DUBLIN, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, the 'Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards' announced the winner of the Irish Book of the Decade competition.

BURNHAM, England, October 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bord Gais Energy, the retail arm of the Irish energy company, Bord Gais Eireann, announced today it has successfully implemented Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to streamline management of its mission-critical business operations in supplying gas and electricity to more than 700,000 customers located throughout Ireland.Since replacing its legacy Customer Information System with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, Bord Gais Energy has increased functionality across a number of its business operations through: Reduced operational costs while continuing to grow market shareImproved quality of customer care and service delivery Increased efficiency of gas and electricity billing systemsAutomated appliance service systems ensuring effective maintenance and schedulingUnrestricted message exchange with other business, gas and electricity suppliersOracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing has allowed Bord Gais Energ

Bord Gais has announced that it is committing E2.4 million to enable an expansion of the Sustainable Energy Ireland's Warmer Homes Scheme to more households, with half the amount to be used by the scheme in winter 2008.

Bord Gais has purchased a 30MW windfarm development in the west of Ireland. The total investment in the windfarm will be about E50 million and it is expected to be operational in 2011. Earlier in 2008, Bord Gais announced that it had earmarked E1 billion for investment in new business areas.