March 2002 Our founder Colin Meagle starts to work on Continuum's company blueprint full time from home with a very old laptop and even older phone! No wages, but lots of ambition and belief! | | June 2002 Continuum is registered with the Company Registrations Office and all paperwork is finally signed off. Exciting times lie ahead #bringiton | | July 2002 Continuum opens its first office in Dublin with a super team of three. The carpets are fresh, the lease is monthly, the furniture is second hand and pizza hut is on speed dial! |
August 2002 No sign of our internet connection from the phone company yet (even with 11 weeks' notice!). 4 people are working off the one dial up connection — #Canyoupassmetheinternet? Many times, we had to decide what was more important, working on a website or sending an email! | | December 2002 After releasing about 20 projects we have our first Christmas party for Continuum with a staff of 4. Great night, seemed expensive at the time! :o) | | February 2003 James Gargan joins us in the role of Sales & Marketing Director. We can now open the spare room in the back of our building as a sales office. We get more phone lines! |
March 2003 We release our first public version of www.continuum.ie. Finally the shoemaker's sons are no longer barefoot! We also roll out our first ever CSR project delivered with love from all at Continuum for Outreach Moldova. www.outreachmoldova.org. | | July 2003 Microsoft rollout a global “Best Practice” case study on Continuum and Nissan Ireland for our work. | | August 2003 We now have to start moderating how many people are allowed in a meeting as the floor in our “boardroom” in our first office started to cave in if there were more than 5 people in the room! #Growingpains! |
December 2003 Continuum's founder Colin Meagle wins the Net Visionary award for New Entrepreneur of the year. Many drinks are had. Continuum Christmas party a bigger event with more staff, last year's bill seems less expensive now! | | April 2004 Deloitte present Continuum with Best eCommerce ICT Excellence award. | | September 2004 Continuum has rapid expansion in sales, development and design teams. More furniture is bought; we worry more about the building taking our weigh t #musteatlesspizza |
April 2005 Continuum listed for three ICT awards. One of our clients also wins HSMAI Hospitality Award for best website. | | December 2005 Continuum roll out our first membership management system — CPA Ireland.ie. Lots of happy accountants in one virtual place. We start rolling out projects in Asia and the Caribbean (unfortunately not on location!) | | April 2006 Growth continues, we now have 15 staff. Continuum provide a new CSR project for fundraising online for AIDS awareness in Africa. Our MD makes his first trip over to Africa to review projects and progress. |
October 2006 We launch our second public version of www.continuum.ie to promote our rebranding, service expansion and ability to choose website colours other than brown or purple! | | March 2007 Continuum opens a new office in Wroclaw, Poland. The office opens with a starting staff of 5 and a lot of Polish beer #jendo—piwo,prosze | | August 2007 Continuum move to bigger, fancier offices where there is no limit to the number of people we can have in our boardroom. :o) #caneatmorepizza |
December 2007 We run a major recruitment campaign to almost double in size in six months. Payroll per month is now bigger than our first year's sales! | | April 2008 We roll out our new client support portal — Atlas. Designed in house it supports all of our clients on SLA's. We worry for a little while because the phones become quieter as a successful result. :o) #headspace | | June 2008 Continuum roll out a CSR project for the Alternatives Marketing Group — Marketing for Change. The project ends up winning a major CSR award. |
October 2008 We are lucky enough to have won a number of big awards this year spanning from technical excellence awards to marketing campaigns. #weregonnaneedabiggershelf | | February 2009 Time to buy more chairs as we hit 30 members of staff. Our kitchen now has a water boiler as the kettle can't keep up. | | April 2009 Everyone in the building gets a new desktop PC in a technology refresh. Rumours of increased efficiency appear. #moretimefortea |
October 2009 We roll out a new CMS and website for every Nissan dealer in Ireland. Staff all grumbling about wanting to change their cars. | | January 2010 Continuum extend some partner programs with firms in the UK and Ireland and further enhance our offerings in the SharePoint and CMS areas. Many handshakes are done. | | May 2010 We launch the website for the new Aviva Stadium and our staff are invited to the opening party. We meet many sporting legends and drop a few hints for season tickets. #worthashot |
October 2010 Our MD travels to Chernobyl Children's International projects in the Ukraine for a visit to review projects, understand the causes and plan how we can help. The photos he returns with put us all to action, and to tears. chernobyl-international.com | | February 2011 Continuum are the cover story on Business Plus magazine for our eCommerce work. Our Sales Director James Gargan owns the cover. #handsomedevil | | September 2011 Sitefinity names Continuum as one of the Top 10 Sitefinity Partners globally. The Sitefinity partner network is a global community with partners in more than 30 countries. #justsaying! |
November 2011 We launch our 1000th website project since we opened our doors in 2002. brownthomas.com Much excitement and partying. :o) | | March 2012 Our MD attends the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on Ireland Day with Ireland Inc. and WildGeese.com. Very proud to represent Ireland's business community in the States! | | June 2012 We have a huge party to celebrate our ten years in business. The staff manage to capture some very embarrassing old photos in a presentation and present the directors with Oscars! #thatwentbyinablink! |