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EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE:EPAM), a leading provider of complex software engineering solutions and the leader in Central and Eastern European IT service delivery, received an Oracle “Top Business Impact Partner, EMEA – 2012″ award during the 5th Annual Oracle Commerce EMEA Partner Conference in Lisbon on April 17th. In April 2012, EPAM achieved Gold Level [...]
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KOMIX s.r.o. has again confirmed its high standard in the areas of software development, sales and provision of IT services. At the end of 2012 KOMIX successfully underwent inspection audits of its quality management system pursuant to the ČSN EN ISO 9001 international standard, project quality management pursuant to ČSN ISO 10006 and IT services [...]
Continue reading Ivaylo Slavov and His View at the Second Annual Roundtable on “Opportunities and successful strategies for ICT export” ICT Watch
May 4, 2013 No Comment
Ivaylo Slavov (CEO at Bulpros and Board member of BOA) on behalf of the Bulgarian Outsourcing Association will be a panelist at the Second Annual Roundtable on “Opportunities and successful strategies for the ICT export” Bulgarian ICT Watch, organized by ICT Media, InvestBulgaria Agency, BASSCOM in partnership with the Bulgarian Outsourcing Association (BOA) and Bulgarian [...]
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GRAPHISOFT®, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, is pleased to announce that several ArchiCAD-designed buildings by Portuguese architects have finished with high marks in the annual ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards. Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar have won the ArchDaily Building of the Year Award in the Hotels and [...]
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Russia’s Ministry of Communications is considering extending privileged tax rates for IT companies until 2020. Russia’s privileged tax rate for the IT industry is currently set at 14 percent, as compared to the general rate of 30 percent. In order for a company to qualify for the reduced rate in salary taxes and social-security contributions, [...]
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On April 25, a ceremony to award the winners of the TIBO 2013 Internet Award contest was held in Minsk, Belarus. The TIBO Internet Award is the annual contest for the best website among Belarusian web resources and is conducted within the international exhibition on telecommunications and information technologies TIBO. This year, Pixelhead, IBA web [...]
Continue reading From April 10 to April 25, the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR) conducted the 3rd BSUIR Open Championship in Collegiate Programming in Minsk, Belarus. IBA participated in the event as its partner. The competition was held in compliance with the rules of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC). In every [...]
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On April 18 the Hi-Tech Park resident company EPAM Systems and Belarusian State Economic University opened a joint lab to prepare SAP-specialists on the basis of the university’s branch in Bobruisk. It was another step in the history of cooperation between EPAM Systems and BSEU that started a year ago with the opening of the [...]
Continue reading Outsourcing and Productivity: How Hiring Outside the Pool Can Increase Productivity
April 23, 2013 No Comment
There are numerous incentives as to hiring a technical support team out of office, the most commonly cited and least of which is cost-effectiveness. Outsourcing IT services may be cheaper in select cases, but a far more compelling reason comes down to that of productivity. Emil Isanov, CEO of Etech 7, a managed IT services [...]
Continue reading In the final segment of a panel discussion with senior technology executives, Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard focused again on the increased importance of risk sharing between companies and their IT vendors. Karlgaard asked if current conditions had made risk sharing a necessity in client-vendor relationships. “…We’re in this economic world where it’s very risky,” Karlgaard [...]
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