The art of keeping it all Intact

Irish firm Intact Software is taking on the American giants by developing an enterprise resource planning system now used across the English-speaking world

Mark McArdle, Intact Software’s group sales director: ‘When you meet people, you tend to work out what they need’

By some estimates, more than 90 per cent of software never sees the light of day outside the companies where it is developed. In-house, then, specialist code dwarfs retail software. In a refreshing change, however, one Irish software house, Intact Software, has developed its own enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution that competes with the world-dominating software from the American giants.

“We wouldn’t have as broad a range of solutions as the big ...