Software Outsourcing Summit, Newsletter 4: March 5, 2002

Topics:
1 Status of participants' registration
2 New partners and information sponsors
3 List of registered participants

1. Status of participants' registration
The online registration is going on at the web site www.soft-outsourcing.com. Now we already have 180 participants including speakers, sponsors, partners and media representatives. This year we are planning to get 500 participants at the conference.

The list of already registered participants may be found herein under in the newsletter.

2. New partners and information sponsors
We would like to welcome new partners and informational sponsors of the Summit:

Key3Media, www.key3media.com, the main organizer of Comdex events all over the world, will become the partner of the Summit and through its Russian representative office distribute the information about the Summit for Comdex participants. The two main markets they are focusing on are North America (US and Canada) and South Asia.

Interface Ltd, www.interface.ru. The company will distribute information about the Summit among their customers and in their newsletters.

Russian Digital Alliance, www.russiada.org, has become the partner of the Summit.

Gartner Group is also an information partner of the Summit and will place information about it at their corporate web site.

PC Week will be the information sponsor of the Summit

3. List of registered participants

• Acant, Moscow, Russia
  
• Acutus Systems, USA
  
• Advanced Digital Microsystems, USA
  
• Advanced Digital Microsystems Inc. specializes in digital signal processing in business, security and defense applications. We use the best in innovative technologies in order to provide complete solutions for our customers' software development needs.
  
• AKMA Ltd, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Control systems, embedded systems and networks.
  
• AND Project, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• Arcadia, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• ATAPY Software, Novosibirsk, Russia
  Contract programming in the OCR/ICR, computer linguistics, other AI-intensive fields. Media service.
  
• Auriga SDC, Moscow, Russia
  Auriga, Inc. is an IT consultancy with a well-established software engineering operation in Moscow, Russia. Auriga provides information technology software development services in the areas of real-time, embedded systems and web-enabled software applications. Auriga provides its services to software product companies and IT departments of business enterprises and organizations.
  
• Baltros, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• Beartech.ru, Taganrog, Russia
  BearTech.ru provides software development services and complex Internet solutions to clients all over the world. Our highly qualified specialists employ the latest technologies, methodologies and tools in providing innovative application development solutions for our clients. We constantly optimise our operation and expand the selection of services we offer.
  
• Bee Pitron, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM, CALS, Architecture, Design, e-business, outsourcing.
  
• BelSoft NPP, Minsk, Byelorussia
  The company specializes in: Application Software Development; Integrated Delivery Management and Banks Automation; Enabling Technology Solutions; Training.
  
• BITKOM, Germany
  BITKOM is Germany's most important association at ederal level or companies in the information economy, telecommunications and the new media. BITKOM represents 1,250 companies, some 600 of which are direct members. These include almost all of the leading players in the industry, as well as more than 500 smaller, medium-sized and new businesses.
  
• CapVidia, Moscow, Russia
  We focus on Microsoft Windows and Intel standards. Our team possesses all levels of programming skills ranging from object oriented C++ to driver development and assembler programming. In projects demanding a particular expertise our teams can be extended to include external specialists from collaborating scientific and research institutes.Our developers use standard software libraries, which shorten development time and result in structured software. This translates into easier maintenance and lower maintenance costs. In addition, the software can be easily supported and modified by the company that commissions the project.
  
• Center for Global Outsourcing, USA
  Our mission is to make Global Information Technology and Software Outsourcing(GSO) more efficient and cost-effective for both client and vendor companies.
  
• CONTEX v Santa Barbara, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Nowadays, the associate companies carry out the following functions to provide the effective software development: Customer search, negotiation arrangements, and legal support; Software development; Effective communication with a customer during development process; Finished product delivery; Software maintenance and modification. The major software development areas are the following: Computer Telephony; Speech Integration; Information Systems; System Programming; Porting.
  
• Cyberdyne computers, India
  Ours is a company dealing in medical transcription production and data entry services.
  
• Digital Design, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Digital Design provides off-site software development, IT consulting, and technical support services to customers worldwide. The company has offices in Philadelphia and London, the development center is based in St.-Petersburg, the second largest city of Russia. Digital Design core competencies are: Software Integration, Internet/Intranet and E-Commerce, Data Warehousing and Decision Support Systems, Electronic Document Management and Workflow.
  
• Elite personnel, Moscow, Russia
  Work with the personnel of the companies, top-management, business v formation.
  
• E-Style Software House, Moscow, Russia
  E-Style Software delivers analysis and modeling of business processes, technological expertise, and quality software. This results in a creative set of IT services, strategies and solutions for our customer's business. We partner with our customers to identify their business needs, to design, develop and implement their software systems, as well as to manage projects more efficiently and economically.
  We add value to business by enabling our customers to concentrate on their core competencies. With a large pool of English-speaking and certified, creative engineers and programmers, and with continuous employee education programs, we offer our customers distinctive advantages through cost and quality benefits, state-of-the-art technology, high reliability, efficient communications, and time-saving project strategies
  
• Eureca, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  "EURECA" Company indulges in the following fields of activity: System integration, design and development of complex automation systems. Production of servers and computers. Research and development
  
• eVelopers Corporation. Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  eVelopersTM design and build complex web and wireless solutions for companies competing in the Net Economy. Applying supreme technical talent and delivering high-impact solutions in record time, eVelopers help companies accelerate eBusiness opportunities and expand competitiveness.
  
• Exigen, USA
  Exigen is the leading provider of comprehensive, integrated line-of-business process solutions to Insurance, Financial and Telecommunications organizations. Exigen provides worldwide operations with 24x7 support, a proven and robust technology foundation, and next-generation outsourcing services to more than 150 companies in above mentioned target industries
  
• Fors St Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  FORS is an integrated provider of complex computer-based solutions. We develop applications for key vertical markets, working for top international companies. Our staff includes world-class programmers, system analysts and computer scientists. Headquartered in Moscow, we have an affiliate in St. Petersburg, a representative office in New York and a network of partners and associates in Western Europe. We are building a global information technology company.
  
• Gartner Group, USA
  
• Information Technology, Moscow, Russia
  With extensive experience in the development of information and computing systems, I.T.Co has created a broad product line of private-branded high-tech software and hardware solutions for the local and international market. Since 1997, the company has been engaged in the area of creating corporate information systems and electronic commerce systems based on Internet and Intranet technologies.
  
• Innopoli LTD, FINLAND
  Innopoli's main task is to function as a business generator for institutions of higher education and research in the Helsinki metropolitan area. We want to help our entrepreneurs in refining their business ideas into successful products, all the way to the international market. The core of Innopoli's activities is the Spinno-program, which offers business training and different supporting services from consulting to venture capital investments.
  
• InternetMedia Holding, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Company provides full complex services on creation, development and promotion of commercial and information projects, B2B and B2C systems, support service, corporate sites, consulting.
  
• ISD, Ukraine
  Creation of information systems for hospitals and medical laboratories
  
• ITEK, Denmark
  
• JS RCOM, Novosibirsk, Russia
  System integration; Design, development, and implementation of process control systems with their further maintenance, Consulting, and stuff training.
  
• KANAR, Voronezh, Russia
  
• Key3Media, USA
  
• Kodeks, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• Kogod School of Business
  
• Kola Science Center Norway AS, Norway
  Norwegian joint stock company established 1999 to promote KSC-activities in Norway and abroad assist KSC in training to modern consultancy and project administration
  
• Korus Consulting, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  The "KORUS Consulting" company was founded in 2000 by top professionals, powered by long-term experience in the field of advanced information systems implementation. KORUS Consulting specialists judge their work as successful not by launching of a system, but by real, tangible financial return, received by the customer from transition to new information technologies . The devotion to this principle has allowed KORUS Consulting to rapidly widen the customer list and form the partnership alliances with such leading companies as "Comshare Inc.", "Unicon/ëÿ", "Crystal Service", "BAAN Eurasia" and "IBS".
  
• Lanit-Terkom, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Since the year 1971 we have been increasing the scientific experience and academic network in many areas of software engineering, hardware design and information technologies. Today we marry high professionalism of the best St. Petersburg mathematicians, developers and engineers with latest scientific achievements and international business practices to help running the profitable business of our clients and partners all over the world.
  
• Luxoft, Moscow, Russia
  
• Majoris Systems Pty Ltd, Australia
  Majoris is a progressive software services and solutions company with core strengths in technology. Based at Bangalore, India's technology nerve centre, Majoris is best positioned to offer you effective solutions that enable you to excel in your core business.
  
• MERA Networks, USA
  
• MicroLink Systems, Estonia
  We focus on software development, platform integration and continuous managed services. Our target markets are Baltic states and neighboring countries.
  
• Microsoft, Moscow, Russia
  
• Motorola, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• Naumen, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  Naumen - the company making the software and services in the field of information technologies on the basis of open codes (Open Source)
  
• Novossibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
  Preparation of IT-experts in Novosibirsk State University
  
• NSDA, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  12 years of our experience in the software market gave us a unique portfolio of ready solutions including scientific and e-commerce software
  
• ParallelGraphics, Moscow, Russia
  Parallel Graphics Limited (ParallelGraphics) is a leading developer of web and wireless low bandwidth integrated rich media 3D simulation products for large industrial applications.
  
• PROMT, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  PROMT ensures support and maintenance of the implemented systems worldwide and project management. Recently we added human translation service and now are ready to offer technical documentation preconditioning, translation and publishing facilities.
  
• Qbix Ltd, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Outsourcing software development, accounting software development, document workflow systems development
  
• Quest Studios (Pvt ) Ltd. Pakistan
  Company is involved in the design and development of software and websites, internet applications, using latest tools and technologies.
  
• RB ARRIAC MTC, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
  
• Reksoft, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• Relativity Technology, USA
  Relativity Technologies is a leading supplier of legacy modernization software and solutions. We enable companies to leverage and extend their current software assets while building architectures that take advantage of new business opportunities - making Relativity Technologies an indispensable choice for legacy modernization projects.
  
• Samara Information Technology, Samara, Russia
  Located on the banks of the picturesque Volga River in Samara, Russia, Samara Information Technologies, Ltd. is a GENERAL PROGRAMMING FACILITY dedicated to custom software and multimedia development, and quality assurance of software produced by other developers. SIT specializes in: Web-applications; Royalty Tracking Systems; Multimedia; Database Applications; Other Windows Applications
  Scientific and Production Assciation Krista, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl reg., Russia
  The main function of the enterprise is manufacturing technological equipment, design and implementation of complex automated systems and software development.
  
• Scientific industry centre "MERA", Korolev, Moscow region, Russia
  
• ScotlandIS, Scotland
  ScotlandIS is the representative trade association, with over 500 members (within the internet, software and interactive media industries), in Scotland. Its mission is to promote Scotland as a centre of excellence in the design, development and marketing of quality software, internet and interactive media solutions. Members offer a broad range of professional services and skills to users in industry, commerce and the public sector.
  
• Shantanu International, India
  Company with 10 people dealing in outsourcing and developing new projects.
  
• SibAcademSoft, Novosibirsk, Russia
  
• Softjoys, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• Solvo, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Solvo Ltd. is focused on warehouse management systems. Applying extensive experience in development of such systems the Company designs and implements integrated solutions for supply chain management in companies, making business in different spheres.
  
• Spirit, Moscow, Russia
  SPIRIT is a prominent supplier of high-quality DSP (Digital Signal Processing) software products, including VoIP, FoIP, sophisticated speech processing, speaker ID, telephony, GPS, Audio and Video compression, face ID, and more. With major R&D offices located in Russia, SPIRIT also provides professional services in custom DSP software development and related areas.
  
• St.Petersburg institute for informatics and automation of Russian academy of sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  St.-Petersburg University of Fine Mechanics and Optics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  The Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (Technical University) is one of the oldest Higher Schools of Russia. A fundamentally new special five-year educational establishment was founded to train qualified masters in fine mechanics and optics.
  
• STAR SPb, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  Custom Software Development; Internet Projects; Research & Development; Technical Translation; Multilingual Terminology Management; Desktop Publishing; Software Localization
  
• Texas Networks Limited, India
  
• V-Real Technologies, Saint-Petersburg, Russia