The Software makers of St. Petersburg gathered on Saturday, July 21^st, for a city-wide software developers' Ping-Pong Tournament!  Eight corporate teams (four members each) competed for ‘the gold': Sun Microsystems, JetBrains, Reksoft, KrasnaYa, DataArt, Radioavionika, i-Free, Starup (ALMWorks + VisualSVN).

According to Svetlana Vereshagina (Marketing Manager, Systems Integration BU), captain of the Reksoft team, our hardest game was with Sun Microsystems, who ended up placing first in the tournament.  Reksoft did its best in the games, exhibiting heavy team support and came out third in the overall contest, which we are very proud of :)  

Reksoft football team fought to become the best among St. Petersburg ICT companies, winning the annual football cup among amateurs. This is the year of glory of champion’s title, and we at Reksoft are proud of our team.

Reksoft has been playing in non-professional league of St.Petersburg ICT companies for the last 9 years but the best results so far were the fourth place in the competition in 2001. This year the victory finally turned to Reksoft and eight out of the total nine games were won by Reksoft sportsmen.

The sports traditions are strong in the company and team sport is considered among the most powerful drivers of team building. Among other company-supported team sports like carting and volleyball, football grew up to be the most successful and recognized. For the last decade a strong football team was developed in Reksoft with new employees actively joining it.

More individual types of sport are welcomed in the company. The corporate contracts are arranged with the best fitness clubs, swimming pools, etc.

SoftBrands Medallion is among the successful software products, entirely developed in Russia. Once upon a time, Medallion - a property management software package - was a Reksoft proprietary product, marketed under the WinnLodge brand, in Switzerland.

Today, Medallion is one of the flagship products of SoftBrands, an American hospitality and manufacturing software company, and this Fall, Medallion has experienced its 1000^th installation!

Reksoft is not only responsible for the full-cycle product co-development, including Product Management, Project Management and Development, but continues to provide maintenance, 2^nd and 3^rd line support to SoftBrands and its customers.

We are very proud of this Russo-American collaboration on software product development and the achievements of Medallion itself. We are very grateful to SoftBrands, for their way of letting us know, that they care too. And the coffee mugs for the entire Medallion team at Reksoft, commemorating the 1000^th installation of Medallion, and the accompanying warm ‘Thank you' note from Steve VanTassel, a Sr. Vice President at SoftBrands - it all makes us feel good:

"We want to thank you and your team for all their hard work, support and dedication in making Medallion a truly global application... I am looking forward to 2007 and a strong start toward the second 1,000 Medallion properties!"

As part of our strategic development plan and our continuous effort to expand the range of custom software development services offered to clients, Reksoft has recently launched an SAP practice.

Reksoft pool of qualified software developers has been augmented by experienced SAP resources, ready to take on projects for our new and existing customers. The team is expected to count 30 SAP professionals by the end of the first quarter of 2007. We hope that this new and rare for Russian software development service providers' technology competence will enable Reksoft to enhance our service portfolio and make us an even better partner for our clients.

Reksoft SAP team has proven, hands-on experience with the following modules:

1. Financial modules (FI)
2. HR module including HR-PA, HR-PT, HR-PY

Reksoft SAP development professionals are experienced in the following fields:

• Development of standard interactive reports;
• Development of User Interfaces;
• Transactions development;
• Enhancement of standard SAP-objects with the use of user-exit and BADI technologies;
• Development of standard interactive reports;
• Development of User Interfaces;
• Transactions development;
• Enhancement of standard SAP-objects with the use of user-exit and BADI technologies;
• Data dictionary objects development;
• Knowledge of logical databases
• Knowledge of the following report development technologies: ALV Grid, ALV Tree;
• Packaged data entry;
• System data input and output;
• Creation of Smart Forms;
• Development of administration and management user info-types;
• Modification of standard info-types;
• Operations with salary calculation scheme;
• Development of functions for the salary calculation scheme;
• Development of rules for the salary calculation scheme;
• Development of operations for salary calculation rules;
• Listings export to MS Word and MS Excel;
• Development of user functional modules;
• Development of table aspects;
• Development of reports using SAP Query;
• Collection of data from multiple R/3 systems with the use of RFC;
• Operations with creating, editing and reversing entries in accounting transactions.

Extensive trainings in the following fields allow our professionals to cover even more tasks:

BC 400 - ABAP Workbench Foundations;
BC 401 - ABAP Objects;
BC 405 - Techniques of List Creation;
BC 410 - Developing User Dialogs;
BC 411 - Advanced ABAP-programming;
BC 415 - Remote Function Calls in ABAP;
BC 420 - Data Transfer;
BC 425 - Enhancements and Modifications;
BC 430 - ABAP Dictionary;
BC 460 - SAPscript: Forms Design and Text Management;
BC 470 - Form Printing With SAP Smart Forms;
D446AW - Delta ABAP Workbench 4.0 to 4.6B;
D620AW - Delta ABAP Workbench SAP R/3;
HR 400 - Payroll Configuration;
HR 350 - Programming in Human Capital Management;
HR 490 - Incentive Wages;
BIT 400 - SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI);
BIT 450 - Exchange Infrastructure Development (SAP XI);
BC 601 - SAP Business Workflow.