Reksoft Live

Russian software developer celebrates its 19 birthday

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:32:00 -0400

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.

Reksoft goes green

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:39:00 -0400

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 sponsors scientific engineering contest for young people

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:10:00 -0400

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 academic courses

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:41:00 -0400

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.

Now Reksoft on Twitter

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:21:00 -0400

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 speaks at roundtable on social responsibility

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:23:00 -0400

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.

Mature Outsourcing Services

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:39:00 -0400

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 Launches Training Seminars in Cooperation with Global Vendors

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:01:00 -0400

Reksoft Software Engineering Training Center hold seminar on Java technology in cooperation with Sun Microsystems.

Sun’ leading Java evangelist presented to Reksoft developers and heads of projects new software development platform Rich Internet Applications – JavaFX.

“Our company has been investing much into the constant proficiency of its human resources”, said Ekaterina Aludauri, Reksoft HR Director. “And we highly appreciate our strategic partners’ help. Today we are launching series of training on global vendor products and technologies. Our next step is ADO.Net Entity Framework/LINQ seminar with Microsoft”.

Reksoft Opens a New Development Office

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:48:00 -0400

Reksoft, an expert software outsourcing provider, announces the launch of a new development office in Voronezh.

Keeping up with the expanding of the delivery capability, Reksoft chooses the most promising sourcing locations in Russia to open a software development center. Voronezh city, hosting 10 universities and about 40 R&D institutions, offers a considerable number of highly-qualified software developers for labour market each year.

As one of the major reasons to find a subsidiary in Voronezh, Reksoft sees the relationships with the regional universities. "We selected Voronezh due to an abundant technical talent pool and moderate competition on the labor market,"- says Ekaterina Aludauri, Reksoft HR Director - "Software and test engineers in the new office have already undergone extensive adaptation trainings in our St.Petersburg facility, and we are confident that our Voronezh colleagues have taken to Reksoft corporate culture and working practices."

SAP Outsourcing Practice Brings New Clients to Reksoft

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:35:00 -0400

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.

Russian Outsourcing Vendor Celebrates 17th Birthday

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:32:00 -0400

May 30th saw the celebration of 17th anniversary of Reksoft, St.Petersburg-based software outsourcing provider. The past year saw the company’s revenue doubled (up to 22.6 mln. USD) and the headcount drawing to 400. New blue chip companies such as bhn, NovaStor, First Data International, Tourgenius.ru joined the list of Reksoft valued clients looking for the high quality software development services and IT and outsourcing consulting.

Reksoft celebrated its birthday at a full swing and brought together everyone from St.Petersburg, Moscow and foreign offices to the picturesque shore of the Gulf of Finland for the festivity.

We appreciate all the help and support from the clients and partners, who selected Reksoft as the provider of professional software outsourcing services. We would like to take the opportunity to thank them for their choice and to confirm that we look forward to continuing our cooperation in the future.

Enterprise Content Management Best Practices Brought to St.Petersburg University by Reksoft

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:36:00 -0400

As Reksoft pursues the strategy of training students from St.Petersburg leading technical universities, the company started spring term in St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics with a training course on document management systems. A new educational track prepared by the experts from Reksoft ECM practice combined the basics of Java technology, an overview of the enterprise content management best practices and hands-on exercises in application development.

Students, who have completed the training classes with excellence, are offered a job position at Reksoft and join the fast growing ECM practice. Members of Reksoft ECM practice are engaged in more than a dozen of projects on EMC Documentum platform for both Russian and international customers.

SAP Development Course Launched at Reksoft Training Center

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:04:00 -0400

For the first time, Reksoft Training Center has offered a customized course on ABAP development. A comprehensive curriculum was developed for Training Center’s freshmen by Reksoft SAP team.

Reksoft invests heavily in content of its Training Center’s classes to ensure that the enrolled students have access to the most demanded technologies of today’s world. The last few months have seen a number of courses in Microsoft .Net and Java languages.

The present program includes SAP NetWeaver basics, introduction to R/3 Repository, SAP Flight Data Model, techniques of List Creation, advanced Techniques of List Processing, SapScripts, Communication Interfaces in ABAP, etc.

SAP practice was first introduced at Reksoft in mid-2007 with SAP team’s proven, hands-on experience in both SAP platform and ABAP development. Reksoft SAP Practice provides SAP consulting, ABAP development, and SAP Center of Expertise (CoE) services for SAP installations in the CEE and Russia/CIS regions. The offer targets enterprise customers and systems integrators.

Software Testing Knowledge Shared at Reksoft Training Center

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:57:00 -0400

Reksoft Software Engineering Training Center has finished its autumn term with two courses on testing techniques, held for Reksoft test engineers.

The company has been investing much into the constant proficiency of its human resources. Since testing has always been an integral part of software engineering projects at Reksoft, two trainings were launched for knowledge sharing among the test engineers.

The customized classes presented proven and practical techniques for testing software and included insights into unit testing. The recent classes at Reksoft Training Center included courses on .Net and Java technologies for St.Petersburg students.

Reksoft Customer Reveals Software Outsourcing Experience

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:28:00 -0400

Reksoft, being an offshore software development company with the international exposure, is always proud to present the success of their customers. This November, Reksoft client, First Data International , the leading e-commerce provider, was invited to speak at BITKOM Outsourcing Summit in Frankfurt and revealed the best practices in software outsourcing to Russia.

Scalability in resources, cost savings and the necessity for First Data to stay focused on their core business - these were the major factors that made the company consider outsourcing. Since short travel time and close time zones were also important, First Data only searched for the outsourcing provider in the nearshore European zone.

Reksoft is honored to have been chosen for the professionalism, flexibility, quality focus and a structured methodology, strong project management skills, competitive pricing, attitude and commitment, and German language capabilities.