About Us
Conversation Piece, formed in 1978, is a Wholly-Owned Irish Telecommunications & Data Company. We have become a leading player within the Irish Telecommunications Industry, providing complete Communications Solutions on a National Scale to Small, Medium & Large-size Client Companies.
We offer a comprehensive Product Portfolio of fully integrated connectivity which provides our Clients with leading-edge Voice & Data Solutions, thus adding value to their daily business processes.
Cork firm retains its edge, 35 Years On - Cork News, 25/11/2011
http://thecorknews.ie/articles/cork-firm-retains-its-edge-35-years-2960
Cork telecommunications firm Conversation Piece shows no sign of relinquishing its cutting-edge position, having started out in the mid-1970s as a telephone shop and evolved to meet the challenges of successive revolutions in communications.
Today, Conversation Piece has its HQ at Rockgrove Industrial Estate, Little Island and a base at Dublin’s Premier Business Park, and continues to set cutting-edge standards, as one of only two providers of the latest unified communications systems from Siemens.
Over the last 35 years, Conversation Piece founder Jim Dunne has witnessed the evolution of an extraordinary range of telecommunications solutions, of which the Siemens OpenScape Office system is merely the latest.
“We started with a telephone shop in Washington Street, Cork, 35 years ago, in an age when the World Wide Web and sophisticated telephonic equipment were in their infancy,” he recalled.
Now, as then, advances have made it possible to hone industrial developments to a high standard, and so Siemens OpenScape Office is making it possible to deliver everything that small and medium businesses require, including conferencing, instant messaging, mobility, social media integration, faxing and more, through one user- friendly user interface.
“With the right technology,” Jim explained, “companies can use unified communications systems such as this to increase productivity, serve customers better and save money in the long term.”
Jim, who says the secret to surviving in business for 35 years is “sheer hard work, perseverance, good people and the ability to spot opportunities and capitalise on them”, has witnessed something of a ‘throw-back’ to an earlier era in the numbers of firms opting for rental of such communications systems in a bid to control costs.
“Rent to buy is gaining in popularity, a throw-back to my earlier days when customers were taking the hire-purchase route. As the only company in Ireland offering this service we have carved a strong niche for ourselves,” Jim said.
With over 5,000 clients in the IT, food, public service bodies (several sites with the HSE and Coillte), manufacturing, sporting (Munster Rugby) and service industries, Conversation Piece, employs 25 people directly and has a fleet of service vehicles for nationwide deployment, as well as contracting another 20-plus professionals on a project by project basis.