CARA Group announces partnership with Iontas

Cara Group, one of Ireland's leading indigenous providers of IT solutions, has announced a partnership with Iontas, developers of PC user efficiency management software.

Cara Group customers will now be able to avail of Iontas' innovative performance management solutions, which facilitate a better working environment, maximize return on investment and improve productivity.

Iontas develops PC monitoring software including Agent Focus and PC Focus. Agent Focus is specifically designed to meet the demands of modern day contact centers, providing centralised reporting on PC usage as well as integrated screen recording, and remote control. PC Focus is customised to the monitoring needs of corporate PC users and addresses acceptable use policy, personal time management, software inventory analysis and IT support services.

"Partnering with Iontas allows Cara Group to offer our clients a wide-ranging suite of integrated user management tools for deployment on PC systems, email and the internet. Essentially, the solution, PC Focus, is a way of ensuring you are getting value from staff and IT infrastructure" said Robert Moloney, Sales Manager, Cara Group.

"Iontas performance management solutions are being used by a number of leading Irish and European organisations. This partnership provides Iontas with an opportunity to provide our services to Cara Group's existing blue-chip client base and offer enhanced IT solutions to prospective customers," said Martin McCreesh, CEO, Iontas.

Iontas management products have been implemented by Esat Telecom, Conduit Europe and Stream International.

About Cara Group
The CARA Group (www.cara.ie) is an Information Technology Solutions and Payroll Company. Its offers and capabilities embrace all areas of an organisation's technology requirements; Security, Storage, Network Integration, Enterprise Systems, Professional Services, Managed Services and Payroll Outsourcing. This is backed up by the most widely distributed support network in Ireland. Total revenues for CARA Group last year amounted to €81m.

CARA's success is based on customer driven values, its continuous investment in people and their skills, its adoption of best practice methodologies and processes and its ability to select and partner with leading technology suppliers. The CARA Group completed an MBO in February 2001. Equity was supplied by Hibernia Capital Partners and the bank debt by AIB in a deal worth €33m.