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... his outstanding effort in creating a global organization at the Global Russia Business Meeting in Ljubljana on May 16-18. Co-hosted by the government of Slovenia and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, the Global Russia Business Meeting aims to be the foremost annual gathering of Russian business leaders and their global counterparts. The goal of the meeting is to identify the opportunities and challenges that shape the growth environment of Russian companies. The meeting was attended...

... After an unsuccessful search for a parts manufacturer or for an off-the-shelf design solution, Sandler discovered a need in the marketplace for an easier way to design and order customized equipment and decided to invest in developing such a solution himself.  Sandler turned to Luxoft, Epiphan’s current development partner, with his idea of developing a portal and infrastructure to support it. Luxoft rose up to the task by not only immediately extending its existing offshore team by seven engineers...

... by the World Bank, in light of the revelation that it had provided improper benefits to the staff of some of its clients back in 2000. The Satyam scandal was more recent and serious, but the two combined to dent confidence in Indian outsourcing, claims Yuri Elkin, managing director of the financial services practice at rival Russian-based outsourcing provider, Luxoft. “Satyam’s scandal cast a shadow on the entire industry’s image,” he says. “Companies realised that...

... networks Routers and switches VPN products PBX/VoIP Blade server networking solutions Wireless technologies WLAN infrastructure WLAN planning Network Management products NMS/EMS suites Mobile devices Client-server applications Mobile platforms IMS products IPTV products and components (STB and middleware) Service Delivery Platform Embedded Systems Development

... Performance Testing Product Engineering Domain Focus Areas E-commerce Telecom Applications, IPTV Energy and Utilities Media Mainframes Technology expertise Languages J2EE, J2ME, J2SE, .NET, LAMP, C, C++, PERL, PHP, PL/1 and PL/SQL COBOL (CICS/VSAM, IMS), Fortran, IBM assembler language, Web Technologies HTML, Flash, Flex, SilverLight, XML, Web Services. LDAP Portals BEA Web Logic Portal, IBM WebSphere Portal, JBoss Portal, LifeRay, Microsoft Sharepoint Platforms IBM CICS, JBoss Messaging,...

... European revenues grew to 47% of overall business during last year. The overall Russian IT services export industry, according to an industry source, was estimated to be at $1 billion in 2005 with an expected annual growth rate of around 10%. Luxoft claims that its revenues make up a quarter of the accumulated revenues of the ten largest Russian software development services exporters, making it a leading player in the field. Financial year 2006 was characterized by overall expansion: Luxoft grew its...

... international perception of the country. Russia's IT services industry is currently growing at about 10 per cent per year and was worth $1bn in 2005. But despite Russia being in Gartner's top 10 list of near-shore outsourcing locations, the analyst claims companies are still wary of sending work there. Ian Marriot, research VP at Gartner, told silicon.com: "One of the biggest challenges is global public perception of Russia as a place to take work to. If you look at what companies are doing, they...

A Russian application outsourcing provider has chosen Vancouver as its first Canadian location and as an expansion of its North American presence A Russian application outsourcing provider has chosen Vancouver as its first Canadian location and as an expansion of its North American presence. Luxoft, based in Moscow, has been in BC since late November and intends to employ about 15 people by April. The company’s Canadian operation is being led by Michael Vax, a Russian native who originally formed...

... destination – largely due to cost, but also due to the numbers of skilled graduates with experience gained within the IT sector. These factors boosted India in particular. However, there have been a number of high profile offshoring failures amid claims that some UK companies jumped too quickly onto the offshoring bandwagon. Many organisations were deemed not to have adequately assessed the consequences and not considered alternative options. Nearshore outsourcing is now on the rise, with end users...

... destination largely due to cost, but also due to the numbers of skilled graduates and the experience gained within the IT sector, with these factors boosting India especially. However, there were a number of high profile offshoring failures amid claims that some UK companies jumped too quickly onto the offshoring bandwagon without adequately assessing the consequences and without considering alternative options. Nearshore outsourcing is now on the rise, with end users sending processes to locations...

... building a thriving software export industry. Literally so, in the case of Russia's President Vladimir Putin. On a state visit to India in December, 2004, Putin stopped off in Bangalore, the center of India's software development industry, to see for himself the secrets of India's success. He came away singing the praises of government-backed "technoparks" and other forms of state support for IT development. A month after his trip to India, in a speech at a scientific township near Novosibirsk...

... business-process outsourcing amounted to $34 billion in 2005 and could double by 2007. India's 60% share of the pie is set to decline, in part because success there is driving up wages and job turnover steeply. That leaves room for other nations to stake their claims. By 2007, Gartner figures, they'll pull in a combined $30 billion from outsourced services work. Some contenders in the global outsourcing race are big developing countries looking to parlay low wages and plentiful labor into export service jobs....

... Vereschagin, CFO LUXOFT on business and legal aspects of outsourcing to Russia and LUXOFT in particular. Developing software for American companies isn’t anything new to Moscow based Luxoft. The company, which started in 1999 with two Fortune 500 clients, claims it is well aware of what American companies expect from business, legal and technical perspectives when it comes to software development. Boeing, Dell, Google, IBM and Intel are a handful of companies that apparently agree. “New clients don’t expect...

... Boris Gromov, governor of Moscow region, said last week at a meeting at the IT and Communications Ministry, where two tech park projects were presented. One is a national programming center in Dubna, a center for nuclear research north of Moscow, that aims to attract 30,000 specialists churning out products worth 16.5 billion rubles ($594 million) per year in the next decade. The second project, in Chernogolovka, northeast of Moscow, is eventually targeting products worth 1.2 billion rubles ($43 million)...

... said in an interview. "The only thing that we have 'Made in Russia' is oil, and this is bad. The government should begin to worry about that part of economy which is not connected with oil but with the brain," Karachinsky said. Fursenko, himself a scientist, agreed. He said that the government, albeit belatedly, is now taking steps toward a "knowledge-based economy." The government will try to help the country's vast network of research institutes focus more on market demands...

... them in a rapidly growing environment where they can develop themselves from a programmer to a project manager or department head within a few years and show them exactly what they need to do, it makes them hugely productive and loyal." LUXOFT claims an attrition rate a U.S. company might die for, something less than 2 percent. We mentioned there was a connection between Kurchatov Institute and LUXOFT. One of the programs underway, (subsidized by the U.S. Department of Energy) is the retraining...

... As a leader in Russia’s growing software services industry, LUXOFT is ISO 9001 certified and was the country’s first supplier to achieve a Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 4 certification. The company aims to be at Level 5 by 2004. Growth Strategy and Business Focus Mainstream offshore services started at the low end of the IT value chain and have been expanding into international markets. LUXOFT, on the other hand, focused early on custom development...

... e-mail and telemarketing to contact 'CXO-level' [executives with high-level titles such as CIO or COO] people who have the authority to purchase." Young says marketing is a challenge to automate, given the creativity and flexibility required, but claims KARMA helps to automate the nurturing required on a small-scale or a large-scale project. KARMA incorporates rules that trigger reminders and follow-up e-mail messages, for instance, to potential customers not ready to make a purchase. In Luxoft's...

... dealing with the arbitrary bureaucracy in the regions is difficult and expensive. Moreover, few Russian managers want to move to the regions once they have set up in Moscow. A Russian company with Western management, Integrated Marketing Solutions (IMS), provides what Adrian Stewart, IMS's Client Services Manager, calls "integrate customer service" to deal with these problems. Over the last two years it has been building a database of freelance workers throughout Russia's regions that...

... interested!" said Karachinsky. But-deservedly or not-the country has an image problem. Russia's international reputation as a snow-covered Wild West where legal protection for intellectual property rights-as well as just about all other rights-are flimsy and easily violated, rattles many foreign companies. Surprisingly, says Jim Hitch from the St. Petersburg branch of the Baker & MacKenzie law firm, Russia has all of the right laws in place. "The difference between Russia and the U.S' and ,...