Small business owners could be tempted to outsource certain projects after one expert highlighted the benefits. Ewan McKay, marketing manager at Response, said that outsourcing projects like IT and marketing can help businesses save costs, increase their knowledge and offer an improved service to their clients. The expert also claimed that outsourcing can help companies [...]
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Russian Fund to Invest ˆ20 Million in French Startups as Russian-French Tech Ties Grow
May 15, 2012 No Comment
The Russian high tech fund New Generation Investment (NGI) announced last week that it will launch a ˆ20 million division dedicated to French startups, the French business daily Les Echos reported. “We are focusing on telecoms, web technolgies and tech-oriented media,” said NGI shareholder Leonid Reiman. France will serve as a testing ground for one [...]
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May 14, 2012 1 Comment
This year Russian IT industry alongside with Reksoft celebrates its 20th anniversary. We’ve passed a long way from the ruins of USSR scientific institutes to $16-billions IT market growing each year. And the software development outsourcing has been the main IT market driver and inspirer for all those years. When the USSR collapsed, thousands of [...]
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DataArt, a custom software development firm that builds advanced solutions for select industries, today announced completion of a Kindle Fire mobile banking application for Plastyc, which provides UPside Visa cardholders with a complete range of banking services on-the-go. The latest addition to Plastyc’s mobile application is now available for Kindle Fire customers and can be [...]
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Most people have probably heard the term “Outsource” regarding business. “Outsourcing” is the method of using a third party to perform a task that could be done by employees. Some examples are outsourcing telephone customer service to India, or manufacturing to China. But what about our personal lives? The philosophy of outsourcing has crept into [...]
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Outsourcing is widely accepted as one of the modern day business miracles. I believe that each and every business owner, whether a beginner or an industry veteran, should master this method. Let us be realistic, business owners’ deal with numerous responsibilities on a daily basis. Given we do not outsource, it’s expected that we will [...]
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Comarch, a global provider of IT business solutions, today announced that KPN, the leading Dutch mobile and fixed telecom operator, commissioned hosting and administrating their Fulfillment Automation system in the Comarch Data Center. Comarch supported KPN in the migration of their Fulfillment Automation System to the new version (2010 R2) of Microsoft BizTalk server and [...]
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On the 5th of May 2012 a Latvian bank AS Latvijas Biznesa banka (Latvian Business Bank) finished the project on implementation and started operation of BIS FORPOST and Internet Banking in on a large-scale basis. Latvian Business Bank was established in 1992 and provides its customers a full range of financial solutions and products. After [...]
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From May 2 to May 4, IBA participated in the workshop Prospects and Trends of Banking IT Development in 2012. Organized by the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) and the scientific and technological association Infopark, the event took place in the Training Center of NBRB in Raubichi, Minsk Region, Belarus. More than [...]
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IBA developed a new solution Mobile Client for SAP Equipment Maintenance (EM). The solution provides additional capabilities for the SAP EM system implemented by IBA at a number of enterprises. Developed for Android platform, the SAP EM mobile client provides remote access to the requests for equipment maintenance and repairs. Using securely encrypted asynchronous data [...]
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