Union Street opens new local R&D centre

Headed by Development Director, Alper Kazaca, the centre will focus purely on software development in order to drive its aBILLity billing platform and other products forward.

Existing development operations will remain in Union Street’s headquarters in Richmond along with its other customer facing teams.

Each year Union Street invests millions into R&D to ensure its product portfolio is always at the leading edge of technical innovation.

As a result, the multi-award winning aBILLity billing platform has grown to become the leading comms-billing platform in the UK, processing over £1.1 billion of retail billing per annum.

The opening of the R&D centre marks the first step in Union Street’s plans to drive business development in Ireland.

Alper explained: “Union Street already works with a number of successful companies in the Irish market.

“These includes suppliers of IT, communications, Internet services, managed service providers and more.

“Our software enables these businesses to combine bills for all services into a single invoice which is often a great value add for end-users.

“We’re actively looking to increase our customer base in Ireland and opening our R&D centre will be instrumental to achieving this goal.”

The company is actively recruiting software developers from the local area to help ramp up development operations.

Alper continued: “The comms industry is extremely fast-moving and dynamic, so Union Street has a policy of continual product improvement to ensure we stay ahead of the curve.

“In order to fully realise this goal, we’re looking to recruit experienced developers, ideally with a background in telecoms billing and provisioning.

“We’ve recently recruited two new developers which is great, but there’s still plenty of room here at Union Street and we would be delighted to hear from anyone that is looking for a career in a dynamic and expanding enterprise in the ICT industry.”

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