“DataArt has long advocated multi-sourcing: a practice where clients pick the best vendors from the market based on their expertise in a particular task,” said Alexei Miller, Executive Vice President of DataArt. “Having two leading vendors establish an efficient direct working relationship makes it easier and, ultimately, more efficient for clients to work with both companies’ resources. We have been very impressed with the deep domain expertise, leadership and innovation that MP Capital teams have shown on our joint projects and are looking forward to a successful partnership.”
Jointly, MP Capital and DataArt have the capability to take on projects very early in the process, often at the idea stage, and support it all the way through business case, requirements, design, development, QA and deployment. Given the fast changing environment at many financial institutions, MP Capital and DataArt will have access to each other’s pools of resources to quickly address evolving client needs that often require a combination of domain consulting and software skills, such as extending systems to support new security classes or introducing complex analytical domain-specific calculations.

“The strategy to combine resources through the partnership was in direct response to our clients’ demands, as two things were evident: the post economic crisis caused an increased focus on banks to deliver upon strategies quickly and without the burden of heavy investment in infrastructure and resources; and outsourcing within specialist areas of banking generally underperformed,” said Manish Patel, CEO of MP Capital.
MP Capital and DataArt have been working together on client projects for the past 12 months and tested the relationship to assure that the resources and respective business cultures were compatible to bring their services to the market jointly.

- Travel & Hospitality Practice, launched in early 2009, added five new clients, including Collette Vacations and EnjoyEngland.com, and created a stable pipeline of work, solidifying the new practice as the second best performing at DataArt. Among other notable 2009 achievements are DataArt's ongoing successful engagements with Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Passlogix, navmii and DPC Data. Overall, DataArt serviced over 70 of its clients and completed over 250 critical system deliveries in 2009.

DataArt was widely recognized by industry associations as one of the leading IT service providers: Global Services named DataArt a top 10 Emerging European Provider for the third year in a row, while IAOP named DataArt World's top 100 provider for the fourth consecutive year, also honoring the company as 2009 Best 20 R&D Company.

DataArt 2010 plans include continuous investment into its most successful areas of expertise - financial services, online travel and mobile solutions practices, and strengthening onsite presence in London, UK.

Setel serves multinational clients in the shipping and maritime sectors where there’s high demand for reliable, cost-efficient international and satellite calls. The application DataArt developed enables Setel customers to make those calls as easily and affordably as a local one. Users can bypass the costs of using incumbent mobile operators and the hassle of phone cards and international codes. Setel is the only company offering this.

“The mobile application DataArt developed delivers a reliable, high-quality calling platform, with the ease of dialing locally from any geographic region,” said Sebastian Moore, Setel owner. “Our shipping customers rely on mobile communication to stay connected - whether they’re on land or at sea. The degree of accessibility that this application provides easily enables that.”

“With mobile quickly becoming the chosen communication medium among today’s businesses, demand for versatile global calling and mobile application development is growing exponentially,” said Denis Margolin, DataArt’s mobile practice leader. “DataArt’s deep mobile expertise enables Setel to further build upon the high-quality calling experience for its customers, cementing its role as an industry pioneer.”

Deployed to 1000 users in London in June, the product will be launched throughout Europe, the Far East and the Americas within the coming months.

• Success Stories: Setel

DataArt matched GeoLife’s Navmii software with PosiMotion’s G-Fi mobile network / GPS router to develop the application, which is now available on the Apple iTunes App Store. The new application uses G-Fi’s satellite GPS for more accurate positioning than standard cellular or Bluetooth triangulation.

“Outside of a GPS manufacturer, it’s very hard – and rare – to find the type of technical expertise in an outsourcing company that’s needed for this type of application,” said Peter Atalla, CEO of GeoLife. “DataArt’s deep expertise in both navigation and LBS technologies made them a natural choice. We’ve worked with DataArt for more than two years on similar projects that required rapid delivery and have consistently been impressed with the level of innovation.”

“Location based services are increasingly playing a role in the mobile sector,” said Eugene Goland, president of DataArt. “Navmii is a leap forward for these technologies, and DataArt plans to further establish itself as a vendor of choice for developing mobile software solutions.”

Navmii will be available in the U.S. for the iPod touch and iPhone within the coming months and is currently available in the UK. iPod touch users will require both Navmii and G-Fi.

• Success Stories: GeoLife
• Mobile Solutions – iPhone

By implementing an AJAX-based GUI and sophisticated back-end protocols for billing and payment fulfillment, DataArt enabled numerous advanced features for iBankUp, including real-time transaction tracking via a single account, on-demand paper check issuance, loyalty rewards, automatic payouts of referral commissions to service ambassadors, mobile access and facebook integration.

“Our mission is to provide better banking at lower costs using technology and lean operations, which DataArt has been critical in supporting,” said Justin Surman, Plastyc CTO. “They’ve helped us stay efficient and build creative services for Generation-Y customers that expect high-performance, constant innovation and reasonable prices.”

Plastyc began working with DataArt in 2006 to develop the UPside Visa® card and UPsidecard.com portal. With iBankUp, Plastyc is moving past traditional prepaid card providers, offering integrated financial management tools.

“Plastyc’s market is so competitive, it’s critical to stay ahead using technologies that deliver innovative products and keep costs down,” said Eugene Goland, DataArt president. “Working with Plastyc allows DataArt developers design and deliver creative, diverse IT architectures. We look forward to expanding this great relationship.”

• DataArt Completes Upsidecard.com, the Online Portal for a Teen Prepaid Card, for Plastyc, Inc.

• Graham Leslie, president, IXeo and VisitAfrica.com, and former CEO of Serena Hotels and SVP of Kempinski Hotels.
• Jerome Touze, co-Founder and co-CEO, WAYN - Where Are You Now? Ltd
• Lynda Bott, director, Hyatt.com

The evening’s session was moderated by Graham McKenzie from TravelMole, who lead the discussion around how mobile technologies are reshaping the way consumers plan, book and consume travel services. The discussion further explored how the increasing consumer demand for such mobile applications is causing travel companies to revolutionize existing global IT operations strategies to make their services more mobile-friendly.

• Industry Expertise: Online Travel Solutions