Commercial Division

The Commercial Division is one of the three divisions that make up the TSSG, the others being the Research Division and the Operations Division (internal administrative and technical support).

For more information on the TSSG see:

• TSSG A4 FLYER (October 2006)
• TSSG eStrategies Europe overview article (March 2007)

Research & Development

The Commercial Division is structured into a small number of highly focused Product Centres, each with a mix of Enterprise Ireland and EU eTEN funding, focused on bringing a research idea closer to the market, usually through development of a software prototype following an agile software development process with stringent verification and validation processes. The nature of the Product Centres is relatively dynamic compared to the larger integrated Competence Centres in the Research Division, so they are not listed here - see the list of companies, and of the pipeline for new companies, below to see the nature of these product centres.

Companies

The TSSG has developed its commercialisation process to the point where it has successfully created new companies based on commercial ideas originating from its own research (spin-outs) and it has attracted companies to locate some or all of their activity in Watertford with links to the TSSG (spin-ins).

Phase One (1996-2004)

• Waterford Technologies (2000 - spin-in) Email archiving and monitoring.
• Aceno Mobile Services (2003 spin-out) Now the professional services arm of the TSSG.

Phase Two (2005-2007)

• Nubiq (2006 spin-out) Mobile website generation with Zinadoo, and mobile web discovery and personalisation with mobiseer.
• Akruu (2006 spin-out) Out-sourced billing and accounting as a service.
• hash6 (2007 spin-in) Interactive radio stations.
• MUZU (2007 spin-in) Artists’ on-line TV networks.
• Headway Software (2007 spin-in) Tools for software development.

Phase Three (2008-)

• IMS-Stream SIP-based VoIP solutions.
• Zimbie Instant Messaging as a platform - easily create IM responders - "IM bots".
• FeedHenry RSS/Atom feed aggregation and analysis.