For more than 26 years, Dell has played a critical role in transforming computing, enabling more affordable and more pervasive access to technology around the world. The company's technology solutions improve customers' productivity, enhances their lives and meets their distinct needs. Dell serves customers ranging from the world's largest and most demanding businesses and public-sector organizations, to small and medium businesses, and consumers worldwide. Recognized for its ability to provide customers personalized, built-to-order technology through direct, online and retail channels, nearly 80 percent of Dell's $51 billion in revenue last year was driven by enterprise products, services and solutions it delivers to businesses and organizations. Dell's nearly 100,000 team members worldwide are deeply committed to corporate responsibility. At Dell, we promote an environment that thrives on innovation. To deliver effective solutions that meet customer challenges, Dell employs an open, standards-based approach to technology innovation. Each year, Dell honors the outstanding inventors among its employees.

Closer to home, Ireland continues to be a key, strategic location for many of Dell's global and EMEA operations. Dell employs nearly 2,500 experienced professionals in our two Irish sites in Raheen, Limerick, and Cherrywood, Dublin. Dell began operating in Limerick in 1991, and the campus is now home to a number of Global and EMEA-wide operations including, Communications and Network Product Development, EMEA Applications Solution Centre, EMEA Enterprise Command Centre, and EMEA Finance.

Our innovation centre at Cherrwood, is responsible for a significant portion of Dell's Global and EMEA business in Sales, Services and Marketing with our employees providing an increasingly diverse range of specialist skills, including our new Cloud Engineering Centre of Excellence.