ManageEngine has announced a major expansion across the UK and Ireland, confirming the region is now its second-largest global market, generating 10 per cent of global revenue and growing 20 per cent year on year. It matters because the growth is tied directly to businesses modernising IT operations, meaning demand is coming from customers actively replacing manual processes rather than only adding new tools on top of existing systems.

ManageEngine is the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, providing an integrated platform covering service management, cybersecurity, compliance and automation. It has grown from ten employees in 1996 to a team of 6,000 within Zoho's 18,000-strong global organisation.

The company's UK and Ireland footprint includes three data centres, in London, Manchester and Dublin, alongside a regional headquarters in Milton Keynes, positioned to meet customer requirements around data sovereignty and residency.

Chief executive Rajesh Ganesan said an Irish office is likely to follow, adding: "It makes sense. We already have a data centre there and a growing customer base. Ireland will be an important part of our regional expansion."

Ganesan said the region has recorded 60 per cent year-on-year growth in cloud adoption since 2018, which the company links to a wider shift toward cloud-native business operations among UK and Irish enterprises.

He said: "We're helping businesses across the UK and Ireland modernise and simplify their IT operations to reduce costs, strengthen cyber resilience, meet data sovereignty requirements, and deliver reliable digital services to their users."

Ganesan also pointed to the company's technical support model as a differentiator, saying: "We don't outsource. We believe in face-to-face interaction. Our customers tell us again and again how much they value that."

For the sector, sustained double-digit growth built on data sovereignty infrastructure and integrated service delivery, rather than point-solution sales, signals that IT management providers are increasingly competing on operational trust and local presence, not just product features.

Source: Irish Tech News / IT Brief UK