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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."

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.

.Net Development Course at Reksoft Training Center

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:04:00 -0400

Reksoft launched a new training course on .Net technology for St.Petersburg students.

Reksoft Training Center was established in 2001 and has been offering advanced technology classes for both Reksoft employees and students of senior university years. In the last two months the Training Center held .NET Code Access Security Training and Java & EMC Documentum classes.

The current course features .Net basics, XML and Web Services technologies and ADO.Net and has brought together a dozen of students from the leading technical colleges of St.Petersburg.

Reksoft, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has had a long track of successful projects in .Net development for global enterprises. The company regards Microsoft technologies as one of the key focus areas and has been continuously growing its pool of experienced .Net developers.

Russoft Forum 2007, Reksoft Showcasing at the Event

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:45:00 -0400

Russoft Forum is the annual conference on software outsourcing from Russia and has traditionally been held in St. Petersburg, the country's technology hub. Bringing together both industry leaders, smaller companies and media/analysts, the forum is the place to get all the details on the Russian software outsourcing industry at the industry's meeting place.

This year came as no exception, and Reksoft was among the key participants of the Russoft Forum (former ROSS), with Company's top executives speaking at five panels/round tables throughout the event.

Ekaterina Zabelinskaya, Reksoft Director for Software and Services BU, was invited to speak at the "Product Engineering from Russia" Panel to disclose the company's vast experience with product development. Ms. Zabelinskaya also spoke at the "Maturing Outsourcing Engagements: higher complexity - new opportunities" roundtable, where she presented the Reksoft best practices in leveraging the local advantage through the set-up of Competence Centers for customers. Ekaterina also joined the "Nearshoring to Russia from Northern Europe" Panel, to share the information on the Reksoft services offer to the Nordic enterprises.

Alexander Egorov, Reksoft CEO, ran the panel on the Russian successes of vertical expertise in Telecom. The panel presented the best cases of cooperation between Russian software development companies and customers from the Telco industry and involved both service and product providers from Russia with real life examples of success in the global market.

Russian IT Veterans Celebrate yet Another Anniversary

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:27:00 -0400

Not different from any other birthday, this year, Reksoft people came together to celebrate the sweet sixteen of our company. Staying in business and profitable for 16 consecutive years is pretty remarkable for the Russian software products and services environment. Reksoft had started as a software products company, building the Russian Internet giant Ozon.Ru - Russia's leading online outlet, Edelweiss - a property management system with over 1000 installations worldwide, Barsum - a call accounting system that currently serves over 4000 clients in Russia and CIS, and Assist.Ru - Russia's leading electronic payments gateway. Unbelievable, but true, Reksoft's every software product initiative proved to be a success, not just turning into complete software products and solutions (in different industrial verticals, too), but actually earning money for its creator.

Reksoft took its ability to develop quality software products further, and turned this software-product-making ability into a business of its own. Today, Reksoft is among the leaders of the Russian software development outsourcing and custom software solutions segments, with the goal of becoming one of top five IT services providers in the region. Today, Reksoft is represented in four cities, three nations, and serve clients from over a dozen countries.

We'd like to take this opportunity to give a hand to ourselves, and thank our partners and clients, for being with us all these years, since trust and appreciation go a long way together. We look to many more years to come :)

Planting the Seeds of Care

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:12:00 -0400

As if taking care of each other and customers was not enough, this week, Reksoft-men and women gathered to plant some flowers in front of our beautiful, now a year and three-months-old business center.

In the year gone we have pretty much settled in, thoroughly occupied the office parking lot, decorated the rooms, got to liking the home-baked cafeteria pastries. Last year, there was a bit of a concern over the preservation of the traditional Reksoft holidays, such as the grand New Year celebration, the jolly "gender" holidays, as well as the big Reksoft birthday party. Not to worry, we have managed to survive the change. This year, Reksoft is to celebrate its sweet sixteen and we are ready to welcome change, we may grow in numbers and volume, but will keep and spread the culture, we really are a team.

Nearshoring – a Viable Option for the Benelux

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:33:00 -0400

Reksoft made an appearance at the Brussels-hosted seminar on cooperation opportunities between Benelux and Russian software companies. A number of leading Russian offshore software development services providers had participated in the seminar, along with representatives of the Russian Software Developers Association (RUSSOFT) and Agoria - Belgium's largest employer's association.

The seminar was held at the residence of the Russian consul general in Brussels. The consul hosted a fruitful discussion panel, garnished by cocktails and a buffet. Among the topics covered was the industrial strength of Belgian financial software, in respect to the tremendous growth and expansion of the Russian banks, and the attractiveness of the Russian financial market for Belgian software vendors. On the other hand, the Russian custom software development vendors had a lot to offer to the Benelux market, stressing the benefits of their nearshore location, with its easy communication, good timing, low total cost of engagement, and shared cultural background, the usual.

A few obstacles on the way of full-fledged cooperation were also identified: the difficulty of obtaining, say, Belgian visas for Russian nationals; the timid and shy marketing of Russian software vendors; and the relative petitness of the Benelux companies, when referring to the volume of work they are capable of outsourcing.

It is worth to be mentioned that of all the Russian companies present at the seminar, Reksoft was the only one having real hands-on experience of working with Benelux companies, such as with Gillam Fei and Novadoc.

Reksoft at the Russian Year at CeBIT

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:20:00 -0400

This year, Hannover hosted a CeBIT devoted to Russo-German relations. And the usual half-a-million visitors came to examine the 6000 exhibitors, and at doing so, were given a chance to follow the ‘Matreshka Way' - a PR campaign, organized by the Russian Ministry of IT and Communications, where visitors had to make stops at numerous Russian stands and collect ‘pieces' of Matreshkas.

Reksoft, being a Russian software development and systems integration company, too had a stand at CeBIT 2007, and not just one, but a couple. Throughout the seven days of CeBIT, a team of eight Reksoft Sales, Marketing, Account, and ‘other' Managers, held strong defense at our RUSSOFT and Deutsche Messe stands. Reksoft CEO Alexander Egorov, made a joint presentation at the Nearshoring Summit with one of the client-company's top officials - Werner Fischer, Executive Vice President of IT of Springer Science+Business Media.

Overall, it was good to be at the fair, as Russians say "to see the people and to show yourself". Reksoft brought back a few dozens of new contacts, got a feel for the latest ICT marketing trends, and of course, team-builded :)

Reksoft Ski Tournament

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:45:00 -0400

We are not just thinkers, but we are doers too. We do many things, we ski, for instance. This year, Reksoft held its traditional company-wide Ski Tournament on the second Friday of March. There were four groups: ski-women, ski-men, ski-children, and snowboard-mixed.

There was a decent crowd of supporters, the IT professionals who've come to cheer for their comrades on slopes. There were sandwiches, juice, and many tender moments of bonding and team building. Next, we think to bring our clients along and get them involved into the Reksoft corporate team-spirit-building activities :)

Reksoft IT Professionals Team up to Celebrate the “Gender Holidays”

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:36:00 -0400

Russia has two special holidays to celebrate: February 23^rd and March 8^th. The 23^rd was once upon a time set aside as a day to celebrate the Army and the Navy professionals, but on the country-wide scale turned out to be a holiday for all the boys and men. The 8^th is the culmination of the international women's month, and is a day for showing special appreciation to women and girls.

Since on both dates, we, Russians, get a day off-work, Reksoft men and women came together to celebrate each other on the 22^nd and the 7^th. Many Russian IT companies show a swelling portion of women on staff, and Reksoft is no different with approximately 35% women among its 350 employees, the majority of whom are technical experts.

We historically prepare the parties in-house, applying the additional talents we have at work. With the girls being the first to throw a party, plus still being less in numbers, we had to start preparations as early as the beginning of January, right after the New Year holidays. The girls put together a day of fun, ‘western style', aside from the wild-wild-west entourage, costumes, cowboy games, and cows to be earned, the ‘Reksoft boys' were treated to an evening bar, performances, pizza, and dancing.

The boys did not let us down either, and on top of the usual candy treats, we got the opportunity to be the stars we deserve to be. Yes, they boys did a Star Search contest for us, and to top it off, there was a live plug-in performance in Reksoft cafeteria by a Reksoft-man and a city-wide-known showman, Vladimir Burkovsky and his band.

What's next? Tune in to read about our coming celebration: Reksoft is to turn the sweet sixteen this May, come on, join us for the fun! :)

Check out our photo-report: Reksoft Team on February 23rd, Reksoft Team on March 8th

Reksoft Software Development Teams Unite to Celebrate the Holiday Season

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:49:00 -0400

Reksoft possesses a definite competitive advantage - its people, and the teams of IT professionals: software testers and developers, project managers, account managers, supporting business units, and various directors on board - all came to celebrate another successful year for the company, and to wish each other a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

About six hundred people gathered at the Avrora Movie Theater on Friday, December 22^nd. The cocktail-party-dressed IT pros gathered to watch a heroic cartoon about the planet Reksoft and its superheroes - Reksoftmen :)

After the cartoon premier, the ‘best in class' awards were given out, paying the due respect to the nominees and the winners of the ‘best sales person', ‘best development team', ‘best project manager' and more nominations.

More partying, food and wine and action on the dance floor went on, the hard-working Reksoft men and women stayed out until five in the morning to celebrate the year gone in each other's company. Even though Reksoft is currently in a state of aggressive expansion, hiring dozens of new employees each year, the close-knit team spirit of the company stays put: "the more - the merrier" says Andrey Osipov, the Reksoft CFO, smiling - he has been with the company for nearly fourteen years.

Reksoft BMC Remedy ARS Practice

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:06:00 -0400

As part of Reksoft's continuous effort to strengthen our service proposition to the enterprise-class customers, especially in our key industrial domains such telecommunications and banking, Reksoft strives to further widen its technological competence and to formally introduce professional technology training and to acquire new technological partnerships.

The BMC Remedy ARS Service Process Management platform is a definite leader in its segment, and Reksoft possessing extensive experience with ARS development already, has introduced formalized training for its ARS development staff and is currently in the pursuit of the BMC Software technology partnership status. Reksoft currently has a team of 20 Remedy ARS developers, half of whom are Remedy ARS certified professionals.

Remedy Action Request System (ARS), a Common Description

The AR System is a professional development environment that you can use to create business workflow applications. Using the AR System, nonprogrammers can build powerful applications once and deploy them on Windows, the web, and wireless environments simultaneously. The AR System enables you to automatically keep track of anything that is important to the processes in your enterprise. Companies have used the AR System to track such diverse items as stock trades, benefits data, inventory assets and spare parts, and order fulfillment. One of the most common uses of the AR System is to automate the internal help desk. The following example illustrates a help desk solution in which the AR System is used to solve an employee's problem. The next section describes the components of the AR System and explains how each of the components is used in this example.

Reksoft Experience with ARS Development, Tasks Implemented

Reksoft is involved in the development of a Call Center system for Deutsche Telekom, a leading German Telecom Network Operator. The system is designed to supply the following functionality:

Automated management of incoming requests from telephone subscribers’;
Centralized tasks storage within a global database with manageable access rights;
Tasks allocation and reminders to responsible persons;
Automatic allotment of equipment and staff for the completion of particular tasks;
Notifications to network subscribers upon their requests completion;
Subscribers are empowered to monitor timely requests handling;
Configuration of work schedules and control over completion of tasks;
Configuration of allotment of the available staff and equipment;
Configuration of data and functionality access rights, based on user business roles.

Reksoft ARS Technology Expertise

In the process of developing the system for Deutsche Telecom, and through the professional training received, Reksoft software developers have gained the invaluable experience in working with the following ARS capabilities:

Development of client applications for Windows;
Development of Web-based applications;
Integration of ARS applications with external Web-services;
Integration of ARS applications with external systems, using the JMS mechanism;
Development of plug-ins, enhancing the functionality of the ARS server, in Java and ANSI C and with the use of ARS API;
Development of a generator of server ARS objects (forms, workflows) in Java with the use of ARS API;
Development of Web Reporting with ARS tools.

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.

In Search of Embedded Programming: Danish Delegation to Russia

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:46:00 -0400

On September 18th, 2006, representatives from 10 member-companies of DI (Confederation of Danish Industries) and ITEK (trade association of IT, Telecommunications, Electronics and Communication enterprises in Denmark) made a stop at St. Petersburg within the framework of the Facts Finding Tour to Russia, to research the opportunities in cooperating with Russian software development vendors. The Danish delegation was mostly interested in scoping the embedded software development skills of Russian providers.

Svetlana Vronskaya of Reksoft attended the meeting, sharing her insights into the Russian IT industry with the guests while exposing the relevant Reksoft experience. Among the Reksoft successes Svetlana had mentioned are:

development for handheld devices (Windows CE), as part of a series of projects for a major European System Integrator;
embedded development for Francotyp-Postalia, the German producer of franking machines, where Reksoft R&D team managed to increase the performance of the target process by 30%, while saving the Customer another 30% in development costs;
the 10-years-long partnership in the development for Ascotel PBX.

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Training to boost Custom Solutions Expertise

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:52:00 -0400

Reksoft, a Russian IT solutions provider, being a Gold Microsoft Partner already, is actively expanding its technology competence in Microsoft technologies. To support our leading position in this segment, we deliver special training programs to our engineering teams.

TRIA IT-solutions have put together a special, customer tailored training curriculum for Reksoft software engineers. The eight days of in-house professional training have left Reksoft developers with an unmatched insightfulness in the still beta-versions of Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007.

The training covered two broad topics - developing with the 2007 Office servers and developing for the 2007 Office clients. In particular training covers topics like Enterprise Content Management with Office SharePoint Server 2007, developing Business Intelligence Solutions, automation of Business Processes Workflow, etc.

We shall also thank TRIA, quoting the last week’s SharePoint and Office 2007 class students, who warmly reflect on the training, saying that the German-born and English-speaking instructor was not just able to convey the material in a friendly and inspiring manner, but proved to be a captivating and outgoing individual. Most likely these kinds of development skills trainings will continue in the future.

There is more good news - it is not just an abstract training, but our developers are already applying this knowledge in one of the first major commercial roll-outs of new Microsoft products.

Meanwhile, Reksoft received the Microsoft Custom Development Competence; enhancing the partnership status with Microsoft (please read the official news release).

The strategic idea behind these corporate moves is to develop a unique competence in Eastern Europe in Microsoft technologies, namely in.NET, Microsoft SharePoint 2007 platform and Office 2007.

Are there benefits for you as our customer? Apparently there are. For years to come, Reksoft development teams will possess the unique know-how in the latest Microsoft products. Moreover, we possess a combination of formal training and practical solution implementation experience - the capability not many could challenge.