

We’re proud to announce that Monsoon Consulting has joined the Acquia Drupal Training Network. This is a great opportunity for our team to gain a more developed and in-depth look at all things Drupal. For more information on the Acquia Training Network, please check here.

We’re delighted that our Chief Technology Officer, Piyush Poddar, is in the Monsoon Dublin office for the next few weeks.  Piyush gave a great presentation at our first Drupal4NonProfit event, lending his expertise on all things Drupal and educating the charity and Non Profit sector. The event was a success and his contribution made a big difference on the day. He is a great asset to the Dublin team and has been very hard at work. Piyush has been enjoying his stay in Dublin, with our lovely raining weather and vibrant culture.

We're delighted to announce that we've just completed another Drupal website for our client Moxie Republic. The company specialises in organising and running Adventure Racing events in Ireland and abroad. The website will be primarily used to publicise information about their upcoming adventure races, adventure training & adventure travel events while also promoting the brand itself. It was a very interesting project to work on and we're really happy with the results.

We're excited to announce the first 'Drupal Empowering Non-Profit' event organised by the Carmichael Centre and Monsoon Consulting.

Drupal is a content management system (CMS) that is used to build websites. Specifically for Non-Profit Organisations, Drupal can support public awareness, fundraising and charity activities.

Great news for Monsoon this week as we have been awarded two new projects! We will be working with the Embassy of India, Ireland, to create a new web site design. We will also be working with Ourboxx.com, to create a new social media platform for school teachers and students. We look forward to working with both clients!

We are delighted to announce we have completed and released a new Smartphone App for the Department of Social Protection (formerly FÁS).
The JobSeeker Mobile Application for the iPhone and Android Platforms helps those seeking work to, amongst other features, search, save, share and apply for jobs via the App. 
 
Our responsibilities on the project included:
System Analysis, Technical and Functional Documentation
System Design, User Journeys, Use Cases
App Interface Wireframes and UI Design
iPhone and Android Development and Testing (Web Services)

Monsoon Consulting has signed a partnership agreement with Acquia to deliver Drupal development and training services to the UK, Irish and Indian markets

Monsoon Consulting launches Monsoon Varsity offering Graduate Training in Drupal and Open Source Technology

Monsoon Consulting acted as Drupal Development Partner for Interactive Ocean (IO) to deliver an E-commerce catalogue solution for Forest and Garden, who are providers of top quality forestry, park & garden machinery and accessories. Forest and Garden run a dealer network and wanted to create a website to promote the dealers products and to facilitate online purchases for the network.

The first Hello Drupal! training workshop was successfully hosted in Jaipur by Monsoon Consulting. Over 20 trainees participated and educated themselves with the basic knowledge of Drupal. The workshop comprised of various conceptual presentations, live demos and practical sessions.
The workshop, hosted by Drupal experts and team members of Monsoon Consulting, took place at our Development Centre in Jyoti Nagar, Jaipur.

Good News, we've hired some more people for our Dublin office to help manage our expanding business empire! Monsoon Consulting are delighted to announce the recruitment of 2 new employees.

We've been awarded a very exciting portal development project, to be built in PHP Zend, by a large multinational Learning Services provider.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded phase 2 of a large website redesign by our client CurrencyFair, good news for everyone involved!

This is a very exciting project and all sides are working hard so we should see a brand new Drupal powered website in the coming months.

CurrencyFair is a unique marketplace where people can exchange currencies with other people, anonymously, at rates only otherwise available to multinationals and market professionals dealing in millions.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the project to deliver a new website for one of Irelands most famous and prestigious hotels.

Monsoon Consulting are excited to announce that we have won the tender to deliver a Visa Processing Web Application for the Embassy of India, Ireland.

Despite all the doom and gloom we have been ticking along pretty well and now have a need for a fresh face to join our team - if you fit the bill and can wear the following hats - project manager / technical architect / business analyst we are waiting to hear from you. Here's the spec...

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We are delighted to announce that the Central Entertainment Bureau (CEB) have signed a 1 year support and maintenance contract with Monsoon Consulting for their bespoke CRM, Booking and Invoicing Application developed by Monsoon Consulting. This continues the long standing relationship between Monsoon and CEB, Ireland’s leading Music and Entertainment booking agencies. Check here for more details.

Monsoon Consulting has commenced the re-development of the Holfeld Plastics website which when completed will give them a fresh face, more focussed content, and will including providing a product catalogue and online ordering facility. Watch this space for release.

Holfeld Plastics, is one of Europe’s leading thermoforming plastics companies specialising in environmentally friendly materials and processes.

ActiveMind is a GMIT-based company specialising is the development of a web application for the delivery of effective and efficient management of the coach / athlete relationship. The tool will allow users to create coach and athlete profiles, schedule coaching sessions, record what was practised, set up specific training modules and programmes, upload videos and photos, send messages etc.

Leading Irish B2B IT hardware reseller DCB Group have hired Monsoon Consulting to redevelop their website.

Monsoon Consulting have commenced working with T5 Process Solutions providing them with IT Consulting and Software Development services with a view to becoming their long term implementation partner. T5PS provides an intelligent networked technology system which allows manufacturing companies to monitor and accurately predict potential future downtime in their production facility.

Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney officially launches the Monsoon Consulting developed website www.heartsplay.ie. Heartsplay is an online interactive website to help children with congenital heart disorders to better understand their condition, the procedures and the people they will encounter when they visit Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. Check projects section shortly for more details.

Monsoon Consulting have re-coded and relaunched the Palladium and ServiceFrame websites on behalf of Palladium. Palladium is an outsourcing and shared services consulting business based in Dublin.

Monsoon Consulting have completed the development and launched a web based business management application for Central Entertainment Bureau (CEB). CEB are one of Ireland’s leading music and entertainment booking agents representing hundreds of acts. See latest projects section shortly for more details.

Specialist Independent Building Services have contracted Monsoon Consulting to provide a new fully content managed website for their business.

Monsoon Consulting have been selected by University College Dublin’s Centre for Innovation in Technology and Organisation (CITO) to participate in a study on Software Development Outsourcing in Ireland.

Monsoon Consulting have been selected by University College Dublin’s Centre for Innovation in Technology and Organisation (CITO) to participate in a study on Software Development Outsourcing in Ireland.

Monsoon Consulting signs software development services contract with You Get it Back, one of the world’s leading technology-based lost and found companies.

Monsoon Consulting were featured in last months Commercial Report on Outsourcing. Stephen Kenealy was interviewed by the magazine and asked to give his perspective on IT Outsourcing in Ireland, with reference to Monsoon’s business model.

Telnet Communications, an IT, ICT products reseller, telecommunications and security company based in Dublin and Monsoon Consulting, a Dublin and Jaipur, India based software development services company is delighted to announce the launch of Telnet's new fully content managed website at www.telnetcom.ie

Monsoon Consulting opened our new Research and Development office in Jaipur, India.

Located in the heart of the government buildings district of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, the new premises offers us the opportunity for future expansion with a capacity of 40 employees. Currently, we employ 22 people in our Jaipur office but we are seeking to aggressively expand in the next 12 months.