EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading software engineering and IT Outsourcing (ITO) provider with development centers across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has been named a salesforce.com premier partner. As a premier partner, EPAM will now have access to the most up-to-date functional and technical resources available to support the increasingly popular cloud-based environment.

To make best use of the benefits of its premier partner status, EPAM has established the EPAM Salesforce Center of Excellence (CoE) – formalizing the company’s growing competency in Salesforce implementations, and providing its customers with better ways to take advantage of the increasing breadth and depth of capabilities offered by Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform. This newly formed CoE will focus on – implementation, application development and integration services for Force.com and other salesforce.com solutions.

“We are excited by the capabilities the Salesforce ecosystem and Force.com bring to our clients – helping them more closely align technical solutions with business goals,” said Elaina Shekhter, vice president of Travel, Hospitality and Consumer Services Solutions at EPAM. “For us, cloud computing isn’t just about extending the value of an IT infrastructure, it’s about delivering more agility, more functionality and ultimately more value to our global customer base. By combining the values of Force.com with the values of EPAM’s services and experience, we are able to realize that ideal.”

“We are proud of our partnership with salesforce.com,” said Isaak Karaev, SVP of EPAM’s Business Information and Media Group. “With the formation of this new CoE, we hope to cement EPAM’s role as a premier partner for all aspects of Salesforce implementations.”

About EPAM Systems

Established in 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. is a leading global software engineering and IT consulting provider with delivery centers throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Headquartered in the United States, EPAM employs over 6,000 professionals and provides services to clients worldwide using a global delivery model through its client facing and delivery operations in North America, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

EPAM’s core competencies include complex software product engineering for leading global software and technology vendors, as well as development, testing, maintenance, and support of mission critical business applications and vertically oriented IT consulting services for global Fortune 2000 corporations.

EPAM is recognized among the top companies in IAOP’s “The 2011 Global Outsourcing 100”, featuring EPAM in a variety of sub-lists, including “Leaders — Technology (Hardware & Software)” and “Leaders — Entertainment & Media”. The company is also ranked among the best global service providers on “The 2011 Global Services 100” by Global Services Magazine and NeoGroup, which includes EPAM in the list of the world’s “Top Outsourced Product Engineering Vendors” for the 3rd year running.
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