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(L-R) CEO Oisín Curran, Fianna Fáil chairman Martin Heydon, COO Fionnán Friel and CMO Tom McKittrick

Odyssey VC are delighted to announce that we plan to create 100 new jobs from our headquarters in Sallins, Kildare.

Odyssey VC offer Integrated GxP Cloud and Computerised System Lifecycle Management Services to Life Science companies that operate in highly regulated environments. Due to significant and consistent year-on-year growth since our establishment in 2015, we will be creating highly-skilled new roles which will be spread across the company’s technical, product development, service delivery, compliance and sales and marketing departments across multiple countries as part of our exciting and ambitious global expansion plans.

This announcement coincides with the official launch of Compliant Cloud, Odyssey VC’s new online platform. Compliant Cloud is an innovative new platform delivering market-leading compliant cloud solutions and features the world’s first self-care portal for the deployment of audit-ready compliant architecture. To find out more about Compliant Cloud, visit the website here.

The announcement took place yesterday (January 16^th) in the Chamber in the Kildare County Council. The event featured speeches from Fianna Fáil councillor and Mayor of Kildare Suzanne Doyle, Head of the High Potential Start-Ups Unit at Enterprise Ireland Jennifer Melia, CEO of Odyssey VC and Compliant Cloud Oisín Curran, and Fine Gael chairman Martin Heydon. The event was well attended, receiving coverage from numerous media outlets. We couldn’t be more excited about this development and look forward to taking the next step in our journey.

Quality standards are an essential flag to fly for any organisation. On that note we are both very proud and happy to notify our clients that we have received our ISO 9001:2015 certification. Why proud you might ask? Well the team here at OdysseyVC, spearheaded by the expertise and drive of Fionnán Friel, managed to design, install and make live an ISO compliant Quality Management System (QMS) in the unheard of time frame of 3 months!!

This is an unbelievable achievement and, though you might think this is a mistake, this is just a reflection of the quality work we are capable of producing under time pressure at OdysseyVC. We can assure you it is not a mistake and we are actively executing live projects, continuous improvement, supplier auditing and training in line with the standard. We have a long way to go to achieve everything we have planned for OdysseyVC and this is just one small step on this very long, exciting journey.

OdysseyVC IQNET ISO 9001:2015 Certificate

OdysseyVC NSAI ISO 9001:2015 Certificate

Implementing enterprise level computerised systems that support regulated activities is not a simple process. Forget about the regulatory requirements for a minute and just focus on the business impact. It is extraordinary to see the complexity that companies have introduced into their own business processes in their global operations. One acronym means a different thing depending on the person you are speaking to and their geographical location. And this is just an acronym! When analysing the business processes of global organisations we have only ever seen discontinuity, nuances, different organisation structures and so on. It makes the design of ‘standard’ business flows extremely difficult.

Why is this important when the topic of Cloud, or in this case, Regulated Cloud comes up? Well it is important because it points to a very important precursor to any cloud strategy and that is alignment of business processes, where possible, and alignment of organisational structure.