Minsk, Belarus: Campus  #2 (Minsk was the center for microelectronics and information technology development in the former Soviet Union)
IT Workforce:	The entire staff is college educated. 100% have university degrees. 100 % of Systems employees have higher education in leading country universities, such as Moscow State University, Belorussian State University, Belorussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics etc. 7 employees possess PhD degree in Computer Science. 4 top managers completed MBA education. 17 employees are winners of international and local competitions in informatics and mathematics 6 employees  are Sun Java2 certified 7 employees  are MCP & MCSD certified 2 employees  are Oracle certified (DBA) 2 employees are IBM certified (WebSphere
Skills:	Procedural Languages + 3GLs ActiveX, Assembler,    COBOL, C, Delphi, MS Visual Basic, Perl, PL/X, Power Builder, REXX, Fortran, Pascal, Object Oriented + Internet Languages ASP, C++, CGI, CORBA, HTML, Java, Java Beans, Java Script, JSP, PHP, Smalltalk, UML, XML, XSL, C#, VB.NET, IDEF, BPML, ActionScript (Flash) Database/DB front end/FileAccess Btrieve, Clipper, CICS, DB2 Universal DB, DB2 for MVS/SA, dBase, IMS, Informix, Lotus Approach, MS Foxpro, MS SQL Server, ODBC, Oracle7, Oracle8, Oracle8i(9.2, i), Paradox, Sybase, Visualizer, Visual Age, VSAM, Interbase, MySQL, HyperSonic Hardware platform skills HP, Intel PC x86, IBM AS/400, IBM S/370, IBM S/390, SUN SPARCStation Software platform skills AIX, Apple Mac OS, Guardian, Linux, Motif, MS DOS , MS Windows 3.x, MS Win 95/98, MS Windows NT, MVS, OS/2, OS/370, OS/390, UNIX, X-Windows, VM, CICS, Ethernet, IBM LAN Server, IPX, ISDN, LANtastic, MS Networks, Netbios, Novell NetWare, Novell Netware 4.x, TCP/IP, Token Ring, VTAM, X.25, X.400 CRM Skills Siebel, Oracle, MS Navision/ Axapta, Sage ERP Skills SAP, SAP R2/R3 Consulting, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RedThorn Pervasive Computing Skills Palm OS, MS Pocket PC (Windows CE), SYMBIAN EPOC32, J2ME, Ms Smartphone, BREW, M-Business Server (AvantGo), CodeWarrior, WAP, MS Pocket IE, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, GPRS Groupware Platforms IBM Rational Suite, MS SharePoint E-business skills (including WebServers Netscape Commerce Server, WebLogic (BEA Systems), Commerce One, iPlanet (SUN), Microsoft IIS, Oracle, SunOne, IBM WebSphere App Server, Lotus Domino Web Server, IBM WAS Commerce Suite, Jboss, Apache Web Server, Tomcat Vertical Application skills Financial & Banking, Insurance, Supply Chain management & e-procurement, General e-commerce, Telecom, CRM/ERP, Navigation, Searching, search engines More Tools for Analysis & Modeling XDE Modeler, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, ER Win, BP Win
Languages:	English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
Rates:	Rates for offshore developers range from Position Rate (USD / hour) Project managers US$ 19/ hr Business Analysts / Architects US$ 17/ hr Senior developers / Leads US$ 16/ hr Mid-level developers US$ 15/ hr Junior developers US$ 12/ hr Test engineers US$ 12/ hr

Why choose us ?

- Experience with large projects

Large projects require very sophisticated organizational processes, practices etc. compared to projects of small and medium size. Usually they are built on iterations, with separate planning, etc. and more formal procedures and assessments. We have “battlefield” experience in the successful execution of such projects.

- High-end engineering capabilities and rare skills.

Today, almost every software development vendor can propose Java or NET development. But only a few companies can offer a combination of usual software development with such rare areas as:

• embedded software development (robotics, automated hardware/software complexes, drivers etc)
• hardware design and development, DSP
• telco: VoIP, Bluetooth, WiFi, RFID, H323, etc
• OLAP, Data Mining, Data Warehousing

- Strong research power.

Everybody can develop software products according to well defined specifications. We are proud that we have enough scientific prowess to develop not only software, but also the background for software – math algorithms and models, financial schemas etc. The investigation of some scientific problem is usually impossible to outsource, but not in our case.

- Investments into technology innovations.

Everybody can use available technologies. But only a few are ready to invest into the development of new technologies. Now we are actively working in the VoIP sphere in association with leaders in that area (Nokia, AT&T, MTS, France Telecom etc). “We write laws” for technology.

- Business knowledge accumulation.

It is a standard practice to hire/involve subject matter experts for our projects. It is incorrect just to plan a required number of developers for some new project. Requirements can be not detailed and are not clear for developers, some additional input can be needed from the development company – so only people with good knowledge of this subject area can help here. It brings additional expenses, but the added value is much higher.

Regarding the facts:

• We work closely with the JBoss company in development of their products and technologies. For example, JAIN-SLEE technology is actively developed (smart VoIP networks) and is used in the mutual project between ourselves and MTS (Mobile Tele Systems)

• We participate as a primary contractor in researching programs for the University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, and a number of other universities (including local ones).

• We are participating in the E-Government program of the UK in conjunction with the University of Liverpool.

• We are in sixth position among Byelorussian software companies according to the latest public survey and are holding first place in a weighted survey (which considers company size) – the top5 contestants are companies 5-10 times bigger than our company.

• We are the primary subcontractor for the E-Government program in Russia including the E-Moscow program. There are many projects of the national and local Russian Governments (BP automation etc).

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