StarSoft Launches Unique Strategic Partnership with Sesame Communications
Dec 06, 2006
StarSoft Development Labs, one of the fastest growing software outsourcing service providers in Russia and Eastern Europe, today announced a strategic partnership with Sesame Communications, the leader in online communications for the U.S. dental market. StarSoft will assume management responsibility for all IT development at Sesame.
"Within the highly-skilled development community in Russia, the StarSoft team had the right mix of not only strong technical and process leadership, but also solid experience managing branch offices," said Frith Maier, founder and CEO of Sesame Communications. "We have been working with them since September in our Dubna center and we’re pleased with the production advances through leveraging Agile development methodologies. Our Dubna programming team has done a terrific job building our technology to this point. With the StarSoft partnership, we’ll be moving even faster in reshaping the landscape of communications in the dental industry."
The ramp-up in development includes enhanced functionality and convenience for the 750,000 patients who utilize Sesame’s services to access appointment, account and treatment information, and to receive appointment alerts and other information from their doctors via email. Another major focus of the StarSoft-Sesame alliance is the 2007 release of the latest version of Sesame’s inter-disciplinary treatment collaboration service, Sesame Interactive. More than 7,500 dentists use Sesame Interactive to share the digital x-rays that Sesame automatically uploads to the Web.
The partnership with StarSoft evolved out of Sesame’s interest in establishing a more sophisticated software development capability to continually explore and leverage the latest relevant technologies.
"This is an exciting and unique opportunity for us since our work with Sesame is about much more than helping them resolve finite software development issues," said Nick Puntikov, the CEO of StarSoft Development Labs. "Our development teams will work on a much more intimate and ongoing basis. Together, StarSoft and Sesame aim to build a long-term and truly mutually beneficial business relationship in order to share and enhance our respective areas of expertise in web technologies and eCommerce."
"Within the highly-skilled development community in Russia, the StarSoft team had the right mix of not only strong technical and process leadership, but also solid experience managing branch offices," said Frith Maier, founder and CEO of Sesame Communications. "We have been working with them since September in our Dubna center and we’re pleased with the production advances through leveraging Agile development methodologies. Our Dubna programming team has done a terrific job building our technology to this point. With the StarSoft partnership, we’ll be moving even faster in reshaping the landscape of communications in the dental industry."
The ramp-up in development includes enhanced functionality and convenience for the 750,000 patients who utilize Sesame’s services to access appointment, account and treatment information, and to receive appointment alerts and other information from their doctors via email. Another major focus of the StarSoft-Sesame alliance is the 2007 release of the latest version of Sesame’s inter-disciplinary treatment collaboration service, Sesame Interactive. More than 7,500 dentists use Sesame Interactive to share the digital x-rays that Sesame automatically uploads to the Web.
The partnership with StarSoft evolved out of Sesame’s interest in establishing a more sophisticated software development capability to continually explore and leverage the latest relevant technologies.
"This is an exciting and unique opportunity for us since our work with Sesame is about much more than helping them resolve finite software development issues," said Nick Puntikov, the CEO of StarSoft Development Labs. "Our development teams will work on a much more intimate and ongoing basis. Together, StarSoft and Sesame aim to build a long-term and truly mutually beneficial business relationship in order to share and enhance our respective areas of expertise in web technologies and eCommerce."