Aplana Software at ROSS-2005: distributed solutions are not so costly anymore
At the major annual software outsourcing summit Aplana Software presented the best practices for design and engineering of large-scale distributed applications.
Jun 24, 2005
ROSS - Russian Outsourcing and Software Summit, traditionally held in St-Petersburg in mid June, has become the meeting-place for leading software development companies from Russia and CIS with the potential customers and partners, primarily from Europe and USA. The forum is not only a great networking opportunities, it is also a tribune for discussions of hot issues in the area of software engineering.
The aspects of distributed solutions development was one of the Forum core topics, it was discussed within a dedicated workshop. In the presentation devoted to global application development and implementation, Victor Weinstein, Aplana’s CEO, explained how innovation technologies help to decrease costs and raise manageability of distributed systems. Customers are always interested in reduction of implementation and maintenance costs, reliable and scalable performance, manageability and flexible changeability and local specifics support. Reliance on open standards and state-of-the-art technologies makes it possible to solve these tasks more effectively than it used to be.
"New technologies generation open crucially new opportunities for business automation and allow to implement solutions that was previously either very expensive or not reliable enough. For example, interconnection of hundreds of smaller partners previously faced the issues of high deployment and maintenance costs, communication costs, heterogeneous systems integration, upgrades etc. Now similar issues within large-scale distributed systems are not so cost-consuming anymore. Because of the new efficient business models imlementation our customers get new competitive advantages’- emphasized Victor Weinstein.
About Aplana Software
Aplana Software is a steadily growing Moscow based software services company, member of a leading Russian technology group I.T.Co. The company provides high quality software services for global customers with a focus on custom software development, maintenance and testing and is recognized for high effectiveness of production processes, excellence of customer relationships and communications as well as high flexibility in resources allocation. Quality of Aplana services is confirmed by ISO9001:2000 certification for software development and maintenance processes granted in 2002 by TUV Cert, Germany.
For over 5 years Aplana implemented nearly 200 projects of various scale, including enterprise level and federal level projects with a workload of 100, 200 and 300+ man/months. Aplana’s services are recognized by many multinational companies such as General Electric, TetraPak, Procter&Gamble, Wrigley and major Russian enterprises, including MTS, TNK-BP, YUKOS Oil Company, Central Bank or Russia, Sberbank of Russia.
Aplana has advanced competencies in SFA/CRM solutions, BPM automation, Workflow and EDMS, Data management solutions, Mobile/PDA development, as well as in financial, manufacturing and telecom domain areas. Technology focus is .NET, J2EE/J2ME, Oracle, IBM WebSphere/Lotus technologies. Most of recent projects are implemented based on open standards and web-services technologies. In addition to its proven software engineering and maintenance capabilities, Aplana has own Testing Center and provides a full range of Quality Assurance and IS testing services. In alliance with its partners Aplana provides globalization/localization services.
Aplana Software is ranking among leading Russian software services exporters and is repeatedly referenced in recent white papers on Russian IT industry by Gartner, IDC, Aberdeen Group, Forrester Research, In July 2004 Aplana has been named a winner in two categories of 2004 Microsoft® Partner Program Awards - Winning Customers Award and Customer Experience Award - given for its recent project based on .NET and web-services technologies. According to recent studies done by major Russian Publishing House Kommersant (2003, 2004), Aplana Software was rated as the most efficient company among Russian software services providers.
Recent IDC survey of global offshore vendors - "Worldwide Offshore Service Provider Profiles" – profiled Aplana among 21 global offshore vendors and highlighted Aplana differentiators as diversified portfolio and focus on developing deep customer relationships, particularly with its mid-market target market. The report also cites a strong price/quality ratio as another company differentiator.
Contacts:
Aplana Software, I.T.Co Group
[email protected], http://www.aplana.com
Philadelphia office: 2600 Philmont Avenue, suite 305, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, U.S.A,
Tel/Fax: (215) 947-4773
Moscow office: 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str, Entrance 6,
117485, Moscow, Russia
Tel: +7 (095) 748 1345, 748 1346, Fax: +7 (095) 333 6412
Maria Dragan, Head of Marketing, Aplana Software, [email protected]
The aspects of distributed solutions development was one of the Forum core topics, it was discussed within a dedicated workshop. In the presentation devoted to global application development and implementation, Victor Weinstein, Aplana’s CEO, explained how innovation technologies help to decrease costs and raise manageability of distributed systems. Customers are always interested in reduction of implementation and maintenance costs, reliable and scalable performance, manageability and flexible changeability and local specifics support. Reliance on open standards and state-of-the-art technologies makes it possible to solve these tasks more effectively than it used to be.
"New technologies generation open crucially new opportunities for business automation and allow to implement solutions that was previously either very expensive or not reliable enough. For example, interconnection of hundreds of smaller partners previously faced the issues of high deployment and maintenance costs, communication costs, heterogeneous systems integration, upgrades etc. Now similar issues within large-scale distributed systems are not so cost-consuming anymore. Because of the new efficient business models imlementation our customers get new competitive advantages’- emphasized Victor Weinstein.
About Aplana Software
Aplana Software is a steadily growing Moscow based software services company, member of a leading Russian technology group I.T.Co. The company provides high quality software services for global customers with a focus on custom software development, maintenance and testing and is recognized for high effectiveness of production processes, excellence of customer relationships and communications as well as high flexibility in resources allocation. Quality of Aplana services is confirmed by ISO9001:2000 certification for software development and maintenance processes granted in 2002 by TUV Cert, Germany.
For over 5 years Aplana implemented nearly 200 projects of various scale, including enterprise level and federal level projects with a workload of 100, 200 and 300+ man/months. Aplana’s services are recognized by many multinational companies such as General Electric, TetraPak, Procter&Gamble, Wrigley and major Russian enterprises, including MTS, TNK-BP, YUKOS Oil Company, Central Bank or Russia, Sberbank of Russia.
Aplana has advanced competencies in SFA/CRM solutions, BPM automation, Workflow and EDMS, Data management solutions, Mobile/PDA development, as well as in financial, manufacturing and telecom domain areas. Technology focus is .NET, J2EE/J2ME, Oracle, IBM WebSphere/Lotus technologies. Most of recent projects are implemented based on open standards and web-services technologies. In addition to its proven software engineering and maintenance capabilities, Aplana has own Testing Center and provides a full range of Quality Assurance and IS testing services. In alliance with its partners Aplana provides globalization/localization services.
Aplana Software is ranking among leading Russian software services exporters and is repeatedly referenced in recent white papers on Russian IT industry by Gartner, IDC, Aberdeen Group, Forrester Research, In July 2004 Aplana has been named a winner in two categories of 2004 Microsoft® Partner Program Awards - Winning Customers Award and Customer Experience Award - given for its recent project based on .NET and web-services technologies. According to recent studies done by major Russian Publishing House Kommersant (2003, 2004), Aplana Software was rated as the most efficient company among Russian software services providers.
Recent IDC survey of global offshore vendors - "Worldwide Offshore Service Provider Profiles" – profiled Aplana among 21 global offshore vendors and highlighted Aplana differentiators as diversified portfolio and focus on developing deep customer relationships, particularly with its mid-market target market. The report also cites a strong price/quality ratio as another company differentiator.
Contacts:
Aplana Software, I.T.Co Group
[email protected], http://www.aplana.com
Philadelphia office: 2600 Philmont Avenue, suite 305, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, U.S.A,
Tel/Fax: (215) 947-4773
Moscow office: 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str, Entrance 6,
117485, Moscow, Russia
Tel: +7 (095) 748 1345, 748 1346, Fax: +7 (095) 333 6412
Maria Dragan, Head of Marketing, Aplana Software, [email protected]