Another year has passed and last weekend saw Reksoft employees again gather on the shores of the Gulf of Finland to celebrate 19 years since the company was founded in 1991.

Programmers and testers showed off their skills in singing, dancing, and sports, demonstrating their aptitude for teamwork and cooperation. A barbecue and general knowledge quiz completed the day's celebrations.

The past year has seen a series of remarkable events for Reksoft. The company proved the quality of its software development processes with the award of a CMMi Level-5 certificate, entered the Benelux market with the opening of a new office in Amsterdam, strengthened its Finnish team, and acquired several major new clients.

Today we would like to take the opportunity to thank our clients and partners for their support and cooperation. We greatly value our collaboration and hope to develop it still further as we enter our 20th year of operations.

Aiming to minimise our consumption of natural resources, Reksoft has started a green IT programme focused on saving energy, recycling materials and reducing CO2 emissions.

We began by conducting an environmental audit and followed it up with an employee survey to explore the possibilities for reducing our impact on the environment. Suggestions flew in thick and fast from all over the company, and many have already been implemented.

We have already taken some steps towards reducing Reksoft’s carbon footprint: for instance, the virtualisation of all project servers has been successfully performed, increasing computer efficiency by 20% and reducing electricity consumption by 15%. All the UPS lead-acid batteries are sent to recycle points. A number of virtual meeting tools have been introduced to reduce non-essential business travel. And in a city where snow, narrow lanes and snaking canals can cause traffic to become static, we’ve done our bit to get more cars off the road too.

But Reksoft is striving to improve its environmental performance still further. If you have any stories to share about making your office greener and cleaner, we’d love to hear them!

Reksoft sponsored this year's Baltic Science and Engineering Contest, which sees pupils from middle schools across Russia compete in projects in the natural and exact sciences, with the best chosen by a panel of scientists, teachers and businessmen. The projects were divided into six sectors - mathematics, software development, physics, biology, chemistry and engineering.

The contest is listed as a national academic competition. Since 2001, 27 participants from St. Petersburg have won prizes ranging from laptops and cameras to mobile phones, awarded by the heads of major product companies.

"The guys' work really impressed us," said Igor Kravchenko, Reksoft's Global Delivery Director, who was present at the event. "It's great that, along with technical content, these projects also have some kind of business application that can be developed."

Reksoft has launched its annual academic courses in software development and programming at St. Petersburg State University, the University of Aerospace and St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University.

This year one of the courses will be delivered by Sergey Kuznetsov, head of Reksoft's R&D department. Sergey has developed an authorized course ‘Information System sans Reproche'. During the lectures Sergey will reveal the secrets of information system classification, the pros and cons of each type, evolution potential, usability and more.

We are pleased to announce that Reksoft is now @Reksoft_live on Twitter. Follow @Reksoft_live to receive regular updates about the company, discuss outsourcing pros and cons and emerging trends, and find answers to all your outsourcing questions.

Reksoft HR director Ekaterina Aludauri has made a report on the company’s relations with universities and professional schools at an American Chamber roundtable entitled ‘Socially responsible business’. For any IT company, she stated, close ties with educational institutes are the key to creating tomorrow’s IT ecosystem. The introduction of new courses and lectures held by company staff helps develop skilled employees and responsible customers for the IT industry. Ms. Aludauri cited the example of Reksoft’s Java training courses at St. Petersburg State University, which annually bring a number of the highest-achieving students to work at the company. She also underlined the companies’ role in Green IT principles training for young people.

Reksoft, the St. Petersburg-based software outsourcing provider, celebrated its 18th birthday on Saturday May 30th. The festivities took place beside the Finnish Gulf, with Reksoft employees participating in sporting competitions, singing and dancing, proving that software developers' talents extend far beyond coding and testing.

The past year has been hugely positive for Reksoft, with annual revenues increasing by 22% to $27.5 million, a new production centre opening in Voronezh, Russia, and with the company joining one of Russia's largest IT holdings, Technoserv. Blue-chip companies such as Norilsky Nickel, Gazprom and many others have joined the list of Reksoft's valued clients looking for high-quality software development services and IT and outsourcing consulting.

We appreciate the ongoing support of our clients and partners who have chosen Reksoft to provide professional software outsourcing services. We would like to take the opportunity to thank them for their choice and affirm our continuing cooperation in the future.

Reksoft software outsourcing business unit launched SAP consulting practice last year. A solid team of professional SAP and ABAP development consultants joined the practice and currently Reksoft is proud to have completed eight projects in SAP maintenance outsourcing.

Reksoft SAP projects portfolio features the following tasks:

• configuration and development of the corporate accounting system based on the SAP BI,
• modification of the reporting in financial accounting for the intercompany stock transfer orders and customer overdue items analysis,
• deployment of the interface for sales orders processing for customer’s call center,
• optimization of SAP security concept for different office locations,
• integration of the logistics SAP module and external decentralized WMS based on EDI.

A number of projects included the integration the core components of SAP ERP 2005 and EMC Documentum platform, which proved to be a highly demanded EAI service in large enterprises looking to smoothly bind together their internal applications.

“Launching an SAP Consulting practice, we followed the needs of our European and Russian clients. We can now admit that it was the right decision since in outsourcing the SAP environment support to Reksoft, our customers can count on better business results that deliver flexibility, lower costs and more efficient decision-making,” comments Ekaterina Zabelinskaya, Director, Software & Services BU.

Reksoft SAP Practice provides SAP consulting, ABAP development, and SAP Center of Expertise services for SAP installations in the CEE and Russia/CIS regions. The offer is targeted to enterprise customers and systems integrators.

To learn more about Reksoft SAP Practice function, please Contact our SAP Consulting team.

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.