Reksoft Live - Company Facts

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.

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 Software Makers Play Ping-Pong!

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:46:00 -0400

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 Plays Football to Win

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:31:00 -0400

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.

Product Development Outsourcing – Russia’s Best Practices

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:14:00 -0400

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!"

Reksoft Launches a SAP Practice

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:27:00 -0400

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.

The Future of Russian IT – Reksoft on TV

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:11:00 -0400

On Friday, October 6th, Sergey Dudin - the Director of Reksoft Moscow, appeared on RBC TV.

The round table at the "In Focus" daily show brought together representatives of the leading Russian IT companies to discuss the current situation in the industry and the existing issues.

The topics discussed included the support of the Russian government to the maturing IT industry, the possible enhancements to IT education in Russia, the recognition of professional qualities of Russian software developers in the global marketplace. Sergey, being the only representative from an export-oriented software development company spoke about the kinds of governmental support the IT industry receives in other countries.

Reksoft is open for media enquiries and is proud to have been featured by popular TV and radio channels both in Russia and in Europe.

See more of us on TV:

RBC TV, "In Focus", view part 1 (in Russian)
RBC TV, "In Focus", view part 2 (in Russian)
Rossiya, Vesti News, view a clip (in Russian)
Tagesschau commentary, view a clip (in German)
Deutsche Welle, view a clip (in German)