Luxoft company news

Luxoft to Demonstrate Power Grid Management Framework Integrated with Space-Time Insight at DistribuTECH 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0300

Integration of Luxoft DMFusion and Space-Time Insight�s Geospatial Software Accelerates the Delivery of Situational Intelligence Solutions for the Power Grid

Luxoft Teams Up with Atmel to Complement its Application Development Services with ZigBee� Smart Energy� Offering

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0300

High Quality Hardware Design and Software Development Expertise Reduce Time to Market & Costs Associated with Wireless Energy Device Creation for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)

Luxoft Cited in a report on Offshore Innovation by Independent Research Firm

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300

Luxoft Named Among Vendors that have created client-centric programs to facilitate more productive partnerships.

Luxoft to Sponsor The Economist�s �World in 2012 Festival�

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300

“At Luxoft, we are always trying to stay on track of the latest industry and business developments. We are excited to hear opinions and ideas that will shape the months ahead from the high-powered speakers and people who move the headlines, as well as to offer Luxoft’s view on the newest trends in the information technology space”,�
Przemyslaw Berendt, VP Global Marketing Luxoft.

Luxoft Named Outsourcing Provider of the Year at 2011 National Outsourcing Association Awards

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0300

Company�s Poland-based Development Center Honored with the Outsourcing Destination of the Year Award

Outsourcing Industry Gathers for NOA Best Practice Awards Ceremony

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0300

The National Outsourcing Association Awards (NOAAs) took place last night (10th November), at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London. Now in its 8th year, the NOAAs celebrate best practice in outsourcing projects, and reward end-users, suppliers, advisors and destinations.

The awards were presented by comedian, Imran Yusuf. After the presentations and speeches, there was a Bollywood dance workshop courtesy of Indian BPO provider, Wipro. The party continued well into the wee small hours.

The proud winners were:

BPO Contract of the Year

National Rail Communication Centre and National Rail Enquiries

This contract delivered very real benefits to the general public through improved information and continuous performance improvements throughout the year.

IT Outsourcing Project of the Year

Wipro Technologies and Diversey

The judges felt the project was a powerful example of continuous IT service improvement and demonstrated various improvement techniques working together to generate impressive benefits, whilst streamlining the budget spend on IT infrastructure and new application development.

Financial Services Outsourcing Project of the Year

Co-Operative Banking Group, Operational Partnerships Management, Implementation of alternative format provision

This project involved a developing a future-ready scalable solution for customers with dyslexia or learning difficulties. The bespoke service allows for documentation to be designed to meet the specific needs of the customer, including the use of MP3 and Wav technology, as well a secure pin process for the visually impaired.

Public Sector Outsourcing Project of the Year

Arvato and Chesterfield Borough Council

Judges were impressed with Arvato’s transparent approach to service delivery – flagging, discussing and resolving issues in ways that prioritise citizen satisfaction and value for money.

Telecommunications, Utilities and High-Tech Outsourcing Project of the Year

Efficio Consulting Ltd and Thames Water

The panel felt that this award reshaped the procurement outsourcing space, by moulding the best features of a classic consulting engagement and a traditional outsourcing model. The results gave compelling benefits, enabling Thames Water to exceed all of the original project objectives.

Offshoring Operation of the Year

RR Donnelley and Anglian Water

This offshore pilot has proved a resounding success – delivering an effective solution for processing the large amount of correspondence generated by Anglian Water’s customers. This operation was recognised for bringing together the best outsourcing operations with excellent workflow technology.

Outsourcing Professional of the Year

KPMG – Shamus Rae

The judges felt that Shamus showed deep domain expertise, extraordinary creativity and was a very strong candidate based upon his industry experience helping organisations with strategy, implementation and execution of change programmes focused on corporate services.

Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year

Luxoft

The judges felt that Luxoft’s submission showed excellent depth in all key areas of successful outsourcing, along with copious good examples of corporate social responsibility across all of its collaborations.

Outsourcing Contact Centre Provider of the Year

bss and Office for National Statistics and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

The 2011 Census contact centre handled nearly 1 million phone calls, in 10 weeks, without any downtime. This project won due to its complexity, while not getting in the way of delivering a solution to the massive benefit of the authorities and the public alike.

Outsourcing Advisory of the YearHogan Lovells International LLP

Over the last year, Hogan Lovells has advised on most of the key outsourcings in the asset management, insurance and life and pensions sectors, including Aegon, F&C and Scottish Widows. This was a closely fought award; however, the judges felt that Hogan Lovells consistently delivered a wide variety of innovative and high-profile solutions throughout the year.

Offshoring Destination of the Year

Poland

Poland is the sole European country to demonstrate positive economic growth throughout the crisis. The total value of British investment in Poland has now reached $3.54 billion. The judges felt that the entry from Luxoft was extremely strong and demonstrated that Poland has remained price competitive with the required labour skills. It is expected the Polish IT market will maintain its status as one of the CEE’s fastest growing IT markets over the 2010–2014 forecast period.

Outsourcing End-User of the Year

Thames Water and Efficio Consulting Ltd

Thames Water’s “fully integrated consultancy” delivery model has challenged the market norm, creating compelling benefits. This project has been rewarded for its strong focus on leadership and relationship management. This emphasis on an effective gain-share pricing model has resulted in cost savings far greater than set out in its internal business case.

Award for Innovation in Outsourcing

Serco and Barclays Cycle Hire

Serco delivered Boris Johnson’s vision of making London a genuinely cycle friendly city, whilst having to learn an entirely new business and multi-sourcing with 10 sub-contractors. With 5000 bikes, and 10,000 docking points, the system is highly complex, yet very easy to use, making a positive contribution to the lives of 1000s of environmentally conscious Londoners.

Award for Best Practice in Outsourcing

Co-Operative Banking Group, Operational Partnerships Management, Supplier Operating Model

CFS’s relationship management capability provides a disciplined consistent, approach to making CFS an intelligent customer. It powers effective collaboration between all business stakeholders within the sourcing lifecycle – nurturing a culture of common language and thinking across the full range Co-operative business units.

Award for Academic AchievementHML – Anu Biswas

2011 NOA Pathway graduate Anu Biswas worked her way to the top of the class with a tailored outsourcing development plan for an actual project, and input these into the HML strategy. Her project focused on development of the right skills, knowledge and behaviours to be able to strategically lead an outsourcing organisation.

Award for Corporate Social Responsibility

Infosys BPO Ltd and Project Genesis

This successful project follows a “train the trainer” model and has reached out to over 85,000 students through 2888 academicians in 1527 educational institutions in India.
Judges agreed this innovative programme provides students with the relevant proficiencies to perform well in this dynamic industry. Additional acknowledgements were made on the range of the industry partnerships and use of technology in analysing skills and enhancing language skills.

ENDS

Contact Glenn Hickling 0207 292 8687
Notes To Editors

The National Outsourcing Association (NOA) is a non-profit organisation that represents the interests of outsourcing end users, suppliers and support services. Its focus is on delivering education, excellence and collaboration opportunities in all areas of outsourcing, including ITO, BPO and KPO.

NOAAs have been an annual event since 2003.

The NOAAs chief aim is to share and celebrate outsourcing best practice.

Luxoft and News360 Partner to Create the Next-Generation Newsreader for Web-based Mobile Devices

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0400

Facing a Major Launch in North America, News360 Selected Luxoft for its Mobile Development Expertise, High-Quality Collaboration Skills & Innovation Capabilities

Prestigious Industry Accolades Recognize Luxoft as a Leading Financial Services Technology Partner

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0400

Honors from FinTech 100 & World Finance Magazine Validate Company�s Proven High-end Software Development Capabilities for the Banking Sector

Luxoft smart grid software platform expands DR value

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0400

Luxoft has announced its new demand management automation platform, DMFusion which enables utility companies, transmission system operators and energy retailers to develop efficient demand management solutions that can modulate power consumption, thus preventing outages, flattening demand and reducing costs.

CEE SECR 2011: Luxoft to Sponsor and Present at the Largest Annual Software Conference in Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0400

Moscow, New York, October 26, 2011 - Luxoft, a member of IBS Group and a leading global provider of advanced application and product development services, today announced that it will serve as a Golden Sponsor and speaker at the 7^th annual Central & Eastern European Software Engineering Conference (CEE-SECR 2011). The conference will take place October 31 through November 3 at the Digital October Business Center in Moscow, Russia.

Luxoft will be involved in four presentations during the CEE-SECR 2011. On November 1 from 3:00-3:30pm, Yaroslav Domaratsky, director of Subscriber Equipment Development Division at JSC NIS, will lead the presentation, entitled “Project ERA-GLONASS: Requirements, Project Plan, Results Achieved and Collaboration with Luxoft.” This session will be dedicated to "ERA-GLONASS" system requirements and will outline the main differences between "ERA-GLONASS" and eCall systems. The presentation will touch on the plans for 2011 and the results of collaboration between JSC NIS and Luxoft in developing a complex demo system for a major global automobile operator.

In the second presentation, Konstantin Gurnov, head of Luxoft’s Agile practice, will lead the session titled, “Base Enterprise Agile Toolkit,” taking place on November 2 from 12:00-12:30pm. During the presentation, Gurnov will outline the critical toolkit elements needed for successful group transformation from distributed to Agile delivery methods. Along with the toolkit, Gurnov will present a case study describing Luxoft’s work in leading the transformation of delivery methods for one of the world’s leading investment banks. The presentation will also take a closer look at Luxoft’s proven approach to Agile, which has allowed more than 15 teams spread across four locations to deliver new quality product versions every two weeks. Among the topics covered will be building relationships with the clients, management, and leadership, developing effective teams and promoting education on new skills and tools.

The third presentation “Foundation of technology practice. People, technologies, expertise and movement” will take place on November 1st from 17:30–18:00. Dmitry Sysolyatin, Project Manager at Luxoft will share his experience in forming and a successful technology team using example of Luxoft SharePoint Practice.

Lastly, Grigory Gusev, SEPG Manager for Luxoft’s Aerospace Delivery Center, will lead the session, “Concordant Suite of Process Models” from 11:30-12:00pm on November 3. In this 30-minute talk, Gusev will discuss the need for outsourcing companies to ensure compliance with the various standards and methodologies faced by clients in different markets. One way to do so is by establishing suites of detailed mappings of model requirements to company’s policies, work instructions and templates, resulting in a single set of process documents that can be clearly traced back to critical source process requirements.

Luxoft believes in the importance of supporting CEE-SECR 2011, a key initiative for the Russian IT industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Luxoft has historically taken an active role in promoting and supporting Russian IT brands throughout the world by participating as a sponsor, thought leader and panel moderator in various industry events in Russia, Europe and the US.

“IT events aimed not only at scientific know-how, but also at practical experience, are invaluable for our industry,” says Alexander Leonov, marketing director at Luxoft. “CEE-SECR 2011 is an example of a unique technological platform for experience sharing and the exploration of new technological solutions. We look forward to identifying the trends that will shape the future of software development while learning the opinions of our colleagues and customers in this sphere.”

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About Luxoft

Luxoft, a member of IBS Group, is an emerging global leader in application and product engineering outsourcing services for enterprise IT organizations and software vendors. Luxoft builds lasting partnerships with its clients, such as Boeing, IBM, Harman, Avaya, Areva, Sabre and other global leaders, based on the culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and deep domain expertise. Luxoft offers global delivery capability through its network of the state-of-the-art delivery centres in North America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. Luxoft`s customers benefit from the right mix of technology skills, industry knowledge, best-of-breed processes and methodologies, and a choice of engagement models.

About IBS Group

IBS Group is a leading IT services and software development provider in Eastern Europe. Through its two principal subsidiaries, Luxoft and IBS IT Services, it offers a wide variety of information technology services, such as software development, IT outsourcing, business and IT consulting, business applications implementation. IBS Group is headquartered in Russia and has business operations in Russia, Canada, Germany, Romania, Poland, Switzerland, the UK, Ukraine, the USA, Vietnam and Singapore. IBS Group employs more than 7,355 people worldwide. In 2010 financial year, IBS Group reported US GAAP revenues of US$656mm.

IBS Group’s Global Depositary Receipts are listed on the Regulated Market (General Standard) at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Bloomberg: IBSG: GR; Reuters: IBSGq.DE). IBS Group is majority-owned by management with portfolio investors holding 35% of the Group’s share capital. For more information on IBS Group, please visit www.ibsgr.com.

About CEE-SECR

CEE-SECR (www.cee-secr.org) is the key annual software event in Central and Eastern Europe and is regularly attended by about 1000 participants from local industry: researchers and engineers, developers, opinion leaders, production managers, entrepreneurs, and investors.

Media Contact:
Julia Simonova
212 -964-9900 (x228)
JSimonova@luxoft.com

Luxoft DMFusion Smart Grid Software Platform Overcomes Limitations of Today�s Demand Response Systems

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0400

DMFusion Provides the Critical Foundation Needed to Prevent Power Outages, Flatten Demand & Reduce Costs; Empowers Consumers to Better-Manage Energy Usage

Luxoft Named to Software Magazine�s 29th Annual Software 500

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0400

Software Magazine Ranks Luxoft as one of the World�s Largest Software Companies

Luxoft Honored with the Frost & Sullivan 2011 European Telematics and Infotainment Competitive Strategy Innovation Award

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0400

Uniqueness of Strategy, Competitive Intelligence and Market Growth Position Luxoft as the Leading Global Technology Solutions Provider for the Automotive Sector

Luxoft Consulting Awarded Contract To Replace Business Sysytem At Prinston Plasma Physics Laboratory

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:18:18 +0300

New York, NY, June 16, 2010 – Luxoft Consulting Strategies, Inc (LCSI), a division of Luxoft Consulting, Inc, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to provide strategic consulting on the planning for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) replacement project. Work on the project began in May 2010.

LCSI will assist PPPL in selecting the new ERP platform that will enable the laboratory to increase its operational efficiency and enhance its collaboration with the DOE, customers, and suppliers. Specifically, LCSI will be responsible for requirements gathering, assessment of current state abilities of PPPL’s people, process and technology, and authoring a future state vision and roadmap that reflects the vision of PPPL’s management team. LCSI will also provide assistance to PPPL in creating a request for proposal to potential ERP vendors, and assist with the evaluation of vendor responses. Optionally, LCSI may provide the Independent Verification and Validation (IVV) of the winning vendor’s implementation performance.

Drawing on its existing implementation and research experience, LCSI is firmly positioned to deliver vendor selection strategy and perform the IVV mission. “With IVV, LCSI will be making a full implementation-lifecycle commitment to PPPL’s ERP success,” said Stuart Selip, the head of Luxoft Consulting Strategies, Inc. “Given PPPL’s vision of enabling a world powered by fusion energy and leading discoveries in plasma science and technology, we at LCSI are thrilled to be a part of an effort that would truly benefit mankind.”

About Luxoft Consulting, Inc

Established as a consulting arm of Luxoft, Luxoft Consulting, Inc. delivers consulting expertise, on-site staffing, and project management services in all aspects of Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Rich Internet Technologies to Fortune 500 and leading mid-market companies. The company’s suite of services is optimized to guide customers through the right strategic decisions --from the very first workshop through implementation and final delivery. Luxoft Consulting helps clients grow, maximize ROI and gain competitive advantage in the market by delivering cost effective, mature and industry-specific solutions. The company’s expertise spans the financial services, banking, insurance, media, pharmaceutical, and education sectors. Luxoft Consulting is headquartered in New York, NY. www.luxoft.com/consulting/

About PPPL

PPPL, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is a collaborative national center for science and innovation leading to an attractive fusion energy source. Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars. In the interior of stars, matter is converted into energy by the fusion, or joining, of the nuclei of light atoms to form heavier elements. At PPPL, physicists use a magnetic field to confine plasma. Scientists hope eventually to use fusion energy for the generation of electricity. http://www.pppl.gov/

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