ATMs, which were first installed in Lithuania in 1995, by now have become an integral part of modern business. However, banks and other institutions that use self-service devices quire often face various kinds of hardware faults. Leading ATM manufacturers claim that their devices last for 7-9 years. Anyway, faults do take place in intensively used [...]
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Organizations looking to trim their bottom line have accomplished that goal by outsourcing some or all of their IT needs, new research reveals. In a study by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry, nearly half of the surveyed businesses and organizations that rely on outside providers for at least some of their IT [...]
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Prime Minister of Ukraine N. Azarov has signed a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers aimed at improving the quality of IT professionals, strengthening cooperation between business and education, bringing education to the needs of industry and labor market. Sigma Ukraine, as a member of European Business Association EBA IT Committee, became a coordinator of [...]
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IBA Group – an alliance of IT companies with over 2,500 people, launched an English version of its weather forecast website Meteo.by. As the largest software development centers of IBA Group are located in Belarus, the website focuses on weather forecasts for this Eastern European country. Meteo.by is a dynamic portal that provides weather forecasts [...]
Continue reading Active Participation of Sofica Group in the Career Days in the Capital City
October 27, 2011 No Comment
During last month Sofica Group was very active regarding the attraction of new talents as the company took part in two career forums held in the Capital city. As a socially responsible employer Sofica Group was one of the 25 participant companies in the career forum devoted to disabled people, which event was organized under [...]
Continue reading RUSNANOTECH 2011: SITRONICS Gathered the World’s Leading Experts to Discuss the Future of Russian Microelectronics
October 27, 2011 No Comment
JSC SITRONICS (LSE:SITR), a leading supplier of solutions in the field of telecommunications, information technologies and microelectronics in Russia and CIS conducted the session “Silicon microelectronics – a basement of innovations” during the international forum of nano-technologies RUSNANOTECH 2011. During the session the representatives of the largest Russian and global microelectronics companies and the representatives [...]
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Comarch, a global provider of IT solutions for major economic sectors, announced today that it has become a member of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to protecting and accelerating the growth of Linux open source software. For the past 18 years numerous projects developed in Comarch had desktop Linux versions or were created [...]
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For the first time ever the NOA will be bringing together its annual Sourcing Summit & Awards. Now in its eighth year, the annual National Outsourcing Association Awards (NOAA’s) is firmly established as the highlight in the outsourcing industry calendar and attracts over 500 people. This combined with the 9th NOA Sourcing Summit will create [...]
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Outsourcing was uncommon when the Internet was still unavailable. When using outsource support was not yet known, the common practice was to hire employees and base them inside the office. Of course, having an employee inside the office comes with expenses as they require supervision, tools and equipment. Employers are also faced with extra expenses [...]
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IBA Rus, an IBA Group company, received a letter of thanks from Vimpelcom, an international group of telecom operators, on cooperation in development and support of applications based on IBM Lotus Domino/Notes. In his letter, Andrey Batalov, Head of VimpelCom IT Department in CIS, says: “IBA Group demonstrated proficiency and reliability as a partner, and [...]
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