Making It Work: Shift towards digital storage pays off for Kefron

The Dublin-based IT firm embarked on a major change of direction five years ago, one from which it is now reaping the dividends

Paul Kearns, managing director of Kefron: ‘For the last few years, we’ve been trying hard to pivot into the next stage of our growth.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips

It’s more than five years since senior executives at Kefron, the Dublin-headquartered IT company, sat down with their top clients in a Dublin hotel and asked them exactly how their needs were changing in the era of cloud computing.

The meetings formed part of a broader shift within Kefron, a 33-year-old business which specialises in automating accounts payable as well as offering document storage services. Its team had decided they needed to start moving away ...