June 30, 2004A new site for DataArt has started up and is a noteworthy event in the life of the company. This new site, which incorporates personal photo-materials of company staff, is the work of DataArt's own Design Studio.
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Demonstration reels provide another avenue of help for DataArt clients
June 26, 2004DataArt is happy to report a new startup; the QA and bug-fixing procedures have been enriched with an effective tool of action tracking. Before, the problem in client-developer negotiations within the bug-fixing and testing process was to make the problem clear. Explanations often took a lot of time and did not lead to quick understanding. DataArt developers have found the solution: Provide a demonstration reel to show the actions logically to the customer.
Our QA engineer has found a tool that tracks and saves each action performed to a reel in Macromedia Flash. This reel shows all performed actions in the application and allows for the addition of tool tips. The result is a clear and easy guide through the application for the client. The acceptable file size is nearly 200 kb, which is comparable to a documentation pack. Showing problems and providing bug-fixing information is of great use for both the client and developer.
Always accommodating its clients with well structured and detailed manuals, DataArt's approach is to provide easily understood and complete documentation so the client feels at ease with our product. In the past, a documentation pack was the only available solution. Now we add a number of demonstration reels to make the performance easier and clearer.
DataArt attends Russian Outsourcing Summit
June 25, 2004DataArt recently attended the Russian Outsourcing & Software Summit (ROSS-2004) held in St. Petersburg. For this conference, which attracted more than 450 participants from 26 countries, founders Fort-Ross Consortium coupled with LISA Forum Europe (Conference of the Localization Industry and Standardization Association). There were many experts speaking on a great variety of topics.
The Russian Software Outsourcing Industry was examined from many different points of view: Benefits and Risks of Outsourcing by William Metz, Global Business Services Organization, Procter&Gamble; Global IT Outsourcing Industry and Russia's place in the global picture, by Joseph Feiman, VP, Gartner Group; and The Future of BPO in Software Development as discussed by Mr Phiroz Vandrevala, Former Chairman of NASSCOM, Les Mara, Managing Director, CapGemini (UK), and John Stepper, Deutsche Bank.
Views on the Russian Outsourcing Industry were presented by professor Erran Carmel of American University in Washington D.C. He reported on "The Views On Offshore Outsourcing From Inside Washington D.C.: The Politicians, The Press, The Public". Professor Carmel, along with his colleague, professor William McHenry, recently discussed outsourcing issues with DataArt’s top management.
A number of product presentations were held at the summit including EPAM Systems and the best IT solutions of Russian software companies.
A ceremony for the Software Excellence Award 2004 was held in which DataArt was honored with Best Employer of the Year.
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DataArt meets with US Professors curious about Software Development in Russia
June 24, 2004William McHenry, an Information Systems Professor at the University of Akron in Akron Ohio (formerly of Georgetown University) and Erran Carmel, a Professor at the American University in Washington DC, met with two of DataArt's senior managers.
Professor McHenry has been studying information systems in Russia since the early 1980s. He has investigated and written about e-government and the E-Russia program. Dr. Carmel has an international reputation as an expert on software outsourcing. At the second Software Summit two years ago, he spoke on global software teams and is scheduled to be on a panel for the upcoming summit.
Both Professor McHenry and Dr. Carmel are working on the maturation of the global Russian offshore programming industry. They have an interest in DataArt due to "its strong scientific-technical base, and because it is a medium-sized firm with good growth potential." The meeting covered almost every aspect of DataArt's activities including strategy and marketing issues, sales and PR activities, sales-offices and resellers, development organization structure, finances, and HR features.
That DataArt associates with 4-5 subcontractors seemed great for our visitors. They were impressed with our stock-option plan and HR policy, which won a prestigious award this year. They also took notice of our language learning opportunity, led by native English speakers, and the large office space. The DataArt team is young, ranging between 25 and 28 years of age, and this is good, they said. They also liked our partnership with St.-Petersburg State University.
DataArt's Business Hosting services interested them as well. The recently finished Open Course trial project, that DataArt won from the competing outsourcing companies, also left a very good impression with our American guests.
And finally, our visitors commented that there are probably only a small number of Russian IT companies that have achieved the level of maturity DataArt has. We are pleased and proud to get such recognition!
Strategy Workshop and meeting on the UK market held in New York
June 24, 2004DataArt's head of Project Management and key supporting manager of UK sales, Mr. Dmitry Bagrov, arrived at DataArt's corporate headquarters in New York. During his nine-day visit, he attended DataArts’s meeting on the UK market. Key managers supporting UK sales joined DataArt President Eugene Goland in discussing the partnership with DataArt Technologies UK Ltd. A strategy workshop was held the following day. DataArt's senior management met in the New York office to discuss marketing and production policies and to follow up on the latest decisions by the Board of Directors.
