Russian Outsourcing Featured During COMDEX 2003
Nikolay Puntikov, Board Member of The Russian National Software Association (RUSSOFT) and CEO of Star Software Corporation, addressed a multi-national audience of IT executives during Comdex 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week.
Nov 26, 2003
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, November 17, 2003
Nikolay Puntikov, Board Member of The Russian National Software Association (RUSSOFT) and CEO of Star Software Corporation, addressed a multi-national audience of IT executives during Comdex 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. Representing RUSSOFT and the Russian IT industry, Puntikov spoke passionately about the advantages of tapping into Russian excellence in the area of software engineering.
"Over the last five years, Russia has taken its place in the global economy as a premier destination for offshore software development," Puntikov said. "Our communications and computing infrastructure is state-of-the-art; our politics are stable; our universities turn out a steady stream of world-class mathematicians, scientists, and software programmers; and still our rates are low. Today, Russian engineers work on software development projects from around the world. Russia is the place to be."
Puntikov made his remarks as a participant on the IT Globalization Panel of Enterprise IT Week, the professional development conference held during Comdex by analyst firm Jupiter Research. The panel brought together executives, developers, and trade experts to discuss software and business process outsourcing, balancing issues of security, intellectual property control, labor regulation and economic equity.
"In the end, you are choosing an outsourcing partner company, not a country," stressed Puntikov. "It's the investment that companies have made in their infrastructure, their people, and their processes that keeps your project safe and makes it successful. But government support for industry, in a country replete with technological achievements, provides a definite backdrop for success that cannot be underestimated."
For further information, contact:
Kathleen O'Donnell, 1-800-931-0917 or Michael Tsygankov, 7-812-327-9900
About Star Software Corporation
Star Software is a leading Russian software-outsourcing provider specializing in the implementation and maintenance of information systems. Established in 1991, Star offers twelve years of experience in database-intensive applications, migration of legacy systems to web-based environments, application maintenance and software localization. For corporate Knowledge Management solutions, Star Software offers proprietary data mining tools based on NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques. Former and current clients of Star Software include CSC, IBM/Tivoli, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, TogetherSoft (now Borland), Symmetricom, LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), and UNU (United Nations University).
For more information please visit Star Software web site at www.star-sw.com
Nikolay Puntikov, Board Member of The Russian National Software Association (RUSSOFT) and CEO of Star Software Corporation, addressed a multi-national audience of IT executives during Comdex 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. Representing RUSSOFT and the Russian IT industry, Puntikov spoke passionately about the advantages of tapping into Russian excellence in the area of software engineering.
"Over the last five years, Russia has taken its place in the global economy as a premier destination for offshore software development," Puntikov said. "Our communications and computing infrastructure is state-of-the-art; our politics are stable; our universities turn out a steady stream of world-class mathematicians, scientists, and software programmers; and still our rates are low. Today, Russian engineers work on software development projects from around the world. Russia is the place to be."
Puntikov made his remarks as a participant on the IT Globalization Panel of Enterprise IT Week, the professional development conference held during Comdex by analyst firm Jupiter Research. The panel brought together executives, developers, and trade experts to discuss software and business process outsourcing, balancing issues of security, intellectual property control, labor regulation and economic equity.
"In the end, you are choosing an outsourcing partner company, not a country," stressed Puntikov. "It's the investment that companies have made in their infrastructure, their people, and their processes that keeps your project safe and makes it successful. But government support for industry, in a country replete with technological achievements, provides a definite backdrop for success that cannot be underestimated."
For further information, contact:
Kathleen O'Donnell, 1-800-931-0917 or Michael Tsygankov, 7-812-327-9900
About Star Software Corporation
Star Software is a leading Russian software-outsourcing provider specializing in the implementation and maintenance of information systems. Established in 1991, Star offers twelve years of experience in database-intensive applications, migration of legacy systems to web-based environments, application maintenance and software localization. For corporate Knowledge Management solutions, Star Software offers proprietary data mining tools based on NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques. Former and current clients of Star Software include CSC, IBM/Tivoli, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, TogetherSoft (now Borland), Symmetricom, LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), and UNU (United Nations University).
For more information please visit Star Software web site at www.star-sw.com